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Trieste - Italy
International School on Nuclear Security (smr2338)
IAEA: A. Braunegger-Guelich; ICTP: C. Tuniz
Contact E-Mail: smr2338%at%ictp.it
Deadline: 20 January 2012 (expired)
The two weeks School is addressed to professionals from developing countries, who should ideally have 1-3 year professional experience working at an institution within their respective country with responsibilities for ensuring some aspects of nuclear security. Candidates should have a specific interest in pursuing careers which would benefit from knowledge of nuclear security. Although academic backgrounds may vary, candidates with an educational background in scientific or technical discipline of relevance to nuclear security such as nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, or in political science or in similar fields are especially encouraged to apply.
TOPICS:
• International legal framework supporting nuclear security
• Identification of and remedies to threats against nuclear security
• Instruments and methods for access control and alarm at associated facilities
• Illicit trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive material, including radiation detection instruments and detection strategies
• Responses to incidents involving nuclear and other radioactive material
• Nuclear and radiological forensics
• Nuclear Security Culture
• Measures for systematic nuclear security human resource development at the national level
• Practical exercises designed to incorporate this knowledge into Member State planning and procedures to protect against threats to nuclear security.
HOW TO APPLY:
Participation prerequisites can be found in the below indicated Announcement.
Please fill in the online application form that can be found by clicking on the below indicated link.
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>> DEADLINE for applying EXPIRED (20 January 2012) <<
The selection results have been communicated to each candidate by e-mail. Please find below the link to the Preliminary List of Participants. If your name is among the list but have not received our invitation message, please contact smr2338@ictp.it as soon as possible.
Trieste - Italy
Joint ICTP-IAEA Nuclear Safety Assessment Institute Workshop (smr2343)
IAEA: M. Mellinger-Deroy and P. Wells. Local Organizer: C. Tuniz
Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
Contact E-Mail: smr2343%at%ictp.it
There are over 442 nuclear power reactors in operation worldwide, and over 65 reactors are under construction. Safety assessment capacity is especially important as one of the primary means for decision-making in support of design, licensing and operation activities. Moreover, concern about nuclear risks, and the increasing demand for nuclear energy, urges the need to increase global safety assessment capacity for new nuclear facilities, and the need to support Member States in the application of an integrated safety assessment approach in order to reach informed safety decisions based on IAEA Safety Standards.
The purpose of this Workshop is to provide a continuing technical capacity building opportunity for leaders and decision-markers in nuclear safety on technical evaluation of the safety aspects of nuclear power plants, and in particular, to reach young professionals from developing countries being trained in technical support functions for deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment for new nuclear power programmes. The Workshop will be based on the IAEA Safety Requirements “Safety Assessment for Facilities and Activities (GSR-Part 4) and “Safety of Nuclear Power Plants: Design” (SSR2/1: Revision of NS-R-1).
The Workshop will consist of invited lectures, as well as discussion sessions. Participants are requested to come prepared to discuss particular problems/situations in their home country/region.
TOPICS COVERED:
FUNDAMENTAL SAFETY ASSESSMENT KNOWLEDGE
• Scope of Safety Analysis
• Safety Functions
• Defence in Depth
• Acceptance Criteria
• Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Analysis - Methods and Tools
• Use of Computer Codes - Verification and Validation
• Integrated Risk-Informed Decision-Making
• Design Basis Accidents and Beyond Design Basis Accidents
• Preparation for Licensing and Commissioning
• Periodic Safety Review
ENGINEERING FACTORS IMPORTANT TO SAFETY
• Structures, Systems and Components
• Design Principles
• Safety Classification Scheme
• External Events
• Internal Events
• Suitability of Materials
• Qualification of Equipment Essential to Safety
• Ageing and Life-Limiting Factors
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS:
Shanghai - People's Republic of China
Fourth Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School (smr2387)
D. Cai, R. Roy, K. Showalter, H.L. Swinney. Local Organiser in Trieste: J. Niemela
Contact E-Mail: smr2387%at%ictp.it
Trieste - Italy
Workshop on Effective Gravity in Fluids and Superfluids (smr2355)
Directors: Joseph Niemela (ICTP), W.G. Unruh (Canada), Silke Weinfurtner (SISSA)
Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall
Contact E-Mail: smr2355%at%ictp.it
A major problem of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes, and quantum gravity more generally, is the lack of sufficient observational and experimental guidance. To address this issue we proposing a multidisciplinary workshop to stimulate the exchange of ideas involving possible connections between quantum gravity and easy-to-access physical systems whose description is well-established in other fields, such as fluid dynamics and superfluidity. The proposed workshop brings together the following communities:
• Semi-classical quantum gravity
• Analogue gravity
• Experimental and theoretical fluid dynamics
• Experimental and theoretical superfluidity
List of invited Lecturers and Speakers:
Anders Peter Andersen (Technical University of Denmark), Roberto Balbinot (Università di Bologna, Italy), Carlos Barcelo (IAA, Granada), Carlo Barenghi (University Newcastle, UK), Robert Bingham (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and University of Strathclyde, Scotland), Tomas Bohr (Technical University of Denmark), David Bruschi (University of Nottingham, UK), Iacopo Carusotto (Università di Trento, Italy), Daniele Faccio (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh), Emmanuel Fort (University Paris Diderot Centre, France), Ted Jacobosn (University of Maryland, USA), Piyush Jain (University of Alberta, Canada), Jean-Christophe Jaskula (Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique Palaiseau, France), Susanne Kehr (University of St Andrews, UK), Achim Kempf (University of Waterloo, Canada), Peter Kruger (University of Nottingham, UK), Greg Lawrence (University of British Columbia, Canada), Stefano Liberati (SISSA, Italy), Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Hanns-Christoph Nägerl (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Joseph Niemela (ICTP, Italy), Renaud Parentani (LPT Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France), Andrew Jason Penner (University of Southampton, UK), Benni Reznik (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Mauricio Richartz (Universidade Federal do ABC), Ray Rivers (Imperial College, UK), Ralf Schuetzhold (University Duesburg-Essen, Germany), Jeff Steinhauer (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Ted Tedford (University of St. Barbara, USA), Bill Unruh (University of British Columbia, Canada), Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Christoph Westbrook (Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'institut d'Optique Palaiseau, France), Angela White (Newcastle University, UK).
Participation
Scientists and students from all countries which are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Workshop. As it will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of that language. Although the main purpose of the Centre is to help research workers from developing countries, through a programme of training activities within a framework of international cooperation, a limited number of students and post-doctoral scientists from developed countries are also welcome to attend.
As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare). However, limited funds are available for some participants who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire activity. There is no registration fee.
Deadline for requesting participation:
Activity Secretariat:
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) - (SMR 2355)
Strada Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy
Telefax: +39-040-2240-7455
smr2355@ictp.it
Trieste - Italy
Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Nuclear Structure Decay Data: Theory and Evaluation (smr2358)
IAEA: D. Abriola. Local Organiser: C. Tuniz
Contact E-Mail: smr2358%at%ictp.it
Trieste - Italy
Joint ICTP-IAEA School of Nuclear Knowledge Management (smr2363)
IAEA: M. Sbaffoni; Local Organiser: C. Tuniz
Contact E-Mail: smr2363%at%ictp.it
Deadline: Expired on 13 April 2012
The purpose of the School is to provide specialized education and training on development and implementation of knowledge management strategies in nuclear science and technology. The main focus will be to discuss and share lessons learned, practical solutions and good practices, with the aim to form “forward thinking” and make results and insights directly applicable in a workplace in the nuclear sector.
The School will concentrate on methodological aspects of Nuclear Knowledge Management (NKM). Real cases will be presented, as well as lessons learned and accumulated national experiences and good practices from NKM programmes in different nuclear organizations.
THE FOLLOWING MAIN TOPICS WILL BE COVERED:
• Intellectual Capital, Nuclear Knowledge and Knowledge Management Fundamentals
• Developing Policies and Strategies in Managing Nuclear Knowledge
• Managing Nuclear Information Resources
• Human Resources Development, Risk of Knowledge Loss and Knowledge Transfer
• Practical Guidance and Best practices on NKM
The style of the school will be based on a series of leading presentations, followed by case studies and practical sessions, analysing the issues raised and the envisaged difficulties. Pre-training activities will be required to participants prior to their attendance to the NKM School, to help participants to fully benefit from this learning opportunity, ensuring a more efficient and profitable interaction with peers and lecturers. Experts from organizations with recognized NKM programmes will provide the leading presentations and support participants in their work in breakout sessions. Time will be offered to the participants to discuss real cases and implementation problems with the available experts
The invitation to the School is directed to young professionals from the nuclear field that are or may be in the near future in charge of managing nuclear knowledge. Background information on the IAEA activities in Nuclear Knowledge Management is available from: http://www.iaea.org/NuclearKnowledge
DEADLINE for submitting requests of participation EXPIRED on 13 April 2012.
Trieste - Italy
College on Medical Physics (smr2365)
Directors: Slavik Tabakov, Anna Benini, Franco Milano, George D. Frey, Perry Sprawls, Luciano Bertocchi (ICTP)
Contact E-Mail: smr2365%at%ictp.it
APPLICATION SELECTION IN PROGRESS, results due end May. No further applications are being accepted
Trieste - Italy
Joint ICTP-IAEA College on Plasma Physics (smr2369)
Directors: S. Mahajan, Z. Yoshida, R. Kamendje (IAEA), D. Gomez. Local Organiser: J. Niemela
Contact E-Mail: smr2369%at%ictp.it
Brief Description
The main objective of this college is advanced pedagogical training for participants from the developing countries. Student and researcher participation from “north countries” is also encouraged. The college program is designed to: 1) stimulate the participants to develop an advanced understanding and perspective of elementary and basic ideas on plasma physics, and 2) train students and researchers in recent developments and advances in experiments, design, theory, modeling, and numerical computation so that their research and dissemination abilities are honed.
Topics
• Elementary as well as advanced treatment of fundamental processes in plasma physics, collective phenomena, coherent nonlinear phenomena, self-organization, plasma turbulence.
• Their applications to Magnetic Fusion (theory, experiments, design, and simulations), laser generated plasmas, astrophysical and cosmic plasmas (solar, planetary magnetospheres, jets etc.), and exotic plasmas (relativistic, quantum, quantum-relativistic). Fusion applications will be emphasized.
Poster session
A poster session to highlight participant research will be organized.
Participation
Scientists from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the College. As the activity will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. There is no registration fee. Travel and subsistence expenses of participants should be borne by their home institutions. Limited funds are available for some participants who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, to be selected by the Organizers. However, every effort should be made by candidates to secure at least partial support for their travel expenses.
Directors
Swadesh MAHAJAN
Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Zensho YOSHIDA
University of Tokyo, Japan
Richard KAMENDJE
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
Daniel O. GOMEZ
Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Local Organizer
Joseph NIEMELA
ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Scientific advisory committee
L. Chen (US/China)
S. Cowley (UK)
R. Galvao (Brazil)
A. Hasegawa (Japan)
J. Herrera (Mexico)
M. Kikuchi (Japan)
V. Krishan (India)
J. Li (China)
P. Morrison (US)
F. Pegoraro (Italy)
S. Prager (US)
R. Dewar (Australia)
H. Saleem (Pakistan)
A. Sen (India)
T. Tajima (Japan)
F. Zonca (Italy)
DEADLINE:
Trieste - Italy
Joint ICTP-IAEA Training in Radiation Protection for Patients (smr2368)
IAEA: M. Rehani; ICTP Local Organiser: L Bertocchi
Contact E-Mail: smr2368%at%ictp.it
Deadline: 30 April 2012
SELECTION OF APPLICANTS IN PROGRESS. NO DEADLINE EXTENSION.
Applicants will be informed on the outcome at the beginning of June.
Trieste - Italy
Joint ICTP-IAEA Course on Natural Circulation Phenomena and Passive Safety Systems in Advanced Water Cooled Reactors (smr2349)
IAEA: Jong Ho Choi. ICTP Local Organizer: Joe Niemela
Contact E-Mail: smr2349%at%ictp.it
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