Inaugural lecture
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Inauguration of the 2024 Tage Erlander Visiting Professor, Prof. Daniel Phillips, Chalmers and Ohio University

Welcome to the inauguration of Daniel Phillips as the 2024 Tage Erlander Visiting Professor. 

The ceremony starts at 10.15 in Kollektorn. Coffee is served in the foyer outside the seminar room from 9.45.

Overview

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  • Date:Starts 11 April 2024, 10:15Ends 11 April 2024, 12:00
  • Location:
    Kollektorn
  • Language:English

The inauguration ceremony begins with a welcome by Thomas Nilsson, Head of the Department of Physics, followed by speeches by Mattias Marklund, the Swedish Research Council’s Secretary General for Natural and Engineering Sciences, and Martin Nilsson Jacobi, President of Chalmers.

Daniel Phillips gives his installation lecture entitled "Nuclear forecasting: how effective field theories and uncertainty quantification enable predictive nuclear theory".

Daniel Phillips is Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, USA, and holder of the 2024 Tage Erlander Visiting Professorship as appointed by the Swedish Research Council. 

The Tage Erlander visiting professorship is awarded to an internationally prominent researcher in natural and engineering sciences by the Swedish Research Council. The purpose of the grant is “to give higher education institutions the opportunity to develop a subject area by recruiting an internationally prominent professor during a limited period”. His host at Chalmers University of Technology is the Division of Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics at the Department of Physics.

A warm welcome!

Four questions to Tage Erlander visiting professor Daniel Phillips

Daniel Phillips, Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, USA, is the holder of the 2024 Tage Erlander visiting professorship as instituted by the Swedish Research Council. His guest professorship is hosted by the Division of Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics at the Department of Physics at Chalmers.