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Trieste - Italy
Sixth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models (smr2337)
F. Giorgi, R. Anyah, R. Porfirio Da Rocha, P. Ruti.
Contact E-Mail: smr2337%at%ictp.it
Activity Secretariat:
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Ms. L. Iannitti
Strada Costiera 11
I-34151 Trieste
Italy
Telefax: +39-040-2240558
Telephone: +39-040-2240227
iannitti@ictp.it
DEADLINE:
The ICTP regional climate modeling system RegCM is being used by a large scientific community for a wide range of applications, from regional process studies to paleoclimate, climate change, chemistry-climate and biosphere-atmosphere interactions. A new version of the model, RegCM4, has been recently completed and released. This version is a substantial evolution compared to previous ones, and further developments have been recently added, including the Tiedtke convection scheme, coupling with the ROMS ocean model and coupling with a full gas phase chemistry mechanism.
As in previous workshops of this series, this event is intended to provide lectures and extensive hands-on sessions on the theory of regional climate change and regional climate modeling as well as the use of the RegCM modeling system.
This workshop will have a new focus never addressed previously - the coupling of different components of the climate system at the regional scale. It is being increasingly recognized that coupled processes across the atmosphere, ocean, biosphere and chemosphere are important not only at the global but also at the regional scale. For this reason many regional modeling systems are evolving to include coupled ocean, chemistry and biosphere as parameters. This topic is of extreme interest to the scientific community and is especially timely.
The main topics of the workshop include:
➢Modeling and uncertainties of regional scale climate change;
➢Regional coupled climate system modeling;
➢New developments and applications in the ICTP regional climate model RegCM4.
The workshop is also aimed at providing a forum for current and future model users to discuss relevant issues and formulate needs and priorities for further model development and dissemination. A limited number of participants is envisioned, with proven experience in climate modeling and a strong interest in using the RegCM system for regional climate studies.
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.
Dakar - Senegal
CIMPA-ICTP Research School on Structures Geometriques et Theorie du Controle (smr2394)
to be advised
ICTP
(Larus THORLACIUS) - Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Holographic metals
Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall
ICTP
(Rodolfo RUSSO) - Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Emergent geometry from string amplitudes
Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall
Abstract: I will discuss how "mixed" amplitudes (i.e. amplitudes with both closed and open strings) can be used to derive the geometrical backreaction of different D-brane bound states. As an example, I will mainly focus on a particular class of 1/8-BPS configurations in type IIB and derive from string theory several non-trivial features of the corresponding supegravity solution. I will also discuss a simple dynamical process in the case of 1/2-BPS configurations.
ICTP
(Grigori ASTRAKHARCHIK) - Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations "Dilute Bose gas in quasi-2D correlated random potentials"
Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room
Laser speckles provide a unique possibility to create fully controlled two-dimensional disorder potentials for neutral atoms. This type of disorder has exponential probability distribution and finite spatial correlation length. In this talk, I shall present our recent results on the superfluidity and Bose-Einstein condensation of interacting bosons in the presence of the laser speckles at zero temperature obtained using diffusion Monte Carlo method in continuum as well as Gross-Pitaevskii equation and Bogolubov theory.
ICTP
(Professor Stanislas Ouaro) - The obstacle problem associated with nonlinear elliptic equations in generalized Sobolev spaces.
Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room
Contact E-Mail: math%at%ictp.it
ICTP
(Professor Abderrahman Iggidr) - Multi-groups Epidemic Models
Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Luigi Stasi Seminar Room
Contact E-Mail: math%at%ictp.it
ICTP
(Lorenzo Di PIETRO and Flavio PORRI) - Gauge Mediation and Holography
Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall
Abstract: This is a series of two JC's devoted to holographic implementation of (General) Gauge Mediation set up. We will briefly review the basics of Gauge Mediation models and present, as an instance of holographic realization, the work by Benini et al. (arxiv:0903.0619). Then we will introduce the framework of General Gauge Mediation (arxiv:0801.3278) and outline the computation of GGM two-point functions in a 5D background by means of holographic renormalization.
Trieste - Italy
ICTP-ESF School and Conference in Dynamical Systems (smr2340)
Organisers: S. Luzzatto (ICTP), M. Viana, J-C Yoccoz
Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
Contact E-Mail: smr2340%at%ictp.it
Deadline: 29 February 2012 - Deadline extended if NOT requesting financial support NOR visa assistance
TOPICS:
- Chaotic dynamics: homoclinic bifurcations, attractors, generic systems, partial hyperbolicity and dominated splitting, Lorenz attractors.
- Conservative dynamics: KAM and Aubry-Mather theories, diffusion in Hamiltonian systems, billiards, infinite dimensional systems, celestial mechanics.
- Ergodic Theory: Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures, stochastic stability, Lyapunov exponents, linear cocycles, spectral theory of Schrodinger operators, recurrence and applications to Number Theory.
- Geometric, algebraic, and topological aspects of Dynamics: smooth group actions, knots and braids, commutators.
- One-dimensional dynamics: density of hyperbolicity, parametrized families of transformations, stochastic versus regular behavior.
Invited Speakers:
Jose Alves (Porto), Artur Avila (Paris-Jussieu/IMPA), Jairo Bochi (PUC-Rio), Viviane Baladi (Paris-ENS), Christian Bonatti (Dijon), Alexander Bufetov (Steklov-IITP-HSE), Sylvain Crovisier (Paris-Orsay), Lorenzo J. Diaz (PUC-Rio), Hakan Eliasson (Paris-Jussieu), Vadim Kaloshin (Maryland), Carlangelo Liverani (Rome), Mikhail Lyubich (Stony Brook), Stefano Marmi (Pisa), Marco Martens (Stony Brook), Carlos Matheus (Paris-Villetaneuse), Andres Navas (USACH-Chile), Carlos Gustavo Moreira (IMPA), Maria Jose Pacifico (UFRJ-Rio de Janeiro), Yakov Pesin (Penn State), Vilton Pinheiro (Bahia), Enrique Pujals (IMPA), Juan Rivera-Letelier (PUC-Chile), Sebastian van Strien (Warwick), Masato Tsujii (Kyushu), Dmitry Turaev (Imperial College), Amie Wilkinson (Northwestern).
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