The Department of Physics and Technology of the University of Bergen (UiB) has from 1 February 2015 a vacancy for a research fellow in theoretical particle physics. The position is within the subatomic physics group.
The fellowship position is for a fixed term of 4 years, of which 25% will comprise mandatory work such as teaching and/or administrative tasks. The fellowship period may be reduced if you have been previously employed as a research fellow/research assistant or the like.
Below you will find a recently published article about Invisibles. The article discusses the general topics of dark matter, dark energy and neutrinos, and the European efforts to research them.
It also highlights the training nature of the network, which provides next generation scientists with the necessary skills to lead this quest for knowledge.
As part of Invisibles14, a public lecture on "La traque de l’Univers Invisible - Tracking the Invisible Universe" will be delivered by Thierry Lasserre at the Palais de la Découverte, Paris, on Thursday July 10th.
This will be followed by a special session (for members of Invisibles only) at the Planetarium.
Valentina De Romeri (CNRS) gave a public talk on dark matter at the Ecole Bilingue Internationale in Clermont-Ferrand, France on June 11th, 2014. In her presentation, titled “Dark Matter”, Valentina De Romeri explained what is dark matter, answering to various hot questions about dark matter.
Michele Lucente (CNRS) gave a public talk on neutrinos at the Ecole Bilingue Internationale in Clermont-Ferrand, France on June 11th, 2014. In his presentation, titled “The pathway to neutrinos (an incomplete tale)”, Michele Lucente covered the history of neutrino research, explaining many basic concepts of the scientific discipline.
This is the video shown at the presentation (Firefox browser recomended):
The HEFT2014 - Higgs Effective Field Theories 2014 - workshop will be held at the Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM-CSIC) in Madrid, from Sunday 28th to Tuesday 30th September 2014.
In this week’s paper of the month, we look at an article by a joint team from Durham University’s Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) and Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC). In this study, the authors show that a long-standing problem in the otherwise extremely successful “cold dark matter” model, can be solved by softening the usual assumption that dark matter does not interact with ordinary light. Until now, simulations of galaxy formation by cold dark matter have predicted too many small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way and similar galaxies. By introducing a tiny interaction rate with photons — about a billion times smaller than ordinary matter, the authors show via the results of high-precision simulations that the predicted number of satellite galaxies from our best models can be brought in line with observations.
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A large body of evidence suggests that dark matter makes up around 80 percent of the matter content of the Universe and plays an important role in structure formation in the Universe. Cold dark matter (CDM) is a form of dark matter which consists of slow moving particles that interact gravitationally and through the weak force, and is the leading paradigm to explain the universe’s missing mass. Such weakly interacting particles are believed to have a small velocity dispersion and negligible free-streaming.
‘El Universo Invisible y los neutrinos’ is the public talk that Prof. Ben Gavela gave to the general public on Thursday 27 February 2014. It was scheduled as one of the presentations preceeding a round table organised by the University of Costa Rica. Four presentations by scientists provided the background to the debatethat followed and was moderated by Dr. José Gracia Bondía, Catedrático Humboldt 2014 The event attracted over 60 people.
