New Research Areas

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 and Sustainability

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.

Computing Sciences

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.

Activities view all

Europe/Rome 2022-02-07 07:00:00 2022-02-18 21:00:00 Hands-on Workshop on Data Centers Operationalization: HPC systems Technology, Administration, Operations and Management/Maintenance for African climate change related scientific institutions: Case study of climate change simulation using standardized/customized climate mode | (smr 3689) Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso ICTP pio@ictp.it 7 Feb 2022 - 18 Feb 2022

» Hands-on Workshop on Data Centers Operationalization: HPC systems Technology, Administration, Operations and Management/Maintenance for African climate change related scientific institutions: Case study of climate change simulation using standardized/customized climate mode | (smr 3689)

Europe/Rome 2022-04-25 08:00:00 2022-05-06 22:00:00 9th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open Source Scientific Packages | (smr 3696) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 25 Apr 2022 - 6 May 2022

» 9th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open Source Scientific Packages | (smr 3696)

Europe/Rome 2022-05-23 08:00:00 2022-05-27 22:00:00 Professional and Communications Training for Scientists Working in Disadvantaged Countries | (smr 3710) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 23 May 2022 - 27 May 2022

» Professional and Communications Training for Scientists Working in Disadvantaged Countries | (smr 3710)

Europe/Rome 2022-07-04 08:00:00 2022-07-22 22:00:00 The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School and Advanced workshops on Bio-informatics, Climate Data Sciences, Extreme sources of data and Internet of Things(IoT)/Big-Data Analytics | (smr 3685) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 4 Jul 2022 - 22 Jul 2022

» The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School and Advanced workshops on Bio-informatics, Climate Data Sciences, Extreme sources of data and Internet of Things(IoT)/Big-Data Analytics | (smr 3685)