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Professor Paul Hoyer from Helsinki University is visiting CP³-Origins from January to May
2010. He is a leader in perturbative aspects of Quantum Chromodynamic and has held research
positions at CERN, Oxford, Stony Brook and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in US. He has
been assistant professor at NORDITA (the Nordic centre for advanced theoretical studies) and
director of NORDITA two times for a total of about 10 years. He has made important contributions
in high energy physics and in particular in the field of Quantum Chromo Dynamics/
hadronic physics. Hoyer has been the chair of the department of High Energy Physics at Helsinki,
of the research institute for Theoretical Physics of Helsinki, of the Finnish Physical Society.
He has been also part of the High Energy Physics Prize committee of the European Physical Society.
Two adjunct professors have joined the centre, Isabella Masina and Roman Zwicky. They are
experts in neutrino, cosmology and flavor physics, respectively, and more generally in beyond
standard model physics.
Stefano Di Chiara joined the centre as his first formal postdoc, he received his PhD from the
University of Michigan under the supervision of two world leaders in models of Dynamical
Electroweak Symmetry breaking, Profs Elizabeth Simmons and Sekhar Chivukula.
We opened two postdoctoral positions and received applications from over 41 countries.
We hired two PhD students, Tuomas Hapola from Juväskylä in Finland and Eugenio Del Nobile
from Pisa in Italy. Besides increasing the international dimension of the centre, their interests
and research skills fit perfectly the centre’s main research activities.
Three students signed up simultaneously to start their master studies at the centre, Jakob Jark
Jørgensen, Matin Mojaza and Ulrik Ishøj Søndergaard. All three entered the newly established
elite education at the University of Southern Denmark. We are very proud that they have chosen
high energy physics as their primary field of research education, given that they represent la
creme de la creme of the students at the Faculty of Science.
Centre members have already produced over 30 research preprints (listed below). Several of the
recent work of the centre’s members, published before the actual start of the centre, became top
cited according to the SPIRES high energy database. This is the work dedicated to the understanding
of the phase diagram of strongly coupled theories and its applications for models of
dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and dark matter.
Within the first four months we launched the CP³-Origins Lecture series as well as the weekly
journal club. The invited lecturers are internationally known scientists from Europe, the US and
Asia.
The CP 3 -Lectures are available on our web page, allowing anyone to later watch and listen to
the lecturers. With time they will constitute an important historical record.
The lecturers are well known scientists coming from different places of the globe. The CP³-
Lectures are available one our webpage insuring transparence, allowing to the possible centre
members traveling the possibility to watch and listen to the lecturers, and serves as a courtesy
to the entire scientific community. We have in mind the smaller research groups which want to
remain updated with respect to the latest developments in particle physics. Finally it will, in
time, be a precious historical record.
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