Research interests: ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions, finite temperature field theory, string theory and QCD matter, cosmological phase transitions. FTFT group 2002-2008.

Lectures in String Theory: spring term 2004 and spring term 2005 and spring term 2006; handwritten notes, scanned in pdf.

Families of my father's father Hjalmar Kajander  (Vpl Pyhäjärvi, Orimattila), sama ja enemmänkin Kajandereistä suomeksi , father's mother Hilma Lunden  (Vpl Pyhäjärvi, Rauma, Lappi Tl), sama ja enemmänkin Lundeneista suomeksi, mother's father Vihtori Vaara  (Pornainen) and mother's mother Saimi Paturi  (Turenki, Jämsä).

Scanned transparencies of my talk on 15 June 1999 at PANIC99, Uppsala: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Talk in Santa Barbara on 9 April 2002 at the conference "QCD in the RHIC Era". Talk on Rolf Hagedorn at CERN, Nov. 2003.
Talk at Brookhaven National Lab on 12 Feb 2004 at the conference "Lattice QCD at finite T and density".
Talk at BNL on 4 June 2004 at a DOE/NSAC (Nuclear Science Advisory Committee) meeting.
Talk on quark-antiquark production, Frankfurt, 5 December 2005.
Talk "Little bang, big bang and gravity duals" at the Finnish-Japanese Workshop on Particle Cosmology, 9 March 2007.
Talk "Expanding systems in gauge theory/gravity duality" at HIP, Helsinki, 27 March 2007.
Talk "Expanding matter and gravity duals" at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, 23 May 2007.
Three lectures on "String-theory inspired methods for hot QCD", University of Bielefeld, Germany, 10-14 September 2007.
Two lectures on "Gauge-string dualities and QCD", Spåtind, Norway, 6 January 2008.
"Farewell lecture" (in Finnish), 31 January 2008.
Talk "Expanding conformal matter in gauge theory/gravity duality" at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA, 11 March 2008.
Talk "Expanding conformal matter in gauge theory/gravity duality" at Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA, 24 March 2008.
Juhlapuhe Asunto-osakeyhtiö Kalervon 100-vuotisjuhlassa 25.4.2008.
Talk "5d black holes and 4d thermodynamics" at the Mini-workshop on hot and dense QCD, Oulu, Finland, 28 June 2008.
Ten lectures on "New gauge/gravity duality ideas and their applications" at the 18th Summer School, University of Jyväskylä, 18-22 August 2008.
Some notes and pics for a talk on the Milky Way big black hole, HIP, 6 Feb 2009.
Talk at a meeting "Quantum field theory in extreme environments", Saclay, France, 23 April 2009.
Talk "Hot QCD matter: lattice, perturbation theory and AdS/QCD", CERN, 1 July 2009.

List of Master's thesises or PhD thesises in theoretical physics at the University of Helsinki since 1969. Docents in theoretical physics at the University of Helsinki since 1910.

Graduate students in particle physics         Thesis defence (Jokinen), 14 Jan 2003         Thesis defence (Vuorinen), 20 Dec 2003

Departmental bicycle stand         A milestone in my scientific career.

Mt. Charvin, 2409 m, 26 May 1999         Mettelhorn, 3406 m, Zermatt, 27 July 2002 (25 thumbs, each some 25k).

CV      A quantitative account of the number of papers I have refereed (ps file)