ICTP - Colloquia

ICTP's colloquia series aims to increase interaction between its research groups as well as expose doctoral students to the Centre's rich array of physics and mathematics activities.

Past colloquia can viewed on ICTP's YouTube page.

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20 Jun 2022

Basic Sciences and Climate

International Year event on 23 June highlights climate extremes detected by AI

6 Jun 2022

Colloquium 14 June

Subir Sachdev to speak at joint ICTP-SISSA event

18 Oct 2021

2020 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony

Honoring André Neveu, Pierre Ramond, & Miguel Virasoro

4 Jun 2020

ICTP Colloquium Online

Dr. Paolo Carloni speaks June 10

1 Jun 2020

Colloquium 3 June

Featured speaker: David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute

6 May 2020

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquium: Alessandro Vespignani

Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19

24 Apr 2020

The Epidemiological Case for Contact Tracing

Dr. Luca Ferretti gives ICTP-SISSA Colloquium 24 April

15 Nov 2019

Peskin Colloquium Upcoming

"The Quest for 30 TeV" Wednesday 20 November

1 Nov 2019

Professor Petra Rudolf on Molecular Motors

Colloquium 4 November at 16:30

20 Sep 2019

Bo Persson to Give ICTP Colloquium

25 September at 17:00

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Europe/Rome Giovanni Vignale is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. After graduating from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 1979 and gaining his PhD at Northwestern University in 1984, he worked as a postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He joined the Physics Department at the University of Missouri in 1988 and was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997. He has been a visiting scientist at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa; a member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California, an Ikerbasque Fellow at the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility in San Sebastian, Spain, and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokyo. He is currently Visiting Research Professor at the Institute for Intelligent Functional Materials (I-FIM), National University of Singapore. Giovanni Vignale’s area of research is the many-body theory of electronic materials and devices — a field in which he has more than 200 papers in print. He is author of two books “Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid” (Cambridge University Press, 2005) (with G. F. Giuliani) and, “The Beautiful Invisible – Imagination, Creativity and Theoretical Physics” (Oxford University Press, 2011.) ABSTRACT: Electric and thermal transport in electronic systems has long been described in terms of an independent-particle picture (Landau theory of Fermi liquids) which emphasizes the role of collisions between electrons and impurities or lattice vibrations, with electron-electron collisions playing a secondary role. It is only in the past two decades that advances in the fabrication of ultra clean samples have refocused the interest on collective hydrodynamic transport - a transport regime which is controlled by the nearly conserved quantities: particle number, momentum, and energy density, and by electron-electron interactions tying their values together. In this talk I review some of the recent theoretical and experimental progress in our understanding of electronic hydrodynamics in graphene-based materials. Several novel effects have been predicted and experimentally observed, including large deviations from the conventional Wiedemann-Franz law, which connects the electric and thermal conductivities. I then move on to other realizations of hydrodynamic concepts, namely in Fermionic cold atoms and in the quark-gluon plasma of quantum chromodynamics. In the latter case I review the theoretical arguments, based on holographic duality and supported by experiment, which suggests that the quark-gluon plasma should be an almost perfect fluid, with a viscosity to entropy ratio close to a conjectured lower bound ℏ⁄(4πk_B ), which, quite surprisingly, is also approached by electrons in pristine graphene. This is an in person event, taking place in the Budinich Lecture Hall @ ICTP. Light refreshments will be served on the Leonardo Building Terrace after the event. All are welcome to attend. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

10 Oct 2022

@ ICTP

ICTP Colloquium on "Hydrodynamics of Quantum Liquids: From Electrons to Quarks" by Prof. Giovanni Vignale, Institute for Intelligent Functional Materials (I-FIM), National University of Singapore

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34141 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Giovanni Vignale, Institute for Intelligent Functional Materials (I-FIM), National University of Singapore

Colloquium Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Prof. Peter Zoller is a Professor for theoretical physics at the University of Innsbruck, and Scientific Director at IQOQI Innsbruck. His research interests include atomic physics and theoretical quantum optics, and many-body quantum physics with quantum gases, and quantum information, in close collaboration with experiment. Since 1981 he has trained 34 PhD students and hosted 57 Postdocs. Future ESQ Postdocs can develop their research profile benefiting from atomic physics and quantum optics, in particular quantum many-body physics at the interface to condensed matter physics and high energy physics, and quantum information. More information is available at: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/esq/home/esq-faculty/peter-zoller. Further details on the talk will follow in due course. The Colloquium will take part in the Budinich Lecture Hall on the ICTP Campus, and is an in-person event. All are welcome to attend. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

14 Dec 2022

@ ICTP

ICTP Colloquium by Prof. Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI Innsbruck

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI Innsbruck, Austria

Colloquium Start Time: 16:00

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2020 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony

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Colloquium 3 June

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquium: Alessandro Vespignani

The Epidemiological Case for Contact Tracing

Peskin Colloquium Upcoming

Professor Petra Rudolf on Molecular Motors

Bo Persson to Give ICTP Colloquium

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ICTP Colloquium on "Hydrodynamics of Quantum Liquids: From Electrons to Quarks" by Prof. Giovanni Vignale, Institute for Intelligent Functional Materials (I-FIM), National University of Singapore

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CMSP

MATH

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News

Basic Sciences and Climate

Colloquium 14 June

2020 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony

ICTP Colloquium Online

Colloquium 3 June

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquium: Alessandro Vespignani

The Epidemiological Case for Contact Tracing

Peskin Colloquium Upcoming

Professor Petra Rudolf on Molecular Motors

Bo Persson to Give ICTP Colloquium

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ICTP Colloquium on "Hydrodynamics of Quantum Liquids: From Electrons to Quarks" by Prof. Giovanni Vignale, Institute for Intelligent Functional Materials (I-FIM), National University of Singapore

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ICTP Colloquium by Prof. Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI Innsbruck

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