Nordita Day - Summer 2017

Friday 9 Jun 2017, 08:30 → 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

WELCOME TO THE MOST IMPORTANT SOCIO-ACADEMIC EVENT OF THE YEAR!

The Nordita Day is an opportunity to get to know your fellow Norditians. It will be a one day event, Friday, 9th June 2017. This is the fourth Nordita Day, since the start of this ancient tradition in 2015.

SCHEDULE

9.00-9.50 BREAKFAST

The meeting will start with a light breakfast at Nordita East

10.00-17.00 TALKS

Everybody is encouraged to give a short talk (20 min including questions and discussion) about their current research. The talk should be understandable for everybody in the audience. There will be no fixed schedule for the talks and the speakers will be randomly selected during the day.

There will be a break for lunch around noon, and few coffee breaks during the day.

13.30-13.50 INFORMATION FROM SU

Immediately after lunch Göran Rydeberg, who is the chief registrar at Stockholm University, will inform us about important policies regarding incoming mail as well as how to deal with the documentation of grant applications.

18.00-late DINNER

From 6 PM onwards we will have dinner, outside the Nordita buildings if the weather allows. There will also be opportunities to take part in various competitive physical and intellectual sports. Your family/partner is cordially invited to join for the dinner.

PLEASE REGISTER

To help us plan the day, please register on the registration form as soon as possible (registration deadline May 31).

When registering you will have to provide the title and abstract of your contribution and you will be asked to indicate how many persons will join you for the dinner event.

You will also be asked what kind of physical activities you and your partner/family want to join. Right now you can choose between football, ultimate frisbee, boule and kubb (several choices are possible). In case you have other suggestions for sport activities, please feel free to add them in the suggestion field. We are planning to organize a small tournament, provided there is sufficient interest in the sport activities.

Finally, we will need some support with preparing the barbecue. Let us know if you want to help by checking the corresponding box. Thanks!

09:00 Breakfast

1 Introduction

2 Multipoint Radiation Induced Ignition of Dust Explosions: Turbulent Clustering of Particles and Increased Transparency

Speaker: Mikhail Liberman (Nordita)

3 How pre-relativistic theories of gravity were inspired by theories of electricity and magnetism

Speaker: Hans Mühlen (Nordita)

4 The five elements

Speaker: Dr Tomi Koivisto (Nordita)

11:00 Coffee

5 Gravity as the square of Yang-Mills

Speaker: Dr Alexandros Anastasiou (NORDITA)

6 Transition to turbulence in shear flows

Speaker: Cristobal Arriata (Nordita)

7 The physics of collective behavior: from flocking birds to crowd disasters

Speaker: Arianna Bottinelli (Nordita)

12:20 Lunch

8 Information from SU registrar's office

9 Dark matter capture, subdominant WIMPs, and neutrino observations

Speaker: Luca Visinelli

10 Non-equilibrium BEC and Dirac points

Speaker: Kirsty Dunnett

14:20 Coffee

11 Circular photogalvanic effect in ferroelectrics induced by Berry curvature

Speaker: Sergey Pershoguba

12 Magnons in honeycomb ferromagnets and BEC

Speaker: Saikat Banerjee

13 Quadratic curvature and power law in brane dynamics

Speaker: Aleksandr Zheltukhin

15:40 Tea

14 The cold (and cool) side of the first galaxies

Speaker: Livia Vallini

15 Effect of impurities on spin-texture of two-dimensional systems

Speaker: Fariborz Parhizgar

18:00 Dinner and sports