Conference participation, Talks and Visits by Personnel

Theory Programme

Cosmophysics

20th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting,
3-7 January, Spåtind, Norway (talk by J. Virkajärvi)

2nd Asian Winter School on String Theory,
15-25 January, Kusatsu-Machi, Agatsuma-Gun Gunma, Japan (talk by V. Muhonen)

Department of Astronomy, University of Helsinki,
22 January, Helsinki, Finland (talk by T. Mattsson)

LPT - Paris XI Orsay,
27 January - 5 February, Paris, France (talk by D. Podolsky)

University of Jyväskylä,
28-30 January, Jyväskylä, Finland (talk by T. Mattsson)

Institute of Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo,
28-30 January, Tokyo, Japan (talk by V. Muhonen)

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Kyoto,
31 January - 8 February, Kyoto, Japan (V. Muhonen)

University of Oxford,
3-6 February, Oxford, UK (talk by T. Mattsson, M. Ronkainen)

ICTP,
25 March - 4 April, Trieste, Italy (S. Nurmi)

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society,
27-29 March, Turku, Finland (M. Herranen, K. Kainulainen, P. M. Rahkila, talks by A. Ferrantelli and J. Virkajärvi)

University of Jyväskylä,
11-12 April, Jyväskylä, Finland (talk by S. Nurmi)

University of Durham,
13-15 April, Durham, UK (talk by V. Reijonen)

University of Jyväskylä,
14-17 April, Jyväskylä, Finland (talk by A. Ferrantelli)

University of Sheffield,
16-18 April, Sheffield, UK (talk by V. Reijonen)

PONT d'Avignon 2008 - Progress on Old and New Themes in Cosmology,
21-25 April, Avignon, France (L. Mether, G. Rigopoulos)

Franco-Japanese Conference on Cosmology,
16-18 May, Nikko, Japan (talk by D. Battefeld)

PLANCK 2008 - From the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak Scale,
19-23 May, Barcelona, Spain (talks by A. Ferrantelli and D. Podolsky)

First Finnish Cosmophysics Meeting,
22-23 May, Turku, Finland (K. Enqvist, talk by M. Herranen, talk by K. Kainulainen, talk by T. Mattson, L. Mether, V. Muhonen, talk by S. Nurmi, P. Rahkila, V. Reijonen, talk by G. Rigopoulos, talk by M. Ronkainen)

Lancaster University,
8-20 June, Lancaster, UK (talk by A. Ferrantelli)

CERN,
10 June - 12 August, 1-15 September, 7-24 November, Geneva, Switzerland (L. Mether)

Summer School, Theory and Particle Physics: the LHC perpective and beyond,
15 June - 29 July, Cargese, France (talk by D. Battefeld)

International Conference RUSGRAV-13,
23-25 June, Moscow, Russia (talk by D. Podolsky)

Sheffield Summer Institute,
26 June - 7 July, Sheffeld, UK (V. Reijonen)

International Conference Dark Energy and Dark Matter,
6-7 July, Lyon, France (T. Mattsson)

London Imperial College,
8 July, London, UK (talk by V. Reijonen)

ICTP Summer School in Cosmology,
21 July - 1 August, Trieste, Italy (S. Nurmi)

Nordita Summer School on de Sitter Cosmology,
10-14 August, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden (V. Reijonen)

Strings 2008,
17-23 August, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (L. Mether, D. Podolsky)

Cosmo 08,
23-28 August, Madison, WI, USA (talks by D. Battefeld, L. Mether, S. Nurmi and D. Sunhede)

Strong and ElectroWeak Matter 2008,
26-29 August, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (M. Herranen, talk by K. Kainulainen, P. M. Rahkila)

DAMTP, University of Cambridge,
1-10 September, Cambridge, UK (G. Rigopoulos)

Non-Gaussianity from Fundamental Physics Workshop,
10-12 September, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK (talk by G. Rigopoulos)

Lancaster University,
14-21 September, Lancaster, UK (A. Ferrantelli)

APC,
15 September - 15 December, Paris, France (D. Battefeld)

Second UniverseNet Meeting and Mid Term Review,
22-27 September, Oxford, UK (talk by D. Battefeld, K. Enqvist, talk by A. Ferrantelli, talk by L. Mether, talk by S. Nurmi, talk by V. Reijonen, talk by G. Rigopoulos)

University of Tokyo and University of Kyoto,
20 November - 4 December, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan (talk by G. Rigopoulos)

Princeton University,
15 December - 31 January 2009, Princeton, NJ, USA (D. Battefeld)

Laws of Nature and Condensed Particle Matter Phenomenology at the LHC

20th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting,
3-7 January, Spåtind, Norway (K. Huitu, talk by H. Paukkunen, talk by S. K. Rai, K. Tuominen)

STAR Collaboration Meeting,
28 January - 2 February, Mumbai, India (T. Renk)

PDF4LHC Meeting,
22-23 February, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talk by H. Paukkunen)

Lecture Week of European Graduate School HANUC ("Complex Systems of Hadrons and Nuclei"),
3-7 March, Copenhagen, Denmark (M. Antola, M. Heikinheimo, P. Hoyer)

3rd International Workshop on High-pT Physics at LHC,
16-19 March, Tokaj, Hungary (J. Auvinen, H. Paukkunen, talk by K. J. Eskola)

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society,
27-29 March, Turku, Finland (K. J. Eskola, T. Honkavaara, talk by K. Huitu, talk by T. Kähärä, talk by H. Paukkunen)

TECHQM Meeting,
5-8 May, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA (T. Renk)

Workshop on Hadron Electromagnetic Form Factors,
11-17 May, ECT*, Trento, Italy (talk by P. Hoyer)

Prague University,
22-24 May, Prague, Czech Republic (talk by T. Renk)

GSI,
27 May, Darmstadt, Germany (talk by P. Hoyer)

TeV Scale Physics and Dark Matter,
1 June - 31 July, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden (K. Huitu, L. Leinonen, talk by S. K. Rai, talk by T. Rüppell)

Nuclear Medium Effects on the Quark and Gluon Structure of Hadrons,
3-7 June, Trento, Italy (talk by H. Paukkunen)

University of Jyväskylä,
4-6 June, 13-15 October, Jyväskylä, Finland (M. Antola)

Hard Probes 2008,
8-14 June, Illa da Toxa, Spain (talk by T. Renk)

Workshop on Hard Exclusive Reactions,
9-13 June, ECT*, Trento, Italy (talk by P. Hoyer)

Nordic Workshop on LHC and Beyond,
12-14 June, Albanova, Stockholm, Sweden (K. Huitu, talk by S. K. Rai, T. Rüppell)

SUSY 08,
16-21 June, Seoul, Republic of Korea (T. Honkavaara, talk by S. K. Rai, T. Rüppell)

ECT* Doctoral Training Programme 2008: Nuclear Matter under Extreme Conditions,
16 June - 7 July, Trento, Italy (J. Auvinen)

Mini-Workshop on Hot and Dense QCD,
26-28 June, Oulu, Finland (talk by K. Kajantie, talk by K. Tuominen)

PKU-RBC Workshop on Transverse Spin Physics,
30 June - 4 July, Peking University, Beijing, China (talk by P. Hoyer)

PSI Zuoz Summer School on New Ideas in Particle Physics,
14-18 July, Zuoz, Switzerland (M. Heikinheimo)

Lattice 2008,
14-19 July, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA (talk by A. Hietanen)

Lecture Week of European Graduate School HANUC ("Complex systems of Hadrons and Nuclei"),
25-29 August, Jyväskylä, Finland (talk by M. Heikinheimo, talk by P. Hoyer, talk by T. Kähärä, talk by K. Tuominen)

Strong and ElectroWeak Matter,
26-29 August, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (K. Kajantie)

Workshop of the European Network SIM (I3H),
8-12 September, Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy (talk by K. J. Eskola)

Workshop on Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking,
9-13 September, Odense, Denmark (M. Antola, M. Heikinheimo)

Workshop on the LHC and Related Physics RECAPP,
25 September - 1 October, Allahabad, India (talk by S. K. Rai)

Physics at LHC,
29 September - 1 October, Split, Croatia (talk by K. Huitu)

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
20-22 October, Mumbai, India (talk by S. K. Rai)

Finnish Physical Society, Particle Physics Day,
24 October, Helsinki, Finland (talk by T. Honkavaara)

University of Southern Denmark (SDU),
26 October - 5 November, Odense, Denmark (M. Antola, M. Heikinheimo)

University of Santiago de Compostela,
17-21 November, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (talk by H. Paukkunen)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University,
4 December, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (talk by T. Renk)

University of Oulu,
8-10 December, Oulu, Finland (K. Tuominen)

SLAC,
8-11 December, Menlo Park, CA, USA (talk by P. Hoyer)

Technical University of Munich,
10 December, Munich, Germany (talk by T. Renk)

LBNL,
12-19 December, Berkeley, CA, USA (talk by P. Hoyer)

Hadron Physics Activity

Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Bern,
27-28 February, Bern, Switzerland (M. Sainio)

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society,
27-29 March, Turku, Finland (M. Sainio)

From Quarks to the Nuclear Many Body Problem,
21-24 May, Oslo, Norway (talk by D. O. Riska)

FlaviAnet Kaon Workshop,
12-14 June, Anacapri, Italy (M. Sainio)

International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics (EXA08),
15-18 September, Vienna, Austria (M. Sainio)

ECT* - A Fifteen Year Perspective,
24-25 September, Trento, Italy (M. Sainio)

String Theory and Mathematical Physics

Séminaire Transalpin de Physique,
10-15 February, Valpré, Lyon, France (invited lecture by A. Tureanu)

LPTHE, Universite Paris 6,
22-28 February, Paris, France (invited seminar by E. Keski-Vakkuri)

Workshop on "The geometry and integrability of topological QFT and string theory", University of Warwick,
30 March - 6 April, Coventry, UK (S. Kawai)

University of California,
2-6 June, Los Angeles, CA, USA (seminar by E. Keski-Vakkuri)

California Institute of Technology,
4 June, Pasadena, CA, USA (seminar by E. Keski-Vakkuri)

CERN,
29 June - 2 July, Geneva, Switzerland (M. Chaichian)

Yukawa Institute, University of Kyoto,
22 July - 4 August, Kyoto, Japan (S. Kawai)

Workshop "Aspects of Quantum Integrability", Yukawa Institute, University of Kyoto,
24-25 July, Kyoto, Japan (talk by S. Kawai)

Workshop "Developments of Quantum Field Theory and String Theory", Yukawa Institute, University of Kyoto,
28 July - 1 August, Kyoto, Japan (talk by S. Kawai)

34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP08),
28 July - 2 August, Philadelphia, PA, USA (M. Chaichian)

34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP08),
29 July - 5 August, Philadelphia, PA, USA (A. Tureanu)

New York University,
2-6 August, New York, NY, USA (M. Chaichian)

27th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics,
13-20 August, Yerevan, Armenia (talk by A. Tureanu)

27th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics,
15-18 August, Yerevan, Armenia (talk by M. Chaichian)

Strings 2008,
18-22 August, Geneva, Switzerland (S. Kawai, E. Keski-Vakkuri, S. Nowling)

Moscow State University and Russian Academy of Sciences,
1-15 September, Moscow, Russia (seminars by M. Chaichian)

Moscow State University and Russian Academy of Sciences,
4-12 September, Moscow, Russia (seminars by A. Tureanu)

International Conference on "Quantum Space-Time and Noncommutative Geometry",
29 September - 4 October, Rome, Italy (S. Saxell, invited talk by A. Tureanu)

University of Jyväskylä,
17 October, Jyväskylä, Finland (invited colloquium by E. Keski-Vakkuri)

Memorial Conference to honor Julius Wess,
5-8 November, Munich, Germany (A. Tureanu)

Memorial Conference to honor Julius Wess,
6-7 November, Munich, Germany (M. Chaichian)

NORDITA,
26 November, Stockholm, Sweden (invited talk by E. Keski-Vakkuri)

Indian Strings Meeting 2008,
6-13 December, Pondicherry, India (K. P. Yogendran)

Radiation Damage in Particle Accelerator Materials

Australian National University,
10-18 April, Canberra, Australia (F. Djurabekova, K. Nordlund)

CLIC Workshop,
18-21 May, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talk by F. Djurabekova)

Ion Beam Modification of Materials,
29 August - 5 September, Dresden, Germany (talk by F. Djurabekova, O. Pakarinen)

Computer Simulation of Radiation Effects in Solids,
12-17 October, Beijing, China (talks by F. Djurabekova and K. Nordlund)

Towards Reality in Simulation of Nanoscale Materials,
2-5 December, Levi, Finland (talk by F. Djurabekova, M. Backman)

High Energy Physics Programme

Forward Physics

Top Mass Meeting,
16 January, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA (talk by P. Mehtälä)

Top Group Meeting,
14 February, 28 February, 12 March, 2 April, 17 July, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA (talks by P. Mehtälä)

Fermilab CDF,
17 February - 1 March, Batavia, IL, USA (H. Saarikko)

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society,
27-29 March, Turku, Finland (H. Saarikko)

Particle Physics Seminar Series, University of Helsinki,
4 April, Helsinki, Finland (talk by P. Mehtälä)

XVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics (DIS 08),
7-11 April, London, UK (talk by P. Mehtälä)

TOTEM Software Meetings,
10 April, 8 May, 22 May, 5 June, 23 October, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talks by E. Brücken)

Photon Group Meeting,
7 May, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA (talk by E. Brücken)

10th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors,
29 June - 3 July, Helsinki, Finland (members of the organization committee E. Brücken, P. Mehtälä, R. Orava)

Low-x Workshop 2008,
5-12 July, Kolymbari, Crete (invited talk by R. Orava)

Top Mass Group Meeting,
16 July, 10 September, 24 September, 29 October, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA (talks by P. Mehtälä)

34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP08),
30 July - 5 August, Philadelphia, PA, USA (talk by P. Mehtälä, H. Saarikko)

Diffraction 2008,
9-14 September, La Londe-les-Maures, France (lecture by R. Orava)

RHIC 08',
24-28 November, Budapest, Hungary (invited talk by R. Orava)

Linear Collider Research

Colloquium, University of Jyväskylä,
1 February, Jyväskylä, Finland (talk by K. Österberg)

Forward Physics at LHC with TOTEM,
28-30 April, State College, PA, USA (talks by K. Österberg)

2nd X-Band Accelerator Structure Design and Test-Program Collaboration Meeting,
13-15 May, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan (talk by R. Nousiainen)

HERA and the LHC, 4th Workshop,
26-30 May, CERN, Switzerland (invited talk by K. Österberg)

European Committee for Future Accelerators,
18 July, DESY, Germany (invited plenary talk by K. Österberg)

CLIC'08 Workshop,
14-17 October, CERN, Switzerland (talk by J. Huopana, talks by R. Nousiainen, K. Österberg)

Finnish Physical Society, Particle Physics Day,
24 October, Helsinki, Finland (talk by K. Österberg)

EuCARD Kick-off Meeting,
5 December, CERN, Switzerland (K. Österberg)

Detector Laboratory

5th Geant4 Space Users' Workshop,
12-15 February, Tokyo, Japan (talk by F. García)

PANDA Collaboration Meeting,
3-8 March, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, 23-27 June, Cracow, Poland (talk by F. García)

ILC Vertex Workshop,
21-24 April, Como, Italy (F. García)

EURORIB'08,
9-13 June, Giens, France (F. García, E. Tuominen)

10th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors,
29 June - 3 July, Helsinki, Finland (talk by F. García)

One day Workshop on the Finnish Contribution for the FAIR Facility,
6 October, Helsinki, Finland (co-organiser, talk by F. García, E. Tuominen)

CMS Programme

CMS Physics Analysis

20th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting,
3-8 January, Spåtind, Norway (V. Karimäki)

Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Model Codes for Spallation Reactions,
4-8 February, Trieste, Italy (P. Kaitaniemi)

CEA Saclay,
4-9 February, 2-6 July, Paris, France (talks by M. Voutilainen)

Joint Experimental-Theoretical Seminar,
12-17 February, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA (invited talk by M. Voutilainen)

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society,
27-29 March, Turku, Finland (P. Kaitaniemi, talk by M. Kortelainen)

XVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering,
7-11 April, London, UK (talk by M. Voutilainen)

Particle Physics Seminar Series, University of Helsinki,
25 April, Helsinki, Finland (talk by S. Lehti)

CEA Saclay,
13-15 May, Paris, France (M. Voutilainen)

10th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (iWoRiD),
29 June - 3 July, Helsinki, Finland (co-organiser A. Heikkinen)

CERN School of Computing,
25 August - 5 September, Gjovik, Norway (invited talk by A. Heikkinen, M. Kortelainen)

Albanova and University of Stockholm,
7-10 September, Stockholm, Sweden (talk by P. Eerola)

NordForsk Detector Technology Course,
8-12 September, Stockholm, Sweden (M. Kortelainen)

Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Colliders,
16-19 September, Uppsala, Sweden (invited talk by R. Kinnunen, talk by L. Wendland)

MSSM Higgs Mini Workshop,
6-11 October, Santander, Spain (invited talk by S. Lehti)

13th Geant4 Collaboration Workshop,
6-11 October, Kobe, Japan (talk by A. Heikkinen, talk by P. Kaitaniemi)

LHC - a Window to the Universe,
25 October, Helsinki, Finland (talk by P. Eerola)

B-tagging Workshop,
29-31 October, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talk by M. Voutilainen)

Kumpula Campus Colloquium,
2 December, Helsinki, Finland (invited talk by J. Tuominiemi)

Meetings of CMS Management Board, Finance Board, Collaboration Board, Resource Review Board,
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (J. Tuominiemi)

CMS Tracker Operations

CMS Tracker Upgrade -Sensor Working Group Meeting,
8-9 February, 7 May, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talks by P. Luukka)

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society,
27-29 March, Turku, Finland (talks by H. Moilanen)

3rd Workshop on Advanced Silicon Radiation Detectors (3-D and P-type Technologies),
14-16 April, Barcelona, Spain (talk by J. Härkönen, talk by P. Luukka)

12th RD50 - Workshop on Radiation Hard Semiconductor Devices for Very High Luminosity Colliders,
2-4 June, Ljubljana, Slovenia (talk by J. Härkönen, talk by P. Luukka, E. Tuominen, E. Tuovinen)

I-2008 Workshop on Cryogenic Tracking Detectors,
5-6 June, Ljubljana, Slovenia (talk by J. Härkönen, P. Luukka, talk by E. Tuominen, E. Tuovinen)

6th International Forum on Advanced Material Science and Technology IFAMST6,
10-13 June, Hong Kong, China (session chair and talk by J. Härkönen, session chair and talk by P. Luukka)

10th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors,
29 June - 3 July, Helsinki, Finland (talk by J. Härkönen)

The 8th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD8),
1-5 September, Glasgow, UK (talk by P. Luukka, talk by T. Mäenpää)

RADECS 2008 - The 2008 European Workshop on Radiation Effects on Components and Systems,
10-12 September, Jyväskylä, Finland (talk by E. Tuominen, E. Tuovinen)

Workshop on the Finnish Contribution for the NUSTAR Experiment in the Framework of the FAIR Facility,
6 October, Helsinki, Finland (talk by J. Härkönen)

RESMDD'08 7th International Conference on Radiation Effects on Semiconductor Materials, Detectors and Devices,
15-17 October, Firenze, Italy (talk by P. Luukka, talk by E. Tuominen)

Finnish Physical Society, Particle Physics Day,
24 October, Helsinki, Finland (talk by E. Tuominen)

13th RD50 - Workshop on Radiation Hard Semiconductor Devices for Very High Luminosity Colliders,
10-12 November, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talk by J. Härkönen, talk by P. Luukka, E. Tuominen, E. Tuovinen)

II-2008 Workshop on Cryogenic Tracking Detectors,
13-14 November, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talk by J. Härkönen, talk by P. Luukka, talk by E. Tuominen, E. Tuovinen)

CMS Upgrade Workshop,
19-21 November, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA (talk by P. Luukka)

Nuclear Matter Programme

ALICE

4th and 5th Workshop on ALICE Installation and Commissioning,
14 January and 1 April, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talks by W. H. Trzaska)

ACS Conference,
2 February, New Orleans, LA, USA (talk by J. Rak)

Quark Matter 2008,
6 February, Jaipur, India (R. Diaz Valdes)

Workshop on Parton Fragmentation,
25 February, Trento, Italy (talk by J. Rak)

ALICE Physics Week 2008,
3 March, Prague, Czech Republic (talk by S. Räsänen)

Diffraction 2008,
9 September, La Londe-les-Maures, France (talk by J. Rak)

Finnish Physical Society, Particle Physics Day,
24 October, Helsinki, Finland (talk by J. Rak)

IAEA Focused Workshop of Safeguard Applications,
28 October, Vienna, Austria (talk by W. H. Trzaska)

General LAGUNA Meeting,
7 November, Bucharest, Romania (talk by W. H. Trzaska)

Technology Programme

CMS Data and Workload Management Workshop,
21-25 January, IN2P3/CNRS Computing Centre, Lyon, France (J. Klem)

International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2008,
7-11 April, Taipei, Taiwan (invited talk by J. White)

EGEE Security Middleware: Present and Future Nordunet 2008,
9-11 April, Espoo, Finland (talks by M. Silander and J. White)

NORDUnet2008 Biosphere of Grids and Networks,
9-11 April, Espoo (Helsinki), Finland (talk by J. Klem)

Grid Security, InfraHIP-II Open Seminar Day,
23 April, Espoo, Finland (invited talk by M. Silander)

The 3rd Rutgers, Helsinki PhD Workshop,
5-9 May, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA (talk by M. Pitkänen)

LinuxDays 2008,
21-22 May, Geneva, Switzerland (talk by K. Happonen)

The 23 Open Grid Forum OGF23,
2-6 June, Barcelona, Spain (M. Silander)

The 2008 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2008),
3-6 June, Nicosia, Cyprus (talk by H. Mikkonen)

The 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems,
17-19 June, Jyväskylä, Finland (talk by M. Pitkänen)

The IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM 2008),
23-26 June, Newport Beach, CA, USA (talk by M. Pitkänen)

The 24th Open Grid Forum - OGF24,
15-19 September, Singapore (J. Hahkala)

Smart Event '08,
16-19 September, Sophia Antipolis, France (H. Mikkonen)

EGEE 08 Conference,
22-26 September, Istanbul, Turkey (J. Hahkala, talk by K. Happonen, J. White)

The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing Systems Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2008),
29 September - 4 October, Valencia, Spain (H. Mikkonen, talk by M. Pitkänen)

NorduGrid 2008,
27-31 October, Budapest, Hungary (talk by A. Pirinen)

SuperComputing08,
15-21 November, Austin, TX, USA (J. Klem)

Planck

LFI Core Team Meeting,
14-15 February, 7-8 July, Bologna, Italy (talks by R. Keskitalo, talk by H. Kurki-Suonio, talks by T. Poutanen)

Nordic Cosmology Workshop 2008,
10-11 March, Oslo, Norway (invited talk by H. Kurki-Suonio)

Planck Working Group 3 Meeting,
14-18 March, Randsvangen, Norway (R. Keskitalo, H. Kurki-Suonio, invited talk by T. Poutanen)

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society,
27-29 March, Turku, Finland (talk by R. Keskitalo)

Workshop on AGN and Related Fundamental Physics in High- Energy Gamma Astronomy,
30 March - 4 April, Jerisjärvi, Finland (invited talk by A. Lähteenmäki)

Planck Joint Core Team Meeting,
5-9 May, Paris, France (invited talk by R. Keskitalo, talk by H. Kurki-Suonio, A. Lähteenmäki)

First Finnish Cosmophysics Meeting,
22-23 May, Turku, Finland (talk by R. Keskitalo, talk by T. Poutanen)

HFI Data Processing Center,
9-15 June, Paris, France (R. Keskitalo)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4-17 August, Pasadena, CA, USA (R. Keskitalo)

LFI Core Team Meeting,
4-5 September, Santander, Spain (H. Kurki-Suonio, invited talk by T. Poutanen)

Joint Planck Core Team Meeting,
3-5 November, Bologna, Italy (talk by R. Keskitalo, A. Lähteenmäki, talk by T. Poutanen)

Planck Working Group 6 Meeting,
6-7 November, Bologna, Italy (talk by A. Lähteenmäki)

XXXI Finnish URSI Convention on Radio,
28 November, Espoo, Finland (invited talk by A. Lähteenmäki)

Administration and Support

EPPOG Meeting,
18-19 April, Prague, Czech Republic (R. Rinta-Filppula)

CERN Co-operation High School Network Seminar,
29 August, Jyväskylä, Finland (invited talk by R. Rinta-Filppula)

EPPOG Meeting,
3 October, CERN, Switzerland (R. Rinta-Filppula)