ICTP - Scientific Calendar

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Europe/Rome Abstract: After a brief introduction to the synthetic notions of Ricci curvature lower bounds in terms of optimal transportation, due to Lott-Sturm-Villani, I will discuss some applications to smooth Riemannian manifolds (joint work with Fabio Cavalletti, SISSA). These include: rigidity/stability of the Levy-Gromov inequality and an almost euclidean isoperimetric inequality motivated by the celebrated Perelman’s Pseudo-Locality Theorem for Ricci flow. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

8 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Some smooth applications of non-smooth Ricci curvature lower bounds

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Andrea MONDINO, University of Warwick

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome REGISTRATION: Visitors accommodated at the ICTP Guest Houses, will be registered upon arrival at the reception desks. Visitors NOT staying in the ICTP Guest Houses are kindly requested to complete registration formalities on Wednesday, 9 January 2019 from 8.00 - 9.00 am at the Leonardo da Vinci building, entrance area (outside the Budinich Lecture Hall). ******************************************** The “Total Energy” Workshop has been held traditionally in Trieste every two years since 1987. This year, the Workshop is about recent progress in electronic structure methods and their applications. The aim is a critical discussion of methods and of possible combinations and challenging applications. It has become one of the most popular regular events of the international ab-initio electronic structure community. This event also has the ambition to reach out to countries where the electronic structure community is not traditionally as strong as in Europe, the USA and Japan, in coherence with the missions of its traditional host institution, the ICTP. Scientific Advisory Committee: E. Artacho, University of Cambridge, UK W. Andreoni, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland  A. Baldereschi, University of Trieste, Italy R. Car, Princeton University, USA  C. Filippi, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands M. Finnis, Imperial College, London, UK R. Gebauer, ICTP, Trieste, Italy  X.-G. Gong, Fudan University, China  X. Gonze, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium E. Koch, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany  G. Kresse, University of Vienna, Austria J. Ihm, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea  R. M. Martin, Stanford University, US N. Marzari, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland F. Mauri, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy   S. Narasimhan, JNCASR, Bangalore, India  J. B. Neaton, University of California, Berkeley, USA  W. Pickett, University of California, Davis, USA  L. Reining, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, Paris, France Directors: M. Caldas, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil M. Finnis, Imperial College, London, UK J. Neaton, University of California, Berkeley, USA  Local Organizer: A. Hassanali, ICTP, Trieste, Italy Preliminary List of Invited Speakers: O. Akin-Ojo, ICTP EAIFR, Rwanda S. Biermann, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS M. Ceriotti, EPFL C. Cocchi, Humboldt University, Berlin G. Csanyi, University of Cambridge R. Eder, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology J. Kunes, TU Wien N. Marzari, EPFL C. Miranda, University of Sao Paulo B. Monserrat, University of Cambridge S. Narasimhan, JNCSAR, Bangalore F. Neese, MPI-Mülheim E. Pavarini, Forschungszentrum Juelich C. Pignedoli, EMPA-Dübendorf S. Y. Quek, National University of Singapore A. Soluyanov, ETH Zurich M. Todorova, MPI-GmbH C. Van de Walle, University of California, Santa Barbara D. Vanderbilt, Rutgers University C. Weber, King’s College London J. Wilhelm, BASF H. Xiang, Fudan University ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Jan 2019 - 11 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

19th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Material Science: Total Energy and Force Methods | (smr 3266)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Marilia Caldas (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Mike Finnis (Imperial College, London, UK), Jeffrey Neaton (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Local Organiser: Ali Hassanali

Cosponsor(s): Psi-kpsi_k, sissaInternational School for Advanced Studies

Support E-Mail: smr3266@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 09/12/2018**

Europe/Rome The 2018 ICTP Prize Ceremony will take place on Wednesday 9 January at 16.30 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall on the ICTP Campus, Miramare and takes place during the 19th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Material Science: Total Energy and Force Methods (smr 3266). ICTP has awarded its 2018 ICTP Prize to Luis E.F. Foà Torres of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, and to Hongjun Xiang of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. The Prize recognizes their independent contributions to the theoretical advancement of condensed matter physics of modern solid-state materials, including low dimensional and nanoscale systems. Luis E.F. Foà Torres will give a talk on "Using light as a topological switch" and Hongjun Xiang will give a talk on "Theoretical studies on new mechanisms of ferroelectricity and multiferroicity". Abstracts for the talks are available in the detailed programme at: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8818/material/0/0.pdf 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 2018 ICTP Prize is given in honour of Kun Huang (1919-2005), the renowned theoretical physicist who is a father of condensed matter and semiconductor physics in China. Huang had been a student of Nevill Mott at Bristol University and a postdoc of Nobel Laureate Max Born at Liverpool University before returning to China in 1951. Full details are in the Programme for the Ceremony. The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the ICTP website and refreshments will be served after the events. All are most welcome to attend. Related feature article available at: https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/10/ictp-prize-2018.aspx ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Ceremony

9 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

2018 ICTP Prize Ceremony

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 Trieste

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Luis E.F. Foa' Torres, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; Prof. Hongjun Xiang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Europe/Rome Abstract: In this talk we will prove that some abelian surfaces are modular, in the sense that there is a paramodular form whose L-series matches that of the abelian surface. During the talk we will recall the relation between automorphic representations and algebraic varieties (with special emphasis in the case of abelian surfaces), and will describe in detail the Faltings-Serre method (and its relation with deformation theory). The talk will be self contained, and only some knowledge on Galois theory will be assumed. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On the paramodularity of typical abelian surfaces

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Ariel PACETTI, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Several million chemical compounds are known, but with 118 chemical elements the number of compounds that are stable and could be synthesized is potentially much larger. The Workshop focuses on recent developments in the prediction of crystal structures by computational methods. Thanks to enormous progresses in computational power and in algorithm development, we are now closer to the possibility to predict the structure of a material from the simple knowledge of its composition. This Workshop will be dedicated to presenting and discussing the algorithms for in-silico crystal structure prediction that were developed in the last years, focusing in particular on the approaches based on molecular modeling. We find particularly appropriate holding this conference in 2019, the International Year of the Periodic Table, since crystal structure prediction is rooted in a deep knowledge of the properties of the atoms. The Workshop will be divided into two parts: the first 3 days will be dedicated to an advanced discussion of the latest advances in the field and last 2 days will be dedicated to hands-on tutorials with structure prediction methods in combination with electronic structure and atomistic methods. A Poster Session will also be organized, and interested candidates are invited to upload a short abstract of their proposed posters during the application process (max. half page, in pdf format). Poster presentation is not mandatory, however participants are encouraged to present their results. Topics: Genetic algorithms Random search algorithms Metadynamics Machine learning methods Nucleation Atomistic methods and force fields Electronic structure methods There is no registration fee. We acknowledge Psi-k generous co-sponsorship ICTP Workshop Secretariat: smr3267@ictp.it * * * ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

14 Jan 2019 - 18 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Workshop on Crystal Structure Prediction: Exploring the Mendeleev Table as a Palette to Design New Materials | (smr 3267)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Artem Oganov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia), Alessandro Laio (SISSA), Gautam Desiraju (IISc Bangalore, India), Local Organiser: Sandro Scandolo

Cosponsor(s): Psi-kpsi_k

**DEADLINE: 02/11/2018**

Seminar

14 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Kahler Meeting: Notions of stability for cscK metrics

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Sjostrom Dyrefelt Zakarias Jon, ICTP

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Quantum optimal control allows finding the optimal strategy to drive a quantum system in a target state. We review an efficient algorithm to optimally control many-body quantum dynamics and apply it to quantum annealing, going beyond the adiabatic strategy. We present an information theoretical analysis of quantum optimal control processes and its implications. We review some recent advancements we have obtained in tensor network algorithms that enable such investigations and that can be exploited to support the development of quantum technologies via classical numerical simulations: novel approaches to study abelian and non-abelian lattice gauge theories, open many-body quantum systems and systems with long-range interactions or periodic boundary conditions. Finally, we report some theoretical and experimental applications of these approaches to relevant scenarios, such as Rydberg atoms in optical lattices and the gauge theory resulting from the mapping of classical hard problems to short-range quantum Hamiltonians. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Optimal Control, Lattice Gauge Theories, and Quantum Annealing

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Simone MONTANGERO (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy 'Galileo Galilei' University of Padova, Italy

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: In this talk I will address a coupled bulk-surface reaction-diffusion system set in a moving domain, which is a model for the process of chemo-taxis in cells. I will explain how to derive the problem and the mathematical formulation we used in order to prove existence and regularity results. An outline of such proofs will be presented, focusing on the key steps and avoiding technical details. This is a joint work with A. Alphonse and C. Elliott. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

A coupled bulk-surface reaction-diffusion system

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Joana AFONSO, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Mike Glazer is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick. He was born on May 1st 1943. His PhD research between 1965 and 1968 was under the supervision of Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London, working on the crystallography of organic mixed crystals. In 1968-1969, he was a Fellow at Harvard University, and then from 1969 to 1976 he was at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. In 1976, he was appointed Lecturer in Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory Oxford and as an Official Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College Oxford. Mike Glazer's research has mainly been in understanding the relationship between physical properties of crystals and their structures. He is perhaps best known for his classification system for tilted octahedra in perovskites. He is also one of the co-founders of Oxford Cryosystems Ltd, which supplies the world market in low-temperature apparatus for crystallographers. He is currently Editor of the Newsletter of the International Union of Crystallography. Abstract: The field of Crystallography is one of the oldest of scientific disciplines, and yet it continues to make important advances today and into the future. In this talk, I will trace the history of some important ideas that have led to some basic understanding of the structures of crystals before experimental techniques evolved to enable these theories to be tested. In the 20th century, the discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals has led to the formation of a whole new discipline, namely X-ray Crystallography. This discovery has since then expanded to include neutron and electron scattering and has increased our knowledge of materials and biological systems. As a result, many Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work relying on crystallographic studies. Over the last 100 years many new experimental techniques have arisen, including the use of synchrotron radiation, free electron lasers and very recently major advances in the use of electron microscopes. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

15 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

ICTP Colloquium on Crystallography: Then, Now, and …..?

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34141 Trieste, Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. A.M. Glazer, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Oxford & Visiting Professor, University of Warwick, UK

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: The category of Soergel bimodules plays an essential role in (higher) representation theory and for the construction of homological invariants in knot theory. The aim of this talk is to present a generalization of Soergel category attached to a Coxeter group of type A_2. While Soergel category counts a generating bimodule per simple reflection, this generalization is obtained by taking one generator per reflection. I will give a complete description of this category through a classification of its indecomposable objects and study its split Grothendieck ring. This gives rise to an algebra which is a quotient of the corresponding affine Hecke algebra of type A_2, that can be presented by generators and relations. This is joint work with Thomas Gobet. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

17 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On some generalizations of the category of Soergel bimodules

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Anne-Laure THIEL, Stuttgart University

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome One key feature of the Internet of Things is the ability to rapidly create IoT applications, including scientific ones. This will allow collecting data from dozens, or even hundreds of low-cost, low-power scientific instruments. The lack of scientific data is an issue especially in Developing Countries, where the number of monitoring stations in limited and where data is unreliable due to lack of connectivity/intermittent power supply/poor maintenance. In order to address this demand, we propose the use of low-cost and low-power IoT nodes to complement the already deployed high-cost sparse networks for scientific data collection. While the IoT array will have inferior measurement accuracy due to the low-cost nature of the sensors, the high spatial density of the array is unique and will prove invaluable for research and operational applications. This workshop is intended to share good practices on how IoT nodes can be rapidly prototyped to carry out scientific measurements. Following a seven days hands-on technical workshop, participants will focus for two days on the requirements to develop three applications: radiation monitoring, oceanographic devices and weather stations. On the last day, the participants will share the results of their discussions/experiments. A basic knowledge of the Python language will be highly appreciated. TOPICS: Prototyping of embedded boards Introduction to microPython LoRa and LoRaWAN protocols Characteristics of analog and digital sensors Collection, analysis and the visualization of data Sensor requirements for radiative and oceanic monitoring and weather stations 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. DEADLINE: 9 November 2018 Trieste - ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

21 Jan 2019 - 1 Feb 2019

@ Trieste -

Applied Physics

Workshop on Rapid Prototyping of Internet of Things Solutions for Science | (smr 3268)

Room: SciFabLab (EFB)

Secretary: Petra Krizmancic, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Alessandro Crise (OGS), Francois Foulon (IAEA), Adrian Tompkins (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Marco Zennaro

Cosponsor(s): IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3, ITU - International Telecommunication Unionitu, Open Access Marine Observation Devicesomods, ICTP SciFabLabsfl

**DEADLINE: 09/11/2018**

Europe/Rome Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP School on Mathematical Models of Evolution January 21 – 26, 2019 Although new experimental technology is partly responsible for the current revolution in biological research, theoretical models developed by physicists are also playing an important role in changing the way biological research is being performed. The number of theoretical physicists and applied mathematicians migrating into biology has dramatically increased throughout the world, but South America still lags behind. The one-week school on mathematical models on evolution, co-organized with the ICTP-SAIFR, UNESP, FAPESP and IFT-UNESP, will feature lectures by physicists and applied biologists who have made important contributions to this area of biological research. The school is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the physical and biological sciences. This activity will be preceded by the ‘VIII Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology’. Candidates may apply either for one or both schools, and preference will be given to PhD students in South America. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses. Lecturers and courses: Population genetics and evolution – Luca Peliti (SMRI, Italy) Understanding how genetic information is transmitted across generations is at the basis of evolutionary theory. This course will review the mechanisms of reproduction, selection, mutation and drift and will be the backbone for the more specific courses below. Evolution of individuality – Paul Rainey (IAS – Massey University, New Zeland) The origins of multicellularity and cell differentiation are profound problems in biology. Overview of theory and recent experiments. The evolution of immune systems – Curtis Callan (Princeton University, USA) The immune system has the ability to respond to arbitrary pathogens. Using samples from mice it has been possible to track the evolution of the immune system from embryo to adult, revealing surprising differences between species. Ecology and evolution of viruses – Joshua Weitz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Viruses shape the fate of cells, populations, and ecosystems. These lectures will provide an overview of the nonlinear dynamics of viruses and their microbial hosts, including theory, models, and evidence for the joint influence of population and evolutionary dynamics. The program will be available in December 2018 Click here for online application Application deadline: November 4, 2018 Sao Paulo - Brazil ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

21 Jan 2019 - 26 Jan 2019

@ Sao Paulo - Brazil

Quantitative Life Sciences

Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste School on Mathematical Models of Evolution | (smr 3265)

Address: ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research IFT-UNESP (1º andar), Rua Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz 271, Bloco 2 - Barra Funda 01140-070 São Paulo, SP Brazil

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Paulo Inácio Prado (USP Brazil), Luca Peliti (SMIR-Italy), Roberto Kraenkel (IFT-Physics, Brazil), Marcus Aguiar (Unicamp-Physics, Brazil), ICTP Scientific Contact: Matteo Marsili

Cosponsor(s): ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Researchsaifr, The São Paulo Research Foundationfapesp, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)unesp

Europe/Rome Several atomic, molecular, and optical systems, as well as certain condensed matter models, exhibit long-range interactions that decay with distance r as a power law 1/rα. In this talk, we will present recent results for the localization properties of correlation functions of these long-range quantum models in the presence of disorder. The latter is usually associated with exponential localization of wave functions and correlations. We demonstrate that in most situations in 1D power-law interactions imply algebraic decay of correlations. We will discuss the generality of these results and their application to experiments in atomic and molecular physics. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

22 Jan 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Tensor Network Methods for Probability Distribution Functions and beyond...

Speaker(s): Michele FILIPPONE (Theory of Quantum Matter, Physics, Univ. of Geneve, Switzerland)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Hosted Activity

28 Jan 2019 - 29 Jan 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Secretariat Meeting | (smr H572)

Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome The Abdus Salam Distinguished Lectures 2019 will be given on 28, 29 and 30 January 2019 by Prof. Juan Maldacena, from the School of Natural Sciences at IAS, Princeton, USA. Juan Maldacena’s work focuses on quantum gravity, string theory, and quantum field theory. He has proposed a relationship between quantum gravity and quantum field theories that elucidates various aspects of both theories. He is studying this relationship further in order to understand the deep connection between black holes and quantum field theories, and he is also exploring the connection between string theory and cosmology. The tentative schedule for the lecture series is as follows: Monday 28 January 2019 at 16.30 hrs Lecture 1: Quantum mechanics and the geometry of spacetime. Abstract: Black holes are fascinating objects which pose interesting puzzles for quantum physics. Studying these puzzles we are led to quantum mechanical models that describe special black holes as seen from the outside. Extrapolating from these descriptions we are lead to the idea that entanglement can create geometric connections or wormholes. Moreover, quantum teleportation can be interpreted as travelling through the wormhole. Tuesday 29 January 2019 at 16.30 hrs Lecture 2: Toy models for black holes. Abstract: We will review the Sachdev Ye Kitaev model and describe how it shares some features with nearly extremal black holes. We also describe the dynamics of nearly extremal black holes. We will go over different physical phenomena, including chaos, quantum teleportation, etc, and their common manifestation in these two systems. Wednesday 30 January 2019 at 11.00 hrs Lecture 3: Toy models for black holes (part two). This will be a more technical talk based on lecture 2 above. All lectures take place in the Budinich Lecture Hall, and will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. Light refreshments will be served after the talks. All are most welcome to attend. The Abdus Salam Distinguished Lecture Series receives generous support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). For more information see: https://kfas.ictp.it/ ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

30 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Salam Distinguished Lectures 2019: by Prof. Juan Maldacena (Lecture 3: Toy models for black holes (part two)

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34141 Trieste, Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: The Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is a basic operator in Analysis. We propose to discuss some of the reasons why this operator plays a central role in the area. Then we will concentrate on some of the classical results making special emphasis in the behavior of this operator in the context of Lp spaces with weights. Then we will explain some more recent results focusing in the context of Lorentz spaces which are very useful extensions of the Lebesgue spaces. We have obtained some new results for these spaces but we don't know if they are optimal. In the last part of the lecture we will discuss a very interesting variant of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function which is more singular called the strong maximal function. We will discuss briefly some classical results and we will mention some recent results which, again, we don't know if the are optimal. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

30 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Maximal function on Lorentz spaces with weights: new results, and open problems

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Carlos Perez, University of the Basque Country and BCAM - Spain

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome What is the nature of phase transitions in driven quantum systems? We address this question in two opposite regimes, a rapidly periodically driven Floquet system coupled to a bath and a slowly driven one, within a non-equilibrium renormalization group approach. In the periodically driven case, the infinitely rapidly driven limit exhibits a second order phase transition analogous to a multi-mode laser. However, we reveal that fluctuations turn the transition first order when the driving frequency is finite. This can be traced back to a universal mechanism, which crucially hinges on the competition of degenerate, near critical modes associated to higher Floquet Brillouin zones, in some analogy to the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma or Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. A physical picture is that of a fluctuation induced many-body Kapitza pendulum. The critical exponents of the infinitely rapidly driven system -- including a new, independent one -- can yet be probed experimentally upon smoothly tuning towards that limit. The opposite, slowly driven limit, is governed by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism of diabatic freeze out of the divergence of the correlation length. Recasting this problem in a systematic RG formulation, we show that the slow drive can be used to resolve not only the leading critical exponents of the underlying equilibrium problem, but the full critical exponent spectrum. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

31 Jan 2019

@ ICTP

Spin of Primordial Black Holes

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Mehrdad MIRBABAYI (ICTP)

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Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome An ICTP PREPARATORY SCHOOL will be organized the week before the "Winter College on Applications of Optics and Photonics in Food Science", i.e. from 4 - 8 February 2019, for a limited number of selected participants. The Preparatory School is specifically organised only for participants of the above mentioned Winter College, providing background tutorials and exercises designed to help participants in following College's lectures. Therefore candidates applying to the Preparatory School are expected to apply also to the Winter College. Winter College's webpage: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8643 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS SUBMISSION EXPIRED (21 OCTOBER 2018) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

4 Feb 2019 - 8 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Preparatory School on Applications of Optics and Photonics in Food Science | (smr 3270)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn (NECTEC), Anna Grazia Mignani (IFAC-CNR), Cather Simpson (University of Auckland), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

Support E-Mail: smr3270@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 21/10/2018**

Hosted Activity

5 Feb 2019 - 7 Feb 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

11 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Kahler Meeting: Variants of the cscK equation

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Jacopo STOPPA, SISSA

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract. We discuss relativistic corrections to large scale structure observables. These are expected to yield contributions comparable to fNL of a few, and therefore potentially observable in future surveys. We then focus on the large scale structure bispectrum in the squeezed limit, which couples large with small scales. Since relativity is important at large scales and non-linear loop corrections are important at small scales, the proper calculation of the observed bispectrum in this limit requires a non-linear relativistic calculation. We compute the matter bispectrum in general relativity in the weak field approximation. The calculation is as involved as existing second-order results. For the bispectrum, we find relativistic corrections to be as large as the newtonian result in the squeezed limit. In that limit relativistic one-loop contributions, which we compute for the first time, can be as large as tree level results and have the sa dependence as a primordial local non-Gaussianity signal where k is the momentum approaching zero. Moreover, we find the time dependence of the relavistic corrections to the bispectrum to be the same as that of a primordial non-Gaussianity signal. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

12 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Cosmology

The relativistic bispectrum of dark matter

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Jorge NORENA (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: The idea of studying rational maps by looking at the syzygies of the base ideal is a relatively new idea that has now become an important research topic. In this talk, we will discuss some recent results that lead to birationality criteria and formulas for the degree of rational maps that depend on the algebraic properties of the syzygies of the base ideal. Mainly, we will introduce a new algebra called "saturated special fiber ring" and we will discuss its relations with the degree and birationality of rational maps between irreducible projective varieties. Time permitting, we will also discuss some results in the problem of specializing the coefficients of a rational map. This talk is based on joint works with Laurent Busé and Carlos D’Andrea and with Aron Simis. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

12 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Saturated special fiber ring and rational maps

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Yairon CID RUIZ, Universitat de Barcelona

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

13 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Comments on flux vacua

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Shamit KACHRU (Stanford University)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: The problem of understanding the global symmetries of non-holonomic mechanical systems is quite difficult. One possible approach to tackle the problem from an algebraic point of view was proposed by N. Tanaka in the 70s, through the process known as (Tanaka) prolongation. The output of the prolongation is a graded Lie algebra, whose dimension is an upper bound for the dimension of the space of symmetries. A system is called rigid if its prolongation is finite dimensional. In this talk, I will show the generic rigidity of a wide class of non-holonomic systems of step 2 (so-called Carnot groups). This result was obtained in joint work with B. Kruglivok (Tromsø), I. Markina and A. Vasil'ev (Bergen). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

13 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Rigidity of 2-step Carnot groups

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Mauricio GODOY MOLINA, Universidad de la Frontera, Chile

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

13 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Joint ICTP/SISSA String Seminars: Conformally soft photons and gravitons

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Andrea PUHM (Ecole Polytechnique)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome In this talk I will review our ongoing activity on twisted bilayer graphene at the first magic angle. I will first discuss the constraints on a low energy description put forth by the spatial symmetries of the Bloch wavefunction obtained through a realistic tight-binding calculation performed on a relaxed structure. Next I will propose a minimal tight-binding model that reproduces the elementary band representation of the emergent P622 low-energy space group. Finally, I will show how the emergent symmetry shows up in the phonon spectrum, which suggests the intriguing possibility of an Exe Jahn-Teller effect as a possible mechanism to split the so-called valley degeneracy. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

14 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: Playing with the Physics of Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Michele FABRIZIO (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

14 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Euclidean Wormholes and Holography

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Olga PAPADOULAKI (ICTP)

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Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: One of the main issues in dynamics is to study robust phenomena (phenomena that are shared by all nearby systems). In this talk, we will be interested in robust transitivity, which means that the existence of dense orbits is shared by all nearby systems; we will discuss the necessary conditions for the existence of robust transitivity on surfaces. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

14 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On robustly transitive endomorphisms on surfaces

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Gouveia Da Silva Wagner Ranter, ICTP

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Hair cells are the receptor cells that enable the transduction of mechanical stimuli into the nervous system of hearing and balance organs of vertebrates. The name of these cells owes to the specialized organelle located at their tip—the hair bundle. The organelle's complex structure and operation, which is enhanced by an active process, are crucial for an organ's sensory function. In my talk I will tell about a few open physical problems related to the development and operation of the hair bundle. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

A few problems in physics of hearing

Address: via Beirut 2

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

Speaker(s): Roman Belousov, QLS

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

15 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Bridgeland Stability Conditions on the Category of Holomorphic Triples

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Alejandra RINCON HIDALGO, Freie Universitaet Berlin

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome The fast growing use of quantum theory in technology-oriented and information-related fields is attracting the interest of an increasing number of researchers, especially young ones. The reborn interest in quantum physics has created a unique framework in which theoretical and experimental physics can fruitfully dialogue with information theory and computer science. The School intends to convey such an interdisciplinary spirit to graduate students and young researchers and will focus upon three themes, i) Quantum dynamics in the macro-world: quantum coherence and entanglement ii) Quantum theory as an interdisciplinary paradigm: quantum information and simulation iii) Quantum physics as a technology boost: quantum devices and machines emphasizing their inter-relations and covering the relevant background material, that will be taught by nine renowned experts in the above fields. The School is followed by a more specialized Workshop in which students attending the School are invited to participate. The Workshop Web page is http://indico.ictp.it/event/8662/ ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

18 Feb 2019 - 22 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Advanced School on Ubiquitous Quantum Physics: the New Quantum Revolution | (smr 3273)

Address: Via Beirut, 2 - Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: ex-SISSA Main Auditorium (1st week) and LB Budinich Lecture Hall (2nd week)

Secretary: Milena Poropat

Organizer(s): Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste, Italy), Fabio Benatti (University of Trieste, Italy), Roberto Floreanini (INFN, Trieste, Italy), Local Organiser: Marcello Dalmonte

Cosponsor(s): European Project TEQ: Testing the Large Scale Limit of Quantum Mechanicsteq, European Commissionec, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleareinfn

Support E-Mail: smr3273@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/11/2018**

Activity

19 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Trieste System Optical Sciences and Applications (TSOSA) Meeting | (smr 3377)

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

Room: Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn (NECTEC), Anna Grazia Mignani (IFAC-CNR), Cather Simpson (University of Auckland), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

Cosponsor(s): The International Commission for Optics (ICO)ICO, The Optical Society (OSA)OSA, The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)SPIE, The European Optical Society (EOS)EOS, Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF)SIOF, The International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS)OWLS

Support E-Mail: smr3272@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

19 Feb 2019 - 20 Feb 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

TWAS Donor Review Meeting And OWSD Donor Review Meeting | (smr H582)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): OWSD-TWAS,

Europe/Rome The determination of four-point correlation functions of two-dimensional lattice models is of fundamental importance in statistical physics. In the limit of an infinite lattice, this question can be formulated in terms of conformal field theory (CFT). For the so-called minimal models the problem was solved more than 30 years ago, by using that the existence of singular states implies that the correlation functions must satisfy certain differential equations. This settles the issue for models defined in terms of local degrees of freedom, such as the Ising and 3-state Potts models. However, for geometrical observables in the Fortuin-Kasteleyn cluster formulation of the Q-state Potts model, for generic values of Q, there is in general no locality and no singular states, and so the question remains open. As a warm-up to solving this problem, we discuss which states propagate in the s-channel of such correlation functions, when the four points are brought together two by two. To this end we combine CFT methods with algebraic and numerical approaches to the lattice model. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

19 Feb 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Cosponsor(s): European Project TEQ: Testing the Large Scale Limit of Quantum Mechanicsteq, European Commissionec, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleareinfn

Support E-Mail: smr3371@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/11/2018**

Europe/Rome 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. These moduli spaces are in general very singular, but they carry a perfect obstruction theory (they are virtually smooth). This gives virtual versions of many invariants of smooth projective varieties. Such virtual invariants occur everywhere in modern enumerative geometry, like Gromov-Witten invariants and Donaldson Thomas invariants, when attempting to make sense of the predictions from physics. We conjecture that the Vafa-Witten formula is true for the virtual Euler numbers. We confirm this conjecture in many examples. Then we give refinements of the conjecture. Our approach is based on Mochizuki's formula which reduces virtual intersection numbers on moduli spaces of sheaves to intersection numbers on Hilbert schemes of points. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

26 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Virtual topological invariants of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces

Room: IGAP (the old SISSA building)

Speaker(s): Lothar GOTTSCHE (ICTP)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

26 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

CANCELLED - The thermodynamic uncertainty relation

Room: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Karel Proesmans - Hasselt University, Belgium

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 17:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: I will briefly explain the notion of Bridgeland stability conditions on K3 surfaces. Then I will show some of its recent applications in classical algebraic geometry, including a new upper bound for the number of global sections of sheaves on K3 surfaces and computing higher rank Clifford indices of curves on K3 surfaces. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Curves on K3 surfaces

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Soheyla FEYZBAKHSH, Imperial College London

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Mathematical and statistical modelling of complex systems is one of the key methods to understand and master their complexity. In this talk, I will first show how Bayesian machine learning can be combined with mathematical logic (specifically, temporal and spatio-temporal logic) to provide effective tools to analyse the behaviour of complex systems, unveiling their emergent properties, and to tackle system design parameter synthesis, and model identification. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss some work in progress, extending the previous ideas to tackle (related) problems like: automatic learning of model abstractions, using also Deep Neural Networks, with applications in multiscale modelling in systems biology and in geophysics, and learning of logic-based classifiers in the context of explainable Al. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 Feb 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: Combining Machine Learning and Logic for Complex Systems

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Luca BORTOLUSSI (Univ. degli Studi di Trieste)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome This special ICTP QLS Colloquium will be given by Prof. Tatyana Sharpee. The talk on Hyperbolic geometry and symmetry breaking in neural circuits will take place in the Euler Lecture Hall, on Friday 1 March 2019 at 11.00 hrs and will be followed by light refreshments. Prof. Sharpee received her MSc degree in Theoretical Physics from Ukraine National University, Kiev, Ukraine and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics form Michigan State University. She turned from Condensed Matter physics to neuroscience early on in her career, first at UC San Francisco, then at UC San Diego and lately at Salk Institute where she is Associate Professor. Prof. Sharpee has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for "advancing our understanding of how neurons represent sensory signals and make decisions". Sharpee's work aims to develop a unifying theory of how biological systems process information. Specifically, she is uncovering how animals sense and adapt to their environment, as well as make predictions and decisions. To do this, she applies methods from physics, mathematics and information theory to chart the principles by which the brain's billions of neurons exchange energy and information. Abstract: A long standing idea in neuroscience is that the brain is adapted to the statistics of signals from the natural environment, and in some cases, as in the sense of smell, the brain and the natural environment have co-evolved together. I will first discuss how hyperbolic geometry can help provide coordinates for natural odors that offers insights into how we perceive smells. Then, I will briefly summarize our progress in mapping the hierarchy of transformations for visual signals in the brain. Finally, I will discuss how symmetry breaking and ideas from the theory of phase transitions can help systematize complexity of cell types that together provide accurate analogue representations of incoming signals using binary outputs. I will conclude with applications of these ideas to biological problems outside of neuroscience. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

1 Mar 2019

@ ICTP

ICTP QLS Colloquium on Hyperbolic geometry and symmetry breaking in neural circuits

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Colloquium Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome We study inhomogeneous quenches in integrable models. The Non-Equilibrium Steady State emerging in such systems has been recently conjectured to be described by a Generalised Hydrodynamic theory. We develop a mathematically rigorous method to calculate the asymptotics of observables at large times and distances and show how certain predictions of this conjecture can be derived from analyticity properties of the Slavnov formula for Bethe state overlaps. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

5 Mar 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Quantum Transport after Inhomogeneous Quenches

Speaker(s): S. SOTIRIADIS (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome West African climate is characterized by complex atmospheric dynamics and growing anthropogenic pressures. These pressures, combined with climate change and variability, have many environmental impacts. Regional climate models include now capabilities such as interactive coupling with oceans, surface hydrology, atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles. Combined with process study and observation analysis, such systems are interesting frameworks for impact assessments over West Africa. However their complexity is such that they require high computing power and appropriate “know-how”. This point has motivated the recent development of a supercomputing center at the University of Abidjan. In this context, the school proposes theoretical and practical computing sessions on regional climate and environmental modeling. It is co-organized with the final conference of the DACCIWA project (https://www.dacciwa.eu/) so that participants can benefit from both of these events. Participants are required to have a pre-existing background in Atmospheric / Earth system science and be familiar with Linux/Unix environment. English will be the spoken language during theoretical and practical sessions. Topics: Basis of regional climate and Earth System modeling Examples of climate and Earth system studies over sub-Saharan Africa Extensive hands-on regional climate and Earth system modeling sessions using HPC facilities Review and discussion of on-going projects involving climate and Earth system modeling over sub-Saharan Africa Beyond the school : Identification of regional working groups, projects and networks Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

11 Mar 2019 - 15 Mar 2019

@ 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): Fabien Solmon (ICTP), Abdourahamane Konare † (FHB Abidjan University), Catherine Liousse (Laboratoire d'Aerologie / CNRS), Graziano Giuliani (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Riccardo Farneti

Cosponsor(s): Université Félix Houphouët-Boignyufhb, The National Center for Scientific Researchcnrs, Atos.netatos, Laboratoire d'Aerologieaero, The French National Research Institute for Developmentird, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Usewascal

Support E-Mail: smr3243@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/10/2018**

Europe/Rome * * * THIS CONFERENCE IS CO-SPONSORED BY: MAGENTA - MAGnetic nanoparticle based liquid ENergy materials for Theromoelectric device Applications. MAGENTA project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731976. More information on MAGENTA website: https://www.magenta-h2020.eu --- The purpose of this Conference is to bring together experts and active researches working on fundamentals of thermoelectricity, new thermoelectric materials and applications. Tutorial lectures by experts in field are planned in the beginning of each topical session. A poster session will also be held. There is no registration fee. Topics Thermoelectricity is now a subject of rising interest caused by the fundamental significance, technological development in creating new materials and applications both in physics and engineering. The purpose of this Conference is to bring together experts in fundamentals of thermoelectricity as well as those of materials science and applications. The list of topics to be discussed includes: • Seebeck effect as a tool for studying topological transformations of the Fermi surface in heavy fermion systems and other materials • Thermoelectric and thermo-spin-related phenomena in Dirac and Weil materials • Thermoelectric and thermomagnetic phenomena in nanodevices • Thermo-electric and thermomagnetic phenomena in superconductors • Anomalous Nernst effect and the Berry phase • Figure of merit and the ways to increase it • New materials: nanostructured metals (bismuth chalcogenides, half Heusler alloys, oxide compounds, silicon-germanium alloys) • Specifics of the Seebeck effect in electrolytes • Thermo-electrochemical reactions • Thermo-electrodiffusion in soft condensed matter • Applications of thermoelectricity in engineering List of speakers Kakoli BHATTACHARYA, CEA Saclay Maciej BOBROWSKI, Gdansk University of Technology Jorge GARCÍA-CAÑADAS, Universitat Jaume I, Spain Xavier CRISPIN, Linköping University Benoit FAUQUÉ, ESPCI Paris Pascal GEHRING, TU Delft Andreas GLATZ, Argonne National Laboratory/NIU Christophe GOUPIL, Université Paris Diderot Valeriy GUSYNIN, Bogolyubov Inst. for Theoretical Physics Koichi IZAWA, Tokyo Institute of Technology Herbert KEPPNER, Haute Ecole-Arc, Switzerland Michail KISELEV, ICTP Yakov KOPELEVICH, UNICAMP, Brazil Yo MACHIDA, Tokyo Institute of Technology Yukka PEKOLA, Aalto University, Finland Régine PERZYNSKI, Sorbonne Université Vladimir PUDALOV, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow Mauro SGROI, Centro Ricerche Fiat, Italy Sergei SHARAPOV, Bogolyubov Inst. for Theoretical Physics Valerii SHIKIN, Institute of Solid State Physics,Chernogolovka Marianna VASILAKAKI, NCSR Demokritos, Athens Simone WIEGAND, Forschungszentrum Jülich Alois WÜRGER, Université de Bordeaux Zengwei ZHU, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology - - - Secretariat: smr3269@ictp.it ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

11 Mar 2019 - 15 Mar 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Modern Concepts and New Materials for Thermoelectricity | (smr 3269)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Virtual topological invariants of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces II

Room: IGAP (the old SISSA building)

Speaker(s): Lothar GOTTSCHE (ICTP)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome The tropical Atlantic has warmed in recent decades, in particular in the equatorial and coastal upwelling regions. This warming was not directly forced by local heat exchange with the atmosphere, and also wind stress in the tropical Atlantic that drives oceanic upwelling rather increased than decreased. Remote forcing from outside the tropical Atlantic might thus have played a role. In this presentation, the contribution of different potential drivers is assessed utilizing a series of hindcast and sensitivity experiments with a high-resolution ocean model. It is shown that both an increase in the inflow of warm Indian Ocean waters through Agulhas leakage and a slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can lead to a general warming in the tropical Atlantic ocean. Compared to a control simulation, an experiment in which Agulhas leakage was artificially increased by strengthening the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies shows a pronounced warming trend in the upper tropical Atlantic Ocean. The SST pattern that arises in response to an idealized slowdown of the AMOC due to enhanced freshwater input around Greenland is reminiscent of the observed warming trend. In this context, the role of the Atlantic subtropical-tropical cells (STCs) and in particular the strengthening of the northern cell is discussed. Mean pathways and transports between the subtropical and tropical Atlantic Ocean are also inferred from Argo observations for the last decade. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

14 Mar 2019

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

Quantitative Life Sciences

Algorithmic synthesis of complex biomolecules

Room: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Mukund Thattai, NCBS Bangalore, India

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract. String compactifications are essential for connecting string theory to low energy particle physics and cosmology. Moduli stabilisation gives rise to effective Lagrangians that capture the low-energy degrees of freedom. Much recent interest has been on swampland consistency conditions on such effective field theories - which low energy Lagrangians can arise from quantum gravity? Furthermore, given that moduli stabilisation scenarios often exist in AdS space, we can also ask: what do swampland conditions mean in the context of AdS/CFT? I describe work on developing a holographic understanding of moduli stabilisation and swampland consistency conditions. I focus in particular on the Large Volume Scenario, which is especially appealing from a holographic perspective as in the large volume limit all its interactions can be expressed solely in terms of the AdS radius, with no free dimensionless parameters. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

20 Mar 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

The Large Volume Scenario, Holography and the Swampland

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Joseph CONLON (University of Oxford)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

21 Mar 2019

@ IFPU Building (old SISSA Bldg.)

Cosmology

Novel Approaches to Galaxy Clustering

Room: Room D

Speaker(s): Fabian SCHMIDT (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)

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Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Activity

25 Mar 2019 - 5 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

School of Medical Physics for Radiation Therapy: Dosimetry and Treatment Planning and Delivery for Basic and Advanced Applications | (smr 3278)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

Organizer(s): Mario De Denaro (Trieste University Hospital), Carlo Cavedon (AIFM (Italian Association of Medical Physics)), Yakov Pipman (AAPM (American Association of Physics in Medicine), Colin Orton (IOMP (International Organisation of Medical Physics), Gunther Hartmann (EFOMP (European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics), Luciano Bertocchi (ICTP), Local Organiser: Renato Padovani

Cosponsor(s): International Organization for Medical Physicsiomp, European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physicsefomp, Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medicaaifm, American Association of Physicsts in Medicineaapm

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

Activity

25 Mar 2019 - 5 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Joint ICTP-IAEA 2019 International School on Nuclear Security | (smr 3277)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

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

Cosponsor(s): IAEAiaea, PNSpns

Support E-Mail: smr3277@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 02/12/2018**

Europe/Rome Prof. Ignacio Cirac from the Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany, will give an inaugural lecture on "Quantum Simulations and the difficulty of solving Quantum many-body systems" within the ceremony for the launch of the new Trieste Institute for the Theory of Quantum Technologies (TQT), a new initiative between ICTP, SISSA and the University of Trieste. The ceremony starts at 11.00 on Monday 25 March 2019 in the Budinich Lecture Hall and will include the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding by the Directors of the three institutes. The new Institute for the Theory of Quantum Technologies has been established as a joint venture to address the significant and growing number of researchers working in the field of the so-called "Quantum Technologies" in universities and research institutions in the region, taking into account the high quality of scientific production in this field and the need to unite and coordinate activities and skills into an Inter- organizational Institute. "TQT" will be an international centre of excellence promoting theoretical research in the field of Quantum Technologies, serving as a catalyst for theoretical activities not only in Italy, but also in the neighbouring regions of the former Eastern Europe reaching out to also engage developing countries. The talk will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. ABSTRACT: Quantum many-body systems are very hard to simulate, as computational resources (time and memory) typically grow exponentially with system size. However, quantum computers or analog quantum simulators may perform that task in a much more efficient way. In this talk, I will first review some of the quantum algorithms that have been proposed for this task and then explain the advantages and disadvantages of analog quantum simulators. I will also describe the development of tensor network methods for that task, as well as a theoretical proposal to solve quantum chemistry problems with an analog simulator based on atoms in optical lattices. Light refreshments will follow the event. All are welcome to participate. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

25 Mar 2019

@ ICTP

ICTP Colloquium by Prof. Ignacio Cirac held in conjunction with the opening ceremony of the Trieste Institute for the Theory of Quantum Technologies (TQT)

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Colloquium Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

26 Mar 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Condensed Matter Seminar: Magnetic Effect in the Functioning of Hemoglobin

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Nejat BULUT (Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

26 Mar 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On Ruan's Cohomological Crepant Resolution Conjecture for the Complexified Bianchi orbifolds

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Fabio PERRONI, University of Trieste

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

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 include: Black Holes and Quantum Information Four-dimensional Supersymmetric Dynamics from Six Dimensions Dynamics of Quantum Fields in Three and Four Dimensions The Chiral Algebra Program for Four-dimensional SCFTs Quantum Entanglement and Holography Weak Gravity Conjecture LECTURERS include: Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook) Kyriakos Papadodimas (ICTP) Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook) Shlomo Razamat (Technion) Matt Reece (Harvard) Tadashi Takayanagi (Yukawa Institute) There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

28 Mar 2019 - 5 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics | (smr 3276)

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 (Stony Brook), K.S. Narain (ICTP), Local Organiser: Atish Dabholkar

Cosponsor(s): Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP)apctp6, Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)infn

Support E-Mail: smr3276@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 06/01/2019**

Europe/Rome ICTP awarded its 2018 Dirac Medal and Prize to three distinguished physicists - Subir Sachdev of Harvard University, Dam Thanh Son of the University of Chicago, and Xiao-Gang Wen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - for their independent contributions toward understanding novel phases in strongly interacting many-body systems, introducing original cross-disciplinary techniques. The Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019, starting at 14.00 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall. Three talks are scheduled, with an introduction by Prof. David Tong from the University of Cambridge, UK. - Prof. Dam Thanh Son "From fractional quantum Hall effect to field-theoretic dualities" Abstract: The fractional quantum Hall fluid is one of the most nontrivial strongly interacting fluids of nature. Many phenomena occurring in this fluid can be explained by postulating a new type of quasiparticle - the composite fermion. I will describe the new "Dirac composite fermion" theory, which has provided a simple solution to some long-standing puzzles and at the same time has stimulated the discovery of a large number of new dualities between quantum field theories in (2+1) dimensions. I will also describe physical consequences of the new theory Prof. Dam Thanh Son was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1969. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1991 and received his PhD in physics in 1995 from the Institute for Nuclear  Research in Moscow, Russia. He subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and faculty appointments at Columbia University and the University of Washington. In 2012 he moves to the University of Chicago where he is now a University Professor in the Department of Physics. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. - Prof. Subir Sachdev "Strange metals and black holes" Abstract: The ‘strange metal’, a state of matter formed by electrons in many modern materials, including the compounds which exhibit high temperature superconductivity. In this state, electrons quantum entangle with each other and conduct electric current collectively (rather than one-by-one, as in an ordinary metal like copper). Quantum entanglement also has remarkable effects near the horizon of a black hole, leading to the Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy, and the Hawking temperature. Surprisingly, there is a deep connection between the nature of quantum entanglement in strange metals and black holes, and this has led to mutually beneficial insights. This connection is simply described by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, which leads to a common set of equations describing the quantum dynamics of certain strange metals and black holes. Sachdev was educated in Bangalore, India before attending MIT and Harvard where he obtained his PhD degree in theoretical physics. He held professional positions at Bell Labs (1985–1987) and at Yale University (1987–2005), where he was a Professor of Physics, before returning to Harvard where he is now the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics. He also holds a visiting position as the James Clerk Maxwell Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Perimeter Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Physical Society and has been awarded several honors, among them the Lorentz Chair, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University in 2012, Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society and more recently the Dirac Medal from the ICTP in 2018. Sachdev delivered the Salam Distinguished Lecture series at ICTP in 2014. - Prof. Xiao-Gang Wen "Topological order and non-Abelian statistics" Abstract: Topological order describes a new kind of quantum matter (ie matter at zero temperature) beyond symmetry breaking. In this talk I will concentrate on one of the exotic properties of topological order in 2 space dimension: non-Abelian statistics, which is a generalization of the familiar Bose and Fermi statistics. It turns out that non-Abelian statistics allows us to us topologically ordered materials to perform topological quantum computations. Prof. Xiao-Gang Wen is a theoretical condensed matter physicist, recognized for his work on introducing the notion topological order (1989) and developing the theories of this new class of quantum states of matter. Since 2000, the study of topological states of matter slowly became a very active new field in condensed matter physics. Wen was born in Beijing, China. He went to the University of Science and Technology of China after the reopening of universities in China in 1977. Through T.D. Lee’s CUSPEA program, he obtained a chance to enter the graduate school of Princeton University in 1982, and earned a Ph.D degree in the field of superstring theory under Prof. Witten. During his postdoctoral period (1987-1989) in ITP, Santa Barbara, he started to pursue research in condensed matter physics. After a two-years stay in IAS, Princeton, he joined the faculty of department of Physics, MIT in 1991. ICTP's Dirac Medal, first awarded in 1985, is given in honor of P.A.M. Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a staunch friend of ICTP. It is awarded annually on Dirac's birthday, 8 August, to scientists who have made significant contributions to theoretical physics. The events will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. Light refreshments will follow the event. All are welcome to participate. Link to the feature article for more information on the 2018 awardees: https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/8/dirac-medal-2018.aspx ICTP, Trieste, Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Ceremony

28 Mar 2019

@ ICTP, Trieste, Italy

2018 Dirac Medal Award Ceremony

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34141 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Seminar

1 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

BASIC NOTIONS SEMINAR: A survey of volume inequalities

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Jeffrey VAALER, UT - Austin

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Eliezer Rabinovici is Leon H. and Ada G. Miller professor at the Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and holds the Louis Michel Chair at IHES since September 2015. His area of research is theoretical high-energy physics, in particular quantum field theory and string theory. Biosketch Eliezer Rabinovici was born in Jerusalem in 1946. He holds a PhD in High Energy Physics from Weizman Institute of Science. Among his many affiliations, he is member of the international advisory and scientific committee of the Galileo Galilei (GGI) - Florence, member of the European Physical Society Executive Board and holds the Louis Michel Chair at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifques IHES, University Paris-Saclay since 2015. He is one of the founders of SESAME and Vice President elect of the SESAME Council and Chairman of the Israeli Committee for Sesame. Rabinovici was awarded the 2019 AAAS Prize for Science Diplomacy together with other internationally regarded colleagues for his considerable contribution in the creation and development of the international scientific centre SESAME in Allan, Jordan. Abstract: SESAME is a cooperative venture by scientists and governments of the Middle East set up on the model of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Members of SESAME are Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, and Turkey. The Synchrotron Light source will be used by researchers to study a large variety of scientific questions. It is currently being constructed in Jordan and preparations are underway for scientific activities to start. Rabinovici will describe from a very personal view point how this project has come into being starting in 1995. The story will move from the CERN cafeteria through the ICTP, SISSA and Sistiana, crossing the Sinai desert to the completion of a high quality scientific electron accelerator in Jordan. The talk will be livestreamed from the ICTP website and will be followed by light refreshments. All are welcome to attend. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

@ ICTP

Joe Polchinski Memorial Lecture: A Brief History of Branes by Paul Townsend

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Paul Townsend, University of Cambridge, UK

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome Overview This workshop is the second edition of a series of yearly meetings of the Dark Machines community (http://darkmachines.org/), a research collective of physicists and data scientists. The aim of the workshop is to answer cutting edge questions about dark matter with the most advanced techniques that data science provides us with. The researchers coming to this workshop will bring together expertise in particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, statistics and information science (machine learning) and plenty of time will be devoted to discussions and brainstorming. Workshop Format The workshop will have plenary sessions covering the main topics in the field of machine learning and dark matter. In addition, there will be a limited number of parallel talks. We encourage scientists interested to present their work on applications of machine learning to dark matter problems to submit their abstracts. Afternoons will be devoted to hands-on sessions, during which the participants will work on the ongoing darkmachines challenges (listed here http://darkmachines.org/#projects) or propose and start new ones. The last day of the meeting will be dedicated to the discussion related to the DarkMachines organisational issues (progress of the white paper, summary of computational challenges etc). Invited Speakers include: Jelle Aalbers (Stockholm University) Atılım Güneş Baydin (University of Oxford) Johann Cohen-Tanugi (University of Montpellier) Caterina Doglioni (Lund University) Torsten Ensslin (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) Guðlaugur Jóhannesson (University of Iceland) Jaehoon Lee (Google Brain) Nikita Moriakov (Radboud University Medical Center) Daniel Nieto (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Rajat Thomas (University of Amsterdam) Danilo J. Rezende (DeepMind, London) Pasquale Serpico (LAPTH, Annecy) David Shih (Rutgers University) Roberto Trotta (Imperial College, London) Simona Vegetti (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ) Coordinators of Dark Machines Challenges include: Amir Farbin (UT Arlington) Luc Hendriks (Radboud University) Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR) Erzsébet Merényi (Rice University) Michela Negro (INFN Torino) Sydney Otten (Radboud University) Maurizio Pierini (CERN) Christoph Weniger (GRAPPA, Amsterdam) Martin White (University of Adelaide) Scientific Organizing Committee: Gianfranco Bertone (GRAPPA, Amsterdam) Francesca Calore (LAPTH, Annecy) Sascha Caron (NIKEF, Nijmegen) Tommaso Dorigo (University of Padova) Gilles Louppe (University of Liège) Roberto Ruiz de Austri (IFIC, Paterna) NOTE: The deadline for requesting participation was 10 March 2019. For any queries please e-mail smr3280@ictp.it. There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

8 Apr 2019 - 12 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Advanced Workshop on Accelerating the Search for Dark Matter with Machine Learning | (smr 3280)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH) and Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Andrea De Simone (SISSA), Piero Ullio (SISSA), Gabrijela Zaharijas (CAC/UNG), Local Organiser: Paolo Creminelli

Cosponsor(s): Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU)ifpu, Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)infn

Support E-Mail: smr3280@ictp.it

Activity

8 Apr 2019 - 16 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

High Performance Computing

Hands-on Workshop on Design, Installation and Management of HPC Data Centers for Academic Institutions | (smr 3380)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

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

Organizer(s): Ulrich Singe (ICTP), Local Organiser: Clement Onime

Europe/Rome Abstract. Motivated by T Tbar deformation of a conformal field theory we compute holographic complexity for a black brane solution with a finite cutoff using complexity action proposal. In order to have a late time behavior consistent with Lloyd's bound one is forced to have a cutoff behind the horizon whose value is fixed by the boundary cutoff. Using this result we compute holographic complexity for two dimensional AdS solutions where we get expected late times linear growth. It is in contrast with the naively computation which is done without assuming the cutoff where the complexity approaches a constant at the late time. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

9 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Complexity and Behind the Horizon Cutoff

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Mohsen ALISHAHIHA (IPM, Tehran, Iran)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome All tissues of the human body have electrical properties. These are applied to understand some physiological processes and anatomical structures. We show our research about the detection of bone fractures by bioimpedance measurement. We deal with the development of a non-invasive technology to this object: model and simulations, electronic development and clinical measurements. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Bioimpedance and bone fracture detection

Address: Via Beirut 2

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

Speaker(s): Antonio Hector DELL'OSA - Instituto de Desarrollo Economico e Innovacion, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico, Ushuaia, Argentina

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome PLEASE NOTE UNUSUAL DAY FOR JOINT SP SEMINARS Understanding the nature and behaviour of excitations in quantum spin liquids, and in topological phases of matter in general, is of fundamental importance and has proven crucial for experimental detection and characterisation of candidate materials. Current theoretical and numerical techniques, however, have limited capabilities, especially when it comes to studying gapped excitations. In this talk, I will discuss a semiclassical numerical method, based on a large-$S$ path integral approach, to study systems whose spin liquid behaviour is underpinned by perturbative ring-exchange Hamiltonians. The method can readily access both thermodynamic and spectral properties. I will focus in particular on quantum spin ice and its photon and vison excitations. After benchmarking the method against existing results on photons, I will show how it can be used to characterise visons and their thermodynamic behaviour. We find that visons form a weak electrolyte -- in contrast to spinons in classical spin ice. That is, vison pairs are the dominant population at low temperatures. This is reflected in the behaviour of thermodynamic quantities, such as pinch point motifs in the relevant correlators. Moreover, visons appear to strongly hybridise with the photon background, a phenomenon that likely affects the way these quasiparticles may show up in inelastic response measurements. I will conclude with a brief discussion of the significance of our results and an outlook on further applications of our method. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Seeing Beyond the Light: Vision and Photon Electrodynamics in Quantum Spin Ice

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Claudio CASTELNOVO (University of Cambridge, U.K.)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Some of the most sensitive and precise measurements to date are based on matterwave interferometry using freely falling atoms. Examples include ultra-high-precision measurements of inertia, gravity and rotation sensing [1-3]. Unfortunately, interaction time has to be very long in order to achieve very high sensitivities, resulting in interferometers often ten or even one hundred meters high or in the experiments having to be carried out in micro gravity on the space station[4–7]. Coherent matterwave guides and atomtronics will make possible highly compact devices having much extended interaction times and thus much increased sensitivity[8], which can be exploited both for fundamental and practical measurements. Here, we demonstrate [10] for the first time extremely smooth, coherence-preserving matterwave guides based on time-averaged adiabatic potentials (TAAP) [9]. We do so by guiding Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) over macroscopic distances without affecting their internal coherence: We use a novel magnetic accelerator ring to accelerate BECs to more than 16x their velocity of sound. We transport the BECs in the TAAP over truly macroscopic distances (15 cm) whilst preserving their internal coherence. The BECs can also be released into the waveguide (Fig.1c) with barriers controllable down to 200 pK giving rise to new regimes of tunnelling and transport through mesoscopic channels. The high angular momentum of more than 40000 ħ per atom and high velocities raises interesting possibilities with respect to the higher Landau levels of quantum Hall states of atoms and open new perspectives in the study of superfluidity. Coherent matterwave guides will result in much longer measurement times (here > 4 s) and much increased sensitivity in highly compact devices. This will raise the spectre of compact, portable guided-atom interferometers for fundamental experiments and applications like gravity mapping or navigation. References: [1] Gustavson, T. L., Bouyer, P. & Kasevich, M. A. Precision rotation measurements with an atom interferometer gyroscope. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2046–2049 (1997). [2] Rosi, G., Sorrentino, F., Cacciapuoti,L.,Prevedelli,M.&Tino,G.M. Precision measurement of the Newtonian gravitational constant using cold atoms. Nature 510, – (2014). [3] Dutta, I. et al. Continuous cold-atom inertial sensor with 1 nrad/sec rotation stability. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016). [4] Kovachy, T. et al. Quantum superposition at the half-metre scale. Nature 528, 530–533 (2015). [5] van Zoest, T. et al. Bose-Einstein condensation in microgravity. Science 328, 1540–1543 (2010). [6] Barrett, B. et al. Dual matter-wave inertial sensors in weightlessness. Nat. Commun. 7, 13786 (2016). [7] Soriano, M. et al. Cold atom laboratory mission system design. 2014 IEEE Aerosp. Conf. (2014). [8] Amico, L., Birkl, G., Boshier, M. & Kwek, L.-C. Focus on atomtronics-enabled quantum technologies. New J. Phys. 19, 20201 (2017). [9] Lesanovsky, I. & von Klitzing, W. Time-Averaged Adiabatic Potentials: Versatile Matter-Wave Guides and Atom Traps. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 83001 (2007) [10] Pandey et al. Accepted for publication in Nature SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Apr 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Hypersonic Transport of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Neutral-Atom Accelerator Ring

Speaker(s): Wolf VON KLITZING (Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Social dilemmas are ubiquitous in the world of human social interactions. The human ability to solve complex spatially and temporally extended social dilemmas is a key hallmark of our intelligence. Conversely, the cumulative nature of social tasks may provide an automatic path towards increasingly powerful cognitive abilities, under appropriate constraints. In this talk, I will argue for the ubiquity of social dilemmas from some simple principles, and show how complex spatially and temporally extended dilemmas may be solved by including appropriate inductive biases in state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning agents. This approach simultaneously advances the fields of behavioural economics and artificial intelligence. I shall end with an outlook on how these fields might interact more closely in the future, both to improve our understanding of multi-agent dynamics in human society, and to construct generally intelligent artificial systems. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Cooperative AI: Modelling and Resolving Complex Social Dilemmas using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Edward Hughes - Google DeepMind

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 10:00

Europe/Rome The jamming transition in packings of hard particles is of fundamental interest in the physics of granular materials and glasses. In recent years the physics of jamming has gained momentum in several interdisciplinary contexts, going from Machine Learning to Inference, Ecology and beyond. I will introduce the Simplest Model of Jamming and show how jammed points share peculiar critical properties, highly universal and deeply related glass physics. After discussing the implications of the vicinity to jamming in a glassy phase, I will consider the problem of Information Storage in Machine Learning. Going from the single neuron to multilayer networks, the capacity limit becomes a jamming point. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: The Paradigm of Jamming: From Low-Temperature Glasses to Machine Learning and More

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

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

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

16 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Heating sandwiches and circulation pancakes: What drives the evolution of tropical anvil clouds?

Address: Via Beirut 2/4

Room: exSISSA common area, 2nd floor

Speaker(s): Dr. Blaž Gasparini, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome Abstract. The main aim of this review talk is to present the state-of-the-art on the study of particle physics phenomena utilizing quantum computers and quantum simulators. In the first part of the seminar, I will introduce the concept of quantum simulation, following Feynmann's original vision, and discuss its applications in the field of ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Until few years ago, these applications had focused exclusively on models of relevance to condensed matter physics. I will present the key motivations that sparked a strong interest in quantum approaches to particle physics problems, in particular, in the context of (lattice) gauge theories. In the second part, I will discuss few examples on how trapped ions and cold atom gases can be used to emulate the real time dynamics of Abelian lattice gauge theories, and show how some of these approaches can be extended to certain non Abelian groups (U(N<11), SU(N<4)) utilizing alkaline-earth-like atoms. The first concrete experimental realizations in the context of the Schwinger mechanism will also be presented. Some introductory references to the topic written by HEP experts are: J. Preskill, arXiv.1811.10085 (2018) U. J. Wiese, Ann. Phys. 525, 777 (2013) and a review article: MD and S. Montangero, Contemporary Physics 57, 388 (2016). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Mathematics

Five-term relations

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Anton MELLIT, University of Vienna

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Seminar

24 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Refinement of Kool-Thomas invariants via Equivariant K-theoretic invariants

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Afgani RIZAL, ICTP/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 ● Management of open source scientific packages ● Continuous integration & deployment ● Conversational development Participants are expected to have some experience in a programming language, this course is not suitable for beginners in programming. Certificate to participant(s) at the end of the Workshop shalls be only upon successful contribution to the final development projects. 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. All lectures' slides and course material is available on a public GitLab repository: https://gitlab.com/ictp-cssd-2019 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

29 Apr 2019 - 10 May 2019

@ ICTP

High Performance Computing

7th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development | (smr 3284)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Elizabeth Brancaccio

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

**DEADLINE: 15/02/2019** **DEADLINE: 15/02/2019**

Europe/Rome This ICTP school will introduce the Copernicus climate services platform that now provides open access to state of the art reanalysis, real-time seasonal forecast and climate model products. Daily lectures will be given on reanalysis, subseasonal to seasonal forecasting, and predictability, including lectures on ENSO-driven variability and teleconnections. Each afternoon will be spent carrying out hands-on exercises using state-of-the-art products now available on the Copernicus climate data store hosted at ECMWF. These exercises will demonstrate how to access files through python scripts or perform analysis directly at ECMWF using the python-based toolbox. The aim would be to assess some aspect of the seasonal forecast skill in a participants’ projects during the ICTP school in week 1. Topics: • Analysis and Reanalysis products • Sub seasonal to Seasonal forecasting • Predictability, ENSO and teleconnections • Copernicus climate services and the data store Kigali - Rwanda ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

29 Apr 2019 - 3 May 2019

@ Kigali - Rwanda

Earth System Physics

ICTP-Rwanda Joint School on Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather and Climate Prediction | (smr 3140)

Secretary: Pandora Malchose

Organizer(s): Omololu Akin-Ojo (EAIFR), Bonfils Safari (University of Rwanda-East Africa Institute for Fundamental Research), ICTP Scientific Contact: Adrian Tompkins

Cosponsor(s): The University of Rwandaur, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg4

Speakers: Adrian Tompkins (ICTP), Fred Kucharski (ICTP),

**DEADLINE: 31/03/2019**

Europe/Rome TO ALL PARTICIPANTS venue of the Conference is the Kastler Lecture Hall c/o ICTP Adriatico Guesthouse (AGH) via Grignano, 9 Trieste, Italy A map of the ICTP Campus is available here. For visit-related pre-arrival information please see here. Click here for transport options from several airports to ICTP. For other practical details, incl. information on ICTP services and offices, please read the General Information Sheet, available at receptions and on ICTP boards. REGISTRATION OF VISITS: - Participants NOT staying in the ICTP Guest Houses are kindly requested to complete registration formalities c/o the Secretariat (office no. 1, lower level 1, AGH). - Visits of participants accommodated at the ICTP Guest Houses are registered upon arrival at the reception desks, directly (i.e. no need to register again with the secretariat). - - - - - - - - - - - This conference will address recent theoretical and experimental developments in quantum measurement, underscoring common themes from the perspectives of foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum information processing, quantum optics, condensed matter physics and metrology. Rooted in the early history of quantum mechanics, the field of Quantum Measurement has evolved from a purely mathematical formulation to an active research topic, embedded in a broad spectrum of subfields, ranging from quantum optics to condensed matter physics. It involves a variety of techniques, including quantum limited, fast, non-invasive measurements. As a versatile tool in an advanced quantum toolbox, quantum measurements could be empowered for the design of novel protocols, including active and passive error correction codes, quantum feedback control, precision measurements, quantum state discrimination, quantum metrology, quantum simulations and more. In this context of diversified research, this meeting will bring together expert theorists and experimentalists, employing different facets of quantum measurement, with the goal of identifying common themes, and cross-fertilizing with new ideas. A Poster Session will also be organized, and interested candidates are invited to upload a short abstract of their proposed posters during the online application process (max. half page, in pdf format). Poster presentation is not mandatory, however participants are encouraged to present their results. Topics Foundations of quantum mechanics Quantum measurement in information processing Quantum measurements in nanodevices Quantum measurement and thermodynamics Quantum metrology and precision measurements Speakers A. ACIN, ICFO, Spain Y. AHARONOV, Tel Aviv University, Israel A. AUFFEVES, Institute Neel, France M. BARBIERI, Università Roma Tre, Italy W. BELZIG, Konstanz University, Germany P. BERTET, SPEC / CEA Saclay, France Y. BLANTER, Delft University, the Netherlands R. CHAVES, Institute of Physics Natal, Brasil M. DEVORET, Yale University, USA R. EGGER, University of Dusseldorf, Germany J. EISERT, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany K. ENSSLIN, ETH, Switzerland A. FEDRIZZI, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK M. GENOVESE, INRIM, Italy I. GORNI, KIT, Germany B. HUARD, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France A. JORDAN, University of Rochester, USA E. KARIMI, Ottawa University, Canada A. KOROTKOV, University of California, Riverside, USA E. LAIRD, Lancaster University, UK I. LERNER, University of Birmingham, UK E. LUTZ, Stuttgart University, Germany F. MARQUARDT, MPI Erlangen, Germany M. MITCHELL, ICFO, Spain K. MURCH, Washington University in St. Louis, USA A. NITZAN, University of Pennsylvania, USA I. SIDDIQI, UC Berkley, USA K. SNIZHKO, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel A. STEINBERG, University of Toronto, Canada M. UEDA, University of Tokyo, Japan L. VAIDMAN, Tel Aviv University, Israel V. VEDRAL, University of Oxford, UK R. VIJAY, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India H. WISEMAN, Griffith University, Australia O. ZILBERBERG, ETH, Switzerland There is no registration fee. Online application is no longer possible (deadline expired 10 February 2019). - - - Secretariat: smr3285@ictp.it ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

29 Apr 2019 - 4 May 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Quantum Measurement: Fundamentals, Twists, and Applications | (smr 3285)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute of Science), Alessandro Romito (Lancaster University, UK), Fabio Sciarrino (Sapienza University, Italy), Local Organiser: Antonello Scardicchio

Cosponsor(s): Transregional Collaborative Research Center 183 - Entangled States of Mattercrc183, John Templeton Foundationjtf, Quantum Information Laboratoryq_casual, Lancaster Universitylancaster

Europe/Rome In this talk I will present a panoramic view of the results of some of the most recent projects within my group. This includes: study of motility of the bacterium E. coli in a porous medium with different degrees of porosity; characterization of the motility patterns of the parasite responsible for Chagas' disease; and study of the dynamic behavior of the tryptophanase gene regulatory network in Escherichia coli. I also plan to discuss possible future interdisciplinary research projects arising from the presented results. In this last regards, I'm very much interested in having the audience feedback. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

29 Apr 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Microbial motility and bacterial gene network dynamics

Address: Via Beirut 2

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

Speaker(s): Moises Santillan - Quantitative Biology and Complex Systems Lab, Cinvestav Monterrey, Apodaca, Mexico

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Seminar

29 Apr 2019

@ Old SISSA Building

Mathematics

Kahler Meetings on extremal and cscK metrics on blowups (Part 1)

Room: IGAP

Speaker(s): Claudio AREZZO, ICTP

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Seminar

2 May 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Quantized pseudo-fixed-point subalgebras and the reflection equation

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Bart VLAAR, Heriot-Watt University

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome A 5-day series of lectures and computing practical exercises to help early career plasma physicists and spectroscopists develop an understanding of the techniques used to model and simulate radiative processes in plasmas. The properties of laboratory, industrial and astrophysical plasmas are determined by numerous atomic and molecular processes occurring under a wide range of physical conditions, generally far from equilibrium. The use of spectroscopic measurement in plasmas has been demonstrated to provide a powerful diagnostic technique, giving information on properties such as temperature, density, local plasma fields, electron energy distribution and so on, which is hard to obtain accurately by other means. The purpose of this School is to provide training for plasma physicists, plasma spectroscopists and astrophysicists for fusion and other applications by bringing together experts in experimental and theoretical plasma spectroscopy within the unique atmosphere and facilities of the ICTP. There is a particular focus on knowledge-transfer between researchers from developed and developing countries. TOPICS: Experimental plasma spectroscopy Atomic structure and radiation Collisional physics in plasmas Spectral line broadening Line intensities and collisional-radiative modelling Astrophysical spectroscopy Plasma opacity and radiative transfer Spectroscopy of magnetic confinement fusion plasmas Spectroscopy of laser-produced plasmas Molecular structure and spectroscopy SPEAKERS: S. BREZINSEK, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany H.-K. CHUNG, GIST, Republic of Korea E. CHURAZOV, Max-Planck Insitute for Astrophysics, Germany S. FERRI, Aix-Marseille Université, France C. FONTES, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA K. HEINOLA, International Atomic Energy Agency C. HILL, International Atomic Energy Agency Y. RALCHENKO, NIST, USA S. VINKO, University of Oxford, UK GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. For additional information, please visit: https://www-amdis.org/workshops/ictp-2019 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

6 May 2019 - 10 May 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA School on Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy in Plasmas | (smr 3275)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

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

Organizer(s): Yuri Ralchenko (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)), Christian Hill (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)), Hyun-Kyung Chung (National Fusion Research Institute), Kalle Heinola (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)), Local Organiser: George Thompson

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

**DEADLINE: 14/01/2019**

Europe/Rome The study of nonlinear systems continues to yield new and fascinating phenomena. Recently, a striking development has emerged in complex systems research: bringing together concepts from statistical and nonlinear physics allowed for the prediction and discovery of a novel effect, called the chimera state. Chimera states are a nice example of unexpected, counterintuitive dynamics where the interplay of synchronization, long-range interactions and pattern formation mechanisms are essential. The aim of the school is to review the progress in this field, where physics and applied mathematics strongly overlap with life sciences; find new interconnections and general analytic, numerical, and statistical approaches; and identify novel directions and cross-disciplinary applications. The targeted audience includes advanced undergraduate and PhD students, as well as post-doctoral fellows and junior researchers. Special attention will be devoted to the training of scientists from developing countries in line with the fundamental mission of the AS-ICTP. The workshop brings together a mix of world-leading experts in the field and young researchers to cover most important recent achievements in understanding of complex structures and the nature of synchrony in nonequilibrium systems. TOPICS: Synchronization Patterns Networks Chimera states Spatio-temporal complexity Long-range interactions Multistability Active matter Nonlinear waves 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. DEADLINE: For applications needing financial support and/or visa: February 28, 2019 For applications not needing financial support and/or visa: March 15, 2019 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

6 May 2019 - 17 May 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

School and Workshop on Patterns of Synchrony: Chimera States and Beyond | (smr 3286)

Address: Via Beirut, 2 and Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: ex SISSA Auditorium (first week) and Kastler Lecture Hall (second week)

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

Organizer(s): Yuri Maistrenko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine), Sudeshna Sinha (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India), Arkady Pikovsky (Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany), Local Organiser: Rosario Fazio

**DEADLINE: 15/03/2019**

Europe/Rome The main objective of the workshop is to enhance the capability of young scientists from developing countries to analyze and document scientific issues concerning regional climate modeling and projections, allowing them to provide stronger input to international programs such as the IPCC. As part of the CORDEX-CORE initiative, a set of regional climate change projections for continental regions worldwide are being completed with different RCMs, including the ICTP RegCM. These will be the basis for input into the upcoming IPCC report, which is based on published scientific articles. It is important that developing country scientists are directly involved in this process, and this workshop will provide a forum to exchange ideas on the analysis of the CORDEX-CORE experiments, and to plan for a series of scientific publications. The workshop will also include a special event on 30 years of Regional Climate Modeling. Specific topics include: Processes of regional climate change  Key issues in regional climate modeling (e.g. added value)  Distillation of robust information from ensembles of experiments  Uncertainty analysis  Tools for analysis of model output  Approaches to writing effective scientific paper ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

6 May 2019 - 10 May 2019

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

Paper-writing Workshop on the Analysis of CORDEX-CORE Climate Projections | (smr 3282)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Xuejie Gao (IAP, China), Tereza Cavazos (CICESE, Mexico), Erika Coppola (ICTP), Local Organiser: Filippo Giorgi

Europe/Rome The School aims at bringing together new ideas, novel results, problems and prospects of modern condensed matter physics with special focus on quantum technologies. The latter is new and advanced area of physics and engineering, based on the use some of the phenomena in quantum mechanics, such as quantum entanglement, quantum superposition and quantum tunneling and interference eﬀects for practical applications such as quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum cryptography, high precision quantum metrology and quantum imaging. This will be done by presenting series of lectures for the broad auditorium of young researchers (e.g. Master and PhD students, young postdocs and research associates), as well as senior scientists from developing countries working on diﬀerent areas of condensed matter physics, material science, and statistical and chemical physics. Invited lecturers will be world-wide well-known experts on the above topics. The lectures to be presented will be focused on most advanced topics of condensed matter physics which are relevant to novel materials for energy conversion, quantum information and medical applications. The goal of the lectures will be twofold, educational and expert-level discussions of novel results. The latter will be done both during the panel lectures and informal seminars. Topics: • Graphene, two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures; • Majorana fermions; • Topological insulators; • Quantum hall effect; • Novel superconducting materials; • Quantum entanglement and quantum computing; • Quantum networks and their applications; • Quantum optics and cold atoms; • Quantum metrology Invited speakers: A. Akhmerov (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) G. Casati (University of Insubria, Italy) A.H. Castro Neto (National University of Singapore) R. Fazio (The Abdus Salam ICTP, Italy) K. Flensberg (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark) Y. Gefen (Weizmann Institute, Israel) A. Geim (The University of Manchester, U.K.) L. Glazman (Yale University, U.S.A.) M. Katsnelson (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) A.H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin) C. Marcus (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) T. Martin (Aix-Marseille University, France) L. Molenkamp (University of Wurzburg, Germany) F. Von Oppen (Free University of Berlin, Germany) Y. Oreg (Weizmann Institute, Israel) F. Peeters (University of Antwerp, Belgium) S. Sachdev (Harvard University, U.S.A.) A. Stern (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Further information may be obtained from the poster and at http://acmp2019.las.uz/ Deadline: 1st February 2019 Samarkand - Uzbekistan ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

7 May 2019 - 15 May 2019

@ Samarkand - Uzbekistan

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

School on Advances in Condensed Matter Physics: New Trends and Materials in Quantum Technologies | (smr 3287)

Secretary: Milena Poropat

Organizer(s): Vladimir Falko (NGI, the University of Manchester), Davron Matrasulov (Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent), ICTP Scientific Contact: Mikhail Kiselev

Cosponsor(s): Physical Society of Uzbekistanjami, Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkenttpu1, Samarkand State Universityssu

Support E-Mail: smr3287@ictp.it

Europe/Rome In my talk I will give a review on the logarithmic terms that appear in the entanglement entropy, their relation to conformal anomaly and the geometry of the entangling surfaces. I will discuss how the presence of boundaries may effect these terms. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

7 May 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Logarithmic Terms in Entanglement Entropy: Black Holes, Anomalies and Boundaries

Speaker(s): M. Sergey SOLODUKHIN (Université de Tours, France)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome The dynamics of pedestrian crowds share deep connections with the statistical physics of active matter. Pedestrians move following own will and objectives: this amounts in huge variability in the motion, observable even in diluted conditions. Despite such individual unpredictability, ensemble-level universal physical features emerge and encompass common and rare fluctuations of both the solo and the interacting dynamics. Reaching a quantitative understanding of these features is a major scientific challenge with deep societal impact, e.g. in the design of civil infrastructures or of crowd management measures. We investigate from observational experiments held in real-life settings (stations, festivals, museums) and in diluted conditions statistical features of pedestrian motion. We leverage on datasets including millions of trajectories acquired with and without external influencing stimuli (i.e., crowd control measures, like signage or visual cues), via home-made high-fidelity tracking systems. On this basis, we quantify the PDFs of individual velocity, position, body rotation and mutual-contact-avoidance "social" forces - possibly in dependence on stimuli. We propose an active-Brownian particle model of the dynamics based on Langevin-like equations statistically quantitative. This work is in collaboration with: J. Meeusen, C. Lee, A. Muntean, R. Benzi, F. Toschi Common Area ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

7 May 2019

@ Common Area

Quantitative Life Sciences

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

IFPU Colloquia: Could Dark Matter be made of Quarks?

Room: Leonardo Building - Lecture Room B

Speaker(s): Glennys FARRAR (NYU University)

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Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: Motivated by mirror symmetry considerations (the deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills equation due to Jacob-Yau) and a desire to study stability conditions involving higher Chern forms, a vector bundle version of the usual complex Monge-Ampere equation (studied by Calabi, Yau, Aubin, etc) will be discussed. I shall also discuss a Kobayashi-Hitchin type correspondence for a special case (a dimensional reduction to Riemann surfaces). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 May 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Speaker(s): Kunihiko Kaneko - Universal Biology Institute, University of Tokyo

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome Universal Dynamics near Non-Thermal Fixed Points and Quantum Turbulence Abstract: Quenched or continuously driven quantum systems can show universal dynamics near non-thermal fixed points, generically in the form of scaling behaviour in space and time. Key aspects of the theory of non-thermal fixed points will be briefly summarized [1,2], as well as recent experimental results for quenched systems [3,4]. In a dilute Bose gas, universal scaling dynamics can be due to both, linear and non-linear excitations of the system. Considering scaling transport of excitations to larger wave numbers similar to an inverse cascade, the underlying excitations can be either irregular phase excitations or (quasi) topological defects exhibiting the implications for quantum turbulence. As an example, strongly anomalous scaling of inverse transport in a two-dimensional superfluid due to higher-order vortex annihilation will be discussed both, from the theoretical [5] and experimental point of view. References: [1] C.-M. Schmied, A. N. Mikheev, T. Gasenzer, Non-thermal fixed points: Universal dynamics far from equilibrium, arXiv:1810.08143 [cond-mat.quant-gas] [2] A. N. Mikheev, C.-M. Schmied, T. Gasenzer, Low-energy effective theory of non- thermal fixed points in a multicomponent Bose gas, arXiv:1807.10228 [cond-mat.quant-gas] [3] M. Prüfer, P. Kunkel, H. Strobel, S. Lannig, D. Linnemann, C.-M. Schmied, J. Berges, T. Gasenzer, M.K. Oberthaler, Observation of universal dynamics in a spinor Bose gas far from equilibrium, Nature 563, 217 (2018). [4] S. Erne, R. Bücker, T. Gasenzer, J. Berges and J. Schmiedmayer, Universal dynamics in an isolated one-dimensional Bose gas far from equilibrium, Nature 563, 225 (2018). [5] M. Karl and T. Gasenzer, Strongly anomalous non-thermal fixed point in a quenched two-dimensional Bose gas, New J. Phys. 19, 093014 (2017). SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

14 May 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Universal Dynamics near Non-Thermal Fixed Points and Quantum Turbulence

Speaker(s): T. GASENZER (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome I will introduce monomer-dimer models, an example of Statistical Mechanics models on graphs characterized by hard-core interaction. A great contribution in this field was given by Heilmann and Lieb, who proved the absence of phase transitions under very general hypothesis. In the second part of the talk I will focus on monomer-dimer models on sparse random graphs, which can be solved exactly by means of a cavity method and rigorously thanks to a family of correlation inequalites. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

14 May 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Monomer-dimer models on random graphs

Address: Via Beirut, 2

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

Speaker(s): Diego Alberici - Università di Bologna

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Seminar

14 May 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On the distribution of Hecke eigenvalues for Hilbert modular forms

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Roberto MIATELLO, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome HOW TO PARTICIPATE IF YOU REQUIRE A VISA AND/OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT If you require a visa to travel to Italy, please click on the “Apply here” link on the menu to your left. A limited number of grants are available to support selected participants from developing countries. Deadline for applying is 17 March 2019. IF YOU ARE NOT REQUESTING FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND DO NOT NEED A VISA Please register using the following link: https://www.tinyurl.com/idl2019conference General travel advice for visiting ICTP can be found here: https://www.ictp.it/visit-ictp.aspx Local hotel information is available at: https://www.ictp.it/visit-ictp/accommodation/hotels.aspx Deadline for registration is 10 May 2019. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The Illuminating Education conference is the Flagship Celebration of the International Day of Light 2019 held at the UNESCO Category 1 Institute ICTP in Trieste on 16 May 2019. Presentations will cover a wide range of topics, from inspiring science to practical career advice. The conference keynote speaker is ICTP Distinguished Lecturer Sir Michael Berry from the University of Bristol who will speak on Optica Fantastica - Images to Illuminate the Physics of Light, a topic ideally suited to engage interest and promote science outreach to the public of all ages. Other presentations will see a wide range of leading international speakers discuss diverse subjects such as light and development, international collaborations, issues relating to light and science education in general, career development and more. Other confirmed speakers include: Amna Abdalla Mohammed Khalid (Next Einstein Forum), Brian Liebel (Illuminating Engineering Society), Cather Simpson (University of Auckland), Jess Wade (Imperial College London), and Rachel Won (Nature Photonics). Additional presentations will be given by representatives from the International Astronomical Union, UNESCO-ICTP, and a real highlight will be a Student Session where a number of students from the international networks of our partners EPS, IAPS, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE will discuss issues both of how they promote science outreach, and how they see their careers in science developing in the future. Other speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

16 May 2019

@ ICTP

UNESCO International Day of Light: Illuminating Education | (smr 3375)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Suzie Radosic

Organizer(s): John Dudley (Institut FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche-Comté-CNRS), Local Organiser: Joseph Niemela

Support E-Mail: smr3375@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 17/03/2019**

Workshop on Martingales in Finance and Physics

Address: Via Beirut 2

@ Moscow - Russian Federation

Earth System Physics

International Young Scientists School and Conference on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences: “CITES-2019” | (smr 3339)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Mikhail Tolstykh (Institute of Monitoring of INM RAS & Hydrometcentre of Russia), Evgeni Gordov (Institute of Monitoring of Climatic & Ecological Systems), Valentina Khan (Hydrometcentre of Russia & North Eurasia Climate Centre (NEACC, RCC, WMO)), Bill Merryfield (Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis), Doug Smith (The Met Office, U.K.), ICTP Scientific Contact: Adrian Tompkins

Cosponsor(s): World Climate Research Programmewcrp, INM RASinmras

Support E-Mail: smr3339@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 01/02/2019**

Europe/Rome The workshop will give an introduction to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) operations and the impact of the ionosphere on them. It will concentrate on forecasting ionosphere conditions with focus on Total Electron Content. Its relevance for developing countries will be highlighted. Ionosphere Weather forecast, that depends strongly on the ability to forecast Space Weather events that reach the Earth, is increasingly needed for radiocommunications, satellite navigation and positioning operations. This is becoming as relevant as it is weather forecast in meteorology. The state of the art in forecasting ionosphere conditions is far behind the level of accuracy reached by weather forecast in the troposphere. Part of this limit is that the coupling of the ionosphere with the lower regions of the atmosphere is not adequately known, particularly in low latitudes where most of the developing countries are located. TOPICS: Introduction to GNSS operations  Ionospheric impact on GNSS operation  Ionospheric weather: coupling of the ionosphere from above and below Ionosphere forecast: findings and challenges Computer Laboratory Work (data analysis of different ionosphere scenarios) GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 May 2019 - 31 May 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Workshop on Ionospheric Forecasting for GNSS Operations in Developing Countries: Findings and Challenges | (smr 3296)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

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

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

Cosponsor(s): Boston Collegebcl, International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systemsicg2, The Institute of Navigationion, The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg4, National Aeronautics and Space Administrationnasa, European Space Agencyesa, Centre for Atmospheric Research, National Space Research and Development Agencycarnasrda

**DEADLINE: 15/02/2019**

Europe/Rome The Workshop is addressed to researchers from developing regions working on hydro-climate modelling with the aim to foster international research and educational projects on topics related to climate and hydrology, and will be a contribution to the G-WADI programme within the framework of UNESCO IHP VIII (2014-2021), Water Security: Responses to Local Regional and Global Challenges. Description: GEWEX is the lead project for WCRP’s Grand Challenge on Water Availability, which focuses on how fresh water availability will shift due to climate change in many food producing regions of the world. Fresh water availability can vary over in time due to reductions or increases in precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, ground water recharge or discharge, and snow melt. Climate extremes are one factor that can influence the intensity of precipitation in time, the snow melt timing and the exchange of water with land and, therefore, the storage of a region. All these make it imperative to better understand and predict precipitation variability and change. To this aim, the climate model community and, in particular, the regional climate community from one end is moving toward very high resolution simulation ensemble efforts down to the scale of the convection permitting resolution (1-3 km); and from the other end is working to implement fully coupled Earth System models to be able to understand the role of coupled water cycle and land atmosphere interactions in understanding local climate response. This will open new frontiers for the hydrological modeling community by bridging the spatial scale gap between regional climate models and impact models (hydrological models, ecosystem models, etc.); which will, in turn, affect the quality of the prediction of the hydrological cycle across several scales, from catchments to regional to global. Topics: • Precipitation measurements: what we can use to validate precipitation coming from the model output? • Ensemble of high resolution regional climate model outputs: how can those be used as input of a hydrological model? • Regional Earth System models: which is the role of the coupled water cycle? • Uncertainty in global and regional climate projections: how can this uncertainty be taken into account for hydro-climate simulation? ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 May 2019 - 7 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

Fifth Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Hydroclimate Modeling and Analysis Tools | (smr 3294)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Soroosh Sorooshian (University of California, Irvine, USA), Marco Verdecchia (University of L'Aquila, Italy), Local Organisers: Erika Coppola, Fabio di Sante

Cosponsor(s): The International Hydrological Programmeihp, International Center for Integrated Water Resources Managementiciwarm, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg4, The Centre of Hydrometeorolgy and Remote Sensingchrs

Europe/Rome The first week of this activity (May 27-31) will consist of introductory lectures aimed at graduate students, postdocs, and junior researchers. Topics include – far from equilibrium physics, many-body coherent dynamics, Anderson and many-body localization, and quantum information processing from many-body physics perspective. In the second week (June 3-7), we will have conference-style talks on these subjects as well as on a broader array of topics at the forefront of modern research in condensed matter physics and related areas. Additional subjects include quantum gases, superconductivity and superconducting qubits, topological states of matter, integrable systems, low-dimensional physics, disordered systems, quantum thermodynamics, driven and driven-dissipative dynamics etc. Further information is available on poster below. NEW DEADLINE for applicants not requesting financial support: 17th March 2019 Yerevan - Armenia ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

27 May 2019 - 7 Jun 2019

@ Yerevan - Armenia

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

School and Conference on Complex Quantum Systems out of Equilibrium in Many-Body Physics and Beyond | (smr 3295)

Address: Yerevan State University

Secretary: Milena Poropat

Organizer(s): Boris Altshuler (Columbia University), Rosario Fazio (ICTP), Vladimir Gasparyan (California State University Bakersfield), Igor Lerner (University of Birmingham), Emil Yuzbashyan (Rutgers University), ICTP Scientific Contact: Rosario Fazio, Local Organizers: N. Ananikian (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia), A. Allahverdyan, L. Ananikyan, ZH. Gevorkian, N. Izmailyan, A. Nersessian, V. Ohanyan, A. Piloyan

Cosponsor(s): Armenian National Science and Educational Fundansef, Volkswagenstiftungvws, Scientific Committee of Armeniascra,Entropy - Open Access Journalmdpi

Support E-Mail: smr3295@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 17/03/2019**

Europe/Rome Abstract: The Sato-Tate conjecture, originally stated for elliptic curves without complex multiplication, predicts the equidistribution of the normalized Frobenius traces with respect to the Sato-Tate measure, given by the pushforward of the Haar measure on SU(2). We would like to work on an analogous question for abelian varieties of dimension g > 1; the generalized Sato-Tate conjecture, introduced by Serre, which predicts the equidistribution on a certain compact Lie group: the Sato-Tate group. In 1966, Serre presented remarkable links between the Mumford-Tate group and the Sato-Tate group. Thus, the algebraic Sato-Tate group appears as an intermediate group between the Mumford-Tate group and the Sato-Tate group. Indeed, if the algebraic Sato-Tate conjecture holds for some particular abelian variety A of dimension g > 1, we can obtain the Sato-Tate group and try to deduce some new instances of the generalized Sato-Tate conjecture. The main goal of this talk is to present new results in the direction of the algebraic Sato-Tate conjecture, building on the previous work of Serre, Kedlaya and Banaszak. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 May 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On an algebraic Sato-Tate conjecture for abelian varieties

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Victoria CANTORAL-FARFAN, ICTP

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome We discuss in detail the effects of Landau quantization on the quantum dynamics and statistical thermodynamics of Dirac-like materials in a high magnetic field. This discussion addresses the Group VI Dichalcogenides and Graphene in particular, but it also extends to the "Diced Lattice" as well as Silicene and Topological Insulators, etc. We also treat the role of nanostructures in Dirac-like materials, including quantum dots, quantum wires and a lattice of anti-dots. Starting with the derivation of the Landau-quantized "relativistic" Green's function for Dirac-like materials in position and momentum representations, as well as in eigenfunction representation, the associated energy spectrum in a high magnetic field is discussed. Furthermore, we develop the Green's functions for a model quantum dot in Graphene and a model quantum wire in the Group VI Dichalcogenides, examining their Landau quantized spectra as well. We also treat the case of a periodic lattice of anti-dots in the Dichalcogenides, tracing in detail the development of Landau minibands, with an explicit derivation of the Green's function for "relativistic" carriers in the lattice in a high magnetic field. In addition to the above-cited quantum dynamical stndies of "Dirac-like" materials (and spectra) in a high magnetic field we have also examined their statistical thermodynamics, developing the associated thermodynamic Green's function and spectral weight matrix subject to Landau quantization. With this we have determined the Helmholtz Free Energy, the Grand Partition Function as well as the ordinary Partition Function and the Entropy for the Dichalcogenides and the Diced Lattice in a high magnetic field explicitly; and have employed these to evaluate the magnetization of the "Dirac-like" materials in both degenerate and non degenerate statistical regimes, replete with de Haas-van Alphen oscillatory phenomenology (in the degenerate case). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 May 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Condensed Matter Seminar: Quantum Dynamics and Statistical Thermodynamics of Nanostructured Dirac-like Materials in a High Magnetic Field

Room: Adriatico Guest House - Lundqvist Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Norman J.M. HORING (Dept. of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ, U.S.A)

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome Abstract. Vector fields are insensitive to the rapid expansion of the primordial inflating universe due to their conformal coupling. However, they may couple to other light fields that are sensitive to the expansion and experience huge gravitational particle production, such as the complex scalar. In that case the vector field can develop large electric and magnetic field fluctuations induced by the gravitationaly enhanced charge fluctuations. I will present a computation of the one-loop corrections to the electric and magnetic field correlators of SQED in power-law inflation. One-loop corrections dwarf the tree-level result, and the slow-roll corrections very soon become large. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 May 2019

@ ICTP

Cosmology

Charge fluctuations of scalar electrodynamics in power-law inflation

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Drazen GLAVAN (Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: Double affine Hecke algebra (DAHA) is closely related to the algebra of line operators in 4d N=2* theory. In this talk, I will show how to use the A-model to the Coulomb branch of this theory to gain insight into the representation category of DAHA. PLEASE NOTE: Those wishing to attend can meet at the ICTP's bar 5 minutes before to enter with those who have an access card. IGAP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 May 2019

@ IGAP

Mathematics

Brane Quantization and Representations of DAHA

Room: Seminar room (old Sissa Building)

Speaker(s): DU PEI, QGM-Caltech

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract. In this talk, I will discuss AdS3xS3xM4 backgrounds with pure NS-NS flux for M4=T4, K3 or S3xS1. I will show that the background with the lowest amount of NS-NS flux (`k=1') is dual to the large N limit of the symmetric product orbifold of M4. Showing this requires a description of string theory on AdS3xS3xM4 at k=1, where the standard RNS formalism breaks down. I will explain how the worldsheet theory can be consistently defined for k=1 by employing the hybrid formalism. The representation theory on the worldsheet for k=1 becomes far more restrictive than in the generic case, in particular all short string solutions and the continuum of long strings disappear, only the lowest energy long string solution is still allowed. I will also discuss the generalisation of the duality to higher flux, where the dual CFT can be described in terms of a Liouville theory. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 May 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

The Worldsheet Dual of the Symmetric Product CFT

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Lorenz EBERHARDT (ETH, Zurich)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome MOST OF KEY LECTURERS' SLIDES ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE. FINAL PROGRAMME IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD (see link at foot or click here) - - - Energy and environmental issues are particularly challenging for the developing countries in general, both politically and economically. This may be due to the technological, cultural, and awareness gaps that exist in the general public in those countries with respect to the most developed countries. The impact of these gaps is mainly seen in the policies regarding global warming, the use of solar, wind, and hydrogen sources of energy, as well as the development of efficient energy storage technologies and capabilities. In 2012, the UN's SE4ALL issued a report which argues that no sustainable development can occur without sustainable energy. The Global Action Agenda defined by SE4ALL will require a critical mass of highly trained individuals within developing nations. Currently, the three major areas of energy-related research are energy conversion, energy saving (including efficiency) and energy storage, all of which will require significant capacity building within developing countries. Strengthening the scientific and technological knowledge base in these areas represents a realistic approach to reduce the dependence on foreign imported skills and resources. We believe that the understanding of the fundamental processes that are experimentally observed within materials at different scales can guide a very much needed approach of materials-by-design to improve efficiency and costs in several environment-friendly technologies. The School in Cartagena (Colombia) will provide an initial overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments and an in-depth treatment of some advanced computational methodologies that are used to address the problem of materials for energy and environmental applications. A multiscale view of the materials modeling, with electronic structure methods at its base, is of paramount importance to guide and understand experimental results. Such a view is becoming the dominant framework of investigation in condensed matter physics, materials science, biology, and nanoscience. In particular, methods such as Density Functional Theory are based on the almost exact solution of the Schrödinger equation for the electrons and allow for the description of the mechanical, vibrational, electrical, magnetic, and several other properties of solids with "chemical accuracy," without any empirical input. This is a rapidly evolving field, which also offers people in developing countries the opportunity to carry out cutting-edge theoretical research with relatively low financial investments in equipment. Our ultimate goal is to bring young scientists from those countries up to speed by providing them with the most recent knowledge about experimental developments as well as fundamental concepts coming from electronic structure research. This activity offers also networking opportunities for participants to facilitate carrying out state of the art theoretical research on clean-energy materials, back in their home institutions. Among the topics covered, we find: - Computational multiscale techniques for the study of new materials - Latest experimental developments in clean energy - Structural, mechanical, optical, and transport properties of Surfaces and Interfaces - Energy generation and storage materials design - Catalysts and energy-saving materials Lecturers: P. Balbuena (TAMU) S. Baroni (SISSA Trieste) F. Giustino (Oxford) N. Marzari (EPFL) E. Menendez (U. Chile) C. R. Miranda (USP) S. E. Reyes-Lillo (UNAB, Chile) A. Samtsevych (Skolkovo Inst., Moscow) J. Seminario (TAMU) C. Wolverton (Northwestern U.) - - - Deadine for application: expired March 2019. ICTP Secretariat: smr3297@ictp.it Cartagena - Colombia ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

30 May 2019 - 5 Jun 2019

@ Cartagena - Colombia

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics , New Research Areas

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Portable X-Ray Spectrometry Techniques for Characterization of Valuable Archaeological/Art Objects | (smr 3298)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH) 3-7 June Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH) 10-14 June

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

Organizer(s): Roman Padilla Alvarez (IAEA), Marco Zennaro (ICTP), Local Organiser: Claudio Tuniz

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

**DEADLINE: 05/03/2019**

Europe/Rome 14:00 - 14:30 - Kyong Hui Kim (Kim Il Sung University) Option pricing in a generalized jump mixed fractional Brownian motion Abstract: I will present a new framework for pricing the European currency option in the case where the spot exchange rate follows a generalized mixed fractional Brownian motion with jumps (hereafter GJMFBM). To capture the behaviors of exchange rate, the combination of Poisson jumps and generalized mixed fractional Brownian motion is introduced. To derive the pricing formula for some options, we firstly derive a generalized mixed fractional Girsanov theorem and some results regarding the quasi-conditional expectation that we will need for the rest of the paper. Then analytic pricing formulas for European currency option and exchange option are obtained using the equivalent martingale measure. Finally, through some numerical experiments and discussion we show that the GJMFBM model is different with the other previous ones. 14:30 - 14:45 - Un Gyong Ri (Kim Il Sung University) Presentation of Kim Il Sung University, Pyongyang, DPR Korea, and its educational programs in Mathematics ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

4 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Mathematics Talks

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Kyong Hui Kim and Un Gyong Ri (Kim Il Sung University)

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome In two seminal papers [1, 2] Onsager and Machlup introduced the celebrated theory of stochastic fluctuations for thermodynamic systems. Whereas their first contribution [1] proposes a variational principle that leads to a simple Langevin dynamics of first order in time, the second [2] extends this formalism to more complex systems that include inertia and memory effects via a second-order stochastic equation. I will present a higher-order generalization of the Onsager-Machlup theory and discuss its applications to equilibrium and nonequilibrium dynamics of currents. [1] L. Onsager and S. Machlup, Phys. Rev. 91, pp. 1505-12, 1953. [2] S. Machlup and L. Onsager, Phys. Rev. 91, pp. 1512-15, 1953. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

4 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Higher-order memory and inertia effects in Onsager-Machlup theory of stochastic fluctuations

Address: V. Beirut, 2

Room: Common Area, 2nd floor, SISSA building

Speaker(s): Roman Belousov, QLS

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Seminar

5 Jun 2019

@ Former SISSA Bldg.

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

IFPU Colloquia: The origin of supermassive black holes at the dawn of galaxy formation

Room: Lecture Room D

Speaker(s): Lucio MAYER (Zurich)

Seminar Start Time: 11:30

Europe/Rome Please note change of venue to Adriatico Guest House, Giambiagi Lecture Hall Abstract: Anomalous diffusion has been known since Richardson’s treatise on turbulent diffusion in 1926. Today the list of systems displaying anomalous dynamical behaviour is quite extensive and hosts, among others systems as charge carrier transport in amorphous semiconductors, collective slip diffusion on solid surface, transport in turbulent plasma and bacterial motion. In this talk I will focus on recent experimental observations of systems which exhibit a new anomalous behaviour with a linear growth of the mean square displacement, yet with a non-Gaussian distribution of increments. Based on the idea of diffusing diffusivitiy, I will illustrate a minimal model framework of diffusion processes with fluctuating diffusivity. In particular, I will demonstrate the equivalence of diffusing diffusivity processes with a superstatistical approach with a distribution of diffusivities, at times shorther than the diffusivity correlation time. At longer times, a crossover to a Gaussian distribution with an effective diffusivity emerges. Specifically, I will establish a subordination picture of Brownian yet not Gaussian diffusion processes, which can be used for a wide class of diffusivity fluctuation statistics. In the last part of the talk, I will show how a simple polymerization process provides a suitable set-up to bridge the diffusing diffusivity approach with a microscopic description. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

6 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

ICTP Seminar Series in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: Brownian Yet Not Gaussian Diffusion

Room: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Flavio SENO (Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome This school combines lectures and hands-on exercises in the use of open source modelling tools integrating climate, land-use, energy and water systems, electricity access and investment issues for model-informed policy formulation towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Geospatial data and software management: Introduction to the Spatial Data Infrastructure. Leading academics and researchers working in the field of model-informed development strategies provide three weeks of intensive training of government officials from countries participating in projects on analysis and modelling capacity development sponsored by UKAID, World Bank Group and other development organizations. Participants perfect their modelling and analysis skills about the operation and extension of their national models, incorporate and test new and evolving policy issues and contribute to the practice of evidence-based policy formulation regarding national sustainable development policies. The suite of OpTIMUS modelling tools includes the geospatial electricity access model OnSSET (OnSSET.org), the energy system and investment model OSeMOSYS (OSeMOSYS.org) and CLEWS - the integrated Climate, Land, Energy and Water System model (CLEWS.org). Topics: Climate variability and change Land use planning and change Energy systems Water resources Socioeconomic scenario modelling Integrated modelling for energy systems Geo-spatial modelling Medium to long term energy investment modelling Speakers: T. Alfstad, USA, UNDESA C. Rogate, USA, World Bank Group M. Howells, Sweden, KTH D. Konadu, UK, University of Cambridge D. Russo, Germany, IRENA T. Niet, Canada, BCIT E. Pereira Ramos, Sweden, KTH H. Rogner, Austria, OpTIMUS community and IIASA. A. Shivakumar, UK, OpTIMUS community V. Sridharan, Sweden, KTH U. Gankhuyag, New York, UNDP Participation in this activity is by invitation only and no general applications can be accepted for this event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

10 Jun 2019 - 28 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development - OpTIMUS | (smr 3299)

Address: I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Week 1 and 2: Giambiagi; Week 3: day 4 and 5 Budinich; Week 1, 2 and partial of 3 (from 10 to 26 June): Lundqvist

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

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

Cosponsor(s): A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICEoptimus1, The World Bank Groupwbank2, Energy Sector Management Assistance Programesmap, UK Aid Directukaid, United Nations Development Programmeundp1, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairsundesa1, United Nations Economic Commission for Africauneca, KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYkth1

Europe/Rome The goal of the school is to give a detailed overview of particle physics from the basics of Standard Model phenomenology to the most important areas where significant progress has been achieved recently. This year the school will cover both the energy and the intensity frontiers, including lectures on techniques for small scale experiments and on theoretical developments in high energy theory. TOPICS & LECTURERS: Standard Model and Flavor - Yuval Grossman (Cornell U.) Neutrino - André Luiz De Gouvêa (Northwestern U.) Collider Physics - Matthew Schwartz (Harvard U.) Beyond the Standard Model - Matthew Philip McCullough (CERN) Dark Matter - Tracy Slatyer (MIT) Formal Developments in HEP - Matthew Reece (Harvard U.) Fundamental Physics from The Precision Frontier - Robert Lasenby (Stanford U.) There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

10 Jun 2019 - 21 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Summer School on Particle Physics | (smr 3300)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

Organizer(s): Markus A. Luty (UC Davis), Andrea Romanino (SISSA), Géraldine Servant (DESY Hamburg), Local Organiser: Giovanni Villadoro

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

Support E-Mail: smr3300@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 15/03/2019**

Europe/Rome Sensors are an integral part of any instrumentation, mechanical assembly, automobile engineering, heavy engineering, drug-delivery vehicles, national surveillance gadgets or any electromagnetic application unit, such as antennas and communication electronics. A need for smart, adaptive, miniaturized, extremely sensitive, selective and rapid sensor is always on anvil. Nanomaterials are offering promising options to improve the conventional sensors and to develop advanced sensors which would be adaptive, faster, selective and more precise. Nanotechnology has been dominating applied research frontiers for more than a decade now. The research has an emphasis on exploring novel materials with exotic properties, which are attributed to their nano-size-regimes. Typically explored examples are metals, oxides and chalcogenides, in their pure and composite forms. Through this presentation a brief outline on the progress of science and technology, in the domain of sensors will be given. Frequency detections; low-field and frequency (electric and magnetic fields and ultra-low-frequency signals), high frequency (radio frequencies in Radar range) detections will be discussed. Biosensors being developed for disease diagnostics and smart drug delivery vehicles would be also elaborated in this presentation. Various approaches used in the investigators laboratory would be elaborated; namely, the optical fiber approach, metamaterial approach and conventional resistive approach. The relationships of the obtained properties would be associated with the physics and chemistry at nano-level and their energy dynamics for sensing a particular physical parameter. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Nanotechnology-based advanced sensors for surveillance, stealth and healthcare

Address: Via Beirut 2

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

Speaker(s): Sangeeta Kale - Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, India

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome In this talk, structural features, thermal and hydration properties of the gold-fullerene nanocomposite investigated using molecular dynamics simulation technique will be presented. The gold-fullerene systems constituting alkane thiol capped gold nanoparticle and pristine fullerene in explicit water have been simulated and studied. The van der Waals interactions between the thiol capped gold nanoparticle and fullerene have facilitated the formation of gold-fullerene nanocomposite. The active terminal methyl (hydrophobic) and hydroxy (hydrophilic) groups have influenced the time of formation of self-assembly, stability, conformation and dynamics of the thiol chains, and specific heat capacity of the gold-fullerene nanocomposite. The variation observed in the structure, specific heat capacity and wetting behaviour of gold-fullerene nanocomposite with respect to the terminal functional groups suggests the possiblity of tuning the functions of gold-fullerene nanocomposite by changing the terminal functional groups. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Quantitative Life Sciences

Nanotechnology-based advanced sensors for surveillance, stealth and healthcare

Address: Via Beirut, 2

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

Speaker(s): Sangeeta Kale - Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, India

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: It has long been known that the distribution of the prime numbers is intimately connected to the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function. Much information can be obtained from the horizontal distribution of zeros, but finer information about primes seems to be connected to the vertical distribution of zeros. By studying the pair correlation of the normalized spacing between the zeros, Montgomery was lead to the conjecture that the statistics of vertical spacings should follow the GUE distribution from random matrix theory. I will survey some of the methods used to prove the existence of large and small gaps between zeros of the zeta function, highlighting the state-of-the-art and the limitations. I will also discuss some recent joint work (with Hung Bui and Dan Goldston) were we prove the existence of small gaps between distinct zeros of the zeta function, a result that previous methods seem incapable of establishing. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

12 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

The distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Micah MILINOVICH (Univ. of Mississippi - USA)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome In 1959 Mark Kac introduced a simple model for the evolution of a gas of hard spheres undergoing elastic collisions. The main simplification consisted in replacing deterministic collisions with random Poisson distributed collisions. It is possible to obtain many interesting results for this simplified dynamics, like estimates on the rate of convergence to equilibrium and validity of the Boltzmann equation. The price paid is that this system has no space structure. I will review some classical results on the Kac model and report on an attempt to reintroduce some form of space structure and non-equilibrium evolution in a way that preserve the mathematical tractability of the system. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

13 Jun 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: The Kac Model and (Non-)Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Room: Meeting room 201, 2nd floor, old SISSA building

Speaker(s): Ginestra Bianconi - School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University, London

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Hosted Activity

17 Jun 2019 - 21 Jun 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Advanced Summer School on Sustainable Blue Growth in the Mediterranean Region. | (smr H581)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): OGG, Dr. Mounir Ghribi,

Europe/Rome All lessons will be held in English at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito Campus Cumbaya http://www.usfq.edu.ec/Paginas/Inicio.aspx and Escuela Politécnica Nacional https://www.epn.edu.ec/ Topics: Optimal Control and Applications to Biology Fluid Mechanics Machine Learning Cancer Dynamics Description continued This activity serves as an opportunity to highlight current research topics and real-world applications in applied mathematics. Students exposed to the mini-courses will learn mathematical tools used to efficiently solve real world problems. Specifically, the intention is to highlight the applications of mathematics in other disciplines as well as in industry in an effort to illustrate mathematics as a useful and necessary tool as well as a lucrative career option. Courses aim to address both theoretical aspects as well as real world applications. The courses will be complemented by additional computer lab sessions where students will solve relevant problems and be given an opportunity to run simulations and learn computational skills. In addition, students will be provided with mentoring regarding jobs in industry as well as opportunities for advanced studies in mathematics. Lecturers include: M. S. Aronna, Escola de Matemática Aplicada (FGV), Brazil J. Bedrossian, University of Maryland, U.S.A. R. Cóbe, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil D. Levy, University of Maryland, U.S.A. Organizers: M. Audelo, ESPOCH M. Calahorrano, EPN, Ecuador M. G. Delgadino, Imperial College, U.K. D. C. Ramirez, USFQ, Ecuador L. D. Simonelli, ICTP, Italy G. Violini, Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Dominican Republic Local Organizer: C. Arezzo, ICTP, Trieste, Italy Quito - Ecuador ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

17 Jun 2019 - 28 Jun 2019

@ Quito - Ecuador

Mathematics

1st Latin American School in Applied Mathematics | (smr 3301)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Marco Calahorrano (EPN), Matias G. Delgadino (Imperial College), Dennis C. Ramirez (USFQ), Lucia Simonelli (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Claudio Arezzo

Cosponsor(s): Escuela Politecnica Nacionalepn, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Campus Cumbayausf

Support E-Mail: smr3301@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 24/03/2019** **DEADLINE: 24/03/2019**

Europe/Rome Antiferromagnetically interacting quantum spins on kagome lattice form a highly frustrated system. While the spin-1/2 kagome problem continues to be debated, it has been recently shown (by us and few others) that the spin-1 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet realises a spontaneously trimerized quantum paramagnetic ground state. We further look into the dynamics of this trimerization through a spin-1/2 model realised in a family of organic salts and first studied by Hida. In a certain strong coupling limit, the Hida model becomes the spin-1 kagome Heisenberg model, while in the opposite limit, it describes a system of weakly coupled antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 hexagons. We study the ground state of the Hida model from this weak to strong coupling limit, and systematically understand the trimerization as it occurs for the spin-1 kagome antiferromagnet. We also discuss its experimental signatures by calculating the spin structure factor. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

18 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Condensed Matter Seminar: Understanding Spin-1 Kagome Antiferromagnet through the Hida Model

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Brijesh KUMAR (School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome We present solutions of the Einstein equations that extend the static Schwarzschild solution in empty space into regions of non-zero energy density $\rho$ and radial pressure $p= w \rho$, where $w$ is a constant equation of state parameter. For simplicity we focus mainly on solutions with constant $\rho$. For $w=0$ we find solutions both with and without a singularity at the origin. Possible applications to galaxies are considered, where we find enhanced velocity rotation curves towards the edge of a galaxy. We propose that our explicit non-singular solution with $w=-1$ describes the interior of a black hole, which is a form of vacuum energy. We verify that its entropy is consistent with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, if one assumes the Hawking temperature. We further suggest that this idea can perhaps be applied to the dark energy of the observable universe, if one views the latter as arising from black holes as pockets of vacuum energy. We estimate the average density of such a dark energy to be $\rhobar_\Lambda \approx 10^{-30} g/{\rm cm}^3$. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

18 Jun 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: What is Inside a Black Hole

Speaker(s): Andre LECLAIR (Dept. of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: Maximal operators are central objects of study in harmonic analysis. The most classical example is the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator (in both its centered and uncentered form) but there are also other interesting ones, for instance the ones associated to a convolution with a smooth kernel. In this introductory talk we will introduce the sub-area of harmonic analysis that studies how the variation of a maximal function behaves with respect to the initial data. We will discuss the classical results in this topic (most of them dealing with the one dimensional case) and later we will talk about some recent results that deal with the higher dimensional case when restricted to radial data. Also we will show some analogues of these problems when the domain of the functions are non-trivial manifolds, in particular a recent result on the d-sphere. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

18 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

The variation of maximal functions on Euclidean spaces and spheres

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Cristian Gonzalez-Riquelme, IMPA

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome The school aims at introducing PhD students to the still outstanding problems in our understanding of the foundations of quantum mechanics. Afternoons will be dedicated to tutorials where more applied aspects of each theory will be presented and discussed. Wednesday 19 June: Collapse Models (A. Bassi) - Measurement Problem - Non-linear modifications of the Schrödinger Equation - The Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Model - Amplification Mechanism - Density Matrix - Application of collapse models to optomechanics experiments Thursday 20 June: Bohmian Mechanics (D. Dürr) - Typicality - Coarse Graining and Typicality Measure - Typicality in the Continuum - Bohmian Mechanics - Typicality Analysis and Born’s statistical interpretation - Heisenberg’suncertainty Friday 21 June: Shape Dynamics (N. Zanghì). - Shape Space - Metrics on Shape Space and best Matching - Classical Motion on Shape Space - Quantum Motion on Shape Space - Emergence of Absolute Space and Time Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

19 Jun 2019 - 21 Jun 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics School on quantum foundations dedicated to Prof. Giancarlo Ghirardi | (smr H580)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): Prof Angelo Bassi, Universtiy of Trieste, Luca Ferialdi, UNiversity of Trieste,

Europe/Rome There is a great interest in understanding the optimal features of the performance of finite-time thermal machines. Efficiency at maximum power and the coefficient of performance at maximum cooling power, are some of the useful criteria that are studied. Universal features of these quantities are observed in many different models, such as those based on endoreversibility assumption, low-dissipation assumption, stochastic heat engines, and even quasi-static models. We discuss a model of heat engine within the framework of linear irreversible thermodynamics. The model runs in a finite cycle time. We show that the model can be mapped to a low-dissipation model whereby the entropy generated in a heat-exchange step, is inversely proportional to the duration of the process. The optimal features of the efficiency will be discussed. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

19 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Efficiency of finite-time heat engines: from linear-irreversible to low-dissipation behavior

Address: Via Beirut, 2

Room: Central Area, 2nd floor, SISSA building

Speaker(s): Ramandeep S. Johal - Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: We introduce a length scale in the classical modeling of soap films as minimal surfaces by recovering Plateau’s problem as a singular limit of capillarity problems. The analysis of this approximation leads to some insights on soap films that are not accessible when working with minimal surfaces. This talk is based on joint works with Darren King (UT Austin), Antonello Scardicchio (ICTP) and Salvatore Stuvard (UT Austin). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

20 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Soap films and capillarity

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Francesco MAGGI (UT Austin)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome The workshop will cover novel methods developed to understand non-perturbative phenomena in quantum field theory and quantum gravity, in the non-supersymmetric realm. This includes the formulation of non-perturbative dualities in QFT and their application in condensed matter systems; the study of symmetries and their anomalies, including the most modern incarnations, in diverse dimensions; the analysis of aspects of the swampland, through the application of string theory to phenomenological and cosmological problems; the investigation of quantum information theoretic methods and their interplay with QFT concepts like causality, entanglement entropy, and so forth. There will be ample time left for discussion and the initiation of new collaborations. In parallel, the School will pedagogically introduce some of the fundamental subjects that are useful in the exploration of non-perturbative phenomena in non-supersymmetric quantum field theories and quantum gravities. The School will be integrated with the Workshop in a novel way: there will be school lectures in the mornings, and a light load of workshop talks in the afternoons. TOPICS: Non-supersymmetric dualities Generalized symmetries and anomalies Swampland conjectures in quantum gravity Quantum information and causality in QFT There is no registration fee for this activity. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Jun 2019 - 5 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

New Pathways in Explorations of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity Beyond Supersymmetry | (smr 3340)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Nadia van Buuren

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

Cosponsor(s): Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)infn, Scientific Independence of young Researchers (MIUR-SIR)sir2, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)sissa

Support E-Mail: smr3340@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 02/06/2019**

Europe/Rome The course programme covers scientific topics of direct relevance to the physical, chemical and radiological phenomena occurring during the progression of severe accidents in WCRs, including an overview of past events and the advanced technologies designed to cope with such events. The course will build a complete understanding of the science underpinning the complex phenomena associated with the progression of severe accidents in WCRs and their consequences. Knowledge transfer will be facilitated between the international expert lecturers and the young nuclear professional and engineer participants through discussions and hands-on learning, with the goal to gain a comprehensive understanding of the physical, chemical and radiological phenomena specific to severe accidents in WCRs. Relevant nuclear safety principles and recent advancements in scientific methods, approaches and simulation tools to assess the interrelated scientific phenomena during in-vessel and ex-vessel phases of severe accident progression, and the role of technologies required to prevent progression of, and mitigate consequences from, such accidents in WCRs are presented. As part of the application, participants should submit a 2-page original essay, covering two of the course topics of their choice from Phenomenology of Scientific Phenomena in Propagation of Severe Accidents. Topics: Introduction Physics of Water Cooled Power Reactors; Nuclear Safety, Defence in Depth and Design Basis Accidents in Water Cooled Power Reactors; Progression of Fukushima Daiichi Accident and its Consequences. Phenomenology in Severe Accident Progression Nuclear Fuel Degradation and Relocation; In-Vessel Melt Retention; Reactor Vessel Failure Mechanisms; Ex-Vessel Corium Cooling; Containment Failure Mechanisms; Physics and Chemistry of Fission Products; Hydrogen Generation, Transport and Explosion. Challenges in Severe Accident Consequence Mitigation Level of Knowledge and Uncertainties in Severe Accident Phenomena; Numerical Simulations of Severe Accident Phenomena; Technologies for core and containment protection; Emergency Response during, and Remediation after, Severe Accidents. Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Jun 2019 - 28 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA 2nd Course on Scientific Novelties in the Phenomenology of Severe Accidents in Water Cooled Reactors | (smr 3303)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

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

Organizer(s): Alexei Miassoedov (IAEA, NENP/NPTDS), Simone Massara (IAEA, NSNI/SAS), Local Organiser: Nicola Seriani

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

**DEADLINE: 10/04/2019**

Europe/Rome To achieve the overarching goal of efficient nanoscale heat management, synergistic multidisciplinary collaborations are required, bridging statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, molecular modeling, materials science, mechanical engineering, nanodevice fabrication and experiments. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers with these different backgrounds to discuss the most recent developments in the field of nanophononics. TOPICS: Heat transport in nonlinear systems Phononic devices Thermal radiation: rectification and amplification Heat conduction and phase change systems Thermal cloaking at the nanoscale SPEAKERS: S. BARONI, SISSA, Trieste, Italy O. BOURGEOIS, Institut Néel, Grenoble, France G. CASATI, University of Insubria, Como, Italy C.-W. CHANG, National Taiwan University K. ESFARJANI, University of Virginia, U.S.A. Z. FAN, Aalto University, Finland V. GIORDANO, Univ. Lyon, France S. LEPRI, CNR, Italy S. MERABIA, ILM Lyon, France M. NOMURA, University of Tokyo, Japan J. ORDONEZ-MIRANDA, CNRS, France L. F. PEREIRA, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil R. RURALI, Materials Science Institute, Barcelona, Spain K. SAITO, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan L. SHI, University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A. S. VOLZ, CNRS – University of Tokyo, Japan C. SEVIK, Eskisehir Technical University, Turkey M. SIMONCELLI, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland C. SOTOMAYOR TORRES, ICN2, Barcelona, Spain E. WEIG, University of Constance, Germany I. ZARDO, Univ. Basel, Switzerland GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Jun 2019 - 28 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Conference on Nanophononics, Bridging Statistical Physics, Molecular Modeling and Experiments | (smr 3302)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

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

Organizer(s): Seyed Mehdi Vaez Allaei (University of Tehran, Iran), Davide Donadio (University of California Davis, USA), Giuliano Benenti (University of Insubria, Como, Italy), Local Organiser: Mikhail Kiselev

**DEADLINE: 25/03/2019**

Europe/Rome For more information, please visit the following website: https://eaifr.ictp.it/events/2019-04-08-2nd-east-african-workshop-on-the-internet-of-things/ Kigali - Rwanda ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

24 Jun 2019 - 28 Jun 2019

@ Kigali - Rwanda

New Research Areas

2nd East-African Workshop on the Internet of Things | (smr 3279)

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

Organizer(s): Tim Brown (CMU), Omololu Akin-Ojo (ICTP-EAIFR), Santhi Kumaran (University of Rwanda), ICTP Scientific Contact: Marco Zennaro

**DEADLINE: 05/05/2019**

Europe/Rome We propose a microscopic magneto-electric model in which the coupling between spins and electric dipoles is mediated by lattice distortions. The magnetic sector is described by a spin S=1/2 Heisenberg model coupled directly to the lattice via a standard spin-Peierls term and indirectly to the electric dipole variables via the distortion of the surrounding electronic clouds. Electric dipoles are described by Ising variables for simplicity, as tunneling quantum effects do not substantially modify the results. We show that the effective magneto-electric coupling which arises due the interconnecting lattice deformations is quite effcient in one-dimensional systems. More precisely, we show using bosonization and extensive DMRG numerical simulations that increasing the magnetic field above the spin Peierls gap, a massive polarization switch-off occurs due to the proliferation of soliton pairs. We also analyze the effect of an external electric field E when the magnetic system is in a gapped (plateau) phase and show that the magnetization can be electrically switched between clearly distint values. We compare these findings with similar effects that have been recently observed in different materials. More general quasi-one-dimensional models and two-dimensional systems are also discussed. We finally propose a possible device (MERAM) based on materials with the behavior described by the present model. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

25 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Condensed Matter Seminar: Magneto-Electric Coupling through Lattice Distortions

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Daniel CABRA (UNLP, Dept. Fisica, La Plata, Argentina)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome I will address the emergence of cooperative effects in driven-dissipative many-body quantum systems out of equilibrium, such as superradiant light emission, spin squeezing, phase transitions, and dark states [1-2]. The use of permutational symmetry allows one to efficiently solve the Lindblad dynamics with an exponential reduction in computational resources even accounting for local homogeneous dissipation channels [2]. Using the formalism of Dicke states, it is also possible to extend the study of the driven-dissipative dynamics also to the so-called “ultrastrong” coupling regime of light-matter interaction [2,3]. We crafted a tool in the form of an open-source software, the permutational invariant quantum solver (PIQS) and integrated it in the Quantum Toolbox in Python, QuTiP (www.qutip.org) [4], making it available to the research community for future investigations [5]. [1] Nathan Shammah, Neill Lambert, Franco Nori, and Simone De Liberato, Superradiance with local phase-breaking effects, Phys. Rev. A 96, 023863 (2017). https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07066 [2] Nathan Shammah, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Neill Lambert, Simone De Liberato, and Franco Nori, Open quantum systems with local and collective incoherent processes: Efficient numerical simulation using permutational invariance, Phys. Rev. A 98, 063815 (2018). https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05129 [3] Mauro Cirio, Nathan Shammah, Neill Lambert, Simone De Liberato, and Franco Nori, Multielectron ground state electroluminescence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190403 (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08682 [4] J. Robert Johansson, Paul D. Nation, and Franco Nori, QuTiP: An open-source Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems, Comp. Phys. Comm. 183, 1760 (2012); QuTiP 2: A Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems, ibid. 184, 1234 (2013). [5] Nathan Shammah and Shahnawaz Ahmed, The rise of open source in quantum physics research, http://blogs.nature.com/onyourwavelength/2019/01/09/the-rise-of-open-source-in-quantum-physics-research/ Biography Dr. Nathan Shammah is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory at RIKEN, Wako, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Southampton, U.K., with a thesis on light emission phenomena in solid state systems with flat electronic bands. He is a contributor to QuTiP and is interested in the physics of driven-dissipative many-body quantum systems. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

25 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Condensed Matter Seminar: Collective and Local Effects in the Driven-Dissipative Dynamics of Many-Body Quantum Systems

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Nathan SHAMMAH (RIKEN, Saitama, Japan)

Seminar Start Time: 11:40

Seminar

25 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Cosmology

Time-sliced perturbation theory with primordial non-Gaussianity and effects of large bulk flows on inflationary oscillating features

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Sergey SIBIRYAKOV (CERN)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Cells sense and respond to topographical, chemical, and mechanical characteristics of their substrate. Engineered substrates are increasingly being developed that exploit these physical attributes to direct cell responses and therefore control cell behavior toward desired applications. There are very few methods available for robust and accurate modeling that can predict cell deformations and force propagations along the cell media. Here, we developed a unifying computational framework to create a multi-component cell model to predict cell behavior. The model which we call it “virtual cell model” has the capability to predict changes in whole cell and its nucleus characteristics [1]. The changes in shape and elongation of the membranes, force distribution, and chromatin contact map are predicted on a range of substrates. Modeling data are correlated with cell culture experimental outcomes in order to confirm the applicability of the model and demonstrating the ability to reflect the qualitative behavior of mesenchymal stem cells [1,2]. Here we show controlled cell migration is possible just by proper design of the substrate. References: [1] ACS Nano, 2017, 11 (9), pp 9084–9092, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03732 [2] Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 1707378, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201707378 ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Jun 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Mechanical response of cells to substrate topography

Address: Via Beirut 2

Room: Central Area, 2nd floor, SISSA building

Speaker(s): Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi - Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: Nested Hilbert schemes of points and curves on smooth projective surfaces carry interesting quantities for both geometry and physics. Their virtual fundamental classes have been shown to recover both the virtual classes of SW and reduced stable pair theories, while their obstruction theories can be used to obtain information about VW and reduced DT invariants. We show that the effective SUSY theory of a certain surface defect gives rise to a quiver GLSM which, in a particular case, models punctual nested Hilbert schemes on the complex plane. We will show how the partition function of such a theory naturally computes certain virtual invariants of these moduli spaces and how these results relate to a conjecture of Hausel, Letellier and Rodriguez-Villegas about the cohomology of character varieties. Former SISSA Building ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

28 Jun 2019

@ Former SISSA Building

Mathematics

Geometry and Physics seminar @ IGAP: Nested instantons and punctual nested Hilbert schemes

Address: via Beirut, II floor

Room: IGAP Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Nadir FASOLA (SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 10:00

Europe/Rome A growing number of researchers use algebraic geometry in industrial and applied mathematics: applications include biology, coding theory, cryptography, combustion, computational geometry, computer graphics, quantum computing, control theory, geometric design, complexity theory, machine learning, nonlinear PDE, optimization, and robotics. Algebraic Geometry of data clouds - density of cloud data - reach of a manifold and topological data analysis - classical theory of polar classes of a variety - the nearest points to a variety - the EDD degree of a manifold and its properties - the Bottleneck degree of varieties Biochemical reaction networks modeled by mass-action kinetics - basics on reaction networks with mass-action kinetics: biochemical notions, algebraic notions, dynamical notions   - steady state invariants and computational algebraic geometry   - networks with toric steady states   - counting the number of positive steady states and real solutions to polynomial  systems   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. Women are particularly encouraged to apply. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

1 Jul 2019 - 5 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Trieste Algebraic Geometry Summer School (TAGSS) 2019 - Algebraic Geometry towards Applications | (smr 3306)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

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

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

Cosponsor(s): European Mathematical Society (EMS)ems1, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)sissa3, Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca (MIUR)miur2, Politecnico di Torinodisma, Universita' degli Studi di Trieste - Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienzedmgts, Foundation Compositio Mathematicafcm

**DEADLINE: 03/03/2019**

Europe/Rome The school will focus on the organization of convection in the tropics and its possible implications for climate sensitivity. Some idealized convection permitting models show spontaneous clustering of convection can occur, drying the tropical atmosphere and increasing infrared emission to space. This effect could imply a strong negative feedback on the climate that may be missing or poorly represented in global climate models. However, there is open debate concerning the mechanisms involved, the implications for climate, the evidence in the observations, the role of shallow clouds and convection, the spatial scales of instability and the connection of this idealized aggregation to common examples of tropical organization such as the Madden Julian Oscillation or tropical cyclones. The event will consist of a one-week school, with some introductory lectures and the chance to work with observations and model output to address questions related to convective organization. In the second week, participants will benefit from open debate with over 20 of the world’s leading scientists in the field. Experts will work with student groups to summarize the debates in position papers, including results from the first week’s exercises. On Monday 8th July 2019 at 16:00 in the Budinich Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building a special event takes place; ICTP Colloquia Series: THREE HOT TOPICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE for details, see announcement poster and event link; http://indico.ictp.it/event/8950/ video under, link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4BgmS-WqJM School topics: • Models of radiative-convective equilibrium • Convective organization in high resolution models • Evidence for organization in observations • Implications for climate and climate sensitivity • Representation in global models and their parameterization schemes • Connection to MJO, hurricanes and other examples of convective organization Invited speakers include: Biasutti, Michela, IRI Columbia U., USA Bony, Sandrine, LMD, France Bordoni, Simona, Caltech, USA Chaboureau, Jean-Pierre, Toulouse U./CNRS, France Cronin Timothy, MIT, USA Craig, George, LMU, Germany Emanuel, Kerry, MIT, USA Gezahegn, Addisu, LMD, France Grabowski, Wojciech, UCAR, USA Khairoutdinov, Marat, Stonybrook U., USA Khouider, Boualem, Victoria U., Canada Mapes, Brian, Miami U., USA Marshall John, MIT, USA Moncrieff, Mitch, UCAR, USA Pincus, Rob, NOAA, USA Randall, David, CSU, USA Sherwood,Steve, UNSW,Australia Stevens, Bjorn, MPIM, Germany Vallis, Geoff K., Exeter U., U.K. Yang, Da, Berkley U., USA Zuidema, Paquita, RSMAS Miami, USA ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

1 Jul 2019 - 12 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

2nd ICTP Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Convective Organization and Climate Sensitivity | (smr 3304)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Cathy Hohenegger (MPI, Germany), Chris Holloway (Reading University, U.K.), Caroline Muller (LMD, France), Allison Wing (FSU, USA), Fred Kucharski (ICTP), Riccardo Farneti (ICTP), Local Organiser: Adrian Tompkins

Cosponsor(s): WCRP - World Climate Research Programmewcrp, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)wmo

Europe/Rome Abstract. In this talk I will assume models where Dark Matter (DM) can be described as a classical oscillating (scalar, vector or a spin-2 tensor) field. I will summarize recent work where we study secular effects that this kind of DM has on the dynamics of binary pulsars. Former SISSA Bldg. ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

2 Jul 2019

@ Former SISSA Bldg.

Cosmology

Probing Ultralight Dark Matter models with Binary Pulsars

Room: Lecture Room D

Speaker(s): Diana LOPEZ NACIR (Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

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Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract. I will briefly discuss how the first image of a black hole was obtained by the EHT collaboration. In particular, I will describe the theoretical aspects that have allowed us to model the dynamics of the plasma accreting onto the black hole and how such dynamics was used to generate synthetic black-hole images. I will also illustrate how the comparison between the theoretical images and the observations has allowed us to deduce the presence of a black hole in M87 and to extract information about its properties. Finally, I will describe the lessons we have learned about strong-field gravity and alternatives to black holes. Former SISSA Bldg. ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

2 Jul 2019

@ Former SISSA Bldg.

Cosmology

IFPU Colloquium - The first image of a black hole

Room: Lecture Room D

Speaker(s): Luciano REZZOLLA (Goethe Univ., Frankfurt)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: Brascamp-Lieb inequalities are estimates for certain multilinear forms on functions on Euclidean spaces. They generalize several classical inequalities, such as Holder's inequality or Young's convolution inequality. In this talk we consider singular Brascamp-Lieb inequalities, which arise when one of the functions in the Brascamp-Lieb inequality is replaced by a singular integral kernel. We survey some results in the area. Based on joint works with Christoph Thiele. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

2 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Singular Brascamp-Lieb inequalities

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Polona Durcik (Caltech)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Seminar

4 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Cosmology

An EFT approach to black hole perturbations

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Enrico TRINCHERINI (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: In this talk the following problem is considered: How much of an integral norm of a function with compactly supported Fourier transform can be concentrated on a sparse subset of the real line? The inequalities that form an answer to this question turn out to be the main building blocks for applications from signal processing and analytic number theory. I will describe some of the applications and will outline existing strategies (building on work of Selberg and of Donoho and Logan) to prove these inequalities. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

4 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Concentration inequalities for bandlimited functions

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Friedrich LITTMANN (North Dakota State Univ. - USA)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: We give a new definition of fractional derivative and fractional integral. The form of the definition shows that it is the most natural definition, and the most fruitful one. The definition for 0 < \alpha < 1 coincides with the classical definitions on polynomials (up to a constant). Further, if \alpha = 1, the definition coincides with the classical definition of first derivative. We give some applications to fractional differential equations. ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

5 Jul 2019

Mathematics

A new definition of fractional derivative with some applications to fractional differential equations

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Naeem ALKOUMI (Bahrain University)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome The London Mathematical Laboratory (LML) invites applications to its 2019 Summer School. This will be held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy from Monday 8th July to Friday 2nd August 2019. Postgraduate students will spend four weeks researching a project under the supervision of LML Fellows and colleagues from the ICTP and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). Further details can be found here. Students will also attend a scientific writing course. Travel to and from the Summer School, accommodation, and meals will be provided. Summer School supervisors are active scientists and typically choose open research questions as projects. For many students, this is their first exposure to scientific progress in action, where asking the right questions is at least as important as finding the right answers. Previous students have found this experience changes their view of science as an activity and as a possible career. Who Can Apply? The Summer School is aimed at postgraduates. Applications are accepted from all countries and students from developing countries are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be able to travel from their home country to Italy. Since the School will be conducted in English, applicants must have sufficiently good verbal and written English to produce technical reports and give seminars. How To Apply: Visit our How To Apply page for details on how to submit an application for the LML Summer School 2019. The deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 10th February 2019. Research Projects Available: There are 10 research projects offered this year, details of which can be found here. The LML Summer School 2019 is being led by LML Fellow, Isaac Pérez Castillo. We hope to receive your application soon. Website: http://lml.org.uk/events/summer-school/ Contact: lml@lml.org.uk Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

8 Jul 2019 - 9 Aug 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

London Mathematical Laboratory - Summer School 2019 | (smr H570)

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

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Organizer(s): Dr. Isaac Perez Castillo,

Europe/Rome ICTP supports the participation of scientists from developing countries in STATPHYS27 with a limited number of travel fellowships. For all information on the conference and how to apply, please visit the STATPHYS27 website https://statphys27.df.uba.ar The deadline for applications is March 8, 2019. Program -> https://statphys27.df.uba.ar/program.html Speakers -> https://statphys27.df.uba.ar/speakers.html Applications -> https://statphys27.df.uba.ar/registration.html Buenos Aires - Argentina ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

8 Jul 2019 - 12 Jul 2019

@ Buenos Aires - Argentina

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

StatPhys27 | (smr 3308)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Gustavo Lozano (Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET), Pablo Balenzuela (Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET), Ana Maria Llois (Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica and Universidad de Buenos Aires), Silvina Ponce Dawson (Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET), ICTP Scientific Contact: Matteo Marsili

Europe/Rome A special event will take place on Monday 8 July 2019 starting at 16.00 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall at ICTP. The following talks on hot topics of climate change, of approx 20 minutes each, are planned. Sandrine Bony, LMD, France: Clouds in the climate system, why so much uncertainty? Kerry Emanuel, MIT, USA: Will our weather extremes become even more extreme? Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPIM), Germany: "Beyond Global Warming". Questions can be submitted to a dedicated link to build the discussion after the talks. The event will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. All are most welcome to participate. Information on the speakers and abstracts: Sandrine Bony is a CNRS Director of Research in Paris, France. Her main research interest is advancing understanding of the role of clouds and cloud processes in climate sensitivity and in the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere, using a combination of modeling, observational and conceptual approaches. She is presently co-organising a large-scale field experiment that will take place in 2020 over the tropical Atlantic near Barbados. Kerry Emanuel is the Cecil and Ida Green professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. His research speciality is hurricane physics and he was the first to investigate how long-term climate change might affect hurricane activity, an issue that continues to occupy him today. His interests also include cumulus convection, and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. Bjorn Stevens is a director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany. His research blends modeling, theory and field work to help articulate the role of aerosols, clouds and atmospheric convection in the climate system with pioneering contributions to both understanding and modelling of mixing and microphysical processes and their impact on the structure and organization of clouds. ABSTRACTS: SANDRINE BONY: Clouds in the climate system, why so much uncertainty? Clouds are often quoted as 'the largest source of uncertainty in climate change'. Why? Some of the reasons why clouds are so important for climate and climate change will be reviewed. In particular, it will be shown how, by affecting the radiative exchanges between the Earth and space, clouds can influence the magnitude of global warming and the regional distribution of wet and dry areas around the world. Areas of research which might improve our understanding and prediction of the role of clouds in climate change will be discussed. BJORN STEVENS: Beyond Global Warming The outlines of global warming are clear. Earth has warmed by about 1ºC relative to a baseline in the late 19th century. Barring surprises it will warm by an additional 1ºC over the next half century. Beyond the general outline of this warming trend, and its causes, the science is anything but settled. In this talk I will look into the crystal ball of worlds unknown, explain why doing so is important, and outline new approaches that may help address the challenges a warming world poses for climate scientists. KERRY EMANUEL: Will our weather extremes become even more extreme? I will review the theoretical bases for the idea that tropical cyclones will become more intense and produce more rain as temperatures rise, and present some new results pertaining to Hurricane Maria in 2017. Of particular concern for Italy, we will also review what is known about Mediterranean hurricanes (or “Medicanes”) and how they might respond to climate change, with an extension to polar lows if there is time. Finally, the relationship between extratropical cyclones and climate will be discussed. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Workshop on Locomotion and Navigation from Flies to Robots | (smr 3309)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Massimo Vergassola (UCSD), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Cosponsor(s): Institute for Complex Adaptive Mattericam

Europe/Rome Point process modeling has been widely used as a powerful statistical tool in describing, investigating, and forecasting social, economic, and natural phenomena. Especially, the Hawkes-type models describe the interaction between discrete events: each event, no matter whether it is a background event or an excited event, influences the occurrence of the future events, through triggering (“encouraging” of) events, according to some probability rules. Since the Hawkes models can be used to investigate the interaction between discrete events, they became more and more popular in many fields, such as crime data analysis, economics, and seismology. In this talk, using the ETAS model for earthquake occurrences and a nonparametric Hawkes model for crime data as the illustrative examples, I will explain the methods of stochastic declustering and stochastic reconstruction. Stochastic declustering helps us to realize the family-tree structure among the events in a stochastic manner. Stochastic reconstruction is a technique for model diagnostics and later is generalized to a nonparametric method for estimating the branching characteristics for more general branch process models, by incorporating other smoothing techniques. The stochastic reconstruction method can be validated through the viewpoints of martingale theory. I will show its powers by the examples of extending two existing Hawkes-type models in earthquakes and crimes data analysis. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Construction, estimation, diagnostics, and extensions of the Hawkes-type point-process models in analysing social and natural science data

Address: Via Beirut, 2

Room: Central Area, 2nd floor, SISSA building

Speaker(s): Jiancang Zhuang - Institute of Statistical Mathematics, the Research Organization of Information and System, Japan

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:30

Europe/Rome We will describe some classical results in ergodic theory motivating the concepts of physical measures and statistical stability for dynamical systems. We will discuss the existence of physical measures for certain families of dynamical systems including the well-known families of geometric and contracting Lorenz flows and the corresponding one dimensional maps. As an ultimate goal of this talk, we will present the results concluding statistical stability and instability for geometric and contracting Lorenz flows, respectively. ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Jul 2019

Mathematics

Statistical (In)Stability in Chaotic Attractors

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Muhammad Ali KHAN (Centre of Mathematics, University of Porto)

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: We study diffusion and mixing in different fluid dynamics models, mainly related to incompressible flows. In this setting, mixing is a purely advective effect which causes a transfer of energy to high frequencies. Mixing acts to enhance the dissipative forces, giving rise to what we refer to as enhanced dissipation. We understand by this the identification of a decay time-scale, which is faster than the purely diffusive one. We will give a general quantitative criterion that links mixing rates (in terms of decay of negative Sobolev norms) to enhanced dissipation time-scales. Applications include passive scalar evolution in both planar and radial settings, fractional diffusion, linearized two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, and even simple examples in kinetic theory. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Diffusion and mixing in incompressible flows

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Matias DELGADINO (Imperial College - London)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: One of the oldest problem in geometric analysis and in the calculus of variations consists in finding a surface of leat area surface spannend by a given smooth curve $\gamma$. The approach of Douglas and Rad ensures, for each prescribed genus, the existence of a surface minimizing the area among all the ones with smaller genus. On the other hand, after the seminal work of Federer and Fleming, it is always possible to find a mass minimizing current spanned by $\gamma$. When the Federer fleming solution is smooth (up to the boundary) , it naturally coincides with the Dougals Rado solution. In co-dimension one, thanks to the seminal work of De Giorgi and Hardt-Simon, this is indeed the case. In higher co-dimension the question is not yet completely understood and new phenomena might appear. In this talk, after surveying the known results, I will present the construction of a smooth curve in a 4 dimensional Riemannian manifold which spans an area minimizing surface with infinite genus. This is based on a joint work with C. De Lellis and J. Hirsch. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Singular two dimensional area minimizing surfaces

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Guido DE PHILIPPIS (SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Seminar

11 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

Supersymmetry, Ricci flat manifolds and the String Landscape

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Bobby ACHARYA (ICTP)

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Seminar Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome We report the experimental evidence of the existence of a random strange attractor in a fully developed turbulent swirling ow. By defining a global observable which tracks the asymmetry in the of angular momentum imparted to the ow, we can reconstruct the associated turbulent attractor and then follow its route towards chaos. We further show that the experimental attractor can be modeled by stochastic Duffing equations, that match the quantitative properties of the experimental flow, namely, the number of quasi-stationary states and transition rates among them, the effective dimensions, and the continuity of the Lyapunov exponents. Such properties can be recovered neither using deterministic models nor using stochastic differential equations based on effective potentials obtained by inverting the probability distributions of the experimental global observables. A random map extracted from the experimental time series of the turbulent ow exhibits qualitatively same stochastic bifurcation structure as the experimentally observed transitions. Our findings open the way to low-dimensional dynamical system modeling of systems featuring a large number of degrees of freedom and multiple quasi-stationary states. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

12 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Stochastic bifurcation in a turbulent swirling flow

Address: Via Beirut, 2

Room: Central Area, 2nd floor,

Speaker(s): Yuzuru Sato - RIES – Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University Takumi Chihara - Tokyo University of Science

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:30

Europe/Rome The Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Programme (EAUMP) courtesy of the International Science Programme (ISP) of Sweden; jointly with ICTP, Trieste, Italy; Sida, CIMPA, DAAD, LMS/AMMSI, COMPOSITIO is organizing a three weeks summer School on Algebraic Topology and its Applications to be held at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda from 15th July to 30th July, 2019. It is intended that the School will take the audience comprising young academic staff members and advanced graduate students (M.Sc, Ph.D and Postdoctoral Students) of Mathematics from the Eastern African region and beyond. The school is the next one in a series of schools organized under the Eastern African Universities Mathematics Programme (EAUMP). The most recent EAUMP schools were organized in 2015 at Makerere University, Uganda, on Experimental Pure Mathematics; in 2016 at the University of Rwanda on Number Theory; in 2017 at the University of Nairobi on Modern Functional Analysis; and in 2018 at the University of Dar es Salaam on Homological methods in Algebra and Geometry. All the schools are within one of the main aims of EAUMP which is to improve the pure mathematics in the region. The member Universities of the EAUMP are University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; University of Nairobi, Kenya; University of Zambia, Zambia; Makerere University, Uganda; University of Rwanda, Rwanda. GOALS OF THE SCHOOL To introduce participants to current trends in Algebraic Topology and its applications, including knot theory and Topological Data Science, and provide research topics for masters and PhD studies. To provide a forum for African mathematicians to interact, exchange ideas and initiate collaborations. Identify talented students for possible PhD programs. To produce digital lecture material for dissemination, which contributes to the training of master students in the Eastern Africa region. STURCTURE AND PROGRAMME As in the years 2013-2017, participants will be asked to submit mini-projects on the material studied at the School, with the best submissions receiving prizes/awards. They will work on their projects after the end of the School and will submit them during the third week of the school. Here is the detailed course plan for the School. Week 1: Introductory courses Course 1: Introductory Topology Lecturer: Venuste Nyagahakwa (University of Rwanda) Description: This course will introduce the basic ideas of topology, starting with an abstract definition of topological space, and treating many examples. Course 2: The Fundamental Group Lecturer: Jean-Baptiste Gatsinzi (Botswana Institute of Science and Technology) Description: The fundamental group is a basic but key algebraic invariant of a topological space. This course will define this group and give some interesting examples of how to compute it. Course 3: Introduction to knot theory Lecturer: Balazs Szendroi (University of Oxford) Description: A knot is a tangled piece of rope in the three dimensional space, with the two loose ends glued together. Knot theory asks questions such as: can this knot be untangled by continuously deforming the rope? Are there ways to tell two knots apart? This course will discuss these motivating questions and present some ideas how to solve them. Week 2: Advanced courses Course 3: Manifolds Lecturer: Claudia Scheimbauer (NTNU, Trondheim) Description: Manifolds provide a very interesting class of examples of topological spaces, of great interest in applications to geometry, physics and elsewhere. This course will introduce this notion with many examples, mainly from dimensions 1, 2 and 3. Course 4: Topological Data Analysis Lecturer: Ulrike Tillmann (University of Oxford) Description: Topological data analysis is a recent and fast-growing field providing a set of new topological and geometric tools to infer global features from complex data. This course will give an introduction to this circle of ideas. SCHOOL PARTICIPATION Online application form is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8699/, and will close on 28th April, 2019. Alternative request for participation can be done by originating an email to kasozi@cns.mak.ac.ug copied to ssevviiri@cns.mak.ac.ug, szendroi@maths.ox.ac.uk. Only those applicants who will be successful shall be contacted. Letters of invitation will be issued to participants upon request for the processing of travel documents or soliciting for funding. INTERNATIONAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE Leif Abrahamson (University of Uppsala, Sweden), Prof. Bengt-Ove Turesson (Linkoping University, Sweden), Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (ICTP, Italy), Balazs Szendroi (University of Oxford, UK), Patrick Weke (University of Nairobi, Kenya). LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE David Ssevviiri (Makerere University), Juma Kasozi (Makerere University), John Mango Makerere University), Patrick Weke (University of Nairobi), Jared Ongaro (University of Nairobi), Eunice Mureithi (University of Dar es Salaam), James Makungu (University of Dar es Salaam), Michael Gahirima (UR-CST, Nyarugenge), Wellars Banzi (UR-CST, Nyarugenge), Mubanga Lombe (University of Zambia), Isaac D. Tembo (University of Zambia). Kampala - Uganda ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

15 Jul 2019 - 30 Jul 2019

@ Kampala - Uganda

Mathematics

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

Speaker(s): Ivan Di Terlizzi - University of Padova, Department of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei"

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Abstract: We provide a classification of random orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle, up to topological conjugacy of the random dynamical systems generated by i.i.d. iterates. This classification concerns random circle homeomorphisms for which the noise space is a connected Polish space and some other minor conditions are satisfied. This is joint work with Thai Son Doan (Vietnam Academy of Sciences), Julian Newman (Lancaster University) and Martin Rasmussen (Imperial College London). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

15 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Classification of random circle homeomorphisms up to topological conjugacy

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Jeroen S.W. Lamb (Imperial College - London)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Active fluids are a novel class of non-equilibrium complex fluids with examples across a wide range of biological and physical systems such as flocking animals, swarming microorganisms, vibrated granular rods, and suspensions of synthetic colloidal swimmers. Different from familiar non-equilibrium systems where free energy is injected from boundaries, an active fluid is a dispersion of large numbers of self-propelled units, which convert the ambient/internal free energy and maintain non-equilibrium steady states at microscopic scales. Due to this distinct feature, active fluids exhibit fascinating and unusual behaviors unseen in conventional complex fluids. Here, combining high-speed confocal microscopy, holographic imaging, rheological measurements and biochemical engineering, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of active fluids. In particular, we use E. coli suspensions as our model system and illustrate three unique properties of active fluids, i.e., (i) abnormal rheology, (ii) enhanced diffusion of passive tracers and (iii) emergence of collective swarming. Using fluid mechanics and statistical mechanics tools, we develop a quantitative understanding of these interesting behaviors. Our study illustrates the general organizing principles of active fluids that can be exploited for designing “smart” fluids with controllable fluid properties. Our results also shed new light on fundamental transport processes in microbiological systems. SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Jul 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA CMSP Seminar - From Flocking Birds to Swarming Bacteria: A Study of the Dynamics of Active Fluids

Speaker(s): Xiang CHENG (Dept. Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome A century ago Einstein developed a theory of diffusion that is based on the assumption of stochasticity for a Brownian particle. On a molecular level, however, diffusion is generated by Newton’s deterministic equations of motion, which typically are highly nonlinear. In my talk I will review, in a very tutorial manner, a theoretical approach that derives diffusion from first principles by starting from microscopic deterministic chaos. Simple models ranging from a deterministic random walk on the line to chaotic diffusion in potentials on periodic lattices will be studied analytically and by computer simulations. Surprisingly, the diffusion coefficients of these models turn out to be highly irregular, fractal functions of physical control parameters while simple random walk theory predicts monotonicity. This is due to memory in the deterministic single-particle dynamics. I will argue that this phenomenon should be seen in experiments on small systems, such as molecular diffusion in zeolite nanopores and diffusion of electrons in artificial graphene. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

18 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Microscopic chaos, fractals and diffusion: From simple models towards experiments

Address: Via Beirut, 2

Room: Central Area, 2nd floor, SISSA building

Speaker(s): Rainer Klages - Queen Mary University of London

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:30

Europe/Rome Stochastic thermodynamics provides a consistent description of a wide class of Langevin systems, but the Markov assumption is often essential. While some non-Markovian systems have been studied in great detail, the important case of feedback control with a discrete delay is still insufficiently understood [1,2]. The thermodynamical description of nonlinear delayed systems turns out to be particularly challenging. In this talk, I will consider the paradigmatic example of a Brownian particle in a doublewell potential subject to time-delayed feedback in its non-equilibrium steady state. We use different strategies to tackle the technical challenges arising due to the delay, such as closure schemes for the infinite Fokker-Planck hierarchy [3,4] and a Markovian embedding technique [4,5]. We find an unavoidable heat flow induced by the control (even in the absence of any additional driving), i.e., the feedback inevitably cools down or heats up the system [1]. Interestingly, the heat flow is enhanced in the limit of small delay times, which is a phenomenon related to entropy pumping. We further compute the total entropy production of the super system, consisting of the particle plus the memory of the controller. By varying the information capacity of the memory device, we can consider different Gamma-distributed delays, including the limit of an infinitely sharp (delta-peaked) kernel, i. e., discrete delay. We identify an entropic contribution due to the memory, which is a consequence of the unidirectional information flow induced by the feedback-controller. This contribution diverges in the case of error-free measurement, as well as in the case of a perfectly sharp (delta-peaked) time delay. [1] Loos & Klapp, Sci. Rep. 9, 2491 (2019) [2] Rosinberg, Munakata, Tarjus, PRE 91, 042114 (2015) [3] Loos & Klapp, PRE 96, 012106 (2017) [4] Loos & Klapp, ArXiv:1903.02322 (2019) [5] Puglisi & Villamaina, EPL 88, 30004 (2009) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

18 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Thermodynamic notions for time-delayed stochastic processes

Address: Via Beirut, 2

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

Speaker(s): Sarah Loos - Institut fuer Theoretische Physik Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Activity

20 Jul 2019 - 21 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

4th Session of ICTP-CLIVAR Eastern Boundary Upwelling System Research Foci | (smr 3383)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

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

Cosponsor(s): CLIVARusclivar2, IOC-UNESCOwestpac2

**DEADLINE: 15/04/2019**

Activity

22 Jul 2019 - 2 Aug 2019

@ Sao Paulo - Brazil

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Joint ICTP-Trieste and ICTP-SAIFR School on Observational Cosmology | (smr 3305)

Secretary: Rosanna Sain

Organizer(s): Rogerio Rosenfeld (ICTP-SAIFR), Raul Abramo (U. Sao Paulo), Mehrdad Mirbabayi (ICTP), ICTP Scientific Contact: Paolo Creminelli

The link to the activity webpage for the online application and more information is: http://www.ictp-saifr.org/iii-joint-ictp-trieste-ictp-saifr-school-on-observational-cosmology/ *** Application deadline: 12 May 2019 ***

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 Turbulence Fluid Instabilities Machine learning in table-top experiments Microfluidics Granular Materials Modeling in MATLAB - Molecular Dynamics Chemical patterns Computational Modeling SPEAKERS: J.BICO, Paris ESPCI, France P. CICUTA, University of Cambridge, UK F. FEDERICI, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile F. FENTON, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA A. GUMEL, Arizona State University, USA E. KOSTELICH, Arizona State University, USA D. LATHROP, University of Maryland, USA J. MOLLOY, University of Cambridge, UK B. RODENBORN, Centre College, USA M.D. SHATTUCK, The City College of New York, USA M. TINSLEY, West Virginia University, USA GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

22 Jul 2019 - 2 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School | (smr 3314)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

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

Organizer(s): Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge), Eric J. Kostelich (Arizona State University), Michael F. Schatz (Georgia Institute of Technology), Mark D. Shattuck (The City College of New York), Local Organiser: Maria Liz Crespo

Cosponsor(s): Arizona State Universityasu

**DEADLINE: 07/04/2019**

Europe/Rome Recurrent neural networks have been recently introduced to predict the behavior of chaotic systems. Surprisingly, they provide reliable forecasts up to the predictability limit without knowing the underlying equations of the systems. Here we focus on the predictability of rare trajectories leading to extreme events. We focus on different chaotic systems, ranging from toy models of the atmospheric dynamics, up to the re-forecast of sea-level pressure and temperature fields issued by ERA Interim and NCEP reanalysis datasets. Our results show that: i) the machine learning techniques can make reliable weather forecasts of global atmospheric fields up to 48-72h with a time step of 3-6h ii) long time forecasts do not diverge, they produce reliable climatology of the sea-level pressure and temperature fields iii) we can evaluate the coherence of extreme events generated via the machine learning with respect to the observed ones.  ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

23 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

Can we predict weather and project climate using machine learning techniques?

Address: Via Beirut, 2

Room: Central Area, 2nd floor, SISSA building

Speaker(s): Davide Faranda - London Mathematical Laboratory

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 11:30

Seminar

23 Jul 2019

@ ICTP

Quantitative Life Sciences

American options with stochastic interest rates

Address: Via Beirut, 2

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

Speaker(s): Anna Battauz - Bocconi University, Milan

Support E-Mail: qls@ictp.it

Seminar Start Time: 14:00

Europe/Rome The workshop will gather young researchers working in quantum mechanics and its applications. PhD students and PostDocs will be given the opportunity to present their research activity and interact with their colleagues, share motivations, techniques and perspectives, in a friendly and informal environment. In the morning, blackboard lectures by senior experts will provide a perspective on relevant problems in quantum theory. Topics include: quantum information, entanglement, open quantum systems, quantum foundations, many-body physics, quantum thermodynamics, equilibrium & non-equilibrium physics, mathematical methods for quantum mechanics. There is no fee: the workshop is kindly supported by TEQ. Participants will take care of accommodation; a limited number of rooms are available at standard prices at the ICTP Adriatico guesthouse, where the workshop takes place. Applicants who wish to stay in the guesthouse can contact the Local Organizers before June 20th 2019. This is the 3rd workshop of the Trieste Junior Quantum Days series. The first one was held in May 2017, the second in May 2018. Registration open till July 5th 2019 on the official workshop website. Deadline for contributed talks: May 31st 2019. Trieste - Italy ICTP pio@ictp.it

Hosted Activity

24 Jul 2019 - 26 Jul 2019

Microscopic Langevin model for the modified Fürth equation

Address: Via Beirut, 2

The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School | (smr 3317)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

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

Organizer(s): Prof. R Murenzi (TWAS), Prof. Nicola Mulder (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Prof. Teresa K. Attwood (University of Manchester, UK), Rob Quick (Indiana University, USA), Dr. Celia van Gelder (Dutch Institute for Life Sciences (DTL), Netherlands), Dr. Hugh Shanahan (Royal Holloway University, UK), Dr. Simon Hodson (CODATA, France), Dr. Andrew Harrison (University of Essex, UK), Ivan Girotto (ICTP), Ulrich Singe (ICTP), Marco Zennaro (ICTP), Adrian Tompkins (ICTP), Louise Bezuidenhout (University of Oxford, UK), Marcela Alfaro Cordoba (Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica), Raphael Cobe (UNESP, Brazil), Sarah Jones (University of Glasgow, UK), Local Organiser: Clement Onime

Cosponsor(s): International Council for Science - Committee on Data for Science and Technologycodata, The Research Data Alliance (RDA)rda, The World Academy of Sciencestwas, Springer Naturesprnat, The H3ABioNeth3abionet, International Telecommunication Union (CoE on IoT and Big-Data and Statistics)itu, ELIXIRelixir2

**DEADLINE: 18/04/2019**

Europe/Rome The School is a certificate course providing specialized education and training on development and implementation of knowledge management programmes in nuclear science and technology organizations. It is intended for young professionals in current or future leading roles in managing nuclear knowledge. Jointly organized by ICTP and the IAEA since 2004, this Nuclear Knowledge Management (NKM) School focuses on methodologies and practices, and explores various dimensions of nuclear knowledge management. These include processes and tools, challenges and benefits, culture influence, relationship with human resource development, IT for knowledge preservation and sharing. Learning is supplemented with real life examples from NKM programmes in different types of nuclear organizations. The aim is to encourage ‘forward thinking’ and to enable participants to apply theory and insights in their daily work. Pre-training is done via e-learning for a common understanding of the basics, allowing a more efficient interaction with peers and lecturers during the in-class School. Lectures at the ICTP by recognized experts are followed by case studies, practical work and breakout sessions where participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues and solutions. NKM group projects are also developed over the week. Shortlisted candidates will undergo an on-line pre- training course and a test, the results of which will be one of the elements to define the final list of participants. TOPICS: Nuclear knowledge and knowledge management fundamentals; Developing policies and strategies in managing nuclear knowledge; Managing nuclear information resources; Human resources development; Risk of knowledge loss and knowledge transfer; Practical guidance and good practices on NKM METHODOLOGIES: Blended learning course; Oriented to practical exercises and group projects; Additional continuous education certificate provided by MEPhI University, Russian Federation, after successful completion. GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

5 Aug 2019 - 9 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Applied Physics

15th Joint ICTP-IAEA Nuclear Knowledge Management School | (smr 3322)

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

Room: Giambiagi and Lundqvist Lecture Halls (AGH)

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

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

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3

**DEADLINE: 31/12/2018**

Seminar

5 Aug 2019 - 10 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Workshop on Deformation Theory

Room: Leonardo Building - Lecture Room H

Organizer(s): Elizabeth Gasparim, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile

Mini-courses - Severin Barmeier: Introduction to deformation theory - Victor Przyjalkowski: Toric Landau-Ginzburg models - Piotr Sulkowski: BPS state counting Talks - Tony Pantev: Singularities of wobbly divisors in genus two - Fabricio Valencia: Infinitesimally tight Lagrangian orbits - Francisco Rubilar: KKP conjecture for minimal adjoint orbits - Carlos Bassani: Invariant generalized complex structures on flag manifolds - Bruno Suzuki: Infinite-dimensional deformation families of Calabi-Yau threefolds - Elizabeth Gasparim: Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models

Seminar Start Time: 10:00

Europe/Rome The development of quantum technologies is closely connected to the possibility of controlling and manipulating the transport of charge, spin and energy. The aim of this activity is to integrate the communities of Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Information, Cold Atoms and Condensed Matter Physics to understand fundamental aspects of this problem. Topics: Quantum thermoelectricity, theory and experiment Quantum energy dissipation Maxwell Daemons in quantum systems Quantum fluctuation-dissipation relations Quantum thermodynamics in electronic circuits Quantum Floquet engineering Quantum thermodynamics and information theory Transport and thermodynamics in periodically driven electron systems Topological energy conversion Thermal transport and thermoelectricity in topological quantum matter Thermal transport in topological systems Quantum thermal machines Many-body effects in thermal transport Lecturers courses: Giuliano Benenti, Italy Rosario Fazio, Italy Rosa López, Spain Laurens Molenkamp, Germany Juan Parrondo, Spain Jukka Pekola, Finland Anatoli Polkovnikov, USA Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Germany Janine Splettstoeser, Sweden Speakers workshop: Joel Moore, USA Christian Schmiegelow, Argentina Christian Glattli, France Clemens Winkelmann, France Heiner Linke, Sweden Sebastian Diehl, Germany Robert Whitney, France Massimiliano Esposito, Luxembourg Raam Uzdin, Israel Ewelina Hankiewicz, Germany David Sanchez, Spain Yuval Gefen, Israel Fabio Taddei, Italy Peter Samuelsson, Sweden Anton Ramsak, Slovenija Michele Campisi, Italy Geraldine Haack, Switzerland Dario Poletti, Singapore Marcos Rigol, USA Gershon Kurizki, Israel Alessandro Braggio, Italy Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

12 Aug 2019 - 30 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

College on Energy Transport and Energy Conversion in the Quantum Regime | (smr 3318)

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

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

Organizer(s): Liliana Arrachea (University of San Martin), Giulio Casati (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria), Christopher Jarzynski (University of Maryland), Ronnie Kosloff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Local Organiser: Mikhail Kiselev

**DEADLINE: 01/05/2019**

Europe/Rome Abstract. Future large scale structure surveys are designed to study the nature of the dark side of the universe and the physics of the initial condition of the cosmos. In this context, the understanding of the distribution of structures of the cosmic web: dark matte halos, cosmic filaments and large scale voids in one hand and their clustering and connection with the luminous matter known as bias parameter, on the other hand are all valuable probes of beyond standard model of cosmology. In this talk, I will introduce the excursion set theory (EST) of nonlinear structure formation and the non-Markov solutions of first up-crossing in EST context which opens a new venue to study the distribution of dark matter halos and the bias parameter in more realistic cases. Also I will introduce the excursion set theory of saddle points as a new framework for studying cosmic filaments. Finally, I will discuss that how the EST framework can address the void phenomena in the context of uLCDM model which is introduced to address the H_0 tension. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

16 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Cosmology

Nonlinear structure formation as a probe of beyond standard model of cosmology

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Shant BAGHRAM (Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome During this activity, several applied/thematic workshops on Research Data Science run in parallel. Bioinformatics: This workshop focuses on building Machine Learning workflows using NGS Data. Topics include: Experimental design; Introduction to NGS data analysis; Machine Learning in NGS; and CWL. Participants should be familiar with UNIX shell and R programming language. IoT and Big Data Analytics: This workshop presents the analysis of vast amounts of data produced by embedded devices, sensors, appliances and other data-collecting systems in real time using new processes and tools for collecting, storing and processing IoT big data, event/streaming data. Participants should be familiar with software installation and programming in R or Java or Python. Professionals & corporate entities should apply for this workshop via the ITU Academy. Climate Data Sciences: This workshop will introduce Cloud-Computing based Data access, processing and visualisation tools for Climate Science, including the Copernicus climate data services platforms and the CMIP Earth System Grid. Participants will work in small project teams and should have a background in Climate Sciences and/or climate modeling. Extreme Sources of Data: This workshop introduces the basics relative to a cut-and-count particle physics analysis as performed in the ATLAS Collaboration (Large Hadron Collider). Topics to be covered include phenomenological, experimental and data-analysis aspects of the Standard Model; software development and tools for analysis and reproducible science and sharing. Participants should have taken at least one course on Particle Physics at High Education level. Individuals seeking an introduction to Research Data Science can apply to the Summer School that runs immediately before the workshops. GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants from developing countries. Professionals and corporate entities should register/apply for the Advanced Workshop on IoT and Big-Data Analytics via the ITU Academy platform. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

19 Aug 2019 - 23 Aug 2019

@ 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 3376)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

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

**DEADLINE: 18/04/2019**

Europe/Rome For ICTP-SAIFR school website click here The Advanced School and Workshop will bring together scientists and students for presenting and discussing the progress in research on the American monsoons and their role in the global monsoon system, and for planning future activities. The American monsoons are important components of the global monsoon system. A very high percentage of the annual precipitation over most of South America occurs during the summer monsoon, including subtropical regions. The economy, agriculture, water and energy resources and, consequently, the livelihoods of the great majority of South America population are heavily dependent on the summer monsoon. Also the North American monsoon provides crucial water resources for Mexico, Central American countries, several island nations in the Caribbean and parts of the southwest USA. Predicting the intensity of American monsoon rainfall is not only a regional challenge, but is also relevant in the framework of a global sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting system. The Advanced School and Workshop are fostered by the Working Group on American Monsoons, one of the regional monsoons working groups established under the coordination of the CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel. Topics to be covered include: Global context, main features, life cycle of the American monsoons; Variability on diurnal, mesoscale and synoptic time scales; sub-seasonal to seasonal variability; Variability on interannual and decadal/interdecadal time scales; modulation of extreme events by climate variability; longer term variability and climate change; Predictability and prediction (weather, sub-seasonal, seasonal and longer lead times); modelling studies; Impacts on society; future challenges; plans for observational studies, diagnostic analyses, and modelling activities. Discussions on future collaboration. Participation The targeted audience includes scientists and advanced undergraduate and graduate students, interested in the American monsoons and their role in the global monsoon system. There is no registration fee, but the number of participants is limited. Participants are encouraged to make a presentation. If interested, please submit a short abstract of the contribution in the online registration form. As a rule, support for travel and subsistence expenses should be secured by the participants. However, limited funds are available for graduate students and early career researchers (PhD obtained within the last 5 years) who are nationals of, and working in, a developing Latin American country, subject to selection by the activity organizers. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire activity. Those applying for support are requested to submit an abstract. As the activity will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate knowledge of that language. Confirmed Speakers Pedro Silva Dias - University of São Paulo, Brazil Marcelo Barreiro - Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay Cecilia Hidalgo – University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Leila Carvalho - University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Francina Dominguez - University of Illinois at Urbana, USA Rong Fu - University of Texas at Austin, USA Tereza Cavazos - CICESE, Mexico Alice M. Grimm - Federal University of Parana, Brazil Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti - National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Manoel Gan - National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Sao Paulo - Brazil ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

19 Aug 2019 - 23 Aug 2019

@ Sao Paulo - Brazil

Earth System Physics

Advanced School on American Monsoons - Progress and Future Plans | (smr 3307)

Secretary: Susanne Henningsen

Organizer(s): Alice M. Grimm (Federal University of Parana, Brazil), Iracema F.A. Cavalcanti (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil), Manoel Gan (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil), ICTP Scientific Contact: Fred Kucharski

Cosponsor(s): ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR)saifr, Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR) projectusclivar2, Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) projectgewex, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)iugg4, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)wcrp

Seminar

19 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

On a conjecture of Casselman and Shahidi

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Sarah Dijols, Yau Center, Tsinghua University

Seminar Start Time: 10:00

Seminar

22 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Two-fold covering, ergodicity of higher dimensional actions

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Abbas Fakhari (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Hosted Activity

23 Aug 2019 - 24 Aug 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

C13 IUPAP Meeting | (smr H575)

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

Room: Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): Prof. Joe Niemela,

Hosted Activity

26 Aug 2019 - 28 Aug 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

2019 AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy Course. | (smr H585)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): TWAS,

Europe/Rome Abstract. In the simplest scenarios of the cosmic inflation the universe, at the very onset of its evolution, is almost empty filled with only a single scalar field, the inflaton, whose background energy density is responsible for the nearly exponential expansion of the universe and its quantum fluctuations, once stretched beyond the horizon scale, serve as the primordial seeds of clumpy universe we see today. Although the predictions of this vanilla model is well compatible with current data ranging from CMB to LSS, there has been a continuing endeavour to study the consequence of presence of extra fields other than inflaton on those observables. In this talk, I am going to talk about possible footprints of light extra degrees of freedom during inflation on the primordial power spectrum of the curvature perturbations. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Cosmology

Light Species during Inflation

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Aliakbar ABOLHASANI (Sharif University of Technology and IPM, Tehran, Iran)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract: B-branes on Calabi-Yau (CY) X manifolds are in 1-1 correspondence with objects in the derived category of coherent sheaves. B-branes on Gauged Linear Sigma Models (GLSM) can be roughly interpreted as objects of the derived category of a CY stack. This interpretation can be used to generate equivalences between various categories associated to geometric and nongeometric phases of a CY. I will introduce these concepts and present some results for the case when the stack is not CY (physically, this means the GLSM is anomalous), that can be derived from physics. In particular I will explain how the equivalences between categories associated to phases are modified and comment on some consequence on K-theory using as a guide the example of Hirzebruch-Jung resolutions of cyclic surface singularities. IGAP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Aug 2019

@ IGAP

Mathematics

B-branes and Anomalous Gauged Linear Sigma Models

Address: Via Beirut, 2–4 I–34151, Grignano, Trieste (TS)

Room: Old SISSA Building

Speaker(s): Mauricio Romo (Tsinghua University)

PLEASE NOTE: for those who do not have access to the old SISSA building, a group of people will meet 5 min before the seminar near the Leonardo building bar.

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome Abstract. We propose quantum states for Little String Theories (LSTs) arising from M5 branes probing A- and D-type singularities. This extends Witten's picture of M5 brane partition functions as theta functions to this more general setup. Compactifying the world-volume of the five-branes on a two-torus, we find that the corresponding theta functions are sections of line bundles over complex 4-tori. This formalism allows us to derive Seiberg-Witten curves for the resulting four-dimensional theories. Along the way, we prove a duality for LSTs observed by Iqbal, Hohenegger and Rey. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

27 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

M5 branes and theta functions

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Babak HAGHIGHAT (Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China)

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Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Biosketch: Prof. Liliana Arrachea from the International Center for Advanced Studies, Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Argentina obtained her PhD from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina in 1995. Following this, her research positions have included Alexander von Humboldt fellow at FU-Berlin and Max-Planck Institut, Germany, Postdoctoral researcher at SISSA, Trieste, and Ramón y Cajal Researcher at University of Zaragoza. She has been a Researcher of CONICET Argentina since 1999, an Associate Professor from University of Buenos Aires since 2007 (on leave since 2016), and Full Professor at University of San Martín, Argentina since 2016. In addition, Prof. Arrachea was appointed Guggenheim Fellow 2010, and Simons Associate at ICTP-Trieste since 2015, and Georg-Forster Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Award 2016. Prof. Arrachea spends periods comprising several months at a time as Invited Professor at PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Université Paris 7, and Boston University. Abstract: Boosting the efficiency for the conversion of electrical and thermal energy at finite power is motivating an intense research activity, not only in the areas of material science and applied physics but also in experimental and theoretical areas of statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. Efforts are concentrated in developing new materials and devices as well as on analyzing different operational conditions. In the latter direction, taking advantage of the quantum effects is one of the most interesting avenues. Nanoscale devices and topological materials provide an excellent scenario to explore these properties. In this talk, I will present a general overview on the field. I will also present some examples and discuss some fundamental theoretical aspects. The talk will take place on 28 August 2019 at 16.30 in the Euler Lecture Hall @ ICTP. Light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome to attend. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

28 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

ICTP CMSP Colloquium on Heat to Work Conversion in the Quantum Regime

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Liliana Arrachea, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Hosted Activity

29 Aug 2019 - 30 Aug 2019

@ Trieste - Italy

Science Diplomacy Cluster Meeting | (smr H595)

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

Room: Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH)

Organizer(s): TWAS,

Europe/Rome Save the Date! All are welcome to the "2019 Postgraduate Diploma Programme Graduation Ceremony and 2019 Spirit of Salam Award Ceremony". Please join us on this festive occasion in the Budinich Lecture Hall, starting at 14.30 hrs. The detailed programme for the events will be available in due course. The Spirit of Abdus Salam Award may be given to anyone within the extended ICTP family of scientists and non-scientists, and administrative staff alike who can show that they have worked tirelessly to further Abdus Salam's humanitarian passion and vision for the cooperation, promotion and development of science and technology in the developing world. For the feature article on the 2019 Spirit of Salam recipients, please see: https://bit.ly/2KMuB2M The event will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. Light refreshments will be served after the event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Ceremony

29 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

2019 Postgraduate Diploma Programme Graduation Ceremony and 2019 Spirit of Salam Award Ceremony

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34141 Trieste Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Europe/Rome 14:30 - 15:30 José Ramón Madrid Padilla (UCLA) Title: Directional maximal function along the primes abstract: In this talk we will discuss the l2-boundedness of the directional maximal operators along primes. Through Fourier Analysis we will make a reduction to study two different situations, in one of them we will appeal to the Bourgain best constant argument and in the other we will use a nice incidence result established recently 15:30 - 16:00 break 16:00 - 17:00 Mariana Smit Vega Garcia (Western Washington University) Title: Free boundary problems Abstract: The study of one of the most renowned examples of free boundary problems, the classical obstacle problem, began in the 60’s with the pioneering works of G. Stampacchia, H. Lewy and J. L. Lions. During the past five decades, it has led to beautiful and deep developments in the calculus of variations and geometric partial differential equations. One of its crowning achievements has been the development, due to L. Caffarelli, of the theory of free boundaries. Nowadays the obstacle problem continues to offer many challenges and its study is as active as ever. In this talk, I will overview the obstacle problem and describe a few methods used to tackle two fundamental questions: what is the optimal regularity of the solution, and what can be said about the free boundary. This is based on joint works with Mark Allen, Nicola Garofalo & Arshak Petrosyan. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

30 Aug 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Mathematics Seminars

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): Jose Ramon Madrid Padilla (UCLA) and Mariana Smit Vega Garcia (Western Washington University)

Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome The school will focus on earthquake dynamics covering theory, simulations and observations also highlighting the most important areas where significant progress has been achieved recently. The programme will involve a series of lectures, seminars, discussions, practical and computer exercises. TOPICS: Theoretical earthquake dynamics Computational earthquake dynamics Earthquake cycle modeling Connecting earthquake models to observations Kinematic earthquake source inversion Dynamic source inversion Rupture imaging Applications and recent progress GRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

2 Sep 2019 - 14 Sep 2019

@ ICTP

Earth System Physics

Advanced Workshop on Earthquake Fault Mechanics: Theory, Simulation and Observations | (smr 3319)

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

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Pandora Malchose

Organizer(s): Jean Paul Ampuero (Université Côte d'Azur and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Local Organiser: Abdelkrim Aoudia

Cosponsor(s): International Union of Geodesy and Geophysicsiugg, Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A.generali, Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giuliafvg

**DEADLINE: 27/06/2019**

Europe/Rome New deadline for applications not needing financial support and/or visa: 11 August The workshop consists of a series of talks covering different complementary approaches to non-perturbative quantum field theories and includes plenty of discussion time. The goal is to bring together different communities working in closely related fields to stimulate exchange of ideas. Topics: 3d Dualities S-Matrix Bootstrap Resurgence T-Tbar Deformations Hamiltonian Truncation Lattice QFT Speakers: I. ANICETO, University of Southampton F. BENINI, SISSA L. CÓRDOVA, PI, Guelph U.and IPhT Saclay M. D’ELIA, Pisa U. G. DUNNE, Connecticut U. J. ELIAS MIRÓ, CERN V. GORBENKO, IAS, Princeton M. GUICA, IPT CEA Saclay and Stockholm U. S. GUKOV, Caltech K. JENSEN, SFSU E. KATZ, Boston U. J. PENEDONES, EPFL E. POPPITZ, Toronto U. Y. TANIZAKI, RIKEN BNL B. VAN REES, Durham U. P. VIEIRA, ICTP-SAIFR São Paulo and PI, Waterloo Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

3 Sep 2019 - 6 Sep 2019

@ ICTP

High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Non-Perturbative Methods in Quantum Field Theory | (smr 3320)

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

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

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

Organizer(s): Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR, Mumbai), Marco Serone (SISSA, Trieste), Mithat Unsal (NCSU, Raleigh), Pedro Vieira (ICTP-SAIFR São Paulo and PI, Waterloo), Giovanni Villadoro (ICTP), Local Organiser: Mehrdad Mirbabayi

Cosponsor(s): Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)infn, International School for Advanced Studiessissa3

**DEADLINE: 11/08/2019**

Seminar

3 Sep 2019

@ ICTP

Mathematics

Noether-Lefschetz Theory in Toric Varieties

Room: Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room

Speaker(s): William D. Montoya (SISSA)

Seminar Start Time: 16:00

Europe/Rome Timothy Beers is the Grace-Rupley Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, and a co-PI in the Physics Frontier Center JINA-CEE (Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics – Center for the Evolution of the Elements), funded by the US National Science Foundation. He is a former director of the US Kitt Peak National Observatory, and spent 25 years working as a Professor in Physics & Astronomy at Michigan State University. Beers is interested in the origin and evolution of the elements in the Universe, and the assembly of large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way, a field now referred to as Galactic Archaeology. For decades, Professor Beers has designed and executed large-scale surveys of stars in the Milky Way, efficiently sifting through literally millions of individual stars in order to find those objects that have recorded the chemical history of the Universe in their atmospheres. His work has led to the identification of a subset of the so-called carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars that exhibit a characteristic light-element signature (enhanced C, N, O, Na, Si, Mg), now recognized to be due to nucleosynthesis processes associated with the very first stars born in the Universe. Presently he is conducting a survey for so-called r-process-enhanced stars, which are metal-poor stars that exhibit over-abundances of elements produced by the rapid neutron-capture process, and place strong constraints on the origin of over half of the elements beyond iron in the Periodic Table. Abstract: In this, the 150th Anniversary year of Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table, astronomers have pieced together plausible origin stories for most of the elements formed in nature. From the breakthrough observations of Paul Merrill (1952), which first demonstrated that essentially all elements beyond H and He were formed in stars, to the discovery of the astrophysical origin of the rapid neutron-capture elements in binary neutron star mergers (2017), I present a summary of our modern understanding of this fascinating history. I also highlight a number of remaining questions, and how astronomers and physicists are working to fill in our gaps in knowledge. The talk will be livestreamed from the ICTP website. Light refreshments will follow the event. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

4 Sep 2019

@ ICTP

ICTP Colloquium on the Astrophysics Origin of the Elements in the Periodic Table

Address: Strada Costiera 11 34141 Trieste, Italy

Room: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Prof. Timothy Beers, Notre Dame Chair in Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame, USA

Colloquium Start Time: 16:30

Europe/Rome It has been well known and used extensively that the lowest eigenmodes of the QCD quark Dirac operator are described by random matrix theory. More recently it was shown that the high-temerature cross-over to the quark-gluon plasma state is accompanied by an Anderson-type transition in the quark Dirac spectrum. In the talk I will review some recent results concerning this transition. (The presentation will be quite elementary, in particular no familiarity with QCD will be assumed.) SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

6 Sep 2019

@ SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Anderson-type Transition of Quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Speaker(s): Tamás G. Kovács (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Seminar Start Time: 11:00

Europe/Rome Abstract. We study a mirror interpretation of the relation between the exact partition functions of N = (2, 2) Gauged Linear Sigma Models (GLSM) on the two sphere and Kähler potentials on the moduli spaces of the CY manifolds proposed by Jockers, Kumar, Lapan, Morrison and Romo. We use the Batyrev mirror construction for establishing the explicit relation between GLSM and the corresponding mirror family of the Calabi-Yau manifolds, defined as hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

6 Sep 2019

@ ICTP

Strings and Higher Dimensional Theories

(2,2) supersymmetric gauged theories for Calabi-Yau manifolds of Berglund-Hübsch class

Room: Leonardo Building - Euler Lecture Hall

Speaker(s): Alexander BELAVIN (L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

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Seminar Start Time: 14:30

Europe/Rome • SLIDES of SCHOOL LECTURES are online See below under "Slides", or click here, directly • TUTORIALS related material can be found under "Tutorials", otherwise click here. • SCHOOL PROGRAMME IS ONLINE • LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IS ONLINE * * * School on Biophysical Approaches to Macromolecules and Cells: Integrated Tools for Life Sciences and Medicine PURPOSES & DESCRIPTION The application of physics to the life sciences has a long history, but over the last decades there has been a marked acceleration in a variety of related fields. Current approaches require a much closer link between physicists, chemists, computational scientists, on the one hand, and biologists/medical scientists, on the other, as well as the acquisition of a shared “language” and background. The aim of the school is to introduce young African researchers to the latest developments in the field of molecular biophysics, and to help forge links between theoretical and experimental communities, acting as a focus for the emerging biophysical sciences in Africa. The rapid development in the fields of biophysics, structural biology and nanotechnology has made available a new range of tools and approaches that have revolutionized biological and medical research, by allowing scientists to understand biology at the molecular level, manipulate nano-particles and macromolecular objects, and to monitor the behavior of single molecules. These developments are strongly connected to advances in computational biology and structural bioinformatics - ranging from structural biology to nanobiophysics, nanomedicine, single-molecule approaches - and with a revolutionary impact on biotechnology, pharmacology, drug delivery and early diagnostics of wide spread diseases. Topics • Structural Biology • Molecular Biophysics • Single-molecule Experiments • Data Science • Drug Design • Molecular Dynamics • Aqueous Chemistry Lecturers O. AKIN-OJO, EAIFR, Rwanda L. CASALIS, Elettra, Italy P. COSSIO, University of Antioquia, Colombia A. HASSANALI, ICTP, Italy J. FERNANDEZ, Columbia University, USA F. FRATERNALI, King’s College London, UK L. KIRURI,Kenyatta University, Kenya A. LAIO, SISSA, Italy A. A. MOHAMMED KHALID, Göttingen University, Germany M. NGAVOUKA, University Marien Ngouabi, Congo F. OLAJUYIGBE, Federal Univ. of Technology, Nigeria S. ONESTI, Elettra, Italy F. PERISSINOTTO, Elettra, Italy S. POGREBNAYA, NM-AIST, Tanzania M. RIZZI, Univesità del Piemonte Orientale, Italy A. RODRIGUEZ, ICTP, Italy V. RONDELLI, University of Milan, Italy Z. SAYERS, Sabancy University, Turkey C. SCHMIDT, Duke University, USA D.M. SHADRACK, CREATES, NM-AIST, Tanzania H.S. SWAI, CREATES, NM-AIST, Tanzania A poster session will be organized during the School and applicants are encouraged to submit a short poster abstract (max. half page) when submitting their online application: please retrieve relevant templates from below links. A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of African selected participants. There is no registration fee. Female scientists are encouraged to apply. This School adheres to IUcr and IUPAP policies on scientific freedom, affirming non-discrimination on the basis of such factors as ethnic origin, religion, citizenship. language, political stance, gender, or age. The IUCr strives to achieve gender balance in all its institutions and activities bearing in mind other diversity needs and its existing obligations to geographic and academic discipline representation where appropriate. IUPAP calls special attention on conference policies on Free Circulation of Scientists (section 1), and on Harassment (section 4) . - - - ICTP Secretariat: smr3323@ictp.it Arusha - United Republic of Tanzania ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Sep 2019 - 20 Sep 2019

@ Arusha - United Republic of Tanzania

Applied Physics

School on Biophysical Approaches to Macromolecules and Cells: Integrated Tools for Life Sciences and Medicine | (smr 3323)

Secretary: Nicoletta Ivanissevich

Organizer(s): Amna Abdalla Mohammed Khalid (Göttingen University), Maryse Nkoua Ngavouka (University Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville), Silvia Onesti (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste), Lucy W. Kiruri (Kenyatta University), Loredana Casalis (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste), Daniel M. Shadrack (CREATES, NM-AIST, Arusha), Hulda S. Swai (CREATES, NM-AIST, Arusha), ICTP Scientific Contact: Ali Hassanali

Cosponsor(s): International Union of Crystallographyiucr, International Union of Pure and Applied Physicsiupap, NM-AISTnm, CREATEScreates, Douglas Instruments Ltddouglas, MiTeGenmitegen, Gambetti Kenologiagamb, Park Systemspark, Brukerbruker

**DEADLINE: 15/06/2019**

Hosted Activity

9 Sep 2019 - 13 Sep 2019

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

Room: Budinich Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Paolo Gasparini (U Trieste & IRCSS Burlo Garofolo Trieste), Anna Menini (SISSA), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Europe/Rome Abstract: We deal with one-parameter families of differentiable planar vector fields for which the infinity reverses its stability as the parameter goes through zero. The present family may be considered as linear perturbations at infinity of a vector field with some spectral property, for instance, dissipativity. However, the Poincare compactification is not applied in this paper. This is a joint work with B. Alarcon from UFF (Brasil). ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

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Some smooth applications of non-smooth Ricci curvature lower bounds

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19th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Material Science: Total Energy and Force Methods | (smr 3266)

Ceremony

2018 ICTP Prize Ceremony

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Mathematics

On the paramodularity of typical abelian surfaces

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Workshop on Crystal Structure Prediction: Exploring the Mendeleev Table as a Palette to Design New Materials | (smr 3267)

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Mathematics

Kahler Meeting: Notions of stability for cscK metrics

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Optimal Control, Lattice Gauge Theories, and Quantum Annealing

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Mathematics

A coupled bulk-surface reaction-diffusion system

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ICTP Colloquium on Crystallography: Then, Now, and …..?

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Mathematics

On some generalizations of the category of Soergel bimodules

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Applied Physics

Workshop on Rapid Prototyping of Internet of Things Solutions for Science | (smr 3268)

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste School on Mathematical Models of Evolution | (smr 3265)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Algebraic localization of disordered long-range quantum models

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Mathematics

Hypergeometric Motives

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The L-functions and modular forms database project

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar: Tensor Network Methods for Probability Distribution Functions and beyond...

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Mathematics

Moduli of hypersurfaces in weighted projective space

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Special seminar on 'Scientific Experience for a Woman Physicist from Gaza, Palestine"

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Seminar: Identical Suppression and Universality of the Hall Response in Interacting Quantum Lattices

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InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Secretariat Meeting | (smr H572)

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Mathematics

Kahler Meeting: Examples of extremal metrics

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Salam Distinguished Lectures 2019: by Prof. Juan Maldacena (Lecture one: Quantum mechanics and the geometry of spacetime)

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar - Topology, Symmetry, and Anomalies: Investigating Domain Wall Physics in Quantum Hall Nematic States

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