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1. Conferences
1.1 The Ins and Outs of Black Holes
1.2 Mario Novello Symposium On Bouncing Models
2. Jobs
2.1 Tenure track position in Mathematical/Theoretical Physics at Waterloo
2.2 Postdoctoral positions at Perimeter Institute
2.3 Joliot-Curie Fellowship for Women at Radboud University Nijmegen
2.4 CIFAR Junior Fellowship Cosmology and Gravity Program
3. News
3.1 Living Reviews in Relativity: "The Pioneer Anomaly"
3.2 Special Session at ERE2010 Dedicated to the Memory of Brian Edgar
3.3 Publishing papers with no author's approval
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1. Conferences
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1.1 The Ins and Outs of Black Holes
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/22/the-ins-and-outs-of-black-holes/
Starting Mon, Nov 15, 2010 to Wed, Nov 17, 2010
Location: Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Additional Information: http://www.mdjsi.org/
"The Ins and Outs of Black Holes"
Annapolis, Maryland, USA
November 15-17, 2010
The Joint Space Science Institute (JSI) -- consisting of astrophysicists and physicists from the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center -- is hosting a cross-cutting conference to examine the physics and astrophysics of energy flows in and around black holes. We plan to bring together 80-100 scientists from around the world to discuss observations, phenomenology, fundamental theory and how they all fit together. Sessions will be organized around broad questions:
* What are the observations that we need to explain?
* How is plasma physics important for understanding accretion?
* What interesting particle physics takes place near black holes?
* How does black hole spin modulate the nature of the emitted energy?
* What can observations of black holes tell us about the theory of gravity?
* What can we learn from emissions from merging black holes?
Confirmed invited Speakers:
Nahum Arav (Virginia Tech)
Steven Balbus (ENS-Paris)
Roger Blandford (KIRPAC/Stanford)
Tamara Bogdanovic (Maryland)
Andrew Fabian (Cambridge)
Ted Jacobson (Maryland)
Julian Krolik (Johns Hopkins)
Kristen Menou (Columbia)
Richard Mushotzky (Maryland)
Angela Olinto (Chicago)
Tsvi Piran (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem)
Guenter Sigl (Hamburg)
Nico Yunes (Princeton)
VENUE: The conference will be held at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, located less than half a mile from the Maryland State House in the historic capital city of Maryland, and within easy walking distance of the waterfront and restaurant district. Annapolis is easily accessible from Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI), Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport.
REGISTRATION: Registration will open in early September and will be on a first-come first-serve basis. Registration will be accessible via http://www.mdjsi.org . We encourage you to register early.
FURTHER INFORMATION: To sign up for further email announcements, or if you have any other queries about this meeting, please email Chris Reynolds (chris[at]astro.umd.edu) or Peter Shawhan (pshawhan[at]umd.edu). For further information, please go to http://www.mdjsi.org .
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Alessandra Buonanno
Jean Cottam
Bill Dorland
Jordan Goodman
Richard Mushotzky
Chris Reynolds (co-Chair)
Peter Shawhan (Chair)
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1.2 Mario Novello Symposium On Bouncing Models
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/19/symposium-mario-novello-on-bouncing…
Starting Fri, Nov 26, 2010 to Tue, Nov 30, 2010
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Additional Information: http://www.cbpf.br/~smnbm/
The "Mario Novello Symposium on Bouncing Models" is to honor the decades of long work of M. Novello to promote cosmology in Brazil and develop numerous interactions with other countries, and for his emphasis, for many years, on bouncing models that culminated in 2008 with an exhaustive report on the subject. All aspects of this subject, from the high energy theory implementation to the observational consequences, will be covered. The Symposium on bouncing cosmological models will be held in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the charming beach Resort of Portobello, Mangaratiba, 100 km away from Rio de Janeiro.
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2. Jobs
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2.1 Tenure track position in Mathematical/Theoretical Physics at Waterloo
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/29/tenure-track-position-in-mathematic…
Institution: Waterloo, ON, Canada
Deadline: Mon, Jan 10, 2011
Additional Information: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~akempf/facultyposition.pdf
Tenure track position in Mathematical/Theoretical Physics
Applications are invited for a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, in the field of Mathematical/Theoretical Physics, to begin on or after July 1, 2011. The deadline for receiving applications, including three letters of reference, is January 10, 2011. Apply via email to
am-positions AT math.uwaterloo.ca
with “MPposition” in the subject line.
We are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in the areas of gravity, quantum gravity or cosmology.
The successful applicant may be considered for an Associate Membership at the independent Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and/or the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.
For full details, see the official ad here:
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~akempf/facultyposition.pdf
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2.2 Postdoctoral positions at Perimeter Institute
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/12/postdoctoral-positions-at-the-perim…
Institution: Waterloo, ON, Canada
Deadline: Mon, Nov 15, 2010
Additional Information: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Scientific/Applications/Postdoctoral_Resea…
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics invites applications for postdoctoral positions from new and recent PhD’s working in fundamental theoretical physics. Our areas of strength include quantum gravity, string theory, quantum information, cosmology, quantum foundations, particle physics and condensed matter theory. We also encourage applications from scientists whose work overlaps these categories or falls in more than one of them. Our postdoctoral positions are normally for a period of three years. Outstanding candidates may also be considered for a senior postdoctoral position with a five-year term.
Further details on this opportunity, online application instructions and Perimeter Institute, can be found at: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/postdoctoralresearcher. Please note that to be considered for this position, you must apply online.
We welcome all candidates to apply by November 15th, 2010, but applications will be considered until all positions are filled.
PI may also nominate exceptional candidates for a Banting Fellowship, sponsored by the Government of Canada. Applicants who may be interested in this opportunity are requested to have their application materials and references submitted by October 15th, 2010.
Perimeter Institute offers a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment with maximum research freedom and opportunity to collaborate within and across fields. Our postdoctoral positions are intended for highly original and intellectually independent young theorists and offer exceptional support including a generous research and travel fund, opportunities to invite their own collaborators as visitors, and the possibility of organizing workshops and conferences.
Perimeter Institute is located west of Toronto, in Waterloo, Canada and opened in September 2001 as an independent Institute supporting research in foundational areas of theoretical physics. The Institute offers an exceptional research environment and is currently staffed with 25 full-time and part-time faculty members, 20 Distinguished Research Chairs, 45 Postdoctoral Researchers, 25 Graduate Students, 31 exceptional masters-level students participating in Perimeter Scholars International, and hosts hundreds of visitors and conference participants throughout the academic year.
Perimeter Institute is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority.
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2.3 Joliot-Curie Fellowship for Women at Radboud University Nijmegen
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/03/joliot-curie-fellowship-for-women-a…
Institution: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Deadline: Wed, Sep 15, 2010
Additional Information: http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0?recid=500121
The Faculty of Science at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) is pleased to offer several tenure track fellowships to talented young women with outstanding potential in the field of chemistry, physics, and astronomy. The Joliot-Curie fellowships are available in three of the faculty’s prestigious research institutes. This highly interdisciplinary and collaborative environment offers exceptional research opportunities to independent, motivated and gifted female scientists.
Requirements
You are encouraged to launch your own independent research program at one of the faculty's research institutes. You are expected to publish in high-profile journals, attract your own external funding and contribute to the teaching programs.
Organization
The Faculty of Science has three interdisciplinary research institutes with fellowship opportunities in the field of chemistry, physics, and astronomy:
Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM): conducts excellent interdisciplinary research in the field of chemistry and physics and offers a strong interplay between experimental and theoretical research groups. IMM and the Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences aim to further strengthen their leading activities at the interface of chemistry and biology.IMM also has several unique research facilities, including the High-Field Magnet Laboratory, NanoLab, Free Electron Lasers, and a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance laboratory. Fellowships are available in the field of chemical biology and advanced spectroscopy of molecules and materials.
Institute for Mathematics, Astronomy, and Particle Physics (IMAPP): centers around the theme of the origin of the universe. The particle physics group – member of Nikhef – has a vigorous theory program and participates in experiments at CERN and Fermilab. The astronomy group is active in the area of compact binaries, radio astronomy and, jointly with the particle physics group, the area of gravitational waves and cosmic ray physics. Fellowships are available in the field of mathematical physics, particle physics or astroparticle physics.
Donders Centre for Neuroscience (DCN): studies the human and animal brain with a broad repertoire of experimental techniques and informatics tools. The research is conducted on different levels: from genetic, molecular, neuronal cells to behavior. Fellowships are available in the field of new molecular imaging techniques in neuronal systems.
Website: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1935/joliot-curie-bi…
Conditions of employment
Employment: 0,8 - 1,0 fte
Maximum salary per month, based on a fulltime employment: € 5,920 gross/month
Starting salary depends on experience.
Salary scale: 14
Additional conditions of employment
You will be appointed as assistant professor (UD) for up to five years and will be offered a permanent position as assistant or associate professor (UHD) depending a successful evaluation. The evaluation will be based on a set of objective criteria.
The university also welcomes applications from women with a more senior profile and is happy to offer them a customized tenure track. A full professorship is possible depending on the fellow’s long-term performance.
Other Information
Your application should include a cover letter, a research and teaching statement, CV, three referents and a list of publications. Suggestons for suiteble candidates are also welcomed.
Additional Information
Dr. Iwan Holleman, Managing Director IMM
Telephone: +31 24 3653189
E-mail: i.holleman[at]science.ru.nl
Application
You can apply for the job (mention the vacancy number 62.51.10) before 15 September 2010 by sending your application – preferably by email – to:
RU Nijmegen, FNWI, P&O, Ms. Astrid Schröder
P.O Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen
Telephone: +31 24 3652764
E-mail: pz[at]science.ru.nl
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2.4 CIFAR Junior Fellowship Cosmology and Gravity Program
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/02/cifar-junior-fellowship-cosmology-a…
Institution: Canada
Additional Information: http://www2.cifar.ca/media/files/C%26G%20Junior%20Fellow%20Ad%20%2D%20June%…
The Junior Fellow Academy of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research is an elite fellowship program designed to build research and leadership capacity in gifted young scholars at a critical early stage of career development. The Academy provides unique opportunities for personal and professional growth through close collaboration with and mentorship from some of the best researchers in Canada and around the world.
CIFAR’s Cosmology and Gravity Program is seeking outstanding postdoctoral researchers to fill two Junior Fellowship positions: the first beginning in January 2011 and the second in July 2011. The Junior Fellowship will be held in conjunction with a university postdoctoral appointment under the supervision of one or more program Fellows or Scholars. The position is tenable at any of the Canadian institutions where members of the Cosmology and Gravity Program are based.
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3. News
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3.1 Living Reviews in Relativity: "The Pioneer Anomaly"
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/31/living-reviews-in-relativity-the-pi…
Additional Information: http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2010-4
Living Reviews in Relativity has published a new review article on "The Pioneer Anomaly" by Slava G. Turyshev and Viktor T. Toth on September 1, 2010.
Please find the abstract and further details below.
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PUB.NO. lrr-2010-4
Turyshev, Slava and Toth, Viktor T.
"The Pioneer Anomaly"
ACCEPTED: 2010-07-16
PUBLISHED: 2010-09-01
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2010-4
ABSTRACT:
Radio-metric Doppler tracking data received from the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft from heliocentric distances of 20-70 AU has consistently indicated the presence of a small, anomalous, blue-shifted frequency drift uniformly changing with a rate of $\sim 6\times 10^{-9}$ Hz/s. Ultimately, the drift was interpreted as a constant sunward deceleration of each particular spacecraft at the level of $a_P = (8.74 \pm 1.33)\times 10^{-10}$ m/s$^2$. This apparent violation of the Newton's gravitational inverse square law has become known as the Pioneer anomaly; the nature of this anomaly remains unexplained. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge of the physical properties of the anomaly and the conditions that led to its detection and characterization. We review various mechanisms proposed to explain the anomaly and discuss the current state of efforts to determine its nature. A comprehensive new investigation of the anomalous behavior of the two Pioneers has begun recen
tly. The new efforts rely on the much-extended set of radio-metric Doppler data for both spacecraft in conjunction with the newly available complete record of their telemetry files and a large archive of original project documentation. As the new study is yet to report its findings, this review provides the necessary background for the new results to appear in the near future. In particular, we provide a significant amount of information on the design, operations and behavior of the two Pioneers during their entire missions, including descriptions of various data formats and techniques used for their navigation and radio-science data analysis. As most of this information was recovered relatively recently, it was not used in the previous studies of the Pioneer anomaly, but it is critical for the new investigation.
UPCOMING ARTICLES AT:
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/upcoming.html
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3.2 Special Session at ERE2010 Dedicated to the Memory of Brian Edgar
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/23/special-session-at-ere2010-dedicate…
Additional Information: http://www.iaa.es/ere2010/website/modules/tinyd0/
On the afternoon of Thursday 9th September a special session of talks will be held at the Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE2010) to honour the memory of S. Brian Edgar who died on 10th June 2010. The ERE2010 meeting will be held at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in Granada, Spain from 6th-10th September 2010.
Brian was a frequent attendee at the ERE meetings in recent years and shared fruitful collaborations with several groups in Iberia and indeed world-wide. Brian was a dedicated teacher and supervisor and a very able and productive researcher. However to many of us, Brian was more than just a colleague, but rather a dear friend.
Further details of the programme may be found on the ERE2010 web-site: http://www.iaa.es/ere2010/website/modules/tinyd0/index.php?id=22
On hyperspace@aei there is an obituary (http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/06/15/death-of-brian-edgar/) written mainly by Marcos Maia, who was a PhD student together with Brian at King's college in London, with input from others, and on MAI an obituary (http://www.phys.umu.se/bradley/GRSweden/maiobituary.pdf) written by his colleagues at the Department of Mathematics at Linköping University.
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3.3 Publishing papers with no author's approval
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Announcement on Hyperspace@AEI:
http://hyperspace.aei.mpg.de/2010/08/17/publishing-papers-with-no-authors-a…
Dear hyperspace@aei Users!
I want inform you about interesting event I have met recently. Namely, I noticed that one of my arXiv's contributions to gr-qc titled "On quantum cosmology as field theory of bosonic string mass groundstate" has been published as "On quantum cosmology as field theory of bononic string mass groundstate" (i.e. with mispronounced word bosonic) in the journal International Journal of Physics by International Sciences Press within Serial Publications, see the webpage
http://www.serialspublications.com/contentnormal.asp?jid=501&jtype=1
I have submitted the appropriate info (with the link cited above) to arXiv, and SPIRES also accepted this information. After this I sent email to the Editor in Chief M. Agop affiliated to Department of Physics, Technical University “Gh. Asachi” Iasi 700050, Romania with my question about the publication procedures of the journal. My doubts were serious, because I did not sent my paper to the journal, as well as I did not give my approval for publication of the manuscript. Moreover, I suppose there was not applied peer-review, because the paper consists few minor mistakes. I have not obtained any reply from the Editor in Chief, however, I have noticed today that the paper has been withdrawn from the journal.
Really, I do not know what one should do in this type of situations. I do not wish to suggest manifestly the opinion about the journal and its Editors.
Best regards,
L. Glinka
