CMSP

Europe/Rome 2019-09-16 10:30:00 2019-09-16 11:30:00 Special CMSP and Marie Curie Library Seminar: An Editor's Guide to 'Nature' Speaker's Biography Dr Gaia Donati joined Nature as an Associate Editor in 2017, and in this role she handles research papers in fields such as quantum information, plasma physics, particle and nuclear physics. She holds a PhD in experimental quantum optics from the University of Oxford, and completed her undergraduate studies in physics at Sapienza Università di Roma. On a freelance basis, she also worked as a science writer and fact-checker. Abstract of Talk In this talk I will present Nature and the Nature Research portfolio of journals to discuss how the scope, format and publishing model change from one title to another. Based on my experience as a manuscript editor, I will then focus on the peer review process at Nature and – from a more general standpoint – I will share some thoughts on how to publish a paper in a selective peer-reviewed journal in a way that feels like a fruitful experience instead of an obstacle course. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 16 Sep 2019

Europe/Rome 2019-08-12 08:00:00 2019-08-30 22:00:00 College on Energy Transport and Energy Conversion in the Quantum Regime | (smr 3318) The development of quantum technologies is closely connected to the possibility of controlling and manipulating the transport of charge, spin and energy. The aim of this activity is to integrate the communities of Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Information, Cold Atoms and Condensed Matter Physics to understand fundamental aspects of this problem.     Topics: Quantum thermoelectricity, theory and experiment Quantum energy dissipation Maxwell Daemons in quantum systems Quantum fluctuation-dissipation relations Quantum thermodynamics in electronic circuits Quantum Floquet engineering Quantum thermodynamics and information theory Transport and thermodynamics in periodically driven electron systems Topological energy conversion Thermal transport and thermoelectricity in topological quantum matter Thermal transport in topological systems Quantum thermal machines Many-body effects in thermal transport   Lecturers courses: Giuliano Benenti, Italy Rosario Fazio, Italy Rosa López, Spain Laurens Molenkamp, Germany Juan Parrondo, Spain Jukka Pekola, Finland Anatoli Polkovnikov, USA Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Germany Janine Splettstoeser, Sweden   Speakers workshop: Joel Moore, USA Christian Schmiegelow, Argentina Christian Glattli, France Clemens Winkelmann, France Heiner Linke, Sweden Sebastian Diehl, Germany Robert Whitney, France Massimiliano Esposito, Luxembourg Raam Uzdin, Israel Ewelina Hankiewicz, Germany David Sanchez, Spain Yuval Gefen, Israel Fabio Taddei, Italy Peter Samuelsson, Sweden Anton Ramsak, Slovenija Michele Campisi, Italy Geraldine Haack, Switzerland Dario Poletti, Singapore Marcos Rigol, USA Gershon Kurizki, Israel Alessandro Braggio, Italy Grants:   A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.   ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 12 Aug 2019 - 30 Aug 2019

Europe/Rome 2019-10-21 08:00:00 2019-10-25 22:00:00 Conference on Signatures of Topology in Condensed Matter | (smr 3330) This conference will focus on the observable signatures of topology in electronic, photonic, phononic, and atomic systems, with participation by leading theorists and experimentalists. The conference will offer an excellent opportunity for cross-fertilisation of ideas and an exciting learning experience for early career researchers. TOPICS: Topological insulators and superconductors Dirac and Weyl semimetals Time-dependent and non-equilibrium topological systems Photonic systems Cold atoms Phononic systems Electronic-structure and ab-initio calculations Transport properties of topological systems Experimental detection of topological properties Physics of unconventional surface states Interaction and disorder effects in topological systems Hetero- and hybrid-structures Electrodynamics in topological materials Quantum-field-theory approaches Applications and devices SPEAKERS: A. ALTLAND, University of Cologne, Germany P. ARMITAGE, Johns Hopkins University, USA L. ARRACHEA, Universidad NSM, Buenos Aires, Argentina C. W. J. BEENAKKER, Leiden University, The Netherlands A. BURKOV, University of Waterloo, Canada F. BURNELL, University of Minnesota, USA (to be confirmed) R. CLAESSEN, University of Würzburg, Germany D. COBDEN, University of Washington, USA D. CULCER, University of New South Wales, Australia K. FLENSBERG, University of Copenhagen, Denmark M. FRANZ, University of British Columbia, Canada F. GIAZOTTO, NEST NANO-CNR, Pisa, Italy M. KAWASAKI, University of Tokyo, Japan D. LOSS, University of Basel, Switzerland A. H. MACDONALD, The University of Texas at Austin, USA L. MOLENKAMP, University of Würzburg, Germany J. MOODERA, MIT, Cambridge, USA C. MORAIS SMITH, Utrecht University, The Netherlands S.-Q. SHEN, University of Hong Kong H. TAKAGI, MPI for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany K. VON BERGMANN, Hamburg University, Germany H. WENG, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China S. A. YANG, Singapore University of Technology and Design A. YAZDANI, Princeton University, USA U. ZUELICKE, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 21 Oct 2019 - 25 Oct 2019