Friday January 17, 2014

 

From the head of department

In the beginning of this week, the list of applicants for the position as the head of department was ready, and with many good applicants on the list, everything is ready for the new head of department to start by April 1 – we will just need to wait for the committee to submit its reccommendation to the faculty board. In addition, it is a great pleasure to announce that we finally signed a contract with Dr. Jörn Kersten and wish him welcome to the department as Professor of theoretical particle physics as of May 1.

Have a good one!
Geir Anton

News and general information

 

  Information on receiving a IAESTE-intern

IAESTE is an international student organization which primarily works with exchange of interns, mainly within natural sciences and technology related studies. IAESTE's goal is to promote international understanding and provide students with relevant internships. Exchange between countries happens on a 1-to-1 basis. This means that for every foreign student we receive, we can send a Norwegian student for a relevant internship abroad.

The scientific employees who are interested and who have the capacity to receive an intern, may fill out the agreement-form and send it to bergen@iaeste.no. NB: The agreement-form must be signed by the head of administration.

More about the exchange program, employment, EU-contract, contract for the intern, work agreement and payment form.

  Registration in Cristin

Although the deadline is not before February 15 it could be a good idea to begin with registering last year's achievements in Cristin where one has to log in as UiB-employee. In addition to scientific articles, one can also register newspaper articles, debates, dissemination also on radio and TV and so on. A good scheme is the fact that the first author has the responsibility to register research results in Cristin in cases where there are several authors from UiB.

  Open meeting with focus on the rights of minorities

 

All are welcome to a seminar on constitutional protection of minorities:

·       Hva har Grunnlovens vern av samisk språk, kultur og samfunnsliv betydd? (What has the constitutional protection of the Sami language, culture and society meant?)

Wednesday, February 5 at 15:00, Egget, Studentsenteret. Parkveien 1.

STAFF

After a long process with many applicants, it is a pleasure to announce that Dr. Jörn Kersten is employed as Professor of theoretical particle physics at our department. He will begin in his new post as of May 1 2014. Jörn received his PhD at TU München in 2004. After receiving his PhD degree, he has worked as a Postdoc at DESY in Hamburg followed by International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste. The last few years he has been employed as junior research group leader at the University of Hamburg. He is particularly interested in physical phenomena beyond the Standard Model as well as astro-particle physics.

We would like to wish Jörn welcome to the Department of Physics and Technology and Bergen. His wife, Liliana Sevilla, is also a theoretical particle physicist.

PhD

 

  Trial lectures

MSc Magne Aanes will be giving the following trial lecture:

  • Geoengineering - potensielle metoder og geopolitiske utfordringer

Tuesday, January 21 at 10.15 in room 546, IFT

Master

António Alexandre Fraga Dias has presented his MSc thesis in acoustics with the following title:

  • Construction, Modeling And Characterization of a Piezoelectric ultrasonic And underwater transducer

Tuesday, January 14, Department of Physics and Technology. Thesis supervisor was Per Lunde

h-bar

H-bar is open every Friday 19.00-01.00.

On Tuesdays, every even numbered week, pub-lectures are held at H-bar. More info on H-bar's facebook page.

H-bar is run by the Scientific Committee and is primarily for students – employees are also welcome!

IFT in the media

  • Applicants for the position of the head of department: Ni søkarar til tre jobbar (Nine applicants for three vacancies), På Høyden, January 15.

PubliCations registered in ISI Web of Science

 

ALICE Collaboration: Altinpinar S, Djuvsland O, Fehlker D, Haaland O, Huang M, Kanaki K, Langoy R, Lien J, Liu L, Loenne PI, Nystrand J, Roed K, Rohrich D, Skjerdal K, Ullaland K, Øvrebekk G, Wagner B, Yang B et al: Multiplicity dependence of the average transverse momentum in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC ALICE Collaboration PHYSICS LETTERS B  Volume: 727   Issue: 4-5   Pages: 371-380  

ATLAS Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Measurement of jet shapes in top-quark pair events at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C  Volume: 73   Issue: 12    

ATLAS Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.:  Search for charginos nearly mass degenerate with the lightest neutralino based on a disappearing-track signature in pp collisions at root(s)=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector PHYSICAL REVIEW D  Volume: 88   Issue: 11     Article Number: 112006  

ATLAS Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.:  Measurement of the distributions of event-by-event flow harmonics in lead-lead collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS  Issue: 11     Article Number: 183 

ALICE Collaboration: Altinpinar S, Djuvsland O, Fehlker D, Haaland O, Huang M, Kanaki K, Langoy R, Lien J, Liu L, Loenne PI, Nystrand J, Roed K, Rohrich D, Skjerdal K, Ullaland K, Øvrebekk G, Wagner B, Yang B et al:D Meson Elliptic Flow in Noncentral Pb-Pb Collisions at root(S)(NN)=2.76 TeV PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS  Volume: 111   Issue: 10     Article Number: 102301  

Ostgaard, N.; Gjesteland, T.; Carlson, B. E.; et al.: Simultaneous observations of optical lightning and terrestrial gamma ray flash from space GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS  Volume: 40   Issue: 10   Pages: 2423-2426  

 

 

 

 

 

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