Scientific Calendar

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

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Europe/Rome The School is a certificate course introducing participants the foundation skills and knowledge required to successfully manage and lead a nuclear energy programme. The target audience for this school are new and young nuclear professionals entering the field of nuclear energy and nuclear technology. Jointly organized by ICTP and the IAEA since 2010, the objectives of this School are to: Provide an international educational experience and an opportunity for worldwide networking to future leaders and managers of nuclear energy; Raise awareness of participants about recent developments in nuclear energy; Broaden participants’ understanding on key issues and challenges associated with peaceful uses of nuclear energy; and Introduce participants to the leadership and managerial competencies needed to successfully run the national nuclear energy programme 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: • Introduction to the IAEA and nuclear technology • IAEA and its services • Overview of nuclear applications • The concept of risk • Climate change and the economics of nuclear energy • An integrated approach to human resource development and nuclear knowledge management • Management and leadership in a nuclear organization • Stakeholder involvement and public communication • Nuclear safety • Nuclear security • Nuclear safeguards • Emergency planning, preparedness and response • Radiation safety and protection • Nuclear law • Nuclear power • New nuclear builds • Basic principles of nuclear power plant operation • Nuclear fuel cycle and waste management Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

7 Oct 2019 - 18 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Nuclear Energy Management School | (smr 3327)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Petra Krizmancic, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Mikhail Chudakov (IAEA), Michaela Ovanes (IAEA), Local Organiser: Claudio Tuniz

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

Support E-Mail: smr3327@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/05/2019**

Europe/Rome The course is aimed for mathematicians from the master's or doctoral level to researchers and will be entirely self-contained, starting with classical theorems about zeta functions and quadratic fields and then describing the many links between them and the theory of modular forms. Next Lectures: Monday, October 7, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00 Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00 Monday, October 14, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00 Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00 Monday, October 21, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00 Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00 Monday, October 28, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00 Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 14:00 to 16:00 SISSA ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

7 Oct 2019 - 31 Oct 2019

@ SISSA

Mathematics

Course on "Quadratic Fields and Modular Forms"

Address: Via Bonomea, 265, Trieste

Room: Boris Dubrovin Lecture room (A-136)

Speaker(s): Don Zagier (ICTP/SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome The Kähler geometry working group will continue as last year. The first talks of the semester have been scheduled as follows: Friday October 11 (14:30 - 16:30) - Claudio Arezzo Monday October 21 (11:30 - 13:30) - Carolina Araujo Monday November 4 (11:30 - 13:30) - Zakarias Sjöström Dyrefelt Monday November 11 (11:30 - 13:30) - Jacopo Stoppa All are welcome to attend IGAP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 Oct 2019 - 11 Nov 2019

@ IGAP

Mathematics

Kahler Meetings

Room: Old SISSA building

Speaker(s): C. Arezzo (ICTP), C. Araujo (IMPA), Z.S. Dyrefelt (ICTP), J. Stoppa (SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Most of what we know so far about the origin and evolution of the Universe is based on the information carried by electromagnetic radiation received from distant objects or composing the CMB. The recent direct detections of Gravitational Waves (GWs) have opened a new window of observation for phenomena in which gravity, instead of light, is the messenger. A few black hole and neutron star mergers have been reported and a plethora of new events are expected to be detected in the near-to-mid future. Many possible sources, especially related to the physics of the early Universe, produce (stochastic backgrounds of) GWs with a characteristic frequency much larger than the LIGO frequency range. The detection of high frequency GWs (HFGWs) is however very challenging, and only a few proposals have been made so far. The goal of this workshop is an open-minded discussion on the experimental and theoretical prospects of HFGWs. What are the possible sources and how well are they theoretically understood? What are the challenges faced in experimental setups and what are possible ideas to go beyond current technology? What can we learn about our Universe within the expected sensitivity of these proposals in the next decade? Our goal is to tackle these open questions by gathering a selected sample of people who are interested in these questions both from the theoretical and the experimental points of view. A few dedicated talks aim at introducing the key aspects and questions and bridging the gap between the different communities, while leaving ample time for discussions. Topics: High Frequency Gravitational Waves Early Universe Cosmology High energy phase transitions Non-perturbative phenomena Interferometers Acoustic Cavities Optically levitated Sensors Speakers include: Odylio D. Aguiar (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE) Andreas Bauswein (GSI Darmstadt) Mike Cruise (University of Birmingham) Daniel Figueroa (Instituto de Física Corpuscular - IFIC) Andrew Geraci (Northwestern University) Maxim Goryachev (University of Western Australia) Hartmut Grote (Cardiff University) Mark Hindmarsh (University of Helsinki & University of Sussex) David Ottaway (University of Adelaide) Marco Peloso (University of Padova) There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

14 Oct 2019 - 16 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Challenges and Opportunities of High Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection | (smr 3493)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Valerie Domcke (DESY), Fernando Quevedo (ICTP), Jessica Steinlechner (Maastricht University), Sebastian Steinlechner (Maastricht University), Local Organiser: Francesco Muia

Support E-Mail: smr3493@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/09/2019**

Europe/Rome The workshop covers several aspects related to High Temperature Reactors with focus on the state-of-the-art in technology, design concepts, cogeneration and nuclear heat applications. It includes scientific aspects such as reactor physics, thermal fluid design, analyses and simulation. Many countries are exploring nuclear power as a part of their future energy mix. Advanced High Temperature Reactors have the potential to cover not only electricity production but also the rest of the energy market where high temperature steam and/or process heat is required for industrial chemical processes. This workshop provides extensive and up-to-date information on the design and safety principles of these reactors. It also presents the latest on research and development of methods, processes and technologies related to process heat applications, including hydrogen production using nuclear energy. The workshop also highlights the safety of the overall integrated and coupling between the two plants. Interactive discussions and activities during the workshop aim to stimulate innovative thinking and create the knowledge base and networking between young scientists and experienced professionals in the field. Topics: Global scenarios for nuclear energy; Advances of SMRs and overview and status of HTR technologies; Non- electrical applications of nuclear energy; Safety characteristics and design philosophy; Core neutronics and thermal-fluid design features; Status of fuel development for HTRs for normal and accident conditions; Innovative primary components and availability of high temperature materials (graphite, structural materials, coolants, molten salt, and for hydrogen production facilities); Source terms evaluation, chemical form and transport phenomena; Uncertainties in analysis including uncertainties in cross section libraries; Use of software tools for Simulation, HTR analysis and Process Heat Applications. Applicants are advised to submit a brief abstract on relevant topics. A limited number of contributed abstracts will be selected for a poster session. Preference will be given to financially support applications that include a poster relevant to the topic. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

14 Oct 2019 - 18 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Physics and Technology of Innovative High Temperature Nuclear Energy Systems | (smr 3281)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Petra Krizmancic, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Ibrahim Khamis (IAEA), Frederik Reitsma (IAEA), Local Organiser: Nicola Seriani

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

Support E-Mail: smr3281@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/09/2019**

Europe/Rome Abstract. I will consider some physical aspects of a new class of G2-holonomy spaces recently constructed by Foscolo, Haskins and Nordstrom. These geometries are constructed as circle bundles over a local Calabi-Yau, with an appropriate geometric condition on the first Chern class on this bundle. I will explain how this condition naturally appears as the vacuum condition of the four dimensional N=1 gauge theory we get by compactifying type IIA string theory on the Calabi-Yau. I will also discuss the geometric transition and how these vacua relate to flat connections in an (S)U(N) theory on a quotient of the deformed conifold, framed within an M-theory perspective. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Local G2 Geometry, Gauge Theory and String Duality

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Eirik SVANES (ICTP)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

16 Oct 2019

@ SISSA

Mathematics

Tsen's Theorem and higher Fano manifolds

Address: Via Bonomea, 265, Trieste

Room: SISSA - Room A-004

Speaker(s): Carolina Araujo (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro)

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Seminar

16 Oct 2019

@ SISSA

Mathematics

Bridgeland stability conditions on the category of morphisms

Address: Via Bonomea, 265, Trieste

Room: SISSA-Boris Dubrovin Lecture room (A-136)

Speaker(s): Alejandra Rincon Hidalgo (ICTP)

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Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Abstract. Not all the effective field theories (EFTs) coupled to gravity admit a UV completion in String Theory. This suggests that quantum gravity constraints can affect the physics at lower, naively decoupled, energies. What can we then say about EFTs of dS vacua and inflation? Do they belong to the Swampland or to the Landscape? In this talk, we focus on specific aspects of this question. First, we critically analyse recent arguments which propose that interaction between the anti-D3 brane and bulk moduli prevent the formation of de Sitter vacua. We show that at the 4d level this is never the case, both in the KKLT and in the KL scenario, and that both structures remain fully compatible with the Weak Gravity Conjecture. Secondly, we discuss the significance for inflation of the Swampland Distance Conjecture, a proposal for a quantum gravity constraint acting at infinite distances. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

17 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

de Sitter Vacua, Inflation and the Swampland

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Marco SCALISI (University of Leuven, Belgium)

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Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

17 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Vertex operator algebras whose dimensions of weight one spaces are 8 and 16

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Kiyokazu Nagatomo (Osaka University)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Europe/Rome Ion accelerators have a wide variety of interdisciplinary applications and are regarded as key tools for economic development. This school is for early career researchers working in multidisciplinary fields and accelerator engineers interested in expanding their accelerator operation and use skills. Researchers interested in using accelerators, and especially ion-beam analytical techniques, will find this school helpful in developing an in-depth understanding of the basic elements of accelerator operation principles, the associated instruments, and methods employed in applications. Young engineers operating such accelerators can train in the necessary nuclear physics processes. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work and interests in a poster session. TOPICS: - Introduction to electrostatic accelerators and their operation - Ion sources and vacuum systems at electrostatic accelerators - Ion-beam optics, beam focusing, and monitoring devices - Introduction to low energy nuclear reactions - Ion-beam analytical techniques - Selected ion-beam based applications - Modern detector technologies - Basic software for data analysis and accelerator control - Safe use of ion accelerators GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

21 Oct 2019 - 29 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Electrostatic Accelerator Technologies, Basic Instruments and Analytical Techniques | (smr 3331)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Petra Krizmancic, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Sotirios Charisopoulos (Physics Section, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency), Natko Skukan (Nuclear Sciences and Instrumentation Laboratory/Physics Section, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Dept. of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency), Local Organiser: Claudio Tuniz

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

Support E-Mail: smr3331@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 30/06/2019**

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

Activity

21 Oct 2019 - 25 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Signatures of Topology in Condensed Matter | (smr 3330)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Petra Krizmancic, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Michele Governale (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Michael S. Fuhrer (Monash University, Australia), Fabio Taddei (NEST NANO-CNR, Pisa, Italy), Local Organiser: Marcello Dalmonte

Cosponsor(s): The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologymd, FLEET - ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologiesfleet, Istituto Nanoscienze – CNRcnrnano2

Support E-Mail: smr3330@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 01/07/2019**

Hosted Activity

21 Oct 2019 - 23 Oct 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Science Diplomacy Workshop | (smr H574)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): TWAS,

Europe/Rome Beyond Open Access: SciPost Speaker: Jean-Sébastien Caux Abstract: SciPost is a by-and-for scientists initiative aiming to provide a Genuine Open Access replacement infrastructure for the scientific publishing industry. Its journals are characterized by being open access for both readers (no subscription or reading fees) as well as authors (no author fees/APCs), giving generous licenses (CC-BY) with copyright to the authors. All editorial work is performed by active professional scientists, without competing financial or corporate interest. As an organization, SciPost is purely not-for-profit and community-owned, and follows a cost-slashing consortial business model. This talk will outline the initiative's main aspects, current status, and upcoming expansion plans. Short bio: Jean-Sébastien Caux is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam. A Canadian citizen, he obtained his PhD in Oxford, was postdoctoral Fellow in All Souls, and moved to the Netherlands in 2003. Specialized in condensed matter theory, his interests include exactly-solvable models of many-body quantum mechanics, and their relation to in- and out-of-equilibrium dynamics of experimentally-realizable quantum magnets, cold atomic systems and nanodevices. He is a recipient among others of the NWO Vici and ERC Advanced grants. Besides his research activities, he is actively involved in the reform of scientific publishing. He is the founder, implementer and current chairman of SciPost. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

22 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

New Research Areas

Beyond Open Access: SciPost

Address: Strada Costiera 11

Room: Library

Support E-Mail: library@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 10:30

Seminar

22 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Black hole S-matrix and the infalling observer

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Panagiotis BETZIOS (University of Crete, Greece)

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Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Hosted Activity

23 Oct 2019 - 25 Oct 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

The Wonders of Theoretical Physics, Celebrating 60 years of Giuseppe Mussardo | (smr H584)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): A. Scardicchio, ICTP, Statistical Physics, SISSA,

Seminar

24 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Adwait GAIKWAD (TIFR, Mumbai)

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Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: We will discuss some questions and remarks on the existence of invariant tori for finitely differentiable Hamiltonians. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

24 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Positive measure of KAM tori for finitely differentiable Hamiltonians

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Abed Bounemoura (Paris-Dauphine)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Hosted Activity

28 Oct 2019 - 31 Oct 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

The Journey of Galaxies in the Assembling Cosmic Structures | (smr H569)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): OATS - INAF, Andrea Biviano, Gabriella De Lucia,

Europe/Rome Worldwide, women constitute a decided minority in the physics community. One of the goals of this Workshop is to bring together women physicists from all over the world, so that they can share their thoughts and learn from each other's experiences. Another goal is to offer mini-workshops that deal with the various non-academic skills that are needed to succeed in a career in science, that male physicists often acquire through the old boys' network, but that women, being more isolated and thus lacking mentors, may find harder to pick up. In addition to hearing from successful female scientists who will share their thoughts and experiences, there will be sessions on topics such as how to write a CV, how to give oral presentations, how to write scientific articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals, the art of negotiation in an academic environment, and how to try to achieve a balance between the demands of career and family. There will also be a scientific poster session, and several opportunities for informal discussion. The Workshop is primarily aimed at women early in their scientific career (e.g. postdocs and junior faculty members), but we will consider applications from all women in physics. This is part of a continuing series of such workshops at ICTP, typically we will not consider applications from participants who have already attended a previous workshop in this series. List of Speakers include: Carolina Araujo (IMPA) R. Sekhar Chivukula (UCSD) Hala J. El-Khozondar (Islamic U. of Gaza) Maitri Gopalakrishna (Bangalore) Sinead Griffin (LBNL) Shazrene Mohamed (UCT & SAAO) Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR) Gladys C. Ngetich (University of Oxford) Elizabeth Simmons (UCSD) Magdalena Stoeva (IUPESM) Assunta Vigliante (Sirius X Ray Solutions) There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

28 Oct 2019 - 1 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

New Research Areas

Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics | (smr 3336)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR, Bangalore), Elizabeth Simmons (UCSD, San Diego), Nicola Spaldin (ETH, Zurich), Local Organiser: Erika Coppola

Cosponsor(s): NCCR MARVEL - SNFmarvel2, Swiss National Science Foundationsnsf, University of California San Diegoucsdiego

Support E-Mail: smr3336@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 25/08/2019**

Europe/Rome Abstract. All elliptic curves over Q are modular. This is the statement of the Modularity Theorem that relates arithmetic properties of the elliptic curve to a modular form for SL(2,Z). This modularity has been (and still is) the subject of much research in Number Theory. At first, one might argue that this kind of modularity is irrelevant for physics. In this talk, however, I hope to present some recent work on (and examples of) "rank-2 attractors" which suggests that certain N=2 black holes that arise in String Theory are sensitive to the modularity of a Calabi-Yau manifold. This is work produced in collaboration with Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa and Duco van Straten. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

31 Oct 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Black Holes and Modular Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Mohamed ELMI (University of Oxford, UK)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome *** DEADLINE for applications is 1 AUGUST 2019 *** Directors: A. CICUTTIN, ICTP, Italy M.L. CRESPO, ICTP, Italy M.B.I. REAZ, University of Kebangsaan Malaysia B. TIRU, Gauhati University, India ICTP Scientific Contact: M.L. CRESPO, ICTP, Italy Local Organizing Committee: H.J. Goswami, Gauhati University, India H.K. Kalita, Gauhati University, India D. Saikia, Gauhati University, India K.K. Sarma, Gauhati University, India U. Sarma, Gauhati University, India The School will cover key aspects of fully-programmable Systems-On-Chip (SoC) and its applications to advanced scientific instrumentation. The first two days of the activity will be dedicated to the 2019 Second International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and System Engineering (ICAEESE 2019). Specific information about the Conference can be found at: http://www.icaeese2019.org Description: The School will contain theoretical lectures, tutorials and assisted hands-on laboratory sessions on modern SoC development hardware platforms. The School will be primarily addressed to researchers, teachers and advanced students from the Asia-Pacific region who need to master modern FPGA-based SoC technologies for their scientific and academic activities. The School and Conference will provide a forum for researchers, teachers and advanced students to cross the geographical boundaries for pursuance of science and technology through fruitful interactions, discussions and presentations. The activity will also act as a window enabling the participants to get a glimpse of trends of research in an era of borderless science. The exposure to talks by renowned Speakers will be motivations for young minds to pursue research as a career and thereby building manpower for overall social development. Topics: Review of Fully-programmable SoC Architectures; Software Automation Tools; SoC Design Methodologies; Hardware/Software System Design; FPGA and VHDL for Modeling and Logic Synthesis; Embedded C Language Programming; Real-time Data Acquisition, Processing and Transmission; Laboratory Sessions for Hands-On Training and Experimentation. Selected participants will also enjoy the waiver of the ICAEESE 2019 registration fee Guwahati - India ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Nov 2019 - 9 Nov 2019

@ Guwahati - India

Applied Physics

School and Conference on Fully-Programmable Systems-On-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation | (smr 3332)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Scientific ICTP Contact: M. L. Crespo (ICTP)
Organizers: A. Cicuttin (ICTP), M.L. Crespo (ICTP), M.B.I. Reaz (University of Kebangsaan Malaysia), B. Tiru (Gauhati University, India)

Cosponsor(s): Gauhati Universitygauhati2, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysiaukm

Support E-Mail: smr3332@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 01/08/2019**

Europe/Rome https://gender-gap-in-science.org Final meeting of a collaborative project (2017-2019), funded by the International Council for Science, of eleven major scientific international unions and organizations: findings, discussions, conclusions and recommendations. Reducing the gender gap is a major challenge for the whole scientific community, in developed as well as developing countries, and concerns everyone, men and women. The project has concentrated its efforts on three main tasks: the Joint Global Survey with 30,000 respondents (male and female) in more than 130 countries using 8 languages, the Joint Study on Publication Patterns analyzing comprehensive metadata sources of publications of more than 500,000 scientists since 1970, a Database of Good Practices for girls and young women, parents, and organizations. TOPICS: - Report on the findings and achievements of the three tasks of the project, globally, by scientific discipline and by geographical zone - Discuss and evaluate the results of the project. - Formulate recommendations and discuss new initiatives. SPEAKERS: S. BADALONI, University of Padova J.-P. BOURGUIGNON, European Research Council C. BOBAN, Diversity Working Group,Wikimedia Strategy 2030 A. BROOKS, UNESCO (retired) T. K. CAMP, Colorado School of Mines K. CLANCY, University of Illinois M. GOOS, University of Limerick R. IVIE, American Institute of Physics G. LOZANO, University of Arizona L. MERNER, American Institute of Physics H. MIHALJEVIC, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin M. F. OUEDRAOGO, African Women in Mathematics Association S. PONCE-DAWSON, Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires M. RENTETZI ,National Technical University of Athens L. SANTAMARIA, Independant Researcher J. TIMS, Baldwin Wallace University C. TOPAZ, Williams College GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

4 Nov 2019 - 8 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Conference on Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It? | (smr 3335)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Petra Krizmancic, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Marie-Francoise Roy (International Mathematical Union), Mei Hung Chiu (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry), Igle Gledhill (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), Local Organiser: Erika Coppola

Cosponsor(s): International Mathematical Union (IMU)imu, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)sissa3

Support E-Mail: smr3335@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 02/08/2019**

Hosted Activity

4 Nov 2019 - 5 Nov 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Second Canadian-Italian workshop: New science with next generation synchrotron light sources | (smr H589)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): Elettra - Synchrotrone,

Europe/Rome Petra Rudolf was born in Munich, Germany. She studied Physics at the La Sapienza, University of Rome, where she specialized in Solid State Physics. In 1987 she joined the National Surface Science laboratory TASC INFM in Trieste for the following five years, interrupted by two extended periods in 1989 and 1990/1991 at Bell Labs in the USA, where she started to work on the newly discovered fullerenes. In 1993 she moved to the University of Namur, Belgium where she received her PhD in 1995 and then quickly moved from postdoctoral researcher to lecturer and senior lecturer before taking up the Chair in Experimental Solid State Physics at the University in Groningen in 2003. Her principal research interests lie in the areas of condensed matter physics and surface science, particularly molecular motors, 2D solids, organic thin films and inorganic-organic hybrids. Dr. Rudolf is the President of the European Physical Society; she was the President of the Belgian Physical Society in 2000/2001 and was elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering,honorary member of the Italian Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, "Lid van verdienst" of the Dutch Physical Society and Fellow of the American Physical Society. For her work on molecular motors she received the 2007 Descartes Prize of the European Commission. In 2013 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau by H.M. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Abstract: Nano-engines and molecular motors form the basis of nearly every important biological process. In contrast to this solution chosen by Nature for achieving complex tasks, all of mankind's present day technologies function exclusively through their static or equilibrium properties. One can therefore easily anticipate that the controlled movement of molecules or parts of molecules offers unprecedented technological possibilities for the future. In this presentation I shall illustrate how introducing new concepts like incorporating a ratchet mechanism, allows for the creation of molecular engines that transcend simple switches. I shall discuss how to build molecular engines that allow movements at the molecular level to be coupled to the macroscopic world, e.g., to transport macroscopic objects like drops of liquid over a surface. Another example are molecular systems that can be triggered to form spontaneously functional structures with a well-defined position on surfaces. I shall discuss molecular switches, which can be addressed with light and charge transfer and show that such systems can be employed for “read and write” functions. The talk will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. Light refreshments will follow the event. The event is open to all those interested. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

4 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

ICTP Colloquium on Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste, Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Professor Petra Rudolf, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Seminar

5 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

BPS black holes, refinement and mock modularity

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Sergey ALEXANDROV (University of Montpellier, France)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Activity

9 Nov 2019 - 10 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Meeting of IMU's Committee for Women in Mathematics | (smr 3497)

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

Room: Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Marie-Francoise Roy (IRMAR/IMU), Local Organiser: Erika Coppola

Activity

11 Nov 2019 - 15 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

IAEA-ICTP Advanced School on Quality Assurance Requirements in the Digital Era of Diagnostic Radiology | (smr 3334)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

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

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3, American Association of Physicsts in Medicineaapm

Seminar

12 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Pushkal SHRIVASTAVA (ICTS - TIFR, Bangalore, India)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Activity

18 Nov 2019 - 22 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Establishment and Utilization of Diagnostic Reference Levels in Medical Imaging | (smr 3333)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

Organizer(s): Jenia VASSILEVA (IAEA), Local Organiser: Renato Padovani

Cosponsor(s): American Association of Physicsts in Medicineaapm, European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physicsefomp

Europe/Rome The title of the talk is to be confirmed. The abstract is forthcoming. Professor Michael E. Peskin is a Professor at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford University, USA. Prof. Peskin is interested in all aspects of theoretical elementary particle physics, but particularly the nature of new elementary particles and forces that will be discovered at the coming generation of proton and electron colliders. These particles are needed to explain symmetry-breaking in the weak interactions and to provide an identity for cosmic dark matter. For more details, please see: www.slac.stanford.edu/~mpeskin/ All are welcome to this event which will be livestreamed from the ICTP website: www.ictp.it Light refreshments will be served. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

20 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

ICTP Colloquium on 30 TeV: The quest to reach the next milestone in elementary particle physics

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Professor Michael E. Peskin, SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford University, USA

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Seminar

26 Nov 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: To be announced

Speaker(s): Zhao Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

26 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Alexandre BELIN (CERN)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Hosted Activity

27 Nov 2019 - 29 Nov 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Science Dialogues: Training Course in Science Communication | (smr H597)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): SISSA MediaLab,

Seminar

27 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Ander RETOLAZA (IPhT, Saclay)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

27 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Jay ARMAS (University of Amsterdam)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Seminar

28 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Cosmology

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Jacopo FUMAGALLI (IAP, Paris, France)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

29 Nov 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Andres COLINUCCI (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Activity

2 Dec 2019 - 6 Dec 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Uncertainty Estimations for Radiation Measurements in SSDLs and Hospitals | (smr 3337)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

Organizer(s): Paula Toroi (IAEA), Local Organiser: Luciano Bertocchi

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

Seminar

5 Dec 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Massive Supergravities and String Theory

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Costas BACHAS (LPT, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome There is an urgent need to enhance the resilience of developing countries to climate and weather shocks in order to foster sustainable development. Better management of current climate variability can help societies better adapt to future climate change. For example, effective use of sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts of rainfall hold the promise of effective early warning systems for floods and droughts, and actionable information for decision makers in agriculture, water management, and public health. Meanwhile, robust use of climate change scenarios can inform longer term policy decisions on time-scales of decades. For these applications, it is essential to build capacities for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in developing countries to appropriately use climate information for evidence-based planning, and to apply a systems thinking lens towards discerning how climate considerations weave into interconnected sectoral issues. This one-week workshop therefore highlights the need for mainstreaming the integration of climate information into systems across sectors. Researchers and policy-makers need to understand the basics of climate data and their sources and uncertainties, and to become familiar with simple techniques for processing and distilling these into useful information for different scenarios or contexts. To achieve this, a lectures combined with hands-on exercises will be implemented. Participating researchers and practitioners will guided towards the application of concepts and techniques learned towards specific applications in their respective sectors, which will serve as the culminating activity of the workshop. TOPICS: Sources of climate data (e.g. IPCC Climate Atlas, Copernicus C3S, ERA5, CMIP, CORDEX, hydro-met agencies) Basic Linux-based techniques for processing climate data Use of RS-GIS for climate-related applications Systems approach to the climate-land-energy-water nexus Manila - Philippines ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Dec 2019 - 14 Dec 2019

@ Manila - Philippines

Earth System Physics

Workshop on Distilling Climate Information for Sectoral Applications | (smr 3315)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Charlotte Kendra Gotangco (Ateneo de Manila University), ICTP Scientific Contact: Adrian Tompkins

Cosponsor(s): International Union of Geodesy and GeophysicsIUGG

**DEADLINE: 15/09/2019**

Europe/Rome The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) are organizing a joint winter school on quantitative systems biology. This is the 8th school in the series and will be held at ICTS, Bengaluru, India. https://www.icts.res.in/program/qsb2019 QSB2019 is an advanced school aimed at graduate students and postdocs working in quantitative systems biology. The focus this year is on 'morphogenesis'. The main school will be held between December 9-20, 2019 and will be preceded by a pedagogic and intensive ‘Pre-School’ between December 3-6, 2019. The Pre-School will cover the basic concepts in cell and developmental biology and will have short modules on mathematical modelling and physical approaches to biology. The deadline for applications is 1 September 2019. The development of an organism from a single-celled zygote to an embryo involves a tight integration between gene expression, signaling and mechanochemical processes. In recent years, there has been an explosion in studies that attempt to unravel the physical principles behind how organisms self-organize to generate their three-dimensional shape and functional form. Novel microscopy techniques are giving unprecedented views into the processes of development at very high spatiotemporal resolution. This deluge of data necessitates a larger scale systems-level understanding how organisms build themselves. The eighth edition of the ICTP - ICTS winter school on quantitative systems biology is focussed on Morphogenesis and will allow students from different backgrounds to become familiar with exciting developments at the interface of Physics and Developmental Biology. The participants of the school will be exposed to contemporary research areas, covering a large variety of topics, including mechanochemical pattern formation, regeneration and growth regulation, evolutionary-developmental biology. The school will emphasize how major questions in developmental biology such as stem cell differentiation, morphogenesis, tissue patterning, and tissue mechanics, can be asked with the help of quantification and physical theory. INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE Karen Alim Bill Bialek Fernando Cesares Suzanne Eaton Frank Jülicher Mounia Lagha Yasmine Meroz Matteo Rauzi Jochen Rink Tim Saunders Bengaluru - India ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Dec 2019 - 20 Dec 2019

@ Bengaluru - India

Quantitative Life Sciences

ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2019 | (smr 3338)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Stefano Di Talia (Duke U.), Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy (ICTS), Guillaume Salbreux (Francis Crick Inst.), Buzz Baum (UCL), ICTP Scientific Contact: Antonio Celani

Hosted Activity

9 Dec 2019 - 10 Dec 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Satellite Workshop CONGA, Dec. 9-10 | (smr H598)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Elettra Sincrotrone,

Hosted Activity

10 Dec 2019 - 11 Dec 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Satellite Workhop Workshop FUSEE | (smr H602)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Elettra Sincrotrone,

Hosted Activity

10 Dec 2019 - 11 Dec 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Meeting Urban Diplomacy in the Mediterranean World XII-XV C. | (smr H586)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): CERM (Centro Europeo Ricerche Medievali) di Trieste,

Europe/Rome The Computational School on Electronic Excitations in Novel Materials Using the Yambo Code, introduces participants to post-DFT simulations, in particular many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) approaches and provide training in the calculation of electronic and optical properties of materials. The program will offer theoretical and technical lectures, as well as dedicated hands-on sessions where the students will learn the use of the Yambo code in a massively parallel environment and post processing tools for the analysis of the results. The main topics covered range from introductory lessons on MBPT concepts through to more advanced topics in materials science. General topics include the diagrammatic approach, self- energy and quasiparticles, the GW approximation, linear response, and the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Strong focus is given on connection with experimental observables (from photoemission, absorption, photoluminescence). Advanced topics will address real time evolution of equations of motion, time dependent polarization in terms of the Berry phase, computation of non-linear optical properties. Participants are required to have a pre-existing background in DFT and in running DFT simulations. Speakers: Claudio Attaccalite (CNRS, CINAM, Aix-Marseille Université, France) Stefano Baroni (SISSA, Italy) Andrea Ferretti (CNR-NANO, Italy) Andrea Marini (CNR-ISM, Italy) Pedro Melo (University of Liege, Belgium Alejandro Molina-Sanchez (IINL, Portugal)) Paolo Moras (CNR-ISM, Italy) Fulvio Paleari (CNR-ISM, Italy) Maurizia Palummo (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) Davide Sangalli (CNR-ISM, Italy) Michiel Jan Van Setten (IMEC, Belgium) Daniele Varsano (CNR-NANO, Italy) Ludger Wirtz (Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Tutors: Mike Atambo (The Technical University of Kenya) Azimatu Seidu (Aalto University, Finland) Notes: Thanks to the generous contribution of MaX and Psi-K, a shared accommodation in double room is provide at the ICTP Guest Houses for all participants. Participants are free to upgrade at their own costs the accommodation to a single room accordingly to the ICTP Guest Houses prices. Due to the hands-on nature of the School, the number of participants is limited to the capacity of Adriatico Informatics Lab. For more information regarding the Informatics Lab, please visit the link. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 Jan 2020 - 31 Jan 2020

@ ICTP

Computational School on Electronic Excitations in Novel Materials Using the Yambo Code | (smr 3421)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Daniele Varsano (CNR-NANO), Maurizia Palummo (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Alejandro Molina-Sánchez (IINL), Conor David Hogan (CNR-ISM), Davide Sangalli (CNR-ISM), Ralph Gebauer (ICTP), Local Organiser: Ivan Girotto

Cosponsor(s): MAX EU Centre of Excellencemax, Psi-kpsi_k

Support E-Mail: smr3421@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 30/11/2019**

Activity

27 Jan 2020 - 29 Jan 2020

@ ICTP

Public Health and Water Resources - Adaptation to Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean | (smr 3422)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Pandora Malchose

Organizer(s): Yara Dahdal (Nature Palestine Society, Palestine), Robin Twite (Arav Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel), Assaf Hochman (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Local Organiser: Filippo Giorgi

Europe/Rome This Preparatory School will provide a concise overview of key concepts that might not be so familiar to several of the participants, but that will be important to fully benefit from the more specialized lectures during the Winter College. The lectures will include reviews of general subjects in physics such as electromagnetic theory and quantum mechanics, as well as of more specialized ones such as statistical optics and the angular momentum of light. Relevant mathematical techniques including linear algebra and Fourier theory will also be covered. The lectures will be supplemented with two lab sessions and a computer simulation session, in order to illustrate some of the topics in the lectures. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

3 Feb 2020 - 7 Feb 2020

@ ICTP

Preparatory School on Optics: Quantum Photonics and Information | (smr 3423)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH); UN Room

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Veronica Ahufinger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Miguel Alonso (Rochester University), Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste), Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University Belfast), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

Cosponsor(s): International Society for Optics and Photonicsspie, Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonicasiof, International Commission for Opticsico, The Optical Societyosa, European Optical Societyeos, International Society on Optics Within Life Sciencesowls

Support E-Mail: smr3423@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 28/10/2019**

Europe/Rome The aim of the Winter College is to offer Ph.D. students and early career researchers training in quantum optics and quantum information. The College will also offer insight in the new quantum technologies involving the generation and manipulation of photonic and matter-like states. Quantum Optics, which studies how individual quanta of light interact with atoms and molecules, has been one of the most active research fields in the last years. Such endeavours have led to a deep understanding of the fundamental properties of light-matter interaction and its use to control and engineer quantum systems. Currently, taking advantage from properties like entanglement, nonlocality and coherence, photons and atoms are the key elements for quantum technologies applications. In particular, quantum information science has flourished everywhere in the world, including developing countries. Theoretical and experimental research is thriving, and leading the way to new technological developments. The Winter College will present the basic concepts as well as the most up-to-date research in Quantum Optics. An ICTP PREPARATORY SCHOOL will be organized the week before the College (from 4 - 8 February 2020) for a limited number of selected participants: http://indico.ictp.it/event/9020/ Topics: • Introduction to Quantum Optics • From Quantum Optics to Quantum Information • Open quantum systems • Modern Technologies for Quantum Photonics • Hybrid quantum optics platforms for quantum technologies • Quantum optics platforms for quantum simulation • Continuous-variable quantum information processing • Quantum cyber-security • Quantum optomechanics • Machine learning for quantum technologies • Beyond quantum mechanics Lecturers: M. Barbieri, University Roma Tre (Italy) A. Bassi, University of Trieste (Italy) I. Bloch, LMU, Munich and Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics (Germany) V. Dunjko, Leiden University (The Netherlands) A. Fedrizzi, Heriot-Watt University (UK) S. Huelga, Ulm University (Germany) E. Karimi, University of Ottawa (Canada) V. Karimipour, Sharif University of Technology (Iran) M. Palma, University of Palermo (Italy) S. Pirandola, University of York (UK) O. Romero-Isart, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Austria) A. Serafini, University College London (UK) Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.” ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

10 Feb 2020 - 21 Feb 2020

@ ICTP

Winter College on Optics: Quantum Photonics and Information | (smr 3424)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Veronica Ahufinger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste), Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University Belfast), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

Support E-Mail: smr3424@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 28/10/2019**

Activity

17 Feb 2020 - 21 Feb 2020

@ Makerere - Uganda

Workshop on LPWAN Solutions for the Internet of Things | (smr 3437)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Lourino Chemane (Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet), Mozambique), Meoli Kashorda (Kenya Education Network (KENET), Kenya), Magreth Mushi (Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET), Tanzania), Julianne Sansa-Otim (Makarere University, Uganda), ICTP Scientific Contact: Marco Zennaro

Cosponsor(s): Internet Societyisoc, Makerere Universitymak_univ, UbuntuNet Alliance For Research & Education Networkingubuntunet

Activity

18 Feb 2020

@ ICTP

TSOSA Meeting 2020 | (smr 3496)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Veronica Ahufinger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste), Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University Belfast), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

**DEADLINE: 28/10/2019**

Europe/Rome SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) represents a major challenge to public health worldwide. Mobile elements such as plasmids play a crucial role in Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) and AMR spread. Understanding plasmid evolution and mobility is fundamental to unravel the population genetics of plasmid-encoded genes, especially antibiotic genes. The combination of breakthroughs in sequencing and computational approaches has led to a new vision of the eco-evolutionary processes involved in HGT dynamics of pathogens. The School and Workshop will focus on modelling efforts to integrate genomic, experimental and computational results, to build a unified framework to tackle the expansion of plasmid-borne AMR. The Workshop will be preceded by the one-week introductory School on bacterial evolution, population genetics and epidemiology. The School introduces general concepts in those disciplines and focuses on their applications to AMR and plasmids. State-of-the-art methods used in genetic research on plasmids will be covered. Invited Speakers and Lecturers include: Stephanie Bedhomme, CEFE/CNRS, Montpellier Sebastian Bonhoeffer, ETH Zurich Alessandra Carattoli, Sapienza University, Rome Trinad Chakraborty, JLU Gießen Teresa Coque, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, IFOM and University of Milan Alejandro Couce, Imperial College London Luca Ferretti, Big Data Institute, Oxford Jacopo Grilli, ICTP Lars Hansen, University of Copenhagen Michael Lässig, University of Cologne Bruce Levin, Emory University James McInerney, University of Manchester Itzik Mizrahi, Ben-Gurion University Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Chiara Poletto, INSERM - Sorbonne University Adam Roberts, LSTM, Liverpool Alvaro San Millan, IRYCIS, Madrid Kornelia Smalla, Julius Kühn-Institut, Braunschweig Willem Van Schaik, University of Birmingham Arjan de Visser, Wageningen University Rob Willems, UMC Utrecht Applications for the Workshop ONLY can be submitted here Applications for both the School and the Workshop can be submitted here ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Feb 2020 - 6 Mar 2020

@ ICTP

Plasmids as Vehicles of Antimicrobial Resistance Spread | (smr 3425)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Fernando de la Cruz (Universidad de Cantabria & Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria), Richard Neher (Biozentrum - University of Basel), Alice Ledda (Imperial College London), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Cosponsor(s): MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis Imperial College Londonmrc_gida

Support E-Mail: smr3425@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/11/2019**

Europe/Rome --- IMPORTANTE NOTICE: SCAM ALERT! ICTP has been reported cases of unsolicited phone calls from a travel agency pretending to make hotel reservations on behalf of its activitiesl: Please do NOT disclose any sensitive information, it is a fraudulent attempt to collect credit card data! No agency has been delegated to take care of accomodation arrangements for this activity, and communications on this matter will occur through official channels only. In case of any doubt, or should you receive any similar request, please contact the ICTP Secretariat at smr3426@ictp.it --- This SCHOOL is part of a two-week event consisting of Week 1: School on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (24 - 28 February 2020) Week 2: Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (2 - 6 March 2020). ONLINE APPLICATION IS OPEN To participate in both activities you need to submit two distinct applications: Week 1, SCHOOL: please click on the link "Apply here" on the left hand-side column of this page. Week 2, Workshop: please apply at the Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale. DEADLINES for requesting participation for both weeks are: - 10 November 2019 - 24 November 2019 (only for applicants not requesting financial support, nor needing visa) ======================================================= The topics of these activities (School, 24 - 28 February, and Workshop, 2 - 6 March) are at the forefront of current research in the field of quantum technologies, a fast growing research area involving questions of both fundamental and practical relevance. What are role and value of coherence and entanglement in solid state devices in quantum information, and in the working and efficiency of mesoscopic quantum engines? What are the mechanisms behind thermalization of closed quantum systems and what is the role of non-Markovianity in the physics of quantum information? These and other issues will be covered during the School and subsequent Workshop addressed to graduate students and junior researchers, providing them with the opportunity of a good training and the possibility to meet some leading experts in the field. 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. Topics: Open Quantum Systems Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics Complex Quantum Systems Quantum Machine Learning Many-body Quantum Systems Physical Foundations of Quantum Information Organizers: Alexia AUFFÈVES, Institut Néel-CNRS, Grenoble, France Fabio BENATTI, University of Trieste, Italy Abderrahim EL ALLATI, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima, Morocco Morad EL BAZ, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco Anass EL HADDADI, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima, Morocco Yassine HASSOUNI, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco Taoufik MOURABIT, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima, Morocco Massimo PALMA, University of Palermo, Italy Mauro PATERNOSTRO, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Antonello SCARDICCHIO, ICTP, Trieste, Italy Yahya TAYALATI, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco El Hassane ZEROUALI, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco Lecturers: Giuliano BENENTI, University of Insubria, Italy Andreas BUCHLEITNER, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany Steve CAMPBELL, University College Dublin, Ireland Dariusz CHRUŚCIŃSKI, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun, Poland Elisa ERCOLESSI, University of Bologna, Italy Matteo PARIS, University of Milano, Italy Related Workshop webpage: http://indico.ictp.it/event/9155/ ICTP Secretariat for both School and Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (24 February - 6 March 2020): Nicoletta Ivanissevich, e-mail: smr3426@ictp.it Al Hoceima - Morocco ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Feb 2020 - 28 Feb 2020

@ Al Hoceima - Morocco

School on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale | (smr 3426)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Alexia Auffèves (Institut Néel-CNRS, Grenoble), Fabio Benatti (University of Trieste), Abderrahim El Allati (University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima), Morad El Baz (University Mohammed V, Rabat), Anass El Haddadi (University Mohammed V, Rabat), Yassine Hassouni (University Mohammed V, Rabat), Massimo Palma (University of Palermo), Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University, Belfast), Mourabit Taoufik (University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima), Yahya Tayalati (University Mohammed V, Rabat), El Hassane Zerouali (University Mohammed V, Rabat), ICTP Scientific Contact: Antonello Scardicchio

Cosponsor(s): Université Abdelmalek Essaadiuae, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Al-Hoceimaftsh, Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d'Al-Hoceimaensah

Europe/Rome ICTP and SISSA, in collaboration with the partner institutions of the International Master Course in Physics of Complex Systems, organize the Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems from 24 February to 20 March 2020. Many complex systems in physics, biology, engineering and economics are characterized by a large number of interacting degrees of freedom giving rise to a non-trivial collective behavior. The theoretical and computational tools for a quantitative analysis of complex systems are often rooted in modern (statistical, quantum) physics. The Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems gives students the opportunity to get in touch with a selection of topics at the forefront of research during an intensive 4-week program. It consists of 5 courses of 9 lectures each, followed by final written tests. Lecturers and Courses: Mahesh Bandi (OIST, Okinawa, Japan) Fluctuations and Information in Physical Systems Ramakrishna Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India) Synchrony in nonlinear dynamical systems Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA) A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics Alessandro Silva (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Quantum systems out of equilibrium Lenka Zdeborova (CNRS, Paris, France) Statistical Mechanics toolbox for Machine Learning Students and young researchers from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may apply for the College. Candidates are required to solicit recommendation letters to be sent by their supervisors in support of their application. Participants should have an adequate working knowledge of English. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by their home institutions. However, limited funds are available to partially support some participants, who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is limited and candidates should make every effort to secure support for their travel, at least partial. Attendance of lectures and completion of the final written tests are mandatory for those who are granted ICTP funding. There is no registration fee. RULES FOR PARTICIPATION Participants with financial support from the ICTP and Master PCS students are required to attend at least 80% of the courses. Attendance is monitored regularly. Taking the final exam for each course is mandatory for participants with financial support from the ICTP and Master PCS students. Grading system: Each course will be graded on a scale from 0 to 20. Marks higher than 10 correspond to pass. A final grade will be given for the overall Spring College with the following scale: E- Excellent - 5 exams passed A- Very Good - 4 exams passed B- Good - 3 exams passed C- Sufficient - 2 exams passed F- Fail - 1 or no exams passed Certificates of attendance will be awarded only to participants who have attended at least 80% of the courses, with no exception. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 15 NOVEMBER 2019 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Feb 2020 - 20 Mar 2020

@ ICTP

Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 3427)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Alfredo Braunstein (Politecnico Torino), Andrea Gambassi (SISSA), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Cosponsor(s): Politecnico di Torinopolito, SISSA-International School for Advanced Studiessissa, Université Franco Italienneufi

Europe/Rome --- IMPORTANTE NOTICE: SCAM ALERT! ICTP has been reported cases of unsolicited phone calls from a travel agency pretending to make hotel reservations on behalf of its activitiesl: Please do NOT disclose any sensitive information, it is a fraudulent attempt to collect credit card data! No agency has been delegated to take care of accomodation arrangements for this activity, and communications on this matter will occur through official channels only. In case of any doubt, or should you receive any similar request, please contact the ICTP Secretariat at smr3426@ictp.it --- This WORKSHOP is part of a two-week event consisting of Week 1: School on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (24 - 28 February 2020) Week 2: Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (2 - 6 March 2020). ONLINE APPLICATION IS OPEN To participate in both activities you need to submit two distinct applications: Week 1, School: please apply at the School on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale Week 2, WORKSHOP: please click on the link "Apply here" on the left hand-side column of this page. DEADLINES for requesting participation are: - 10 November 2019 - 24 November 2019 (only for applicants not requesting financial support, nor needing visa) ======================================================= The topics of these activities (School, 24 - 28 February, and Workshop, 2 - 6 March) are at the forefront of current research in the field of quantum technologies, a fast growing research area involving questions of both fundamental and practical relevance. What are role and value of coherence and entanglement in solid state devices in quantum information, and in the working and efficiency of mesoscopic quantum engines? What are the mechanisms behind thermalization of closed quantum systems and what is the role of non-Markovianity in the physics of quantum information? These and other issues will be covered during the School and subsequent Workshop addressed to graduate students and junior researchers, providing them with the opportunity of a good training and the possibility to meet some leading experts in the field. 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. Topics: Open Quantum Systems Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics Complex Quantum Systems Quantum Machine Learning Many-body Quantum Systems Physical Foundations of Quantum Information Organizers: Alexia AUFFÈVES, Institut Néel-CNRS, Grenoble, France Fabio BENATTI, University of Trieste, Italy Abderrahim EL ALLATI, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima, Morocco Morad EL BAZ, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco Anass EL HADDADI, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima, Morocco Yassine HASSOUNI, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco Taoufik MOURABIT, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima, Morocco Massimo PALMA, University of Palermo, Italy Mauro PATERNOSTRO, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Antonello SCARDICCHIO, ICTP, Trieste, Italy Yahya TAYALATI, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco El Hassane ZEROUALI, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco Speakers: Mohammed AZZOUZ, International University of Rabat Morocco Adil BELHAJ, Université Morocco V, Rabat, Morocco Koen BERTELS, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Aziz BOUCHENE, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France El Houssaine EL BOUDOUTI, Mohammed I University, Oujda, Morocco Daniel BRAUN, Institut für Theoretische Physik Universität Tübingen, Germany Fabien BRETENAKER, Université Rennes I, Orsay, France Mohammed DAOUD, Université Ibn Tofail, Kenitra, Morocco Gabriele DE CHIARA, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Jean Pierre GAZEAU, Paris Diderot University, France John GOOLD School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Nikolay KIESEL, University of Vienna, Austria Eric LUTZ , Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stuttgart, Germany Stefano MANCINI, University of Camerino, Italy Sabrina MANISCALCO, University of Turku, Finland Gonzalo MANZANO PAULE, ICTP, Italy Giovanna MORIGI, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany * Saverio PASCAZIO, University of Bari, Italy Jukka PEKOLA, Aalto University School of Science, Finland Robert WHITNEY, LPMMC CNRS Grenoble, France Roberta ZAMBRINI, Campus Universitat Illes Balears, Spain Karol ZYCZKOWSKI, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland * * to be confirmed Related School webpage: http://indico.ictp.it/event/9023/ ICTP Secretariat for both School and Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (24 February - 6 March 2020): Nicoletta Ivanissevich, e-mail: smr3426@ictp.it Al Hoceima - Morocco ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Mar 2020 - 6 Mar 2020

@ Al Hoceima - Morocco

Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale | (smr 3500)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Alexia Auffèves (Institut Néel-CNRS, Grenoble), Fabio Benatti (University of Trieste), Abderrahim El Allati (University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima), Morad El Baz (University Mohammed V, Rabat), Anass El Haddadi (University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima), Yassine Hassouni (University Mohammed V, Rabat), Taoufik Mourabit (University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Al Hoceima), Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University, Belfast), Massimo Palma (University of Palermo), Yahya Tayalati (University Mohammed V, Rabat), El Hassane Zerouali (University Mohammed V, Rabat), ICTP Scientific Contact: Antonello Scardicchio

Cosponsor(s): Université Abdelmalek Essaadiuae, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Al-Hoceimaftsh, Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d'Al-Hoceimaensah

Europe/Rome Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) represents a major challenge to public health worldwide. Mobile elements such as plasmids play a crucial role in Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) and AMR spread. Understanding plasmid evolution and mobility is fundamental to unravel the population genetics of plasmid-encoded genes, especially antibiotic genes. The combination of breakthroughs in sequencing and computational approaches has led to a new vision of the eco-evolutionary processes involved in HGT dynamics of pathogens. The School and Workshop will focus on modelling efforts to integrate genomic, experimental and computational results, to build a unified framework to tackle the expansion of plasmid-borne AMR. The Workshop will be preceded by the one-week introductory School on bacterial evolution, population genetics and epidemiology. The School introduces general concepts in those disciplines and focuses on their applications to AMR and plasmids. State-of-the-art methods used in genetic research on plasmids will be covered. Invited Speakers and Lecturers include: Stephanie Bedhomme, CEFE/CNRS, Montpellier Sebastian Bonhoeffer, ETH Zurich Alessandra Carattoli, Sapienza University, Rome Trinad Chakraborty, JLU Gießen Teresa Coque, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, IFOM and University of Milan Alejandro Couce, Imperial College London Luca Ferretti, Big Data Institute, Oxford Jacopo Grilli, ICTP Lars Hansen, University of Copenhagen Michael Lässig, University of Cologne Bruce Levin, Emory University James McInerney, University of Manchester Itzik Mizrahi, Ben-Gurion University Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Chiara Poletto, INSERM - Sorbonne University Adam Roberts, LSTM, Liverpool Alvaro San Millan, IRYCIS, Madrid Kornelia Smalla, Julius Kühn-Institut, Braunschweig Willem Van Schaik, University of Birmingham Arjan de Visser, Wageningen University Rob Willems, UMC Utrecht Applications for the Workshop ONLY can be submitted here Applications for both the School and the Workshop can be submitted here ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Mar 2020 - 6 Mar 2020

@ ICTP

Workshop on Plasmids as Vehicles of Antimicrobial Resistance Spread | (smr 3498)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Cosponsor(s): MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis Imperial College Londonmrc_gida

Support E-Mail: smr3425@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/11/2019**

Activity

9 Mar 2020 - 20 Mar 2020

@ ICTP

Citizen Science with Application to Nuclear, Seismic and Air Quality Monitoring | (smr 3429)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Davide Storti (UNESCO), Francois Foulon (IAEA), Local Organiser: Marco Zennaro

Activity

9 Mar 2020 - 20 Mar 2020

@ Maceio - Brazil

Workshop on Differential Geometry | (smr 3431)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Feliciano Vitorio (Federal University of Alagoas), Abraão Mendes (Federal University of Alagoas), Marcio Batista (Federal University of Alagoas), Marcos Petrucio Cavalcante (Federal University of Alagoas), ICTP Scientific Contact: Claudio Arezzo

Activity

9 Mar 2020 - 20 Mar 2020

@ ICTP

Hands-on Workshop on Design, Installation and Management of HPC Data Centers for Scientific Institutions | (smr 3430)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Hakizumwami Birali Runesha (University of Chicago, USA), Guarav Bajpai (University of Rwanda, Rwanda), Happy Sithole (CHPC/CSIR South Africa), Paul Caleja (Cambridge University, UK), Ivan Girotto (ICTP), Local Organiser: Clement Onime

Europe/Rome Collective behavior is a distinctive trait of human and animal societies. The School aims at providing a thorough introduction to basic notions and advanced topics in this subject from the viewpoints of physics, biology, computer science and robotics. Invited Lecturers: Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz Marco Dorigo, ULB, Bruxelles Hugues Chaté, CEA, Paris Guy Theraulaz, CRCA, Toulouse David Sumpter, University of Uppsala Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University, New York CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPENING SOON Havana - Cuba ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

16 Mar 2020 - 27 Mar 2020

@ Havana - Cuba

School on Collective Behavior | (smr 3432)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Roberto Mulet (University of Havana, Cuba), Ernesto Altshuler (University of Havana, Cuba), ICTP Scientific Contact: Antonio Celani

Europe/Rome The two-week School is designed for early career professionals from developing countries, ideally with 1-3 years of experience, working at relevant institutions in their home country. Candidates should have a specific career interest in, or knowledge of nuclear security, although their academic and technical background may vary. Candidates with a scientific or technical background in a discipline of relevance to nuclear security, such as nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, political science, law enforcement, and/or in related fields are especially encouraged to apply. School curriculum will include the following topics: International legal framework supporting nuclear security Identification of, and measures to address, threats against nuclear material, facilities, and activities Instruments and methods for physical protection of associated facilities Threat and risk assessment, detection architecture, and response plan for material out of regulatory control Radiation detection instruments and detection strategies and techniques Transport security for nuclear and other radioactive material Nuclear forensics and radiological crime scene management Nuclear security culture, computer and information security, and security at major public events Measures for systematic nuclear security human resource development at the national level Additionally, there will be practical exercises designed to incorporate the acquired knowledge into national planning and procedures to protect against threats to nuclear security. Prerequisites for applying: As a prerequisite to admission to the School, all applicants will be asked to complete the following IAEA introductory e-learning modules on several topics in nuclear security: Overview of Nuclear Security Threats and Risks Nuclear Security Threats and Risks: Material and Facilities Nuclear Security Threats and Risks: Material Out of Regulatory Control Nuclear Security Threats and Risks: Cyber Threat Transport Security Information and Computer Security NMAC for Nuclear Security Radiological Crime Scene Management Physical Protection Preventive and Protective Measures against Insider Threat Use of Radiation Detection Instruments for Front Line Officers Introduction to Radioactive Sources and Their Applications The modules are available online: http://elearning.iaea.org/m2/course/index.php?categoryid=48 The estimated time for completing the courses is between 1 and 4.5 hours per module. Upon successful completion of each module, the system will generate a personalized certificate. Please submit all certificates of completion (as pdf or jpg files) with the online application form for this School. In case of technical issues, please contact: nsnselearning@iaea.org. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

23 Mar 2020 - 3 Apr 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA 2020 International School on Nuclear Security | (smr 3433)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Dmitriy Nikonov (IAEA), Local Organiser: Claudio Tuniz

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)iaea, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairsmae

Support E-Mail: smr3433@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 06/12/2019**

Hosted Activity

23 Mar 2020 - 3 Apr 2020

@ Trieste - Italy

Ergodicity Economics | (smr H604)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): London Mathematical Laboratory,

Activity

26 Mar 2020 - 3 Apr 2020

@ ICTP

Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics | (smr 3434)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Z. Komargodski (Weizman Institute), V. Hubeny (UC Davis), Edi Gava (ICTP and INFN), K.S. Narain (ICTP), Atish Dabholkar (ICTP), Local Organiser: Kyriakos Papadodimas

Europe/Rome Nano/mesoscale mechanical and rheological response with dissipation has become, thanks to the very broad range of experimental/theoretical approaches, a novel local diagnostic and even spectroscopic tool, as well as a playground of sophisticated non-equilibrium statistical physics. The physics of nanoscale mechanical dissipation is relevant to sliding nanofriction, to technological themes such as lubrication or finger-touchscreen friction, to soft and granular matter, to nanofrictional emulation in optical lattices, to active matter, to quantum and classical processes in noncontact AFM, and beyond. Between condensed matter physics, nanomechanics, materials science and engineering, this interdisciplinary area is of considerable conceptual value as a modern subject in non-equilibrium physics, and of the potential relevance of neighbouring fields such as fatigue, wear, lubrication, rheology, and biomechanics. As is well established in ICTP Trieste since 1995, we will collect the world community active in these fields, including groups in emerging countries, mixing theoretical, simulation and experimental highlights, and identifying future directions of motion of research in this lively arena. Topics From dissipation to superlubricity Atomistic friction of 2D layered materials Nanomanipulation and dynamics of nano-objects at surfaces Tribology of confined systems and lubricants under shear Frictional dynamics in soft and active matter Friction in powders and granular systems Fundamentals of friction theory Electronic, magnetic and quantum friction Surface and bulk processes and transitions detected by noncontact AFM dissipation Tribochemistry, triboelectricity, biotribological effects Trends in experimental and computational techniques Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts of proposed poster contributions. A number of short oral presentation slots will be available for some of them upon selection. Speakers: A. BENASSI, Chiesi Farmaceutici, Italy R. BENNEWITZ, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany X. CAO, University of Konstanz, Germany X. CHENG, University of Minnesota, USA G. DE VILHENA, University of Basel, Switzerland A. ERDEMIR, Argonne National Laboratory, USA N. ESPALLARGAS, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway A. GIACOMELLO, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy E. GNECCO, University of Jena, Germany N. GOSVAMI, Indian Institute of Technology, India B. GOTSMANN, IBM Zurich Laboratories, Switzerland T. HEIMBURG, University of Copenhagen, Denmark E. KOREN, Technion, Haifa, IL Q. LI, Tsinghua University, China H. LÖWEN, University of Düsseldorf, Germany M. MA, Tsinghua University, China T. MA, Tsinghua University, China N. MANINI, University of Milan, Italy L. MARKS, Northwestern University, USA J. M. MARTIN, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France R. PAWLAK, University of Basel, Switzerland M. ROBBINS, Johns Hopkins University, USA A. SIRIA, alessandro.siria@lps.ens.fr, Ecole normale Supérieur Paris, France M. URBAKH, Tel Aviv University, Israel ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

6 Apr 2020 - 9 Apr 2020

@ ICTP

Dissipation Mechanisms in Nano/Mesoscale Tribological Systems | (smr 3435)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Ernst Meyer (University of Basel), Andrea Vanossi (CNR/IOM and SISSA), Quanshui Zheng (Tsinghua University Beijing), Local Organiser: Erio Tosatti

Cosponsor(s): Tsinghua Universitytsing, University of Baselunibas, International School for Advanced Studiessissa3, European Research Councilerc, Istituto per l’Officina dei Materialicnr-iom

Support E-Mail: smr3435@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/01/2020**

Hosted Activity

15 Apr 2020 - 17 Apr 2020

@ Trieste - Italy

TWAS and illycaffè networking event | (smr H594)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): TWAS,

Activity

20 Apr 2020 - 24 Apr 2020

@ ICTP

Youth in High-dimensions: Machine Learning, High-dimensional Statistics and Inference for the New Generation | (smr 3438)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Florent Krzakala (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris), Jean Barbier (ICTP), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Activity

20 Apr 2020 - 1 May 2020

@ ICTP

School on Advanced Light Sources: Principles, Methods and Multidisciplinary Applications | (smr 3439)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Maya Kiskinova (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste), Alessandro Migliori (IAEA), Ian Swainson (IAEA), Local Organiser: Nadia Binggeli

Activity

20 Apr 2020 - 1 May 2020

@ ICTP

8th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open Source Scientific Packages | (smr 3436)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Alessandro Corbetta (Eindhoven University of Technology), David Grellscheid (ICTP), Local Organiser: Ivan Girotto

Activity

4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA Use of Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor for Soil Moisture Management and Validation of Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Maps | (smr 3440)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Emil Fulajtar (Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Subprogramme), Local Organiser: Paolo Creminelli

Activity

4 May 2020 - 15 May 2020

@ ICTP

10th ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models | (smr 3441)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Michelle Reboita (U. Federal de Itajuba, Brazil), Gemma Narisma (Ateneo de Manila, Philippines), Xuejie Gao (IAP, Beijing, China), Filippo Giorgi (ICTP), Local Organiser: Filippo Giorgi

Activity

11 May 2020 - 22 May 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA Radiation Damage in Nuclear Systems: from Bohr to Young | (smr 3443)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Ping Zhang (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing, China), Wolfgang Jacob (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany), Steven Zinkle (University of Tennessee, USA), Gary Was (University of Michigan, USA), Sabina Markelj (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Celine Cabet (CEA, France), Jean-Christophe Sublet (IAEA), Christian Hill (IAEA), Local Organiser: Nicola Seriani

Activity

11 May 2020 - 22 May 2020

@ ICTP

Summer School on Cosmology 2020 | (smr 3467)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

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

Activity

11 May 2020 - 22 May 2020

@ Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

Integrating Climate Data, Predictions and Projections into Health Planning | (smr 3442)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Solomon Gizaw (University of Addis Ababa), Mike Wimberly (university of Oklahoma, USA), Madeleine Thomson (IRI, USA), Addisu Semie (LMD, Paris, France), Adria Tompkins (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Adrian Tompkins

Activity

18 May 2020 - 29 May 2020

@ Baranquilla - Colombia

3rd Latin American Introductory School on Parallel Programming and Parallel Architecture for High Performance Computing | (smr 3444)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Paola Amar Sepulveda (Simon Bolivar University), Leonardo Pacheco (Simon Bolivar University), Juvenal Yosa Reyes (Simon Bolivar University), Axel Kohlmeyer (ICTP/Temple University (Philadelphia)), ICTP Scientific Contact: Ivan Girotto

Activity

18 May 2020 - 22 May 2020

@ ICTP

Superconductivity: from Microscopic Mechanisms to Topology to Macroscopic Properties | (smr 3445)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Oskar Vafek (Unioversity of Florida), Daniel Agterberg (University of Wisconsin), Egor Babaev (KTH The Royal Institute of Technology), Local Organiser: Marcello Dalmonte

Hosted Activity

24 May 2020 - 30 May 2020

@ Trieste - Italy

"Ad un passo dalle IPhO" | (smr H596)

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

Room: Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Prof.Luigi Censi, OLIFIS,

Activity

25 May 2020 - 29 May 2020

@ ICTP

Workshop on Physics and Chemistry of Solid/Liquid Interfaces for Energy Conversion and Storage | (smr 3447)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Marialore Sulpizi (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), Simone Piccinin (CNR-IOM), Nicola Seriani (ICTP), Local Organiser: Ralph Gebauer

Activity

25 May 2020 - 29 May 2020

@ ICTP

Signatures of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Life | (smr 3446)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Jordan Horowitz (University of Michigan), Saar Rahav (Technion), Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore), Edgar Roldan (ICTP), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Activity

31 May 2020 - 6 Jun 2020

@ ICTP

4th Lead Author Meeting (LAM4) of the AR6 IPCC WGI | (smr 3448)

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

Room: All lecture halls in LB (included Oppenheimer and Stasi) as well as in AGH; Diploma? ex-SISSA Main Auditorium; ex-SISSA Room A, B, HPC, D, C?; Room 101 EFB

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen, Pandora Malchose

Organizer(s): Panmao Zhai (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences), Valerie Masson-Delmotte (LSCE-IPSL), Local Organiser: Anna Pirani

Activity

1 Jun 2020 - 12 Jun 2020

@ Kigali - Rwanda

6th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA-2020) | (smr 3449)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Steve Ndengue (EAIFR), Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR Bangalore), Richard Martin (Stanford University), Gebreyesus Gebremedhn Hagoss (University of Ghana), Nithaya Chetty (University of Pretoria), Omolulu Akin-Ojo (EAIFR), ICTP Scientific Contact: Nicola Seriani

Activity

8 Jun 2020 - 19 Jun 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA Nuclear Energy Management School | (smr 3451)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Ashok GANESAN (IAEA), Local Organiser: Claudio Tuniz

Activity

8 Jun 2020 - 12 Jun 2020

@ ICTP

Impact and Risk Relevant Climate Information from Global Scale Projections to Local Scale Climate Hazards | (smr 3450)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen, Pandora Malchose

Organizer(s): Robert Vautard (IPSL), Alex Ruane (NASA), Roshanka Ranasinghe (IHE), Local Organiser: Erika Coppola

Activity

15 Jun 2020 - 3 Jul 2020

@ ICTP

Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development | (smr 3453)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB) -> week 1 and 2 + 3 days week 3; Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) -> 2 last days week 3; Diploma Program Room B,D

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

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

Activity

15 Jun 2020 - 26 Jun 2020

@ ICTP

New Pathways in Explorations of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity Beyond Supersymmetry - II | (smr 3454)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), Leopoldo Pando Zayas (University of Michigan), Francesco Benini (SISSA), Atish Dabholkar (ICTP), Local Organiser: Pavel Putrov

Hosted Activity

16 Jun 2020 - 18 Jun 2020

@ Trieste - Italy

IODP SEP2006 | (smr H599)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Dr. Michele Rebesco, OGS,

Activity

22 Jun 2020 - 26 Jun 2020

@ ICTP

16th Joint ICTP-IAEA Nuclear Knowledge Management School | (smr 3455)

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

Room: Kastler and Lundqvist Lecture Hall + Meeting Room with glass doors

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Maria Elena Urso (IAEA), Local Organiser: Claudio Tuniz

Europe/Rome Information on Call for Makers will follow in due time. 2019 Trieste Mini Maker Faire web site: https://trieste.makerfaire.com/about/ ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 Jun 2020 - 28 Jun 2020

@ ICTP

ICTP-SDU Maker Faire - ESOF 2020 Science in the City Festival | (smr 3456)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

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

Support E-Mail: smr3456@ictp.it

Activity

29 Jun 2020 - 3 Jul 2020

@ ICTP

Complex Analysis, Geometry and Dynamics ECM-ICTP 2020 | (smr 3457)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Xiangju Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiaojun Huang (Rutgers University), John Erik Fornaess (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Franc Forstneric (University of Ljubljana), Local Organiser: Claudio Arezzo

Europe/Rome IMPORTANTE NOTICE: SCAM ALERT! ICTP has been reported cases of unsolicited phone calls from a travel agency pretending to make hotel reservations on behalf of its activitiesl: Please do NOT disclose any sensitive information, it is a fraudulent attempt to collect credit card data! No agency has been delegated to take care of accomodation arrangements for this activity, and communications on this matter will occur through official channels only. In case of any doubt, or should you receive any similar request, please contact the local organization or ICTP Secretariat at smr3458@ictp.it - - - ONLINE APPLICATION WILL BE OPEN SOON - - - The aim of the Biennial Africal School of Fundamental Physics and Application is to build capacity to harvest, interpret, and exploit the results of current and future physics experiments and to increase proficiency in related applications. The school is based on a close interplay between theoretical, experimental, and applied physics. The participating students are selected from all over Africa. A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants. The school also offers a workshop to train high school teachers, an outreach to motivate high school pupils and a physics conference to support a broader participation of African research faculties. The duration of the school allows for networking-interactions among the participants. Access and participation in fundamental science is an important right. Through this work, it is hoped that the community of scientists who are at the forefront of science is enhanced and diversified thus fulfilling the mission of international research and education. Main topics: 1) Theoretical Physics 2) Experimental Physics 3) Applied Physics 4) High Performance Grid Computing In addition to lecture courses, each topic will include hands-on exercises on computing-related aspects, including the Grid. For full information please visit https://www.africanschoolofphysics.org/asp2020/ Marrakesh - Morocco ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

6 Jul 2020 - 24 Jul 2020

@ Marrakesh - Morocco

6th Biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications | (smr 3458)

Address: Cadi Ayyad University

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Kétévi Adiklè Assamagan (BNL), Anne E. Dabrowski (CERN), Christine Darve (ESS, Lund), Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London), Fernando Ferroni (GSSI-INFN), Steve Guy Muanza (CNRS-IN2P3, Marseille), ICTP Scientific Contact: Bobby Samir Acharya

Activity

6 Jul 2020 - 17 Jul 2020

@ São Paulo - Brazil

2nd Joint ICTP and SAIFR School on Particle Physics | (smr 3459)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Rogério Rosenfeld (IFT and ICTP-SAIFR), Eduardo Pontón (IFT and ICTP-SAIFR), Joan Elias-Miró (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Giovanni Villadoro

Activity

13 Jul 2020 - 17 Jul 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Physics and Technology of Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems | (smr 3461)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Chirayu Batra (IAEA), Vladimir Kriventsev (IAEA), Local Organiser: Nicola Seriani

Europe/Rome ICTP-EAIFR DSU2020 web page: https://eaifr.org/events/dsu-2020/ The Dark Side of the Universe (DSU) is a series of international workshops in cosmology and astro-particle physics. The workshops bring together a wide range of theorists and experimentalists to discuss current ideas on models of the dark sector of the Universe, and relate them to ongoing and future experiments. The 16th event of the series will be hosted by ICTP-EAIFR in Kigali, Rwanda from 13 to 17 July 2020. Topics covered include: dark matter dark energy cosmic rays neutrino physics large-scale structure black holes gravitational waves physics beyond the standard model More details about the conference and how to apply to come soon. Kigali - Rwanda ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

13 Jul 2020 - 17 Jul 2020

@ Kigali - Rwanda

DSU2020 (The Dark Side of the Universe) | (smr 3452)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Joern Kersten (Bergen U), Roy Maartens (UWC, South Africa & Portsmouth), Shoaib Munir (ICTP-EAIFR), Marcello Musso (ICTP-EAIFR), Riccardo Sturani (IIP, Brazil), Filippo Vernizzi (IPhT, Saclay), Gabrijela Zaharijas (Nova Gorica U), ICTP Scientific Contact: Paolo Creminelli

Activity

13 Jul 2020 - 19 Jul 2020

@ Accra - Ghana

The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana 2020 | (smr 3462)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Edem Mahu (University of Ghana, Legon), Brian K. Arbic (University of Michigan, USA), ICTP Scientific Contact: Riccardo Farneti

Activity

13 Jul 2020 - 17 Jul 2020

@ ICTP

Frontiers of Nanomechanics | (smr 3460)

Address: via Grignano. 9 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Eva Weig (University of Konstanz), Florian Marquardt (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light), Yaroslav Blanter (TU Delft), Local Organiser: Mikhail Kiselev

Activity

20 Jul 2020 - 31 Jul 2020

@ ICTP

International Conference on Representations of Algebras, ICRA 2020 Workshop and Conference | (smr 3463)

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

Room: All lecture halls in LB (included Stasi) as well as in AGH; ex-SISSA Auditorium

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Maria Julia Redondo (Uni National del Sur), Jie Xiao (Tsinghua), William Crawley-Boevey (Bielefeld), Henning Krause (Bielefeld), Lidia Angeleri Hugel (Verona), Oeyvind Solberg (NTNU), Aslak Bakke Buan (NTNU), Local Organiser: Fernando Rodriguez Villegas

Activity

31 Jul 2020 - 10 Aug 2020

@ Shaanxi - People's Republic of China

2nd International High Energy Physics School in Western China | (smr 3464)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Andrea Romanino (SISSA, Italy), Yongtao Zhao (XJTU, Shaanxi, China), C. -P. Yuan (MSU, USA), Tie-Jiun Hou (NEU, Liaoning, China), Sayipjamal Dulat (XJU, Xinjiang, China), Xurong Chen (IMP, Gansu, China), Nu Xu (IMP, Gansu, China), ICTP Scientific Contact: Bobby Samir Acharya

Activity

3 Aug 2020 - 14 Aug 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Portable Detectors for In-situ Radiation Measurements | (smr 3466)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Roman Padilla Alvarez (IAEA, NSIL, NAPC), Alexander Mauring (IAEA, TEL, NAEL), Local Organiser: Maria Liz Crespo

Activity

3 Aug 2020 - 14 Aug 2020

@ ICTP

3rd Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modeling of Climate Dynamics: Tropical Oceans, ENSO and their Teleconnections | (smr 3485)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Jagadish Shukla (George Mason University), David Straus (George Mason University), Antonietta Capotondi (NOAA), Adrian Tompkins (ICTP), Riccardo Farneti (ICTP), Local Organiser: Fred Kucharski

Activity

3 Aug 2020 - 21 Aug 2020

@ ICTP

The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School and Advanced Workshops | (smr 3468)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH) week 1, 2 and 3 and Lundqvist week 3

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Stefnao Monti (IAEA), Fotis Psomopoulos (ELIXIR/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Sarah Jones (University of Glasgow, UK), Raphael Cobe (UNESP, Brazil), Marcela Alfaro Cordoba (Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica), Louise Bezuidenhout (University of Oxford, UK), Chirayu Batra (IAEA), Ekpe Okorafor (Big Data Academy, Accenture, USA & AUST), Leonid Serkin (CERN), R Murenzi (TWAS), Rob Quick (Indiana University, USA), Hugh Shanahan (Royal Holloway University, UK), Simon Hodson (CODATA, France), Uli Singe (ICTP), Adrian Tompkins (ICTP), Marco Zennaro (ICTP), Ivan Girotto (ICTP), Local Organiser: Clement Onime

Activity

3 Aug 2020 - 14 Aug 2020

@ Kigali - Rwanda

EAUMP-ICTP School: Topics in Concrete Mathematics | (smr 3465)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

Organizer(s): Balazs Szendroi (Oxford), Omololu Akin-Ojo (EAIFR), ICTP Scientific Contact: Fernando Rodriguez Villegas

Activity

17 Aug 2020 - 21 Aug 2020

@ ICTP

Quantum Microwaves, Heat Transfer and Many-body Physics in Mesoscopic Superconducting Devices | (smr 3470)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Ciprian Padurariu (Ulm University), Björn Kubala (Ulm University), Wiebke Guichard (Institut Neel, CNRS, Grenoble), Joachim Ankerhold (Ulm University), Local Organiser: Rosario Fazio

Activity

17 Aug 2020 - 21 Aug 2020

@ ICTP

Precision Theoretical Approaches to Correlated Electrons | (smr 3469)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Evgeny Kozik (King's College London, London, UK), Alessandro Toschi (Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria), Local Organiser: Mikhail Kiselev

Activity

24 Aug 2020 - 4 Sep 2020

@ ICTP

Geometry of Discrete Actions | (smr 3471)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): David Dumas (University of Illinois at Chicago, U. S. A.), Bertrand Deroin (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France), John Parker (University of Durham, U. K.), José Seade (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Local Organiser: Lothar Göttsche

Activity

24 Aug 2020 - 4 Sep 2020

@ ICTP

Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School | (smr 3472)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Mark Shattuck (The City College of New York), Eric Kostelich (Arizona State University), Teuta Pilizota (University of Edinburgh), Michael F Schatz (Georgia Institute of Technology), Joseph Niemela (ICTP), Local Organiser: Maria Liz Crespo

Activity

7 Sep 2020 - 25 Sep 2020

@ ICTP

College on Medical Physics: Medical Imaging Physics and Technology - Capacity Building in Developing Countries | (smr 3473)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

Organizer(s): Dr Mario De Denaro (Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Trieste), Prof Slavik Tabakov (King's College London UK), Local Organiser: Luciano Bertocchi

Activity

7 Sep 2020 - 11 Sep 2020

@ ICTP

Conference on Quantum Annealing/Adiabatic Quantum Computation | (smr 3474)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Giuseppe E. Santoro (SISSA), Hidetoshi Nishimori (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Wolfgang Lechner (IQOQI), Local Organiser: Antonello Scardicchio

Activity

7 Sep 2020 - 25 Sep 2020

@ ICTP

ICTP-CECAM School and Workshop on Molecular Dynamics and its Applications to Biological Systems | (smr 3483)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Alessandra Magistrato (SISSA), Christian Micheletti (SISSA), Angelo Rossa (SISSA), Giovanni Bussi (SISSA), Alessandro Laio (SISSA), Edgar Roldan (ICTP), Alex Rodriguez (ICTP), Local Organiser: Ali Hassanali

Activity

14 Sep 2020 - 25 Sep 2020

@ ICTP

Frontiers of Matter Wave Optics | (smr 3475)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Markus Arndt (University of Vienna), Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste), Andrea Trombettoni (CNR-IOM and SISSA), Local Organiser: Marcello Dalmonte

Activity

21 Sep 2020 - 25 Sep 2020

@ Beijing - People's Republic of China

Dissipative Quantum Many-Body Systems | (smr 3480)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Yingdan Wang (Insitute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yuval Gefen (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), Stefano Chesi (Beijing CSRC, China), Aashish Clerk (University of Chicago, USA), ICTP Scientific Contact: Rosario Fazio

Activity

28 Sep 2020 - 2 Oct 2020

@ Kigali - Rwanda

African Physical Society (AfPS) International Conference | (smr 3476)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Amna Abdallah (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen, Germany), Akintayo Adedoyin (University of Botswana, Botswana), Stephane Kenmoe (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Sandro Scandolo (ICTP, Italy), Omololu Akin-ojo (EAIFR, Rwanda), Lawrence Norris (National Society of Black Physicists, USA), Najeh Thabet Mliki (Université de Tunis El Manar.Tunisia), Moses Jojo Eghan (University of Cape Coast, Ghana), Mmansae Diale (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Ahmadou Wague (Universita Chiek Ante Diop, Senegal), Gebremedhn Gebreyesus (University of Ghana, Ghana), ICTP Scientific Contact: Ali Hassanali

Activity

28 Sep 2020 - 2 Oct 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Dosimetry in Radionuclide Therapy and Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine | (smr 3478)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Gian Luca Poli (IAEA), Local Organiser: Renato Padovani

Activity

28 Sep 2020 - 2 Oct 2020

@ ICTP

Biosphere - Climate Interactions in Earth System Models at Global and Regional Scales | (smr 3477)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Klaus Fraedrich (MPI-Hamburg), Jost Von Hardenberg (CNR-ISAC), Cosimo Solidoro (OGS), Filippo Giorgi (ICTP), Local Organiser: Fred Kucharski

Activity

5 Oct 2020 - 9 Oct 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA 3rd Course on Scientific Novelties in the Phenomenology of Severe Accidents in Water Cooled Reactors | (smr 3481)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Mr. Abdallah Amri (IAEA/NSNI/SAS), Mr. Alexei Miassoedov (IAEA/NENP/NPTDS), Local Organiser: Nadia Binggeli

Activity

5 Oct 2020 - 16 Oct 2020

@ Rabat - Morocco

African Workshop on GNSS and Space Weather | (smr 3479)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

Organizer(s): Sharafat Gadimova (UNOOSA, International Committee on GNSS), Patricia Doherty (Boston College, USA), Sandro Radicella (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Bruno Nava

Activity

5 Oct 2020 - 16 Oct 2020

@ ICTP

Seismic Tomography and Earth Structure | (smr 3482)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Local Organiser: Abdelkrim Aoudia

Activity

12 Oct 2020 - 16 Oct 2020

@ ICTP

Workshop on Dynamical Systems | (smr 3420)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Marcelo Viana (IMPA), Corinna Ulcigrai (Zurich), Jacopo de Simoi (Toronto), Local Organiser: Stefano Luzzatto

Activity

19 Oct 2020 - 23 Oct 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA International School on Radioactive Waste Cementation | (smr 3484)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Ian A. Gordon (IAEA, NEFW), Rebecca A. Robbins (IAEA, NEFW), Willie Maeyer (IAEA, NEFW), Michael I.Ojovan (Imperial College London), Celine Cau Dit Coumes (CEA), Local Organiser: Sandro Scandolo

Hosted Activity

26 Oct 2020 - 30 Oct 2020

@ Trieste - Italy

CLUSTER3: A view from Italy on galaxy clusters in the 21st century | (smr H601)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Andrea Biviano, INAF-OATS, Paolo Creminelli, ICTP,

Activity

9 Nov 2020 - 20 Nov 2020

@ ICTP

Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology: Quantitative Approaches in Ecosystem Ecology | (smr 3486)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Simon Levin (Princeton University), Matteo Marsili (ICTP), Jacopo Grilli (ICTP), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Activity

12 Nov 2020 - 16 Nov 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Medical Physics Aspects of Stereotactic Radiotherapy Techniques | (smr 3492)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Karen Christaki (IAEA), Local Organiser: Renato Padovani

Activity

17 Nov 2020 - 19 Nov 2020

@ Buenos AIres - Argentina

Conference on Regional Climate Modeling and Extreme Events over South America: Results from the CORDEX-Flagship Pilot Study | (smr 3428)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Silvina Solman (University of Buenos Aires/CIMA-CONICET, UMI-IFAECI/CNRS-CONICET-UBA), Marcelo Barreiro (University of the Republic), Maria Laura Bettolli (University of Buenos Aires/CONICET), Marta Llopart (UNESP), Rosmeri Porfirio da Rocha (IAG/USP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Erika Coppola

Activity

23 Nov 2020 - 27 Nov 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Risk Assessment in Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques | (smr 3487)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Debbie Gilley (IAEA), Jenia Vassileva (IAEA), Local Organiser: Renato Padovani

Activity

23 Nov 2020 - 27 Nov 2020

@ Trivandrum - India

Light-matter Interactions: Theory and Experiments at the Border with Biology | (smr 3488)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Anna Painelli (University of Parma, Italy), Luca Grisanti (IRB, Zagreb, Croatia), Eric Vauthey (Université de Genève, Switzerland), Ravindra Venkatramani (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India), K. George Thomas (IISER-TVM, Thiruvananthapuram, India), Ankona Datta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India), Mahesh Hariharan (IISER-TVM, Thiruvananthapuram, India), ICTP Scientific Contact: Ali Hassanali

Activity

30 Nov 2020 - 18 Dec 2020

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA School on FPGA-based SoC and its Applications for Nuclear and Related Instrumentation | (smr 3490)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Monica Baschiera, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Mladen Bogovac (IAEA), Francois Foulon (IAEA), Andres Cicuttin (ICTP), Local Organiser: Maria Liz Crespo

Activity

7 Dec 2020 - 18 Dec 2020

@ Bombay - India

IITB-ICTP-TIFR Workshop on Physics, Geometry and Number Theory | (smr 3491)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): D. Zagier (Max-Planck Institute, Bonn & ICTP), A. Gadde (TIFR Mumbai), U. Anandavardhanan (IIT Bombay), Atish Dabholkar (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Pavel Putrov

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Joint ICTP-IAEA Nuclear Energy Management School | (smr 3327)

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Course on "Quadratic Fields and Modular Forms"

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Kahler Meetings

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High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Challenges and Opportunities of High Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection | (smr 3493)

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Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Physics and Technology of Innovative High Temperature Nuclear Energy Systems | (smr 3281)

Seminar

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Local G2 Geometry, Gauge Theory and String Duality

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Mathematics

Tsen's Theorem and higher Fano manifolds

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Mathematics

Bridgeland stability conditions on the category of morphisms

Seminar

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

de Sitter Vacua, Inflation and the Swampland

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Mathematics

Vertex operator algebras whose dimensions of weight one spaces are 8 and 16

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Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Electrostatic Accelerator Technologies, Basic Instruments and Analytical Techniques | (smr 3331)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Signatures of Topology in Condensed Matter | (smr 3330)

Hosted Activity

Science Diplomacy Workshop | (smr H574)

Seminar

New Research Areas

Beyond Open Access: SciPost

Seminar

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Black hole S-matrix and the infalling observer

Hosted Activity

The Wonders of Theoretical Physics, Celebrating 60 years of Giuseppe Mussardo | (smr H584)

Seminar

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Title to be announced

Seminar

Mathematics

Positive measure of KAM tori for finitely differentiable Hamiltonians

Hosted Activity

The Journey of Galaxies in the Assembling Cosmic Structures | (smr H569)

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New Research Areas

Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics | (smr 3336)

Seminar

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Black Holes and Modular Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Activity

Applied Physics

School and Conference on Fully-Programmable Systems-On-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation | (smr 3332)

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Conference on Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It? | (smr 3335)

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