MaNEP e-Newsletter for members - Published monthly             Issue Nr. 11 - September 2006 / page 2

MaNEP News

Martin Peter Colloquium / MaNEP welcomes Phil W. Anderson
Nobel Prize winnerProf. Philipp Warren Anderson from Princeton University will be the special guest of the 2nd Martin Peter Colloquium in UniGE. His conference entitled "RVB after all : the theory of High Tc" will take place at 17h, on Wednesday 27th, at the Auditoire A of the Physics Institute.

MaNEP members are also encouraged to come to the related Topical Meeting on
"Novel Superconductors".

The 15-minutes talks will start at 10h45 and finish at 16h10.

[ The full programme can be seen in the Calendar section ]

Award / Prof. Davor Pavuna receives the Nikola Tesla decoration

A teacher at the Physics Institute of Complex Matter at the EPFL, Prof. Davor Pavuna
(right on picture) was decorated on July 5 in Zagreb by the President of Republic of Croatia for his innovative research on novel disordered and electronic materials and for his role in international scientific cooperation.

The 'Nikola Tesla' award is a part of the international

celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla. He is widely recognized as 'the father of alternating current', and as a remarkable US inventor with 700 patents filed.


[ more about Nikola Tesla : click here ]

Mobile post doc Programme / New call for submissions
You are a MaNEP post doc willing to develop an independent project within and using the MaNEP network ? We offer 2 mobile post doc positions for one year. Salary and some additional funding for travel will be provided.

The project has to be carried out in one (or several) group(s) of MaNEP ; a project carried out in the group where you got your PhD will not be
accepted, but collaborations with it are however possible. Projects implying 2 or several MaNEP groups will have the preference.

To apply, send a max. 2 pages-description of your project, your CV and publication list.

Indicate where and in which MaNEP group you will mainly carry out your research and join a letter of the MaNEP

group leader stating that he/she is ready to have you working in his/her laboratories.
Indicate also the other groups implied in the collaboration.

Send your proposal to: Stéphanie Grandjean by mail.

The deadline for the proposal submissions is October 31st, 2006

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