Scientific Calendar

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

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Europe/Rome Understanding virulence remains a central problem in human health, pest control, disease ecology and evolutionary biology. Bacterial virulence is typically quantified by phenomenological indicators such as the LT50 (i.e. the time taken to kill 50% of an infected population). However, virulence emerges as a result of complex processes that occur at different stages: the pathogen needs to breach the primary host defenses, find a suitable environment to replicate, and finally express the virulence factors that cause lethality. It is well-known that pathogens exhibit a very broad spectrum of strategies to accomplish these three tasks, yet, phenomenological indicators such as the LT50 cannot distinguish the ability of the pathogen to invade the host from its ability to kill the host. Here, we propose a physical host-pathogen theory that shows how to disentangle colonization, growth, and pathogen lethality from the survival kinetics of a host population. Experimental data from Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes exposed to various human pathogens shows that host mortality becomes severe only once the pathogen population has reached its carrying capacity within the host. In the talk, I will present our theory and compare predictions against experimental data. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

8 Jan 2018

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Disentangling bacterial invasiveness from lethality in an experimental host-pathogen system

Room: Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building, Via Beirut

Speaker(s): Tommaso Biancalani - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:30

Europe/Rome Strongly correlated quantum systems exhibit a wide range of phases with unconventional behavior. These phases are characterized by non-trivial global entanglement patterns and cannot be described within the Landau paradigm due to their lack of local order parameters. In my talk, I will discuss how quantum information theory allows us to describe such systems in a way which reconciles their global entanglement with a local description, based on the framework of tensor networks. I will show how tensor networks allow to capture both the structure of the physical interactions as well as global topological entanglement within a unified local description, and how this allows us to build a comprehensive framework to study topologically ordered systems and their excitations. I will then discuss applications of this framework: First, I will show how it allows to characterize the precise nature of topological spin liquids; and second, I will discuss how it can be used to explain topological phase transitions driven by anyon condensation through phases in their entanglement, allowing us to devise measurable order parameters for anyon condensation and thus to study topological phase transitions at a microscopic level. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

9 Jan 2018

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar - Topological Order and Tensor Networks: A Local Perspective on Global Entanglement

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Norbert SCHUCH (MPI fuer Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome The laws of thermodynamics can be extended to the nanoscale, where fluxes are fluctuating quantities. Little is known about extreme-value statistics of thermodynamic fluxes characterising the most extreme deviations from the average behaviours. Using Martingale theory, we study statistics of the negative records of stochastic entropy production in nonequilibrium steady states, and derive universal inequalities for such distributions of records. Furthermore, we explore the implications of our results in two non-equilibrium nanoscopic systems: single-electron transistors and molecular motors. We report on the experimental measurement of stochastic entropy production and of records of negative entropy in a metallic double dot under a constant external DC bias. Experimental results on the double dot confirm our theory and reveal a novel bound for the maximal heat that a mesoscopic system can absorb from its environment. We also explore our results in active biological processes and find predictions for the maximal excursion of a molecular motor against the direction of an external force. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

9 Jan 2018

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Singularities of mean curvature flow and surgery

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Karen CORRALES ESCALONA, ICTP

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Seminar

24 Jan 2018

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Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Constraining Particle Physics from Quantum Gravity Conjectures

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Irene VALENZUELA (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

24 Jan 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Large Field Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Arthur HEBECKER (Heidelberg University)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome The main objective of the Forum is to bring together the main partners for realising international laboratories in South East Europe combining capacity building with bringing nations together following the CERN model. Among them are designers of the projects, potential future users of the region, scientists and engineers from universities and national laboratories, representatives of industry, and of government agencies. In introductory presentations the importance of international cooperation for science and training in the region will be illuminated. Two large projects from which the region could benefit particularly will be presented. Their concepts have been worked out by two groups of international experts and they are based on most modern technological developments enabling cutting-edge research in many domains relevant to society. One is a synchrotron light source providing radiation research possibilities in many domains from physics to biology, material science, environmental science and even archaeology and medicine. The users' community would come mainly from university faculties and also industry. The second project is a facility for cancer research and treatment with heavy particles (protons and carbon nuclei) which would also enable biomolecular research including experiments with small animals. For both facilities a number of options will be presented and it is hoped that the discussions will provide indications which choices would be most interesting for the region. Training of scientists, engineers and technicians is considered to be important from the beginning. Since the realisation of these projects will require several years this time will be extensively used to train experts in order to build-up expertise, i.e. to form a sufficient critical mass of staff members for operation of the machines as well as to create users' communities. Thus these opportunities will be mainly for the benefit of the young generation although they will also serve to reverse the brain drain. Since the general know-how and technology transfer will be of particular interest for the region several presentations will consider how this can be achieved in the most efficient way. Two special activities instigated by the projects may trigger developments for the whole region. This would be the development of powerful digital networks and large data handling necessary to transfer data from the central laboratory to the users. Setting up of such a network for oncologists might be of particular interest. Another activity reaching beyond the particular projects considered would be the installation of solar power panels to reduce the operating cost for electricity of the facilities, boosting the general development of alternative energy production in the region. GRANTS: a limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from the South East Europe. There is no registration fee. Requests for contributions to the session "Short presentations of interest to participate in IIST (International Institute for Sustainable Technologies)", on 26 January morning, are invited to be made in the online form (comment section) indicating also the title of the contribution. Visit to the Elettra synchrotron light source facility and the FERMI free electron laser facility in Trieste (afternoon of January 26): participants interested in the visit to the Elettra and Fermi facilties are also invited to indicate it in the online form (comment section). DEADLINES FOR REQUESTING PARTICIPATION: 15 December 2017 (firm deadline if financial support is required) 14 January 2018 (if no financial support is required) OUTCOME OF THE SELECTION: Applicants requesting financial support will be informed via individual e-mail/letter by 22 December. Applicants not requesting financial support will be informed as soon as possible via individual e-mail/letter. The ICTP will remain closed during Winter break from 23 December 2017 to 7 January 2018, inclusive. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

25 Jan 2018 - 26 Jan 2018

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Applied Physics

Forum on New International Research Facilities for South East Europe | (smr 3251)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): ORGANISING COMMITTEE:, Herwig Schopper (Chairman, former DG of CERN), Fernando Ferroni (President of INFN), Christoph Quitmann (Director of MAXIV, Sweden), Nicholas Sammut (Deputy Dean, University of Malta)), Hans J. Specht (Heidelberg Univ., former DG of GSI), Ruediger Voss (President of EPS), Local Organisers: Nadia Binggeli, Saša Ivanovic (MNA)

Cosponsor(s): Ministry of Science of Montenegromscm, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizationunesco, International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3, European Physical Societyeps, Fondazione Internazionale Triestefit

Secretary: Stanka Tanaskovic

Support E-Mail: smr3251@ictp.it

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Europe/Rome A new algorithm to solve the TDDFT equations in the space of the density fitting auxiliary basis set has been developed and implemented in ADF.1 The TDDFT equations are recast to a non-homogeneous linear system, whose size is much smaller than in Casida formulation, allowing to calculate a wide portion of the absorption spectrum for large systems. The method extracts the spectrum from the imaginary part of the polarizability at any given photon energy, avoiding the bottleneck of Davidson diagonalization. The original idea which made the present scheme very efficient consists in the simplification of the double sum over occupied-virtual pairs in the definition of the dielectric susceptibility, which allows an easy calculation of such matrix as a linear combination of constant matrices with photon energy dependent coefficients. The method has been applied to very different systems in nature and size (from H2 to [Au309]-)2,3. In all cases, the maximum deviations found for the excitation energies with respect to Casida approach are below 0.2 eV. The new algorithm has the merit to calculate the spectrum at whichever photon energy but also to allow a deep analysis of the results, in terms of Transition Contribution Maps,4 plasmon scaling factor analysis5, induced density analysis, and with a fragment projection analysis6. Circular Dichroism of large systems becomes also affordable.7 References 1.O. Baseggio, G. Fronzoni and M. Stener, J. Chem. Phys., 2015, 143, 024106. 2. O. Baseggio, M. De Vetta, G. Fronzoni, M. Stener, L. Sementa, A. Fortunelli and A. Calzolari, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 12773. 3. A. Fortunelli, L. Sementa, V. Thanthirige, T. Jones, M. Stener, K. Gagnon, A. Dass, G. Ramakrishna, J. Phys. Chem. Lett, 2017, 8, 457. 4. S. Malola, L. Lehtovaara, J. Enkovaara and H. Häkkinen, ACS Nano 2013, 7, 10263. 5. S. Bernadotte, F. Evers, C. R. Jacob, J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 1863. 6. L. Sementa, G. Barcaro, O. Baseggio, M. De Vetta, A. Dass, E. Aprà, M. Stener, A. Fortunelli, J. Phys. Chem. C submitted. 7. O. Baseggio, D. Toffoli, G. Fronzoni, M. Stener, L. Sementa, A. Fortunelli J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 24335. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

25 Jan 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: A New Efficient Time Dependent Density Functional Algorithm for Large Systems: Theory, Implementation and Plasmonics Applications

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Mauro STENER (Dipt. Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Univ. di Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome By the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), a highly excited energy eigenstate behaves like a thermal state. It is related to the black hole information paradox by the AdS/CFT correspondence. I will talk about ETH in two-dimensional large central charge CFT and compare the excited state of a primary operator with the thermal state. To define ETH precisely, one needs to know how similar, or equivalently dissimilar, the excited state and thermal state are. I will talk about short interval expansions of the entanglement entropy, relative entropy, Jensen-Shannon divergence. For the canonical ensemble, the excited state and thermal state are the same at the leading order of large central charge and are different at the next-to-leading order. I will also discuss briefly ETH for generalized Gibbs ensemble, and ETH for the descendant excited states. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, Room 128 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

25 Jan 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, Room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in Two-Dimensional Large Central Charge CFT

Speaker(s): Jia-Ju ZHANG (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome An ICTP PREPARATORY SCHOOL (29 January - 2 February 2018) will be organized the week before the Winter College (5-16 February 2018) for a limited number of selected participants. The Preparatory School will provide background tutorials and exercises designed to help the participants in following the College lectures. The aim of the Winter College is to offer Ph.D. students a broad training on extreme light science: from ultra short and ultra intense laser pulse generation, to attosecond and Free Electron Laser (FEL) technology, focusing on applications of attosecond pulse generation in atomic and molecular physics, photo-chemistry and nanoscience, and the application of extreme light sources to matter-radiation interactions in general. Free Electron Lasers (FELs) will be accompanied by visits to the FERMI FEL and the Elettra Syncrotron Facility located in Trieste. In addition to lectures, there will be tutorials on simulation tools for ultrashort pulse and nonlinear optics modelling as well as hands-on laboratory sessions. Posters are encouraged from all participants and prizes will be sponsored by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). Topics: • Ultrashort laser pulse generation and characterization • Ultrafast non-linear optics and ultrabroadband parametric amplification • Novel low-cost mode-locked laser systems • Principles of attosecond technology: generation and metrology • XUV optics for attosecond beamlines • Attosecond electron dynamics in atoms and molecules • Attosecond spectroscopy of nanoparticles and nanostructures • Strong field physics phenomena and high-intensity laser technologies • Free Electron Lasers: physics, properties and recent advances HOW TO APPLY: To apply to the Preparatory School and Winter College, please click on the "Apply here" link in the left menu of this page. Please note that it is highly recommended that only candidates NOT holding a PhD or without an appropriate background should apply to the Preparatory School. Acceptance will be at the discretion of the Organizers. To apply to the Winter College only, please click on the "Apply here" link of the following page: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8295/ DEADLINE: 20 October 2017 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

29 Jan 2018 - 16 Feb 2018

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Applied Physics

Preparatory School and Winter College on Extreme Non-linear Optics, Attosecond Science and High-field Physics | (smr 3186)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Francesca Calegari ((IFN-CNR, Milan - Italy and DESY, Hamburg - Germany), David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw - Poland and NRNU MEPhI Moscow - Russia), Miltcho Danailov (Elettra-Sincrotrone, Trieste – Italy), Zhiyi Wei (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing - China), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

Europe/Rome Materials are crucial to scientific and technological advances and industrial competitiveness, and to tackle key societal challenges — from energy and environment to healthcare, information and communications, manufacturing, safety and transportation. Computational science, with the current accuracy and predictive power, can play a very relevant role in this respect by boosting materials design and discovery. In this scenario, scientific objectives and computational technological perspectives are nowadays more intertwined than ever. The MaX Centre (Materials Design at the Exascale), one of the nine Centres of Excellence for computing applications funded by the EU since 2015, has been acting along two core lines, namely, high-performance computing (HPC), in view of the transition to exascale architecture, and high-throughput computing (HTC), with the final aim of building a materials modelling ecosystem. The MaX Centre takes the opportunity of its general conference to share with the scientific community its current efforts and future perspectives, as well as to underline the state of the art of both the scientific and the technological innovation which can disruptively impact on material discovery in the next decade. This conference aims at gathering scientists active in the field of materials modelling, together with HPC and HTC experts to discuss the most recent advancements in the field, including, but not limited to: Advances in high performance computing for materials science New avenues from data analytics/artificial intelligence in materials science High throughput computing for materials discovery Trends in high performance computing and codesign towards exascale Novel algorithms for first principles simulations Confirmed Invited Speakers include: Stefano Baroni, SISSA (IT) Luca Benini, Università di Bologna (IT) & ETH (CH) Stephan Bluegel, FZ-Juelich (DE) Pietro Bonfà, CINECA (IT) Luigi Brochard, Lenovo HPC (FR) Roberto Car, Princeton University, NJ (USA) Ivan Carnimeo, SISSA (IT) Juan Carrasquilla, Perimeter Institute (CA) Carlo Cavazzoni, CINECA (IT) Alessandro Curioni, IBM (CH) Thierry Deutsch, CEA-Inac (FR) Massimiliano Fatica, NVIDIA (USA) Luca Grisanti, SISSA (IT) Geoffroy Hautier, UCL-NAPS (BE) Juerg Hutter, University of Zurich (CH) Karsten Jacobsen, Technical University of Denmark (DK) Anton Kohzenvnikov, CSCS (CH) Boris Kozinsky, Harvard University (USA) Lin Lin, University of California, Berkeley, CA (USA) Stephan Mohr, BSC (ES) Pablo Ordejon, icn2 (ES) Dirk Pleiter, Juelich Supercomputing Center (DE) Deborah Prezzi, CNR Nano (IT) Maria Clelia Righi, Unimore (IT) Davide Sangalli, CNR-ISM (IT) Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin (IE) Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Stony Brook University (USA) Filippo Spiga, ARM (USA) Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, (USA) Leopold Talirz, EPFL (CH) David Wilkins, EPFL (CH) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

29 Jan 2018 - 31 Jan 2018

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High Performance Computing

MaX Conference on the Materials Design Ecosystem at the Exascale: High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing | (smr 3161)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Stefano Baroni (SISSA), Elisa Molinari (CNR-NANO), Sandro Scandolo (ICTP), Local Organisers: Ralph Gebauer, Ivan Girotto

Cosponsor(s): MAX EU Centre of Excellencemax2

Europe/Rome ICTP's Salam Distinguished Lecture Series is an annual presentation of talks by renowned, active scientists. The aim is to showcase important research developments as well as provide a visionary forward view. The lecture series is supported by the Kuwait Programme at ICTP. Alan Guth is the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trained in particle theory at MIT, Guth held postdoc positions at Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) before returning to MIT as a faculty member in 1980. His work in cosmology began at Cornell, when fellow postdoc Henry Tye persuaded him to study the production of magnetic monopoles in the early universe. Using standard assumptions, they found that far too many would be produced. Continuing this work at SLAC, Guth discovered that the magnetic monopole glut could be avoided by a new proposal which he called the inflationary universe. Guth's honors include ICTP's Dirac Prize, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, and the 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. Guth is still busy exploring the consequences of inflation. He has also written a popular-level book called "The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins" (Addison-Wesley/Perseus Books, 1997). There will be 3 lectures, on 29, 30 and 31 January 2018, start time: 17.00 hrs. Lecture I: "Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?" Abstract: Inflationary cosmology gives a plausible explanation for many observed features of the universe, including its uniformity, its mass density, and the patterns of the ripples that are observed in the cosmic microwave background. Beyond what we can observe, most versions of inflation imply that our universe is not unique, but is part of a possibly infinite multiverse. I will describe the workings of inflation, the evidence for inflation, and why I believe that the possibility of a multiverse should be taken seriously. Lecture II: "Eternal Inflation and its Implications" Abstract: This lecture will further explore the connection between inflation and the multiverse. I will describe the mechanism of inflation in more detail, showing why most versions lead to eternal inflation: once inflation starts, it never completely stops, but instead the inflating region grows forever, producing "pocket universes" ad infinitum. Eternal inflation is in some ways very attractive, because, for example, it offers a possible explanation for why the energy density of the vacuum is so incredibly small. But it also leads to the "measure problem": how does one define probabilities in an infinite system in which any allowed event is expected to occur an infinite number of times? Lecture III: "Infinite Phase Space and the Two-Headed Arrow of Time" Abstract: One of the unsolved mysteries of physics is the arrow of time: the laws of physics make no distinction between the future and the past, but in our experience they are entirely different. The arrow of time can be identified with the growth of entropy, but what caused the entropy to be lower in the past? I will describe a speculative picture which shows how an arrow of time can develop naturally, provided that the available phase space is infinite, even in a system with time-reversible laws of physics, and with no special initial conditions. I will also discuss the alternative possibility that the phase space available to the universe is finite, arguing that this assumption leads to serious cosmological problems. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

29 Jan 2018 - 31 Jan 2018

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Salam Distinguished Lectures 2018: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?

Address: Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Alan H. Guth, Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Europe/Rome We present a new method to compute Renyi entropies in one-dimensional critical systems, using the mapping of the Nth Renyi entropy to a correlation function involving twist fields in a ZN cyclic orbifold. When the CFT describing the universality class of the critical system is rational, so is the corresponding cyclic orbifold. It follows that the twist fields are degenerate : they have null vectors. From these null vectors a Fuchsian differential equation is derived, although this step can be rather involved since the null-vector conditions generically involve fractional modes of the orbifold algebra. The last step is to solve this differential equation and build a monodromy invariant correlation function, which is done using standard bootstrap methods. This method is applicable in a variety of situations where no other method is available, for instance when the subsystem A is not connected (e.g. two-intervals EE). SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

30 Jan 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128

Winter College on Extreme Non-linear Optics, Attosecond Science and High-field Physics | (smr 3184)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Francesca Calegari (IFN-CNR, Milan - Italy and DESY, Hamburg - Germany), David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw - Poland; JINR Dubna and NRNU Moscow - Russia), Miltcho Danailov (Elettra-Sincrotrone, Trieste – Italy), Zhiyi Wei (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing - China), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

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

Europe/Rome Irreversibility, which is usually quantified by the entropy production, is one of the most fundamental concepts in thermodynamics, with deep scientific and technological consequences. It is also an emergent concept, that stems from the complex interactions between a system and its environment. However, as will be discussed in this talk, the standard theory of entropy production breaks down in the quantum case, in particular in the limit of zero temperature. Motivated by this, I will present recent results which overcome these difficulties using the idea of phase space entropy measures for bosonic systems. As I will show, our theory not only overcomes the zero temperature limitations but also allows one to extend the results to deal with non-equilibrium reservoirs. As an application, we will consider squeezed thermal baths, which are instance of a grand-canonical Generalized Gibbs Ensemble and therefore allow us to construct an Onsager transport theory, akin to the theory of thermoelectricity. Finally, I will also discuss how entropy production emerges from the perspective of the environment and the system environment correlations. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

6 Feb 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Speaker(s): Andrea Solotar (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome The School has the goal of teaching participating scientists about modern computer hardware and programming to provide a foundation for future computational research using High Performance Computing (HPC). Participants will go through an intensive programme with a focus on practical skills. School participants will learn to improve the efficiency of their research codes, and to parallelize them. Lectures on a selection of technical aspects of modern HPC hardware will be mixed with introductions to widely used parallel programming tools and libraries. The hands-on sessions will allow participants to practice on small example problems of general scientific interest. Example topics will cover numerical methods and parallel strategies, as well as data management. The programme specifically addresses the needs of scientists using, writing, or modifying HPC applications, and will not assume, require, or provide significant IT and HPC resource management skills. It will be mainly based on fundamental HPC-relevant features in widely used scientific software for high-performance computing: • Computer architectures for HPC and how to optimize for them • Parallel programming tools (MPI & OpenMP) • Portable, flexible and parallel I/O (HDF5) • Parallel programming best practices • Floating-point math • High-performance libraries for the solution of common math problems NOTES: • The School is organized in collaboration with the CADING-Red Group. • Accommodation and meals are covered at the campus for all selected participants. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: expired on 26 November 2017 -------------------------------------------------------------- ICTP Secretariat contact: smr3187@ictp.it - Mexico ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

12 Feb 2018 - 23 Feb 2018

@ - Mexico

High Performance Computing

Latin American Introductory School on Parallel Programming and Parallel Architecture for High Performance Computing | (smr 3187)

Address: CINVESTAV and ININ Carretera México-Toluca Km 38.5, Salazar, Ocoyoacac, 52740 Estado de México, MEXICO

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Jaime Klapp (ININ and Cinvestav-Abacus), Isidoro Gitler (Cinvestav-Abacus), Leonardo Sigalotti (UAM-Azcapotzalco), Elí Santos Rodríguez (Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics), Marcela Cruchaga (Universidad de Santiago de Chile), ICTP Scientific Contact: Ivan Girotto

Cosponsor(s): EPCCepcc, Cinvestavcinvestav, Abacus Cinvestavcinvestav2, ININinin, UAM-Azcapotzalcouam, MCTPmctp2, CONACYTconacyt2, CYTEDcyted, CADINGcading

**DEADLINE: 26/11/2017**

Seminar

12 Feb 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

New analytic approaches for the conformal bootstrap

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Aninda SINHA (Centre for High Energy Physics, IISC, Bangalore, India)

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Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome In this talk I will discuss the motion of a tracer particle driven by an external constant force through a quiescent lattice gas. Due to the interaction between the tracer and the bath particles, here modelled as an exclusion process, the driven tracer reaches a steady-state when the external force and the friction exerted by the bath balance each other. The steady-state is characterised by a non equilibrium broad inhomogeneity of the bath density surrounding the driven tracer yielding a rich variety of behaviours. I show that depending on the effective dimension of the lattice, the driven tracer exhibits from sub-diffusive to strong super-diffusive transport in the limit of high of bath particles. Moreover, when more than one driven tracers exist, the external and friction forces mediate an anisotropic attractive interacting force between the tracers, leading to the formation of clusters. I will show through numerical results that such scenario extends into continuous-space and continuous-time dynamics. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

13 Feb 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: 'Driven Tracer in Quiescent Baths: Anomalous Diffusion and Induced-Interaction'

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome ICTP and SISSA, in collaboration with the partner institutions of the Master in the Physics of Complex Systems (http://www.polito.it/pcs) will organize the Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems from 19 February to 16 March 2018. Many complex systems in physics, biology, engineering and economics are characterized by a large number of interacting degrees of freedom giving rise to a non-trivial collective behavior. The theoretical and computational tools for a quantitative analysis of complex systems are often rooted in modern (statistical, quantum) physics. The Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems aims to give students the opportunity to get in touch with a selection of topics at the forefront of research during an intensive 4-week program. It consists of 5 courses of 9 lectures each, followed by final written tests. Invited Lecturers: Antonio Celani (ICTP, Trieste) Maurizio Fagotti (ENS, Paris) Chris Mathys (SISSA, Trieste) Mario Nicodemi (U. of Naples Federico II) Angelo Rosa (SISSA, Trieste) Gregory Schehr (LPTMS, Orsay Cedex) Applicants from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend. Participants should have an adequate working knowledge of English. Candidates are required to solicit recommendation letters to be sent by their supervisors in support of their application. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by their home institutions. However, limited funds are available to partially support some participants, who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is limited and candidates should make every effort to secure support for their travel, at least partial. Attendance of lectures and completion of the final written tests are mandatory for those who are granted ICTP funding. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

19 Feb 2018 - 16 Mar 2018

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 3189)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Andrea Gambassi (SISSA), Silvio Franz (LPTMS Orsay), Alessandro Pelizzola (Politecnico di Torino), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Cosponsor(s): International Master, Physics of Complex Systems (i-PCS)mpcs, Politecnico di Torinopolito, SISSAsissa, Université Pierre et Marie Curieupmc, Université Paris Diderotdiderot, Laboratory of excellence Physics: Atoms, Light, Matterpalm, Université Franco Italienneufi, Université Paris-Saclayupsay

Europe/Rome The Tan's contact is an ubiquitous quantity in systems with zero-range interactions: it corresponds for example to the average interaction energy, to the weight of the tails of the momentum distribution function at large momenta, to the inelastic two-body loss rate, just to cite a few. We focus on strongly interacting one-dimensional bosons at finite temperature under harmonic confinement. As it is associated to short-distance correlations, the calculation of the Tan's contact cannot be obtained within the Luttinger-liquid formalism. We derive the Tan's contact by employing an exact solution at infinite interactions, as well as a local-density approximation on the Bethe Ansatz solution for the homogeneous system and numerical ab initio calculations for finite interactions. In the limit of infinite interactions, we demonstrate its universal properties, associated to the scale invariance of the model. We then obtain the full scaling function for arbitrary interactions. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

19 Feb 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Tan's Contact for a Strongly Interacting One-dimensional Bose Gas in Harmonic Confinement: Universal Properties and Scaling Functions

Speaker(s): Anna MINGUZZI (LPMMC, Univ. Grenoble-Alpes and CNRS, Grenoble, France)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

19 Feb 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Quenched decay of correlations for slowly mixing systems

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Marks RUZIBOEV, Loughborough University

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Activity

20 Feb 2018 - 23 Feb 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

SIDA ANNUAL REVIEW MEETINGS | (smr H552)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome There has been much progress recently in proving single-letter formulas for the mutual information (or "free energy") in high-dimensional estimation and learning problems. Computing the mutual information is important in order to locate the various "phase transitions" occurring in such problems when the noise increases or the data becomes too scarce. It is also key in computing various optimal achievable errors. Unfortunately all existing methods are highly involved, difficult to generalize and restricted in their applicability. In this talk I'll present a new method, called "adaptive interpolation method", that eliminates these barriers all at once: It is much simpler, very generic and able to tackle problems that were resisting until now. I will illustrate the method on a paradigmatic model of high-dimensional estimation, namely the "Wigner spiked model" (or "low-rank matrix factorization"). I will also briefly review some models that are now under full rigorous control thanks to this approach, as well as very recent extensions to physics models such as the "ferromagnetic p-spin model on sparse random graphs", an open problem for decades for reasons that I'll mention. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Feb 2018

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Joint MATH-QLS Seminar - A simple tool for complex problems: The adaptive interpolation method for the Wigner spiked model

Room: Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA Building, via Beirut

Speaker(s): Jean BARBIER, Communication Theory Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: There has been much progress recently in proving single-letter formulas for the mutual information (or " free energy ") in high-dimensional estimation and learning problems. Computing the mutual information is important in order to locate the various " phase transitions " occurring in such problems when the noise increases or the data becomes too scarce. It is also key in computing various optimal achievable errors. Unfortunately all existing methods are highly involved, difficult to generalize and restricted in their applicability. In this talk I'll present a new method, called " adaptive interpolation method ", that eliminates these barriers all at once: It is much simpler, very generic and able to tackle problems that were resisting until now. I will illustrate the method on a paradigmatic model of high-dimensional estimation, namely the " Wigner spiked model " (or " low-rank matrix factorization "). I will also briefly review some models that are now under full rigorous control thanks to this approach, as well as very recent extensions to physics models such as the " ferromagnetic p-spin model on sparse random graphs ", an open problem for decades for reasons that I'll mention. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Feb 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Joint MATH-QLS Seminar - A simple tool for complex problems: The adaptive interpolation method for the Wigner spiked model

Room: SISSA building

Speaker(s): Jean BARBIER, EPFL, Lausanne

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Seminar

27 Feb 2018

@ ICTP

Cosmology

What's inside a black hole?

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Ramy BRUSTEIN (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome In August 1859 the young and still little known Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academic titled 'On the number of primes less than a given quantity'. In the middle of that paper, Riemann made a guess - remark or conjecture - on the zeros of analytic function which controls the growth of the primes. Mathematics has never been the same since. The seminar presents the captive story behind this problem, which still remains one of the most famous unsolvable problems in mathematics, and show how progress can be made on its solution employing ideas and methods which come physics, i.e. from the stochastic world of random walks and alike. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, rm 128 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 Feb 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, rm 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: The Riemann Conjecture

Speaker(s): Giuseppe MUSSARDO (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: Einstein predicted that gravitational waves exist when he discovered the theory of general relativity more than a century ago. Einstein, however, never believed that it would be possible to detect such waves and he did not believe that black holes exist. Yet, the last Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes. I will explain how such waves are generated in black hole mergers, how they were detected against all odds by using laser interference technology and what they could teach us about gravity, black holes and the universe. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 Feb 2018

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: On the Complex Behavior of Disordered Models in a Field

Speaker(s): Federico RICCI-TERSENGHI (Theoretical and Computational Physics, Univ. of Rome 'La Sapienza')

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract. I will review some of the recent attempts to incorporate stringy corrections to low energy effective actions within the framework of GCG. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

13 Mar 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Stringy corrections, generalised complex geometry and supersymmetry

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Ruben MINASIAN (IPHT, Saclay, France)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome ICTP's annual Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics provides pedagogical treatment of these subjects through lectures by some of the world's top string theorists. The activity is intended for theoretical physicists or mathematicians with knowledge of quantum field theory, general relativity and string theory. It is organized in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) and the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). TOPICS: Aspects of 5d and 6d SUSY Theories Dualities and Exact Results in 3d QFT Entanglement in QFT Gravitational Waves Large N Models Primordial Cosmology The Averaged Null Energy Condition in QFT Lecturers include: Francesco BENINI (SISSA) Thomas HARTMAN (Cornell University) Marina HUERTA (Centro Atomico Bariloche) Ken INTRILIGATOR (UC San Diego) Igor KLEBANOV (Princeton University) Guilherme PIMENTEL (University of Amsterdam) Rafael A. PORTO (ICTP-SAIFR) NOTE: There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

14 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2018

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics | (smr 3193)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): E. Gava (INFN, Trieste), V. Hubeny (UC Davis), Z. Komargodski (Weizmann Inst. & SCGP Stony Brook), K.S. Narain (ICTP), Local Organiser: A. Dabholkar

Cosponsor(s): the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP)APCTP, the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)INFN

Support E-Mail: smr3193@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 05/01/2018**

Europe/Rome ICTP awarded its 2017 Dirac Medal and Prize to Charles H. Bennett (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), David Deutsch (University of Oxford) and Peter W. Shor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for their pioneering work in applying the fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics to basic problems in computation and communication, thereby bringing together the fields of quantum mechanics, computer science and information, creating the field of quantum information science. The three medallists for 2017 each made key contributions in uncovering how the uniquely quantum characteristics of qubits may be exploited to process and transmit data, thus launching the field of quantum information science. For more information on the Prize winners, see: http://bit.ly/2Es3VzF. The 2017 Dirac Medal Award Ceremony takes place on Wednesday 14 March 2018 at 14.30 hrs with general talks by Peter Zoller and Artur Ekert followed by the Award Ceremony with talks by the three Prize Winners. This year's Dirac Medal Award Ceremony takes part at the opening of the Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics. The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. The presentations are available at the links below. After the Ceremony, a public event "Quantum Technologies: Dawn of a new Industrial Revolution" is being organized at the Savoia Hotel in Trieste. The public event starts at 18.30 with featured panellists: Alessandro Curioni (IBM), Hartmut Neven (Google) and Tommaso Calarco (University of Ulm). See the poster at: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8519/material/0/0.jpg for more information. The panel will be moderated by freelance journalist Simona Regina. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Ceremony

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics , New Research Areas

School on Electron-Phonon Physics from First Principles | (smr 3191)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Feliciano Giustino (University of Oxford), Samuel Poncé (University of Oxford), Elena Roxana Margine (Binghamton University-SUNY), Local Organisers: Ralph Gebauer, Nicola Seriani

Cosponsor(s): Psi-kpsi_k, Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculairececam

Limited participation

Europe/Rome Background and purpose The Institute of Physics (IOP) and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics are organising a weeklong workshop for science and engineering students and graduates from low-to-middle income countries who are interested in developing entrepreneurial skills. Participants will be introduced to the process of innovation, generation and protection of intellectual property, technology transfer and the commercialisation of ideas and inventions. They will benefit also from the international perspectives and insights of leading experts in the field. Topics covered Scientists and engineers as entrepreneurs; opportunity and value assessment; intellectual property (IP); basics of patenting; IP management and global IP protection; business plan fundamentals; technology readiness levels; invention to product; timelines and processes; tools for financial estimations; pitching for cash; networking, communication and presentation skills; case studies and group projects. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

19 Mar 2018 - 23 Mar 2018

@ ICTP

New Research Areas

Entrepreneurship Workshop for Scientists and Engineers | (smr 3190)

Address: Via Grignano, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

Organizer(s): Linsey Clark (Institute of Physics), Joe Niemela (ICTP), Surya Raghu (Advanced Fluidics), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

Cosponsor(s): Institute of Physicsiop

Europe/Rome Abstract: This is report on joint work with Martijn Kool. Using arguments from theoretical physics, Vafa and Witten gave a generating function for the Euler numbers of moduli spaces of rank 2 coherent sheaves on algebraic surfaces. Sheaves can be viewed as generalizations of vector bundles. Moduli spaces are algebraic varieties that parametrize the objects in which we are interested. While the Vafa-Witten formula cannot be literally true as a formula for the Euler numbers in general, we give an interpretation of it in terms of virtual topological invariants, and confirm it in many cases. We extend the results to finer topological invariants and also to rank 3. Such virtual invariants occur everywhere in modern enumerative geometry, inspired by physics, like Gromov-Witten invariants and Donaldson Thomas invariants, when attempting to make sense of the predictions from physics. Basically the idea is that the moduli spaces have very bad properties, but they "want to be" smooth, and the virtual invariants are those that they would have if they were smooth. We will try to give elementary explanations of all these concepts and their background, as much as is possible. Most of the time will be spent to just trying to explain the problem and the result. If there is time, some hints will be given about the methods. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

22 Mar 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Virtual topological invariants of moduli spaces

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Lothar GOETTSCHE, ICTP

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome Systems out of equilibrium are characterized by a continuous exchange of energy and matter with the environment through different mechanisms, thus producing entropy at the macroscopic level. We study the entropy production of a discrete-state system with random transition rates and the injection of an external probability current. At stationarity, the entropy production is shown to be composed by two contributions whose exact distributions are evaluated in the large system size limit and close to equilibrium. The first one is related to a generalized Joule's law, while the second contribution has a Gaussian universal distribution which depends just on two topological parameters. In the second part of the talk we compare the entropy production of a Master Equation system with the one of the corresponding continuum limit, i.e. a Fokker-Planck equation. We demonstrate that the Seifert's formula for the entropy production provides just a lower bound for the exact entropy production. In fact, this formula ought to be corrected keeping into account information about the microscopic transition rates, and this correction survives in the continuum limit. This effect of the coarse-graining has shown to be glaring in the simple example of a n-step random walk. The difference between discrete-state systems and continuous systems in evaluating the entropy production has been addressed also in comparing non-equilibrium steady states, NESS, and stochastic pumping, SP. We show that the entropy production of a system with SP is greater than the one produced by a system in a NESS, generating the same (time-averaged) probability current and exhibiting the same (time-averaged) probability distribution. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 Mar 2018

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Entropy production in non-equilibrium systems

Address: Via Beirut

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: "Many-Electron Quantum Simulation of Matter: Insight from Exact Time-Dependent Real-Space Model Systems"

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Rex GODBY (Department of Physics, University of York, U.K.)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

5 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

SPECIALIZED SEMINAR - Finite determinacy of matrices of power series

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Pham Thuy Huong (Quy Nhon University)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

5 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Probing interacting dark radiation with cosmic 21 cm line

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

12 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Topology of the Electroweak Vacua

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Ben GRIPAIOS (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome DEADLINE for requesting participation: 24 NOVEMBER 2017 Highly qualified persons not requiring financial support may contact the Directors through b.j.braams@cwi.nl and will be considered for participation as long as space permits. DIRECTORS: B.J. Braams, CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands H.-K. Chung, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea G. Csányi, University of Cambridge, U.K. A.G. Császár, MTA-ELTE Complex Chemical Systems Research Group, Budapest, Hungary A.I. Krylov, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A. LOCAL ORGANIZER: G. Thompson, ICTP, Trieste, Italy The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will jointly organize this School and Workshop on Fundamental Methods for Atomic, Molecular and Materials Properties in Plasma Environments. The one-week event at ICTP in Trieste, from 16 to 20 April 2018, will provide training and information exchange for computational scientists working on models and data for atomic, molecular and materials processes relevant to fusion energy research, industrial plasmas, laser-produced plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, and warm and hot dense matter. The training is aimed at advanced Ph.D. students, postdocs and other young researchers. The information exchange will span several disciplines: from molecules to materials and from method developments to data treatments. Topics related to energetic events and electronically excited states are emphasized throughout the programme. The schedule features lectures by international experts, invited and contributed research talks, posters and discussion sessions, with ample time available for interaction and discussions. A scientific contribution (normally a poster, but some may be selected for a talk) is expected from each participant. Applicants are requested to attach a one-page abstract of their contribution in the Research Abstract sub-section under Professional Data when completing the online application form. A number of poster prizes will be awarded, courtesy of the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). TOPICS: Advanced electronic structure approaches. Equation-of-motion and other wavefunction-based methods for excited electronic states. Coupled cluster methods applied to solids. State-of-the art methods for alloys and liquid metals. New developments based on reduced density matrices and the density matrix renormalization group. Nuclear quantum dynamics. Quantum treatments of scattering. Path integral molecular dynamics including treatment of multiple electronic surfaces. Determination of reaction rates beyond Arrhenius scaling. Potential energy and property surfaces. Machine-learning and kernel-based methods. Methods for multiple electronic states and their interactions. Uncertainty assessment and uncertainty propagation. Uncertainty correlations and other topics. Applications. Electronic and atomic collisions in plasmas. Plasma-material interaction and radiation damage of materials. INVITED SPEAKERS: V. Averbuck, Imperial College London, U.K. A.D. Baczewski, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A. K. Burke, UC Irvine, California, U.S.A. A. De Vita, King’s College London, U.K. W.M.C. Foulkes, Imperial College London, U.K. S. Fritzsche, GSI and Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany C.H. Greene, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, U.S.A. M.P. Head-Gordon, UC Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. K. Heinola, University of Helsinki, Finland and CCFE/JET, U.K. T. Hickel, MPIE, Düsseldorf, Germany T.-C. Jagau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany J.R. Kermode, Warwick University, U.K. J. Kohanoff, Queen’s University Belfast, U.K. N. Moiseyev, Technion, Haifa, Israel T. Oda, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea R. Santra, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany J.E. Subotnik, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. J. Tennyson, University College London, U.K. U. Von Toussaint, IPP, Garching, Germany D.R. Trinkle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, U.S.A. G.A. Worth, University College London, U.K. Z. Zeng, CAS Institute for Solid State Physics, Hefei, China P. Zhang, Peking University and IAPCM, Beijing, China Z. Zhao, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China B. Ziaja-Motyka, DESY, Hamburg, Germany ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

16 Apr 2018 - 20 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA School and Workshop on Fundamental Methods for Atomic, Molecular and Materials Properties in Plasma Environments | (smr 3197)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Hyun-Kyung Chung (Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea), Bastiaan J. Braams (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Attila G. Császár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), Gábor Csányi (University of Cambridge, UK), Anna Krylov (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA), Local Organiser: George Thompson

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physicspccp

**DEADLINE: 20/11/2017**

Seminar

16 Apr 2018 - 18 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

ICTP Mini Workshop on Particle Physics

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome The grand canonical ensemble lies at the core of quantum and classical statistical mechanics. A small system thermalizes to this ensemble while exchanging heat and particles with a bath. A quantum system may exchange quantities represented by operators that fail to commute. Whether such a system thermalizes and what form the thermal state has are questions about truly quantum thermodynamics. Here we investigate this thermal state from three perspectives. First, we introduce an approximate microcanonical ensemble. If this ensemble characterizes the system-and-bath composite, tracing out the bath yields the system's thermal state. This state is expected to be the equilibrium point, we argue, of typical dynamics. Finally, we define a resource-theory model for thermodynamic exchanges of noncommuting observables. Complete passivity -- the inability to extract work from equilibrium states -- implies the thermal state's form, too. Our work opens new avenues into equilibrium in the presence of quantum noncommutation. [Based on 1512.01189 with N. Yunger Halpern, P. Faist and J. Oppenheim.] ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

17 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: JT-bar deformed CFTs and their holographic interpretation

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Monica GUICA (IPhT, Saclay, France)

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome Computational biology is playing an ever-increasing important role in understanding the atomistic level details of complex biological processes, rationalizing mechanisms and predicting novel aspects, which are inaccessible, yet complementary, to experiments and identify novel drugs to interfere with biological mechanisms leading to diseases’ onset. This field evolves extremely fast, so that microsecond/millisecond time-scale simulations are nowadays routinely performed to follow the dynamics of biological systems containing up to millions of atoms. In this talk, multi-scale simulations ranging from force field molecular dynamics to hybrid quantum-classical (QM/MM) simulations, in combination with free energy techniques, will enlighten the molecular mechanisms of complex biological processes ranging from (i) the splicing mechanism in self-splicing ribozymes up to the eukaryotic spliceosome [1,2], (ii) membrane–anchored enzymes metabolizing hormones [3], and finally, (iii) to signal transmission in nuclear receptors and their polymorphic variants [4]. [1] Casalino L., Palermo G., Rothlisberger U., Magistrato A. ‘Who Activates the Nucleophile in Ribozyme Catalysis? An Answer from the Splicing Mechanism of Group II Introns’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2016) 138 (33), 10374–10377 (Cover Picture) [2] Casalino L., Palermo G., Abdurakhmonova N., Rothlisberger U., Magistrato A. ’Development of Site-specific Mg2+-RNA force field parameters: a Dream or a Reality? Guidelines from combined Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics Simulations’ J. Chem. Theor. Comput. (2017) 13 (1), 340-352 [3] Magistrato, A.; Sgrignani, J.; Krause, R.; Cavalli A.; Single or multiple access channels to the CYP450s active site? An answer from free energy simulations of the human aromatase enzyme. J Phys Chem Lett 2017, 8 (9), 2036-2042 [4] M Pavlin, A Spinello, M Pennati, N Zaffaroni, S Gobbi, A Bisi, G Colombo, Magistrato A A Computational Assay of Estrogen Receptor α Antagonists Reveals the Key Common Structural Traits of Drugs Effectively Fighting Refractory Breast Cancers Scientific reports 2018, 8 (1), 649 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

19 Apr 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Axions from Strings

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Marco GORGHETTO (SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

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

Activity

28 Apr 2018 - 9 May 2018

@ Sharif University of Technology

High Performance Computing

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

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

Room: Physics Department

Secretary: Milena Poropat

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

Cosponsor(s): Sharif University of Technologysherif2

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

Activity

2 May 2018 - 5 May 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

EMODnet Biology General meeting | (smr H547)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

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

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

Seminar

3 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

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

Seminar

3 May 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

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

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

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

Activity

5 May 2018 - 10 May 2018

@ Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran

Mathematics

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

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

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

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

**DEADLINE: 15/03/2018**

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

Activity

7 May 2018 - 11 May 2018

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Conference on Collective Behavior | (smr 3201)

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

Room: Auditorium, SISSA Building

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

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

Cosponsor(s): Institute for Complex Adaptive Mattericam

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

Activity

7 May 2018 - 18 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics , Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

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

Cosponsor(s): GDRi XFEL-Sciencexfel, EUCALLeucall

**DEADLINE: 31/01/2018**

Europe/Rome Every physicist has a pretty clear idea of how to define equilibrium phases of matter (e.g. using free energy considerations), whether disordered or ordered (and if ordered, a variety of situations can be encountered). By contrast, dynamics-wise, no generic and clear-cut definition a dynamical phase (disordered, intermittent, uniform, ergodicity-breaking, pattern-forming, etc) can be found. Instead, one works on a system-to-system basis. I will illustrate, on the simple example of a classical system of mutually excluding particles diffusing on a line, how a robust definition of what a dynamical phase is can be achieved. As I will go along, we will see that there may even exist transitions between dynamical phases. On a formal level, these dynamical transitions have everything in common with the quantum phase transitions that appear in hard-condensed matter. I will show that, in turn, approaching quantum problems with a classical eye, can, even with the simple example I'll discuss, lead to unexpected progress on the quantum side. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

8 May 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Dynamical Phase Transitions

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

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

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

Seminar

8 May 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

From phase space to integrable representations and level-rank duality

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: One of the most important problem in geometric topology is the “embedding problem”. After revisiting embedding problems in various categories, we discuss some recent developments in smooth and contact category. The concepts required will be developed in the talk and the talk will be accessible to an advanced undergraduate audience. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

8 May 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On embeddings of manifolds

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Dishant Pancholi (Chennai Mathematical Institute)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Seminar

10 May 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Gluequark Dark Matter

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

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

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome PLEASE NOTE The organizers will select some of the received abstracts for oral presentations. Best Poster Awards are foreseen. No registration fee is required. The organizers will offer welcome reception, coffee breaks, and conference dinner to all participants, without additional costs. Participants wishing to present a poster during the Conference should kindly indicate this on the application by uploading a short abstract with their surname/name/institute address/ title and brief - max one page - description MAIN TOPICS: Novel quantum phenomena in multicomponent superconductors and superfluids Competing orders in multicomponent quantum systems Multicomponent superconductivity and superfluidity in 2D materials and heterostructures Topological effects in multicomponent quantum systems Vortical and skyrmionic states in multicomponent quantum fluids The standard picture of superconductors and superfluids is based on the existence of a single quantum condensate, but recent advances in material science and ultracold atoms opened a paradigm of multicomponent quantum fluids. New directions in this multifacetted and booming field are opened by emergent 2D materials, heterostructures, multiorbital materials, and ultracold atomic mixtures, in which superconductivity and superfluidity are readily realized, and where links between observed quantum effects can be made and knowledge can be cross-fertilized. This MultiSuper conference is aimed to help understand, quantify, and manipulate the effects of hybridization between multiple condensates in a single system, as a pathway to yet unseen quantum phenomena. The key experts will be assembled to present and interpret state-of-the-art experiments and theory, and advance fundamental physics and material science in this field. Confirmed speakers: Saeed Abedinpour (IASBS, Zanjan) Vanderlei S. Bagnato (University of Sao Paulo) Antun Balaz (Institute of Physics, Belgrade) Luis Balicas (Florida State Univ., Tallahassee) Jonas Bekaert (Univ. Antwerpen) Lara Benfatto (CNR and Rome “Sapienza”) Marco Cariglia (Fed. Univ. of Ouro Preto) Stefania De Palo (CNR-IOM Democritos & Sissa, Trieste) Lorenzo Del Re (Sissa, Trieste) Mauro M. Doria (IF - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro) Francois Dubin (INSP, Paris) Stephen D. Edkins (Cornell University, New York) Leonardo Fallani (LENS and University of Florence) Laura Fanfarillo (SISSA, Trieste) Shunsuke Furukawa (Physics, The Univ. of Tokyo) Stefano Giorgini (University of Trento) Isabel Guillamon Gomez (Autonomous Univ. of Madrid) Yukio Hasegawa (ISSP, Univ. Tokyo, Kashiwa) Walter Hofstetter (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) Maria Iavarone (Temple Univ., Philadelphia, P) Kim Kee Hoon (Seoul National Univ., Seoul) Svetoslav Kuzmichev (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State U.) Pablo Lopez Rios (Cavendish Lab., Cambridge Univ.) Allan MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin) Maria Vittoria Mazziotti (RICMASS, Rome) David Neilson (Univ. of Camerino & Univ.of Antwerp) Sebastiano Peotta (Aalto University, Finland) Philip Phillips (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana) Erik Piatti (Politecnico di Torino) Aristeu Pontes Lima (Inst.Ciencias Exatas e da Naturez, Redencao) Gianni Profeta (Univ. dell'Aquila, SPIN CNR, L'Aquila) Nick Proukakis (University of Newcastle, UK) Dimitri Roditchev (INSP, Paris) Carlos Sa de Melo (Georgia Tech, Atlanta) Peter Samuely (Inst. of Experimental Physics, Kosice) Gaetano Senatore (Univ. of Trieste) Marcello Spera (Univ. of Geneva) Daniela Stornaiuolo (Univ. of Naples Federico II) Jacques Tempère (University of Antwerp) Christopher Triola (Uppsala University) Alexei Vagov (Bayreuth University) Davide Valentinis (DPMC Ecole de Physique, Univ. Geneva) Angelo Valli (SISSA, Trieste) Andrey Varlamov (CNR-Spin, Rome) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

14 May 2018 - 18 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Marina de Comelli

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

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

**DEADLINE: 15/02/2018**

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

Activity

14 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

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

Cosponsor(s): University of Readinguniv_reading, SISSAsissa

Support E-Mail: smr3203@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 31/03/2018**

Europe/Rome Abstract. In a QFT or a theory of Gravity, the most interesting objects are the physical amplitudes. As it turns out, the symmetry properties of the theory are not always best understood in the usual field space basis. In this talk, I shall talk about two different sets of basis space, where amplitudes are best understood. I shall provide some explicit examples for clarification. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 May 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Proper Basis for Studying Amplitudes

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome ICTP Campus - Aerial view with Miramare Castle and Park The policy relevance of understanding past, present, and future climate change and variability and the impact, response and feedbacks of natural and managed ecosystems and many different socio-economic sectors is clear. This has motivated the development of a wide spectrum of techniques and coordinated research efforts around the world aimed at generating robust regional climate change scenarios for the assessment of impacts and vulnerability and associated risks. Progress in observational and modeling capabilities, process understanding, and the development of diverse applications within the scientific, policy and practitioner communities has nurtured the scoping of an ambitious assessment of regional climate change information as part of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group I (WGI). The WGI report will assess processes of global to regional climate change, weather and climate extremes in a changing climate, and climate change information for regional impact and risk assessment. A regional atlas is also proposed as an annex of the WGI report. The Expert Meeting will address the challenging assessment of regional climate information within the WGI AR6 report that will build on multiple sources of information, including observations, climate model products, downscaling techniques, and understanding of local, regional and large-scale drivers and feedbacks of regional climate and change. It will consider how regional information is used and assessed within the climate change risk assessment framework. It will It will consider the scoping of a regional atlas and the development of mechanisms to strengthen the ‘hand shake’, or integration of the assessment across the IPCC, in particular of regional impacts, vulnerability and risk undertaken by WGII. The meeting will be organized by a scientific steering committee (SSC) with representation across the three IPCC WGs, supported by the WGI Technical Support Unit. Participation is by invitation. The list of participants will be finalized following the outcome of author selection of the IPCC WG AR6 reports in early February, 2018. Presentations slides Wed 16 May for download, http://indico.ictp.it/event/8458/material/13/ Presentation slides Thu 17 May for download, http://indico.ictp.it/event/8458/material/15/ Presentation slides Fri 18 May for download, http://indico.ictp.it/event/8458/material/18/ Regional programme draft, http://indico.ictp.it/event/8458/material/10/ Scientific Steering Committee Valerie Masson-Delmotte Panmao Zhai Carolina Vera Edvin Aldrian Greg Flato Andreas Fischlin Hans-Otto Portner Debra Roberts Mark Howden Ramon Pichs-Madruga Technical Support Unit Anna Pirani Wilfran Moufouma-Okia Elvira Poloczanska Points of contact Programme: Anna Pirani (IPCC) anna.pirani@universite-paris-saclay.fr Local: Susanne Henningsen (ICTP) hennings@ictp.it For ICTP Colloquium Valerie Masson-Delmotte on 17 May 2018 at 16:00, see link: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8477/ Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

16 May 2018 - 18 May 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

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

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

Room: ex-SISSA Main Auditorium

Cosponsor(s): IPCC Working Group I wgi2

Europe/Rome Abstract. In this talk, I will present two dark matter frameworks where a mass splitting in the dark sector dramatically alters the expectations for indirect detection rates. In the first case, the presence of a quasi-degenerate metastable state, where the dark matter number is stored, allows for sub-GeV relics with large s-wave annihilation cross section and not excluded by CMB bounds. In the second case, dark matter particles inelastically up-scatter in the interstellar plasma to a quasi-degenerate heavier partner, whose subsequent decays generate X-ray lines with unique spectrum and morphology. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

17 May 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Cosmic Photons from Mass Splitting in the Dark Sector

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

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Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: We begin exploring a well-known notion for finite dimensional spaces that appears to be revealed, as well, in infinite dimensional spaces. This fact will allow us to examine the notion on monotonicity in a more general setting. The presentation will be self-contained and connecting well-known results, such as Lax-Milgram Theorem. Please note unusual venue: LECTURE ROOM D (Leonardo Building, Terrace Level) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

17 May 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Surjectivity Problems for Monotone Operators

Room: Leonardo Building - Lecture Room D

Speaker(s): Claudio H. Morales (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Dr. Valérie Masson-Delmotte is a senior scientist from Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Université Paris Saclay / CEA / CNRS, France. She is the Co-chair of IPCC Working Group I for the AR6 cycle. Her research interests are focused on quantifying and understanding past changes in climate and atmospheric water cycle, using analyses from ice cores in Greenland, Antarctica and Tibet, analyses from tree-rings as well as present-day monitoring, and climate modelling for the past and the future. She has worked on issues such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, drought, climate response to volcanic eruptions, polar amplification, climate feedbacks, abrupt climate change and ice sheet vulnerability accross different timescales. She is active in outreach for children and for the general public and has contributed to several books on climate change issues (e.g. Greenland, climate, ecology and society, CNRS editions, 2016; in French). Her research was recognized by several prizes (European Union Descartes Prize for the EPICA project, 2008; Women scientist Irène Joliot Curie Prize, 2013; Tinker-Muse Prize for science and policy in Antarctica, 2015; Highly Cited Researcher since 2014). Abstract: Ice cores provide a wealth of insights into past climatic and environmental changes. Obtaining information on past polar temperature changes is important to document climate variations beyond scarce instrumental records, and to test our quantitative understanding of past climate variations. Water stable isotope ratios in ice core records have commonly been used as qualitative proxies for past changes in polar temperature and moisture source characteristics, but extracting quantitative signals is a major challenge. Initially, spatial relationships between surface snow isotopic composition and surface temperature were used to establish a modern "isotopic thermometer". Simulations performed with climate models equipped with water stable isotopes were subsequently used to assess the validity of this "isotopic thermometer calibration" for different climate states (e.g. glacial, interglacial), assuming that the ice core signal is a precipitation weighted deposition record. I will first present recent findings based on new capability to monitor water vapour isotopic composition in the North Atlantic / Greenland and several Antarctic regions. These new datasets challenge the classical interpretation of ice core records as just precipitation-weighted signals. Moreover, they challenge the ability of atmospheric models equipped with water stable isotopes to fully resolve the initial marine boundary layer isotopic composition spatial patterns. These are key limitations to our quantitative understanding of ice core signals. I will then illustrate major results obtained from water stable isotope records in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores at three time scales : (i) the documentation of polar climate variability during the last thousand years, and the challenge to separate intrinsic, spontaneous climate variability from the response to natural forcings; (ii) the bipolar structure of abrupt changes during the last climatic cycle, and its implications for the interplay between reorganizations in ocean circulation, sea ice extent and polar climate ; (iii) polar temperature trends during the current and last interglacial period, and their relevance for the assessment of ice sheet vulnerability. Over these three time scales, I will stress why quantifying past changes is relevant for the evaluation of climate models and for the assessment of future risks. The Colloquium will be livestreamed at ictp.it/livestream. Light refreshments will be served after the talk. ICTP, Trieste, Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

17 May 2018

@ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

ICTP Colloquium: From water molecules to climate, making sense of Greenland and Antarctic ice core records

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France, and Co-chair of IPCC Working Group I

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Activity

19 May 2018 - 26 May 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

OLIFIS " Ad un passo dalle IPhO 2018" | (smr H548)

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

Room: Denardo Informatics Room (AGH)

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

Europe/Rome REGISTRATION & ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES ATTENTION: All Participants paid by the ICTP and staying in the ICTP Guesthouses are automatically registered at the time of check-in at the reception desk. Therefore, on Monday morning, please go directly to the Finance Office at the Enrico Fermi Building from 8.30 to 9.00 am, ground floor to collect your expenses. Badges, Passports and Travel Receipts are needed. Additional Shuttle Bus service will be provided from the Adriatico Guest House and pick-up/drop-down is available from the carpark area, main entrance of the Adriatico Guest House. Finance office opening times are: Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 8.30 - 12.00 and 13.30 to 14.30 PLEASE NOTE: To all Directors/Conference Speakers and to all Participants NOT staying in the ICTP Guesthouses Please register with the Conference Secretary in office no. 1 Adriatico Guest House, lower level 1 ORGANIZERS: G. Kaminski Schierle, Cambridge University, U.K. A. Painelli, University of Parma, Italy LOCAL ORGANIZERS: L. Grisanti, SISSA/ICTP, Trieste Italy A. Hassanali, ICTP, Trieste, Italy A Conference for experimentalists and theoreticians investigating the photophysics and photochemistry behind the interaction of light with the organic material that make up living systems. This Conference will be a venue for scientists from all over the world working in biochemistry, physical chemistry and physics to discuss interactions between light and biological matter or its molecularbuilding blocks. Synergy among experimentalists and theoreticians is crucial to understand the diversity of phenomena and the fundamental processes that govern the complex interaction of light with living matter. The programme will include oral keynote invited presentations on the most recent developments, given both by high-profile senior scientists and junior researchers as well as contributed short talks and poster presentations. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED ABSTRACTS: In the application form, all applicants are invited to submit an Abstract for a poster presentation. A limited number of contributed Abstracts will be selected by the Organizing Committee for a short oral presentation. TOPICS: • Theoretical advances inmodelling electronic excited states in biologically-relevant systems, including charge and energy transfer processes; • Photophysics and photochemistry of soft matter through time-dependent spectroscopic techniques; • State-of-the-artdevelopments andapplications of linear and nonlinear optical techniques for the imaging of biological systems in cells and tissues. • Emerging fluorescence and luminescence phenomena in proteins and biological systems. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: M. Barbatti, Marseille, France S. Boxer, Stanford, U.S.A. N. Chawdhury, Sylhet, Bangladesh I. Daidone, L'Aquila, Italy J. Dasgupta, Mumbai, India M. Di Donato, Florence, Italy W. Domcke, Garching, Germany N. Doslic, Zagreb, Croatia M. Garavelli, Bologna, Italy E. Gazit, Tel-Aviv, Israel M. Hariharan, Kerala, India R. Improta, CNR/IBB, Naples, Italy B. Mennucci, Pisa, Italy H. Okur, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland N. Rega, Naples, Italy B. Rossi, ELETTRA Trieste, Italy F. Santoro, ICCOM-CNR Pisa, Italy Y, Taghipour Azar, Tehran, Iran I. Tavernelli, IBM Zurich, Switzerland E. Vauthey, Geneva, Switzerland R. Venkatramani, Mumbai, India N. Ventosa, ICMAB Barcelona, Spain ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

21 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

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

**DEADLINE: 05/03/2018**

Europe/Rome The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) are organizing a Workshop on Global Differential Geometry, to be held at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Mbour, Sénégal, May 21 - 25, 2018. The workshop will focus on recent developments in Global Differential Geometry, in particular on symplectic and Poisson geometry, including foliations and Lie theory, as well as classical differential geometry with its connections to differential topology and global analysis. There are close relations to the index theory of elliptic operators, generalized complex geometry and geometric flows, all of which open the door to applications in mathematical physics. Summer School on Global Differential Geometry (14-18 May) web page: http://home.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/mathphys/konf/diffgeo-summerschool/index.html Organizing Committee: Hamidou Dathe (Dakar) Bernhard Hanke (Augsburg) Aissa Wade (Penn State and AIMS Mbour) Katrin Wendland (Freiburg) DFG Coordinators: Carsten Balleier Alida Höbener Beate Wilhelm The list of speakers includes: Claudio Arezzo (ICTP) Augustin Banyaga (Penn State) Augustin Tshidibi Batubenge (South Africa) Kai Cieliebak (Augsburg) A. Degeratu (Stuttgart) Hassimou Diallo (Cote d’Ivoire) Abdoul Salam Diallo (Senegal) Cheikh Mbacke Diop* (Senegal) Jonathan Mboyo Esole* (Northeastern) Urs Frauenfelder (Augsburg) Sebastian Goette (Freiburg) Djideme Franck Houenou (Benin) El-Kaioum Mohamed Moutuou* (USF Florida) Karl-Hermann Neeb (Erlangen) Sylvie Paycha (Postdam) Philippe Rukimbira (FIU Florida) Thomas Schick (Göttingen) Léonard Todjihoundé (Benin) Joel Tossa (Benin) Burkhard Wilking (Münster) *to be confirmed Mbour - Senegal ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

21 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

@ Mbour - Senegal

Mathematics

Workshop on Global Differential Geometry | (smr 3205)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

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

Cosponsor(s): DFGdfg, AIMS Sénégalaims

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

Europe/Rome Abstract. Although the standard paradigm of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) has been remarkably successful in predicting the large-scale structure of the universe, it has been known to exhibit a number of problems at small scales. A popular solution to these problems involves invoking Warm Dark Matter (WDM) particles of mass about keV that erase small-scale power. The mass of these WDM particles can, in principle, be constrained using cosmological observations at high redshift. In this talk, we will explore various observational probes and the corresponding theoretical formalism which can be useful for constraining the nature of dark matter using ongoing and upcoming instruments. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

22 May 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Nature of Dark Matter using Cosmological Observations

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Tirthankar Roy CHOUDHURY (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Activity

23 May 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

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

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): TWAS,

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

Seminar

23 May 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

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

Seminar

23 May 2018

@ ICTP

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

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

**DEADLINE: 23/02/2018**

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

Activity

28 May 2018 - 1 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

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

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

Support E-Mail: smr3207@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/04/2018**

Activity

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Anderson localisation in theory space

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

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

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

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

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

Seminar

1 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

7 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

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

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

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

Activity

11 Jun 2018 - 15 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

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

**DEADLINE: 12/02/2018**

Seminar

12 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Phenomenology of Particle Physics

A lowerbound on the bounce action

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

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

Activity

18 Jun 2018 - 29 Jun 2018

@ Sao Paulo - Brazil

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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

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

Secretary: Rosanna Sain

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

Cosponsor(s): FAPESPfapesp, UNESPunesp, IFT

Europe/Rome The purpose of the School is to provide an introduction to the current state of research in cosmology and astroparticle physics. It is intended for beginning graduate students, as well as more senior non-expert researchers that are interested in these fields. TOPICS & LECTURERS: CMB, E. Komatsu (MPA, Garching & Kavli IPMU, Tokyo) DARK ENERGY, C. De Rham (Imperial College) DARK MATTER, F. D'Eramo (Padua University) GRAVITATIONAL WAVES I, S. Babak (APC, Paris) GRAVITATIONAL WAVES II, V. Cardoso (Lisboa University) INFLATION, M. Kleban (NYU) LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE I, R. Sheth (UPenn) LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE II, L. Senatore (Stanford University and SLAC) NOTE: The School will be followed by a 'Conference on Shedding Light on the Dark Universe with Extremely Large Telescopes' (smr3218, 2 - 6 July). There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

18 Jun 2018 - 29 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Cosmology , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Summer School on Cosmology 2018 | (smr 3213)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

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

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

Support E-Mail: smr3213@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 04/04/2018**

Activity

18 Jun 2018 - 20 Jun 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

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

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

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

Europe/Rome Moduli spaces of stable pointed curves play an important role in algebraic geometry. This School will have one course on vector bundles of coinvariants and on conformal blocks and another one on their cohomology classes in relation with those of moduli of abelian varieties. The cohomology of moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties carries several natural classes. We focus on the tautological classes and the cohomology classes related to spaces of modular forms. The problem of determining relationships between the tautological classes turns out to be particularly interesting. Moduli spaces of curves carry vector bundles of coinvariants and conformal blocks; they are invariants of a curve C attached to a Lie group G that are canonically isomorphic to global sections of an ample line bundle on the moduli stack of certain G-bundles on C. These are generalized theta functions in case C is smooth. In case g=0, the bundles of co-invariants are globally generated, and their first Chern classes are semi-ample line bundles on the moduli of curves, and shed light on its birational geometry. We can also use the moduli space of curves to learn about generalized theta functions. TOPICS: Cohomology classes on moduli of curves and abelian varieties moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties properties of the moduli spaces and their compactifications natural cohomology classes and their relations tautological classes and cohomology classes related to spaces of modular forms Vector bundles of coinvariants and conformal blocks introduction to moduli spaces of curves open problems and F-conjecture vector bundles of coinvariants and conformal blocks case g=0: global generation and semi-ample divisors any genus: nef divisors Chern classes of bundles of coinvariants Global sections of ample line bundles on Bun_G(C): smooth and nodal case PARTICIPATION: Women are particularly encouraged to apply. Should you come to Trieste with your child(ren), please send an e-mail to smr3215@ictp.it to describe your family needs and we will do our best to meet them. A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. To apply, please use the link on the left side of this web page. The deadline for submitting applications expired on 15 March 2018. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

18 Jun 2018 - 22 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Margherita Di Giovannantonio

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

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

**DEADLINE: 15/03/2018**

Seminar

19 Jun 2018

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 263, room 128

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

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

**DEADLINE: 31/01/2018**

Seminar

26 Jun 2018

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Title to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Arash RANJBAR (ULB, Belgium)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

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

Ceremony

29 Jun 2018

@ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

2017 ICTP Prize Ceremony

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

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

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

Europe/Rome This Conference will bring together an international group of experts to review the current state of the art in the study of dark energy and dark matter and discuss how best to use giant telescopes to learn about their fundamental nature. It is the third of a series of three conferences: more information can be found at https://conferences.pa.ucla.edu/dark-universe/index.html Invited Speakers include: Mariangela Bernardi (UPenn) Rebecca A. Bernstein (The Carnegie Observatories) Simon Birrer (UCLA) Stefano Borgani (Trieste Observatory) Marusa Bradac (UCDavis) Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (TIFR) Michele Cirasuolo (European Southern Observatory) Stefano Cristiani (Trieste Observatory) Arianna di Cintio (IAC - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) Eleonora Di Valentino (U. of Manchester) Christophe J. Dumas (TMT International Observatory) Isobel M. Hook (Lancaster U.) Jean Paul Kneib (LASTRO EPFL) Lucas Macri (Texas A&M U.) John McKean (ASTRON/Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) Yannick Mellier (IAP) Stefano Profumo (UCSC) Piero Rosati (UNIFE) Robyn Sanderson (Caltech) Anze Slosar (Brookhaven) Tommaso Treu (UCLA) Simona Vegetti (MPA, Garching) Matteo Viel (SISSA) Mark Vogelsberger (MIT) John K. Webb (U. of New South Wales) *** The deadline for requesting funding was 30 April 2018. Should you still wish to request participation without funding (and don't need a visa to enter Italy), please click on "Apply here". Please do so by 1 June 2018. *** NOTE: The Conference will be preceded by the Summer School on Cosmology 2018 (smr3213, 18 - 29 June). Invited Speakers do not need to apply online. There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Jul 2018 - 6 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Cosmology , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

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

Support E-Mail: smr3227@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 06/05/2018**

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

Activity

9 Jul 2018 - 20 Jul 2018

@ Cordoba - Argentina

New Research Areas

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

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

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

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

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

**DEADLINE: 04/03/2018**

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

Activity

16 Jul 2018 - 27 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

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

Cosponsor(s): The University of Texas at Austinutexas

Support E-Mail: smr3224@ictp.it

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

Activity

16 Jul 2018 - 27 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

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

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

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

Seminar

17 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: to be announced

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

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

Activity

18 Jul 2018 - 21 Jul 2018

@ Roma - Italy

Mathematics

Mediterranean Youth Mathematical Championship 2018 | (smr 3254)

Secretary: Koutou Mabilo

Organizer(s): ICTP Scientific Contact: Claudio Arezzo

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

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

Activity

23 Jul 2018 - 27 Jul 2018

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Summer School in Dynamics (Advanced | (smr 3253)

@ Xinjiang - People's Republic of China

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

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

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

Activity

6 Aug 2018 - 17 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

High Performance Computing

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

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

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

**DEADLINE: 21/05/2018**

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

Activity

6 Aug 2018 - 17 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

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

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

Support E-Mail: smr3232@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/05/2018**

Europe/Rome Complex networks describe the architecture of complex systems ranging from the brain to social networks. Recently it has become clear that in order to understand network data it is important characterize network structures with advanced topological and geometrical approaches. Here we discuss a model for emergent hyperbolic geometry called 'Network Geometry with Flavor' that describes complex growing simplicial complexes and extend previous modelling framework on growing complex networks. We will present the holographic properties of this model and its intrinsic complex network structure. Finally we will discuss the mapping between the Network Geometry with Flavor and Tree Tensor Networks and we will comment on the open recent questions that this mapping raises for modelling Complex Quantum Networks. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

9 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: From Complex Networks to Tensor Networks: A Journey through Network Geometry with Flavor

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Ginestra BIANCONI (School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, U.K.)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

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

Activity

13 Aug 2018 - 17 Aug 2018

@ Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Mathematics

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

Secretary: Milena Poropat

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

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

Activity

20 Aug 2018 - 24 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

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

**DEADLINE: 31/05/2018**

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

Activity

20 Aug 2018 - 24 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

High Performance Computing

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic

**DEADLINE: 21/05/2018**

Activity

20 Aug 2018 - 24 Aug 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

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

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): TWAS,

Activity

24 Aug 2018 - 25 Aug 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

IUPAP C13 Meeting | (smr H555)

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

Room: Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Prof. Joe Niemela,

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

Ceremony

24 Aug 2018

@ ICTP

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

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste, Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

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

Activity

27 Aug 2018 - 14 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Margherita Di Giovannantonio

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

Cosponsor(s): ICAMicam

Activity

27 Aug 2018 - 14 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

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

Colloquium

5 Sep 2018

@ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

ICTP Colloquium - by Prof. Jean Dalibard

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste, Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

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

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome Conditions for applying in this School: Selected candidates will be expected to actively engage in the programme and present a 20' minute talk (with a time for discussion and questions included) describing own or own group's research summarizing important or recent results on wasteform, spent fuel or nuclear materials of relevance to immobilization studies. Participants are encouraged to set their work in the context of their own national waste management strategy and should first give a brief overview of the types of waste produced and managed in her/his country, and then a current status of waste conditioning and disposal practice (both by means of one or two summary slides). SCHOOL DESCRIPTION: Nuclear waste management is a core issue for sustainable development and long-term viability of nuclear energy as energy supply. The main goal of this school is the dissemination of knowledge on optimal methods of synthesis and study of crystalline and glass-crystalline wasteforms for the immobilization of actinides and other long-lived dangerous radionuclides. It aims on transferring experience of ceramic and glass-composite materials fabrication from leading experts to specialists interested in reliable immobilization of toxic nuclides. Directors: Michael I. Ojovan (IAEA), Boris E. Burakov (Radium Institute), Local Organiser: Antonello Scardicchio Description: The school will bring together researchers from the area of materials science with a focus on crystalline and vitreous materials for nuclear energy. The school will assist experts to better understand the wide range and full potential of material science applied to radioactive waste immobilisation and technology tools and methods devoted to immobilisation and properties of crystalline and glass-crystalline materials. Knowledge transfer will be facilitated between individuals from developed and developing countries, and can be used to develop further the internationally sponsored development of nuclear waste immobilisation using crystalline and glass-crystalline wasteforms. Participants should return from the school with a richer understanding of actinide immobilization technologies and the range of techniques to investigate actinide-containing materials. Topics: Fundamentals of actinide immobilization; Radiation damage effects in actinide-doped crystalline materials and glasses; Leach behaviour of actinide-doped ceramics and glasses; Advanced materials based on durable actinide host-phases; New types of Pu fuel and targets for actinide transmutation; Interaction of actinide wastes and geological environment; Modelling of actinide migration in geological environment; Actinide behaviour during severe nuclear accident (Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc.) and nuclear tests. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

10 Sep 2018 - 14 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

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

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea

**DEADLINE: 10/06/2018**

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

Activity

17 Sep 2018 - 21 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

New Research Areas

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

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

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

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

**DEADLINE: 04/06/2018**

Activity

17 Sep 2018 - 28 Sep 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

@ Trieste - Italy

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

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): Joe Niemela, Odile Macchi,

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

Activity

8 Oct 2018 - 13 Oct 2018

@ Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire

Earth System Physics

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

Secretary: Federica Delconte

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

Support E-Mail: smr3243@ictp.it

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

Activity

8 Oct 2018 - 19 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

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

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy AgencyIAEA3

**DEADLINE: 15/05/2018**

Activity

15 Oct 2018 - 19 Oct 2018

@ Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics , New Research Areas

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

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

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

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

Activity

15 Oct 2018 - 19 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

LHC Physics , High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

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

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

Support E-Mail: smr3228@ictp.it

Europe/Rome The workshop introduces young and established nuclear scientists to the evaluation of nuclear structure and decay data, by providing an overview of experimental and theoretical nuclear techniques and basic training in the evaluation procedures and formats involved in the production of the Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF). Reliable evaluated nuclear structure and decay data are of vital importance for basic nuclear physics and astrophysics, as well as for nuclear applications such as power generation, material analysis, dosimetry and medical diagnostics. These important data requirements are catered by the international network of Nuclear Structure and Decay Data (NSDD) Evaluators, created in 1974 and coordinated by the IAEA. The main output of this network is the recommended ENSDF database and evaluations published in Nuclear Data Sheets. This workshop belongs to a series of ICTP workshops that started in 2003 and have been crucial for attracting young nuclear scientists to nuclear structure and decay data evaluation and for providing them with the basic tools to pursue this activity. TOPICS: modern nuclear experimental techniques & facilities; nuclear structure models; nuclear structure and decay data: compilations and evaluations; evaluation methodologies for nuclear structure and decay data; analysis and utility codes; ENSDF editors and Web tools; databases and online retrieval software. CALL FOR PAPERS A session will be held during the workshop for participants to present their work related to nuclear structure and decay data. Please upload a one-page abstract directly to the on-line application. (upload file attachments in pdf) GRANTS A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. Applicants should hold at least a Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) in Nuclear Physics, and possess a few years of professional experience related to nuclear structure and decay data. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

15 Oct 2018 - 26 Oct 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

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

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

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

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

Activity

27 Oct 2018 - 28 Oct 2018

@ Guatemala City - Guatemala

New Research Areas

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

Secretary: Margherita Di Giovannantonio

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

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

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

Activity

29 Oct 2018 - 9 Nov 2018

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Milena Poropat

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

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

**DEADLINE: 15/07/2018**

Activity

5 Nov 2018 - 15 Nov 2018

@ Montevideo - Uruguay

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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

Applied Physics

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

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

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

Support E-Mail: smr3249@ictp.it

Activity

3 Dec 2018 - 5 Dec 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

2018 Users' Meeting | (smr H551)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Elettra Sincrotrone,

Activity

10 Dec 2018 - 14 Dec 2018

@ Trieste - Italy

OWSD Early career fellowships programme | (smr H557)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): TWAS-OWSD,

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Disentangling bacterial invasiveness from lethality in an experimental host-pathogen system

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar - Topological Order and Tensor Networks: A Local Perspective on Global Entanglement

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Records of Entropy Production at the Nanoscale

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Fitness response relation of growing population: an application of large deviation theory and semi-Markov processes

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Cooperation vs. Competition in an Evolutionary Ecological Framework

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Quantum Many-body Scars and Non-ergodic Dynamics in the Fibonacci Chain

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Mathematics

On the regularity of maximal operators

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: "Haldane" Phases with Ultracold Fermionic Atoms in Double-Well Optical Lattices

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Cosmology

IR-Resummation in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: SU(N) Quantum Magnetism in 1D and 2D

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Mathematics

Singularities of mean curvature flow and surgery

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Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Constraining Particle Physics from Quantum Gravity Conjectures

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Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP-SISSA String Seminars: Large Field Inflation and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Activity

Applied Physics

Forum on New International Research Facilities for South East Europe | (smr 3251)

Seminar

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: A New Efficient Time Dependent Density Functional Algorithm for Large Systems: Theory, Implementation and Plasmonics Applications

Seminar

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in Two-Dimensional Large Central Charge CFT

Activity

Applied Physics

Preparatory School and Winter College on Extreme Non-linear Optics, Attosecond Science and High-field Physics | (smr 3186)

Activity

MaX Conference on the Materials Design Ecosystem at the Exascale: High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing | (smr 3161)

Seminar

Salam Distinguished Lectures 2018: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?

Seminar

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Entanglement Entropies of 1d Critical Systems, Orbifold and Null-vectors

Seminar

Cosmology

CMB Spectral Distortions and Primordial non-Gaussianity

Seminar

Mathematics

Parity of ranks of abelian surfaces

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Applied Physics