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More information is available on the following website:

http://www-cgi.uni-regensburg.de/Einrichtungen/Bayhost/messe_2010/donau/index.html

The UNESCO office in Venice is offering 3 research grants at CERN for young scientists from

• Albania,
• Bosnia and Herzegovina and
• former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The aim of this programme is to encourage young scientists from South Eastern Europe to pursue scientific careers in the field of basic and engineering sciences. Applications should be sent no later than 15 February 2010.

More information can be found at the UNESCO website.

The SEENET-MTP Network node

The Theoretical Physics group of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece announces

the opening of an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) position in Theoretical Particle Physics which will be financed by the European Union ITN program “Unification at the LHC era”. The duration of the appointment will be three years, starting in September 1, 2010 and the ESR is expected to defend a PhD thesis at the end of his/her employment. The deadline for submission of applications is February 15, 2010. (more…)

Professor Dejan Stojkovic of New York State University (SUNY) at Buffalo told Swisster he and his research team were celebrating over the weekend.

Stojkovic is the co-creator of the Black Max computer simulator, which stimulates the production of black holes in the collider and calculates their properties.

Full text: CERN scientists jubilant over restart of particle collider, Swisster, November 23, 2009

Professor Stephen Hawking says the experiment is vital for humanity while Professor Dejan Stojkovic, an expert on black holes, says there’s no chance the collider will cause the planet to be sucked into oblivion.

Full text: Big Bang test prompted fears of the end of the world, AdelaideNow, September 10, 2008

Prof. Dejan Stojkovic is member of SEENET-MTP network and during his visit to Nis he gave a talk Mini Black Holes in CERN.