Professor Jouni Suhonen has studied and worked in the Department of Physics for more than 40 years. Suhonen will address briefly the physics problems which he is currently involved in. He also tells about his wide involvement in teaching in the past, and in particular amuse audience by telling stories of his "innovations" in physics and teaching.
Welcome to farewell lecture on Wednesday 4 December 2024 at 13.00 o’clock. The lecture will take place at Ylistönrinne Campus in lecture hall FYS1.
Anyone interested is warmly welcome!
Content of the farewell lecture
I started my studies at the University of Jyväskylä in 1976 and concentrated my studies on mathematics and physics. Very early on I started my career as mathematician at the Math Department and served as teaching assistant in courses ranging from linear algebra to probability theory. In the very beginning of the 1980's I was, however, hired by the Physics Department and I became doctoral student of Prof. Pertti Lipas. I defended my Thesis "Extended Phonon Projection Model for Nuclear Collective Motion" in Spring 1985.
In 1987 I started my postdoc period at the University of Tubingen as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Honora Causa mult. Amand Faessler, one of the very leading figures in the sphere of West German physics (East Germany was still in existence!). In Tuebingen I learned the intricacies of microscopic nuclear theory and started my career as one of the world-leading experts in studies of double beta decay of atomic nuclei. Since then my research group is collaborating with and theory partner of a plethora of experimental groups world-wide.
In my "farewell lecture" I will convince you that I am certainly not leaving the exciting world of nuclear physics and its applications to neutrino and dark-matter physics. This is guaranteed by my emeritus status in Jyväskylä and the newly won 1.4 M Euro NEPTUN (NEutrino Properties Through Use of Nuclei) project financed by the EU, including my affiliation to the CIFRA institute in Bucharest, Romania.
During my lecture I will address briefly the physics problems I am currently involved in, tell about my wide involvement in teaching in the past, and in particular, shock and/or amuse you by telling stories of my "innovations" in physics and teaching. A word of warning (those with touchy nerves should skip this spectacle): This is only partly going to be a "Joe-Biden-like talk" but mostly a "Donald-Trump-like talk" with a lot of bad taste and defamatory pictures and jokes.
