Newsletter March 2010

The CP3-newsletters summarize the centre’s activities and accomplishments over a period of typically three months.
This first newsletter will summarize what has happened since the opening of the centre on the 1st of September 2009. More information can be found on our webpage cp3-origins.dk.

Outreach & Prizes

• Angels & Demons. CP3-Origins participated in presenting the science behind the movie Angels & Demons in October.
• The CP3-Genius Program was launched in January.
• Oticon Scholarhip. Ulrik Ishøj Søndergaard was awarded the Oticon Scholarship in January.
• Elite Researcher Prize. Francesco Sannino received the Elite Researcher Prize in January.
• High school visit. Students from Tornbjerg Gymnasium visited us as part of the CP3-Genius Program in February.

Visitors

• Joe Schechter visited CP3-Origins from the start-up of the centre in August until December. Schechter is from Syracuse University and mainly does research in effective Lagrangians, Gauge theories, neutrinos, scalar mesons, and weak interactions.
• Paul Hoyer is currently visiting CP3-Origins for five months until June. Hoyer is from Helsinki University and is mainly interested in hard QCD Dynamics and QCD Bound States.
• A list of short time guests can be found here.

People at CP3-Origins

• Master students: In September, Jakob Jark Jørgensen, Matin Mojaza, and Ulrik Ishøj Søndergaard signed up to write their Master Thesis at CP3-Origins.
• Kimmo Tuominen started as Assistant Professor in September.
• Stefano Di Chiara started as Post Doc in September.
• Jacopo Bechi left CP3-Origins in December.
• CP3-Genius Students: In January, Karin Dissauer and Martin Zangenberg started as the first CP3-Genius Program students.
• Two new Ph.D. Students: Eugenio Del Nobile and Tuomas Hapola started as Ph.D. Students in February.
• Claudio Pica started as Assistant Professor in February.
• Hidenori Sakuma Fukano left CP3-Origins at the end of February.

Events at CP3-Origins

• The CP3-Origins Inauguration took place in November 2009.
• Origin of Mass Mini Workshop immediately followed the inauguration.
• The 2nd Winter School on Geometry and Theoretical Physics in November was co-hosted by CP3-Origins.
• Furthermore, we have had 10 CP3-Lectures with guest visits from many prominent researchers; we have had 12 Journal Club meetings. Most of these meetings have been recorded and can be seen on our web page.
  A list of all events taking place at CP3-Origins can be found here.

Future Events

• MASS 2010. In the beginning of May, CP3-Origins will be hosting a conference on the Origin of Mass.

Preprints

Since the centre was established, researchers at CP3-Origins have published 34 preprints. A list of all our preprints can be found here.

Future Newsletters

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