Ten years ago, a project to establish a Balkan network in mathematical and theoretical physics took shape. Goran Djordjevic, Executive Director of the Network looks at the origins of SEENET-MTP and how it developed.
Full text is available at CERN Courier Magazine: December 2013.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Gerjikov (The Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria) will give a talk:
The Toda chains: exact solutions and their properties
on Monday, 2 December, 2013 at 17:00h. The talk will be held at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics Nis (Room 306).
This lecture will be organized by SEENET-MTP Office in Niš, within the OEA-ICTP Program “Strings and Cosmology” (supported by ICTP, Trieste, Italy). Coorganizers are Faculty of Science and Mathematics and Chair for Theoretical Phyiscs.
Prof. Dr. Goran Djordjevic (Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Nis, Serbia) will visit Sofia and give a talk
On path integrals on (non)Archimedean spaces
and application in Quantum Theory and Cosmology
on Tuesday, 19 November, 2013. The talk will be held at the Faculty of Physics, Sofia, Bulgaria.
CERN-EP Seminar on Tuesday 19th of November 2013 in the Council Chamber (503-1-001) at 11h00
First results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment
by Dr. Chamkaur Ghag (University College London)
This seminar will be available live via the CERN Webcast Service or here: Read more…
We are glad to announce that profiles for all individual members of SEENET-MTP network have been created and made available on our webportal. All members of the network are able to update their profiles and include contact information, professional information and links to their profiles at popular social networks (LinkedIn, Skype, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter).
We encourage all members of the SEENET-MTP to regularly update their profiles and believe that this service provided by Network will be useful to all members of the Network and visitors of the portal in fostering professional contacts and cooperation.
This service was partially supported by UNESCO Office Venice through project Contract CFS 13-10 n.: 45000194266 in cooperation with the SEENET-MTP Network Office Nis – Faculty of Science Nis and the Department of Physics.
Two Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher/PhD positions for 36 months starting from 1st February 2014 are available within the Applied Optics Group in the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Kent. These are supported by an EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network European Industrial Doctorate, jointly organized with NKT Photonics Denmark. Students will spend half of their time in Kent and half at NKT in Denmark.
More information is available in the PDF file.
We are pleased to inform that database consisting of a comprehensive profiles of 40 institutions from 7 SEE countries has been collected during SEE MP-UNESCO e-Survey project.
The database is available now on the webportal of the SEENET-MTP Network.
All the data for this database were collected as a part of the UNESCO Venice Office Project “Strengthening Basic and Engineering Sciences Capacities in South Eastern Europe SEE”, i.e. as the subproject “Map of Excellence in Physics and Mathematics in SEE – the SEE MP e-Survey Project” (Contract AFC 09-50 4500085387) launched in 2010, and continued in 2012/2013 (Contract CFS 13-10 n.: 45000194266) in cooperation with the SEENET-MTP Network Office Nis – Faculty of Science Nis, and the Department of Physics, University of Craiova . It is a pleasure to underline and acknowledge support of the UNESCO Office Venice.
From now on representatives of the institutions are authorized and asked to update these information of their institution.
This activity reamins open for all institutions in Physics and Mathematics in the region.
Today, on October 8th, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013 to François Englert (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (University of Edinburgh, UK) “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider“.
François Englert (left) and Peter Higgs at CERN on 4 July 2012, on the occasion of the announcement of the discovery of a Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)
François Englert and Peter W. Higgs are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 for the theory of how particles acquire mass. In 1964, they proposed the theory independently of each other (Englert together with his now deceased colleague Robert Brout). In 2012, their ideas were confirmed by the discovery of a so called Higgs particle at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva in Switzerland.
More information can be found on “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013″. Nobelprize.org and in the press release by CERN web site of CERN.
Press release by CERN (in Serbian):
CERN čestita dobitnicima Nobelove nagrade za fiziku
Ženeva, 8. oktobar 2013. CERN je uputio čestitke Piteru Higsu i Fransoi Angleru, dobitnicima Nobelove nagrade za fiziku za teorijsko otkriće mehanizma koji doprinosi našem razumevanju porekla mase subatomskih čestica, a koje je nedavno potvrđeno otkrićem predviđene elementarne čestice na eksperimentima ATLAS i CMS na CERN-ovom Velikom hadronskom kolajderu. Eksperimentalno otkriće Higsove čestice objavljeno je 4. jula prošle godine.
“Oduševljen sam što je Nobelova nagrada za fiziku ove godine dodeljena u oblasti fizike elementarnih čestica”, rekao je Rolf Hojer, generalni direktor CERN-a. “Otkriće Higsovog bozona u CERN-u prošle godine, koje potvrđuje Brut-Angler-Higs mehanizam, označava vrhunac decenija intelektualnog napora mnogo ljudi širom sveta.”
Brut-Angler-Higs (BEH) mehanizam je prvi put predložen 1964. godine u dva nezavisno objavljena rada, prvi od strane belgijskog fizičara Roberta Bruta i Fransoa Anglera, a drugi od strane britanskog fizičara Pitera Higsa. Ovaj mehanizam objašnjava kako su sile odgovorna za beta raspad mnogo slabija od elektromagnetne, ali je mnogo bolje poznat kao mehanizam koji elementarnim česticama daje masu.
Treći rad, koji su objavili amerikanci Žerald Guralnik i Karl Hagen sa britanskim kolegom Tomom Kibl doprinele su daljem razvoju ove nove ideje koja je postala esencijalni deo Standardnog modela u fizici čestica. Kako je Higs naglasio, ključna predikcija ove ideje je postojanje nove vrste masivnog bozona koji je otkriven na ATLAS i CMS eksperimentima u CERN-u 2012.
Standardni model opisuje elementarne čestice od kojih smo sastavljeni i mi i čitav vidljivi Univerzum, kao i interakcije koje određuju ponašanje elementarnih čestica. Ovo je izvanredno uspešna teorija koja je temeljno testirana u brojnim eksperimentima tokom dugog niza godina. Sve do prošle godine, BEH mehanizam je bio poslednji nedostajući deo ovog modela koji je trebalo eksperimentalno potvrditi. Sada, kada je potvrđen, fizičari u CERN-u nestrpljivo tragaju za fizikom izvan Standardnog modela.
Higsovu česticu su otkrile ATLAS i CMS kolaboracije, u kojima učestvuje po 3000 istraživača iz svih krajeva sveta. Oni su izgradili sofisticirane instrumente – detektore čestica – kako bi izučavali sudare protona u Velikom hadronskom kolajderu (LHC-u), koji je i sam veoma kompleksni instrument na čijoj konstrukciji je bilo uključeno mnogo ljudi i institucija.
CERN će održati konferenciju za štampu danas u 13:45 u Globusu nauke i inovacija. Za one koji nisu u mogućnosti da prisustvuju lično, obezbeđen je prenos uživo preko interneta. Pitanja novinara mogu biti postavljena preko tvitera, koristeći hashtag #BosonNobel
Izvor: IPB
Dr. Larisa Jonke from Rudjer Boskovic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia) will visit Faculty of Physics and Institute of Physics in Belgrade, Serbia.
The visit will take place in the frame of the ICTP – SEENET-MTP project PRJ-09 “Cosmology and Strings”.
During the visit Dr. Jonke will give a talk:
on Friday, 5 October, 2013 at 13:00h. The talk will be held in the Room 300, at the Institute of Physics.
Science Workshop for Young Minds group | Image credit: EPS/YM Barcelona
The EPS Young Minds Section is now planning its 2nd Science Workshop for Young Minds in late 2013 or 2014, and is asking for volunteers and ideas!
The first “Science Workshop for Young Minds” [SWYM] was held in September 2012 in cooperation with the Institute of Photonic Sciences [ICFO] and involved a week full of activities for high school students interested in optics, photonics and sciences.
The activity addressed a select group of 30 high school students who, during five days, were completely involved in science. Living in a scientific institution they participated in real experiments in an encouraging atmosphere. The students improved their knowledge in an environment more stimulating than what they normally find at their educational centres.
The Young Minds visited the ICFO labs where many world class scientists carry out cutting edge experiments. They were introduced to the day-to-day life of a scientist and were encouraged to get involved in science and research in the future.
The Young Minds approach advocates inquiry based science education where students are actors. Learning becomes more interesting and lively, compared with the standard lecture based approach in high schools. For this reason, during the lab tours and the experiments, Young Minds members used a proactive method of teaching, in which students participated actively in the acquirement of the conclusions, where PhD students were more ‘guides’ rather than teachers.
Within the frame of the last 2nd EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting, it was noted how the EPS Young Minds initiative could generate close links with other student chapters from Europe and forster the organisation of the second edition of the SWYM in a spirit of cooperation thanks to the close links generated during the meeting.
Source: EPSnews.eu
