Scientific Calendar

Each year, ICTP organizes more than 60 international conferences, workshops, and numerous seminars and colloquia.

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Europe/Rome LoRa is a long range, low power networking solution recently developed for the Internet of Things (IoT). In the workshop we will learn about the underlying technology and protocols and we will develop scientific instrumentation with LoRa chips. A LoRa network can connect a plethora of tiny battery powered LoRa sensors and devices within a few kilometers and even up to 150 km with line of sight. With complete LoRa modules available from $5 USD the cost of instrumenting huge areas and cities with real-time environmental sensor networks has diminished substantially. In this school the participants will develop and construct instrumentation and sensors equipped or embedded with LoRa chip and they will deploy and analyse the data from a LoRa enabled sensor network across the ICTP campus and in Trieste. The power of the technology to rely on long distance, low power (battery or rechargeable/ renewable) technologies is of considerable interest to the environmental monitoring of cities and agricultural environments. Topics: • LoRa and LoRaWAN protocols; • Prototyping of sensor boards; • Coding of LoRa sensors; • Planning and deployment of a LoRa network; • Collection, analysis and the visualization of the data. Please see also: http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2018/ ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

23 Apr 2018 - 11 May 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA School on LoRa Enabled Radiation and Environmental Monitoring Sensors | (smr 3188)

Address: via Beirut, 7 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: SciFabLab (EFB)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

Organizer(s): Iain Darby (IAEA NAPC/PH-NSIL), Marco Zennaro (ICTP T/ICT4D), Maria Liz Crespo (ICTP MLab), Local Organiser: Marco Zennaro

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3, International Telecommunication Unionitu, SigCommsigcomm, ICTP SciFabLabsfl

**DEADLINE: 26/02/2018**

Europe/Rome Register in advance for the webinar URL: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b-GTZrwfSVms5BOlmeG9DA CONTEXT The Mediterranean is a hotspot for climate change and air pollution. Climate change will significantly impact the regional air quality by reinforcing the hot, sunny and dry Mediterranean climate. Mediterranean inhabitants are already regularly exposed to pollutant loads well above WHO (World Health Organization) air quality recommendations standards and will be further exposed. Additional exposures to air pollution and warm conditions will result in an excess of premature deaths, but we still lack quantification of the impact in southern and eastern countries. Thus, there is a need to promote and develop Integrated Health Impact assessment (IHIA) approach by empowering scientists from around the Mediterranean basin. OBJECTIVES The objective of the training school is to strengthen in-country scientists and stakeholders capacity to face the health challenges posed by environmental stressors. It aims at giving early-stage researchers a good understanding of risk and uncertainty matched to a set of practical skills in facing the environmental health issues related to evaluating the health impact of air pollution and climate change. Students will be trained to the practice of exposure assessment, epidemiology and integrated health impact assessment. CONTENTS The school will introduce state of the art knowledge on air pollution and climate change in the Mediterranean region, as well as methodologies of health impact assessment. It will give students knowledge of protocols, tools, sources of data and will make them practice on case studies specifically designed for the school in order to enable them performing air quality and climate health impact studies including economic valuation. The school will also give insights on how to identify public health priorities for research and preventive actions. The teaching will be provided by recognized experts in atmospheric chemistry, climate, epidemiology, toxicology, economics... Participants will be able to interact and communicate with all these experts. SPEAKERS Carla ANCONA (DEP Lazio, Rome, Italy) Isabella ANNESI-MAESANO (INSERM & UPMC, Paris, France) Olivier CHANEL (AMSE, Univ. Of Aix-Marseille, France) Augustin COLETTE (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France) Zeina DAGHER (Univ. Lebanese, Fanar, Lebanon) Kees DE HOOGH (Univ. Of Basel, Basel, Switzerland) Jos LELIEVELD (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany) Konstantinos MAKRIS (Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Limassol, Cyprus) and to be announced ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

23 Apr 2018 - 27 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) of Air Pollution and Climate Change in Mediterranean Areas | (smr 3250)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Carla Ancona (Dept. of Epidemiology, Lazio Reg. Health Service, Rome, Italy), François Dulac (CEA LSCE (France)), Eric Hamonou (CNRS LSCE (France)), Konstantinos Makris (Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health (Cyprus)), Local Organiser: Filippo Giorgi

Cosponsor(s): Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean eXperimentcharmex, ENVI-MEDenvimed, ARCHIMEDESarchimedes, The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg4

**DEADLINE: 09/02/2018**

Europe/Rome Space Weather is the variation in Sun energy emissions, solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere, which can influence the performance and reliability of a variety of space borne and ground-based technological systems. As such Space Weather is recognised as the cause of significant errors experienced by Global Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS), Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) and their users. GNSS or SBAS signals, propagating from a satellite to the user receiver, pass through the ionosphere where they are subject to the damaging effects of Space Weather. Under these conditions pseudorange errors and signals scintillations at user receiver level are present. The effects are critical at low latitudes where most of the developing countries are located. The purpose of the proposed workshop is to give theoretical and practical training on the physics of Space Weather and its main effects on the GNSS operations with particular emphasis on the low latitudes ionospheric processes related to Space Weather. This workshop is the number 10 of the series of activities in the field carried out since 2009 by the ICTP T/ICT4D in partnership with the Institute for Scientific Research (ISR) of Boston College done with the collaboration of the International Committee on GNSS of the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs and The Institute of Navigation both in Trieste and in Africa. During the first day of the Workshop a review of the impact of these training efforts on the capacity building in the field in Africa and in general in developing countries will be given. Topics: Impact of the ICTP T/ICT4D Boston College ISR joint training activities on GNSS science and applications in developing countries. (Speakers from Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Argentina and Malaysia will describe research and academic achievements in their countries as a result of the joint training activities) Introduction to satellite navigation and positioning (Representatives of national and international institutions dealing with GNSS activities will be invited to illustrate the importance of satellite navigation for the developing countries) GNSS: systems and operations Introduction to Space Weather Continuous and transient transport of energy from the Sun to the Earth Ionosphere and its response to Space Weather with particular attention to low latitudes Space Weather effects on GNSS operations Computer Laboratory exercises on the use of Space Weather data for GNSS research and applications The deadline for submitting applications expired on 1 February 2018. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

23 Apr 2018 - 4 May 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Workshop on Space Weather Effects on GNSS Operations at Low Latitudes | (smr 3198)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Margherita Di Giovannantonio

Organizer(s): Patricia Doherty (Boston College), Sandro M. Radicella (ICTP), Bruno Nava (ICTP), Local Organiser: Bruno Nava

Cosponsor(s): Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College, USAbcl, International Committee on GNSSicg, Institute of Navigationion2

**DEADLINE: 01/02/2017**

Seminar

26 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Studying geometry with arithmetic techniques

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Martin Mereb (University of Buenos Aires)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

26 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Axions from Strings

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Marco GORGHETTO (SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Writing software has become central to research in many fields of science. This school aims to give early-career scientists an introduction to a variety of topics that help them to write efficient, clean, maintainable and long-lived code that is useful beyond solving an immediate problem. In a mixture of talks and many hands-on sessions, the focus lies on showing best practices and building fundamental skills in creating, extending and collaborating on modular and reusable software. TOPICS: ● Python / shell scripts as glue code ● Mixing programming languages ● Introduction to computer architectures and software optimization ● Modular, reusable software design ● Effective collaborative development with multiple co-authors ● Version control and release cycles ● Automated testing frameworks ● Structured documentation ● Systematic debugging Sharif University of Technology ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

28 Apr 2018 - 9 May 2018

@ Sharif University of Technology

High Performance Computing

6th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open Source Scientific Packages | (smr 3199)

Address: Azadi St. - Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran

Room: Physics Department

Secretary: Milena Poropat

Organizer(s): D. Grellscheid (Durham University / ICTP), S. Baghram (Sharif University), M.R. Ejtehadi (Sharif University), A. Langari (Sharif University), S. Moghimi-Araghi (Sharif University), ICTP Scientific Contact: I. Girotto

Cosponsor(s): Sharif University of Technologysherif2

**NEW DEADLINE: 24/01/2018** **DEADLINE: 14/01/2018**

Activity

2 May 2018 - 5 May 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

EMODnet Biology General meeting | (smr H547)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Simon Claus VLIZ - InnovOcean Site, Marina Lipizer Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS,

Europe/Rome Entanglement is at heart of many interesting phenomena in quantum physics. From determining important properties in many-body physics to practical communication using quantum light, understanding and proving entanglement is a paradigmatic task across many subdisciplines. It is relatively well understood for small Hilbert space dimensions, however it becomes intractably complex for large dimensions and particle numbers. In this talk I would like to give an introductory overview about state-of-the-art methods in entanglement theory for nonetheless navigating high-dimensional Hilbert spaces and reliably certifying entanglement within. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

3 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: Entanglement Beyond Two Qubits

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Marcus HUBER (IQOQI Vienna, AAS, University of Vienna, Austria)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: We prove the wellposedness of scalar wave equations on spatially at universe as a background with nonminimal coupling with the scalar potential turned on by introducing the k-order linear energy and the corresponding energy norm. In the local case, we show that both the k-order linear energy and the energy norm are bounded for finite time with initial data in Hk+1 × Hk. Whereas in the global case, we have to add three assumptions related to the nonminimal coupling constant, the scale factor of spacetimes, and the form of the scalar that has to be a polynomial with a small positive parameter. Then, we show that the solution does globally exist with a particular decay estimate that depends on the scale factor of the spacetimes. Finally, we provide some physical models that support our general setup. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

3 May 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Global Existence of Solutions to Scalar Equations on Spatially Flat Universe as a Background with Non-minimal Coupling

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Fiki Taufik Akbar, Institut Teknologi Bandung

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory constitute a vibrant and exciting eld of current research in pure mathematics, with lots of connections to other areas such as probability theory, differential geometry, ODEs, and potential applications to such diverse areas as natural and biological sciences, economics, engineering, climate and disease modeling and many others. It can be thought of as a modern development of classical theories of Differential Equations and the fundamental concepts and guiding ideas go back more than a century to pioneering thinkers such as Poincaré, Birkhoff and Kolmogorov. Its interest and importance has only grown in time and several Fields Medals have been awarded in the area. The ICTP-TMU School on Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory will consist of introductory mini-courses aimed specifically at masters and beginning PhD students who are expected to have an excellent general mathematics background but not necessarily any previous experience of the particular topics covered in the courses. The mini-courses will be complemented by a series of research-level seminars, given by internationally renowned scholars in the eld, and aimed at more advanced PhD students and local faculty and researchers. All students and researchers are welcome to all the lectures. Scientific Committee S. LUZZATTO, ICTP, Italy M. NASSIRI, IPM, Iran A. TAHZIBI, ICMC, Brazil Lecturers C. BONATTI, Dijon, France P. ESLAMI, Warwick, UK C. LIVERANI, Rome, Italy Speakers J.F. ALVES, Porto, Portugal P. BERGER, Paris, France O. BUTTERLEY, ICTP, Italy S. LUZZATTO, ICTP, Italy M. POLLICOTT, Warwick, UK M. TSUJII, Kyushu, Japan Tutor L.D. SIMONELLI, ICTP, Italy Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

5 May 2018 - 10 May 2018

@ Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran

Mathematics

TMU-ICTP School and Conference on Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory | (smr 3200)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

Organizer(s): Khosro Tajbakhsh (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran), ICTP Scientific Contact: Stefano Luzzatto

Cosponsor(s): Tarbiat Modares Universitytmu, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciencesipm2, IMU-CDCcdc2

**DEADLINE: 15/03/2018**

Europe/Rome The School will introduce young scientists to synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) based research with a glance to the future. The School’s interdisciplinary character will provide a stimulating environment for discussions with leaders in the field. DESCRIPTION X-ray based analytical methods play an increasingly important role in many domains of fundamental research and applied science. The international cast of lecturers will introduce the basic principles of advanced X-ray spectroscopy and scattering techniques. Emphasis will be given on how these techniques allow accessing the complexity of matter by monitoring the atomic arrangement, electronic, magnetic and chemical properties of individual building blocks and their response to external stimuli like temperature, pressure, electric or magnetic fields and light pulses. The program will be complemented by lectures on recent advances in synchrotron and XFEL sources enabling novel experimental methodologies. Demonstration sessions will be organized at Elettra’s synchrotron and XFEL facilities. TOPICS • Fundamentals of synchrotron and FEL radiation and production. • Beamlines: photon transport and handling • X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy • X-ray Crystallography and Powder Diffraction • Inelastic and Elastic Scattering (SAXS, WAXS and RIXS) • Photoelectron spectroscopy • Imaging techniques using X-rays and advantages using coherent X-rays • Spectromicroscopy and imaging using X-rays and IR • Time-resolved approaches using FELs and synchrotrons Grants: a limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to those from developing countries. Support for attending the School will also be provided by the H2020 funded European Cluster of Advanced Laser Light Sources (EUCALL) and the French research network XFEL-Science: - EUCALL will provide a limited number of travel bursaries for young scientists from European Laboratories. For more details and to apply, see the following web page: https://www.eucall.eu/bursaries/spring_school - The XFEL-Science network will provide a limited number of travel bursaries for students from French Laboratories. Please contact Jan Luning for more information when applying to the School. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

7 May 2018 - 18 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics , Applied Physics

School on Synchrotron and Free-Electron-Laser Methods for Multidisciplinary Applications | (smr 3202)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

Organizer(s): Maya Kiskinova (ELETTRA, Sincrotrone Trieste), Jan Luning (UPMC, Paris), Local Organiser: Nadia Binggeli

Cosponsor(s): GDRi XFEL-Sciencexfel, EUCALLeucall

**DEADLINE: 31/01/2018**

Europe/Rome In nature, collective behaviour is a widespread phenomenon that spans many systems at different length- and timescales. Cells forming complex tissues, social insects such as ants creating dynamical structures using their own bodies, fish schools and bird flocks with their synchronous and coordinated motion are prototypical examples of the emergent self-organization which arises from local interactions among a large number of individuals. Unravelling the underlying principles and mechanisms through which such a macroscopic complexity is achieved is a fundamental challenge in biological sciences. Collective behaviour has become a unifying concept in a range of disciplines—from the spontaneous ordering of spins in ferromagnetic systems in physics, to the emergence of herding behaviour in economy, to the consensus dynamics in social sciences. Furthermore, enormous potential lies in the field of robotics in which, drawing inspiration from natural swarms, artificial collectives can be created with the abilities of the natural ones. A range of techniques have developed over recent years which allow unprecedented acquisition of quantitative empirical data, together with an enormous influx of theoretical concepts and models of collective behaviour. This upsurge enabled scientists from biology, physics, and robotics to start tackling intensively many of the open issues in this field: How is information transferred through a group? What is the structure of the underlying interaction and communication network? What is the role of the inter-individual differences (physiological, social, etc.) in a group decision-making? What is the relationship between organisms and their habitat? However, except on very rare occasions, different disciplines continue to address these problems along separate lines. Recent rapid progress in the collective behaviour field presents a well-timed opportunity to initiate a fruitful interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of this conference is to bring together experts from different scientific fields—biology, physics and engineering—to help identify new cross-disciplinary challenges, to boost the development of new ideas, and to foster the birth of an interdisciplinary community working in this field. Invited Speakers include: Lucy Aplin (University of Oxford) Nicolas Bredeche (UPMC) Andrea Cavagna (CNR, Rome) Hugues Chaté (CEA) Gonzalo De Polavieja (Champalimaud Foundation) Audrey Dussutour (Université Toulouse III) Ofer Feinerman (Weizmann Institute of Science) Francesco Ginelli (University of Aberdeen) Deborah M. Gordon (Stanford University) Roderich Gross (University of Sheffield) Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo) M. Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse University) Patrizio Mariani (Technical University of Denmark) James Marshall (University of Sheffield) Thierry Mora (ENS) Melanie E. Moses (University of New Mexico) Thomas Schmickl (University of Graz) Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) Guy Theraulaz (Université Toulouse III) Shashi Thutupalli (SCSLM, NCBS, ICTS) Colin Torney (University of Glasgow) Tamás Vicsek (Eötvös University Budapest) Aleksandra Walczak (ENS) Justin Werfel (Harvard University) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

7 May 2018 - 11 May 2018

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Conference on Collective Behavior | (smr 3201)

Address: Via Beirut, 2 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Auditorium, SISSA Building

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Iain Couzin (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology), Dario Floreano (EPFL), Irene Giardina (Università di Roma), Asja Jelic (ICTP), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Cosponsor(s): Institute for Complex Adaptive Mattericam

Seminar

8 May 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

Speaker(s): Frédéric van WIJLAND (Univ. Paris Diderot, Paris, France)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract. We shall present a phase space description of unitary matrix model. It is well known that eigenvalues of unitary matrices are like positions of free fermions. We show that in large N limit, number of boxes in Young diagram corresponding to dominant representation of SU(N) plays the role of momentum for those fermions. A relation between eigenvalues and number of boxes allows one to provide a phase space description for different large N phases of the theory. We shall consider Chern-Simons matter theory on $S^2\times S^1$ in particular and discuss how phase space description forces the corresponding dominant representations to be integrable. We also discus the level-rank duality between different dominant representations. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

8 May 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

From phase space to integrable representations and level-rank duality

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Suvankar DUTTA (IISER, Bhopal, India)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

10 May 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Gluequark Dark Matter

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Roberto CONTINO (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome NEW DEADLINE to request participation without financial support: 22 APRIL 2018 PLEASE NOTE The organizers will select some of the received abstracts for oral presentations. Best Poster Awards are foreseen. No registration fee is required. The organizers will offer welcome reception, coffee breaks, and conference dinner to all participants, without additional costs. Participants wishing to present a poster during the Conference should kindly indicate this on the application by uploading a short abstract with their surname/name/institute address/ title and brief - max one page - description MAIN TOPICS: Novel quantum phenomena in multicomponent superconductors and superfluids Competing orders in multicomponent quantum systems Multicomponent superconductivity and superfluidity in 2D materials and heterostructures Topological effects in multicomponent quantum systems Vortical and skyrmionic states in multicomponent quantum fluids The standard picture of superconductors and superfluids is based on the existence of a single quantum condensate, but recent advances in material science and ultracold atoms opened a paradigm of multicomponent quantum fluids. New directions in this multifacetted and booming field are opened by emergent 2D materials, heterostructures, multiorbital materials, and ultracold atomic mixtures, in which superconductivity and superfluidity are readily realized, and where links between observed quantum effects can be made and knowledge can be cross-fertilized. This MultiSuper conference is aimed to help understand, quantify, and manipulate the effects of hybridization between multiple condensates in a single system, as a pathway to yet unseen quantum phenomena. The key experts will be assembled to present and interpret state-of-the-art experiments and theory, and advance fundamental physics and material science in this field. Confirmed speakers: Saeed Abedinpour (IASBS, Zanjan) Vanderlei S. Bagnato (University of Sao Paulo) Antun Balaz (Institute of Physics, Belgrade) Antonio Bianconi (RICMASS, Rome) Lara Benfatto (CNR and Rome “Sapienza”) Mauro M. Doria (IF - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro) Francois Dubin (INSP, Paris) Stephen D. Edkins (Cornell University, New York) Leonardo Fallani (LENS and University of Florence) Laura Fanfarillo (SISSA, Trieste) Stefano Giorgini (University of Trento) Walter Hofstetter (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) Allan MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin) David Neilson (University of Camerino & University of Antwerp) Muneto Nitta (Keio University, Tokyo) Sebastiano Peotta (Aalto University, Finland) Nick Proukakis (University of Newcastle, UK) Dimitri Roditchev (INSP, Paris) Carlos Sa de Melo (Georgia Tech, Atlanta) Daniela Stornaiuolo (University of Naples Federico II) Jacques Tempère (University of Antwerp) Alexei Vagov (Bayreuth University) Andrey Varlamov (CNR-Spin, Rome) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

14 May 2018 - 18 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

International Conference on Multi-Condensate Superconductivity and Superfluidity in Solids and Ultra-cold Gases | (smr 3204)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Marina de Comelli

Organizer(s): Massimo Capone (SISSA, Trieste, Italy), Milorad Milosevic (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Andrea Perali (University of Camerino, Italy), Local Organiser: Rosario Fazio

Cosponsor(s): MultiSuper Networkmsn, Universita' di Camerinounicam, Research Foundation - Flanders FWOfwo, Universiteit Antwerpenuniv_antwerpen, International School for Advanced Studiessissa, Condensed Matter Journal sponsors the Best Poster Awardcm

**DEADLINE: 15/02/2018**

Europe/Rome Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics provide nowadays a comprehensive picture of the properties of equilibrium and near-equilibrium systems. Yet most phenomena occur out of equilibrium – for example nonequilibrium is essential for sustaining life or fluid motions – and our understanding of nonequilibrium systems is comparatively poorer and limited. At the same time, the revolution in information technologies has provided a wealth of quantitative data on complex systems whose fundamental laws are yet unknown to us. These two related domains are one of the great frontiers of contemporary science, both from the theoretical standpoint and for a multitude of practical applications. This research area has a strong interdisciplinary flavor and has special relevance for physics, geosciences, and life sciences. The understanding of complex, high-dimensional and non-equilibrium systems raises many challenges: · How does a complex system respond to perturbations? · How to construct and evaluate models across a hierarchical ladder of complexity? · How to deal with multiple scales in space and in time? · How to test theories and models against limited and often noisy observational data? · How to merge effectively models and data? · How to describe and predict large fluctuations and extreme events? · How do patterns emerge in the self-organization of complex systems? · How to study fluctuations in reversible and irreversible systems? The workshop aims to approach these problems taking advantage of results, tools, and ideas coming from a diverse range of scientific disciplines, with the goal of advancing our knowledge and foster cross fertilization. Speakers include: M. Baiesi, Italy L. Biferale, Italy G. Biroli, France A. Celani, Italy S. Ciliberto, France S. Cocco, France L. Cugliandolo, France L. De Cruz, Belgium E. Domany, U.S.A. E. Frey, Germany K. Gawedsky, France A. Gritsun, Russian Federation R. Harries, U.K. A. Jelic, Italy F. Kucharski, Italy T. Kuna, U.K. J. Kurchan, France A. Laio, Italy B. Machta, U.S.A. C. Maes, Belgium C. Mejia-Monasterio, Spain I. Nemenmann, U.S.A. A. Politi, U.K. D. Ruelle, France S. Sarkar, U.S.A. D. Schwab, U.S.A. U. Seifert, Germany T. Sharpee, U.S.A. S. Suweis, Italy M. Transtrum, U.S.A. E. Vanden-Eijnde, U.S.A. S. Vannitsem, Belgium A. Vulpiani, Italy J. Yorke, U.S.A. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

14 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Advanced Workshop on Nonequilibrium Systems in Physics, Geosciences, and Life Sciences | (smr 3203)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Freddy Bouchet (ENS-Lyon), Giovanni Gallavotti (Uni La Sapienza Rome), Andrea Gambassi (SISSA), Valerio Lucarini (Uni Reading/Uni Hamburg), Stefano Ruffo (SISSA), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Cosponsor(s): University of Readinguniv_reading, SISSAsissa

Support E-Mail: smr3203@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 31/03/2018**

Seminar

15 May 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

Speaker(s): Jean-Michel MAILLET (ENS, Lyon, France)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

15 May 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Nabamita BANERJEE (IISER, Pune, India)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome ICTP Campus - Aerial view with Miramare Castle and Park The policy relevance of understanding past, present, and future climate change and variability and the impact, response and feedbacks of natural and managed ecosystems and many different socio-economic sectors is clear. This has motivated the development of a wide spectrum of techniques and coordinated research efforts around the world aimed at generating robust regional climate change scenarios for the assessment of impacts and vulnerability and associated risks. Progress in observational and modeling capabilities, process understanding, and the development of diverse applications within the scientific, policy and practitioner communities has nurtured the scoping of an ambitious assessment of regional climate change information as part of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group I (WGI). The WGI report will assess processes of global to regional climate change, weather and climate extremes in a changing climate, and climate change information for regional impact and risk assessment. A regional atlas is also proposed as an annex of the WGI report. The Expert Meeting will address the challenging assessment of regional climate information within the WGI AR6 report that will build on multiple sources of information, including observations, climate model products, downscaling techniques, and understanding of local, regional and large-scale drivers and feedbacks of regional climate and change. It will consider how regional information is used and assessed within the climate change risk assessment framework. It will It will consider the scoping of a regional atlas and the development of mechanisms to strengthen the ‘hand shake’, or integration of the assessment across the IPCC, in particular of regional impacts, vulnerability and risk undertaken by WGII. The meeting will be organized by a scientific steering committee (SSC) with representation across the three IPCC WGs, supported by the WGI Technical Support Unit. Participation is by invitation. The list of participants will be finalized following the outcome of author selection of the IPCC WG AR6 reports in early February, 2018. Regional programme draft, http://indico.ictp.it/event/8458/material/5/ Hotel bookings information, http://indico.ictp.it/event/8458/material/3/ Town map with Hotels, http://indico.ictp.it/event/8458/material/4/ Scientific Steering Committee Valerie Masson-Delmotte Panmao Zhai Carolina Vera Edvin Aldrian Greg Flato Andreas Fischlin Hans-Otto Portner Debra Roberts Mark Howden Ramon Pichs-Madruga Technical Support Unit Anna Pirani Wilfran Moufouma-Okia Elvira Poloczanska Points of contact Programme: Anna Pirani (IPCC) anna.pirani@universite-paris-saclay.fr Local: Susanne Henningsen (ICTP) hennings@ictp.it For ICTP Colloquium Valerie Masson-Delmotte on 17 May 2018 at 16:00, see link: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8477/ Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

16 May 2018 - 18 May 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) <br> Expert Meeting on Assessing Climate Information for Regions | (smr H545)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: ex-SISSA Main Auditorium

Cosponsor(s): IPCC Working Group I wgi2

Seminar

17 May 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Francesco D'ERAMO (INFN, Padova)

--- Please note unusual venue!! --

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Colloquium

17 May 2018

@ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Colloquium - by Prof. Valerie Masson-Delmotte

Address: Strada Cotiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Valerie Masson-Delmotte, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) are organizing a Workshop on Global Differential Geometry, to be held at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Mbour, Sénégal, May 21 - 25, 2018. The workshop will focus on recent developments in Global Differential Geometry, in particular on symplectic and Poisson geometry, including foliations and Lie theory, as well as classical differential geometry with its connections to differential topology and global analysis. There are close relations to the index theory of elliptic operators, generalized complex geometry and geometric flows, all of which open the door to applications in mathematical physics. Organizing Committee: Hamidou Dathe (Dakar) Bernhard Hanke (Augsburg) Aissa Wade (Penn State and AIMS Mbour) Katrin Wendland (Freiburg) DFG Coordinators: Carsten Balleier Alida Höbener Beate Wilhelm The list of speakers includes: Claudio Arezzo (ICTP) Augustin Banyaga (Penn State) Augustin Tshidibi Batubenge (South Africa) Kai Cieliebak (Augsburg) A. Degeratu (Stuttgart) Hassimou Diallo (Cote d’Ivoire) Abdoul Salam Diallo (Senegal) Cheikh Mbacke Diop* (Senegal) Jonathan Mboyo Esole* (Northeastern) Urs Frauenfelder (Augsburg) Sebastian Goette (Freiburg) Djideme Franck Houenou (Benin) El-Kaioum Mohamed Moutuou* (USF Florida) Karl-Hermann Neeb (Erlangen) Sylvie Paycha (Postdam) Philippe Rukimbira (FIU Florida) Thomas Schick (Göttingen) Léonard Todjihoundé (Benin) Joel Tossa (Benin) Burkhard Wilking (Münster) *to be confirmed Mbour - Senegal ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

21 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

@ Mbour - Senegal

Mathematics

Workshop on Global Differential Geometry | (smr 3205)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

Organizer(s): Hamidou Dathe (Mathematics Institute, Dakar University), Bernhard Hanke (Mathematics Institute, Augsburg University), Aissa Wade (Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, and AIMS Senegal, Mbour), Katrin Wendland (Mathematics Institute, Freiburg University), ICTP Scientific Contact: Claudio Arezzo

Cosponsor(s): DFGdfg, AIMS Sénégalaims

**DEADLINE: 15/03/2018** For those who applied for financial support to participate in the Workshop on Global Differential Geometry, May 21-25, 2018, at the AIMS Center M'bour, Senegal: If you were planning to participate in the Summer School on Global Differential Geometry, May 14-18, 2018, please be aware that a separate application is necessary, sent directly to the AIMS Center M'bour (by e-mail to kdrame@aims-senegal.org), where the school will take place. Please follow the application procedure described on the summer school's webpage, cf. http://home.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/mathphys/konf/diffgeo-summerschool/index.html under the headline "Applications". The deadline for applications for the summer school has been extended to 2nd of March 2018. **DEADLINE: 15/03/2018** **DEADLINE: 10/04/2018**

Europe/Rome DEADLINE for requesting participation: 5 MARCH 2018 ORGANIZERS: G. Kaminski Schierle, Cambridge University, U.K. A. Painelli, University of Parma, Italy LOCAL ORGANIZERS: L. Grisanti, SISSA/ICTP, Trieste Italy A. Hassanali, ICTP, Trieste, Italy A Conference for experimentalists and theoreticians investigating the photophysics and photochemistry behind the interaction of light with the organic material that make up living systems. This Conference will be a venue for scientists from all over the world working in biochemistry, physical chemistry and physics to discuss interactions between light and biological matter or its molecularbuilding blocks. Synergy among experimentalists and theoreticians is crucial to understand the diversity of phenomena and the fundamental processes that govern the complex interaction of light with living matter. The programme will include oral keynote invited presentations on the most recent developments, given both by high-profile senior scientists and junior researchers as well as contributed short talks and poster presentations. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED ABSTRACTS: In the application form, all applicants are invited to submit an Abstract for a poster presentation. A limited number of contributed Abstracts will be selected by the Organizing Committee for a short oral presentation. TOPICS: • Theoretical advances inmodelling electronic excited states in biologically-relevant systems, including charge and energy transfer processes; • Photophysics and photochemistry of soft matter through time-dependent spectroscopic techniques; • State-of-the-artdevelopments andapplications of linear and nonlinear optical techniques for the imaging of biological systems in cells and tissues. • Emerging fluorescence and luminescence phenomena in proteins and biological systems. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: M. Barbatti, Marseille, France K. Belfield, New Jersey, U.S.A. S. Boxer, Stanford, U.S.A. I. Daidone, L'Aquila, Italy J. Dasgupta, Mumbai, India M. Di Donato, Florence, Italy W. Domcke, Garching, Germany N. Doslic, Zagreb, Croatia M. Garavelli, Bologna, Italy E. Gazit, Tel-Aviv, Israel M. Hariharan, Kerala, India R. Improta, CNR/IBB, Naples, Italy A.H. Marcus, Oregon, U.S.A. B. Mennucci, Pisa, Italy H. Okur, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland N. Rega, Naples, Italy B. Rossi, ELETTRA Trieste, Italy F. Santoro, ICCOM-CNR Pisa, Italy Y, Taghipour Azar, Tehran, Iran I. Tavernelli, IBM Zurich, Switzerland E. Vauthey, Geneva, Switzerland R. Venkatramani, Mumbai, India N. Ventosa, ICMAB Barcelona, Spain ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

21 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Conference on the Complex Interactions of Light and Biological Matter: Experiments meet Theory | (smr 3120)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Luca Grisanti (ICTP), Gabi Kaminski (Cambridge University), Anna Painelli (University of Parma), Local Organiser: Ali Hassanali

Seminar

22 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Silvio FRANZ (LPTMS, Univ. XI Paris Sud, Orsay Cedex, France)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

22 May 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Michele REDI (INFN, Sezione di Firenze)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Activity

23 May 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

Formazione e Scienza per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile | (smr H560)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): TWAS,

Europe/Rome Spontaneous avalanche to plasma splits the core of an ellipsoidal Rydberg gas of nitric oxide. Ambipolar expansion first quenches the electron temperature of this core plasma. Then, long-range, resonant charge transfer from ballistic ions to frozen Rydberg molecules in the wings of the ellipsoid quenches the centre-of-mass ion / Rydberg molecule velocity distribution. This sequence of steps gives rise to a remarkable mechanics of self-assembly, in which the kinetic energy of initially formed hot electrons and ions drives an observed separation of plasma volumes. These dynamics adiabatically sequester energy in a reservoir of mass transport, starting a process that anneals separating volumes to form an apparent glass of strongly coupled ions and electrons. Short-time electron spectroscopy provides experimental evidence for complete ionization. The long lifetime of this system, particularly its stability with respect to recombination and neutral dissociation, suggests that this transformation affords a robust state of arrested relaxation, far from thermal equilibrium. We argue that this state of the quenched ultracold plasma offers an experimental platform for studying quantum many-body physics of disordered systems in the long-time and finite energy-density limits. The qualitative features of the arrested state fail to conform with classical models. Here, we develop a microscopic quantum description for the arrested phase based on an effective many-body spin Hamiltonian that includes both dipole-dipole and van der Waals interactions. This effective model offers a way to envision the quantum disordered non-equilibrium physics of this system. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Seminar: Possible Manifestations of Quantum Disordered Dynamics in the Arrested Relaxation of a Molecular Ultracold Plasma

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Edward GRANT (Univ. of British Columbia, Dept. of Chemistry, Vancouver, Canada

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: I will give a very brief introduction to the concept of computation on a computer, and in particular on a quantum computer. I will try to describe for which kind of problems we could expect a speed-up due to quantum mechanics and discuss the status of the technology in this direction. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 May 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

BASIC NOTIONS SEMINAR: Introduction to Quantum Computation

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Antonello SCARDICCHIO, ICTP

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

24 May 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Ranjan LAHA (Mainz University, Germany)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: In 1936 Tsen proved that a 1-dimensional family of hypersurfaces of degree d in projective n-space always admits a section provided that d is less than or equal to n. This simple statement has been gen- eralized in many ways, and still inspires developments in algebraic geometry. In this talk I will survey the history of Tsen’s Theorem, mostly from the geometric point of view, and describe current re- search toward new interpretations and generalizations. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

24 May 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

A Geometric View on Tsen's Theorem

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Carolina Araujo (IMPA)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Colloquium

24 May 2018

@ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Colloquium - by Prof. Kip S. Thorne

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 TriesteItaly

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Kip S. Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Activity

28 May 2018 - 1 Jun 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

Regional Workshop on the Accident Analysis code for Severe Accidents | (smr H544)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Organizer(s): N. Hiranuma (IAEA), A.P. Ulses (IAEA),

Europe/Rome Atmospheric neutrino experiments were the first ones to discover 20 years ago the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, to establish existence of non-zero neutrino mass and large lepton mixing. Studies of atmospheric neutrinos are used to search for new physics beyond the 3-neutrino paradigm, including sterile neutrinos, non-standard neutrino interactions, effects of violation of fundamental symmetries of Nature. Now the field moves to the next phase of high-precision studies, which will enable us to effectively use atmospheric neutrinos as a tool to determine the mass ordering, octant of the 2-3 mixing angle and the Dirac CP-violating phase. In this connection, knowledge of the atmospheric neutrino fluxes at percent level is needed, which requires higher precision determination of both cosmic ray fluxes and neutrino-nucleon cross sections, as well as a better control over systematics. Understanding of atmospheric neutrinos is essential to estimate background for diffuse supernova neutrinos, proton decay, future dark matter direct/indirect detection experiments, and high-energy cosmic neutrinos. The goal of this workshop is to further explore physics potential of atmospheric neutrinos and support the physics case of new experiments on atmospheric neutrinos. We plan to bring together leading experts in both theory and experiment as well as young researchers to assess the state-of-the-art knowledge in this field and to foster further theoretical, phenomenological, and experimental studies in atmospheric neutrino physics. The programme will be mainly composed of the invited talks. Some time will be allocated for the oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts. It will be possible to display posters during whole time of the workshop. Papers which will not be selected for oral presentations can be presented as posters. Ample time will be given for discussion. List of Topics: Results from atmospheric neutrino experiments Analysis of the data and treatment of systematics Cosmic ray fluxes at all energies Neutrino-nucleon and neutrino-nucleus interactions Computation of atmospheric neutrino fluxes Prompt atmospheric neutrinos Oscillations and absorption of neutrinos in the Earth Neutrino tomography of the Earth Determination of mixing angles, mass hierarchy, and CP-phase Searches for sterile neutrinos Searches for non-standard neutrino interactions Tests of fundamental symmetries Future experiments with atmospheric neutrinos Solar atmospheric neutrinos Atmospheric neutrinos as a background for diffuse supernova neutrinos, proton decay, dark matter searches Atmospheric neutrinos and cosmic neutrinos Synergy/Complementarity among atmospheric and LBL experiments Scientific Advisory Committee: John F. Beacom (Ohio State University) Paschal A. Coyle (CPPM, Marseille) Amol S. Dighe (TIFR, Mumbai) Thomas K. Gaisser (University of Delaware) Francis L. Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Takaaki Kajita (ICRR, University of Tokyo) Edward T. Kearns (Boston University) Eligio Lisi (INFN, Bari) John G. Learned (University of Hawai'i) Naba Kumar Mondal (SINP, Kolkata) Michele Maltoni (IFT, Madrid) Orlando L. G. Peres (Campinas State University) Ina Sarcevic (University of Arizona) Walter Winter (DESY, Zeuthen) The Programme is Preliminary and some minor changes are possible. Invited Speakers do not need to apply online. There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

28 May 2018 - 1 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Advanced Workshop on Physics of Atmospheric Neutrinos - PANE 2018 | (smr 3207)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla (IOP, Bhubaneswar), Bhupal Dev (Washington University), Antonio Palazzo (University of Bari & INFN), Alexei Smirnov (MPIK Heidelberg & ICTP), Local Organiser: Atish Dabholkar

Cosponsor(s): the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)INFN

Support E-Mail: smr3207@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/04/2018**

Europe/Rome The ICTP regional climate modeling system RegCM4 is currently participating to the CORDEX-CORE initiative, which entails the completion of a new set of downscaled climate projections over most CORDEX domains for two greenhouse gas concentration scenarios (RCP8.5 and RCP2.6) at a horizontal grid spacing of 25 km. These projections are being completed at ICTP as well as other laboratories using the RegCM4 model, as a community effort aimed at producing climate information usable for impact assessment studies and contributing to the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is expected that by the date of the workshop a number of new projections will have been completed for multiple domains, and therefore the workshop will be an optimal venue to analyze these projections and exchange experience across different domains and regions. As in previous workshops of this series, this event will 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. The focus of the present workshop will be on the analysis and interpretation of the output of regional model projections, addressing issues such as : assessment of model performance, performance metrics a and model systematic errors, identification and quantification of added value, study of phenomena relevant to different regions, uncertainty in projections and their dependence on model biases. The workshop will also provide a forum to discuss the production of scientific publications by the RegCM user community participating to the CORDEX-CORE effort, particularly in view of relevant IPCC deadlines. Experience with the RegCM modeling system and with the analysis of regional model output is an important requirement for participation. The workshop is intended for scientists and graduate students working in the areas of Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics, Climatology, Oceanography, Physics and Mathematics. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

28 May 2018 - 8 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

Ninth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models | (smr 3208)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Filippo Giorgi (ICTP, Italy), Erika Coppola (ICTP, Italy), Marta Llopart (UNESP, Brazil), Mouhamadou B. Sylla (WASCAL, Burkina Faso),

**DEADLINE: extended to 23/02/2018** **DEADLINE: 23/02/2018**

Seminar

29 May 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

Speaker(s): Jeremie BOUTTIER (IPhT Saclay/ENS Lyon, France)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

1 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Dave SUTHERLAND (University of Santa Barbara, California)

-- Please note unusual time and venue!! --

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: Tensors are fundamental objects in multilinear algebra, with important applications to the complexity of matrix multiplication, signal processing, phylogenetics and algebraic statistics. In applications, one generally looks for minimal decomposition of tensors as linear combinations of undecomposable tensors. The smallest integer r needed to write a tensor T as a linear combination of r undecomposable tensors is called the rank of T. Determining the rank of a tensor is a problem that has received much attention in recent years, and has a nice geometric interpretation. In this talk I will explain some applications of tensors decomposition and interpret the problem from the point of view of algebraic geometry. In particular, I will present new results about ranks of tensors, in collaboration with Alex Massarenti and Rick Rischter. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

1 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

BASIC NOTIONS SEMINAR: The Geometry of Tensors

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Carolina Araujo (IMPA)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome NOTICE TO PARTICIPANTS While a detaliled programme of the School will be posted at a later stage, please be informed that foreseen daily schedule is Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is recommended that participants invited through selection process plan their trip so to arrive in Trieste the day before the School starts, and stay until the day after it ends, to secure continous attendance. * * * The School aims at introducing students both to the basic ideas and to the most recent breakthroughs in the field of extrinsic curvature flows, a fundamental research direction at the intersection of Analysis and Geometry, with deep connections to the theories of minimal surfaces and of diffusive partial differential equations. Extrinsic flows have important applications to the geometry of submanifolds, as their study provides an effective strategy for obtaining topological classification results and for proving sharp geometric inequalities. In a broader context, extrinsic flows arise in describing the dynamics of interfaces in physical and biological sciences, a fact that provides a strong scientific motivation for their mathematical inquiry. Virtually all the different approaches to mean curvature flows will be accounted for, with particular emphasis on the fundamental problem of singularities formation. A major goal of the School will indeed be putting the best students in the position of understanding the many open problems in the field. PRELIMINARY LIST OF LECTURERS S. Angenent, University of Wisconsin-Madison P. Daskalopoulos, Columbia University G. Huisken, Universität Tübingen C. Mantegazza, Università di Napoli Federico II F. Otto, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences C. Sinestrari, Università di Roma Tor Vergata T. Souganidis, University of Chicago Y. Tonegawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology Interested candidates should apply online (see link "Apply here" on the left-hand menu). * DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: EXPIRED * -------------------------------------------------------------- Organised in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute -------------------------------------------------------------- ICTP Secretariat contact: smr3209@ictp.it ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

4 Jun 2018 - 15 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

International School on Extrinsic Curvature Flows | (smr 3209)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Giovanni Bellettini (University of Siena & ICTP), Francesco Maggi (University of Texas at Austin), Carlo Sinestrari (Tor Vergata Roma University), Local Organiser: Claudio Arezzo

Cosponsor(s): Clay Mathematics Institutecmi

**DEADLINE: 08/03/2018**

Europe/Rome The Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable development will provide training on selected open modelling tools for sustainable development pathways. The Summer School involves four weeks of intensive training for government officials from countries participating in, amongst others, UNDESA, UNDP, World Bank Group and related capacity development projects on modelling tools. It will also engage academics and researchers working in the field of sustainable development whose institutions will become regional centres of excellence. As one of several entry points analysts will be exposed to geospatial electricity access (using the OnSSET.org tool) as well as medium to long term energy investment modelling (using the OSeMOSYS.org tool). Participants will then extend this to include integrated Climate-, Land-, Energy- and Water- system (using the OsiMOSYS.org) modelling. The latter will investigate the benefits of resource policy coherence. During the first week of training steering committee meetings of experts dedicated to the development of these tools will also be held (in parallel to the training). The same experts will be involved in introductory presentations. The RGCM and SPEEDY climate models of the ICTP will also be introduced in the first week. During the second to the third week participants will deepen their modelling skills so that they can operate and enhance their national models independently, incorporate new and evolving policy issues and contribute to the practice of providing rigorous evidence for decision making on national sustainable development policies. In the fourth week, presentations (by participants) will be made to high level policy makers. This will be followed by a one day high level policy discussion. The workshop will culminate with an exercise by trainers, trainees, academics, funders and others to enhance the efficacy of global capacity building for sustainability. Participation in the event will be primarily by invitation only. However, limited spaces are available for self-funded participants. The self-funded applicants are limited to academics, researchers and graduate students working on related fields, preferably working in (or with developing countries). The self-funded participants must be from a university that plans to implement teaching activities using OSeMOSYS.org, OnSSET.org or OSiMOSYS.org. A letter of commitment should be obtained from the appropriate person responsible - and submitted with the application. (Note that all teaching material from the course, can be used for the course. There are online discussion fora. Also, note that all software is free and open source.) Applications will be evaluated by the selection committee based on the following criteria: i) Relevance of their academic background to the research field(s) of the Summer School, ii) Excellent language skills iii) Clear potential and ambition to contribute to the adoption of related teaching and training in developing country institutions. The program is open for applications from all countries. Visa support may be provided. Self-funded participants will be required to bring their own laptops with windows 10 installed and full administrator rights. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

4 Jun 2018 - 29 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

The Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development - OpTIMUS | (smr 3210)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Pandora Malchose

Organizer(s): Mark Howells (KTH), Local Organiser: Adrian Tompkins

Cosponsor(s): University of Cambridgecambridge, The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg4, UNDPundp2, UNDESAundesa1, KTHkth2, The World Bankwbank1, OpTIMUSoptimus1, DFIDdfid

**DEADLINE: 26/03/2018**

Europe/Rome Abstract. Localization techniques have proven to be a powerful and invaluable tool for obtaining exact results in rigidly supersymmetric theories. In this talk, we will discuss how this framework can be used in the study of locally supersymmetric theories, i.e. in supergravity. We will discuss the BRST quantization of supergravity theories on spaces with an asymptotic boundary via a suitable background field formalism. When the background is restricted to have a residual isometry group, an equivariant BRST algebra arises as a deformation of the standard nilpotent BRST algebra. This equivariant algebra can then be used to localize supersymmetric partition functions or expectation values. As an illustration of this general formalism, we will revisit the derivation of the exact entropy of certain asymptotically flat BPS black holes in the Quantum Entropy Function formalism. We will also present recent results for the exact entropy of asymptotically AdS BPS black holes and compare with exact results previously obtained in the dual CFT. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

5 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Localization in supergravity: theory and applications

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Valentin REYS (University of Milano, Bicocca)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

7 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Sanjib Kumar AGARWALLA (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome The Conference will address the physics of disordered quantum many-body systems, with an emphasis on quantum dynamics of systems that are under active experimental investigation. The focus will be on the fundamental physics exhibited by novel systems and on emerging phenomena. Description Quantum dynamics of disordered many-body systems remains a vibrant research area. In particular, recent years have witnessed an outstanding interest in Anderson localization, one of most fundamental and ubiquitous phenomena in modern condensed matter physics in the many-body setting. Experimentally, it has become possible to explore the remarkably rich interplay of interaction and localization phenomena in a variety of quantum many-body systems. Concepts of quantum information theory, such as entanglement entropy and spectra, play a prominent role in the characterization of phases of strongly interacting disordered matter. The interplay of disorder and interaction effects becomes particularly intricate in systems with non-trivial topology, such as surfaces and edges of topological insulators. The Conference will bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss recent progress and future perspectives. Topics Disordered quantum many-body systems, including cold atoms in magneto-optical traps, disordered semiconductors, electron glasses in amorphous systems, graphene, topological insulators, disordered superconducting lms and wires, and various implementations of quantum circuits; Many-body localization; Periodically driven systems, time crystals; Quantum information and entanglement; Topological phases; Transport in disordered interacting systems; Superconductor-insulator transitions; Disordered bosons, super uid-Bose glass transitions; Quantum quenches, far-from-equilibrium phenomena. List of Speakers John Bollinger (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Piet Brouwer (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Eugene Demler (Harvard University, USA) Jens Eisert Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Rosario Fazio (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Leonid Glazman (Yale University, USA) Igor Gornyi (KIT Karlsruhe, Germany) Moty Heiblum (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Vedika Khemani (Harvard University, USA) Curt von Keyserlingk (Univ. Birmingham, UK) Nicolas Laflorencie (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) Leonid Levitov (MIT, USA) Netanel Lindner (Technion, Israel) Mikhail Lukin (Harvard University, USA) Giovanni Modugno (UniFI, Florence, Italy) Laurens Molenkamp (University of Würzburg, Germany) Joel Moore (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Markus Müller (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland) Yuval Oreg (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Guido Pagano (Univ. of Maryland, USA) Frederic Pierre (CNRS / Université Paris-Sud, France) Frank Pollmann (Technische Universität München, Germany) Ivan Protopopov (Geneva, Switzerland) Gil Refael (Caltech, USA) Jörg Schmiedmayer (Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria) Dan Shahar (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Lieven Vandersypen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Ali Yazdani (Princeton University, USA) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

11 Jun 2018 - 15 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Quantum Dynamics of Disordered Interacting Systems | (smr 3212)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

Organizer(s): Alexander Mirlin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Felix von Oppen (Freie Universität Berlin), Local Organiser: Marcello Dalmonte

**DEADLINE: 12/02/2018**

Seminar

12 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Ryosuke SATO (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

14 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Francesco RIVA (CERN)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome In 2018, Run II of the LHC will be well under way, and it will be important to assess what has been learned, as well as to discuss the directions in which the field might move in the near-term and medium-term future. The school will therefore be largely focused on LHC Physics, but without forgetting other areas that can give complementary information regarding the nature of the physics at the TeV scale. Following the tradition of the Summer Schools on Particle Physics at the ICTP in Trieste, the school aims at giving a detailed overview of particle physics, and covering important areas where recent progress has been made in the field. We will have at most three lectures per day, giving ample time for discussion and problem solving by the students. We will also encourage students to give short presentations on their research. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses. <div class="tabcontent responsive-tabs__panel responsive-tabs__panel--active" id="tablist1-panel2" role="tabpanel" style="display: block;"> First week: Lectures on the Standard Model: Benjamin Grinstein (UCSD, USA) Practical QCD at Colliders: Giulia Zanderighi (University of Oxford, UK) Particle Physics and the Early Universe: Laura Covi (Institute for Theoretical Physics – Göttingen, Germany) Second week: Lectures on Beyond the Standard Model Physics: Alex Pomarol (IFAE, Spain) Dark Matter and Particle Physics: Paddy Fox (FERMILAB, USA) Experimental Elements for Theorists: A Roadmap to the Future: Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia University, USA) The link to the activity webpage for registration and further information is: http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=16149 Sao Paulo - Brazil ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

18 Jun 2018 - 29 Jun 2018

@ Sao Paulo - Brazil

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

1st Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Particle Physics | (smr 3220)

Address: Rua Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz 271, Bloco 2 - Barra Funda 01140-070 Sao Paulo, Brazil

Secretary: Rosanna Sain

Organizer(s): Enrico Bertuzzo (USP, Brazil), Eduardo Ponton (ICTP-SAIFR & IFT-UNESP, Brazil), Andrea Romanino (SISSA/ISAS, INFN & ICTP, Trieste), ICTP Scientific Contact: Giovanni Villadoro

Cosponsor(s): FAPESPfapesp, UNESPunesp, IFT

Activity

18 Jun 2018 - 20 Jun 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

FAMU 2018, ourth collaboration meeting of the experiment | (smr H554)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): Prof. Andrea Vacchi, INFN,

Europe/Rome The purpose of the School is to provide an introduction to the current state of research in cosmology and astroparticle physics. It is intended for beginning graduate students, as well as more senior non-expert researchers that are interested in these fields. TOPICS & LECTURERS: CMB, E. Komatsu (MPA, Garching & Kavli IPMU, Tokyo) DARK ENERGY, C. De Rham (Imperial College) DARK MATTER, F. D'Eramo (Padua University) GRAVITATIONAL WAVES I, S. Babak (APC, Paris) GRAVITATIONAL WAVES II, V. Cardoso (Lisboa University) INFLATION, M. Kleban (NYU) LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE I, R. Sheth (UPenn) LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE II, L. Senatore (Stanford University and SLAC) *** The deadline for requesting funding was 4 April 2018. Should you still wish to request participation without funding (and don't need a visa to enter Italy), please click on "Apply here". Please do so by 15 May 2018. *** NOTE: The School will be followed by a 'Conference on Shedding Light on the Dark Universe with Extremely Large Telescopes' (smr3218, 2 - 6 July). There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

18 Jun 2018 - 29 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Cosmology , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Summer School on Cosmology 2018 | (smr 3213)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Paolo Creminelli (ICTP), Mehrdad Mirbabayi (ICTP), Ravi Sheth (UPenn),

Cosponsor(s): the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)INFN

Support E-Mail: smr3213@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 04/04/2018**

Europe/Rome Moduli spaces of stable pointed curves play an important role in algebraic geometry. This School will have one course on vector bundles of coinvariants and on conformal blocks and another one on their cohomology classes in relation with those of moduli of abelian varieties. The cohomology of moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties carries several natural classes. We focus on the tautological classes and the cohomology classes related to spaces of modular forms. The problem of determining relationships between the tautological classes turns out to be particularly interesting. Moduli spaces of curves carry vector bundles of coinvariants and conformal blocks; they are invariants of a curve C attached to a Lie group G that are canonically isomorphic to global sections of an ample line bundle on the moduli stack of certain G-bundles on C. These are generalized theta functions in case C is smooth. In case g=0, the bundles of co-invariants are globally generated, and their first Chern classes are semi-ample line bundles on the moduli of curves, and shed light on its birational geometry. We can also use the moduli space of curves to learn about generalized theta functions. TOPICS: Cohomology classes on moduli of curves and abelian varieties moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties properties of the moduli spaces and their compactifications natural cohomology classes and their relations tautological classes and cohomology classes related to spaces of modular forms Vector bundles of coinvariants and conformal blocks introduction to moduli spaces of curves open problems and F-conjecture vector bundles of coinvariants and conformal blocks case g=0: global generation and semi-ample divisors any genus: nef divisors Chern classes of bundles of coinvariants Global sections of ample line bundles on Bun_G(C): smooth and nodal case PARTICIPATION: Women are particularly encouraged to apply. Should you come to Trieste with your child(ren), please send an e-mail to smr3215@ictp.it to describe your family needs and we will do our best to meet them. 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. To apply, please use the link on the left side of this web page. The deadline for submitting applications expired on 15 March 2018. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

18 Jun 2018 - 22 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Summer School on Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Curves | (smr 3215)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Margherita Di Giovannantonio

Organizer(s): Valentina Beorchia (Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Trieste), Ada Boralevi (Politecnico di Torino), Barbara Fantechi (SISSA, Trieste), Local Organiser: Fernando Rodriguez Villegas

Cosponsor(s): SISSAsissa, GNSAGA INdAMgnsaga, Foundation Compositio Mathematicafcm

**DEADLINE: 15/03/2018**

Seminar

19 Jun 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 263, room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

Speaker(s): P. de BUYL (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Activity

25 Jun 2018 - 6 Jul 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

Advanced Training School on Sustainable Blue Growth in the Mediterranean and Black Sea countries | (smr H549)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Dr. Mounir Ghribi, Director, Sustainable Blue Growth Initiative In-Charge of International Cooperation and Strategic Partnerships,

Europe/Rome The climate community is still faced with large uncertainties in estimating possible climate changes in the next decades and quantifying the relative role of anthropogenic contribution to climate change. Although most modern climate models are able to reproduce reasonably well global climatologies and patterns of interannual variations, they still struggle with pervasive biases and the representation of some of the climate phenomena involving the interaction and coupling between the atmosphere, the ocean and the cryosphere. The problem is compounded by the limited understanding of some of the physical mechanisms giving rise to both our present mean climate and its natural variability at different time scales. One possible way forward is the use of a hierarchy of models to tackle the most pressing questions in climate dynamics and modeling. Key among them, is whether the climate is stable, or whether internal feedbacks could lead to tipping points, abrupt changes, and transitions to fundamentally different equilibria. Changes in the oceanic overturning, ice-albedo effects, land-surface and vegetation coupling to the atmosphere, and radiative-convective properties of the atmosphere have all been suggested as possible causes of instability in the climate system. Advances in our understanding, quantification, and modelling of these processes are necessary both for the interpretation of the paleoclimate record and for the projection of possible future climate states. A variety of studies have found that multiple equilibria exist both in highly idealized and more comprehensive models of the climate system. Whether multiple equilibria do exist in state-of-the-art climate models is still a subject of controversy. A fundamental understanding of key processes within a hierarchical modeling framework will eventually translate into a better representation and simulation within state-of-the-art climate models, as it brings new insights for process-based evaluation of climate model reliability and fit for purpose. The use of hierarchies additionally promotes the use of standardized performance metrics and highlights instances when post-processing approaches (e.g. bias correction) or diverse model tuning practices should be explored. The school will be based on lectures on theoretical aspects of atmosphere, ocean and climate dynamics, with a focus on the present state of established knowledge and relevant mechanisms. The topic of the school, Multiple Equilibra in the Climate System, will be the subject of afternoon lectures, giving an overview of the most recent progress and hypotheses suggesting the existence of multiple equilibrium states, and consequences for past and future climates. Afternoons will also be devoted to practical sessions, involving the use of simplified climate models and analysis of relevant data sets. The school will be followed by the workshop WCRP Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity: 2nd Meeting on Monsoons and Tropical Rain Belts , SMR3252, 2 - 5 July 2018, go to link http://indico.ictp.it/event/8457/ Confirmed speakers: Simona Bordoni, CalTech, USA David Ferreira, Reading U., UK In-Sik Kang, SNU, Republic of Korea John Marshall, MIT, USA Franco Molteni, ECMWF, UK Brian Rose, U. Albany, USA Stephen Thomson, U. exeter, UK Adrian M. Tompkins, ICTP, Italy Geoff K. Vallis, U. Exeter, UK Shang-Ping Xie, SCRIPPS, USA ATTENTION: APPLICATION HERE IS FOR BOTH SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP, DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2018 SHOULD YOU WISH TO APPLY TO THE WORKSHOP ONLY, PLEASE VISIT THE RELEVANT PAGE http://indico.ictp.it/event/8457/ AND APPLY THERE ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

25 Jun 2018 - 5 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

ICTP Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Multiple Equilibria in the Climate System | (smr 3214)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Fred Kucharski (ICTP), Anna Pirani (Universite' Paris-Saclay), Adrian Tompkins (ICTP), Michela Biasutti (Columbia University), Aiko Voigt (KIT), Riccardo Farneti (ICTP),

Cosponsor(s): US Climate Variability and Predictability Programmeusclivar2, European Geosciences Unionegu, The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg4

**DEADLINE: 01/03/2018**

Activity

25 Jun 2018 - 13 Jul 2018

@ - Namibia

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

The 5th Biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications | (smr 3216)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

Organizer(s): Mweneni Shahungu (National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia), Rukee Tjingaete (Namibian University of Science and Technology), Maxie van derWesthuizen (National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia), Bobby S. Acharya (ICTP and King's College London), Ketevi A. Assamagan (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Steve Muanza (CNRS-IN2P3 France), Christine Darve (European Spallation Source, Sweden), Anne Dabrowski (CERN), Ruediger Voss (CERN), Eli Kassai (University of Namibia), Michael Backes (University of Namibia), Riann Steenkamp (University of Namibia), Andrew Zulu (Namibian University of Science and Technology), Dharm Singh Jat (Namibian University of Science and Technology), Emmi N. Shivute (Ministry of Information and Communication Technology), Angelique Philander (National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia), Generosa Simon (National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia), Johannes Ndjamba (National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia), Albanus Sindano (National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia), ICTP Scientific Contact: Bobby Acharya

**DEADLINE: 31/01/2018**

Europe/Rome The 2017 ICTP Prize Ceremony takes place on Friday 29 June 2018 at 15.30 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall, and takes place during the Summer School on Cosmology 2018 (smr 3213). ICTP has awarded its 2017 ICTP Prize to Emilio Kropff, a neuroscientist from Argentina affiliated with that country’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council’s (CONICET) Instituto de Investigeciones Bioquimicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA), Leloir Institute. Each year, the ICTP Prize is given in honor of a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the field in which the prize is given. The 2017 ICTP Prize honors Daniel J. Amit, a theoretical physicist who pioneered statistical mechanics approaches to neural networks and was one of the founding fathers of modern theoretical and computational neuroscience. For more information on the Prize Winner, see: https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-ictp-prize/the-prize-winners/ictp-prize-winner-2017.aspx ICTP, Trieste, Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Ceremony

29 Jun 2018

@ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

2017 ICTP Prize Ceremony

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Dr. Emilio Kropff, National Scientific and Technical Research Council’s (CONICET) Instituto de Investigeciones Bioquimicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA), Argentina

More information will follow. The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the ICTP website.

Europe/Rome Preliminary programme under: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8457/material/0/ The Workshop follows the ICTP Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Multiple Equilibria in the Climate System. Reliable projections of tropical rainfall changes are key to any climate adaption efforts in a warming world. Yet, our global climate models are a subpar tool for the task: their spatial resolution is too coarse to reproduce the deep convection that produces most rainfall in the tropics, and current parametrizations are inadequate – as signified by persistent biases in the simulation of the annual and diurnal cycles of rainfall in large areas of the oceans and continents, as well as the response to forcing of the past. Nonetheless, tropical rainfall is organized in the large-scale structures of the monsoons and the ITCZ whose dynamics are shaped by large-scale energetic and momentum constraints that involve the global circulation of both the ocean and the atmosphere. This suggests that building a coherent understanding of tropical rainfall can benefit from an understanding of these large-scale influences and their coupling with small scale cloud and precipitation processes. Making this link across scales to improve our understanding and our ability to anticipate future tropical rainfall changes is a key question in climate science. The workshop, building on the knowledge and practical skills acquired during the school, aims to bring together expertise on large-scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, small scale cloud and precipitation processes, hierarchical climate modeling and observation. The aim is to both review recent progress on tropical rainfall dynamics and to identify areas where progress is most amenable in the future given the existing and emerging modelling tools and theoretical frameworks. For the ICTP Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Multiple Equilibria in the Climate System, 25 June - 5 July 2018, go to link: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8318/ Confirmed speakers: William Boos, U.Cal Berkeley, USA Christian Jakob, Monash U., Australia John Marshall, MIT, USA Mahyar Mohtadi , Marum, Bremen, Germany Sonia Seneviratne, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Hui Su, JPL, USA Andrew Turner, U. Reading, UK Tianjun Zhou, IAP China ATTENTION: THE APPLICATION HERE IS FOR THE 2nd WEEK WORKSHOP ONLY. DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2018 SHOULD YOU WISH TO ATTEND THE SCHOOL, PLEASE VISIT THE RELEVANT PAGE http://indico.ictp.it/event/8318/ AND APPLY THERE APPLICANTS WHO HAVE ALREADY APPLIED FOR THE SCHOOl ARE NOT REQUESTED TO APPLY AGAIN FOR THE WORKSHOP ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Jul 2018 - 5 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

WCRP Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity: 2nd Meeting on Monsoons and Tropical Rain Belts | (smr 3252)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: ex-SISSA Main Auditorium

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Fred Kucharski (ICTP), Anna Pirani (Universite' Paris-Saclay), Adrian Tompkins (ICTP), Michela Biasutti (Columbia University), Aiko Voigt (KIT), Mike Byrne (Imperial College), Riccardo Farneti (ICTP),

Cosponsor(s): US Climate Variability and Predictability Programmeusclivar2, European Geosciences Unionegu, The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg4, World Climate Research Programmewcrp

**DEADLINE: 01/03/2018**

Europe/Rome This Conference will bring together an international group of experts to review the current state of the art in the study of dark energy and dark matter and discuss how best to use giant telescopes to learn about their fundamental nature. It is the third of a series of three conferences: more information can be found at https://conferences.pa.ucla.edu/dark-universe/index.html Invited Speakers include: Mariangela Bernardi (UPenn) Rebecca A. Bernstein (The Carnegie Observatories) Stefano Borgani (Trieste Observatory) Marusa Bradac (UCDavis) Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (TIFR) Michele Cirasuolo (European Southern Observatory) Frédéric Courbin (LASTRO EPFL) * Stefano Cristiani (Trieste Observatory) Arianna di Cintio (U. of Copenhagen) Eleonora Di Valentino (U. of Manchester) Christophe J. Dumas (TMT International Observatory) Stefan Gillessen (MPE Garching) Isobel M. Hook (Lancaster U.) Jean Paul Kneib (LASTRO EPFL) Lucas Macri (Texas A&M U.) John McKean (ASTRON/Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) Yannick Mellier (IAP) Stefano Profumo (UCSC) Piero Rosati (UNIFE) Robyn Sanderson (Caltech) Anze Slosar (Brookhaven) Tommaso Treu (UCLA) Simona Vegetti (MPA, Garching) Matteo Viel (SISSA) Mark Vogelsberger (MIT) Anja von der Linden (Stony Brook) * John K. Webb (U. of New South Wales) Beth Willman (LSST) * * to be confirmed NOTE: The Conference will be preceded by the Summer School on Cosmology 2018 (smr3213, 18 - 29 June). Invited Speakers do not need to apply online. There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Jul 2018 - 6 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Cosmology , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Conference on Shedding Light on the Dark Universe with Extremely Large Telescopes | (smr 3218)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Mariangela Bernardi (UPenn), Stefano Borgani (Trieste Observatory), Paolo Creminelli (ICTP), Romeel Davè (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh), Anjan A. Sen (Jamia Millia Islamia, India), Ravi Sheth (UPenn), Tommaso Treu (UCLA), Simona Vegetti (MPA, Garching), Matteo Viel (SISSA),

Cosponsor(s): the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)INFN

Support E-Mail: smr3218@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 30/04/2018**

Europe/Rome The AdS/CFT correspondence conjectures an exact equivalence between string theories in anti-de-Sitter space and gauge theories. This correspondence and its generalizations allow one to address difficult problems of strongly coupled field theory dynamics - such as the computation of Wilson loops - using weakly coupled gravity. The other way around, it also allows one to tackle fundamental questions of gravity - such as the quantum entropy of black holes - using field theoretic methods. A very important theoretical development of the last decade has been the advent of exact results in supersymmetric field theories using the methods of localization. These methods often reduce path-integrals to finite-dimensional integrals, which in many situations can be computed exactly. Being exact, localization results are most fruitfully applied at strong coupling, and thus provide a powerful framework for producing and exploiting AdS/CFT results. In particular, the interplay of localization and the AdS/CFT correspondence provides a fertile ground to answer precise questions about the entropy of string theoretic black holes and the expectation values of Wilson loops. This School aims to provide the necessary knowledge to work at the interface of supersymmetric localization and holography, through a series of pedagogical lectures by individual speakers. The activity is intended for students in theoretical physics or mathematics and postdocs with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity and string theory. TOPICS: Supersymmetric localization 4D N=2 supergravity AdS black hole entropy Localization in supergravity Wilson loops Quantum entropy of black holes LECTURERS include: Stefano CREMONESI (Durham University) Sameer MURTHY (King's College London) Ioannis N. PAPADIMITRIOU (KIAS) Diego TRANCANELLI (University of São Paulo) Stefan VANDOREN (Utrecht University) Joao M. VIEIRA GOMES (University of Amsterdam) Alberto ZAFFARONI (Milano-Bicocca) The School will be followed by a focused Workshop on Supersymmetric Localization and Holography: Black Hole Entropy and Wilson Loops (smr3227) from 9 to 13 July (http://indico.ictp.it/event/8326), with the goal of bringing together experts in the areas of localization and holography, to provide cross fertilization and outline key directions for the future. There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Jul 2018 - 7 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

School on Supersymmetric Localization, Holography and Related Topics | (smr 3256)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Francesco BENINI (SISSA), Atish DABHOLKAR (ICTP & Sorbonne Université, CNRS), Sameer MURTHY (King's College London), Leopoldo PANDO ZAYAS (University of Michigan), Alberto ZAFFARONI (Milano-Bicocca),

Cosponsor(s): European Research Council (ERC)ERC, Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)INFN, Scientific Independence of young Researchers (SIR)SIR2

Support E-Mail: smr3227@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 30/04/2018**

Seminar

3 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Kfir BLUM (CERN/Wiezman Institute)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome This is a three-week school and workshop on homological methods in algebra and geometry. The first two weeks will be a school for students from East Africa and beyond. International and African researchers will join for a workshop in the third week. The school begins with two introductory courses on some basic techniques that are widely used in the area. These are then built upon in the second week with slightly more advanced topics. The goal here is to give the participants a glimpse into some ideas used in algebraic geometry and homological algebra with the hope of inspiring them to pursue further research in a related topic. The school is intended for advanced graduate students (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) and young academic staff members from East Africa and beyond. Senior academic members are also welcome to participate. In the last week, the activity turns into a research focus-session involving international and African experts. The focus-session will study tensor categories and how they arise naturally in algebraic geometry with the aim of exploiting them using homological algebra. School Website: eaumpictp2018.weebly.com School Topics: Advanced linear algebra Galois theory Elementary algebraic geometry Introduction to homological algebra Workshop topic: Tensor categories of coherent sheaves Organizers: Tarig Abdelgadir (UNSW Sydney) Ulrich Krähmer (TU Dresden) Sylvester Rugeihyamu (Dar Es Salaam) David Ssevviiri (Makerere) Balázs Szendrői (Oxford) Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (ICTP) School speakers: Ravi Ramakrishna (Cornell) David Ssevviiri (Makerere) Chelsea Walton* (Temple) Paul Wedrich (ANU Canberra) Michael Wemyss* (Glasgow) Workshop speakers: Raf Bocklandt (Amsterdam) John Boiquaye (Accra) Andre Saint-Eudes Mialebama Bouesso (AIMS-South Africa) Alexandru Chirvasitu (Boulder) Joshua Greene* (Boston College) Pinhas Grossman (UNSW Sydney) Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo) Shinnosuke Okawa* (Osaka) Sue Sierra (Edinburgh) Hermann Sore (Burkina Faso) Angela Tabiri (Glasgow) Ralph Twum (Accra) * to be confirmed ICTP Scientific Contact: L. GOETTSCHE (ICTP) Application is open to all mathematicians and graduate students from developing countries. Applicants from EAUMP member states will be given priority. We encourage participants to secure their own funding for travel and subsistence from their home institution. Limited funds are available for participants from Sub- Saharan African Countries. There is no registration fee. Deadline: 1st of April 2018 Activity e-mail: smr3219@ictp.it Dar-es-Salaam - United Republic of Tanzania ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Jul 2018 - 28 Jul 2018

@ Dar-es-Salaam - United Republic of Tanzania

Mathematics

EAUMP-ICTP School and Workshop on Homological Methods in Algebra and Geometry II | (smr 3219)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

Organizer(s): Tarig Abdelgadir (UNSW Sydney), Ulrich Kraehmer (TU Dresden), Eunice Mureithi (University of Dar-es-Salaam), Mark Roberts (AIMS Tanzania), Balazs Szendroi (University of Oxford), ICTP Scientific Contact: Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, Lothar Göttsche

Cosponsor(s): EAUMPeaump, London Mathematical Societylns, CIMPAcimpa2, Foundation Compositio Mathematicafcm

**DEADLINE: 01/04/2018**

Europe/Rome Aim of the workshop The workshop on the emerging field of biological operations research – the application of operations research methodologies in systems and molecular cell biology – is designed to bring together participants and lecturers versed in either of the two disciplines that are eager to further uncover the deep connections between the two fields and find new avenues for research and collaboration while gaining new insight on biological functions from an operational and system perspective. The long-term goal of the workshop is to boost research and collaboration in this field, by acquainting researchers with the existing long-standing problems in system biology, molecular cell biology and bacterial physiology. We will explore the deep connections between these problems and those that arise in operations research, e.g. the question of regulation of mass production in an uncertain market, dynamic resource allocation, scheduling problems and the impact of different queuing disciplines of speed and efficiency of a complex production facility. Researchers will have a chance to exchange ideas and compare different methodologies and modes of thinking about operational parameters such as throughput, efficiency, resource allocation, reliability, redundancy, and cost in a novel biological context. Topics Scheduling and queuing disciplines – from circadian rhythms to pipelining of self-replication Allocation of resources to self-replication vs. maintenance Transcription and translation regulation, role of external and internal information Controlling WIP (work-in-progress) – Kanban, TOC, and CONWIP vs. product feedback inhibition Anticipatory systems and their reverse engineering Metabolic networks and queuing theory Bullwhip effect and the role of inventory control, forecasting and information Modern queuing theory Self-regulating and resource dependent branching processes ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Jul 2018 - 14 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Workshop on Operations Research of Biological Systems | (smr 3223)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Suckjoon Jun (UC San Diego, USA), Rami Pugatch (ICTP), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Europe/Rome The AdS/CFT correspondence conjectures an exact equivalence between string theories in anti-de-Sitter space and gauge theories. This correspondence and its generalizations allow one to address difficult problems of strongly coupled field theory dynamics - such as the computation of Wilson loops - using weakly coupled gravity. The other way around, it also allows one to tackle fundamental questions of gravity - such as the quantum entropy of black holes - using field theoretic methods. A very important theoretical development of the last decade has been the advent of exact results in supersymmetric field theories using the methods of localization. These methods often reduce path-integrals to finite-dimensional integrals, which in many situations can be computed exactly. Being exact, localization results are most fruitfully applied at strong coupling, and thus provide a powerful framework for producing and exploiting AdS/CFT results. In particular, the interplay of localization and the AdS/CFT correspondence provides a fertile ground to answer precise questions about the entropy of string theoretic black holes and the expectation values of Wilson loops. This Workshop aims to bring together experts in the areas of supersymmetric localization and holography, to provide cross fertilization and outline key directions for the future. INVITED SPEAKERS include: Nikolay BOBEV (KU Leuven) Cyril N. CLOSSET (CERN) Justin R. DAVID (IISc Bangalore) Bernard de WIT (Utrecht University) Nadav DRUKKER (King's College London) Rajesh GUPTA (King's College London) Kiril HRISTOV (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Camillo IMBIMBO (INFN Genova) Imtak JEON (Harish-Chandra Research Institute) Dietmar KLEMM (INFN Milano) James LIU (University of Michigan) Dario MARTELLI (King's College London) Kumar S. NARAIN (ICTP) Nikita NEKRASOV (SCGP Stony Brook) Ioannis N. PAPADIMITRIOU (KIAS) Soo-Jong REY (Seoul National University) Valentin REYS (Milano-Bicocca) Guillermo A. SILVA (National University of La Plata) Konstantinos SKENDERIS (University of Southampton) James SPARKS (University of Oxford) Chiara TOLDO (UC Santa Barbara) Cumrum VAFA (Harvard University) Brian WILLETT (UC Santa Barbara) Itamar YAAKOV (Kavli IPMU) Maxim ZABZINE (Uppsala University) The Workshop will be preceded by a School on Supersymmetric Localization, Holography and Related Topics (smr3256) from 2 to 7 July (http://indico.ictp.it/event/8560), with the goal of providing the necessary basic knowledge through a series of pedagogical lectures by individual speakers. The activity is intended for students in theoretical physics or mathematics and postdocs with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity and string theory. Invited Speakers don't need to apply online. There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Jul 2018 - 13 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Workshop on Supersymmetric Localization and Holography: Black Hole Entropy and Wilson Loops | (smr 3227)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Cosponsor(s): European Research Council (ERC)ERC, Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)INFN, Scientific Independence of young Researchers (SIR)SIR2

Support E-Mail: smr3227@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 30/04/2018**

Europe/Rome ICTP-CIMPA School: AGRA III (Aritmetica, Grupos y Analisis III) from the 9 - 20 July 2018 in Cordoba, Argentina to held at the Academia Nacional de Ciencias and at FaMAF Please note: Arrival date should be 8 July 2018 and Departure date should be 21 July 2018 http://www.anc-argentina.org.ar/web/actividades/bienvenida www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/agra3/ Deadline for requesting participation: 4 MARCH 2018 The area of the School is number theory, broadly understood - analytic, algebraic, combinatiorial, with links to groups and geometry. All of the course topics lie at thematic intersections. The course on Galois representations will focuse on their connections with modular forms and elliptic curves. The course on arithmetic groups will involve familiarizing students with topics in group theory and modular forms. Equidistribution in a diophantine context will be the main subject of a course. Another lecture series will focus on analysis, combinatorics and discrete geometry. The study of curves over finite fields, and the resulting codes, will allow for an accessible introduction to deep issues in algebraic geometry, with immediate applications. Finally, the course on primes, parity and analysis will combine classical tools and the use of entropy and independence. The plan is, then, to introduce advanced students to a variety of fields and tools and to notable recent developments. Scienfific Committee: Michael Harris Harald Helfgott Roberto Miatello Nuria Vila Oliva Fernando Rodriguez Villegas Local Committee: Maria Chara Emilio Lauret Ariel Pacetti Ricardo Podesta Diego Sulca Invited Speakers: Mikhail Belolipetsky, IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil José Burgos Gil, ICMAT, Spain Luis Dieulefait, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Cicero Fernandes De Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil Michael Harris, Université Paris VII, France & Columbia University, U.S.A. Harald Helfgott, Georg-August Universität Göttingen & CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Université Paris VI/VII, France Marc Hindry, Univesité Paris VII, France Juan Rivera-Letelier, University of Rochester, U.S.A. Benjamin Linowitz, Oberlin College, Ohio, U.S.A. Ricardo Menares, PUCV - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile Roberto Miatello, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina Ariel Pacetti, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina Daniel Panario, Carleton University, Canada Marusia Rebolledo, Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand 2, France David Roberts, University of Minnesota, Morris, U.S.A. Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, ICTP - the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy Fernando Torres Orihuela, University of Campinas, Brazil Adrián Ubis Martínez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Co-sponsors: Academia Nacional de Ciencias Alexander von Humboldt Centre International de Mathematiques Pures et Appliques (CIMPA) Facultad de Matematica, Astronomia, Fisica y Computacion (FAMAF) Foundation Compositio Mathematica Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (UNC) Cordoba - Argentina ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Jul 2018 - 20 Jul 2018

@ Cordoba - Argentina

Mathematics

ICTP-CIMPA School: AGRA III (Aritmética, Grupos y Analisis III) | (smr 3222)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Roberto Jorge Miatello (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba), Harald Andres Helfgot (University of Goettingen), Michael Harris (Columbia University), Nuria Vila (Universitat de Barcelona), Ariel Pacetti (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba), ICTP Scientific Contact: Fernando Rodriguez Villegas

Cosponsor(s): Humboldtavh2, Universidad Nacional de Cordobaunca, Academia Nacional de Cienciasanc2, Facultad de Matematica, Astronomia, Fisica y Computacionfamaf, Centre International de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquescimpa2, Foundation Compositio Mathematicafcm

**DEADLINE: 04/03/2018**

Europe/Rome Goals and brief description of the conference Defects in crystalline solids are ubiquitous. It is the second law of thermodynamics that gives rise to the appearance of a certain amount of disorder in crystalline materials at finite temperatures. Moreover, defects can be present in synthetic materials well above the equilibrium concentration due to the imperfections of material production processes or due to the exposure of the system to irradiation with energetic particles. Such lattice imperfections have a strong influence on the electronic, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties of the solids, normally deteriorating their characteristics. However, defects not always have detrimental effects on material properties, with the most prominent example being the doping of semiconductors by controllable introduction of impurities using ion implantation. In general, treatments of solids with beams of energetic ions and electrons have been shown to be a very powerful tool for the post-synthesis tailoring of material characteristics. The goal of the conference is to bring together active researchers in the field, as well as several experts in the related areas, to discuss "state of the art" in theory and experiment dealing with the physics of defects in solids. The effects of impurities and point/line defects on various properties of solids will be addressed, and the attendees will be able to learn not only the experimental facts, but also understand how the defects are treated within the framework of computational and analytical methods in theoretical physics. Particular attention is going to be paid to defects in nanomaterials, as the reduced dimensionality strongly affects their behavior. The Program will include about 20 oral presentations given by invited speakers, a poster session, and a limited number of short talks selected from contributed abstracts. Topics to be addressed Modern techniques (Raman spectroscopy, STM, XPS, TEM, etc.) used to assess concentration of defect in solids and identify their types First-principles modeling of native defects and impurities Ion and electron irradiation-induced defects Simulations of ion impacts onto solids Defects in superconductors Defects in low-dimensional materials (graphene, inorganic 2D materials, nanotubes etc.) Topological defects Defects for quantum computing Tutorial The conference will be preceded by a half-day tutorial where an introduction to the techniques used to characterize the defects will be given, along with the modern computational techniques used to get theoretical insights into defect behavior. List of invited speakers and lecturers at the tutorial: D. D. AWSCHALOM, University of Chicago, USA U. BANGERT, University of Limerick, Ireland P. BØGGILD, DTU Nanotech, Denmark D. EFREMOV, IFW, Dresden, Germany D. GOLBERG, Queensland University of Technology, Australia A. JORIO, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil K. KAASBJERG, Danish Technical University, Denmark H. KOMSA, Aalto University, Finland J. KOTAKOSKI, University of Vienna, Austria G. LEE, Seoul National University, South Korea V. MEUNIER, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA T. MICHELY, University of Köln, Germany M. NASTASI, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA J. NEUGEBAUER, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany L. PIZZAGALLI, CNRS, France K. SUENAGA, AIST, Japan M. SCARDAMAGLIA, University of Mons, Belgium M. SCHLEBERGER, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany T. SUSI, University of Vienna, Austria A. VANTOMME, KU Leuven, Belgium A. WEE, University of Singapore B. YAKOBSON, Rice University, USA Several additional invited speakers will be selected from the submitted abstracts. If the applicant wants his/her abstract to be included in the Conference book of abstracts, it should also be submitted as a Word file using a template posted at https://defectsinsolids.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/abstract_template2.docx 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. Deadlines 31 March 2018 for those who need visa 15 April 2018 otherwise --- Please visit also https://defectsinsolids.wordpress.com/ ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Jul 2018 - 13 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Physics of Defects in Solids: Quantum Mechanics Meets Topology | (smr 3221)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

Organizer(s): Carla Bittencourt (University of Mons, Belgium), Chris Ewels (Institut des Matériaux, Nantes, France), Stefan Facsko (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden- Rossendorf, Germany), Arkady Krasheninnikov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany and Aalto University, Finland), Local Organiser: Mikhail Kiselev

Cosponsor(s): Aalto Universityaalto, Fund for Scientific Research-FNRSfnrs1, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorfhzdr, Scienta Omicronomicron, Zurich Instrumentszurich

Europe/Rome The School provides early stage researchers with interactive experiences of hands-on research involving table-top experiments with computer data acquisition and modeling. Participants will also take part in professional development of improved scientific communication in English. An intensive programme of laboratory experiments, mathematical modeling, and lectures give participants immersive experiences with complex systems in the physical and life sciences. Additionally, participants will present their own research in talks and posters with extensive faculty feedback to enhance the presentation quality. The faculty are eminent scientists who have conducted frontier table-top research published in leading international scientific journals. TOPICS: • Biological Physics • Modeling of Epidemics • Soft Matter Physics-Dynamic light scattering • Interfacial fracture of particle rafts • Turbulence - Flow analysis by imaging particles • Fluid Instabilities-Digital movies to determine dynamics • Machine learning in table-top experiments • Microfluidics • Granular Materials • Modeling in MATLAB - Molecular Dynamics • Chemical patterns • Cardiac dynamics • Computational Modeling ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

16 Jul 2018 - 27 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

New Research Areas

Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School | (smr 3224)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Michael F. Schatz (Georgia Institute of Technology), Mark Shattuck (The City College of New York, USA), Harry L. Swinney (University of Texas, Austin), Joseph Niemela (ICTP), Local Organiser: Maria Liz Crespo

Cosponsor(s): The University of Texas at Austinutexas

Support E-Mail: smr3224@ictp.it

Europe/Rome PARTICIPANTS WISHING TO TAKE PART ONLY IN THE ADVANCED SCHOOL (SECOND WEEK) SHOULD NOT APPLY FROM THIS PAGE BUT SHOULD APPLY HERE: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8467/ Participants wishing to participate for both weeks can apply through the link available on the sidebar of this page. *** DEADLINE for applicants requesting Financial Support: 2 APRIL 2018 DEADLINE for applicants NOT requesting Financial Support: 25 JUNE 2018 Organizers and Lecturers: J. Rodriguez-Hertz, SUS Tech., Shenzan, China C. Ulcigrai, Univ. Bristol, U.K. A. Wilkinson, Univ. Chicago, U.S.A. Local Organizer: S. Luzzatto, ICTP, Trieste, Italy Week 1 A circle of concepts and methods in dynamics. Basic concepts in dynamics will be introduced, with many examples, especially in the setting of circle maps. Topics include rotations of the circle, doubling map, Gauss map and continued fractions and an introduction to the basic ideas of symbolic codings and invariant measures. At the end of the week we will discuss some simple examples of structural stability and renormalization. Week 2 Ergodicity in smooth dynamics (10h, Jana Rodriguez-Hertz and Amie Wilkinson) The concept of ergodicity is a central hypothesis in statistical mechanics, one whose origins can be traced to Boltzmann's study of ideal gases in the 19th century. Loosely speaking, a dynamical system is ergodic if it does not contain any proper subsystem, where the notion of "proper" is defined using measures. A powerful theorem of Birkhoff from the 1930's states that ergodicity is equivalent to the property that "time averages = space averages:" that is, the average value of a function taken along an orbit is the same as the average value over the entire space. The property of ergodicity is the first stepping stone in a path through the study of statistical properties of dynamical systems, a field known as Ergodic Theory. We will develop the ergodic theory of smooth dynamical systems, starting with the fundamental, linear examples of rotations and doubling maps on the circle introduced in Week 1. We will develop some tools necessary to establish ergodicity of nonlinear smooth systems, such as those investigated by Boltzmann and Poincaré in the dawn of the subject of Dynamical Systems. Among these tools are distortion estimates, density points, invariant foliations and absolute continuity. Closer to the end of the course, we will focus on the ergodic theory of Anosov diffeomorphisms, an important family of "toy models" of chaotic dynamical systems. Renormalization in entropy zero systems (5h, Corinna Ulcigrai) Rotations of the circle are perhaps the most basic examples of low complexity (or "entropy zero") dynamical systems. A key idea to study systems with low complexity is renormalization. The Gauss map and continued fractions can be seen as a tool to renormalize rotations, i.e.study the behaviour of a rotation on finer and finer scales. We will see two more examples of renormalization in action. The first is the characterization of Sturmian sequences, which arise as symbolic coding of trajectories of rotations (and hint at more recent developments, such as the characterization of cutting sequences for billiards in the regular octagon). The second concerns interval exchange maps (IETs), which are generalizations of rotations. We will introduce the Rauzy-Veech algorithm as a tool to renormalize IETs. As applications, we will give some ideas of how it can be used (in some simplified settings) to study invariant measures and (unique) ergodicity and deviations of ergodic averages for IETs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial and exercise sessions will be held regularly and constitute an essential part of the school. Tutors: Oliver BUTTERLEY (ICTP), Irene PASQUINELLI (Durham University, UK), Davide RAVOTTI, (University of Bristol, UK), Lucia SIMONELLI (ICTP), Kadim WAR (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany). Women in Mathematics: Activities directed to encourage and support women in mathematics, such as panel discussions and small groups mentoring and networking, will be organized during the event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

16 Jul 2018 - 27 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Summer School in Dynamics (Introductory and Advanced) | (smr 3226)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

Organizer(s): Jana Rodriguez-Hertz (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China), Corinna Ulcigrai (University of Bristol), Amie Wilkinson (University of Chicago), Local Organiser: Stefano Luzzatto

Seminar

17 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Mohammad Ali RAJABPOUR (Instituto de Fisica, Univ. Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome MYMC 2018 web page: http://www.mymc.it/2018/ REGULATIONS: http://www.mymc.it/2018/doc/MYMC2018REGULATIONS.pdf PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey TRAINING EXERCISES: http://www.mymc.it/2018/doc/training_exercises.pdf Roma - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

18 Jul 2018 - 21 Jul 2018

@ Roma - Italy

Mathematics

Mediterranean Youth Mathematical Championship 2018 | (smr 3254)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

Organizer(s): ICTP Scientific Contact: Claudio Arezzo

Cosponsor(s): MIURmiur2, INdAMgnsaga, UMIumi, UNINTumi, Piano Nazionale Lauree Scientifichepnls, Sapienza Universita di Romasapienza, Universita Roma Treromatre, Universita Tor Vergatatorv

Europe/Rome PARTICIPANTS WISHING TO ATTEND BOTH WEEKS OF THE SCHOOL SHOULD NOT APPLY FROM THIS PAGE BUT SHOULD APPLY HERE: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8325/ Participants wishing to attend only the second week can apply through the link available in the sidebar on this page. *** DEADLINE for applicants requesting Financial Support: 2 APRIL 2018 DEADLINE for applicants NOT requesting Financial Support: 25 JUNE 2018 Organizers and Lecturers: J. Rodriguez-Hertz, SUS Tech., Shenzan, China C. Ulcigrai, Univ. Bristol, U.K. A. Wilkinson, Univ. Chicago, U.S.A. Local Organizer: S. Luzzatto, ICTP, Trieste, Italy Week 1 A circle of concepts and methods in dynamics Basic concepts in dynamics will be introduced, with many examples, especially in the setting of circle maps. Topics include rotations of the circle, doubling map, Gauss map and continued fractions and an introduction to the basic ideas of symbolic codings and invariant measures. At the end of the week we will discuss some simple examples of structural stability and renormalization. Week 2 Ergodicity in smooth dynamics (10h, Jana Rodriguez-Hertz and Amie Wilkinson) The concept of ergodicity is a central hypothesis in statistical mechanics, one whose origins can be traced to Boltzmann's study of ideal gases in the 19th century. Loosely speaking, a dynamical system is ergodic if it does not contain any proper subsystem, where the notion of "proper" is defined using measures. A powerful theorem of Birkhoff from the 1930's states that ergodicity is equivalent to the property that "time averages = space averages:" that is, the average value of a function taken along an orbit is the same as the average value over the entire space. The property of ergodicity is the first stepping stone in a path through the study of statistical properties of dynamical systems, a field known as Ergodic Theory. We will develop the ergodic theory of smooth dynamical systems, starting with the fundamental, linear examples of rotations and doubling maps on the circle introduced in Week 1. We will develop some tools necessary to establish ergodicity of nonlinear smooth systems, such as those investigated by Boltzmann and Poincaré in the dawn of the subject of Dynamical Systems. Among these tools are distortion estimates, density points, invariant foliations and absolute continuity. Closer to the end of the course, we will focus on the ergodic theory of Anosov diffeomorphisms, an important family of "toy models" of chaotic dynamical systems. Renormalization in entropy zero systems (5h, Corinna Ulcigrai) Rotations of the circle are perhaps the most basic examples of low complexity (or "entropy zero") dynamical systems. A key idea to study systems with low complexity is renormalization. The Gauss map and continued fractions can be seen as a tool to renormalize rotations, i.e.study the behaviour of a rotation on finer and finer scales. We will see two more examples of renormalization in action. The first is the characterization of Sturmian sequences, which arise as symbolic coding of trajectories of rotations (and hint at more recent developments, such as the characterization of cutting sequences for billiards in the regular octagon). The second concerns interval exchange maps (IETs), which are generalizations of rotations. We will introduce the Rauzy-Veech algorithm as a tool to renormalize IETs. As applications, we will give some ideas of how it can be used (in some simplified settings) to study invariant measures and (unique) ergodicity and deviations of ergodic averages for IETs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial and exercise sessions will be held regularly and constitute an essential part of the school. Tutors: Oliver BUTTERLEY (ICTP), Irene PASQUINELLI (Durham University, UK), Davide RAVOTTI, (University of Bristol, UK), Lucia SIMONELLI (ICTP), Kadim WAR (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany). Women in Mathematics: Activities directed to encourage and support women in mathematics, such as panel discussions and small groups mentoring and networking, will be organized during the event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

23 Jul 2018 - 27 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Summer School in Dynamics (Advanced | (smr 3253)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

Activity

28 Jul 2018 - 29 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

New Research Areas

Maker Faire Trieste | (smr 3206)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Secretary: Margherita Di Giovannantonio

Organizer(s): Enrique Canessa (ICTP), Carlo Fonda (ICTP), Local Organiser: Enrique Canessa

Europe/Rome The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana (https://coessing.org) is an international collaboration aimed at building capacity in oceanographic and environmental sciences in Ghana specifically, and Africa more generally. The Summer School was previously held in 2015, 2016 and 2017. We intend to hold the schools every year, and to alternate the schools between Regional Maritime University and University of Ghana, which are both located in Ghana's capital city of Accra. Marine issues of great importance to Ghana include fisheries, piracy, pollution, shipping and port management, and the recent advent of offshore oil drilling. Long-term goals of our collaborative effort include securing funding to continue the school on an annual basis, increasing the number of links with institutions in other African countries, and incorporating research partnerships as part of the summer school. The school will include lectures, hands-on labs, and a field trip, and will address the physics and biogeochemistry of the coastal ocean environment, as well as the tools that scientists use to describe and understand this environment. - Ghana ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

30 Jul 2018 - 5 Aug 2018

@ - Ghana

Earth System Physics

The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana | (smr 3230)

Secretary: Pandora Malchose

Organizer(s): Prof. Kwasi Appeaning-Addo (University of Ghana), Prof. Brian K. Arbic (University of Michigan, USA), Dr. Edem Mahu (University of Ghana), ICTP Scientific Contact: Dr. Riccardo Farneti

Cosponsor(s): Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School Ghanaghana21, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg3, National Science Foundationnsf2, University of Michiganumich

**DEADLINE: 15/06/2018**

Activity

30 Jul 2018 - 3 Aug 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

INFN Summer School | (smr H542)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): Dr. Diego Tonelli,

Europe/Rome Ecological Modelling The deadline to apply to the 2nd Advanced school on Multispecies modelling Approaches for ecosystem-based marine REsource management in the MEDiterranean Sea (AMARE-MED 2018) HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 20 APRIL. Candidates must apply through the online form: http://echo.inogs.it/amare-med Secretary: AMARE-MED Secretariat (echo@ogs.trieste.it) Teacher: André Punt (School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, UWA, Seattle, USA) Organizer(s): Simone Libralato, OGS, Italy; Angelo Bonanno, CNR-IAMC, Italy; Piera Carpi, CEFAS, UK; Francesco Colloca, CNR-IAMC, Italy; Tomaso Fortibuoni, OGS, Italy; Elisabetta B. Morello, Italy; Saša Raicevich, ISPRA, Italy; Giuseppe Scarcella, CNR-ISMAR, Italy; Cosimo Solidoro, OGS, Italy; Fabio Fiorentino, CNR-IAMC, Italy Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

30 Jul 2018 - 3 Aug 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

AMARE-MED 2018 | (smr H539)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Dr. Simone Libralato - OGS,

Sponsors: GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean), Cefas (Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science) With the support of FAO - General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)

Europe/Rome The School is a certificate course providing specialized education and training on development and implementation of knowledge management programmes in nuclear science and technology organizations. It is intended for young professionals in current or future leading roles in managing nuclear knowledge. Description: Jointly organized by ICTP and the IAEA since 2004, this Nuclear Knowledge Management (NKM) School focuses on methodologies and practices, and explores various dimensions of nuclear knowledge management. These include processes and tools, challenges and benefits, culture influence, relationship with human resource development, IT for knowledge preservation and sharing. Learning is supplemented with real life examples from NKM programmes in different types of nuclear organizations. The aim is to encourage ‘forward thinking’ and to enable participants to apply theory and insights in their daily work. Pre-training is done via e-learning for a common understanding of the basics, allowing a more efficient interaction with peers and lecturers during the in-class School. Lectures at the ICTP by recognized experts are followed by case studies, practical work and breakout sessions where participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues and solutions. NKM group projects are also developed over the week. Shortlisted candidates will undergo an on-line pre-training course and a test, the results of which will be one of the elements to define the final list of participants. Topics: • Nuclear knowledge and knowledge management fundamentals; • Developing policies and strategies in managing nuclear knowledge; • Managing nuclear information resources; • Human resources development, risk of knowledge loss and knowledge transfer; • Practical guidance and good practices on NKM. Methodologies: • Blended learning course; • Oriented to practical exercises and group projects; • Additional continuous education certificate provided by MEPhI University, Russian Federation, after successful completion. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 22 December 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ADMISSION TO THIS ACTIVITY IS LIMITED TO PARTICIPANTS SELECTED AND OFFICIALLY INVITED. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

30 Jul 2018 - 3 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

14th Joint ICTP-IAEA School on Nuclear Knowledge Management | (smr 3229)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Milena Poropat

Organizer(s): M. Chudakov (IAEA), M.E. Urso (IAEA), Local Organiser: Claudio Tuniz

Cosponsor(s): IAEAiaea

Limited participation**DEADLINE: 22/12/2017**

Activity

1 Aug 2018 - 10 Aug 2018

@ Xinjiang - People's Republic of China

New Research Areas

The First Xinjiang International Summer School and Workshop on High Energy Physics | (smr 3217)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

Organizer(s): Sayipjamal Dulat (CTP-XJU, China), C.-P. Yuan (MSU, USA), Tie-Jiun Hou (CTP-XJU, China), Qing-Hong Cao (PKU, China), ICTP Scientific Contact: Bobby Acharya

Europe/Rome The summer school (6-17 August 2017) builds competence in data analysis and security for participants from all disciplines and/or backgrounds from Sciences to Humanities. Four applied workshops run in parallel from 20-24 August 2017. Summer school: Principles and practice of research data management, curation and security for Open Science using a range of search compute infrastructure, large-scale data handling, analysis, visualization and modeling technique. Workshop on Extreme sources of data: Introduction to ATLAS Open Data Platforms/Tools, tutorials and CERN LHC. Workshop on Bioinformatics: computational methods for the management and analysis of genomic and sequencing data. Workshop on IoT/Big Data Analytics: Big Data tools and technology; real time event processing; low latency query; analyzing social media and customer sentiment. Workshop on Climate Data Science: Cloud computing platform/tools for Climate Data Sciences including integration and visualization of on-line and local datasets. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

6 Aug 2018 - 17 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

High Performance Computing

The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School | (smr 3231)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

Organizer(s): Andrew Harrison (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex), Simon Hudson (CODATA), Hugh Shanahan (Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London, UK), Celia van Gelder (Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL), Netherlands), M. Hassan (TWAS), Teresa. K. Attwood (University of Manchester, UK), Rob Quick (Indiana University, U.S.A), Sarah Jones (University of Glasgow, UK), Nicola Mulder (University of Cape Town, South Africa), U. Singe (ICTP), M. Zennaro (ICTP), A. Tompkins (ICTP), Local Organiser: C. Onime

Cosponsor(s): ELIXIRelixir2, Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Traininggoblet, H3ABioNeth3abionet, International Council for Science - Committee on Data for Science and Technologycodata, The Research Data Alliance (RDA)rda, Springer Naturesprnat2, The World Academy of Sciencestwas

**DEADLINE: 21/05/2018**

Europe/Rome Applications are open! deadline for submissions: 15 May 2018 The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) in collaboration with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM-I2CAM), the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and the Department of Physics - University of Florida is organizing the School and Workshop on “Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems - from Quantum Criticality to Topology”. Topics Novel theories of quantum criticality in metals and Mott insulators Superconductivity and competing orders Novel approaches to spin liquids Correlated systems with strong spin-orbit coupling Coulomb interaction in topological systems Topological superconductors This School and Workshop will bring graduate and postdoctoral students in condensed matter physics together with experts in the field to discuss and the existing challenges and the latest theoretical and experimental developments in correlated electron systems and in topological materials . The research talks will be held mostly during the first week (Aug. 6-10). On Friday, August 10, we will hold a mini-workshop entitled "Fermions: heavy, topological, and critical". The tutorial lectures on various aspects of strongly correlated and topological electron systems will be given during the second week (Aug. 13-17). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

6 Aug 2018 - 17 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Advanced School and Workshop on Correlations in Electron Systems – from Quantum Criticality to Topology | (smr 3232)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Andrey Chubukov (University of Minnesota), Piers Coleman (Rutgers University), Dmitrii L. Maslov (University of Florida), Naoto Nagaosa (RIKEN Tokyo), Andy Schofield (University of Birmingham), Hide Takagi (MPI Stuttgart), Local Organiser: Rosario Fazio

Cosponsor(s): Gordon and Betty Moore Foundationgbmoore, Institute for Complex Adaptive Mattericam, University of Floridaunif, The National High Magnetic Fieldmaglab

Support E-Mail: smr3232@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/05/2018**

Europe/Rome For registration and more information please visit: https://impa.br/en_US/eventos-do-impa/eventos-2018/tropical-geometry-and-moduli-spaces/ Deadline to apply for funding: 28 February 2018 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

13 Aug 2018 - 17 Aug 2018

@ Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Mathematics

Workshop on Tropical Geometry and Moduli Spaces | (smr 3233)

Secretary: Milena Poropat

Organizer(s): Oliver Lorscheid (IMPA - Rio de Janeiro), Margarida Melo (University of Coimbra), Johannes Nicaise (Imperial College - London), Sam Payne (Yale University), ICTP Scientific Contact: Lothar Goettsche

Europe/Rome The applied workshops are preceded by a related Summer school (6-17 August 2017) that builds competence in data analysis and security for participants from all disciplines and/or backgrounds from Sciences to Humanities. The four applied workshops run in parallel from 20-24 August 2017. Summer school: Principles and practice of research data management, curation and security for Open Science using a range of search compute infrastructure, large-scale data handling, analysis, visualization and modeling technique. Workshop on Extreme sources of data: Introduction to ATLAS Open Data Platforms/Tools, tutorials and CERN LHC. Workshop on Bioinformatics: computational methods for the management and analysis of genomic and sequencing data. Workshop on IoT/Big Data Analytics: Big Data tools and technology; real time event processing; low latency query; analyzing social media and customer sentiment. Workshop on Climate Data Science: Cloud computing platform/tools for Climate Data Sciences including integration and visualization of on-line and local datasets. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

20 Aug 2018 - 24 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

High Performance Computing

The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Advanced Workshops on Bio-informatics, Climate Data Sciences, Extreme sources of data and Internet of Things (IoT)/Big-Data Analytics | (smr 3257)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

**DEADLINE: 21/05/2018**

Europe/Rome Deadline to Apply: 20 May 2018 This is a comprehensive workshop reviewing state-of-the-art reactor design concepts, nuclear fuel cycle options including design and technological features of various innovative reactors. The unique course provides basic understanding of different innovative nuclear energy systems. The participants will receive a theoretical foundation on most important research and technology development areas of innovative nuclear energy systems and will get familiarized with the modern physical models and simulation codes for the design and safety analysis of these systems. The workshop aims to engage and stimulate young scientists, researchers, and engineers currently involved in nuclear reactors research, as well as students interested in the field. Active discussion, group activities, poster session and various blended learning approaches will be used to enhance sharing of new ideas and emphasize the need of continued R&D and innovation in all areas of nuclear reactor and fuel cycle science and technology development. Topics : Global scenario for nuclear energy; Innovative reactor concepts and fuel cycle options; Reactor physics of innovative nuclear energy systems; Thermal hydraulics of innovative nuclear energy systems; Status of advanced primary components and development and qualification of structural materials, coolants, and fuels; Passive safety systems and other safety technologies; Safety analysis including severe accident scenarios; Advanced reactor modelling and simulation; and Status of research and technology development in support of innovative reactor and fuel cycle technologies. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED ABSTRACTS: In the application form, all applicants are requested to submit a brief abstract for a poster presentation. Only a limited number of contributed abstracts will be selected for poster session. The best poster will be awarded a certificate of appreciation. The abstract of the contribution should include the title, short description, and cover one of the following topics of the Worksop: Global scenario for nuclear energy; Innovative reactor concepts and fuel cycle options; Reactor physics of innovative nuclear energy systems; Thermal hydraulics of innovative nuclear energy systems; Status of advanced primary components and development and qualification of structural materials, coolants, and fuels; Passive safety systems and other safety technologies; Safety analysis including severe accident scenarios; Advanced reactor modelling and simulation; and Status of research and technology development in support of innovative reactor and fuel cycle technologies. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

20 Aug 2018 - 24 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Physics and Technology of Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems | (smr 3225)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Vladimir Kriventsev (International Atomic Energy Agency), Chirayu Batra (International Atomic Energy Agency), Local Organiser: Sandro Scandolo

**DEADLINE: 20/05/2018**

Activity

20 Aug 2018 - 24 Aug 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

2018 AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy Course | (smr H541)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): TWAS,

Activity

24 Aug 2018 - 25 Aug 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

IUPAP C13 Meeting | (smr H555)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Prof. Joe Niemela,

Europe/Rome The programme outline for the 2018 Spirit of Salam Awards & 2017/2018 PostGraduate Diploma Programme Awards Ceremony taking place on Friday 24 August from 14.30 hrs will be available in due course. For the feature article on the 2018 Spirit of Salam recipients, please see: https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/1/spirit-salam-2018-winners.aspx The event will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. Light refreshments will be served after the event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Ceremony

24 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

2018 Spirit of Salam Awards & 2017/2018 PostGraduate Diploma Programme Awards Ceremony

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste, Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Europe/Rome NEW DEADLINE FOR REQUESTING FINANCIAL SUPPORT: 20 April 2018 This School, aimed at graduate students and junior researchers, aims to teach a modern course in condensed matter and statistical physics. It combines basic concepts with recent structural and interdisciplinary developments. It features a combination of theory and computational courses, and seminars on experimental progress in the field. TOPICS: The program will cover a broad variety of topics within condensed matter physics, emphasizing connections with related fields such as quantum information, atomic, optical and high-energy physics: 1. Statistical Mechanics: from foundations to quantum information 2. Numerical methods: high-level programming and advanced numerical methods 3. Coherent dynamics: entanglement, decoherence, phase transitions, driven systems 4. Topological quantum matter: phases and diagnostics 5. Physical implementations: cold atoms, trapped ions, nanophysics, materials. SPEAKERS: F. Alet (CNRS, Toulouse, France) E. Andrei (Rutgers University, US) B. Beri (University of Cambridge, UK) I. Bloch (MPQ, Garching, Germany) P. Calabrese (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) J. Chalker (University of Oxford, UK) X. Chen (Caltech, US) J. Dalibard (Collège de France, Paris, France) M. Devoret (Yale University, US) D. Dhar (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune) M. Heyl (MPIPKS Dresden, Germany) D. Huse (Princeton, US)* V. Khemani (Harvard University, US) W. Krauth (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) B. Lake (Berlin Technical University, Germany) C. Laumann (Boston University, US) A. Lazarides (MPIPKS Dresden, Germany) A. MacKenzie (MPI-CPfS Dresden, Germany) E. Martinez (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) U. Schollwoeck (LMU Munich, Germany) M. Znidaric (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) *to be confirmed HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Fill in the online application form using the link "Apply here" that can be found on the sidebar of this page. NEW DEADLINES: - FOR PARTICIPANTS REQUESTING FINANCIAL SUPPORT: 20 April 2018 - FOR PARTICIPANTS NOT REQUESTING FINANCIAL SUPPORT: 14 May 2018 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 Aug 2018 - 14 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Summer School on Collective Behaviour in Quantum Matter | (smr 3235)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Margherita Di Giovannantonio

Organizer(s): Claudio Castelnovo (University of Cambridge), Paul Fendley (University of Oxford), Roderich Moessner (MPIPKS Dresden), Marcello Dalmonte (ICTP), Local Organiser: Antonello Scardicchio

Cosponsor(s): ICAMicam

Activity

27 Aug 2018 - 14 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

College on Medical Physics: Applied Physics of Contemporary Medical Imaging – Expanding Utilization in Developing Countries | (smr 3185)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

Organizer(s): Slavik Tabakov (King's College London, UK and IOMP), Franco Milano (University of Florence, Italy), Anna Benini (University Hospital of Cpenhagen, Denmark), Mario De Denaro (Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Integrata, Trieste, Italy), Local Organiser: Luciano Bertocchi

Colloquium

5 Sep 2018

@ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Colloquium - by Prof. Jean Dalibard

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste, Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Jean Dalibard, CNRS-ENS and Collège de France, Paris

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome Nuclear waste management is a core issue for sustainable development and long-term viability of nuclear energy as energy supply. The main goal of this school is the dissemination of knowledge on optimal methods of synthesis and study of crystalline and glass-crystalline wasteforms for the immobilization of actinides and other long-lived dangerous radionuclides. It aims on transferring experience of ceramic and glass-composite materials fabrication from leading experts to specialists interested in reliable immobilization of toxic nuclides. Directors: Michael I. Ojovan (IAEA), Boris E. Burakov (Radium Institute), Local Organiser: Antonello Scardicchio Description: The school will bring together researchers from the area of materials science with a focus on crystalline and vitreous materials for nuclear energy. The school will assist experts to better understand the wide range and full potential of material science applied to radioactive waste immobilisation and technology tools and methods devoted to immobilisation and properties of crystalline and glass-crystalline materials. Knowledge transfer will be facilitated between individuals from developed and developing countries, and can be used to develop further the internationally sponsored development of nuclear waste immobilisation using crystalline and glass-crystalline wasteforms. Participants should return from the school with a richer understanding of actinide immobilization technologies and the range of techniques to investigate actinide-containing materials. Topics: Fundamentals of actinide immobilization; Radiation damage effects in actinide-doped crystalline materials and glasses; Leach behaviour of actinide-doped ceramics and glasses; Advanced materials based on durable actinide host-phases; New types of Pu fuel and targets for actinide transmutation; Interaction of actinide wastes and geological environment; Modelling of actinide migration in geological environment; Actinide behaviour during severe nuclear accident (Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc.) and nuclear tests. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

10 Sep 2018 - 14 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA International School on Nuclear Waste Actinide Immobilization | (smr 3237)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

Organizer(s): Michael I. Ojovan (IAEA - Vienna, Austria), Boris E. Burakov (Radium Institute - S. Petersberg, Russian Federation), Local Organiser: Antonello Scardicchio

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea

**DEADLINE: 10/06/2018**

Europe/Rome - ONLINE APPLICATION WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THE LAST WEEK OF APRIL - Technology plays a big role in sustainable development in all of its aspects: social, environmental, economic and scientific. The recent development of low cost technologies (electronic boards, sensors, 3D printing, etc.) can empower scientists and educators from developing countries in fostering scientific knowledge. In this workshop we will cover some of the low cost tools that can be used in universities to support courses in physics and engineering. We will present concrete examples of projects that can be carried out during post-graduate courses. We will study in depth one important case study, the LED Sun Photometer, which provides an ultra-low cost solution for education and science. TOPICS: • Sustainable Development Goals and the role of technology; • Open hardware and open software tools; • IoT4D: Internet of Things for Development; • 3D printing and the FabLab revolution; • The role of inexpensive technology in education (example: hand-made robot for kids, programmed in local language); • A case study, the LED Sun Photometer: from blueprinting to deployment in the field. * * * Secretariat: smr3238@ictp.it ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

17 Sep 2018 - 21 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

New Research Areas

Advanced Workshop on Technology for Sustainable Development: Low-Cost Tools to support Scientific Education | (smr 3238)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Edoardo Milotti (University of Trieste Italy), Sandor Markon (Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan), Local Organiser: Marco Zennaro

Activity

17 Sep 2018 - 21 Sep 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

International Conference “Boris Chirikov, a pioneer of dynamical chaos” | (smr H546)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): F.M.Izrailev (BUAP, Puebla, Mexico), S.Ruffo (SISSA,Trieste, Italy), G.Mantica (Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Como, Italy), L.Bunimovich (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA), P.Calabrese (SISSA, Trieste, Italy), V.Kravtsov (ICTP, Trieste, Italy),

Activity

17 Sep 2018 - 28 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA School on Quality Assurance and Dose Management in Hybrid Imaging (SPECT/CT AND PET/CT) | (smr 3240)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

Organizer(s): Jenia Vassileva (Radiation Protection of Patients Unit), Gian Luca POLI (Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics section, Division of Human Health, Department of Nuclear Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency), Local Organiser: Luciano Bertocchi

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea, European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physicsefomp, American Association of Physicsts in Medicineaapm2

Activity

1 Oct 2018 - 5 Oct 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

Inquiry-Based Science Education, an introduction ( CESAME) | (smr H559)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): Joe Niemela, Odile Macchi,

Europe/Rome Deadline to Apply: 15 May 2018 Ion beam techniques (IBT) have been extensively applied for material analysis and modification by using ions in the keV-GeV energy range. Advanced capabilities for single ion implantation and detection, enhanced by recent advances in ion beam material analysis and modification at the nano-scale can provide a prominent role for IBTs in the recently emerging field of quantum technologies (QT). New generation of devices are expected to be developed within the “Second Quantum Revolution”, which is being supported through major strategic research initiatives worldwide e.g. in Australia, China, Europe, India, Japan, USA etc. This Advanced School will provide the latest technological developments to engineer new material properties with ion beams, with a specific focus on quantum technologies for PhD students and early career researchers (i.e. up to 7 years after PhD degree) actively involved in ion beam techniques and/or in the field of quantum technologies. Topics: Key topics in Quantum Technologies; Radiation Effects in Materials: Theory and Modelling; Novel keV-GeV Ion Beam Techniques for Quantum Technologies: Single Ion Implantation, High Resolution Ion Beam Lithography, Time-Resolved Analysis, etc.; Materials Engineering by Ion Beams for QT applications: Single Dopants in Semiconductors, Optically Active Defects in Wide-bandgap Semiconductors, etc.; "Project Development Lab" to develop skills on how to write and present a coherent scientific proposal in the field of "Ion Beams for QT". Call for Abstracts: In the application form, all applicants are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation within the scope of the School. It is highly desirable to get a letter of support if one is applying for a financial support. Keynote Lecturers: Andrew A. BETTIOL, National University of Singapore, Singapore Edward S BIELEJEC, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Leonard C. FELDMAN, Rutgers University, USA Jacopo FORNERIS, INFN, Italy Jan MEIJER, Leipzig University, Germany ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

1 Oct 2018 - 5 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced School on Ion Beam Driven Materials Engineering: Accelerators for a New Technology Era | (smr 3236)

Address: Via Grignano, 9 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Marina de Comelli

Organizer(s): Paolo Olivero (University of Turin, Italy), Aliz Simon (University of Turin, Italy), Local Organiser: Sandro Scandolo

Cosponsor(s): IAEA, Viennaiaea

**DEADLINE: 15/05/2018**

Europe/Rome The school is a certificate course providing a unique international education aimed at building future leadership to manage nuclear energy programmes. It is intended for promising young professionals from the nuclear industry and academia, including those from developing countries. Description: Jointly organized by ICTP and the IAEA since 2010, this Nuclear Energy Management (NEM) School focuses on broadening the young professional’s understanding of current issues in the nuclear industry, generating awareness on recent developments in nuclear energy and sharing international perspectives on issues related to the peaceful use of nuclear technology. Over 30 experts from the IAEA and the nuclear industry deliver more than 70 presentations and case studies. Technical visits to nuclear facilities form an essential practical element of the curriculum and students are asked to work on special projects relevant to the development of nuclear energy programmes. Participants will be selected based on an online pre- training course and a test. Topics: • World Energy Balance, Geopolitics and Climate Issues; • Energy Planning, Energy Economics and Nuclear Power Economics and Finance; • Nuclear Power Technology and Life Cycle; • Nuclear Safety and Security; • Nuclear Law, International Conventions and Relevant Mechanisms; • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Safeguards; • Human Resource Development and Knowledge Management; • NuclearLeadership,Management and Sociology; • Emergency Planning and Preparedness; • Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning; • Communicating Radiation Risks to the Public; • IAEA support for Nuclear Power ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

8 Oct 2018 - 19 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA School of Nuclear Energy Management | (smr 3241)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

Organizer(s): School Executive Director: M. Chudakov (IAEA), Organizers: A. Ganesan (IAEA), O. Glöckler (IAEA), Local Organizer: C. Tuniz

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy AgencyIAEA3

**DEADLINE: 15/05/2018**

Europe/Rome This is a School on climate modelling focusing on the west African region. The School will be coupled to the final conference of the EU-DACCIWA project. Online applications are not yet available. Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

8 Oct 2018 - 13 Oct 2018

@ Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire

Earth System Physics

School on Climate and Environmental Modelling in the West African Region | (smr 3243)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Solmon F. (ICTP), Konare A. (FHB Univ. Abidjan), Liousse C. (Laboratoire d'Aerologie / CNRS), ICTP Scientific Contact: Riccardo Farneti

Support E-Mail: smr3243@ictp.it

Europe/Rome The conference will gather leading theorists and experimentalists working on high-energy particle physics, dark matter and beyond Standard Model and related fields. In particular, it will focus on the new results from the LHC Run-2. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

15 Oct 2018 - 19 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

LHC Physics , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Turning every stone: interpreting the LHC Run-2 data | (smr 3228)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Bobby ACHARYA (ICTP), Marina COBAL (Udine), Leonid SERKIN (CERN), Giovanni VILLADORO (ICTP),

Cosponsor(s): the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)INFN

Support E-Mail: smr3228@ictp.it

Europe/Rome The workshop introduces young and established nuclear scientists to the evaluation of nuclear structure and decay data, by providing an overview of experimental and theoretical nuclear techniques and basic training in the evaluation procedures and formats involved in the production of the Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF). Reliable evaluated nuclear structure and decay data are of vital importance for basic nuclear physics and astrophysics, as well as for nuclear applications such as power generation, material analysis, dosimetry and medical diagnostics. These important data requirements are catered by the international network of Nuclear Structure and Decay Data (NSDD) Evaluators, created in 1974 and coordinated by the IAEA. The main output of this network is the recommended ENSDF database and evaluations published in Nuclear Data Sheets. This workshop belongs to a series of ICTP workshops that started in 2003 and have been crucial for attracting young nuclear scientists to nuclear structure and decay data evaluation and for providing them with the basic tools to pursue this activity. TOPICS: modern nuclear experimental techniques & facilities; nuclear structure models; nuclear structure and decay data: compilations and evaluations; evaluation methodologies for nuclear structure and decay data; analysis and utility codes; ENSDF editors and Web tools; databases and online retrieval software. CALL FOR PAPERS A session will be held during the workshop for participants to present their work related to nuclear structure and decay data. Please upload a one-page abstract directly to the on-line application. (upload file attachments in pdf) 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. Applicants should hold at least a Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) in Nuclear Physics, and possess a few years of professional experience related to nuclear structure and decay data. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

15 Oct 2018 - 26 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Nuclear Structure and Decay Data: Theory, Experiment and Evaluation | (smr 3242)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

Organizer(s): Paraskevi Dimitriou (Nuclear Data Section, IAEA), Elisabeth A. McCutchan (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA), Local Organiser: Claudio Tuniz

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea

**DEADLINE: 30/06/2018**

Activity

15 Oct 2018 - 19 Oct 2018

@ Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics , New Research Areas

Ethiopian Regional Workshop on Solar Energy and Energy Storage Technologies: Materials, System Design, and Applications | (smr 3149)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Teketel Yohannes (Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU)), Nicola Seriani (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Ralph Gebauer

Activity

22 Oct 2018 - 26 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced School on Quality Assurance and Dosimetry in Mammography | (smr 3248)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

Organizer(s): Harry Delis (IAEA), Local Organiser: Renato Padovani

Europe/Rome Regional climate models (RCMs) have become important tools to study climate variability and change at regional scales. They can also be used to provide climate change information for impact and adaptation studies. Within the context of RCM research, the Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX) provides the basis for generating multi-model RCM-based projections over regions Worldwide. The community of users of the ICTP regional model RegCM is one of the most active in contributing to the CORDEX program and in involving the scientific community from developing countries in climate change research. With the aim of enlarging and strengthening the RegCM user community, the ICTP organizes a series of training workshops in different regions of the World. This workshop represents the second of a series of RegCM training activities in Southeast Asia, and includes the following lectures: * Climate and climate change over the South-east Asia region * Regional climate modeling and the physical processes that regulate regional climate variability and change * Regional modeling for the South-east Asia region * Hands-on sessions on the structure and use of the RegCM model (latest release RegCM4). * Discussion of the contribution of the RegCM community to the CORDEX initiative * Discussion of future developments of the RegCM system Hanoi - Viet Nam ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

22 Oct 2018 - 26 Oct 2018

@ Hanoi - Viet Nam

Earth System Physics

Second Training Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Southeast Asia | (smr 3166)

Address: VNU University of Science

Secretary: Pandora Malchose

Organizer(s): Phan Van Tan (Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam), ICTP Scientific Contact: Filippo Giorgi

Cosponsor(s): VNU Asia Research Centerarc, VNU Hanoi University of Sciencehus, Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change (IMHEN)imhen

Activity

22 Oct 2018 - 2 Nov 2018

@ Addis Ababa -

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

5th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA-2018) | (smr 3234)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Richard Martin (Stanford Univ.), Nithaya Chetty (Univ. Pretoria), George Amolo (TU Kenya, Nairobi), Teketel Yohannes (Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU)), ICTP Scientific Contact: Sandro Scandolo

Activity

22 Oct 2018 - 26 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA 1st Course on Scientific Novelties in Phenomenology of Severe Accidents in Water-Cooled Reactors | (smr 3247)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Tatjana Jevremovic (Nuclear Power Technology Development Section, Division of Nuclear Power, Department of Nuclear Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency), Local Organiser: Fred Kucharski

Europe/Rome The Second Regional Maker Expo of Open Technologies and Inclusive Development will take place on 27 and 28 October 2018 in Guatemala, at Centro Cultural Miguel Angel Asturias. This public event, originated by the ICTP Science Dissemination Unit (SDU), aims at bringing together science, technology and the community of resourceful and creative people for the benefit of all. Maker Expos indeed bring together design, engineering, creativity and enthusiasm to showcase projects at the intersection of science, art and technology. This event focuses on open source, open hardware, citizen science, do-it-yourself solutions and innovative approaches to local problems empowered by collaboration through the Internet. GOALS Besides bringing science and technology closer to the public, this Maker Expo aims to be a platform where designers, engineers, inventors (or "Makers") meet in a single place to exchange ideas and resources, make contacts, meet proactive people to form working groups and collaborations. TOPICS Science Projects Prototyping Technologies 3D Printers Robotics, RC Toys, Drones DIY Automation and IoT Sound Utensiles/Instruments Low Cost Microcopmputers Modular Architecture Recycling Electronics ACTIVITIES Mathematical Games Fun Electronics Interactive Art Projects Arts and Crafts Workshopos Programming Tinkering/Hacking Etc... PARTICIPATION Scientists and Makers from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA, may attend the event, however, since this is a regional activity, priority will be given to those coming from Guatemala and neighbouring countries. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by their home institution. The event is free of charge for participants and visitors. For further information (in Spanish) regarding the event please visit http://www.ecfm.usac.edu.gt/makerexpo or contact makerexpoecfm@ecfm.usac.edu.gt Guatemala City - Guatemala ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 Oct 2018 - 28 Oct 2018

@ Guatemala City - Guatemala

New Research Areas

Second Regional Maker Expo of Open Technologies and Inclusive Development | (smr 3192)

Secretary: Margherita Di Giovannantonio

Organizer(s): Edgar Cifuentes Anleau (USAC), David Marín Roma (USAC), Iván Rene Morales (USAC), ICTP Scientific Contact: Enrique Canessa, Carlo Fonda

Cosponsor(s): ICTP SciFabLabsfl, Concytconcyt, Universidad San Carlos, Guatemalausac, Escuela Superior de Arteescarte, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte de Guatemalamcd, Centro Cultural Miguel Angel de Asturiasccmaa

Europe/Rome The plasma college will be devoted to a very broad and fast developing field that encompasses the study of macroscopic “collective phenomena” in a variety of settings, spanning the classical/quantum domains, laboratory, space, astrophysics, and cosmological systems, magnetic and laser induced fusion, laser created high energy density physics, etc. Topics: Elementary / advanced treatment of fundamental processes in plasma physics-collective phenomena, coherent nonlinear phenomena, self-organization, plasma turbulence. Applications to magnetic fusion theory, experiments, design and simulation. A scientific review of magnetic fusion research all the way to JET and ITER will be provided. Applications to astrophysical/cosmic plasmas (solar, planetary and stellar magnetospheres, jets etc.), and exotic plasmas (general relativistic, quantum, quantum-relativistic). Magneto-genesis and generation of cosmic flows. The physics of laser-generated plasmas (fusion, high energy density matter and laboratory astrophysics). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

29 Oct 2018 - 9 Nov 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA College on Plasma Physics | (smr 3239)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Milena Poropat

Organizer(s): S. Mahajan (University of Texas), D. Gomez (IAFE - Buenos Aires), S.M. Gonzalez de Vicente (IAEA), Z. Yoshida (University of Tokyo), Local Organiser: J. Niemela

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

**DEADLINE: 15/07/2018**

Activity

5 Nov 2018 - 15 Nov 2018

@ Montevideo - Uruguay

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Latin American Initiative for Molecular Simulations | (smr 3245)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

Organizer(s): Sergio Pantano (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo), Hugo Verli (UFRGS, Porto Alegre), Julio Caballero (University of Talca), Adrian Turjanski (University of Buenos Aires), ICTP Scientific Contact: Ali Hassanali

Activity

10 Nov 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

Inauguration of the Latin American Film Festival | (smr H558)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): Rodrigo DIAZ / APCLAI,

Europe/Rome The topics that will be addressed include: deep learning and its relations to vision and language reinforcement learning and decision making sensorimotor learning More information coming soon ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

12 Nov 2018 - 23 Nov 2018

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology: Learning and Artificial Intelligence | (smr 3246)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Chris Mathys (SISSA), Davide Zoccolan (SISSA), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Cosponsor(s): International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS)icts

Europe/Rome This hands-on workshop will cover key aspects of modern fullyprogrammable systems-on-chip based on FPGA, and its applications to advanced scientific instrumentation and reconfigurable computing. Online applications not yet activated. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

26 Nov 2018 - 7 Dec 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Advanced Workshop on FPGA-based Systems-On-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation and Reconfigurable Computing | (smr 3249)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Pirouz Bazargan Sabet (University Pierre Et Marie Curie, Paris, France), Nizar Abdallah (Microsemi Corp., California, USA), Andres Cicuttin (ICTP), Maria Liz Crespo (ICTP), Local Organiser: Maria Liz Crespo

Support E-Mail: smr3249@ictp.it

Activity

3 Dec 2018 - 5 Dec 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

2018 Users' Meeting | (smr H551)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Elettra Sincrotrone,

Activity

10 Dec 2018 - 14 Dec 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

OWSD Early career fellowships programme | (smr H557)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): TWAS-OWSD,

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Joint ICTP-IAEA School on LoRa Enabled Radiation and Environmental Monitoring Sensors | (smr 3188)

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Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) of Air Pollution and Climate Change in Mediterranean Areas | (smr 3250)

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Applied Physics

Workshop on Space Weather Effects on GNSS Operations at Low Latitudes | (smr 3198)

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Mathematics

Studying geometry with arithmetic techniques

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Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Axions from Strings

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6th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open Source Scientific Packages | (smr 3199)

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EMODnet Biology General meeting | (smr H547)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: Entanglement Beyond Two Qubits

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Mathematics

Global Existence of Solutions to Scalar Equations on Spatially Flat Universe as a Background with Non-minimal Coupling

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Mathematics

TMU-ICTP School and Conference on Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory | (smr 3200)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics , Applied Physics

School on Synchrotron and Free-Electron-Laser Methods for Multidisciplinary Applications | (smr 3202)

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Conference on Collective Behavior | (smr 3201)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

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Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

From phase space to integrable representations and level-rank duality

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Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Gluequark Dark Matter

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

International Conference on Multi-Condensate Superconductivity and Superfluidity in Solids and Ultra-cold Gases | (smr 3204)

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Advanced Workshop on Nonequilibrium Systems in Physics, Geosciences, and Life Sciences | (smr 3203)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

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Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Title to be announced

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) <br> Expert Meeting on Assessing Climate Information for Regions | (smr H545)

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Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Colloquium

Colloquium - by Prof. Valerie Masson-Delmotte

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Mathematics

Workshop on Global Differential Geometry | (smr 3205)

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