Scientific Calendar

PLEASE NOTE: Due to ongoing concerns about the COVID-19 virus, ICTP conferences, schools and workshops are cancelled until mid-June 2020. Please note that some of the activities that have been cancelled this year will, in fact, be postponed until next year. The decision on which activities are to be postponed will be made after the COVID-19 emergency has passed. Please check ICTP's Scientific Calendar frequently for updates.

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Activity

8 Jan 2009 - 10 Jan 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

14th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods | (smr 2014)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): R. Gebauer, F. Mauri, D. Vanderbilt

Laboratories: Not required

Secretary: N. Ivanissevich

Cosponsor(s): the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), the INFM DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center, the International Center for Materials Research (ICMR), the Psi-k Network, and the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM)

Support E-Mail: smr2014@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

13 Jan 2009 - 15 Jan 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

La musica in testa: tre giorni di scienza, musica e apprendimento | (smr H218)

Room: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)

Organizer(s): SISSA and others

Secretary: Ms. Padoan

Europe/Rome A supersymmetric theory with osp(1|2)-invariance can be used to describe spanning (hyper-)forests on a given graph. In a sigma-model, the bosonic part of the superfield can be integrated out and the symmetry is realized non-linearly in the remaining Grassmann degrees of freedom. We investigate the invariant osp(1|2) Grassmann and Clifford subalgebras. We discover that, given an arbitrary vertex ordering, a basis of independent elements is given by terms labeled by non-crossing partitions, respectively of the vertices of the graph, and of a doubling of this set. The invariant Clifford subalgebra is isomorphic to a Temperley--Lieb Algebra, in a peculiar even/odd generalization. A relation involving four complex fermions plays a central role in the construction, and disentangles the only 4-set crossing partition as a linear combination of the other partitions with up to two blocks. This relation appears in different flavours, and equivalence of the formulations is shown. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

13 Jan 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics seminar: "Algebraic properties of Grassmann and Clifford subalgebras related to spanning hyperforests"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): S. CARACCIOLO (Università degli Studi di Milano )

Seminar Start Time: 12:30

Activity

19 Jan 2009 - 30 Jan 2009

@ Santiago - Chile

Latin American School on Computational Materials Science | (smr 2071)

Organizer(s): Directors: S. Cozzini, P. Giannozzi, E. Menendez-Proupin, W. Orellana , S. ScandoloCo-Organizing Institutions: Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Santiago, Chile;Project Anillo ACT/24/2006 - Universidad de Chile "Computer Simulation Lab in Nanobio Systems"; INFM - DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center

Secretary: M. Poropat

Collaborations: Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Santiago, Chile and Project Anillo ACT/24/2006 - Universidad de Chile "Computer Simulation Lab in Nanobio Systems"

Cosponsor(s): Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT), Programa Bicentenario de Ciencia y Tecnología

Support E-Mail: smr2071@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

19 Jan 2009 - 6 Feb 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Progetto Scuola: Fare Scienza con il Computer (only on: 19, 28 January; 6 February) | (smr H216)

Organizer(s): M. Peressi and G. Pastore (DFT)

Secretary: Nicoletta Resta

Europe/Rome I review recent work related to the volume dependence of matrix elements of local fields (form factors), giving a description valid to all orders in inverse powers of the volume (i.e. only neglecting contributions that decay exponentially with volume). This method can be used to test exact solutions (derived using bootstrap methods in integrable models) against numerical data obtained by solving the field theory in a truncated state space; it is also useful in extracting matrix elements from numerical data such as those obtained from e.g. lattice field theory. Matrix elements with disconnected pieces require special attention. Such matrix elements are important in computing finite temperature correlation functions. I give a new method for generating a low temperature expansion, which is evaluated for the one-point function up to third order, confirming a series expansion conjectured by Leclair and Mussardo. Time permitting, I also briefly show how the results can be extended to a situation with boundaries. Lecture Room D-SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

20 Jan 2009

@ Lecture Room D-SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:"Form factors in finite volume and finite temperature correlators"

Speaker(s): Gabor TAKACS (Eötvös University, Budapest )

Seminar Start Time: 12:30

Activity

26 Jan 2009 - 30 Jan 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

Preparatory School to the Winter College on Optics in Environmental Science | (smr 2017)

Organizer(s): Directors: A. Consortini, R.P. Singh, S. Svanberg. Local Organizer: J. Niemela

Secretary: F. Delconte

Cosponsor(s): CEI-Central European Initiative; EOS-European Optical Society; ICO-International Commission for Optics; OSA-Optical Society of America; SIOF- Italian Society of Optics and Photonics; SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Support E-Mail: smr2017@ictp.it

Applications NOT needing Visa nor financial support can still be submitted

Europe/Rome I review domain coarsening phenomena in the non-equilibrium dynamics of discrete spin models with Z_2 symmetry. Standard classifications distinguish between "curvature-driven" processes, in which the interface motion is driven by surface tension (e.g. Glauber dynamics), and purely diffusive processes driven by multiplicative noise at the interfaces (e.g. Voter model). There are evidences that slight changes of the microscopic Voter-like rule (e.g. adding intermediate states) leads to the emergence of an effective surface tension. We explain this phenomenon deriving a macroscopic Langevin equation for these processes and studying it with field-theoretic and numerical methods. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Jan 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: " Effective surface tension and coarsening in models driven by interfacial noise "

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Luca DALL'ASTA (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)

Seminar Start Time: 12:30

Seminar

27 Jan 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On the Intersection of Rational Transversal Subtori

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Shaheen Nazir (ICTP)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Seminar

27 Jan 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Non-relativistic CFTs and holography

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Mukund RANGAMANI (University of Durham, UK)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome The Winter College will expose the participants to recent achievements of the theory and applications of optical techniques for assessment of the environment. The scientific programme consists of lectures by international experts, internal seminars and group discussions, some laboratory demonstrations. The aim of the Winter College is to provide the background needed to follow the most advanced literature. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Feb 2009 - 13 Feb 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

Winter College on Optics in Environmental Science | (smr 2018)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: A. Consortini, R.P. Singh, S. Svanberg. Local Organizer: J. Niemela

Holographic Multiverse

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Jaume GARRIGA (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Seminar

9 Feb 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Gauge coupling unification with magic fields

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Lorenzo CALIBBI (SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome I will discuss generation of random instances of complete QMA problems. These are thought to be problems which are difficult to solve even on a quantum computer. This will lead us to study a class of disordered Hamiltonians with some peculiar properties and to the hypothesis that finding a difficult problem for a quantum computer might be a difficult task. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Feb 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "How to find a difficult problem for a quantum computer"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Antonello SCARDICCHIO (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)

Seminar Start Time: 12:30

Hosted Activity

12 Feb 2009 - 13 Feb 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Workshop on Best Practices for Advisory and Honorific Roles of Science Academies | (smr H200)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Co-hosted by IAP and the Council of Canadian Academies

Secretary: M. Kareithi

Europe/Rome Using the adaptive time-dependent density matrix renormalization group, we study the time evolution of strongly correlated bosonic and fermionic systems on one-dimensional lattices pushed out of equilibrium. In particular, we investigate a system of interacting spinless fermions after a sudden change in the interaction strength and a system of soft- core bosons modeled by the Bose-Hubbard model released from a trapping box-potential. By considering the momentum distribution function of the bosonic system, we demonstrate the formation of (quasi-)coherent matter waves emerging from an initial Mott insulating state over a wide range of the interaction strength between the particles. In the fermionic system, we find the density correlations to exhibit a characteristic light-cone-like time evolution which is representative of a ballistic transport of information. Such behavior is observed both when quenching an insulator into the metallic region and also when quenching within the insulating region, but not when a metallic state is quenched deep into the insulating regime. Instead, stable domain walls in the density correlations emerge during the time evolution, consistent with the predictions of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

12 Feb 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on on Disorder and strong electron correlations: " "Time evolution of correlations in strongly interacting fermions and bosons"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): S.R. MANMANA (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne )

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Activity

16 Feb 2009 - 27 Feb 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

PHYSWARE: A Collaborative Workshop on Low-cost Equipment and Appropriate Technologies that Promote Undergraduate Level, Hands-on Physics Education throughout the Developing World | (smr 1928)

Organizer(s): Directors: P. Jolly, P. Laws, E. Sassi, D. Zollman; ICTP Local Organizer: J. Niemela

Laboratories: 12 computers

Secretary: S. Tanaskovic

Support E-Mail: smr1928@ictp.it

Activity

16 Feb 2009 - 6 Mar 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

New Research Areas

ICTP-ITU School on Wireless ICT Low Cost Solutions in Developing Countries: Best Practices - to be followed by - 2nd Awareness Workshop on Relevance of Low Cost Wireless ICT Solutions for Development | (smr 2020)

Room: ARPL Laboratory - Galileo Guest House, Lobby Level

Organizer(s): Directors: S.M. Radicella and R. Struzak

Laboratories: EKLUND Lab. AGH (third week)

Secretary: K. Mabilo

Cosponsor(s): ITU/BDT

Support E-Mail: smr2020@ictp.it

Europe/Rome Measuring the transport of electrons through a graphene sheet necessarily involves contacting it with metal electrodes. We study the adsorption of graphene on metal substrates using first-principles calculations at the level of density functional theory. The bonding of graphene to Al, Ag, Cu, Au and Pt(111) surfaces is so weak that its unique "ultrarelativistic'' electronic structure is preserved. The interaction does, however, lead to a charge transfer that shifts the Fermi level by up to 0.5 eV with respect to the conical points. The crossover from p-type to n-type doping occurs for a metal with a work function ~5.4 eV, a value much larger than the work function of free-standing graphene, 4.5 eV. We develop a simple analytical model that describes the Fermi level shift in graphene in terms of the metal substrate work function. Graphene interacts with and binds more strongly to Co, Ni, Pd and Ti. This chemisorption involves hybridization between graphene p_z-states and metal d-states that opens a band gap in graphene. The graphene work function is as a result reduced considerably. In a current-in-plane device geometry this should lead to n-type doping of graphene. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

17 Feb 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed Matter seminar: "Doping graphene with metal contacts"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): P. KHOMYAKOV (University of Twente)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome If an isolated quantum-mechanical many-body system is suddenly forced out of thermal equilibrium, does it relax to a new steady state or does it keep oscillating? How does the final state depend on the initial state? Recently it has become possible to investigate such fundamental questions in experiments with ultracold atomic gases. Here we study two models of interacting fermions, the Falicov-Kimball model in dynamical mean-field theory [1] and a Hubbard chain with long-range hopping [2]. We obtain the exact real-time dynamics after a sudden change of the Hubbard interaction, starting from a metallic or a Mott-insulating initial state. We observe relaxation to a new steady state, showing that the presence of the Mott gap does not inhibit relaxation. The steady-state properties are described by generalized Gibbs ensembles which take all constants of motion into account. We discuss under which conditions such ensembles provide the correct statistical description of integrable systems [2]. [1] M. Eckstein and M. Kollar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 120404 (2008). [2] M. Kollar and M. Eckstein, Phys. Rev. A 78, 013626 (2008). Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

17 Feb 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Relaxation dynamics of isolated many-body systems"

Speaker(s): Marcus KOLLAR (Universität Augsburg)

Seminar Start Time: 12:30

Europe/Rome A spin polarized current may transfer angular momentum to a ferromagnet, resulting in a spin-torque phenomenon. At the same time the shot noise, associated with the current, leads to a nonequilibrium stochastic force acting on the ferromagnet. We derive a stochastic version of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for a magnetization of a "free" ferromagnetic layer in contact with a "fixed" ferromagnet. We solve the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation and show that the nonequilibrium noise yields to a nonmonotonic dependence of the precession spectrum linewidth on the current. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

19 Feb 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Spin-torque shot noise in magnetic tunnel junctions"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): A. CHUDNOVSKIY (University of Hamburg)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Activity

23 Feb 2009 - 27 Feb 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Joint ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Advanced Simulation and Modelling for Ion Beam Analysis | (smr 2015)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Denardo Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: N.P. Barradas (Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, Portugal), N. Dytlewski (IAEA, Vienna), C. Jeynes (University of Surrey Ion Beam Centre, United Kingdom), M. Mayer (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany). Local Organizer: C. Tuniz

Laboratories: EKLUND Lab. AGH

Secretary: F. Delconte

Cosponsor(s): IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency

Support E-Mail: smr2015@ictp.it

Europe/Rome We will review the mathematical foundation of Boltzmann equation and the theorem of Lanford. We will take particular care on the mathematical aspects of the theory. Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

24 Feb 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Lanford Theorem and the validity of Boltzmann equation"

Speaker(s): Stefano BIANCHINI ((S.I.S.S.A. Trieste))

Seminar Start Time: 12:30

Europe/Rome Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers were constructed recently from chiral one-dimensional integer quantum Hall edge states. These interferometers showed an unexpected behavior of the visibility of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in the nonlinear regime, where the visibility developed a lobe structure accompanied by the $pi$-jumps of the AB-phase [1]. We address these phenomena by studying the model of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where the one-dimensional electrons interact via long-range potential. We calculate exactly the visibility of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in this model, which agrees well with experimental results. [1] "Unexpected Behavior in a Two-Path Electron Interferometer", I. Neder, M. Heiblum, Y. Levinson, D. Mahalu, and V. Umansky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016804, (2006) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

26 Feb 2009

@ ICTP

SEMINAR on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Multiparticle interference in electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dmitry KOVRIZHIN (University of Oxford)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome A subset $A$ of an abelian group is said to be sum-free if there is no solution of the equation $x+y =z$ with $x,y, z \in A.$ Given a subset $B$ of a finite abelian group $G$, the set $B+B$ consists of all those elements of $G$, which can be written as a sum of two elements of $B$. We say that a set has small sumset if the cardinality of $B+B$ is not much larger in compare to the cardinality of $B.$ In a joint work with R. Balasubramanian and D.S. Ramana, we observe that in certain groups, the question of counting the total number of sum-free sets is related to the question of counting the number of sets with small sumset. In another work, we obtain an upper bound for the number of sets with small sumset. Using this one obtain an upper bound for the number of sum-free sets in a finite abelian groups of "type III" which is substantially better than the bound implied by the result of Ben Green and Imre Ruzsa. Moreover using this, one also obtain an existence of Ramsey graphs among Cayley graphs and thereby proving a weaker version of a conjecture of Noga Alon. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

26 Feb 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Sum-free sets, sets with small sumset and the clique number of random Cayley graphs.

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Gyan Prakash (Universite' de Bordeaux 1, Talence, France)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of the Applied Physics Scientific Section. You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss209.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

26 Feb 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Reliability of gate oxides: Applications to space exploration

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Felix R. M. Palumbo (Physics Department, CONICET - CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome The theoretical problems involved in conservation biology and natural resource management are rapidly emerging as a deep area of intellectual inquiry. These problems are inherently non-linear, and can rapidly become complex, as found in the emerging areas of Biocomplexity, Bioeconomics, and Sustainability Science. Capacity building in these areas will be central to the sustainable management of natural resources and the conservation of ecosystems. The workshop will focus on mathematical models related to problems in natural resource management, climate change and conservation biology in the context of ecological networks. It will consist of a series of intensive lectures along with hands-on computer demonstrations and group exercises. Specifically, group sessions will be organized in which participants from different regions of the world will address specific issues in conservation and natural resource management in changing environments. Each group will give an oral presentations of the outcome of their work at the end of the workshop. Topics covered will include: •Population dynamics and optimal management of renewable resources; •Population viability and risk analysis; •Biocomplexity and the structure of ecological networks; ecological community structures; •Fragmentation and persistence; •Effects of climate change on species distributions, infectious diseases and ecosystems. A series of background keynote lectures on specific topics and examples will be given by the four organizers and the guest lecturers. In addition, the participants will be encouraged to present a short talk describing their own work. If you wish to make a oral or poster presentation please specify upload a one-page abstract to the on-line application form. Participation in the computer laboratory demonstrations and exercises, as well as the training sessions on using R in Ecology (statistics and population dynamics) is a requirement. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Mar 2009 - 13 Mar 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Workshop on Theoretical Ecology and Global Change | (smr 2022)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: G. A. Canziani, G. A. De Leo, A.P. Dobson, M. Pascual. Local Organizer: F. Giorgi

Laboratories: yes

Secretary: L. Iannitti

Support E-Mail: smr2022@ictp.it

Seminar

2 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Nonexistence of quasi-harmonic spheres

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Wang Meng (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China/ICTP)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome In different contexts we are challenged by multi-scale networks where infrastructures composed by different technological layers are interoperating with the social component that drives their use and development. Examples are provided by the Internet, the social Web, the new WiFi communication technologies and transportation and mobility infrastructures. The multi-scale nature and complexity of these techno-social networks are crucial features in the understanding of these systems and the dynamical processes occurring on top of them. We will discuss the central statistical features of these networks and their impact on epidemic, contagion and spreading processes in both the biological world and the ITC domain. We will present the development of realistic computational models based on the network paradigm and the reaction–diffusion processes framework that allows their theoretical understanding. Finally we will analyze the central role of complex networks thinking in the definition of predictive large scale computational approaches for the modeling of emergent disease spreading. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

2 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

Informal seminar on Statistical Physics: "Spreading processes in complex techno-social networks"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana University)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

2 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Cancellation of the Dirac Mass Hierarchy in SO(10) GUTs implemented with the Flavor Symmetries T7 and Sigma (81)

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Claudia HAGEDORN (SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Dynamical systems quenched from a disorder into an ordered phase, may display coarsening phenomena. The simplest example is the Ising ferromagnet. When the system is cooled rapidly through the transition temperature, domains of the two ordered phases form and grow (coarsen) with time. In the present work we obtain the exact result for the statistics of the areas enclosed by domain boundaries for the coarsening dynamics of a nonconserved scalar field in two dimensions. This result represents the first analytical demostration of the dynamical scaling hypothesis for this system. These results can be also generalizated to the coarsening dynamics under the effect of finite temperature or the presence of quenched disorder. All these results have been tested with simulations on the two-dimensional square-lattice Ising model using a Montecarlo algorithm. We have also done experiments on the coarsening dynamics of liquid crystals. It was proposed that deracemization in this system is a curvature-driven process. We test this prediction using our exact result for the distrubution of areas. We demonstrate that deracemization in such liquid crystals belongs to the Allen-Cahn universality class, and that the exact formula, can be used as a strict test for this dynamic universality class. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

3 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:"Coarsening in 2d:exact results, simulations and experiments"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Alberto SICILIA (Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI, LPTHE)

Seminar Start Time: 12:30

Seminar

5 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Cluster abundances and cosmology in standard and modified models

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Ravi K. SHETH (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Hosted Activity

9 Mar 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Second Timing and Synchronization Workshop | (smr H222)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Progetto SPARX in collaborazione con Sincrotrone Trieste, Progetto Fermi. Organizer: Dr. Alessandro Gallo

Secretary: Ms. Ilde Weffort

Seminar

9 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Leptonic Higgs boson in the two-Higgs-doublet model

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Koji TSUMURA (ICTP)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Hosted Activity

10 Mar 2009 - 13 Mar 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Annual Meeting IRUVX (Infra Red Ultra Violet X ray) | (smr H204)

Organizer(s): Sincrotrone TS-Consorzio IRUVX (Ing. F. Mazzolini)

Secretary: I. Weffort

Europe/Rome It is shown that, for pertinent values of the fabrication and control parameters, an attractive finite coupling fixed point emerges in the phase diagram of a Y-junction of superconducting Josephson chains. The new fixed point arises only when the dimensionless flux f piercing the central loop of the network equals \pi. A detailed account of the Josephson current-phase relationship along the arms of the network, near each one of the allowed fixed points, is provided. The results evidence remarkable similarities between the phase diagram accessible to a Y-junction of superconducting Josephson chains and the one found in the analysis. SISSA Main Bld. - Lecture Room 'D' ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Mar 2009

@ SISSA Main Bld. - Lecture Room 'D'

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Speaker(s): P. SODANO (University of Perugia)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Activity

15 Mar 2009 - 20 Mar 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

Workshop on Topics in Quantum Turbulence | (smr 2023)

Organizer(s): Directors: L. Skrbek and W.F. VinenLocal Organizers: J.J. Niemela and K.R. Sreenivasan

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: A. Lusenti

Support E-Mail: smr2023@ictp.it

Activity

16 Mar 2009 - 20 Mar 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/IAEA School on Novel Synchrotron Radiation Applications | (smr 2031)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): IAEA: F. Mulhauser. Local Organizer: N. Binggeli

Laboratories: AGH (Infolab.)

Secretary: E. Brancaccio

Support E-Mail: smr2031@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Standing waves in nonlinear Schroedinger equations

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

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 06:00

Europe/Rome We show that the large distance behavior of the density-density correlation function of a weakly confined Random Matrix ensemble can be exactly reproduced by a Gaussian scalar field theory in a curved two-dimensional space-time characterized by the presence of a singularity and of an event horizon. Therefore, we propose this as a low-energy effective theory describing the ensemble, in analogy to what has been done for other invariant ensembles and Luttinger Liquid theory. The presence of an event horizon in the curved space-time naturally gives rise to a the phenomenon known as Hawking radiation. A similar mapping with another gravitational analogue model has been shown to exist with a Bose-Einstein condensate pushed to flow at a velocity higher than its speed of sound. In this case the Hawking radiation is composed of sound waves propagating over the cold atoms. Our work suggests a three-fold connection between a moving BEC system, black-hole physics and unconventional RMEs. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

19 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Horizon in random matrix theory, Hawking radiation and flow of cold atoms"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): F. FRANCHINI (The Abdus Salam ICTP)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

19 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Statistics of random mappings of finite sets

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Professor Vladimir I. Arnold (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Seminar

19 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Particle physics and astrophysics with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and the new SNOLAB

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Art McDONALD (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Canada)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome TOPICS: • Physics of Black Holes • Gauge / Gravity Correspondence • Scattering Amplitudes in SYM and Supergravity • Physics Beyond the Standard Model • Holographic QCD • Holographic Condensed Matter The Aim of the activity is to provide pedagogical treatment of these subjects in the form of a series of lectures by individual speakers. The activity is intended for theoretical physicists or mathematicians with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity and string theory. LECTURERS INCLUDE: J. de BOER (University of Amsterdam) C.P. HERZOG (Princeton University) S. KACHRU (Stanford University & SLAC) J.M. MALDACENA (IAS Princeton) J. POLCHINSKI (Santa Barbara KITP) R. ROIBAN (Pennsylvania State University) S. SUGIMOTO (Tokyo University, IPMU) N. WEINER (New York University) Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

23 Mar 2009 - 31 Mar 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

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

Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics | (smr 2024)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): J. de Boer (University of Amsterdam), E. Gava (INFN), S. Kachru (Stanford University & SLAC), K.S. Narain (ICTP), S. Randjbar-Daemi (ICTP)

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: N. van Buuren

Collaborations: the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) & the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)

Support E-Mail: smr2024@ictp.it

Activity

23 Mar 2009 - 9 Apr 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

Satellite Navigation Science and Technology for Africa | (smr 2025)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: S.M. Radicella and P. Doherty

Laboratories: AGH (Infolab.)

Secretary: P. Wardell

Support E-Mail: smr2025@ictp.it

Europe/Rome The Backward Fokker-Planck Equation (BFPE) provides an elegant technique for solving a number of first-passage problems. After an introduction to the method, the usefulness of the BFPE will be illustrated by applying it to a number of problems of increasing complexity, namely (i) the simple random walk with an absorbing boundary at the origin; (ii) the simple random walk with an absorbing boundary moving with constant velocity; (iii) the simple random walk with two absorbing boundaries moving at different velocities, and (iv) the random walk in the presence of various types of "shear flow" and an absorbing boundary at the origin. The last of these is a problem with very rich behavior, depending on the nature of the "shear flow". Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

24 Mar 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Backward Fokker-Planck Methods for First-Passage Problems"

Speaker(s): Alan BRAY (University of Manchester)

Seminar Start Time: 12:30

Europe/Rome The nonlinear Schroedinger equation appears in several physical or biological models and enjoys various interesting mathematical properties. In particular, this equation admits standing waves, i.e. solutions whose profile remains unchanged under the evolution in time. For the physical applications, it is essential to know the stability properties of waves with respect to perturbations. It is also important to understand the nature of any potential instability. The talk will start by a review of classical results on nonlinear Schroedinger equations and their standing waves. Then we will discuss stability and instability issues. Finally, we will present recent stability/instability results on a nonlinear Schroedinger equation perturbed by a Dirac potential. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

24 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Thinking non-linear: New ideas to tackle gravitational clustering

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Martin CROCCE (Institute of Space Science, Barcelona, Spain)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Hosted Activity

30 Mar 2009 - 31 Mar 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

TWOWS Executive Board Meeting | (smr H228)

Organizer(s): TWOWS

Secretary: L. Mungapen

Hosted Activity

30 Mar 2009 - 2 Apr 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Course on RNA Structure and Function | (smr H219)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Director(s): Prof. G. Tocchini-Valentini

Organizer(s): ICGEB; Director: Prof. G. Tocchini-Valentini

Secretary: Ms. E. Lippolis

Europe/Rome The statistical properties of the extreme (maximum/minimum) eigenvalue of a random matrix are of interest in diverse fields ranging from disordered systems to statistical data analysis and even to string theory. In this talk I'll discuss some recent developments on the theory of extremely rare fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue and its various applications. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

31 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Extreme Eigenvalues of Random Matrices"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Satya MAJUMDAR (Orsay, Paris)

Seminar Start Time: 13:30

Seminar

31 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Are the quadratic residues random numbers?

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Professor Vladimir I. Arnold (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Seminar

31 Mar 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

A window on CP violation from lepton flavor violating rare processes

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Yasaman FARZAN (IPM, Tehran, Iran)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Hosted Activity

2 Apr 2009 - 3 Apr 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

XXII Selezione Nazionale del Parlamento Europeo dei Giovani 2009 | (smr H224)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Liceo Ginnasio Statale "F. Petrarca" e Liceo "G. Galilei" , Trieste; contacts: Prof. Philip Tarsia and Ms. Renata Grill (Liceo Galilei).

Laboratories: LB LAB

Europe/Rome We predict a huge interference effect contributing to the conductance through large ultra-clean quantum dots of chaotic shape. When a double-dot structure is made such that the dots are the mirror-image of each other, constructive interference can make a tunnel barrier located on the symmetry axis effectively transparent. We show (via theoretical analysis and numerical simulation) that this effect can be orders of magnitude larger than the well-known universal conductance fluctuations and weak-localization (both less than a conductance quantum). A small magnetic field destroys the effect, massively reducing the double-dot conductance; thus a magnetic field detector is obtained, with a similar sensitivity to a SQUID, but requiring no superconductors. [Robert S. Whitney, P. Marconcini, M. Macucci, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2009) arXiv:0902.3099] ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

2 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Symmetry causes a huge conductance peak in double quantum dots"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Robert S. WHITNEY (Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble)

@ ICTP

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): N. Kumar (( Raman Research Institute, Bangalore )

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Europe/Rome We determine the local density of states (LDOS) of one-dimensional incommensurate charge density wave (CDW) states in the presence of a strong impurity potential, which is modeled by a boundary. We find that the CDW gets pinned at the impurity, which results in a singularity in the Fourier transform of the LDOS at momentum 2k_F. At energies above the spin gap we observe dispersing features associated with the spin and charge degrees of freedom respectively. In the presence of an impurity magnetic field we observe the formation of a bound state localized at the impurity. All of our results carry over to the case of 1D Mott insulators by exchanging the roles of spin and charge degrees of freedom. We discuss the implications of our result for scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on spin-gap systems such as two-leg ladder cuprates. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

SEMINAR on Disorder and strong electron correlations:" Local density of states of 1D Mott insulators and CDW states with a boundary "

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): D. SCHURICHT (RWTH Aachen )

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Seminar

16 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Black holes and origin of species

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Georgi DVALI (New York University, USA)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Joint ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Atomic and Molecular Data for Fusion | (smr 2028)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Director: R.E.H. Clark (IAEA)Local Organizers: C. Tuniz and J. Niemela

Laboratories: MB LAB

Secretary: D. Sauleek

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna, Austria)

Support E-Mail: smr2028@ictp.it

Europe/Rome We study a delocalization transition in a system of noninteracting quasiparticles moving in two dimensions, which belongs to a new symmetry class C. This symmetry class can be realized in a dirty, gapless superconductor in which time-reversal symmetry for orbital motion is broken, but spin-rotation symmetry is intact. In this class spin current is transferred by electron-hole pairs. Further, we consider a three-dimensional realization of class C. In the last part of the talk, we discuss application of the generalized Chalker-Coddington network model to the quantum spin Hall effect in graphene, which differs significantly from class C. In particular, spin current is transferred by electrons with opposite spins moving in the opposite directions. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

20 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Informal seminar: "Spin quantum Hall effect in class C superconductors and quantum spin Hall effect in graphene"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Victor KAGALOVSKY (Sami Shamoon College of Engg., Beer-Sheva )

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Europe/Rome In this talk I will discuss a minimal interacting generalisation of the geometric Brownian motion model be formally equivalent to a model describing the dynamics of networks of analogue neurons. Using the Generating Functional formalism, I will show how one can solve for the steady state solutions in a non-trivial and interesting regime ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

21 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Generating Functional Analysis of an Interacting Geometric Brownian Motion for Stock Market Dynamics "

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Kartik Anand (ICTP, Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 13:30

Seminar

21 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Yukawa couplings and Neutrino masses from Heterotic/F-theory

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Radu TATAR (University of Liverpool, UK)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Seminar

22 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Admissible local systems for a class of line arrangements

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Shaheen Nazir (ICTP)

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome In this talk, we will discuss the possible stabilization of a molecular superfluid phase in multicomponent attractive Fermi gas where more than two fermions form a bound state. We will show, by means of a low-energy approach and large scale DMRG calculations, that trionic (three-body bound states) and quartet phases emerge in multicomponent ultracold fermions loaded into one-dimensional optical lattice at sufficiently small density. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Trions and quartet condensates in one-dimensional multicomponent ultracold fermions"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Philippe LECHEMINANT (University of Cergy-Pontoise)

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Activity

27 Apr 2009 - 8 May 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Water Resources in Developing Countries: Planning and Management in a Climate Change Scenario | (smr 2029)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: S. Sorooshian, E. Coppola and S. Rauscher

Laboratories: INFOLAB and EKLUND Labs. during second week

Secretary: R. del Rio

Cosponsor(s): Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS)

Support E-Mail: smr2029@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

27 Apr 2009 - 30 Apr 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Kick-off meeting for Egypt-USA project | (smr H225)

Organizer(s): ESP-ICTP (Dr. Ashraf Zakey)

Secretary: S. Henningsen

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Khovanov Homology for Knots and Graphs

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Ahmad Zainy Al-Yasry (ICTP)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome The sliding of contacting surfaces is a formidable problem with impact in many areas, ranging from atomic to tectonic in scale. In several cases it can result in steady sliding or periodic stick-slip motion, but often displays an intermittent and erratic nature, for which effective descriptions are lacking. In order to investigate this kind of dynamics we have set up an experiment in which a rigid plate engages in stick-slip shear motion on a granular bed. In order to describe the resulting motion we have adopted an unusual approach which is not deterministic in nature (as opposed to, e.g. Burridge-Knopoff and Frenkel-Kontorova models), finding that the dynamics can be accurately described in a quantitative way by a simple stochastic equation, in which the resulting force exerted by the medium on the plate performs a random walk. Further work on the statistical properties of friction in solid-on-solid systems and comparisons with other phenomena suggest that a large class of driven instabilities can be described in terms of similar general mechanisms. Preliminary results on variable height and shaken granular bed are presented. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

29 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed matter seminar: "Stochastic approach to chaotic stick-slip in granular systems"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Alberto PETRI (CNR - Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Rome )

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Europe/Rome I explain a connection of so-called full distribution function (an analogue of the full counting statistics), which we introduced and computed (exactly in various cases!) with variety of exactly solvable models, conformal field theory, AdS/CFT and Langlands dualities. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

30 Apr 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Noise correlations in cold atoms"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Vladimir GRITSEV (University of Fribourg)

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Europe/Rome The aim of this Conference is to bring together scientists from all over the world to discuss the current frontiers of research in ultra-cold atoms. In particular, the programme will focus on the analysis of novel quantum phases and non-equilibrium phenomena that have direct connection to problems found in condensed matter physics, astrophysics and nuclear physics. The connections to condensed matter physics are particularly strong in the case of optical lattices, where ultra-cold atoms can simulate many known condensed matter phenomena with unprecedented control. In addition, ultra-cold atoms can reveal completely new phenomena which are not possible to realize in standard condensed-matter systems, since interactions, hopping, dimensionality, and temperatures can be fully controlled in the atomic systems. The Conference programme will also include poster sessions. For those interested in presenting a poster contribution, kindly submit a one-page abstract (size A4) attached to the application form. File attachments should be in PDF format. Topics include: •Fermionic atoms in traps and optical lattices •Bosonic atoms in traps and optical lattices •Mixtures of bosons and/or fermions in traps and optical lattices Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

4 May 2009 - 8 May 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-Cold Atoms | (smr 2030)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): C.A.R. Sa de Melo, H. Stoof, S. Yip, W. Ketterle. Local Organizer: M. Kiselev

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: M. de Comelli

Cosponsor(s): Co-sponsored by MIT-HARVARD Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA)

Support E-Mail: smr2030@ictp.it

Seminar

5 May 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Khovanov Homology for Knots and Graphs (II)

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Ahmad Zainy Al-Yasry (ICTP)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome In this talk I review how the concept of Random Matrix Theory (RMT) is used as an effective field theory of the theory of strong interactions in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). I begin by stating the approximations made that map QCD to a sigma model - the theory of Goldstone modes - and ultimately to a RMT formulation. Various correlation functions in the relevant symmetry class can be computed either from the sigma model or RMT, and then compared to numerical solutions of QCD in that limiting regime. Recent developments include non-Hermitian RMT and complex eigenvalue spectra of the QCD Dirac operator. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

6 May 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Secretary: K. Mabilo

Support E-Mail: smr2034@ictp.it

Activity

11 May 2009 - 15 May 2009

@ Delf't - Netherlands

Joint RID/ICTP/IAEA Workshop on "Neutron probing for compositional and structural characterisation of materials and biological samples" | (smr 2094)

Organizer(s): Workshop Directors: Messrs. N. Ramamoorthy, A. Zeman, E. Bruck and A. van Well

Secretary: Ms. Anna Pourisheva (RID) and Ms. S. Tanaskovic (ICTP)

Support E-Mail: smr2094@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

11 May 2009 - 16 May 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Seminario - A un passo dalla International Physics Olympiad (IPHO) | (smr H230)

Organizer(s): Prof. G. Cavaggioni (Responsabile delle Olimpiadi Italiane della Fisica)

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of the Applied Physics Scientific Section. You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss213.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 May 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Paleoradiology: Imaging mummies and fossils

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Rethy Chhem (International Atomic Energy Agency)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Seminar

11 May 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed matter seminar: "Band structure and mechanical properties of Titanium alloys"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Rajamanickam ASOKAMANI (Vellore Institute of Technology)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Europe/Rome Due to the Pauli blocking of the intermediate states, the scattering matrix (or T matrix) of two fermionic atoms in a Fermi gas becomes different from that of two atoms in free space. We calculate the in-medium T matrix in ladder approximation and study its effects on the properties of the collective modes of a trapped gas in the normal-fluid phase. We introduce the in-medium interaction on both sides of the Boltzmann equation, namely in the calculation of the mean field and in the calculation of the collision rate. This allows us to explain the observed upward shift of the frequency of the quadrupole mode in the collisionless regime. By including the mean field, we also improve considerably the agreement with the measured temperature dependence of frequency and damping rate of the scissors mode, whereas the use of the in-medium cross section deteriorates the description, in agreement with previous work. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

12 May 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Collective modes of trapped Fermi gases with in-medium interaction"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Silvia CHIACCHIERA (Universidade de Coimbra)

Seminar Start Time: 13:30

Seminar

12 May 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

LFV and leptogenesis in Higgs exempt no-scale supersymmetry

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Eung Jin CHUN (KIAS, Korea)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Europe/Rome The electrons and holes in a graphene sheet behave very much like a relativistic liquid. As a consequence, the properties of thermo-electric transport of this fluid of interacting Dirac fermions are rather peculiar. At small doping and high temperatures, graphene exhibits many signatures of a quantum critical system: the inelastic scattering rate is set only by the temperature, and the conductivity assumes a nearly universal value, solely due to electron-hole friction. In this regime we find pronounced deviations from standard Fermi liquid behavior and a peculiar collective cyclotron resonance in the frequency dependent response. Some of these results have been anticipated by a relativistic hydrodynamic theory, and are fully confirmed by Boltzmann transport theory for weak coupling. Most interestingly, similar results are also found in the case of certain strong coupled liquids which can be solved exactly by the AdS-CFT correspondence. Moreover, in that context it is interesting that undoped graphene turns out to be a nearly ideal fluid with an anomalously small electronic viscosity, very similar to recent observations in the ultra-relativistic quark gluon plasma. I will also discuss possible consequences of the low viscosity for electronic transport in clean graphene. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

14 May 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Relativistic transport in clean graphene - a nearly perfect quantum liquid"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Markus MÜLLER (The Abdus Salam ICTP)

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Activity

18 May 2009 - 23 May 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Superconductor-Insulator Transitions | (smr 2035)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: M. Feigelman, M. Muller, Z. Ovadyahu, M. Sanquer. Local Organizer: V. Kravtsov

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: P. Wardell

Support E-Mail: smr2035@ictp.it

Online Application

Europe/Rome Recent experiments with ultracold atomic gases have triggered a great deal of interest in some fundamental aspects of the non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly correlated quantum systems. In particular, they raised an intense discussion on the general relation between system integrability and thermalization in the long-time dynamics of such systems. Instead of focusing on the asymptotic values of significant observables, we take a rather different perspective and study the dependence of the intrinsic dynamical time-scale on the initial state. We do this by considering the quantum Ising chain: we drive it out-of-equilibrium by abruptly quenching the transverse field. We focus on the onsite autocorrelation function of the order parameter, extracting the phase coherence time from its asymptotic decay. This phase coherence time is shown to be determined only by the final Hamiltonian gap, and an effective temperature which depends on the energy of the initial state after the quench. Moreover, the dependence of the coherence time on the effective temperature fairly agrees with that obtained in thermal equilibrium as a function of the equilibrium temperature. These results pertain to the Ising universality class, while the integrability of the model seems not to be crucial. SISSA Main Building - Room D ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

19 May 2009

@ SISSA Main Building - Room D

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Effective thermal dynamics following a quantum quench in a spin chain"

Speaker(s): Davide ROSSINI (S.I.S.S.A. - Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 13:30

Seminar

19 May 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Tri (bi) maximal lepton mixing in models with more than three right-handed neutrino singlets

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Walter GRIMUS (University of Vienna, Austria)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Hosted Activity

21 May 2009 - 23 May 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

5th International Workshop on "Radiation Safety at Synchrotron Light Sources" | (smr H215)

Organizer(s): Dott.ssa Giuliana Tromba (ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy)

Secretary: Ms. Ilde Weffort

Seminar

21 May 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Vivien LECOMTE (University of Geneva)

Seminar Start Time: 13:30

Activity

25 May 2009 - 29 May 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

International Workshop: Quantum Chromodynamics from Colliders to Super-High Energy Cosmic Rays | (smr 2036)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: Y. Dokshitser, M. Strikman, D. Treleani

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: G. De Meo

Support E-Mail: smr2036@ictp.it

Seminar

25 May 2009

28 May 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations "Nonlinear dynamics of spin and charge in spin-Calogero model"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Fabio FRANCHINI (The Abdus Salam ICTP )

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Seminar

28 May 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Thawing quintessence models with nearly flat potentials

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Anjan Ananda SEN (Center for Theoretical Physics, New Delhi)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Activity

1 Jun 2009 - 5 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

Introduction to Optofluidics | (smr 2037)

Organizer(s): D. Cojoc, J. Niemela, S. Raghu

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: N. Ivanissevich/F. Delconte

Support E-Mail: smr2037@ictp.it

Activity

1 Jun 2009 - 6 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

2nd Conference on Drug Development for the Third World: from Computational Molecular Biology to Experimental Approaches | (smr 2039)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): W.G.J. Hol, E. Lattman, S. Miertus and P. Carloni (also Local Organizer)

Secretary: M. de Comelli

Cosponsor(s): Co-sponsored by ICS-UNIDO (Trieste), IAEA (Vienna), ICGEB (Trieste) and INFM-DEMOCRITOS (Trieste).In cooperation with ICS-UNIDO (Trieste) and INFM-DEMOCRITOS (Trieste).

Support E-Mail: smr2039@ictp.it

Activity

1 Jun 2009 - 5 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference: From DNA-Inspired Physics to Physics-Inspired Biology | (smr 2038)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: A.A. Kornyshev, W.K. Olson, V.A. Parsegian. Local Organizer: R. Gebauer

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: D. Sauleek

Cosponsor(s): co-sponsored by: Wellcome Trust, London, U.K.

Support E-Mail: smr2038@ictp.it

Activity

3 Jun 2009 - 19 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

New Research Areas

Special Training Programme on Installing and Using High Performance Clusters | (smr 2121)

Organizer(s): ICTS (Dr. C. Onime)

Secretary: E. Viti

Support E-Mail: smr2121@ictp.it

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of Physics of the Living State (Applied Physics Scientific Section). You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss218.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

3 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Nanotechnology for applications in therapeutics

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Sangeeta Kale (Fergusson College, Pune, India)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Seminar

4 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

The Hitchin Connection, Toepitz Operators and TQFT

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Professor Joergen E. Andersen (Aahrus University, Denmark)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Activity

8 Jun 2009 - 12 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Workshop: Eternal Inflation | (smr 2040)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): R. Bousso (Berkeley), A. Nicolis (Columbia) and A. Vilenkin (Tufts). Local Organizers: P. Creminelli (ICTP), M. Musso (ICTP).

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: F. Delconte

Cosponsor(s): INFN - the National Institute of Nuclear Physics

Support E-Mail: smr2040@ictp.it

Activity

8 Jun 2009 - 12 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

School and Conference: From Biological Networks to Cellular Function: Evolution, Dynamics and Spatial Organization | (smr 2041)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): M. Aguier, W. Banzhaf, G. Bianconi, R. Dilao, S. Franz, F. Képès, M. Lässig, O. Martin, D. Segré, M. Weigt. Local Organizer: M. Marsili

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: R. del Rio

Cosponsor(s): GENNETEC - Genetic Networks: Emergence and Complexity

Support E-Mail: smr2041@ictp.it

Europe/Rome We numerically study the adiabatic quantum dynamics of an anisotropic spin-1 XY chain across a second order quantum phase transition. The system is driven out of equilibrium by performing a quench on the uniaxial single-spin anisotropy, that is supposed to vary linearly in time. We focus on the behavior of the excess energy, which quantifies the loss of adiabaticity of the system during the evolution. For small system sizes only the ground state and the first excited state effectively participate in the evolution, so the dynamics can be explained in terms of a Landau-Zener model, which describes an avoided level crossing between two levels. For sufficiently large system sizes, the excess energy after the quench admits a non trivial scaling behavior that is not predictable by standard Kibble-Zurek arguments for isolated critical points or extended critical regions. This emerges from a competing effect of many accessible low-lying excited states, inside the whole continuous line of critical points. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

9 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Adiabatic dynamics in a spin-1 chain with uniaxial single-spin anisotropy"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Elena CANOVI (S.I.S.S.A. - Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 13:00

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of Physics of the Living State (Applied Physics Scientific Section). You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss219.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Brain in movement: Modelling the biophysics of the human basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Rafael Rodriguez Rojas (International Centre for Neurological Restoration, Havana, Cuba)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome Alongside the effort underway to build quantum computers, it is important to better understand which classes of problems they will find easy and which others even they will find intractable. Inspired by the success of the statistical study of classical constraint optimization problems, we study random ensembles of the QMA$_1$- complete quantum satisfiability (QSAT) problem introduced by Bravyi. QSAT appropriately generalizes the NP-complete classical satisfiability (SAT) problem. We show that, as the density of clauses/projectors is varied, the ensembles exhibit quantum phase transitions between phases that are satisfiable and unsatisfiable. Remarkably, almost all instances of QSAT for any hypergraph exhibit the same dimension of the satisfying manifold. This establishes the random QSAT decision problem as equivalent to a, potentially new, graph theoretic problem and that the hardest typical instances are likely to be localized in a bounded range of clause density. Work done in collaboration with R. Moessner, A. Scardicchio and S. Sondhi. arXiv:0903.1904 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR SPECIAL SEMINAR: Phase transitions and random quantum satisfiability

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Chris Laumann (Princeton University)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Seminar

11 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Dimer models and quiver gauge theories

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room B

Speaker(s): Pichai RAMADEVI (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Europe/Rome The purpose of this School is to give a detailed overview of the field of particle physics with its achievements and problems. The School will cover the most important and perspective areas in connection to the forthcoming results from the LHC. TOPICS * LHC: Collider, Detector, Status * Introduction to Collider Phenomenology * Higgs Boson and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking * B Physics and CP Violation * Supersymmetry * Physics of Extra Dimensions * Astroparticle Physics * Neutrino Physics LECTURERS INCLUDE: Cedric DEFFAYET (APC, Paris) Daniel DENEGRI (DSM / DAPNIA, CEA / Saclay) Tao HAN (Wisconsin University) Konstantin MATCHEV (Florida University) Alex POMAROL (University Autonomous of Barcelona) Riccardo RATTAZZI (ITPP, Lausanne) Luca SILVESTRINI (INFN, Rome) Todor STANEV (Bartol Research Institute) Francesco VISSANI (INFN, Gran Sasso) In view of the late opening of the application forms, please note that the deadline for requesting participation has been extended to Friday, 20 March 2009. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

15 Jun 2009 - 26 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics , LHC Physics

Summer School on Particle Physics in the LHC ERA | (smr 2043)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: Bobby ACHARYA (ICTP), Georgi DVALI (New York University), Gino ISIDORI (INFN, Frascati), Goran SENJANOVIC (ICTP), Alexei Yu. SMIRNOV (ICTP)

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: R. Sain

Support E-Mail: smr2043@ictp.it

Activity

15 Jun 2009 - 20 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Mathematics

Co-sponsored School/Workshop on Integrable Systems and Scientific Computing | (smr 2042)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: B. Dubrovin, T. Grava, C. Klein, A. Kuijlaars. Local Organizer: C.E. Chidume

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: A. Bergamo

Cosponsor(s): European Science Foundation (ESF) MISGAM Programme, SISSA

Support E-Mail: smr2042@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Finite Elements for Symmetric Tensors in Three Dimensions

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Professor Gerard Awanou (Northern Illinois University)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome We consider dynamical processes on scale-free networks. We introduce an approach allowing to derive Langevin equations for mean field order parameters that implicitly account for degree heterogeneity. In particular we focus on branching-annihilating random walks and we show that the critical properties of such systems explicitly depend on the parameter characterizing the degree distribution. We also discuss the role of noise for finite systems, showing how heterogeneous topologies can strongly affect single realizations of the dynamical processes. SISSA-Lecture Room D ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Jun 2009

@ SISSA-Lecture Room D

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Dynamical processes on scale-free networks: a mean field approach"

Speaker(s): Fabio CACCIOLI (S.I.S.S.A. - Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 13:30

Europe/Rome his is the continuation of the seminars of Physics of the Living State (Applied Physics Scientific Section). You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss222.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Metabolic adaptation: from a prebiotic lipid world to optimal organization

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Daniel Segre (Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, United States of America)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Hosted Activity

19 Jun 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Celebrations for Immaginario Scientifico's 10th Anniversary - IS10 | (smr H227)

Organizer(s): Immaginario Scientifico

Activity

22 Jun 2009 - 27 Jun 2009

@ Antioquia - Colombia

Latin American Tutorial in High Performance and GRID Computing | (smr 2074)

Organizer(s): Directors: S. Cozzini, J.I. Zuluaga, H. Castro, R.M. San Martin, A. Ospina

Secretary: M. de Comelli

Cosponsor(s): co-sponsors: Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad de los Andes and CPN/SENAMHI

Support E-Mail: smr2074@ictp.it

Europe/Rome Reading List: It is suggested that all participants do some preliminary reading before coming to the workshop. The following sources will be helpful: 1. R. Horn and C. R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, Cambridge University Press, Chapters 1,2,3, Chapter 4 Sections 4-6, Chapter 7. 2. R. Horn and C. R. Johnson, Topics in Matrix Analysis Chapter 3, Sections 0-1. 3. R. Bhatia, Positive Definite Matrices, Princeton University Press. (Familiarity with topics covered here will be useful for the Matrix Analysis, and Quantum Information Theory lectures). 4. R Bhatia, Pinching,trimming,truncating and averaging of matrices, paper available on the course website. ------------------------------------------------------------ Useful preparation for the course "Numerical ranges (classical and higher-rank) with applications to quantum information theory" , to be given by John Holbrook during the second week, might include some familiarity with: 1. Gustafson and Rao, "Numerical Range", Springer 1997 2. David W. Kribs, "A quantum computing primer for operator theorists" (may be downloaded from Kribs' publications website) 3. The recent book by Denes Petz, "Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Statistics" (published by Springer) 4. Chi-Kwong Li and Nung-Sing Sze, "Canonical forms, higher rank numerical range, convexity, totally isometric subspace, matrix equations" 2007 (may be downloaded from Li's publication website) ------------------------------------------------------------ References in connection with the lectures by Mary Beth Ruskai on: "Properties of quantum entropy and related concave trace functions" include: "Inequalities for Quantum Entropy: A Review with Conditions for Equality" J. Math. Phys. 43, 4358-4375 (2002); erratum 46, 019901 (2005). (quant-ph/0205064) "Lieb's simple proof of concavity of Tr Ap K† B(1-p) K and remarks on related inequalities" Internat. Jour. Quant. Info 3, 570--590 (2005); erratum 4, 747-748 (2006) quant-ph/0404126 "Another short and elementary proof of strong subadditivity of quantum entropy" Reports on Mathematical Physics 60, 1-12 (2007). quant-ph/0604206 "Unified Treatment of Convexity of Relative Entropy and Related Trace Functions, with Conditions for Equality" submitted for publication [with A. Jencova].arXiv:0903.2895 Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

22 Jun 2009 - 10 Jul 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Mathematics

Summer School and Advanced Workshop on Trends and Developments in Linear Algebra | (smr 2044)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: R. Bhatia, J. Holbrook, S. Serra Capizzano. Local Organizer: R.T. Ramakrishnan

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: K. Mabilo

Support E-Mail: smr2044@ictp.it

Europe/Rome Hawking radiation in black holes is the most famous and elusive prediction of Quantum Field Theory in curved spacetime, but so far no experiment is confirming its existence. More fundamental than the theory it has been first derived, Hawking radiation has been extended to any system able to reproduce the geometrical features of a forming black hole specetime: for example in supersonic flowing fluids the sound gets trapped exactly as light in a black hole. Such supersonic flow configurations are called "acoustic black holes" and can be used as laboratory to test gravitational effects otherwise undetectable (as Hawking radiation). It has been recently proposed how a clear signature of the presence of Hawking radiation in acoustic black holes appears in the density correlation pattern, analytically obtained using the formal analogy between gravitation and hydrodynamics, and numerically confirmed in an analysis able to take into account the full microscopic structure of the system. In this seminar the main features of the analogy between gravitation and hydrodynamics are reviewed. Then the peculiar correlation pattern associated to Hawking radiation is showed, and its important role to reveal it in near future experiments is underlined. Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 Jun 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Acoustic Black Holes and the Correlations of Hawking Radiation"

Speaker(s): Serena FAGNOCCHI (S.I.S.S.A. - Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 13:00

Seminar

23 Jun 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Horizon in Random Matrix Theory, Hawking Radiation and Flow of Cold Atoms"

Speaker(s): Fabio FRANCHINI (ICTP - Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 13:45

Europe/Rome We will discuss Raman scattering in graphene. It turns out that the photoexcited electron-hole pairs, which serve as intermediate states in the process, are long-lived and their dynamics can be described quasiclassically. Moreover, this dynamics can be probed in several experiments. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

25 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Informal seminar: "Raman scattering in graphene: A window on electron dynamics"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Denis BASKO (CNRS, Grenoble)

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Activity

28 Jun 2009 - 5 Jul 2009

@ Crete - Greece

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

5th Regional Meeting on String Theory | (smr 2075)

Organizer(s): Directors: F. Ardalan, I. Bakas, E. Kiritsis, K.S. Narain, E. Rabinovici, S. Wadia

Secretary: R. Sain

Support E-Mail: smr2075@ictp.it

Europe/Rome TOPICS • Physics Studies with Early Data • Jets, Leptons, Photons, Missing Energy • The Challenge of a light Higgs Boson • Dark Matter measurements and the LHC The LHC is expected to begin operation in 2009. Theorists and experimentalists will be brought together to focus on the early data as well as fundamental issues for the LHC physics program: What can be learned from the early data? The challenges of measuring Missing Energy. The impact of ground, balloon and satellite measurements of Dark Matter on the LHC experiments. The challenge of a light Higgs boson. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

29 Jun 2009 - 2 Jul 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics , LHC Physics

Joint ICTP-INFN-SISSA Conference: Topical Issues in LHC Physics | (smr 2045)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: B. Acharya (ICTP), M. Cobal (Udine), G. Kane (Michigan), A. Romanino (SISSA), A. Vacchi (INFN)

Secretary: N. van Buuren

Support E-Mail: smr2045@ictp.it

Activity

29 Jun 2009 - 4 Jul 2009

@ Sibiu - Romania

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Advanced Workshop on Spin and Charge Properties of Low Dimensional Systems | (smr 2076)

Organizer(s): Directors: M.E. Flatté, M. Polini, I. Tifrea, G. Vignale, M. Kiselev

Secretary: S. Henningsen

Support E-Mail: smr2076@ictp.it

Europe/Rome Poncelet porism is one of most beautiful and most important results of 19th century projective geometry: it states that existence of one closed polygonal line inscribed in a given conic and circumscribed about another one implies the existence of an infinite family of such polygons. In the talk, classical results connected with Poncelet theorem will be overviewed as well as new ones connected with elliptical billiards and their higher-dimensional generalizations. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

30 Jun 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Poncelet porism and integrable billiards

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Milena Radnovic (Mathematical Institute Sanu, Belgrade, Serbia)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome 1. Phase transitions: combination of discrete and continues approaches; 2. Temporal-spatial maps and “Wilson-camera” approach; 3. “Object oriented” programming in cross-disciplinary modeling and "exotic" interactions; 4. Reducing number of “particles”; 5. Chaotic dynamics, strange attractors, solitary excitations and self-organized motion; 6. Random and controllable deposition and numerical potentials to model friction; 7. Tribology, directed transport and other studies made in TAU and BTU. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

1 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Seminar: "Spontaneous ordering in Brownian dynamics: Some useful approaches"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Alexander E. FILIPPOV (Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering )

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Seminar

3 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Wormhole solutions to Horava gravity

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Nicolas E. GRANDI (UNLP and IFLP, Argentina)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Activity

6 Jul 2009 - 24 Jul 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Summer College on Nonequilibrium Physics from Classical to Quantum Low Dimensional Systems | (smr 2046)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: L. Cugliandolo, L. Glazman, G. Mussardo. Local Organizers: M. Kiselev and A. Silva

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: E. Brancaccio

Support E-Mail: smr2046@ictp.it

Online Application Form

Europe/Rome The Levi curvatures of a real hypersurfaces of C^{n+1} are related to the Levi form the way the usual Mean or Gauss curvatures are related to the real Hessian form. They were implicitly introduced by Bedford and Gaveau in 1978, and more explicitly, in the case n=1, by Tomassini in 1988. Later on, Montanari and Lanconelli extended these notions to any dimension, following the lines of the works by Caffarelli, Nirenberg and Spruck on the real Monge-Ampere equations. Montanari and Lanconelli showed that, for hypersurface graphs on real functions, the Levi curvatures can be expressed in terms of second order fully nonlinear PDO's with an underlying sub-Riemannian structure. The properties of these structures allowed one to obtain: 1) A strong comparison principle for hypersurfaces having the same Levi curvatures; 2) Isoperimetric inequalities; 3) Alexandrov-type sphere theorems; 4) Existence theorems of Lipschitz-continuous viscosity solutions to the prescribed Levi-curvature problems 5) (only for n=1) Smoothness of the Lipschitz-continuous viscosity solutions. The results in 3) and 5) only give partial answers to problems which are still largely open. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

7 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

ICTP/SISSA JOINT COLLOQUIUM - Levi curvatures and related problems

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Professor Ermanno Lanconelli (Universita' di Bologna, Italy)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Seminar

7 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

The non-constant cosmological constant and dark energy

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Murli Manohar VERMA (Lucknow University, India)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Activity

8 Jul 2009 - 22 Jul 2009

@ Cape Town - South Africa

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics seminar: "Analysis of isoheight lines of rough surfaces using Schramm-Leowner evolution (SLE)"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Shanin ROUHANI (Sharif University of Technology, Teheran )

Seminar Start Time: 18:00

Activity

20 Jul 2009 - 24 Jul 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

From Core to Crust: Towards an Integrated Vision of Earth's Interior | (smr 2048)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Local organizer(s): A. Aoudia, S. Scandolo, J. Niemela

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: P. Wardell

Support E-Mail: smr2048@ictp.it

DEADLINE for requesting participation: 20 April 2009 for those needing financial/Visa support 31 May 2009 for those not needing financial support Deadline for POSTERS/Contributions: 20 April 2009

Europe/Rome It is well-known that certain matrix solutions of the braid or Yang-Baxter equations lead to braided categories, knot invariants, quantum groups and other important constructions. However, these equations are also very interesting at the level of set maps $r:X\times X\to X\times X,$ where X is a set and r is a bijection, a line of study proposed by Drinfeld. Solutions extend linearly to very special linear solutions but also lead to a great deal of combinatorics, and to algebras with very nice algebraic and homological properties including those relating to Artin-Schelter regularity, Koszulity, being a PBW Noetherian domain, and the existence of noncommutative Groebner bases. In this talk I will examine solutions mainly from the point of view of finite permutation groups: a solution gives rise to a map from X to the symmetric group $Sym(X)$ on X satisfying certain conditions. Our results include many new constructions based on strong twisted union and wreath product, with an investigation of retracts and the multipermutation level and the solvable length of the groups defined by the solutions; and new results about decompositions and factorisations of the groups defined by invariant subsets of the solution. This talk is based on a joint work with Peter Cameron. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

21 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Multipermutation solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Professor Tatiana Gateva-Ivanova (IMI, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences & AUBG)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:15

Seminar

21 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Testing Early Universe through Gravitational Waves Astronomy

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Tina KAHNIASHVILI (McWilliams Center for Cosmology, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA & National Astrophysical Observatory, Ilia Chavchavadze Univ., Georgia)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Seminar

23 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

S- Matrix Theory

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Freddy CACHAZO (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Activity

26 Jul 2009 - 7 Aug 2009

@ Sao Paulo - Brazil

Applied Physics

Hands-On Research on Complex Systems School | (smr 2090)

Organizer(s): E. Gueron, V. Kenkre, R. Koeberle, R. Roy, K. Showalter, H. Swinney; Local Organizer at ICTP: K.R. Sreenivasan

Secretary: E. Viti

Cosponsor(s): Fapesp,CNPq, Capes and Universidad Federal do ABC, U.S. Office of Naval Research, U.S. Army Research Office, and the Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science

Support E-Mail: smr2090@ictp.it

Europe/Rome For information on the 1st International Conference on Turbulent Mixing and Beyond see: http://www.ictp.it/~tmbw07 Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 Jul 2009 - 7 Aug 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

2nd International Conference and Advanced School on Turbulent Mixing and Beyond | (smr 2049)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Organizing Committee: S.I. Abarzhi (Chairperson, University of Chicago and IIT, USA), M.J.Andrews (Texas A&M University and LANL, USA), S.I. Anisimov (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia), H. Azechi (ILE, Osaka University, Japan), S. Gauthier (CEA, France), C.J. Keane (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA), R. Rosner (ANL, USA), K.R. Sreenivasan (ICTP, Italy), A.L. Velikovich (NRL, USA). Local Organizers at ICTP: K.R. Sreenivasan, J.J. Niemela

Laboratories: yes

Secretary: S. Radosic

Support E-Mail: smr2049@ictp.it

For information on the 1st International Conference on Turbulent Mixing and Beyond see: http://www.ictp.it/~tmbw07

Europe/Rome Previous TTAs on the seasonal predictability in tropical regions have been successful to initiate seasonal prediction researches and contributed to application in the developing countries. Also, targeting research and operational groups were highly appreciated by both sides and appeared to contribute efficient capacity building of seasonal prediction activities in developing countries. The experience of several TTAs suggested that two aspects of seasonal prediction are still required to be addressed for TTA to be more fruitful. Many operational groups, even though they are producing forecast, showed a lack of fundamental knowledge of the predictability of climate system such as initial error growth, ensemble prediction, and boundary forced signal versus noise, etc. This lack of basic knowledge hindered understanding of practical applications and its further development. Therefore, one major theme of this TTA will be providing dedicated lessons on the theoretical and fundamental aspects of climate predictability. On the other hand, it is also necessary to keep aiming practical usefulness of seasonal prediction because it has immediate social needs. Recently, researches and applications of the seasonal prediction expand its horizon into different spatial and temporal scale, partly because of obtaining higher practical utility. In particular, climate variability within a season is a state-of-art research area with high social value in planning agricultural, hydrological activities. As an advanced continuation of previous TTA on the seasonal predictability, applications on the intraseasonal predictability by the statistical approach will be another focus in this TTA. For both themes, series of laboratory experiment will be carried on using simple dynamical models, sophisticated GCM outputs, as well as statistical methods with observation dataset. Therefore, the 2009 TTA aims are the following; 1. Provide dedicated lessons on fundamental knowledge of predictability of weather and climate system 2. Provide an updated overview on current research on the seasonal predictability 3. Support knowledge on the intraseasonal variability and opportunity to develop simple prediction scheme through the laboratory sessions. 4. Co-ordinate co-operation between the research and operational groups of the developing countries based on the laboratory projects. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 Jul 2009 - 7 Aug 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Targeted Training Activity: Predictability of Weather and Climate: Theory and Applications to Intraseasonal Variability | (smr 2050)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: J. Shukla, D. Straus, V. Krishnamurthy. Local Organizer: Jin Ho Yoo

Laboratories: AGH (Infolab.)

Secretary: L. Iannitti

Support E-Mail: smr2050@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

27 Jul 2009

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Sergio Eduardo JORAS (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Seminar

31 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Some properties of randomly perturbed dynamical systems

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Sandro Vaienti (CPT, Marseille, France)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome We explain the construction of a smooth codimension-one foliation on the 5-sphere in which every leaf is a symplectic four-manifold and such that the symplectic structure varies smoothly. The construction implies the existence of a complete regular Poisson structure on the five-sphere. Apart from some spheres which can be foliated by Riemann surfaces (this foliations are orientable and therefore symplectic) this example provides the only example of a regular Poisson structure on a sphere. This is joint work with Pablo Suarez (CIMAT, Mexico). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

31 Jul 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

A symplectic foliation of the 5-sphere

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Professor Alberto Verjovsky (UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:45

Activity

10 Aug 2009 - 14 Aug 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Workshop on High Resolution Climate Modelling | (smr 2051)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: S. Schubert, In-Sik Kang, J. Shukla. Local Organizer: F. Kucharski

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: L. Iannitti

Cosponsor(s): Center for Ocean, Land and Atmosphere (COLA), Calverton MD, USA; NASA, USA

Support E-Mail: smr2051@ictp.it

Europe/Rome PURPOSE AND NATURE Investigations in Plasma Physics span a vast array of intellectually exciting areas; from deep mathematical structures to state of the art technology. This interdisciplinary branch of physics (fusion, space-astrophysics, cosmology, industry etc.), overlaps significantly with many fields, such as condensed matter physics, nonlinear dynamical systems, high energy density environments and particle physics, and is continually evolving, conceptually as well as methodologically. The Summer College will be an attempt to bring both the traditional and emerging aspects of this field to an audience from developing countries. Topics to be covered include plasma waves, instabilities and heating, charge particle acceleration by strong fields, turbulence and self-organization at multi-scales, strong coupling of flows and fields, coherent nonlinear structures, non-thermal particle and heat transport processes, and vortex theory. Newly developed energy-related applications will also be discussed. An important aim of the college is to bring together plasma physicists working in different areas for the purpose of reviewing and discussing the present state of the art of collective nonlinear interactions in plasmas. The Summer College shall be interactive. Input from participants from developing countries will be highly welcome and they will have the opportunity of interacting among themselves as well as with other senior scientists/visitors. PROGRAMME The Summer College has a strong pedagogical component. The lectures will be an admixture of tutorials, reviews, and presentation of recent research. Active collaboration will be encouraged through classroom teaching and closely interacting working groups. It is hoped that, as in previous years, many participants will contribute to the poster sessions, and develop long-term working relations with the college lecturers and other participants. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

10 Aug 2009 - 28 Aug 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Summer College on Plasma Physics | (smr 2052)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: R. Bingham, S.M. Mahajan, P.K. Shukla, L. Stenflo, Z. Yoshida. Local Organizer: J. Niemela

Laboratories: yes

Secretary: N. van Buuren

Support E-Mail: smr2052@ictp.it

Europe/Rome PLEASE NOTE: specific priorities for future research were summarized in a White Paper. Click HERE to download the White Paper and please send your comments to africa-hazard@ictp.it Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

17 Aug 2009 - 28 Aug 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Advanced Workshop on Evaluating, Monitoring and Communicating Volcanic and Seismic Hazards in East Africa | (smr 2053)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: A. Aoudia, E. Calais, C. Ebinger, M. Miller, T. Wright, G. Yirgu

Laboratories: AGH (Infolab.)

Secretary: A. Lusenti

Cosponsor(s): Co-Sponsored by: IAVCEI, IASPEI, NSF, UNAVCO, USAID

Support E-Mail: smr2053@ictp.it

Activity

23 Aug 2009 - 30 Aug 2009

@ Sibiu - Romania

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Workshop on Trends in Nanoscience: Theory, Experiment, Technology | (smr 2078)

Organizer(s): Directors: A. Aldea A. Safrany and S. Scandolo

Secretary: R. del Rio

Cosponsor(s): EOARD, ANCS, IFIN-HH, ULB

Support E-Mail: smr2078@ictp.it

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of Physics of the Living State (Applied Physics Scientific Section). You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss229.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

26 Aug 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

On the Safety of Persons Accompanying Nuclear Medicine Patients

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Marlenin Díaz Barreto (National Control Center for Medical Devices, Havana, Cuba)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Hosted Activity

28 Aug 2009 - 29 Aug 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

IUPAP C13 Meeting | (smr H226)

Organizer(s): Local organizer at ICTP: S. Scandolo

Secretary: IUPAP

Activity

31 Aug 2009 - 18 Sep 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Mathematics

Advanced School and Workshop on p-adic Analysis and Applications | (smr 2056)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: Ha Huy Khoai and V. Berkovich. Local Organizer: L. Goettsche

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: D. Sauleek

Support E-Mail: smr2056@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

31 Aug 2009 - 4 Sep 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Summer School: When humanities meets ecology: historic changes in Mediterranean and Black Sea marine biodiversity and ecosystems since the Roman period until nowadays. Languages ... | (smr H220)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Denardo Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): HMAP (R. Gertwagen); OGS (C. Solidoro, S. Libralato, D. Melaku Canu), ISPRA (S. Raicevich, T. Fortibuoni, O. Giovanardi)

Secretary: t.b.a.

Seminar

1 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

Introduction to the Riemannian geometry of Lie algebroids

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Professor Mohamed Boucetta (Université Cady-Ayyad)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of Physics of the Living State (Applied Physics Scientific Section). You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss230.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

2 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Analysis of ligand binding processes based on thermodynamic quantities

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Abdolkhalegh Bordbar (Department of Chemistry, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran )

Weak solutions for some nonlinear elliptic problem with variable exponent and measure data

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Stanislas Ouaro (University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome Double-layer structures, consisting of two parallel quantum wells separated by a potential barrier, are an important class of nanoscale electronic devices. Each layer hosts a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas and electrons interact across the barrier via Coulomb interaction. The combined action of the spin and pseudo-spin (associated with the layer index) degrees of freedom creates new phases in these bilayers where the spin and many-body interaction effects play a critical role. When an electric current is driven in one (active) layer of the bi-layer, the inter-layer Coulomb interaction causes charge accumulation in the other (passive) layer. This phenomenon, known as Coulomb drag, is of fundamental interest as a probe of electron correlations. Another effect of great interest is the Spin Hall Effect, the generation of spin accumulation by an ordinary electric current. The spin Hall effect is due to spin-orbit interaction and SOI and has been a subject of vigorous research both in semiconductors and metals in recent years not only because of its theoretical subtlety but also as a potential source of spin polarized currents. Lately, we have predicted and analyzed theoretically a new effect in bi-layers, which combines the interesting features of spin Hall effect and Coulomb drag. We call it Spin Hall Drag. SHD consists in the generation of spin accumulation across the passive layer by an electric current flowing along the other layer. Besides being a striking example of an effect that depends simultaneously on Coulomb interactions and spin-orbit coupling, the SHD has several unexpected and non-trivial features. It occurs in the absence of a current in the passive layer and, as we have shown, it is predominantly caused by a subtle effect known as side-jump in electron-electron collisions. This is at variance with the ordinary spin Hall effect, which, for electrons in GaAs, is dominated by an effect known as skew-scattering. We have shown that the skew-scattering and the side-jump contributions (considered for the first time in a context of electron- electron scattering) are separated by different temperature dependences at low temperature T, with the former vanishing much faster than the latter (T 3 vs T 2). Our calculations indicate that the induced spin accumulation is large enough to be detected in optical rotation experiments. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

9 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA CONDENSED MATTER SEMINARS: "Spin Hall Drag"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Samvel M. BADALYAN (Yerevan State University, Armenia & University of Regensburg, Germany)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of Physics of the Living State (Applied Physics Scientific Section). You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss231.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Analyzing and Improving Digital Medical Image Quality

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Marlen Perez Diaz (Central University of 'Las Villas, Electrical Engineering Faculty, Santa Clara, Cuba)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome Frictional motion plays a central role in diverse systems and phenomena that span vast ranges of scales, from the nanometer contacts inherent in micro- and nanomachines and biological molecular motors to the geophysical scales characteristic for earthquakes. Despite the practical and fundamental importance of friction and the growing efforts in the field, many key aspects of dynamics of friction are still not well understood. One of the main difficulties in understanding and predicting frictional response is the complexity of highly non-equilibrium processes going on in any tribological contact which include detachment and re-attachment of multiple microscopic contacts (bonds) between the surfaces in relative motion while still in contact. In this lecture I will discuss microscopic models which establish relationships between the dynamics of formation and rupture of individual contacts and frictional phenomena. First, I will focus on dynamics of nanoscale friction studied in friction force microscopy experiments. In this case we found that experimentally observed velocity and temperature dependencies of friction can be rationalized by explicitly considering the influence of temperature on the formation and rupturing of microscopic contacts. Then, dynamics of cracklike processes that occur at the interface between two macroscopic blocks prior to the onset of frictional motion will be discussed. In agreement with experimental observations, the proposed model demonstrates that the onset of sliding is preceded by well-defined detachment fronts initiated at the slider trailing edge and extended across the slider over limited lengths smaller than the overall length of the slider. We found that three different types of detachment fronts may play a role in the onset of sliding: (i) Rayleigh (surface sound) fronts, (ii) slow detachment fronts, and (iii) fast fronts. The important consequence of the precursor dynamics is that before the transition to overall sliding occurs, the initially uniform, unstressed slider is already transformed into a highly nonuniform, stressed state. Our model allows to explain experimental observations and predicts the effect of material properties on dynamics of transition to sliding. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed Matter Seminar: "Modeling friction: From the nano- to macro-scales"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Michael URBAKH (Tel Aviv University)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Activity

21 Sep 2009 - 25 Sep 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Pseudochaos and Stable-Chaos in Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Physics | (smr 2058)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Organizing committee: R. Artuso, A. Kolovsky, R. Livi, T. Prosen, A. Vulpiani. Local Organizer: M. Marsili

Laboratories: computers

Secretary: N. Ivanissevich

Support E-Mail: smr2058@ictp.it

Seminar

23 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Some Classification Results on Quasi-Quantum Groups and Tensor Categories

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Hua-Lin Huang (Shandong University, Jinan, P.R. China)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome A brief overview of universal equations, which govern the propagation of nonlinear waves in various physical media (both classical - such as optical fibers - and macroscopic quantum media, such as Bose-Einsten condensates, BECs), will be given. The survey will include the nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS)/Gross-Pitaevskii equations, the sine-Gordon (SG) equation, the Korteweg - de Vries (KdV) equation, the Kadomtsev - Petviashvili (KP) equations, and some others (the KP equations are two-dimensional models). All the above-mentioned equations, in their ideal form, share the fascinating property of the exact integrability, by means of a mathematical technique known as "the inverse-scattering transform". Not only are these equations ubiquitous and universal, but also their fundamental solutions - first of all, solitons, i.e., solitary waves - play a profoundly important role in all physical settings to which the model equations apply. Solitons have been predicted in a great variety of physical systems, and one-dimensional solitons were observed and/or created experimentally in nonlinear optics, BEC, long Josephson junctions (superconductivity), fluid flows, plasmas, etc. A great challenge to the experiment is to produce stable two- and three-dimensional solitons. Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 Sep 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR - SPECIAL SEMINAR: "Fundamental nonlinear equations in physics, and their fundamental solutions"

Speaker(s): Boris A. MALOMED (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome Description: This is the continuation of the seminars of Physics of the Living State (Applied Physics Scientific Section). You will be especially welcome if you are visiting the Centre, or another Trieste Institute, as Associate Members, TRIL Fellows, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar will be available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss232.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Patient radiation doses during selected CT examinations at a large hospital in SW Nigeria

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Rachel Ibhade Obed (Physics Department, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome Kinetics of the earthquakelike model with a distribution of static thresholds is reduced to a master equation which may be considered analytically. This approach naturally describes stick-slip and smooth sliding regimes of tribological systems within a framework which separates the calculation of the friction force from the studies of the properties of the contacts. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed Matter seminar: "Master equation approach to friction on a mesoscale"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Oleg BRAUN (Institute of Physics, Kiev)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Hosted Activity

24 Sep 2009 - 25 Sep 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP) Executive Committee Meeting | (smr H242)

Organizer(s): InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP)

Secretary: M. Fanin

Europe/Rome We regret to inform you that due to some unforeseen circumstances, it has been decided to POSTPONE the International School on Environmental Nano-Technology (ISENT2009) Isfahan,Iran to the year 2010. The exact new date of the School and another on line Application process for year 2010 will be announced later. We also regret any inconveniences that this might cause. Dr. Ralph Gebauer on behalf of the Organizers Isfahan - Islamic Republic of Iran ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 Sep 2009 - 1 Oct 2009

@ Isfahan - Islamic Republic of Iran

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

International School on Environmental Nano-Technology (ISENT2009) - POSTPONED TO 2010, DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED | (smr 2073)

Organizer(s): Directors: E. Shirani, S. Raghu. Local Organizer at ICTP: R. Gebauer. Advisory Board: A. Benfdila, G. Bertogli, P. Dobson, G. Ali Mansoori, H.R. Tabar, C. Tuniz.

Secretary: K. Danforth

Cosponsor(s): Isfahan University of Technology (IUT)

Support E-Mail: smr2073@ictp.it

Europe/Rome The following topical issues will be covered: Introduction to Nuclear Knowledge and Knowledge Management Fundamentals Developing Policies and Strategies in Managing Nuclear Knowledge Managing Nuclear Information Resources Human Resource Management and Knowledge Transfer Practical Guidance and Best practices of KM Networking for Knowledge Sharing Nuclear English – Language Skills for a Globalizing Industry Background information on the IAEA activities in Nuclear Knowledge Management is available from: http://www.iaea.org/inisnkm/ Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

28 Sep 2009 - 2 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP/IAEA School of Nuclear Knowledge Management | (smr 2059)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): IAEA: A. Kosilov and M. Saidy. Local Organizer: C. Tuniz

Laboratories: EKLUND Lab. AGH

Secretary: K. Mabilo

Cosponsor(s): In cooperation with the:International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria - the European Nuclear Education Network Association (ENEN), Saclay, France co-sponsored by:the IAEA Interregional Project

Support E-Mail: smr2059@ictp.it

Activity

28 Sep 2009 - 10 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Advanced School on Non-linear Dynamics and Earthquake Prediction | (smr 2060)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: V.I. Keilis-Borok, G.F. Panza, A.A. Soloviev

Laboratories: AGH (Infolab.)

Secretary: G. De Meo

Support E-Mail: smr2060@ictp.it

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of the Applied Physics Scientific Section. You will be welcome if you are visiting the Centre or another Trieste Institute, especially if you are an Associate Member, TRIL Fellow, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes of the Abdus SAlam ICTP in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar is available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss233.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 Sep 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Proposal of an optically stimulated luminescence reader at the Abdus Salam ICTP

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): F. O. Ogundare (Department of Physics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome A quantum quench is a rapid change in time of a control parameter in the Hamiltonian describing a quantum, correlated many-body system. The physics of this paradigmatic non-equilibrium process, which has been realized recently in the context of cold atoms, is of particular interest in quantum critical systems where concrete dynamical manifestations of universality can be studied. In this talk I will discuss two fundamental ways to characterize these processes, by either looking at the statistics of basic thermodynamic variables or at the asymptotics of correlators. I will first elucidate the connection between a classic problem in condensed matter physics, the Fermi edge singularity, the statistics of the work done in a quantum quench, and quantum Jarzynski equalities. Using this connection, I will discuss results for the statistics of the work in a variety of systems, such as the quantum Ising chain, the Dicke model and quantum impurities. I will show that quantum criticality manifests itself in the emergence of interesting edge singularities in the statistics of the work and discuss their universality. Similarly, I will discuss how the critical properties are encoded in the asymptotics of non-equilibrium correlators. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

1 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Universal physics in quantum nonequilibrium processes: Quantum quenches, work statistics and edge singularities"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Alessandro SILVA (The Abdus Salam ICTP )

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Seminar

1 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Universal phenomena in strongly coupled gauge theories and gravity

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Ayan MUKHOPADHYAY (Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India)

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Activity

5 Oct 2009 - 8 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Workshop on High-Impact Weather Predictability and Information System for Africa and AMMA-THORPEX Forecasters' Handbook | (smr 2019)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: A. Diongue-Niang, A. Kamga, D. Parker Local Organizer: A. Tompkins

Secretary: P. Malchose Pieri

Support E-Mail: smr2019@ictp.it

Activity

5 Oct 2009 - 9 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Joint ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Alternative Response Actions to Climate Change and Energy Options | (smr 2061)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): A.I. Jalal, D. Sharma and F.L. Toth. Local Organizer: A. Tompkins

Secretary: M. de Comelli

Cosponsor(s): In collaboration with IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

Support E-Mail: smr2061@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

5 Oct 2009 - 6 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

First Summer School: "Dopaminergic Neurons and Parkinson's Disease" | (smr H234)

Organizer(s): SISSA (Prof. Stefano Gustincich) and CBM (Consorzio per la Medicina Biomolecolare), Trieste, Italy

Secretary: Ms. Sonia Metrustry (CBM)

Europe/Rome The Mathematical Faculties of the National University of Uzbekistan (Tashkent) and Samarkand University (Uzbekistan) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, are organizing an International School and Conference on Foliations, Dynamical Systems, Singularity Theory and Perverse Sheaves from 6 to 21 October 2009 in Samarkand State University, Uzbekistan. The main aim of this School and Conference is to bring together specialists, researchers and students working on various aspects of Algebraic Geometry, of Foliations and of Dynamical Systems to discuss and further develop the interactions among these subjects. Some areas of interest are: Singularities in algebraic and analytic geometry, Hodge theory, local and global theory of foliations on varieties, the theory of D-modules and representation theory. The academic programme consists of a School during the first week and a Conference during the second week. In the School there will be courses on topics of current interest taught by leading experts. In the Conference there will be Plenary Talks and Sessions on Dynamical Systems, on Foliations, on Hodge theory and perverse sheaves. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME: 1 - School, 6 - 10 October 2009: The following courses will be offered - Dynamical Systems - Professors Azamov A. (Tashkent) and Bruno A.D. (Moscow) - Geometry of projective varieties, Singularities and Perverse sheaves - Professors Le Dung Trang (ICTP), El Zein F. (IMJ) and Sadullaev A. (Tashkent). - Foliations - Professor Langevin R. (France) 2 - Conference, 11 - 21 October 2009: The programme consists of morning Plenary Lectures and the following afternoon Sessions: - Singularity theory and perverse sheaves (coordinated by Seade J.) - Dynamical Systems (coordinated by Soleev A., Narmanov A.) - Hodge theory (coordinated by El Zein F.) - Foliations and Catastrophe theory (coordinated by Chaperon M.) PLENARY LECTURES SPEAKERS: Azamov A. (Tashkent), Chaperon M. (IMJ, Paris, France), Dzhalilov A. (Uzbekistan), Gusein-Zade S. (Moscow), Ikramov I. (Uzbekistan), Massey D. (Northeastern, Boston, USA), Movasati H. (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Narmanov A. (National Univ. of Uzbekistan, Tashkent), Popescu-Pampu P. (IMJ, Paris, France), Snoussi J. (Cuernavaca, Mexico), Soleev A. (Samarkand Univ., Uzbekistan), Seade J. (Cuernavaca, Mexico), Sadullaev A. (National Univ. of Uzbekistan, Tashkent), Shubladze M. (Tbilisi, Georgia), Tosun M. (Istanbul, Turkey), Zaare-Nahandi. R. (Teheran, Iran). Participation: The school and the conference are open to all mathematicians from all countries which are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA. Graduate students from the post soviet union republics and middle east are encouraged to apply. The application form and other information may be found at the web page http://agenda.ictp.it/smr.php?2079 which will be updated periodically. Support: A limited number of grants to partially support local expenses are available. Funds from the ICTP are available only for participants who are nationals of, and working in, developing countries, who accept to attend the entire activity, and who are not more than 45 years old. Possible financial help for participants from advanced countries can be requested directly from the Directors of the school. Deadline for applying for support: 30 May 2009 Contact address: smr2079@ictp.it PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS Samarkand State University, Samarkand, Uzbekistan National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent CIMPA (International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics), Nice, France IMU (International Mathematical Union) Samarkand - Uzbekistan ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

6 Oct 2009 - 21 Oct 2009

@ Samarkand - Uzbekistan

Mathematics

International School and Conference on Foliations, Dynamical Systems, Singularity Theory and Perverse Sheaves | (smr 2079)

Organizer(s): Organizers: Fouad El Zein, Sabir Gusein-Zade, Remi Langevin, Le Dung Trang (ICTP Organizer), David Massey, Abdigappar Narmanov and Ahmadjon Soleev (Local Organizer)

Secretary: A. Bergamo

Cosponsor(s): Samarkand State University, National University of Uzbekistan, IMU, CIMPA

Support E-Mail: smr2079@ictp.it

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of the Applied Physics Scientific Section. You will be welcome if you are visiting the Centre or another Trieste Institute, especially if you are an Associate Member, TRIL Fellow, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes of the Abdus SAlam ICTP in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar is available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss234.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

7 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Ionospheric Physics and Space Weather Research in Cuba

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Alexander Calzadilla-Méndez (Instituto de Geofísica y Astronomía, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome We investigate an effective low energy theory of HgTe quantum wells near their mass inversion thickness in a perpendicular magnetic field. By comparison of the effective band structure with a more elaborated and well-established model, the parameter regime and the validity of the effective model are quantified. Optical transitions (between Landau levels) in HgTe quantum wells are analyzed. We find selection rules which we functionalize to optically manipulate edge state transport. [1] In the absence of magnetic fields, the ballistic transport through HgTe quantum wells in the so-called inverted regime is believed to be dominated by edge state transport. The existence of these edge states (at zero magnetic field) is one of the hallmarks of topological insulators. We show that transport through the gapped bulk via evanescent modes can in general not be neglected in ballistic HgTe quantum wells. [1] M.J. Schmidt, E.G. Novik, M. Kindermann, and B. Trauzettel, Phys. Rev. B 79, 241306(R) (2009) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

8 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

Organizer(s): Prof. Nigel Mason, The Open University (Milton Keynes, UK)

Secretary: Ms. B.J. Harker

Europe/Rome JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR Within the framework of a simple model, we are able to study the overall performance of a given informational network, depending on its uptaking as well as on the level of traffic control. Simple enough to get analytical results, it still shows a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid phase transitions between a free-flow phase and a congested phase, critical points and different scaling behaviors in the system size. We find that traffic control improves global performance, enlarging the free-flow region in parameter space only in heterogeneous networks. Traffic control introduces non-linear effects and, beyond a critical strength, may trigger the appearance of a congested phase in a discontinuous manner. The model also reproduces the cross-over in the scaling of traffic fluctuations empirically observed in the Internet. Ref: PRE 79, 015101(R) (2009) Jstat P08023 (2009) Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

13 Oct 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:"Statistical mechanics of congestion"

Speaker(s): Daniele DE MARTINO ((S.I.S.S.A. - Trieste) )

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Europe/Rome In this talk, I will discuss unconventional superfluid states of various bosonic systems and present benchmark calculations for the ground state and finite temperature phase diagrams. The method of study is based on quantum Monte Carlo simulations by the Worm algorithm. The two qualitatively different systems to be discussed are: i) superfluidity of lower dimensional objects, i.e. dislocations and defects, embedded in solid structures both in optical lattices and in realistic systems such as 4-He. ii) the two-component Bose-Hubbard model. Bosonic optical lattice systems are also interesting for studies of quantum magnetism where under certain conditions they can be mapped onto various spin Hamiltonians. On the other hand, superfluid dislocations in 4-He are an important subject for their relevance to supersolid behavior observed in solid 4-He. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Novel superfluid states in bosonic systems"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Guner SOYLER (The Abdus Salam ICTP )

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Activity

19 Oct 2009 - 24 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/FANAS Conference on Trends in Nanotribology | (smr 2063)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: O. Gulseren, N. Manini, A. Vanossi; Local Organizer: E. Tosatti

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: S. Radosic

Cosponsor(s): FANAS (European Science Foundation), Universita' di Milano, SPECS-Zurich

Support E-Mail: smr2063@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

19 Oct 2009 - 21 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

2nd International Meeting of Young Researchers on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures | (smr H233)

Organizer(s): Prof. Antonio De Simone (SISSA)

Secretary: SISSA t.b.a.

Europe/Rome Because of their very small carrier density, bismuth and graphite allow to attain the quantum limit in a bulk metal with available magnetic fields. The fate of a three-dimensional electron gas pushed to this ultra-quantum regime remains an open question. Recent measurements of the Nernst effect in graphite and in graphene combined to what was reported in bulk bismuth a few years ago, and in two-dimensional electron systems a decade earlier, permits to draw a striking correlation between the field profile of the Nernst response and dimensionality. When a Landau level intersects the Fermi level, the Nernst signal peaks in three-dimensional systems and vanishes in two-dimensional systems. We argue that this qualitative difference is a signature of a topological phase transition exclusive to three-dimensional systems. Beyond the quantum limit, when all carriers are confined to the first Landau level, Nernst effect in bismuth detects field scales, which are not expected in the one-particle picture. The field profile of these anomalies points to a bulk origin. According to our recent angular-dependent Nernst measurements, the band picture is quite successful in explaining the complex electronic spectrum of bismuth up to 9 T, but is inadequate as the quantum limit is crossed. In particular, in the vicinity of 40 T, that is more than four times the quantum limit, large anomalies in all transport properties point to an enigmatic reorganization of bulk electrons. Unexpectedly, this electronic instability leads to an enhanced conductivity and a better metallicity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

22 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Nernst effect and dimensionality in the quantum limit and beyond"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Kamran BEHNIA (ESPCI, Paris)

Seminar Start Time: 12:00

Hosted Activity

24 Oct 2009 - 25 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Seminar on Innovative Ideas for Goethermal Exploitation | (smr H246)

Organizer(s): ICS - UNIDO, Trieste

Secretary: Elisa Maria Sarti

Activity

26 Oct 2009 - 27 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Structure and Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bonded Systems | (smr 2054)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: J. Kohanoff, S. Koval, R. Senesi Local Organizer: E. Tosatti

Laboratories: not required

Secretary: D. Sauleek

Cosponsor(s): co-sponsored by: Centre for Molecular Structure and Dynamics, STFC, UK

Support E-Mail: smr2054@ictp.it

Activity

26 Oct 2009 - 30 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Joint ICTP/IAEA Advanced School on in-situ X-ray Fluorescence and Gamma Ray Spectrometry | (smr 2064)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): IAEA: A. Markowicz, P. Martin, U. Sansone. Local Organizer: C. Tuniz

Secretary: P. Wardell

Support E-Mail: smr2064@ictp.it

Activity

26 Oct 2009 - 20 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Advanced Training Course on FPGA Design and VHDL for Hardware Simulation and Synthesis | (smr 2065)

Organizer(s): Directors: N. Abdallah, A. Cicuttin, A. Marchioro. Local Organizer: M.L. Crespo

Laboratories: AGH (Infolab.)

Secretary: S. Tanaskovic

Support E-Mail: smr2065@ictp.it

Europe/Rome Brief Description of the topics to be covered: Geothermal Energy Resources ➢ World status; ➢ Regional electricity source mix and forecasts until 2030 ➢ Geothermal vs Coal , Natural gas, Oil, Nuclear, other Renewables ➢ Benefits of domestic geothermal resources versus fossil fuel imports Exploration strategies for geothermal resources ➢ Geological and tectonic characteristics of world geothermal systems ➢ Examples from Collision zones ➢ continental platforms ➢ heat sources Geochemical exploration methods ➢ Dissolved constituents in thermal waters; ➢ Isotopes in geothermal waters; ➢ Water and gas geothermometers. Geophysical exploration methods ➢ Heat flow measurements, ➢ Direct current and electromagnetic methods, ➢ Active and passive seismic methods ➢ Borehole and reservoir geophysical methods ➢ Gravity Method World overview - Power generation & technologies ➢ Criteria for the selection of working fluid; ➢ Heat exchangers; ➢ Kalina cycle ➢ Cost of small power plants for rural electric supply; ➢ Examples of small power plants; ➢ Advantages of small power plants ➢ Hot dry rock geothermal systems World overview - direct use ➢ Direct use - methods & machinery ➢ Greenhouse heating ➢ Industrial Applications ➢ Down hole heat exchangers ➢ Ground-source heat pumps ➢ Space & District heating Development of business strategy for geothermal energy for power and direct use ➢ Exploration, Economical & Environmental aspects Objectives: ➢ To provide basic knowledge on the geothermal energy resources exploration and its application for power generation and direct use; ➢ To provide advanced technical knowledge, methods and implementation tools for the application of geothermal energy for power generation and direct use through lectures and tutorials and case studies/histories; ➢ To provide knowledge on the economic and environmental aspects of geothermal energy; ➢ Field visit to geothermal areas in Italy. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

26 Oct 2009 - 7 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

New Research Areas

School on Geothermics | (smr 2021)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: D. Chandrasekharam, F. Batini, R. Bertani, A. Manzella, M. Pipan. Local Organizer: G. Furlan

Laboratories: LB LAB

Secretary: L. Iannitti

Cosponsor(s): ENEL- Green Power (Italy), International Geothermal Association (IGA), University of Trieste & Unione Geotermica Italiana (UGI) and the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

Support E-Mail: smr2021@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

29 Oct 2009 - 30 Oct 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

TWAS Fellowship Selection Committee Meeting | (smr H237)

Organizer(s): TWAS

Secretary: C. Simoes

Europe/Rome Essential dependence of the electron g-factor on the quasiparticle momentum is a fundamental and, so far, largely overlooked property of antiferromagnetic conductors. I will discuss its symmetry underpinnings and some of its experimental consequences. The predictions may be relevant to a number of antiferromagnetic conductors, ranging from chromium to electron- and hole-doped cuprates, borocarbides, iron pnictides, organic and heavy fermion materials. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

29 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "On electron magnetism of antiferromagnetic conductors"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Revaz RAMAZASHVILI (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse )

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of the Applied Physics Scientific Section. You will be welcome if you are visiting the Centre or another Trieste Institute, especially if you are an Associate Member, TRIL Fellow, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes of the Abdus Salam ICTP in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar is available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss235.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

29 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Modelling Human Bone Mineral Density

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Rita Cassia-Moura (Biological Sciences Institute, Pernambuco University, Recife, BRAZIL)

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Seminar

29 Oct 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

SQCD inflation and supersymmetry breaking

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Arunansu SIL (Institut de Physique Theorique - CEA, Saclay, France)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are projected to cause global climate change during the 21st century, creating novel challenges for coastal and marine ecosystems. This workshop, followed by a two-day conference, is centered on current understanding of the interplay of physical and chemical factors in controlling biological production in coastal tropical waters and the impacts of climate change. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Nov 2009 - 10 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Workshop and Conference on Biogeochemical Impacts of Climate and Land-Use Changes on Marine Ecosystems | (smr 2066)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: A. Bracco, L.T. Cang and J. Montoya. Local Organizer: E. Coppola

Laboratories: EKLUND Lab. AGH

Secretary: F. Delconte

Support E-Mail: smr2066@ictp.it

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of the Applied Physics Scientific Section. You will be welcome if you are visiting the Centre or another Trieste Institute, especially if you are an Associate Member, TRIL Fellow, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes of the Abdus Salam ICTP in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar is available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss241.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

4 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Hardware Implementation of Particle Filters

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Speaker(s): Imbaby I. Mahmoud (Atomic Energy Authority, NRC, Engineering Department, Cairo, Egypt )

Support E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome Critical phenomena and quantum phase transitions are paradigmatic concepts in modern condensed matter physics. A central example in the field of mesoscopic physics is the localization-delocalization (metal-insulator) quantum phase transition driven by disorder -- the Anderson transition. Although the notion of localization has appeared half a century ago, this field is still full of surprising new developments. In this talk, I will discuss novel materials---graphene and topological insulators---where the charge carriers have a character of 2D Dirac fermions. A non-trivial topological nature of the corresponding theories leads to remarkable physical consequences. In graphene, the charge carriers turn out to be topologically protected from Anderson localization, as long as the intervalley scattering can be neglected. A similar phenomenon takes place for surface modes of a 3D topological insulator. Furthermore, we show that, in the latter system, the Coulomb interaction leads to emergence of a quantum critical state. Remarkably, the interaction-induced critical state emerges on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator without any adjustable parameters. This ``self-organized quantum criticality'' is a novel concept in the field of interacting disordered systems. Finally, we predict a quantum spin-Hall transition between the normal and topological insulator phases in 2D that occurs via a similar (or identical) quantum critical point. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

5 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

SEMINAR on Disorder and Strong Electron Correlations: "Topological quantum criticality of Dirac fermions: From graphene to topological insulators"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): A. MIRLIN (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Certain strongly disordered superconducting films, when driven insulating by reducing thickness or by a small perpendicular magnetic field, are believed to maintain a strong pairing of electrons into localized Cooper pairs, the phase transition to an insulator merely signaling the loss of phase coherence across the sample. The ensuing bosonic insulator has a variety of very peculiar properties: empirically, it is found to exhibit a simply activated resistance of purely electronic nature. I will analyze the new question of the spectral properties of the disordered interacting system across the phase transition in the light of the phenomenon of localization in Fock space. This analysis leads to a possible explanation of the above-mentioned properties in terms of localized Cooper pairs which couple only very weakly to phonons. Open and controversial issues will be discussed. REFERENCES: M. Müller, arXiv:0909.2260 I.L. Aleiner, B.L. Altshuler, G.V. Shlyapnikov, arXiv:0910.4534 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

6 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Journal Club Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Purely electronic transport in strongly disordered, but nearly superconducting insulators"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Markus MUELLER (ICTP)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Activity

9 Nov 2009 - 20 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP/IAEA School on Physics and Technology of Fast Reactors Systems | (smr 2055)

Organizer(s): IAEA: D. Abriola, C. Ganguly, G. Mank and A. Stanculescu. Local Organizer: C. Tuniz

Laboratories: LB LAB

Secretary: G. De Meo

Support E-Mail: smr2055@ictp.it

Europe/Rome Mean field glassy system have been the subject of much studies over the last decades. They arise as mean field models for the glass transition, but also as models for complex systems and optimization problems. Their thermodynamics properties can be solve using the replica, or the cavity method. In this talk, I will introduce a generalization of the cavity method that allows to follow Gibbs states in mean field systems when an external parameter, e.g. the temperature, is tuned. The method thus yields a "static" way to study long time "dynamics" in mean field models of glass formers, spin glasses, or random constraint satisfaction problems. In optimization problems the method gives limits for the performance of the simulated annealing algorithm. It also gives new results on the stability and the marginality of the non-equilibrium states, on the spinodal point upon heating, and allow to demonstrate the presence of temperature chaos. Reference : Krzakala, Zdeborova ; arXiv:0909.3820v1. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "The energy landscape of glassy systems or Long time dynamics in mean field glassy models"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Florent KRZAKALA (EPSCI, Paris)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

10 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

On the cosmology of type II flux compactifications

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Timm WRASE (Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Hannover, Germany)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Hosted Activity

11 Nov 2009 - 13 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Scuola Archivistica d'Autunno | (smr H223)

Room: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)

Organizer(s): International Institute for Archival Science of Trieste and Maribor (Dr. A. Monteduro)

Seminar

11 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Energy identity for a sequence of maps from a surface to a Riemannian manifold

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dr. Zhu Xiangrong (ICTP)

Support E-Mail: math@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome This is the continuation of the seminars of the Applied Physics Scientific Section. You will be welcome if you are visiting the Centre or another Trieste Institute, especially if you are an Associate Member, TRIL Fellow, or if you are from Affiliated Institutes of the Abdus Salam ICTP in the various areas of Applied Physics. The summary of the seminar is available at: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/ss242.html Refreshments will be served at the end of this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Planar equivalence: from type 0 strings to QCD

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Adi ARMONI (Swansea University, UK)

Seminar Start Time: 16:15

Seminar

13 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

In what sense can the Universe expand?

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Julian BARBOUR (University of Oxford, UK)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Hosted Activity

16 Nov 2009 - 20 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

ICAN4: Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean | (smr H206)

Organizer(s): Prof. Dawn Wright (Oregon State University, USA) - Activity held in cooperation with EEA Meeting H245

Hosted Activity

16 Nov 2009 - 20 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

European Environment Agency (EEA)/EIONET Workshop on Maritime and Coastal Information Systems | (smr H245)

Organizer(s): Ms. Charlotta Colliander (EEA) - Activity held in cooperation with ICAN Meeting H206

Secretary: Ms. C. Colliander

Europe/Rome Due to recent experimental achievements with trapped ultracold atoms, the properties of the 1D non-relativistic Bose gas are of great interest. In many experimental setups the behaviour of the particles is very well described by the Lieb-Liniger model which in many aspects can be regarded as a theoretical benchmark in the research of integrable models. In spite of its integrability, calculating correlation functions in the model is notoriously difficult. In the talk I will propose a novel approach to compute expectation values and other physical quantities in the Lieb-Liniger model. The method is based on the fact that in the repulsive case the S-matrix, the Lagrangian and the operators can be obtained from a certain non-relativistic limit of the sinh-Gordon model. This observation allows us to compute expectation values both at zero and finite temperature. Among other results, I present the computation of the three-body correlation function at finite temperature, which is closely related to the recombination rate of the gas. Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

17 Nov 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Lieb-Liniger Bose gas as the non-relativistic limit of the sinh-Gordon model"

Speaker(s): Marton KORMOS (S.I.S.S.A. Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

18 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

Mathematics

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Probing super light neutral Higgs boson at the LHC in CP violating MSSM Higgs sector

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dilip Kumar GHOSH (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Activity

23 Nov 2009 - 27 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Effects of Mechanical Properties and Mechanisms Governing the Irradiation-induced Embrittlement of Pressure Vessel Steels | (smr 2067)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Denardo Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): IAEA: K.-S. Kang (IAEA), L. Kupca (IAEA); Local Organizer: C. Tuniz

Laboratories: EKLUND Lab. AGH

Secretary: E. Brancaccio

Support E-Mail: smr2067@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

23 Nov 2009 - 27 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

IAEA Regional Workshop on Essential Safety Assessment Knowledge: An Introduction to DSA and to PSA | (smr H236)

Organizer(s): IAEA, Vienna, Austria

Secretary: Nadia Nammari

Hosted Activity

23 Nov 2009 - 26 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

26 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR - SPECIAL SEMINAR: "Unbalanced strongly interacting Fermi gas"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Alessio RECATI (University of Trento )

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

26 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Primordial non-Gaussianity and the Large-Scale Structure

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Emiliano SEFUSATTI (CEA, Saclay, France)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Hosted Activity

27 Nov 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Giornata di Studio su: Rischio Clinico nella Gestione dei Farmaci Antiblastici in Emato Oncologia Pediatrica. Responsabilita' - Criticita' - Modelli Organizzativi | (smr H241)

Organizer(s): IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste (Dr. G.A. Zanazzo) e Trieste Traduzioni Congressi (Sig. A. Dessy)

Secretary: TTC-A. Dessy

Activity

30 Nov 2009 - 4 Dec 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Earth System Physics

Joint ICTP/IAEA Advanced Workshop on Earthquake Engineering for Nuclear Facilities | (smr 2016)

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: S. Morita (IAEA), P. Sollogoub (IAEA) G.F. Panza (ICTP)

Laboratories: LB LAB

Secretary: G. De Meo

Cosponsor(s): Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS)

Support E-Mail: smr2016@ictp.it

Activity

30 Nov 2009 - 11 Dec 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Advanced School in High Performance and GRID Computing - Concepts and Applications | (smr 2068)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Organizer(s): Directors: S. Cozzini, A. Kohlmeyer

Laboratories: AGH (Infolab.and Eklund Lab.)

Secretary: A. Lusenti

Cosponsor(s): CEI, Democritos-Infm, eLab Joint Democritos/Sissa, E4, INFN, NVIDIA

Support E-Mail: smr2068@ictp.it

Seminar

30 Nov 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

What could we learn on gravitational core collapses from neutrino detection?

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Francesco VISSANI (INFN- Gran Sasso, ICTP, INTRANet - Pescara, Italy)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome I present a quantitative approach to interactive learning and adaptive behavior, which integrates model- and decision-making into one theoretical framework. This approach follows simple principles by requiring that the observers behavior and the observers internal representation of the world should result in maximal predictive power at minimal complexity. Classes of optimal action policies and of optimal models can be derived from an objective function that reflects this trade-off between prediction and complexity. The resulting optimal models then summarize, at different levels of abstraction, the process causal organization in the presence of the feedback due to the learners actions. A fundamental consequence of the proposed principle is that the optimal action policies have the emerging property that they balance exploration and control. Interestingly, the explorative component is present also in the absence of policy randomness, i.e. in the optimal deterministic behavior. Exploration is therefore not the same as policy randomization. This is a direct result of requiring maximal predictive power in the presence of feedback. It stands in contrast to, for example, Boltzmann exploration, which is frequently used in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Time permitting, I will discuss what happens when one includes explicit goals and rewards into the theory, as is popular in RL. Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

1 Dec 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Interactive Learning"

Speaker(s): Susanna STILL (University of Hawaii)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

2 Dec 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Galactic Cosmic Rays: Progress and Problems

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Lecture Room B

Speaker(s): Venya BEREZINSKY (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, L'Aquila)

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Using the mapping from the Fokker-Planck description of classical stochastic dynamics into a quantum Hamiltonian, we argue that a dynamical glass transition can be given a precise definition in terms of a static (equilibrium) quantum phase transition. This transition is characterized by a massive collapse of the excited states, leading to a divergent static quantum susceptibility throughout the glassy phase, which directly relates to a non-vanishing Edwards-Anderson order parameter. The quantum mechanical language allows to search for off-diagonal order parameters to detect the classical ‘dynamic order’ using transverse bases – an approach that corresponds to non-static observables in the original classical language. Even in the absence of a local order parameter, the transition can be detected via quantum fidelity measures on the ground state wavefunction, which we show to translate directly into a singularity in the heat capacity of the classical system. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

3 Dec 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "A 'quantum mechanical' view on the dynamical glass transition"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Claudio CASTELNOVO (Oxford University)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

3 Dec 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Collider Phenomenology of B-L model

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Alexander S. BELYAEV (University of Southampton, UK)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Graphene is a new material consisting of a one-atom-thick layer of graphite. It has been discovered only a few years ago and since its discovery it has shown to possess many unique and fascinating properties. These properties are a consequence of the fact that electrons in graphene effectively behave as massless relativistic electrons, whose dynamics is described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation. In this talk I will first introduce the field, by explaining in some detail how the electronic properties of graphene originate, how they manifest themselves in the experiments, and how the experiments are actually done. I will then move to discuss more specific topics that we have investigated during the past few years. These include phase coherent transport of electrons (Aharonov-Bohm effect, weak-localization, Josephson supercurrent), finite conductivity at the charge neutrality point, and gate-tunable band structure. Taken together, these examples make clear that graphene (single-layers as well as materials consisting of a small number of layers) indeed is a unique material system, in which the discovery of new physical phenomena can be expected, and which could be of use in future electronic applications. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 Dec 2009

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Graphene electronics"

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

Room: Leonardo da Vinci Building Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Alberto MORPURGO (University of Geneva)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Nanophysics has emerged in the last decade as a new distinct sub-branch of physics. It deals with the fundamental physical phenomena that take place at the nanoscale and that find application in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology. Theoretical and computational aspects of Nanophysics will be covered during this activity. The school is intended for young promising scientists (students and researchers) from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and other South-East Asian countries. Topics: - Introduction to nanophysics - Physics of carbon nanotubes - Physics of graphene and graphene nanoribbons - Mesosocopic systems - Quantum dots - Nanowires, nanoclusters and nanostructures on surfaces - Computational approaches based on: o Density functional theory o Molecular dynamics === INVITED LECTURERS: I. L. Aleiner (Columbia Univ., New York) B.L. Altshuler (Columbia Univ., New York) K. Efetov (Ruhr Universität Bochum) V.I. Falko (University of Lancaster) P. Fulde (MPI, Dresden / APCTP, Pohang) Y. Galperin (University of Oslo) R. Gebauer (ICTP, Trieste) M. Kiselev (ICTP, Trieste) V.E. Kravtsov (ICTP, Trieste) F. Mauri (Université Paris VI) M.B. Nardelli (N. Carolina State Univ.,Raleigh) S. Scandolo (ICTP, Trieste) R. Shekhter (Chalmers University, Göteborg) E. Tosatti (SISSA, Trieste) Hanoi - Viet Nam ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

14 Dec 2009 - 25 Dec 2009

@ Hanoi - Viet Nam

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Regional School on Physics at the Nanoscale: Theoretical and Computational Aspects | (smr 2081)

Organizer(s): Directors: B.L. Altshuler, M.N. Kiselev, V.E. Kravtsov, N.V. Lien, S. Scandolo. Local Organizer: N.H. Quang.

Secretary: M. Poropat

Support E-Mail: smr2081@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

14 Dec 2009 - 16 Dec 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Thermodynamically unstable proteins: chance or necessity? | (smr H248)

Organizer(s): ELETTRA - Sincrotrone Trieste (Ufficio Utenti)

Secretary: Ms. M. Bassanese

Europe/Rome Algorithmic complexity is a powerful tool that, in the realm of classical dynamical systems, gives solid ground to the intuitive notions of chaoticness and randomness. Possible generalizations to quantum dynamical systems will be presented and discussed within the context of quantum information theory. Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Dec 2009

@ Lecture Room D - SISSA Main Building

JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Algorithmic complexity and quantum dynamics"

Speaker(s): Fabio BENATTI (Physics Department, University of Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Hosted Activity

16 Dec 2009 - 18 Dec 2009

@ Trieste - Italy

Probing Magnetic Dynamics With Ultrashort Coherent X-Ray Pulses and ELETTRA Users' Assembly | (smr H235)

Organizer(s): ELETTRA - Sincrotrone Trieste (Ufficio Utenti)

Secretary: Ms. M. Bassanese

Seminar

18 Dec 2009

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Type III seesaw and LFV searches

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

Speaker(s): Miha NEMEVSEK (DESY - Hamburg, Germany)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

14th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods | (smr 2014)

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La musica in testa: tre giorni di scienza, musica e apprendimento | (smr H218)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics seminar: "Algebraic properties of Grassmann and Clifford subalgebras related to spanning hyperforests"

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Latin American School on Computational Materials Science | (smr 2071)

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Progetto Scuola: Fare Scienza con il Computer (only on: 19, 28 January; 6 February) | (smr H216)

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JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR:"Form factors in finite volume and finite temperature correlators"

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Applied Physics

Preparatory School to the Winter College on Optics in Environmental Science | (smr 2017)

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JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: " Effective surface tension and coarsening in models driven by interfacial noise "

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Mathematics

On the Intersection of Rational Transversal Subtori

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High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Non-relativistic CFTs and holography

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Applied Physics

Winter College on Optics in Environmental Science | (smr 2018)

Hosted Activity

TWAS Steering Committee Meeting | (smr H217)

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JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Three body physics with ultracold atoms: the Efimov effect and P-wave Feshbach resonances for spin polarized fermions"

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High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Holographic Multiverse

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High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Gauge coupling unification with magic fields

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JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "How to find a difficult problem for a quantum computer"

Hosted Activity

Workshop on Best Practices for Advisory and Honorific Roles of Science Academies | (smr H200)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on on Disorder and strong electron correlations: " "Time evolution of correlations in strongly interacting fermions and bosons"

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PHYSWARE: A Collaborative Workshop on Low-cost Equipment and Appropriate Technologies that Promote Undergraduate Level, Hands-on Physics Education throughout the Developing World | (smr 1928)

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New Research Areas

ICTP-ITU School on Wireless ICT Low Cost Solutions in Developing Countries: Best Practices - to be followed by - 2nd Awareness Workshop on Relevance of Low Cost Wireless ICT Solutions for Development | (smr 2020)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed Matter seminar: "Doping graphene with metal contacts"

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JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Relaxation dynamics of isolated many-body systems"

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Spin-torque shot noise in magnetic tunnel junctions"

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Joint ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Advanced Simulation and Modelling for Ion Beam Analysis | (smr 2015)

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JOINT ICTP/SISSA STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: "Lanford Theorem and the validity of Boltzmann equation"

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SEMINAR on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Multiparticle interference in electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers"

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Mathematics