In its new strategic plan, ICTP announced new research areas it will pursue in fields related to existing ones which could have significant interdisciplinary research potential, especially in their possible impact on developing countries. Those fields are:
Energy is a topic of key importance for developing countries, which have special needs for energy use and production. This new ICTP research area will concentrate on different sources of energy (with a focus on renewable energy) and their impact in the developing world. The area complements current activities of the Earth System Physics and Condensed Matter Physics sections, in particular the latter section's computational modelling of different materials relevant for energy conversion and storage. The hope is that such research could be implemented in collaboration with other local and national institutions.
The systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe, and transform information and its applications in computing systems is an ever-growing field that somehow now mirrors the role that theoretical physics used to play years ago when ICTP was founded. It has direct impact on society as a whole, and can be implemented in developing countries through improved access to computers via the internet. It is directly related to development and has important financial implications. This activity could be considered as a natural extension of the mathematics group to more applied areas. Expanding the scope of this new group to include quantum computing could also link with current research interests at ICTP and the University of Trieste.
A local cluster of computers would provide a world-class facility for the Centre's scientists and visitors. This will be needed for independent computational resources at ICTP for the existing groups (mostly Condensed Matter and Earth System Physics) and for the proposed new sections mentioned above.
Europe/Rome
2019-10-22 10:30:00
2019-10-22 12:00:00
Beyond Open Access: SciPost
Beyond Open Access: SciPost
Speaker: Jean-Sébastien Caux
Abstract: SciPost is a by-and-for scientists initiative aiming to provide a Genuine Open Access replacement infrastructure for the scientific publishing industry. Its journals are characterized by being open access for both readers (no subscription or reading fees) as well as authors (no author fees/APCs), giving generous licenses (CC-BY) with copyright to the authors. All editorial work is performed by active professional scientists, without competing financial or corporate interest. As an organization, SciPost is purely not-for-profit and community-owned, and follows a cost-slashing consortial business model.
This talk will outline the initiative's main aspects, current status, and upcoming expansion plans.
Short bio: Jean-Sébastien Caux is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam. A Canadian citizen, he obtained his PhD in Oxford, was postdoctoral Fellow in All Souls, and moved to the Netherlands in 2003. Specialized in condensed matter theory, his interests include exactly-solvable models of many-body quantum mechanics, and their relation to in- and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of experimentally-realizable quantum magnets, cold atomic systems and nanodevices. He is a recipient among others of the NWO Vici and ERC Advanced grants.
Besides his research activities, he is actively involved in the reform of scientific publishing. He is the founder, implementer and current chairman of SciPost.
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
22 Oct 2019
» Beyond Open Access: SciPost
Europe/Rome
2019-10-28 08:00:00
2019-11-01 22:00:00
Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics | (smr 3336)
Worldwide, women constitute a decided minority in the physics community. One of the goals of this Workshop is to bring together women physicists from all over the world, so that they can share their thoughts and learn from each other's experiences. Another goal is to offer mini-workshops that deal with the various non-academic skills that are needed to succeed in a career in science, that male physicists often acquire through the old boys' network, but that women, being more isolated and thus lacking mentors, may find harder to pick up.
In addition to hearing from successful female scientists who will share their thoughts and experiences, there will be sessions on topics such as how to write a CV, how to give oral presentations, how to write scientific articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals, the art of negotiation in an academic environment, and how to try to achieve a balance between the demands of career and family. There will also be a scientific poster session, and several opportunities for informal discussion.
The Workshop is primarily aimed at women early in their scientific career (e.g. postdocs and junior faculty members), but we will consider applications from all women in physics.
This is part of a continuing series of such workshops at ICTP, typically we will not consider applications from participants who have already attended a previous workshop in this series.
List of Speakers include:
Carolina Araujo (IMPA)
R. Sekhar Chivukula (UCSD)
Hala J. El-Khozondar (Islamic U. of Gaza)
Maitri Gopalakrishna (Bangalore)
Sinead Griffin (LBNL)
Shazrene Mohamed (UCT & SAAO)
Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR)
Gladys C. Ngetich (University of Oxford)
Elizabeth Simmons (UCSD)
Magdalena Stoeva (IUPESM)
Assunta Vigliante (Sirius X Ray Solutions)
There is no registration fee for this activity.
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
28 Oct 2019
- 1 Nov 2019
» Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics | (smr 3336)
9 May 2019
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