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Speaker: Martin Plávala (University of Siegen) Abstract: We review recent results on tensor products of the ordered vector spaces: we show that the tensor product is almost never uniquely defined due to the existence of entanglement between any non-classical (non-simplical) cones, and we present a hierarchy of convex optimization programs that aim to determine whether a given vector is entangled or not. We then apply these abstract mathematical results to two problems in quantum information: semi-device independent certification of Schmidt rank and semi-device independent certification of number of incompatible measurements, where we obtain hierarchies of outer approximation by semi-definite programming problems. Moreover we show that these outer approximations yield bounds that are relevant for potential experimental implementations. Finally we discuss other applications of the presented abstract hierarchies to problems in quantum information and other fields.

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Huxi Bach mødes med de to fysikere, Sofie Marie Koksbang og Mads Toudal Frandsen, begge fra Institut for Fysik, Kemi og Farmaci, Syddansk Universitet, til en snak om universets gåder. De kommer ind på emner som mørk energi og mørkt stof. Forhåndstilmelding anbefales.  

SDU Climate Cluster afprøver en ny tilgang til at støtte forskere med klimarelevante forskningsinteresser i at øge deres succes med europæisk finansiering. Den 22. april afholder Sean McCarthy, en af Europas mest kendte eksperter på området, en halvdagsworkshop, der er skræddersyet til forskere med klimarelevante og tværfaglige forskningsinteresser. Målet er at fjerne noget af forvirringen og overvældelsen fra processen ved at undervise i enkle færdigheder til at engagere sig i det europæiske finansieringssystem, enten som projektkoordinator eller partner. "Mange forskere får ikke så meget ud af de europæiske finansieringsmuligheder, som de kunne. Noget af dette er sandsynligvis baseret på negative tidligere erfaringer, som var administrativt overvældende, og for andre er det simpelthen meget nyt og ukendt territorium. Vi håber, at vi med lidt praktisk støtte, kompetenceudvikling og en koordineret proces frem mod EU's 2024-opslag kan hjælpe nogle flere partnerskaber med at få de nødvendige midler til deres projekter," siger Lucy Rist, ansvarlig for forskningsudvikling hos SDU Climate Cluster. Workshoppen er en fælles indsats, hvor forskningsstøtteteams på tværs af alle fakulteter er involveret såvel som SDU RIO. Den er åben for alle ansatte på SDU.

Networking may well be the way to your next job - here's why: Through your network you can obtain knowledge about industry tendencies, specific companies and job opportunities that you can't Google your way to - and that can give you a cunning edge in your application and job search in general. 85% of Danish employers are open for networking meetings*. 42% of Danish employers indicate that they are most inclined to have a networking meeting with a job seeker whose motivation and interest in the company piques their curiosity. It is the way you approach them, and not whether there is a networking relation, that is decisive*. Therefore, it is important that you put your network into play when you are looking for your next job. During the workshop we will dive into how you map your network, become better at networking and contacting relevant people. The workshop is hosted by SDU's career counsellors and will be facilitated by career advisers from IDA who are experts on networking, and it will be a mixture of theory and tools. It is our experience, that the best output of the workshops is, when our participants comment, ask questions and are getting involved. So we hope, that you will do the same. *Ballisager's annual recruitment analysis among Danish companies across industries - 2021.

Speaker: Erik Donovan Hedegård Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy University of Southern Denmark Abstract: Transition metals in biological systems pose a formidable challenge in modern quantum chemistry. Unfortunately, these metals are close to everywhere in biological systems. For instance, about one-third of all enzymes contain a transition metal. The main issues when dealing with transition metals are (i) the metal typically demands so-called complete active space (CAS) methods with billions of electron configurations included. This quickly becomes computationally costly. (ii) Relativistic effects can be sizable. Addressing these effects also becomes computationally demanding. (iii) The relevant chemistry usually occurs in a surrounding solvent or within a protein environment that also needs to be taken into account, both in terms of the nuclear dynamics as well as the electronic interactions between the metal and the environment. In this talk, we demonstrate how challenges (i)–(iii) can be tackled efficiently and accurately. We discuss how this allows us to understand a part of the global carbon cycle, enzymes that can boost the production of biofuel, and new drugs against cancer. Location: D-IAS Aud. (V24-501a-0), Danish Institute for Advanced Study - DIAS. The event is open to all.

Due to a cancelation from Jørgen, tehre will be no DIAS event Wednesday the 24th.

Speaker: Nadia Ott (University of Southern Denmark) Abstract: I will give an introductory talk on supermanifolds, super Riemann surfaces, and supermoduli space, starting with the definitions of these objects. I will then introduce a current area of research in supergeometry, super period matrices, and state two famous results in the field: Donagi and Witten’s proof that supermoduli space is not split for genus g ≥ 5, and D’Hoker and Phong’s calculation of the genus g = 2 superstring amplitude.

Speaker: Nadia Ott (University of Southern Denmark) Abstract: D’Hoker and Phong’s calculation of the genus g = 2 superstring amplitude uses, in a crucial way, a projection from genus g = 2 supermoduli space to its underlying reduced space. They define this projection using a formula for the genus g = 2 super period matrix. Witten generalized their formula for the super period matrix to higher genus g and found that the super period matrix may develop a pole along a particular divisor in supermoduli space if g ≥ 11. This divisor is commonly called the bad divisor. Witten also considered super period matrices on super Riemann surfaces with a nonzero number of Ramond punctures (note: the word puncture is a bit of a misnomer). He found that in the presence of Ramond punctures, a closed one form has, in addition to the usual 2g ”even” periods (defined by integrals over one cycle in homology), 2r fermionic periods. The fermionic periods of one form w are certain constants appearing in the restriction of w to the Ramond divisor. In joint work with Ron Donagi, we identify the 2r fermionic periods of w with the residues of a particular global section of the twisted spin structure on the underlying curve. As in the unpunctured case, the super period matrix with Ramond punctures may develop a singularities as we vary over supermoduli space. Using this identification of the fermionic periods in terms of residues, we explicitly describe this bad locus in supermoduli space.

I hver af månederne januar til juni 2024 arrangerer SDU Climate Cluster elitecenteret CUHRE i samarbejde med Simon Fraser University den online møderække Wild Pedagogies. Du kan deltage med en præsentation, i en dialog eller erfaringsudveksling i dette engagerede og globale fællesskab. Invitationen er åben for alle, der er optaget af eller nysgerrig på Wild Pedagogies. Kontakt os venligst, hvis du gerne vil give et oplæg. De næste møder finder sted 25. april 2024 kl. 21.00 - 22.30 30. maj 2024 kl. 21.00 - 22.30 27. juni 2024 kl. 21.00 - 22.30 Alle møderne foregår på engelsk. Du kan læse mere her Wild Pedagogies

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Speaker: Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania) Abstract: TBA

Mød 50 virksomheder fra de store, internationale til de små, fra start-ups til offentlige institutioner- men alle med et ønske om at møde studerende, der vil lave et samarbejde med dem, så der er god chance for at lande en aftale eller at udvide dit netværk – ligesom du kan få større kendskab til de enkelte virksomheder og de muligheder, der er. Du har også mulighed for at møde SDU RIO og AKA og få sparring på dit CV eller tips til hvordan man netværker med virksomhederne. Ligesom der er mulighed for at få taget et professionelt billede. Der er ingen tilmelding for studerende: Forbered dig - mød op – få en study-sticker – og du er klar til at netværke. Du kan følge den voksende virksomheds-tilmeldingsliste her: https://event.sdu.dk/studentcollaborationdaysoenderborgf2024/deltagende-virksomhederorganisationer Se job og projektopslag fra de fleste af de tilmeldte her på SDU Jobbank: https://sdu.jobteaser.com/da/events/206734-student-collaboration-day-sonderborg-spring24 Ca. en måned før eventen opdaterer vi denne side med flere detaljer om de tilmeldte virksomheder: https://mitsdu.dk/da/studentcollaborationday

En velskrevet jobansøgning og et skarpt CV er med til at overbevise modtageren om, at netop du skal til jobsamtale. Men hvad bør den gode ansøgning og det målrettede CV indeholde? Det er præcis, hvad dette webinar handler om. Hvad får du? - Dos and don’ts i forhold til hvad dit CV og din ansøgning bør indeholde - Viden om hvad arbejdsgiverne kigger efter i dit materiale - Eksempler på hvad der fungerer godt og mindre godt – og hvordan du fikser det Dagens webinar vil blive afholdt af AKA i samarbejde med karrievejledningen på SDU.

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Get a piece of the pie and apply unsolicited. When asked, 83 % of Danish employers indicate that it is possible to apply unsolicited to them. Furthermore, 84 % answer, that they also mostly read the unsolicited applications they get. And 63 % of them answer, that they have tried to hire someone who applied unsolicited*. This pattern is repeated in IDA's figures, as a a total of 60% of IDA's newly graduated members get their first job by different ways than the traditional posted job - and unsolicited job search is one of the strategies. During this online workshop you will get specific tools and methods on how you proactively approach the companies by both calling and writing. In short: You’ll learn to take control of your own job search which will increase your motivation. The workshop is hosted by SDU's career counsellors, and the experts sharing their best tips at this online workshop are career advisers from IDA. The format will be a mixture of theory and tools. It is our experience, that the best output of the workshops is, when our participants comment, ask questions and are getting involved. So we hope, that you will do the same. *Ballisager's annual recruitment analysis among Danish companies across industries - 2019 + 2021.

Går du med tanker om, hvordan dit arbejdsliv skal skrues sammen, når du bliver færdig med studiet? Fx et ønske om et fleksibelt arbejdsliv, blive digital nomade, skabe en portefølgekarriere, hvor du kombinerer forskellige indtægtskilder, arbejde på deltid, blive selvstændig eller noget helt sjette. Der findes mange måder at arbejde på og til dette arrangement får du: Inspiration til forskellige måder at skrue dit arbejdsliv sammen på Indsigt i fordele og ulemper ved de forskellige veje Værktøjer til at afklare dine tanker og tage de første skridt hen imod det arbejdsliv, der matcher dine behov.

A student job in Denmark during your studies can kickstart your career and provide you with much better opportunities to enter the Danish job market successfully once you've completed your education. It teaches you things that books alone cannot and helps you build your network. The impact of part-time jobs is also evident in the statistics: One year after graduation, 20% more people are employed if they've had a part-time job compared to those who haven't. Two years after graduation, those who've had a part-time job earn approximately 2000 DKK more per month than those who haven't. But what constitutes a job relevant to your studies, and how do you find one? In this Career Café, you will receive an introduction to: - A few key points on the Danish Labour Market - How to use LinkedIn to identify the types of part-time jobs (job titles and workplaces) that are relevant to you. - SDU's job bank, including setting up a job alert. - How to use Infomedia for researching potential workplaces, enabling you to write a strong application and perform well in job interviews.

Speaker: Manuel Meyer Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy University of Southern Denmark Abstract: TBA Location: D-IAS Aud. (V24-501a-0), Danish Institute for Advanced Study - DIAS. The event is open to all.

On April 12, 1945, a stunned world learned that Franklin D. Roosevelt, the leader who had brought the United States through the two great crises of the twentieth century, was dead. Responding to this shocking development, the Danish physicist, Niels Bohr, expressed the view that it seemed impossible to believe that “the great man, upon whom more than anyone else, the hopes of humanity were centered” was gone. What Bohr and the rest of the public did not realize, of course, was that by the spring of 1945 Franklin Roosevelt was a dying man. What’s more, his sudden disappearance from the world stage at this critical moment meant that leader who had orchestrated the alliance that would go on to defeat the forces of fascism and set the stage for the successful creation of the United Nations would not be there to witness these historic developments. Nor would he be present when his government faced one of the most daunting decisions made in human history—the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Roosevelt’s absence at the dawn of the nuclear age has raised several questions about what might have happened had he lived long enough to witness the successful development of the atomic bomb. Would Roosevelt—whose knowledge of and involvement in the making of the atomic bomb was far more extensive than President Truman’s—have followed the same course of action? Or might FDR have pursued an alternative strategy for ending the war, through negotiation or a demonstration of the atomic bomb’s awesome power. Equally significant, might he have ultimately taken Bohr’s advice and shared the atomic secret with the Russians in such a way as to gain their confidence and perhaps avoid the onset of the nuclear arms race that stood at the heart of the Cold War? As discussed in this presentation, a close examination of FDR’s last 100 days in office offers some interesting clues as to what Roosevelt might have done had he lived long enough to bring the most destructive war in history to an end. About David B. Woolner: David B. Woolner is Professor of History and Kovler Foundation Fellow of Roosevelt Studies at Marist College; Senior Fellow and Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute; and Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College. He is the author of The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace (Basic Books, 2017), is editor/co-editor of five books, and served as historical advisor to the Ken Burns films The Roosevelts: An Intimate History and The US and the Holocaust and for numerous special exhibitions at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. Dr. Woolner is the recipient of the Fulbright Denmark Distinguished Scholar Award in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (2023-2024) and was recently named a Fulbright Specialist for the years 2021-2025 by the US Department of State’s Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs. From 2000-2010, Dr. Woolner served as the Roosevelt Institute’s Executive Director, overseeing a significant expansion of the organization’s budget, programmatic dimension and staff. He earned his Ph. D. and M.A. in history from McGill University and a B.A. summa cum laude in English Literature and History from the University of Minnesota. The lecture takes place in the DIAS Auditorium at Fioniavej 34. Everybody is welcome and no registration is needed.

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Kom og vær med til 2 x 20 min. inspirerende foredrag, mens du nyder en gratis "afslappet after-work" øl med dine medstuderende, kollega eller lærer. Oplægsholderne meldes ud ASAP, men sæt allerede nu kryds i kalenderen!

Nancy L. Segal, professor of Phycology and Director of the Twin Studies Center, at California State University, Fullerton Twins and Other Extraordinary Kinships: The Science and the Fascination Twins have a universal fascination for both scientific professionals and members of the general public. Why this is the case has been a matter of some debate, but several explanations will be suggested. Next, an overview of twin types (identical and fraternal) and the fascinating variations displayed by each type are described and illustrated (e.g., twins reared apart, biracial twins, twins with different fathers) with compelling data and case studies. Some curious, twin-like twosomes are also included, given that they are scientifically informative, as well as fascinating (virtual twins, unrelated look-alikes, switched at birth pairs). Twin research continues to grow and to flourish as more twins are being born and researchers representing diverse disciplines, such as politics, religious studies, and economics, are embracing a twin-based approach to better understand their observations. About : Dr. Nancy L. Segal is a Psychology Professor and Director of the Twin Studies Center, at California State University, Fullerton. She specializes in twin research and teaches courses in developmental psychology. She had authored nine books on twins, most recently Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart (Segal, 2021); and Gay Fathers, Twin Sons: The Citizenship Case That Captured the World (Segal, 2023).. The lecture takes place on 22nd of May from 11.15-12.15 in the DIAS Seminarroom, Fioniavej 34. Everybody is welcome and no registration is needed.

Deltag i EuroVis 2024-konferencen Where Words Fail, Visualization Speaks, og udforsk datavisualiseringens verden og samarbejd med eksperter inden for dette spændende felt. Gå ikke glip af denne mulighed for at udvide din viden og dine forbindelser inden for visualiseringsverdenen! Læs mere her: https://www.eurovis.org/eurovis/conference

DIAS Discussion: Powerful Political Metaphors: How Are They Created? Introduction: Jeppe Nevers Lecture: Timo Pankakoski Commentator: Aglae Pizzone The event is open for all and takes place in the DIAS seminar room

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Speaker: Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi Center for Nano Optics University of Southern Denmark Abstract:Manipulation of single-photon emission from quantum emitters (QEs) has attracted a considerable attention in recent years due to its importance for quantum information technologies in quantum communication, computation, sensing and metrology. Here, recent progress in on-chip manipulation of the polarization, directionality and phase distribution in single-photon emission by making use of planar holographic QE-coupled metasurfaces is presented and discussed. The underlying idea is related to the concept of meta-atom, in which a QE is efficiently and non-radiatively coupled to surface modes, such as surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), that are subsequently outcoupled into free propagating waves. An innovative metasurface design approach, vectorial scattering (computer-generated) holography, is introduced for the purpose of designing hybrid SPP-QE coupled metasurfaces suitable for generation of well-collimated beams of single photons with desirable polarization characteristics propagating along given directions. Latest results include its extension for realizing single-photon sources with radiation channels that exhibit diverse (including vectorial with spin and orbital angular momenta) wavefronts and polarization characteristics, opening thereby a way to generating quantum structured light in high dimensions. Location: D-IAS Aud. (V24-501a-0), Danish Institute for Advanced Study - DIAS. The event is open to all.

Minisymposium with Kaare Christensen Focus on the menopause with perspectives from medicine, psychology, society, and literature. More information to come.

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Invitation til Doktordisputatsforsvar (dr.phil.). Det Humanistiske Fakultet ved Syddansk Universitet inviterer hermed til Professor Mads Nygaard Folkmann's doktordisputatsforsvarOnsdag den 26. juni kl. 10.00 på Campus Kolding i Auditoriet. Forsvaret afholdes på dansk. Mads Nygaard Folkmann's afhandling med titlen: 'Design Aesthetics: Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication' kan erhverves via nedenstående link. Eventuelle uofficielle opponenter bedes melde sig til leder af forsvarshandlingen, inden handlingens begyndelse. Bedømmelsesarbejdet er udført af: Professor Anders V. Munch, Institut for Design, Medier og Uddannelsesvidenskab, Syddansk Universitet. Professor Johan Redström, Designhögskolan, Umeå Universitet. Lektor Jacob Lund, Æstetik og Kultur, Aarhus Universitet. Johan Redström og Jacob Lund er officielle opponenter på dagen. Forsvarshandlingen er offentlig. De bedste hilsener Simon Møberg Torp, Dekan

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Er du 14-18 år og vild med rummet, fysik og naturvidenskab? Så er fysiksommerskolen noget for dig.Temaet for dette års sommerskole er "Fysikkens anvendelser".Vi skal opleve satelitkommunikation og lege med lyd og bølger, og vi skal lære om, hvordan fysik kan være med til at forbedre menneskets sundhed.Og så skal vi hygge, løse skægge fysik-gåder og lave forsøg.Vi mødes hver dag kl. 9.30 til 16.Sommerskolen afsluttes med et arrangement for deltagernes familier og venner, som skal se, hvad vi har arbejdet med og høre et oplæg fra en forsker fra Syddansk Universitet.Underviser: Mette Lindharth Als Kristensen.

For alle unge med interesse for fysik og astronomi. Til konferencen skal vi blandt andet høre om, hvordan danske virksomheder arbejder med rumudforskning, og der vil være mulighed for at kommunikere med satelitter, høre om exoplaneter og meget andet. Programmet og og informationer om tilmelding bliver løbende opdateret her.