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Nordic Physics News - Graphene Appointed EU FET Flagship
The European Commission has chosen Graphene as one of Europe's first 10-year, 1,000 million euro FET (Future Emerging Technology) flagships (the other being Human Brain Project). The mission of...
View ArticleNordic Physics News - Can Nordic Companies Profit from the Higgs Search?
It is of course heartworming to know that the CERN membership fee of EUR 13 million that Norway pays each year supports important basic research in physics, but are there also other more immediate...
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Nordic Physics News - New Finnish Centers of Excellence
In June, the Academy of Finland decided on designating 14 new Centres of Excellence in Research for the period 2014-2019, a total of EUR 45 million for the first three years of the six-year programme...
View ArticleNordic Physics News - Nature Paper on Polariton Lasers
Ivan Shelykh, professor at the University of Iceland and member of the Nordita board, and his PhD student Ivan Savenko, are co-authors of an article published in Nature, with the title "An electrically...
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Nordic Physics News - Political Control over Research Tightens
In Finland there has been active discussions on political guidance of research (see eg. this article from the Finnish public broadcasting company, in Finnish; I will summarize the main idea with my...
View ArticleNordic Physics News - The Swedish Production of Highly Cited Papers
Although Sweden is a leading scientific nation many other countries have seen greater progress during the last two decades as measured using bibliometric statistics. Several reports since the late...
View ArticleNordic Physics News - Finnish Academy Encourages Women to Seek International...
"The Academy of Finland has joined AcademiaNet with a view to facilitating the access of Finnish women to key positions in science and research. The AcademiaNet portal includes profiles and contact...
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Nordic Physics News - Nordic Physics Days 2013
The Nordic Physics Days will be held in Lund, June 12-14, 2013. The meeting, hosted by the Department of Physics at Lund University in cooperation with the Nordic Physical Societies, starts at lunch...
View ArticleNordic Physics News - Stronger Support Needed for Future Fields of Physics
The quality of Finnish physics research is quite high and the research covers most major international trends. However, future funding support should especially be targeted at promoting the pursuit of...
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Nordic Physics News - "Physics Researchers Must Look Forward"
"The standard of physics research in Finland is high and covers most international lines of inquiry," says Professor Christian Enss, Chairman of the evaluation panel of physics research in Finland....
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