BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ASIAN REGIONAL COLLEGE ON MICROPROCESSORS: TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICAT IONS | (smr 245) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19840604T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19840629T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a02601@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a02601/ LOCATION:COLOMBO Sri Lanka URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a02601/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:LATIN AMERICAN REGIONAL COLLEGE ON MICROPROCESSORS: TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS | (smr 259) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19850610T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19850705T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a02614@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a02614/ LOCATION:BOGOTA Colombia\n URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a02614/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SAND TRANSPORT AND DESERTIFICATION IN AR ID LANDS | (smr 260) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19851118T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19851129T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a02615@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a02615/ LOCATION:KHARTOUM Sudan\n URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a02615/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CONFERENCE ON GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS | (smr 604) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19910319T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19910328T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a02849@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:ORGANIZED IN CONJUNCTION WITH ICTP\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a 02849/ LOCATION:Edinburgh Scotland URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a02849/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP ON THE PHYSICS OF SEMICONDUC TOR MICROSTRUCTURES | (smr 843) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19950213T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19950224T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a03029@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a03029/ LOCATION:CAMPINAS Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a03029/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF TRANSITION METAL OXIDES | (sm r 878) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19951119T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19951205T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a03046@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a03046/ LOCATION:BANGALORE India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a03046/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:FIRST REGIONAL COURSE ON ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN TECHNIQUES HAVANA. C UBA | (smr 912) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19960205T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19960301T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a03076@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:IN COOPERATION WITH INFORMATICA 96\, UNU\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/a03076/ LOCATION:HAVANA Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a03076/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BCSPIN KATHMANDU SUMMER SCHOOL IN PHYSICS\n"CURRENT TRENDS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY"\n(to be held in Kathmandu\, Nepal) | (smr 9 82) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19970519T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19970603T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01518@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01518/ LOCATION:Kathmandu\, URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01518/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CONFERENCE ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN\nNON-PERTURBATIVE QUANTUM FIE LD THEORY\n(to be held and organized in the Republic of Korea) | (smr 995 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19970526T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19970530T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01519@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01519/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01519/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SECOND LATIN AMERICAN COURSE ON DATA ACQUISITION\nAND DATA FILTERI NG ICTP-UNU-UNSL-FOMEC\n(to be held in San Luis\, Argentina) - Open to Sci entists from Latin American countries only - | (smr 991) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19970623T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19970718T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01520@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01520/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01520/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SECOND REGIONAL COURSE ON ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN\nTECHNIQUES (to be held in Medellin\, Colombia) | (smr 1035) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19971020T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19971107T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01533@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01533/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01533/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE USE OF RADIO FOR COMPUTER NETWORKING | (s mr 1110) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19980831T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19980911T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a03214@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:IN COOPERATION AND COSPONSORED: UNU\, UCC\, CSIR\, GHANA ATOMI C ENERGY COMMISSION\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a03214/ LOCATION:CAPE COAST Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a03214/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SECOND AFRICAN REGIONAL COLLEGE ON MICROPROCESSOR-BASED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS IN PHYSICS - THEORY AND APPLICATIONS | (smr 1189) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19990823T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19990911T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a03265@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:CO-SPONSORED BY UNU\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a03265/ LOCATION:DAKAR Senegal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a03265/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP - LATIN AMERICAN SCHOOL ON STRINGS 2000 (ICTP-LASS 2000) | (s mr 1263) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20001009T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20001027T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01283@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01283/ LOCATION:Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01283/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY: MICROPROCESSOR LABORATORY THIRD REGIONAL COURSE ON ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN (REPOSITORY FOR LECTURE NOTES FROM THE SCANNED HISTORICAL ARCHIVE) | (smr 1246) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20001113T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20001130T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a02092@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a02092/ LOCATION:Lima\, Perù URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a02092/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:STRINGS 2001 | (smr 1337) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20010105T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20010110T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01112@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01112/ LOCATION: URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01112/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SOUTHERN AFRICA REGIONAL MODELLING WORKSHOP | (smr 1336) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20010122T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20010202T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01114@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01114/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01114/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lima\, Peru\nADVANCED COURSE ON SYSTEM SIMULATION AND HARDWARE\nSY NTHESIS USING VHDL | (smr 1366) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20020128T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20020215T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01171@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01171/ LOCATION:Lima\, Peru' URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01171/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Santiago\, Chile\nWORKSHOP ON FRONTIERS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20020522T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20020525T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01172@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a01172/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01172/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Manila\, The Philippines\nICTP MICROPROCESSOR LABORATORY ASIAN COU RSE\nON ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN TECHNIQUES USING A\nHARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANG UAGE | (smr 1441) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20021125T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20021213T130000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a01173@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a01173/ LOCATION: URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a01173/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African Workshop on OPEN SOURCE AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPME NT | (smr 1546) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20030602T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20030606T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0321@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0321/ LOCATION:Abuja - Nigeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0321/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional School in High Performance Computing on Linux Clusters(Me rida\, Venezuela\; venue: Universidad de Los Andes - ULA) | (smr 1525) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20031027T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20031107T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0299@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The official web site for this activity is hosted by ULA at th e following address:\n \n http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/HPCLC\n\n//indico.ict p.it/event/a0299/ LOCATION:Merida (Univ. de Los Andes) - Venezuela URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0299/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Microprocessor Laboratory African Regional Course on Advanced VLSI Design Techniques [Venue: College on Engineering (KNUST)\, Kumasi\, Ghana ] | (smr 1526) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20031124T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20031212T113000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0251@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0251/ LOCATION:Kumasi - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0251/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Third Latin American School in String Theory (Brazil) | (smr 1527) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20031201T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20031219T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a02401@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a02401/ LOCATION:Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a02401/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Teaching Workshop on "Accounting for Urban Environment" (Ethiopia) | (smr 1597) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20040105T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20040116T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0382@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0382/ LOCATION:Addis Ababa - Ethiopia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0382/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference and School on Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics (Banga lore\, India)Sch: 25 - 26 June\, Conf: 28 June - 1 July | (smr 1591) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20040625T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20040701T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0372@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0372/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0372/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Asian/Pacific Regional School on Electronic Structure Methods and their Applications (Beijing\, P.R. China) | (smr 1592) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20040719T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20040730T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0374@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Organized in collaboration with:\n\nNSFC - National Natural Sc ience Foundation of China\nICTS - Interdisciplinary Center of Theoretical Studies\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a0374/ LOCATION:Beijing - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0374/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Coupling of cosmological perturbations. Why the CMB theory must b e revised for precision cosmology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20041104T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20041104T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04355@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a04355/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Room 239 URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04355/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Magnetic fluxes\, moduli stabilization and split supersymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20041109T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20041109T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04354@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a04354/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04354/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:JOINT ICTP/SISSA CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR:\n " About effective fi eld theories " DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20041124T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20041124T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04380@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:A new extension of the standard coarse graining procedure in s tatistical physics leads to a new point of view on the (effective) field t heories. These theories take a more precise and consistent form. The pro posed approach can be used for a systematic treatment of fluctuation (corr elation) effects of various length scales. We outline and justify our met hod by some preliminary calculations. Concrete results are given for the critical temperature the Landau parameters of the *4- theory – the fiel d counterpart of the Ising model. Important unresolved problems of the mo dern theory of phase transitions – the problem for the calculation of th e true critical temperature\, and the problem for the ground state propert ies are considered within the framework of the present approach. Consider able progress of the theory is reported.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a04380/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Seminar Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04380/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Microprocessor Laboratory Second Central American Regional Course on Advanced VLSI Design Techniques (Puebla\, Mexico) | (smr 1590) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20041129T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20041217T113000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0373@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE:\n\nCOURSE VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION:\n\nHOTEL POSAD A SAN PEDRO\n2 Oriente No. 202\nPuebla\, Pue\nTel: (52 222) 8915700 Fax: (52 222) 2465376 \n(see "related links" for more info)\n \n\nScientists co nsulting the WEB site of the Centre can use the account:\nsis_update@ictp. it\nto inform us of changes to their personal data\, as published on the W EB SIS (Scientific Information System database).\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event /a0373/ LOCATION:Puebla - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0373/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Workshop on Ecosystems and Tourism in Southern Africa: E conomic and Ecological Resilience | (smr 1685) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050106T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050108T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04217@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a04217/ LOCATION:Chobe - Botswana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04217/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Seminar Follow-up of the Teaching Workshop on Accounting for Urban Environment | (smr 1686) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050111T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050113T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04218@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a04218/ LOCATION:Arusha - United Republic of Tanzania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04218/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP School on LINUX Clusters for High Performance Computing | (sm r 1640) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050117T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050128T131500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04220@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a04220/ LOCATION:Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04220/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Algebra\, Geometry and Algorithms for Young Mathematic ians in Africa | (smr 1688) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050220T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050227T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04221@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a04221/ LOCATION:Nyamey - Niger URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04221/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1st Latin-American School and Conference on: 'Statistical Physics and Interdisciplinary Applications' (School: 28 February - 9 March 2005\; Conference: 10 - 12 March 2005) | (smr 1687) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050228T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050312T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04219@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a04219/ LOCATION:Havana - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04219/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP – INFM-DEMOCRITOS – ISMO - IUT School on: Electronic-st ructure calculations and their applications in materials science | (smr 16 90) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050425T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050506T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04223@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a04223/ LOCATION:Isfahan - Islamic Republic of Iran URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04223/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First International Workshop on Climate Variability over Africa | (smr 1689) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050515T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050526T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04222@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Workshop is intended to review recent progress in understa nding climate variability and trends (of both natural and anthropogenic or igin) over Africa\, and their impact on the hydrological resources of the continent. It is open to young researchers and PhD students working in th e areas of Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics\, Climatology and Oceanography \, from countries in Africa that are members of the United Nations\, UNESC O\, or IAEA.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a04222/ LOCATION:Alexandria - Egypt URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04222/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First Regional Workshop on Distributed Laboratory Instrumentation Systems | (smr 1692) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050718T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050812T093000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04225@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE:\nScientists consulting the WEB site of the Centre can use the account: sis_update@ictp.it \nto inform us of changes to thei r personal data\, as published on the WEB SIS (Scientific Information Syst em database).\n\nVENUE:\nDepok Campus - Department of Physics - University of Indonesia\n\nLOCAL CONTACT:\nSurya Darma\nInstrumentation and Control Laboratory (LINK)\nDepartment of Physics\nFaculty of Math and Sciences\nUn iversity of Indonesia\nJakarta\, Indonesia\nsurya@fisika.ui.ac.id\, sdcpri @yahoo.com\nTel. (62 21) 7870160 ext.258\, 7872609\,7872610\nMobile: (62 8 1) 8661064\nFax. (62 21)787634\n\nACCOMMODATION:\nWisma Makara UI\nKampus UI Depok 16424\nJawa Barat - INDONESIA\nPhone: (62 21) 78883670\, 78883671 \nReservation: (62 21) 78883672\nFax: (62 21) 78883673\nE-mail:wisma@makar a.cso.ui.ac.id\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a04225/ LOCATION:Jakarta - Indonesia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04225/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-INFN Microprocessor Laboratory ICTP-KNUST Regional Microelect ronics Workshop on FPGA and VHDL for Research and Training in Africa | (s mr 1691) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050725T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20050805T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a04224@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE:\nScientists consulting the WEB site of the Centre can use the account: \nsis_update@ictp.it \nto inform us of changes to th eir personal data\, as published on the WEB SIS (Scientific Information Sy stem database).\n\nVENUE:\nKNUST\, Kumasi\, Ghana\n\nLOCAL CONTACT:\nfka@g hana.com (Francis K. Allotey)\ndebrahoa@yahoo.co.uk (Owusu Debrah)\nPhilip Okyere@aol.com (Philip Okyere)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a04224/ LOCATION:Kumasi - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a04224/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First ICTP West African Workshop on Regional Climate and Impacts | (smr 1804) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060116T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060120T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a05381@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The main objective of the workshop is to establish regional cl imate modeling capacity in the West Africa using the ICTP Regional Climate Model (RegCM3). A key focus of the workshop is to promote interdisciplin ary and integrated research collaboration between scientists in the region in the fields of regional climate and impacts. This community will form the basis of an African regional climate research network aimed at develop ing and carrying out relevant research projects. The Workshop will also a ddress infrastructural problems faced by West African scientists and oppor tunities for further collaborative research.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a05 381/ LOCATION:Accra - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05381/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Introductory School on String Theory | (smr 1784) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060605T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060617T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a05255@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05255/ LOCATION:Beijing - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05255/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Summer School and Workshop on: "Electronic Structure Methods and t heir Applications" | (smr 1783) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060710T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060722T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a05235@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05235/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05235/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-NCNST-ICTS Asian/Pacific Regional College on Science at the N anoscale | (smr 1785) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060814T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060825T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a05256@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a05256/ LOCATION:Beijing - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05256/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint IIEES - ICTP International Training Course on:\nSeismology\, Strong Ground Motion and Seismic Waveform Modeling DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060820T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060831T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06131@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06131/ LOCATION:Tehran\, IRAN URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06131/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School/Conference on Statistical Physics and Interdisciplinary App lications | (smr 1786) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060911T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20060922T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a05257@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Asian-Pacific School on Statistical Physics and Interdisciplin ary Applications\n\n11 - 19 September 2006\n\nand\n\nInternational Confere nce on\nRecent Advances in the Interdisciplinary Applications of Statistic al Physics\n\n20 - 22 September 2006\n\nICTS\, Beijing\, P.R. China\n\nThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\, the Int erdisciplinary Center of Theoretical Studies (ICTS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) are jointly organizing the Asian-Pacific School on Statistical Physics and In terdisciplinary Applications and the International Conference on Recent Ad vances in the Interdisciplinary Applications of Statistical Physics.\nThe school will be focused on recent progress in statistical physics and its i nterdisciplinary applications and\, among this wide field\, particularly o n the following topics:\n\n* Introduction to Statistical Physics of Comple x Systems \n* Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics\n* Computer Science and Information Theory\n* Biological Physics \n* Applications to Economics and Social Sciences\n\nThe School will be followed by the International Confe rence that will discuss the newest aspects in these topics.\n\nPARTICIPATI ON\nThe participation to the activities is open to graduate students and p ost-docs from all countries\, which are members of the United Nations\, UN ESCO or IAEA\, and aimed preferably at candidates from the Asian-Pacific r egion. As they will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language.\nAlthough the main purpose of these activities is to help researchers from developing countries\, throu gh a programme of training within a framework of international cooperation \, a limited number of students and post-doctoral scientists from develope d countries are also welcome to attend.\nAs a rule\, travel and subsistenc e expenses of the participants should be borne by their home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare). However\, limited funds are available for some p articipants\, who are nationals of\, and working in\, a developing country \, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who attend both activities. Applicants are requested to specify in their application if they are interested in attending the School\, the Conference or both. There is no registration fee. \n\nThe Application shou ld be completed and returned before 31 May 2006. \n\nSecretariat for appli cants from China Mainland:\nThe applicants should consult the webpage: htt p://www.icts.cn/science/school060911.htm (which will be constantly up-date d)\, and submit applications on-line. For any queries please consult the s ecretariat: Ms. Hui Tang\, Interdisciplinary Center of Theoretical Studies \, CAS\, #55 Zhong Guan Cun Dong Lu\, P.O. Box 2735\, 100080 Beijing\, Chi na (tel.: +86-10-82640456 - fax: +86-10-82640409 - email: icts@itp.ac.cn)\ n\nICTS Home Page: http://www.icts.cn/\n\nSecretariat for applicants from other countries and regions:\nThe Application Form can be obtained at the activity webpage: http://agenda.ictp.trieste.it/smr.php?1786 (which will b e constantly up-dated) or from the activity Secretariat: Ms. Rosa del Rio\ , Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Ref. smr 1786) \, Strada Costiera 11 - 34014 Trieste\, Italy (tel.: +39-040-2240396 - fax : +39-040-224163 - email: smr1786@ictp.it)\n\nICTP Home Page: http://www.i ctp.it/\n\nDIRECTORS\n\nSILVIO FRANZ (ICTP Trieste)\nCLAUDE GODRECHE (CEA Saclay)\nMATTEO MARSILI (ICTP Trieste)\nRICCARDO ZECCHINA (ICTP Trieste)\n HAIJUN ZHOU (ITP Beijing)\n\nTENTATIVE LIST OF LECTURERS\n\nA.J. Bray (Uni versity of Manchester\, U.K.)\nD. Dhar* (Tata Institute\, Mumbai\, India)\ nS. Franz (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy)\nC. Godreche (CEA\, Saclay\, France)\nT . Hwa (Univ. California San Diego\, U.S.A.)\nY. Kabashima (Tokyo Inst. of Technology\, Japan)\nB. Kahng (Seoul Nat'l University\, South Korea)\nJ. K urchan (ESPCI\, Paris\, France)\nS. Majumdar (Univ. P. Sabatier\, Toulouse \, France)\nM. Marsili (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy)\nM. Mezard (Université XI Paris-Sud\, France)\nR. Monasson (ENS\, Paris\, France)\nD. Mukamel (Weiz mann Inst. Science\, Rehovot\, Israel)\nJ.-P. Nadal (ENS\, Paris\, France) \nQi Ouyang (Beijing University\, P.R. China)\nG. Parisi (Università "La Sapienza"\, Rome\, Italy)\nM. Potters (CFM\, Paris\, France)\nS. Redner* ( Boston University\, U.S.A.)\nR. Zecchina (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy)\n\nSpeak ers of the conference also include:\n\nM. Barma (Tata Institute\, Mumbai\, India)\nX.-S. Chen (ITP\, Beijing\, P.R. China)\nL. Cugliandolo* (ENS\, P aris\, France)\nA. Dhar (Raman Research Intitute\, Bangalore\, India)\nQ.Y . Hong (ENS\, Paris\, France)\nG. Hu (Beijing Normal University\, P.R. Chi na)\nG. Iori (City University\, London\, U.K.)\nJ.D. Noh (Chungnam Nat. Un iv.\, Daejon\, Korea)\nL.-H. Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University)\nB.-H. Wa ng (Univ. Science & Tech.\, Hefei\, P.R. China)\nM. Weigt (ISI\, Turin\, I taly)\nK.Y.M. Wong* (Hong Kong Technical University)\nY. Zhang (The Univer sity of Kansas\, Lawrence\, U.S.A.)\nY.-C. Zhang (University of Fribourg\, Switzerland)\nH. Zhou (ITP\, Beijing\, P.R. China)\n\n* to be confirmed\n \n\n DEADLINE\n\nfor requesting participation\n\n31 May 2006\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/a05257/ LOCATION:Beijing - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05257/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seventh Workshop on the Applicability of Environmental Physics and Meteorology in Africa - POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 2007\, PLEASE CHECK 2007 CA LENDAR | (smr 1787) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061002T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061006T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06262@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Seventh Workshop on the Applicability of Environmental Phy sics and Meteorology has been postponed. It will now be held from 26 Febru ary to 2 March 2007. Please check the updated page here\n\n//indico.ictp.i t/event/a06262/ LOCATION:Gaborone - Botswana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06262/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International School and Workshop on Polynomial Automorphisms and Related Topics | (smr 1788) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061009T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061020T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a05259@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Institute of Mathematics\, Hanoi\, Vietnam\, and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\, Trieste\, Ita ly\, are organizing an International School and Workshop on Polynomial Aut omorphisms and Related Topics from October 9 to October 20\, 2006\, in Han oi\, Vietnam. The aim of the conference is to introduce mathematicians fr om Asian developing countries to recent developments in the field of Polyn omial Automorphisms and its related topics in Commutative Algebra and Affi ne Geometry and to promote the collaboration between mathematicians from d ifferent developing and developed countries in this field.\n\nMAIN TOPICS: \n1-Polynomial Automorphisms\;\n2-Jacobian Conjecture and Related topics: Group actions\, locally nilpotent derivations\, the Cancellation Problem \, Linearization Conjectures\, Embedding problem\; \n3-Topology of polynom ials\;\n4-Global diffeomorphisms.\n\nSCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS\n\n1- ADVANCED SC HOOL\, October 9 - 13\, 2006: There will be 5 instructional courses for gr aduate students and young mathematicians from Asian developing countries o n the main topics. \n\n2- WORKSHOP\, 14 - 20\, 2006: This is devoted to an International Conference on recent developments in the field of Polynomia l Automorphisms and its related topics in Commutative Algebra and Affine g eometry with many invited lectures. Beside invited talks there will be opp ortunities for mathematicians to present their research works. \n\nFor mor e information\, please visit the website:\nhttp://www.math.ac.vn/conferenc e/icpa2006/\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a05259/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05259/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnologies ICMNT2006 | (smr 1822) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061119T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061123T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06110@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The aim of the International Conference on Micro and Nanotechn ologies is to provide an open forum for the presentation and discussion of recent research and development results in Microelectronics\, Microsystem s\,\nMicro-fluidics and Nano-Materials/Structures. The ICMNT06 will provi de an opportunity for scientists of many developed and developing countrie s to meet and discuss the main advances in the micro and nanotechnology fi eld.\n\nParticipation of national and international scientists is desired. \n\nParticipants are invited to submit their work under the form of Papers for participants and abstracts for Lecturers. The conference is sponsored by local and international institutes and organizations.\n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/a06110/ LOCATION:Tizi-Ouzou - Algeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06110/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Porting Applications on Computational Grids | (smr 189 6) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061211T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061213T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06324@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nGrid computing is rapidly establishing itself as t he fundamental tool\nfor computational science in the next years. Regional grid\ninfrastructures are developing in many areas of the world\, among w hich\nthe Indian subcontinent\, The Workshop aims at offering an opportuni ty\nto learn how grid computing works to computational scientists from\ndi fferent areas\, providing an overview of the Grid services and\ndiscussing and experimenting on the constraints that the grid paradigm\nimposes on a pplications\, and the requirements that their applications\npresent to the grid infrastructure. \n\nVenue:\n University of Colombo School of Co mputing (UCSC)\, Sri Lanka 46\n\nApplications (by e-mail only) to be addre ssed to:\ngridws@ucsc.cmb.ac.lk indicating full name\, affiliation\, conta ct\, postal address and contact phone number.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a0 6324/ LOCATION:Colombo - Sri Lanka URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06324/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Latin American String School | (smr 1870) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070108T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070125T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06225@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06225/ LOCATION:Bariloche - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06225/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Workshop on "Geometry and Topology of Singularities" | (smr 1892) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070108T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070126T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06275@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Singularity theory is a meeting point of various areas of math ematics and science in general. New discoveries and striking developments are happening day-to-day\, both within singularity theory itself and in it s relations with other areas of mathematics. The purpose of this event is to present some of the basic foundations of singularity theory\, as well a s up-to-date material that brings us up to the boundary of our present kno wledge in various topics. Particular emphasis will be given to the geometr ic and topological aspects of the theory.\n\nThe School and Workshop will concern singularities in both complex and real geometry. As such\, it prov ides a natural continuation of previous schools in singularities held at I CTP in 1991 and more recently\, in Summer of 2005.\n\nThe themes and speci fic topics will include: lagrangian and legendrian singularities\, relatio ns with knot theory\, stratifications of analytic spaces\, topology of sin gular spaces\, gauge theory and new manifold-invariants\, contact and symp lectic geometry\, resolutions of singularities\, toric varieties and topol ogical invariants of algebraic varieties.\n\nThe first week (8-13 January) will consist of elementary lecture courses. The second week (15-20 Januar y) will be organized into advanced lecture courses and there will be also research seminars and conferences during this week. A workshop will be hel d during the third week (22-27 January)\, with the participation of renown experts and a course delivered by Professor Heisuke Hironaka.\n\nMoreover \, the conference will be a celebration of the first 60 years of Professor Lê Dũng Tráng\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a06275/ LOCATION:Cuernavaca - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06275/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Second Latin-American School and Conference on Statistical Physic s and Interdisciplinary Applications | (smr 1871) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070205T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070215T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06230@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06230/ LOCATION:Bento Gonçalves - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06230/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seventh Workshop on the Applicability of Environmental Physics and Meteorology in Africa | (smr 1787) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070226T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070302T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a05258@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:\n\nThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoreti cal Physics (ICTP)\, in collaboration with the Society of African Physicis ts and Mathematicians (SAPAM) and the University of Botswana are jointly o rganising the Seventh Workshop on the Applicability of Environmental Physi cs and Meteorology to be held at the University of Botswana from 2-6 Octob er\, 2006. This series was initiated SAPAM in 1987 as a direct response to the drought situation in Ethiopia and other countries around the horn of Africa\, and aimed at sensitizing African scientists to the need for re-or ientation towards climate-related research.\n\nThis workshop of the series will focus primarily on precipitation processes in the tropics and their representation in numerical models. It is well known that most climate mo dels (global and regional) tend to perform better in mid-latitudes than ov er tropical regions. A better understanding of tropical precipitation pro cesses should lead to an improvement of their representation in climate mo dels. This will advance our capabilities to better prediction of extreme events (flood and drought) and climate at seasonal to multi-decadal scales along with their societal impacts. \n\nThe following specific topics will be covered:\n\nPRECIPITATION PROCESSES IN TROPICAL REGIONS AND THEIR PARA METRIZATION IN CLIMATE MODELS\nDYNAMICS OF TROPICAL MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE S YSTEMS\nUSE OF RADAR IN UNDERSTANDING TROPICAL MESOSCALE SYSTEMS\nADEQUACY OF THE CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS OVER AFRICA FOR THE MODEL VALIDATION\nREGIONA L CLIMATE AND MESOSCALE MODELING\nSEASONAL PREDICTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE\n IMPACTS OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE ON SOCIETY\n_______________________________ ____________\nPLEASE NOTE:\nScientists consulting the WEB site of the Cent re can use the account:\nsis_update@ictp.it\nto inform us of changes to th eir personal data\, as published on the WEB SIS (Scientific Information Sy stem database)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a05258/ LOCATION:Gaborone - Botswana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a05258/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on the Interdisciplinary Science of Global Climate Change : Basic Elements | (smr 1877) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070312T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070404T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06284@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06284/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06284/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar on Disorder and strong electron correlations: "Shining lig ht on correlated electrons in low-dimensional semiconductors" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070426T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070426T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0788@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The low-dimensional electron systems that reside in artificial semiconductor heterostructures of great perfection are a contemporary mat erials base for explorations of collective phenomena and quantum phase tra nsitions. Studies of low-lying elementary excitations by inelastic light scattering offer insights on properties such energetic\, interactions and spin magnetization. We review here recent light scattering results obtain ed from two-dimensional (2D) quantum fluids in semiconductor heterostructu res under extreme conditions of low temperature and large magnetic field\, where the quantum Hall phases are archetypes of novel behaviors. We also consider recent light scattering experiments that have probed the excitat ion spectra of few-electron states in semiconductor quantum dots.\n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/a0788/ LOCATION:ICTP Main Building Lecture Room C URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0788/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fourth Regional Meeting in String Theory | (smr 1872) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070610T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070617T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06226@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06226/ LOCATION:Patras - Greece URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06226/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:I Kodai-Trieste Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics | (smr 1907) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070827T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20070907T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06356@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06356/ LOCATION:Kodaikanal - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06356/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Computational Condensed Matter Physics | (smr 1921) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071105T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071116T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0791@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0791/ LOCATION:Abuja - Nigeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0791/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sub-Saharian Workshop on Mathematical Analysis and Optimization | (smr 1926) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071105T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071125T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0794@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0794/ LOCATION:Abakaliki - Nigeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0794/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Algebraic Approach to Differential Equations | (smr 1873 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071112T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071124T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06287@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06287/ LOCATION:Alexandria - Egypt URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06287/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Regional College on Medical Physics | (smr 1985) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071112T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071123T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07120@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07120/ LOCATION:Mumbai - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07120/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African Regional College on Science at the Nanoscale | (smr 1874) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071119T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20071130T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a06272@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a06272/ LOCATION:Cape Town - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a06272/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hands-on Research on Complex Systems - Winter School | (smr 1914) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080106T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080118T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0784@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a0784/ LOCATION:Bhat\, Gandhinagar 382428 - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0784/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First Latin American Regional Workshop on Distributed Laboratory I nstrumentation Systems in Physics | (smr 1875) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080107T050000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080201T130000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a0727@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a0727/ LOCATION:Valdivia - Chile URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a0727/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Aerosol-Climate Interactions: Mechanisms\, Monitoring\ , and Impacts in Tropical Regions | (smr 1973) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080211T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080215T164500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07185@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07185/ LOCATION:Hurghada - Egypt URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07185/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Second Asian/Pacific Regional School on Statistical Physics and In terdisciplinary Applications | (smr 1974) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080303T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080314T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07190@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07190/ LOCATION:Beijing - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07190/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Seismic Hazard in Asia | (smr 2001) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080331T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080411T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07304@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07304/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07304/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional Advanced School on Physical and Mathematical Tools for th e Study of Marine Processes of Coastal Areas | (smr 1976) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080526T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080606T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07220@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The marine environment is the most important natural resource in Caribbean countries: tourism industry\, fishing and maritime transport are strictly linked to the quality of the ecosystem. It is then crucial to preserve the marine environment and the coastal area (that includes the s ensitive coral reef) from natural and anthropogenic impacts. Caribbean cou ntries are urged to develop strategies and methodologies for the assessmen t of the coastal area as a base for sustainable development. This implies multidisciplinary investigations on the present/past history of pollutants in the marine system\, to identify present environmental impacts and to p redict the time-evolution of the ecosystem. \nThe objective of the course is to train scientists belonging to scientific public institutions\, worki ng in the areas of environmental sciences and coastal management in the Ca ribbean region\, in the use of physical\, analytical and mathematical tool s in assessing and managing the marine coastal environment. The school is also connected with the ongoing IAEA-TC regional project RLA7012.\n\nThe c ourse will be divided in 2 parts/weeks: one dedicated to lectures\, and on e focused on both field-work onboard the r/v “ANTEA” (IRD)\, and on ta rgeted lab-exercises at the CEAC Centre. Intellectual curiosity of partici pants will help.\nAn overview of the up-to-date available technologies for “observation & analysis” of the coastal environment will be presented and discussed in the special session “Looking into the future of marine environmental science”.\n\nTHE SCHOOL WILL BE OPEN TO 15 PARTICIPANTS F ROM THE CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES.\n\nLanguage: English.\n\nProgramme and Travel Information regarding Cuba are available for view and download on the web page.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a07220/ LOCATION:Cienfuegos - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07220/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:WATCH Summer School for Secondary School Students: Introduction to Climate Change and the Water Cycle | (smr 1978) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080602T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080606T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07189@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07189/ LOCATION:Duino - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07189/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First ICTP Regional Microelectronics Workshop and Training on VHDL for Hardware Synthesis and FPGA Design in Asia-Pacific | (smr 1977) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080616T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080711T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07186@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07186/ LOCATION:Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07186/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International School and Conference on Algebraic Geometry\, D-modu les and Foliations | (smr 1980) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080714T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080726T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07187@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07187/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07187/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Electronic Structure Methods | (smr 1979) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080714T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080725T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07188@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07188/ LOCATION:Cape Town - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07188/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems | (sm r 1983) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080729T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080802T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07212@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07212/ LOCATION:Camerino - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07212/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:11th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080914T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20080919T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a07322@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a07322/ LOCATION:Rome\, Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a07322/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sub-Saharian Workshop on Mathematical Analysis and Optimization | (smr 2091) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081103T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081122T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08204@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08204/ LOCATION:Abakaliki - Nigeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08204/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Latin American School on Computational Materials Science | (smr 20 71) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090119T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090130T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08192@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08192/ LOCATION:Santiago - Chile URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08192/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint RID/ICTP/IAEA Workshop on "Neutron probing for compositional and structural characterisation of materials and biological samples" | (s mr 2094) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090511T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090515T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08219@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08219/ LOCATION:Delf't - Netherlands URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08219/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Latin American Tutorial in High Performance and GRID Computing | (smr 2074) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090622T040000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090627T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08194@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08194/ LOCATION:Antioquia - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08194/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:5th Regional Meeting on String Theory | (smr 2075) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090628T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090705T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08195@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08195/ LOCATION:Crete - Greece URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08195/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced Workshop on Spin and Charge Properties of Low Dimensional Systems | (smr 2076) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090629T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090704T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08227@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08227/ LOCATION:Sibiu - Romania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08227/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on How to Build a Habitable Planet and Conference on Oper ational Modeling of Oceanographic Coastal Zones | (smr 2077) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090708T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090722T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08196@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08196/ LOCATION:Cape Town - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08196/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hands-On Research on Complex Systems School | (smr 2090) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090726T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090807T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08201@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Material: see HandsonResearch.org\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a 08201/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08201/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Trends in Nanoscience: Theory\, Experiment\, Technolog y | (smr 2078) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090823T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090830T113000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08225@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a08225/ LOCATION:Sibiu - Romania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08225/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International School on Environmental Nano-Technology (ISENT2009) - POSTPONED TO 2010\, DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED | (smr 2073) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090927T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091001T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08193@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:We regret to inform you that due to some unforeseen circumstan ces\, it has been decided to POSTPONE the\n\nInternational School on Envir onmental Nano-Technology (ISENT2009)\nIsfahan\,Iran\n\nto the year 2010. T he exact new date of the School and another on line Application process fo r year 2010 will be announced later. We also regret any inconveniences tha t this might cause.\n\nDr. Ralph Gebauer\non behalf of the Organizers\n\n/ /indico.ictp.it/event/a08193/ LOCATION:Isfahan - Islamic Republic of Iran URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08193/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International School and Conference on Foliations\, Dynamical Syst ems\, Singularity Theory and Perverse Sheaves | (smr 2079) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091006T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091021T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08197@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Mathematical Faculties of the National University of Uzbek istan (Tashkent) and Samarkand University (Uzbekistan) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\, Trieste\, Italy\, a re organizing an International School and Conference on Foliations\, Dynam ical Systems\, Singularity Theory and Perverse Sheaves from 6 to 21 Octobe r 2009 in Samarkand State University\, Uzbekistan.\n\nThe main aim of this School and Conference is to bring together specialists\, researchers and students working on various aspects of Algebraic Geometry\, of Foliations and of Dynamical Systems to discuss and further develop the interactions a mong these subjects. Some areas of interest are: Singularities in algebrai c and analytic geometry\, Hodge theory\, local and global theory of foliat ions on varieties\, the theory of D-modules and representation theory.\n\n The academic programme consists of a School during the first week and a Co nference during the second week. In the School there will be courses on to pics of current interest taught by leading experts. In the Conference ther e will be Plenary Talks and Sessions on Dynamical Systems\, on Foliations\ , on Hodge theory and perverse sheaves.\n\nSCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME:\n1 - Scho ol\, 6 - 10 October 2009: The following courses will be offered\n- Dynamic al Systems - Professors Azamov A. (Tashkent) and Bruno A.D. (Moscow)\n- G eometry of projective varieties\, Singularities and Perverse sheaves - P rofessors Le Dung Trang (ICTP)\, El Zein F. (IMJ) and Sadullaev A. (Tashke nt).\n- Foliations - Professor Langevin R. (France)\n\n2 - Conference\, 11 - 21 October 2009: The programme consists of morning Plenary Lectures and the following afternoon Sessions:\n- Singularity theory and perverse shea ves (coordinated by Seade J.)\n- Dynamical Systems (coordinated by Solee v A.\, Narmanov A.)\n- Hodge theory (coordinated by El Zein F.)\n- Foliati ons and Catastrophe theory (coordinated by Chaperon M.)\n\nPLENARY LECTURE S SPEAKERS:\nAzamov A. (Tashkent)\, Chaperon M. (IMJ\, Paris\, France)\, Dzhalilov A. (Uzbekistan)\, Gusein-Zade S. (Moscow)\, Ikramov I. (Uzbekis tan)\, Massey D. (Northeastern\, Boston\, USA)\, Movasati H. (IMPA\, Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil)\, Narmanov A. (National Univ. of Uzbekistan\, Tashke nt)\, Popescu-Pampu P. (IMJ\, Paris\, France)\, Snoussi J. (Cuernavaca\, Mexico)\, Soleev A. (Samarkand Univ.\, Uzbekistan)\, Seade J. (Cuernavac a\, Mexico)\, Sadullaev A. (National Univ. of Uzbekistan\, Tashkent)\, Sh ubladze M. (Tbilisi\, Georgia)\, Tosun M. (Istanbul\, Turkey)\, Zaare-Naha ndi. R. (Teheran\, Iran).\n\nParticipation: The school and the conference are open to all mathematicians from all countries which are members of th e United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA. Graduate students from the post soviet union republics and middle east are encouraged to apply.\n\nThe applicatio n form and other information may be found at the web page http://agenda.ic tp.it/smr.php?2079 which will be updated periodically.\n\nSupport: A limi ted number of grants to partially support local expenses are available. Fu nds from the ICTP are available only for participants who are nationals of \, and working in\, developing countries\, who accept to attend the entire activity\, and who are not more than 45 years old.\n\nPossible financial help for participants from advanced countries can be requested directly fr om the Directors of the school.\n\nDeadline for applying for support: 30 May 2009\nContact address: smr2079@ictp.it\n\nPARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS\ nSamarkand State University\, Samarkand\, Uzbekistan\nNational University of Uzbekistan\, Tashkent\nCIMPA (International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics)\, Nice\, France\nIMU (International Mathematical Union)\n\n/ /indico.ictp.it/event/a08197/ LOCATION:Samarkand - Uzbekistan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08197/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional School on Physics at the Nanoscale: Theoretical and Compu tational Aspects | (smr 2081) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091214T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20091225T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a08198@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Nanophysics has emerged in the last decade as a new distinct s ub-branch of physics. It deals with the fundamental physical phenomena th at take place at the nanoscale and that find application in the rapidly de veloping field of nanotechnology.\nTheoretical and computational aspects o f Nanophysics will be covered during this activity.\nThe school is intende d for young promising scientists (students and researchers) from Vietnam\, Laos and Cambodia\, and other South-East Asian countries.\n\nTopics: - Introduction to nanophysics \n - Physics of carbon nanotubes\n - Ph ysics of graphene and graphene nanoribbons\n - Mesosocopic systems \n - Quantum dots\n - Nanowires\, nanoclusters and nanostructures on sur faces\n - Computational approaches based on:\no Density functional theo ry \no Molecular dynamics\n===\n\nINVITED LECTURERS:\n\nI. L. Aleiner (Col umbia Univ.\, New York)\nB.L. Altshuler (Columbia Univ.\, New York)\nK. Ef etov (Ruhr Universität Bochum)\nV.I. Falko (University of Lancaster)\nP. Fulde (MPI\, Dresden / APCTP\, Pohang)\nY. Galperin (University of Oslo)\n R. Gebauer (ICTP\, Trieste)\nM. Kiselev (ICTP\, Trieste)\nV.E. Kravtsov (I CTP\, Trieste)\nF. Mauri (Université Paris VI)\nM.B. Nardelli (N. Carolin a State Univ.\,Raleigh)\nS. Scandolo (ICTP\, Trieste)\nR. Shekhter (Chalme rs University\, Göteborg)\nE. Tosatti (SISSA\, Trieste)\n\n//indico.ictp. it/event/a08198/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a08198/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on Convection in Industrial Applications | (smr 21 76) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100301T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100312T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09179@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09179/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09179/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The 2010 Southwestern Hemisphere Workshop Series on Climate Change : C02\, the Biosphere and Climate | (smr 2175) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100315T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100326T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09178@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09178/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09178/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Latin-American Basic Course on FPGA Design for Scientific Ins trumentation | (smr 2177) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100315T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100331T163000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09180@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Venue: CAECE University\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a09180/ LOCATION:Mar del Plata - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09180/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African School on Nanoscience for Solar Energy Conversion | (smr 2 178) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100503T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100507T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09181@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Deadline dates for this activity:\nYou should note that\, whil e the deadline for submission of your application is 13/03/2010\, there ar e supplementary deadlines. \n\nIf you require a visa for your travels\, we are not able to assist you in obtaining your visa if you submit your appl ication after 16/01/2010. \n\nWe are not able to offer financial support f or applications submitted after 16/01/2010.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a091 81/ LOCATION:Addis Ababa - Ethiopia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09181/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Geophysics\, Geodesy and Tectonics of the North Africa Plate Bound ary for Better Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard Assessments | (smr 2131) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100515T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100521T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09134@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:GENERAL INFORMATION\n\nACCOMMODATION OF PARTICIPANTS\n\nHotel Safir Mazafran - Zeralda (approx 40 km from Algiers)\n\nhttp://www.hotelsa fir-mazalgerie.com/\n\nVENUE OF THE CONFERENCE\n\nUnité de Développement des Equipements Solaires (U.D.E.S.) – Route Nationale N°11 – Bousma ïl (10 km from Hotel)\n\nTransportation from Hotel to the Venue and back will be provided.\n\nParticipants joining from Algiers and surroundings: W e regret to inform that a bus cannot be provided and you are kindly reques ted to reach the venue by your own means.\n\nAirport pick-up will be provi ded.\n\nThe Algerian Organizers have assigned the following four persons f or the airport pick-up:\n\nMr.BOURICHE Amine : cell. 00213 (0) 7 71 33 01 82\n\nMr. ABBOU Mohamed: cell. 00213 (0) 5 52 26 31 76\n\nMs.GUERFI Dahbi a: cell. 00213 (0) 5 58 39 73 29\n\nMs.DJEMAI Amelia: cell. 00213 (0) 5 51 07 98 50\n\nMr. TILIOUINE Mohamed Amine will be in charge of welcoming pa rticipants at Hotel Safir Mazafran. His cell phone nr. is:\n00213 (0) 5 50 83 78 60\n\nFor those of you that would like to present a poster the Boar d size should not exceed mts 1\,20 (width) x 1\,90 (height). The posters w ill be displayed during the whole conference.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a0 9134/ LOCATION:Algiers - Algeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09134/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:UWCAD International Summer School: Water in the Anthropocene | (sm r 2179) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100606T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100612T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09182@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09182/ LOCATION:Duino (TS) - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09182/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CARPATHIAN SUMMER SCHOOL OF PHYSICS 2010 - Exotic Nuclei\, Nuclear and Particle Physics "From nuclei to stars" | (smr 2180) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100620T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100703T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09183@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Invited Lecturers - Week 1\n\nB. RUBIO (Valencia): Exotic nuc lei (3h)\nA. BONACCORSO (Pisa): Reactions with RIB - theory (2h)\nJ. SUHO NEN (Jyvaskyla): Double-beta decay - theory (2h)\nF. FERRONI (Roma): Do uble-beta decay - experiment (2h) \nC. ILIADIS (North Carolina): Issues in nuclear astrophysics (3 hours) \nB. FIELDS (Urbana): BBN and cosmology (2h) \nK.-L. KRATZ (Mainz): s- and r- processes (2h) \nA. SMIRNOV (I CTP): Neutrino properties (2h) \nB. BALANTEKIN (Wisconsin-Madison): Neu trino interactions and neutrino astrophysics (1h)\nC. PENA-GARAY (Valencia ): Solar neutrinos (3 h) \nG. FULLER (San Diego): Supernova neutrinos (3 h) \nF. HALZEN (Madison): Cosmic rays and cosmic neutrinos (4h) \nE. ROU LET (Bariloche): UHE cosmic rays and Auger experiment (1h)\nG. SIGL (Ham burg): UHE cosmic rays and cosmic neutrinos (1h)\nC. VOLPE (Orsay): Diff use Supernova Neutrino (1h)\n\n\nInvited Lecturers – Week 2\n\nN. Auerba ch (Tel Aviv)\nJ. Aysto (Jyvaskyla) \nB.A. Brown (East Lansing) \nC. Bertu lani (Texas A&M Commerce)\nF. Carstoiu (Bucharest) \nM. Cirelli (Saclay) \nR. Cyburt (MSU & JINA) \nH. Ejiri (Osaka) \nP. von Feilitzsch (TUM) \nG. Giacomelli (Bologna)\nA. Giuliani (Insubria)\nM. Hass (Weizmann) \nM. Horoi (CMU) \nF. Ibrahim (Orsay) \nJ. Jose* (Barcelona) \nL. Labarga (Mad rid) \nV. Kolomiiets (Kyiv)\nZ. Majka (FAIR) \nN. Margineanu (Bucharest)\n F. Matovani (Ferrara)\nL. Mosca (Modane)\nT. Motobayashi (Tokyo) \nI. Moci oiu (Penn State)\nA. Mukhamedzhanov (Texas A&M) \nJ. Natowitz (Texas A&M) \nF. Negoita (Bucharest)\nK. Nishikawa (KEK)\nG. Pascovici (Cologne)\nA. P etrovici (Bucharest) \nJ. Pinfold (Alberta\, CERN)\nE. Pollaco (Saclay)\n H. Rebel (Karlsruhe)\nC. Rolfs (Bochum) \nA. Rubbia* (Zurich) \nS. Shlomo (Texas A&M) \nO. Sima (Bucharest) \nL. Sobotka (St. Louis) \nC. Spitaler i (Catania) \nN. Spooner* (Sheffield-Laguna) \nS. Stoica (Bucharest)\nJ. Suhonen (Jyvaskyla)\nM. Thoennessen (MSU) \nL. Trache (Texas A&M)\nR. Trib ble (Texas A&M)\nM. Wiescher* (Notre Dame)\nA. Wolfendale* (Durham) \nP.J. Woods (Edinburgh) \nP. Zarubin (Dubna)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a09183/ LOCATION:Sinaia - Romania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09183/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (A SESMA 2010) | (smr 2204) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100719T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100730T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a1017@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:1st African School on\n“Electronic Structure Methods and App lications”\n\n19 - 30 July 2010\n\nAfrican Institute for Mathematical Sc iences\nMuizenberg\, Cape Town\, South Africa\n\n\nThe African School seri es on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA) is planned on a biennial basis from 2010 to 2020. The schools will emphasize the theory and computational methods for practical calculations. The 2010 school wil l be held at the African Institute for Mathematical sciences (AIMS)\, Muiz enberg\, Cape Town\, South Africa. The school is organized by the Abdus Sa lam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in collaboration w ith the IUPAP Commissions on Physics for Development (C13) and on Computat ional Physics (C20)\, the Italian National Simulation Centre CNR/INFM “D emocritos”\, the South African National Institute of Theoretical Physics (NITheP)\, and the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP).\n\nBACKGROU ND\nDevelopments of new theoretical methods\, algorithms and widely availa ble codes have brought a new era in computational materials science. Becau se of the advent of faster\, cheaper computers\, new algorithms\, and the availability of open source software\, there is a world-wide community of scientists developing new methods and carrying out research on important m aterials problems. With improving networking infrastructure\, it has now b ecome viable for African researchers to join in on this exciting internati onal research effort.\n\nPROGRAMME\nThe workshop will cover methodological aspects such as density functional theory\, pseudopotentials\, plane wave s\, iterative diagonalization methods\, etc. It will also cover the applic ation of electronic structure methods to the mechanical\, dynamical\, elec tronic\, and magnetic properties of materials. This opens a vast terrain f or extensive studies for materials for their scientific and technological value. The workshop will consist of lectures and of hands-on computational laboratories based on the Quantum-Espresso codes.\n\nINTERNATIONAL ADVISO RY PANEL\nR.M. Martin (USA)\, Chair\; O.O. Adewoye (Nigeria)\; M. Alouani (France)\; G. Amolo (Kenya)\; S. Baroni (Italy)\; P. Borcherds (UK)\; R. C ar (USA)\; R. Catlow (UK)\; XinGao Gong (China)\; J. Gubernatis (USA)\; W. Kohn (USA)\; A. Leggett (USA)\; Yu Lu (China)\; N. Marzari (UK)\; S.Y. Me nsah (Ghana)\; B. M'Passi-Mabiala (Congo-Brazzaville)\; S. Narasimhan (Ind ia)\; C.M.I. Okoye (Nigeria)\; D. Pettifor (UK)\; K. Reed (USA)\; S. Scand olo (Italy)\; W. Soboyejo (USA)\; N. Spaldin (USA)\; P. Woafo (Cameroon)\n \nLOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE\nD. Joubert (U. Witwatersrand)\, Chair\; N. C hetty (U. Pretoria)\; Ph. Ngoepe (U. Limpopo)\; B. Masara (SAIP)\n\nPARTIC IPATION\nThe participation in the activity is open to young scientists fro m all countries\, which are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA \, and aimed preferably at candidates from the African continent. As it wi ll be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. Participants should also have an adequate know ledge of Linux and of basic programming. Limited travel funds are availabl e for some participants\, who are nationals of\, and working in\, a develo ping country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is ava ilable only for those who attend the entire School. There is no registrati on fee. The South-African participants are expected to arrange their own t ravel to Cape Town International Airport. Airport pickup\, local accommoda tion and meals will be provided at no charge to all those selected for par ticipation.\n\nThe Application should be completed before 31 March 2010 vi a either of following Activity Web pages:\n\nhttp://cdsagenda5.ictp.triest e.it/full_display.php?smr=smr2204\nhttp://www.nithep.ac.za/general/10.php\ n\nCo-sponsors:\nThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Phys ics (ICTP) Trieste\, Italy\nInternational Union for Pure and Applied Physi cs (IUPAP)\nNational Institute for Theoretical Physics (NITheP)\, South Af rica\nSouth African Institute of Physics (SAIP)\nCNR-IOM-DEMOCRITOS\, Trie ste\, Italy\nInternational Center for Materials Research (ICMR)\, Santa Ba rbara\, USA\nMaterials Computation Center (MCC)\, University of Illinois a t Urbana-Champaign\, USA\nDCOMP\, American Physical Society\, USA\nNationa l Research Foundation (NRF)\, South Africa\nDST/NRF Centre of Excellence i n Strong Materials\, South Africa\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1017/ LOCATION:Cape Town - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1017/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1st Biennial African School on Fundamental Physics and its Applica tions | (smr 2182) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100801T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09185@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09185/ LOCATION:Stellenbosch - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09185/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Third Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School | (smr 2181) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100802T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100813T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09184@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09184/ LOCATION:Buea - Republic of Cameroon URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09184/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-ENEA-IAEA-MEL Summer School Module 2: Mediterranean Coa stal Areas in a Scenario of Climate Change | (smr 2183) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100920T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100924T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09186@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n * ACTIVITY CANCELLED *\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a09186/ LOCATION:La Spezia - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09186/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced Regional Workshop on High Performance and Grid Computing: Towards Enabling e-Science in the Region | (smr 2174) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101025T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101107T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09177@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09177/ LOCATION:Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09177/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Dynamical Systems | (smr 2202) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101123T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101201T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a1016@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Alfateh University\, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the National Authority of Scientific Re search (NASR) are organizing a School on Dynamical Systems to be held from 23 November to 1 December 2010\, in Tripoli\, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.\n\n The School will be organized in 5 mini-courses\, including:\n\nHolomorphic Dynamics - Marco Abate (Univ. Pisa\, Italy)\n\nFractals and Bifurcations - Francesca Aicardi (ICTP\, Italy)\n\nErgodic Theory - Stefano Luzzatto (I CTP\, Italy)\n\nTopological Dynamics - Jana Rodriguez-Hertz (Univ. Montevi deo\, Uruguay)\n\nHyperbolic Dynamics - Isabel Rios (UFF\, Niterói\, Braz il)\n\nORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ABDULKADER M. ELAMIN (NASR\, Libya)\, FAITORI M. OMER (Alfateh University\, Libya)\nALI SAGGER (Alfateh University\, Li bya)\, LAILA TUNSI (Alfateh University\, Libya)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/ a1016/ LOCATION:Tripoli - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1016/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mediterranean School on Nano-Physics | (smr 2218) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101202T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101211T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10106@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The objective of the School is to give to the Master and PhD s tudents and young researchers from developing Mediterranean and African co untries the general vision of the contemporary nano-physics\, practical kn owledge of the modeling methods\, and simulations. The teaching will start from the general theoretical concepts of nano-world. Then the major spect rum of the special problems of nano-physics will be reviewed. The laborat ory training will include both theoretical and experimental methods. Speci al emphasis will be given to problems related with region-important proble ms like solar energy\, water purification\, materials and technologies for local industry\, application of satellite remote sensing methods etc. \nT his activity is part of the "Special projects for Africa" carried out in c ollaboration with the Italian Ministry of Education\, University and Resea rch.\nThe School is organized in the framework of the collaboration progra ms VOLUBILIS\, FP7-ROBOCON and of the network Mediterranean Electronic Mat erials (MeM). It will be held at the Faculty of Science and Techniques of the University of Marrakech.\n\nThe program of the School includes: \n\n- Models of statistical physics in nano-world \n- Phenomenology\, macrosco pic description and finite size effects\n- Monte-Carlo and ab-initio simul ation\n- Ferroelectricity and Nano-ferroelectric materials and devices\n- Nanomagnetism\n- Superconductivity and superconducting device\n- Cabon-bas ed materials for future nanoelectronics\n- Semiconductors\, Nanophotonics \, Spintronics\, Lasers\n- Photovoltaics: Materials and modeling\n- Ecol ogy and Water treatment\n- Physical principles of remote sensing satellit e methods of desert monitoring\n\n\nINVITED LECTURES\n\nAbdelilah Benyouss ef\, University Mohammed V\, Rabat\, Morocco\nAlexandre Buzdin\, Universit y of Bordeaux\, France\nEnrico Drioli\, The Institute on Membrane Technolo gy\, Cosenza\, Italy\nAbderrahmane Kadri\, University of Oran\, Algeria\nA lexey Kavokin\, University of Southampton\, UK\nHamadi Khemahem\, Universi ty of Sfax\, Tunisia\nMikhail Kiselev\, ICTP Trieste\, Italy\nMikhail Port noi\, University of Exeter\, UK\nSiddharth Saxena\, University of Cambridg e\, UK\nSergey Stankevich\, Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth\, K iev\, Ukraine\nPavel Wiegmann\, University of Chicago\, USA\nVictor Yakove nko\, University of Maryland\, College Park\,USA\nIzeddine Zorkani\, Unive rsity of Fes\, Morocco.\n\n\nParticipation\n-------------\nScientists and students from all countries which are members of the United Nations\, UNES CO or IAEA may attend the School. Priority will be given to applicants fr om Africa and from the Mediterranean region.\nThe activity will be conduct ed in English\, therefore participants should have an adequate working kno wledge of that language\nAs a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of th e participants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort shou ld be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least hal f-fare). However\, limited funds are available for some participants who are nationals of\, and working in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who att end the entire activity. There is no registration fee.\n\nDEADLINE \nFor r equesting participation : \n15 September 2010\n\nPLEASE NOTE: lecture not es are available here below and the programme is on Web page http://www.mn anophys.ferroix.net/\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a10106/ LOCATION:Marrakech - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10106/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Latin American String School | (smr 2185) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101203T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101220T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09188@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a09188/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09188/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Research Frontiers in Ultra-Cold Atomic and Molecula r Gases | (smr 2274) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110110T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110114T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10179@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP) and the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences\, Department of Atomic Energy\, India\, in collaboration with the Goa University\, National Phys ical Laboratory\, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research\, India an d the Indian Institute of Atrophysics are organizing a Conference on Resea rch Frontiers in Ultra-Cold Atomic and Molecular Gases to be held at Goa U niversity\, Goa\, India\, from 10 to 14 January 2011. MAIN TOPICS: QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS IN ULTRA-COLD GASES IN OPTICAL LATTICES MIXTURES OF BOS ONIC AND FERMIONIC ATOMS IN TRAPS AND OPTICAL LATTICES COLD MOLECULES QUAN TUM INFORMATION USING ULTRA-COLD ATOMS AND MOLECULES PRECISION MEASUREMENR S WITH ULTRA-COLD GASES Conference Venue: International Center\, Goa\, Goa University Road\, Dona Paula Post\, Dona Paula\, Goa\, 403 004\, India\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/a10179/ LOCATION:Goa - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10179/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS First ICTP Regional Microelectronics Course on VHD L for Hardware Synthesis and FPGA Design in South and Southeast Asia | (sm r 2275) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110131T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110218T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10180@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:ALL LECTURES AND LABORATORY EXERCISES WILL BE HELD AT THE NORT H SOUTH UNIVERSITY - DHAKA\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a10180/ LOCATION:Dhaka - Bangladesh URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10180/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Autumn College on Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems | (smr 2280) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110502T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110513T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10186@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10186/ LOCATION: Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10186/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS Workshop on Regional Climate Change and Impacts Mo deling for Critical Assessment and Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture an d Water Sectors over the Horn of Africa | (smr 2278) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110620T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110624T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10185@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10185/ LOCATION:Nairobi - Kenya URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10185/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Latin American School and Conference of Algebraic Geometry and App lications (ELGA 2011) | (smr 2282) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110801T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110812T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10188@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10188/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires and Cordoba - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10188/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on "Geometric Representation Theory" | (smr 2284) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110801T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110812T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10267@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10267/ LOCATION:Bandung - Indonesia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10267/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Differential Equations\, Nonlinear Optimisation\, Calcul us of Variation and Evolution Equations | (smr 2285) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110901T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111031T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10189@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n * ACTIVITY CANCELLED *\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a10189/ LOCATION:Abuja - Nigeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10189/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sao Paulo ICTP/TWAS Advanced School on Computational Materials Sci ence for Energy and Environmental Applications | (smr 2277) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110905T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110916T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10184@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Deadline (for those not requiring either financial support or visa) extended to 24 July 2011\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a10184/ LOCATION:Santo André - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10184/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS-BC Third Workshop on Satellite Navigation Science and Technology for Africa | (smr 2276) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111024T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111104T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10183@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n * ACTIVITY CANCELLED * \n\n"NEW DATES" 24 OCTOBER - 4 NOVEM BER 2011\nTo avoid overlapping with the 'IRI WORKSHOP 2011' to be held in Hermanus\, South Africa\, 10-14 October 2011\, this workshop has been post poned to 24 October - 4 November 2011. The Organizers apologize for any in convenience this may cause.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a10183/ LOCATION:Abuja - Nigeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10183/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS Workshop on Seismic Sources in Central America: Wh at is the Largest Earthquake each can produce? | (smr 2288) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111030T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111105T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10192@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a10192/ LOCATION:Heredia - Costa Rica URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10192/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International School on Non-linear Dynamics in Complex Systems | ( smr 2286) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111031T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111111T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10190@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10190/ LOCATION:Yaounde - Republic of Cameroon URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10190/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on Applications of Molecular Simulations in Oil an d Gas Industry | (smr 2184) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111101T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111231T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a09187@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n * ACTIVITY CANCELLED *\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a09187/ LOCATION:Abuja - Nigeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a09187/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional Workshop on Optofluidics and Optical Manipulation | (smr 2287) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111107T050000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111111T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10191@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP) is organizing a Regional Workshop on Optofluidics and Optical to be held from 7 November to 11 November\, 2011 at the University of Cape Coas t\, Ghana.\n\nOptical manipulation implies the use of the radiation pressu re of light on small samples immersed in liquid\, gas or vacuum. According ly the technique is called optical tweezers (liquid) or optical levitation (gas or vacuum). Advances in these areas have lead to very interesting a pplication-driven research and technology development. The goals of the w orkshop are to introduce the principles of optical manipulation\, discuss in detail some of the multidisciplinary application areas of interest to W est Africa\, and to have participants run basic experiments under expert s upervision.\n \nThe long-term goals are to foster a sustainable effort in the areas of biophysics and biomedicine in West Africa. Specifically\, a m ajor application in biophysics is the study of the mechanical properties o f cells and of many types of motor molecules and other macromolecules resp onsible for the motion of organelles within cells and the locomotion of en tire cells. Such studies can be initiated with the optical techniques cove red by this workshop. \n\nMAIN TOPICS OF THE SCHOOL:\n\n•Fundamentals of optical manipulation: optical tweezers and optical levitation.\n•Fund amentals of micro-fluidics and phase optical microscopy\n•Fundamentals o f cell mechanics and molecular motors\n•Research topics in optical manip ulation and applications in life science.\n•Experimental demonstrations of optical manipulation.\n•Discussions on instrumentation development\, and possible low cost – high impact applications in physics and biomed icine. \n\nPARTICIPATION\n\nScientists from all countries that are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Workshop. As it wi ll be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of that language. Although the main purpose of the Centre is to help researchers from developing nations through a programme of training activities within the framework of international cooperation\, students an d scientists from developed countries are also welcome to attend. Travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by their home institution. There is no registration fee.\n\nHOW TO APPLY FOR PARTICIPAT ION\n\nThe application form can be accessed at the activity website: http: //agenda.ictp.it/smr.php?2287\n\nOnce in the website\, comprehensive instr uctions will guide you step-by-step\, on how to fill out and submit the ap plication form.\n\nActivity Secretariat:\nThe Abdus Salam International Ce ntre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\n(SMR 2287)\nStrada Costiera 11\nI-341 51 Trieste\, Italy\n\nTelephone: +39-040-2240-455\; Telefax: +39-040-2240- 7455 E-mail: smr2287@ictp.it\nICTP Home Page: http://www.ictp.it\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/a10191/ LOCATION:Cape Coast - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10191/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS Workshop on Low Cost Solutions for Wireless Connec tivity | (smr 2289) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111114T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111125T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10193@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The aim of this activity is to train participants in the plann ing\, designing\, building and maintaining broadband wireless data network s that can cover considerable distances. Such networks can be used to prov ide Internet access\, build Campus networks\, or collect data from remote sensors with scientific\, environmental\, and many other applications. The use of alternative energy source to power the communication devices will be emphasized\, as these solutions are particularly useful in rural areas where grid power may be lacking or unreliable.\nThe development of the Wir eless Training Kit that will be used for this training was sponsored by Un esco and is freely available to be adopted as a teaching instrument for th e interested participants. (El propósito de esta actividad es el de entre nar a los participantes en la plainificación\, diseño\, construcción y mantenimiento de redes inalámbricas de banda ancha que pueden cubrir dist ancias considerable.\nEstas redes pueden usarse para acceso a Internet\, p ara constituir redes de Campus\, o para recolectar datos de sensors remoto s\, con aplicaciones científicas\, ambientales y de muchos otros tipos. S e enfatizará el uso de fuentes alternativas de energía para alimentar a los equipos de telecomunicaciones\, puesto que estas soluciones son partic ularmente relevantes en zonas rurarles en las que el suministro electric p uede no existir o ser deficiente.\nEl kit de entrenamiento en redes inalá mbricas (WTKit) que se utilizará en esta actividad fue desarrollado en el ICTP a solicitud de la UNESCO y puede ser utilizado gratuitamente como in strumento de enseñanza por aquellos participantes que deseen convertirse en instructors en sus respectivas sedes.) El idioma del taller\, incluyend o el material de apoyo\, es el español. La inscripción en el taller es g ratuita para participantes calificados.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a10193/ LOCATION:Guatemala City - Guatemala URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10193/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) | (smr 2412) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111205T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11256@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11256/ LOCATION:Legon - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11256/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on 'Palaeoclimate and human dispersal during Marine Isoto pe Stage 3' | (smr 2283) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111212T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10265@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a10265/ LOCATION:Chennai - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10265/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Latin American School of Phenomenology (LASP) | (smr 2379) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120111T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120119T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11201@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n * ACTIVITY CANCELLED *\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11201/ LOCATION:Bariloche - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11201/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP/SAAO/PI Cape Town International Cosmology School | (smr 2290) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a10194@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Detailed information on the Cape Town International Cosmology School is available on the activity web page (see link below).\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/a10194/ LOCATION:Stellenbosch - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a10194/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Haiti School on Earthquake Science | (smr 2213) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120115T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a1079@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The school will be held in french and is aimed at Haitian stud ents and young scientists. \n\nThe school will cover the following fields: \n \nEarthquake Mechanics: Abdelkrim Aoudia (ICTP)\n\nEarthquake Geology: Yann Klinger (IPGP\, France)\n\nEarthquake Geodesy: Eric Calais (Purdue Un iversity\, USA)\n\nEarthquake Seismology: Françoise Courboulex (CNRS\, Fr ance)\n\nEngineering Seismology and Earthquake Risk: Etienne Bertrand (LRP C\, France)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1079/ LOCATION:Port-au-Prince - Haiti URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1079/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Infectious Diseases | (smr 2279) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120123T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120203T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a1166@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a1166/ LOCATION:Arusha - United Republic of Tanzania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1166/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CIMPA-ICTP Research School on Local Analytic Geometry | (smr 2393) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120204T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120213T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11215@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11215/ LOCATION:Lahore - Pakistan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11215/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Physics (J oint Conference: CBPF-IMPA-ICTP-SISSA-TWAS) | (smr 2383) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120416T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120420T141600Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11207@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11207/ LOCATION:Rio de Janeiro - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11207/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First ICO-ICTP-TWAS Central American Workshop in Lasers\, Laser Ap plications and Laser Safety Regulations | (smr 2381) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120430T040000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120511T153000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11203@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11203/ LOCATION:San Jose - Costa Rica URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11203/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS Workshop on Climate Change in Mediterranean and Ca ribbean Seas: Research Experiences and New Scientific Challenges | (smr 23 82) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120507T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120512T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11205@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Activity Secretariat:\n
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\n
Ms. S. Radosic \nStrada Costiera 11 
I-34151 Trieste\nItaly\n
Telefax: +39-040-22407226 
Telephone: +39- 040-2240226\nsmr2382@ictp.it\n\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11205/ LOCATION:Guayaquil - Ecuador URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11205/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CIMPA-ICTP Research School on Structures Geometriques et Theorie d u Controle | (smr 2394) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120507T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120518T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11214@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11214/ LOCATION:Dakar - Senegal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11214/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2nd African School on 'Electronic Structure Methods and Applicatio ns' (ASESMA 2012) | (smr 2385) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120528T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120608T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11208@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The African School series on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA)\nis planned on a biennial basis from 2010 to 2020. T he schools will emphasize the theory and computational methods for predict ing and understanding properties of materials through calculations at the fundamental level of electronic structure. The 2010 school was held in Ca pe Town and focused on the basic aspects of electronic structure. The 201 2 school will be held at Chepkoilel University College\, Moi University\, Eldoret\, Kenya and will include both basic introductory topics and more a dvanced aspects\, including applications of the methods to the study of ma terials for energy applications. The school is organized by the Abdus Sal am International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in collaboration wi th the IUPAP Commissions on Physics for Development (C13) and on Computati onal Physics (C20)\, the Italian National Simulation Centre CNR/INFM “De mocritos” the South African National Institute for Theoretical Physics ( NITheP).\n\nPROGRAMME\nThe workshop will cover methodological aspects such as density functional theory\, pseudopotentials\, plane waves\, iterative diagonalization methods\, etc. It will also cover the application of ele ctronic structure methods to the mechanical\, dynamical\, electronic\, and magnetic properties of materials. The workshop will consist of lectures and of hands-on computational laboratories based on the Quantum-Espresso c odes. \n\nINTERNATIONAL ADVISORY PANEL\nR.M. Martin (USA\, Chair)\, O.O. A dewoye (Nigeria)\, M. Alouani (France)\, G. Amolo (Kenya)\, S. Baroni (Ita ly)\, P. Borcherds (UK)\, R. Car (USA)\, R. Catlow (UK)\, N. Chetty (South Africa)\, XinGao Gong (China)\, J. Gubernatis (USA)\, W. Kohn (USA)\, A. Leggett (USA)\, Yu Lu (China)\, N. Marzari (Switzerland)\, S.Y. Mensah (G hana)\, B. M'Passi Mabiala (Congo-Brazzaville)\, S. Narasimhan (India)\, C .M.I. Okoye (Nigeria)\, D. Pettifor (UK)\, K. Reed (USA)\, S. Scandolo (It aly)\, W. Soboyejo (USA)\, N. Spaldin (Switzerland)\, P. Woafo (Cameroon). \n\nPARTICIPATION\nThe participation in the activity is open to young scie ntists from all countries\, which are members of the United Nations\, UNES CO or IAEA\, and aimed preferably at candidates from the African continent . As it will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequat e working knowledge of this language. Participants should also have an ad equate knowledge of Linux and of basic programming. Limited travel funds are available for some participants\, who are nationals of\, and working i n\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such s upport is available only for those who attend the entire School. There is no registration fee. Local accommodation and meals will be provided at n o charge to all those selected for participation. \n\nThe Application form should be completed on-line link here below before 17th February 2012.\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11208/ LOCATION:Eldoret - Kenya URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11208/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fourth Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School | (smr 2387) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120617T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120629T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11206@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11206/ LOCATION:Shanghai - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11206/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African School on Fundamental Physics and its Applications | (smr 2388) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120715T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120804T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11213@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11213/ LOCATION:Kumasi - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11213/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First Regional Workshop on Distributed Embedded Systems with Empha sis on Open Source | (smr 2434) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120730T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120817T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a1293@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The objective of the Workshop is to impart knowledge and devel op skills needed to design and build small to large scale distributed meas urement and monitoring instrument environments based on freely available O pen Source technologies. The Workshop aims to teach how to reduce the deve lopment time by using Open Source Frameworks that allow quick and easy cus tomisation to meet individual requirements. The recent introduction of sma rt phones and tablets has opened up possibilities hitherto not available f or people in general\, and scientists in particular\, in developing countr ies. Among the smart phones and tablets in the market today Android is an open source platform and this Workshop aims to exploit their capabilities to implement instrument and measurement systems for physics and other expe riments. It is also the objective of the organizers to create a community of experimental scientists in developing countries with the necessary skil ls and willingness to contribute to a much wider scale and long term data collection/management experiment with ICTP as the main focus that would he lp to build a repository of data pertaining to a number of areas that are of immediate interest to scientists around the world.\n\nDEADLINE OPEN unt il 15 July 2012 ONLY for Malaysian applicants\n=========================== ========================\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1293/ LOCATION:Kampar - Malaysia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1293/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-KFAS Workshop on the Cooperative Experience for Integra ting Land and Water Resources Management in Latin America | (smr 2389) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120813T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120817T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11210@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11210/ LOCATION:Fortaleza - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11210/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS Caribbean School on Electronic Structure Fundament als and Methodologies (an Ab-initio Perspective) | (smr 2390) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120827T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120921T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11216@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE:\n13 MAY 2012\n\nsmr2390@ictp.it\n\n \n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11216/ LOCATION:Cartagena - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11216/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-IAEA-BATAN Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks for Radiation Monitoring | (smr 2521) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121001T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121005T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12151@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12151/ LOCATION:Jakarta - Indonesia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12151/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Quantification of Seismic Hazards in the Indo/Asian Co llision Zone | (smr 2386) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121115T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121121T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11209@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP) is organizing a Workshop on Quantification of Earthquake Hazards in the Indo/Asian collision zone\, to be held from 15 to 24 November 2012 in Kathmandu\, Nepal.\n\n\nSUMMARY AND PURPOSE\n\nMore than 50 million people are at risk in the Himalayan region from future earthquakes\, and associa ted landslides and outburst floods. The population between Pakistan and As sam continues to rise and there is increasing need for informed engineerin g guidelines to aid local planning and construction in the vulnerable coun tries and increase their resilience against future earthquakes.\n \nThe wo rkshop will focus on quantifying collisional processes in the Himalaya and the consequent tectonics imposed on regions to their south in Pakistan\, India and Bangladesh. The goals of the workshop are to build capacity in the theory and application of modern seismological and geodetic methods as well as facilitate new initiatives for cooperation in the Himalayan regio n and develop networks for exchange of ideas and expertise. \n\nThe worksh op will include invited lectures\, panel discussions and training sessions in paleoseismology\, seismology\, GPS geodesy\, InSAR\, seismic hazard an d risk.\n\n\nPARTICIPATION\n\nThe workshop is open to researchers and stud ents from all countries which are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO\, or IAEA. The principal objective of the ICTP is to help researchers from developing countries through a programme of training activities within a f ramework of international cooperation. Participants should have an adequat e working knowledge of English. Due to budget limitations\, every effort s hould be made by candidates to secure either total or partial support for their expenses. However\, funds are available exclusively for a limited nu mber of participants who are nationals of\, and working in\, Himalayan cou ntries. Participants are required to take part in all aspects of this acti vity for its entire duration. There is no registration fee.\n\n\nREQUEST F OR PARTICIPATION\n\nThe on-line application form can be accessed by clicki ng on the link application form below.\n\nOnce in the website\, comprehens ive instructions will guide you step-by-step\, on how to fill out and subm it the application form.\n\nDEADLINE for Applications: 23 September 2012\n \n\n\nACTIVITY SECRETARIAT: \n\nSecretary:\nMs. Gabriella De Meo\nTelepho ne: +39-040-2240-355 Telefax: +39-040-2240-585\nsmr2386@ictp.it\n\n\nCO- SPONSORS:\n\n \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11209/ LOCATION:Kathmandu - Nepal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11209/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS Latin-American Advanced Course on FPGA Design for Scientific Instrumentation | (smr 2384) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121119T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121207T155000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11204@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11204/ LOCATION:Havana - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11204/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Physware 2012: A Collaborative Workshop on Low-Cost Equipment and Appropriate Technologies that Promote Undergraduate-level\, Hands-on Physi cs Education throughout the Developing World | (smr 2375) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121126T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121207T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11199@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11199/ LOCATION:New Delhi - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11199/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-TWAS Conference and Advanced School on Quantification o f Earthquake Hazards in the Caribbean: The Gonave Microplate | (smr 2380) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121210T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20121217T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11202@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a11202/ LOCATION:Santiago de Cuba - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11202/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Targeted Training Activity (TTA): Intraseasonal Monsoon Predictabi lity and Prediction | (smr 2507) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130114T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130125T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12231@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12231/ LOCATION:Pune - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12231/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Modern Topics in Condensed Matter Physics | (smr 2504) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130128T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130208T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12227@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Activity Secretariat:\n
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics\n
Ms. M. Poropat \nStrada Costiera 11\nI-34151 Trieste\, Italy \nTelefax: +39-040-22407540 
Telephone: +39-040-2240540\ n\n Deadline for requesting participation: 28 OCTOBER 2012 \n\nsmr2504@ict p.it\n\n\nUpdated list of INVITED LECTURERS:\n\nG. Aeppli (University Coll ege London)\nD. Belitz (University of Oregon\, Eugene)\nJ. Chakhalian (Uni v. of Arkansas\, Fayetteville)\nN. Dean (Nature Communications\, London)\n A. Fert (Université Paris XI\, Orsay)\nM. Fogler (Univ. of California San Diego\, La Jolla)\nP. Fulde (MPIPKS\, Dresden)\nM. Gabay (Université Par is-Sud\, Orsay)\nH.Y. Hwang (Stanford University)\nP. Kim (Columbia Univer sity\, New York)\nJ. Lesueur (ESPCI\, Paris)\nI. Martin (Los Alamos Nation al Laboratory)\nL.W. Molenkamp (University of Würzburg)\nT.K. Ng (Hong Ko ng Univ. Science & Technol.)\nW. Pickett (University of California\, Davi s)\nG. Stewart (Univ. of Florida\, Gainesville)\nS.C. Zhang (Stanford Univ ersity)\n\n\n \n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12227/ LOCATION:Singapore - Singapore URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12227/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Applications of Wireless Technologies | (smr 2505) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130204T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130215T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12228@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12228/ LOCATION:Bogotá - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12228/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Extreme Weather and Climate Events in the Southern Caucasus - Blac k Sea Region | (smr 2510) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130603T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130607T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12233@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12233/ LOCATION:Tbilisi - Georgia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12233/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:7th Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory | (smr 2511) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130616T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130623T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12234@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12234/ LOCATION:Crete - Greece URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12234/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-NSFC School and Advanced Workshop on Modern Electronic Structure Computations | (smr 2509) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130708T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130712T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12232@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12232/ LOCATION:Shanghai - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12232/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mediterranean Youth Mathematical Championship - MYMC | (smr 2568) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130717T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130719T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13133@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13133/ LOCATION:Rome - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13133/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Algebraic Curves over Finite Fields | (smr 2520) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130722T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130802T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12254@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12254/ LOCATION:Manila - Philippines URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12254/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fundamentals of Ocean Climate Modelling at Global and Regional Sca les | (smr 2512) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130805T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130814T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12235@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12235/ LOCATION:Hyderabad - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12235/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics\, Mathematical Epidemiology a nd Reaction-diffusion Systems | (smr 2519) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130902T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130913T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12253@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12253/ LOCATION:Saint-Louis - Senegal Université Gaston Berger URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12253/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Advanced Techniques on Radiotherapy\, IMRT\, IGRT and VM AT | (smr 2513) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131007T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131011T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12236@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a12236/ LOCATION:Guatemala - Guatemala URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12236/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Capacity Building Workshop on Modeling of Regional Climate and Air Quality for West Africa | (smr 2392) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131007T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131011T215500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a1319@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP) in collaboration with the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny\, Abid jan Cocody are organising the "Capacity Building Workshop on Modelling of Regional Climate and Air Quality for West Africa"\, to be held from 07 - 1 1 October 2013 in Abidjan\, Côte d'Ivoire. \n\nWest Africa is one of the most important aerosols source in World due to the mixing of dust and comb ustion particles present into its atmosphere. These particles interact wit h regional climate and influence the regional air quality. So it appears i mportant to reinforce the regional capacities about Regional climate studi es and air quality monitoring.\n\nThe goals of this workshop are to facili tate cooperation initiative with ICTP and to develop network for ideas and expertise exchange.\n\nSecretariat:\n"Capacity Building Workshop on Model ling of Regional Climate and Air Quality for West Africa"\nc/o SMR 2392 - ICTP\nStrada Costiera 11\nI-34151 Trieste\, Italy\n\nTelefax: +39-040-2240 7455\nE-mail: smr2392@ictp.it \nICTP Home Page: http://www.ictp.it/\n\n//i ndico.ictp.it/event/a1319/ LOCATION:Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1319/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Climate and Impact Modeling for Eastern Africa: Climate\, Water\, Agriculture\, and Health | (smr 2514) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131028T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131108T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12237@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12237/ LOCATION:Addis Ababa - Ethiopia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12237/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional Workshop on Materials Science for Solar Energy Conversion | (smr 2515) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131104T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131108T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12239@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12239/ LOCATION:Cape Town - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12239/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on Synchrotron Radiation Techniques and Nanotechno logy: A Synergic Approach to Life Sciences and Medicine | (smr 2516) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131111T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131122T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12238@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Activity Secretariat:\nTelefax: +39-040-224163 
Telephone: + 39-040-2240346\n\n\n\nsmr2516@ictp.it\n\nDEADLINE FOR APPLICATION:\n9 AUGU ST 2013\n(Due to logistic laboratory reasons this activity has "limited pa rticipation"\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12238/ LOCATION:Stellenbosch - South Africa Cape Town Campus\, Stellenbosch\, Sou th Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12238/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First ICTP-NCP International College on Plasma Physics | (smr 2565 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131111T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131115T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a1369@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1369/ LOCATION:Islamabad - Pakistan NCP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a1369/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Application of RegCM over China and East Asia for Climat e Impact Studies - POSTPONED - NEW DATES TO BE COMMUNICATED | (smr 2391) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131202T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131220T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a11212@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a11212/ LOCATION:Beijing - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a11212/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard and Risk | (smr 2506) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131209T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131220T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12229@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Activity Secretariat:\nTelefax: +39-040-2240585 
Telephone: +39-040-2240576\n\nsmr2506@ictp.it\n\nDEADLINE for requsting participation :\n21st OCTOBER 2013\n\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12229/ LOCATION:Algiers - Algeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12229/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Winter School in Quantitative Systems Biology | (smr 2517) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131209T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131220T190000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12240@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\nActivity Secretariat:\nqsb2013@icts.res.in\n\nDEADLINE for requesting participation:\n15 AUGUST 2013\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a 12240/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12240/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-VAST-APCTP Regional School and Conference on Theoretica l Physics in Topological Phases and Quantum Computation | (smr 2518) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131209T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20131220T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a12241@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Local Secretariat in Vietnam:\n\nMs Duong Thi Man and Dr. Nguy en Thi Kim Thanh\nInstitute of Physics VAST\n10 Dao Tan Street\, Ba Dinh D istrict\, Hanoi\, Vietnam\nTelephone: +84-4-37662107 Telefax: +84-4-37662 107\nmailto:hoithao@iop.vast.ac.vn\n\n\nLocal Secretariat in Trieste:\n\nM s. Marina de Comelli\nICTP The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theore tical Physics\nStrada Costiera 11\, 34151 Trieste\, Italy\nTelephone: +39- 040-2240305 Telefax: +39-040-224163\nsmr2518@ictp.it\n\nDEADLINE for appl ying:\nNEW: 27 SEPTEMBER 2013\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a12241/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a12241/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced Workshop on LHC Physics and Cosmology | (smr 2619) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140203T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140214T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13238@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed to complement graduate education\, e specially in the African countries\, and to provide a direct contact to fi eld's leaders in selected research areas\, heading towards deep impact res earch activities. While open to any interested young researchers\, it is p rimarily intended to serve African young academic community. Thus MSc- and PhD-students and Post-Docs (in an early stage of career) from the Souther n countries are therefore particularly encouraged to apply.\n\nThe LHC is specifically devoted to probe the characterize of the hadronization proces ses\, the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the origin of the weak scale\, so the evolution of the early universe and searches for the variou s types of matter/radiation/energy filling the background geometry and LHC physics appears to be closely related. Recently\, a spectacular progress in astrophysical observations is achieved. It points towards a current era acceleration of our Universe\, something that could be explained either b y a non-zero cosmological constant in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker-Einstein Universe\, or in general by a non-zero dark energy component\, which coul d even be relaxing to zero supporting the geometric interpretation of the acceleration of the Universe today. The accelerating expanding universe ha s been awarded by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.\n\nThe possible cons traints on particle physics models\, obtained by means of combining the LH C and RHIC with astrophysical data will be reviewed. Issues such as super- symmetric dark matter/energy constraints at LHC\, the standard Cosmologica l-Constant-Cold-Dark-Matter model\, superstring-inspired ones and non-equi librium relaxation dark energy models\, the capability of LHC\, RHIC\, etc . measurements in asserting whether super-symmetric matter constitutes par t\, or all\, of the astrophysical dark matter and prospects for improving the constraints in future precision facilities\, such as the International Linear Collider will be discussed. Ultra high energy cosmic rays and thei r acceleration mechanisms and the associated new physics shall be reviewed . The properties of QGP and latest lattice QCD simulations shall be presen ted.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13238/ LOCATION:Cairo - Egypt URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13238/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Open-source Tools for Enhancing Teaching\, Learning and Research in Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) | (smr 2508) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140406T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140411T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13367@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics i s organizing\, in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras\, a Conference on Open-Source Tools for Enhancing Teaching\, Lear ning and Research in Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics (S TEM) disciplines to be held in Tegucigalpa\, Honduras from 6 to 11 April 2 014.INTRODUCTION A growing trend in educational institutions is the use of various electronic and other computer based aids as tools for enhancing t he teaching and learning experience. From simple electronic aids such as p resentation slides\, web based learning management systems and more comple x audio-video based learning/collaborative systems are now widely used in many scientific and academic environments. This conference brings together scientists and educators with an aim on sharing experiences along-side pr actical demonstrations of various open-source tools/techniques for enhanci ng teaching\, learning and research in the STEM disciplines.TOPICS TO BE C OVERED DURING THE ACTIVITY INCLUDE:•Introduction to e-learning\n•Tools for enhancing course management.\n•Tools for enhancing teaching\n•Too ls for enhancing collaborative learning\n•Tools for enhancing grading (a ssignments\, tests and examinations)\n•Tools for enhancing practical lab oratory work \n PARTICIPATION \n\n This activity is aimed primarily at s cientists\, educators and other support staff that currently use or plan t o deploy electronic or computer based tools/aids in supporting teaching\, learning and research in a STEM discipline. Participants from all countrie s\, which are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA\, may attend the workshop\, however\, since this is a regional activity\, priority will be given to applicants coming from the region. \n  \n\n As the School w ill be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of that language. Although the main purpose of the Centre is to help research workers from developing countries through a programme of tr aining activities within a framework of international cooperation\, a limi ted number of students from developed countries are also welcome to attend . As a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should b e borne by their home institutions. Every effort should be made by candida tes to secure support for their fare (or at least half fare). However\, li mited funds are available for some participants\, who are nationals of\, a nd working in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only to those attending the entire activity . There is no registration fee. \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13367/ LOCATION:Tegucigalpa - Honduras URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13367/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:College on Optics and Energy | (smr 2620) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140428T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140509T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13240@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP)\, together with the International Commission for Optics (ICO) and the Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics (MCTP)\, is organizing a College on Optics and Energy\, to be held in Tuxtla Gutiérrez\, Chiapas\, Mexico\, from 28 April – 9 May 2014. \n  \n\n The 21st century is the century of photonics and of the revolution triggered by renewable energy resources. Sustainable technologies and devices for energy production invo lve fundamental aspects of physics such as interaction of matter \n\n wit h radiation\, optics and optical devices for diagnostics\, physical proper ties of materials in the optical band\, the physics of semiconductors and new photo materials. The search for improvement of the efficiency of solar systems \n\n involves also research in new areas like silicon photonics\ , new structures for the harvesting of light\, and the design and fabricat ion of optical elements with high optical performances\, such as photovolt aic concentrators.\n The College is intended to provide researchers from d eveloping nations\, and in particular Latin America and the Caribbean\, wi th a scientific understanding of photovoltaic systems\, recent scientific achievements in nanotechnology and plasmonics for the enhancement of the e fficiency of solar cells and global tendencies towards efficient energy co nsumption and the implementation of smart grids. \n  \n\n TOPICS AND FAC ULTY\n\n • Photonics for solar energy: Fundamentals of photovoltaics (M aria Luisa Calvo\, Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, Spain) \n\n • N ovel photovoltaic materials and light harvesting structures (Rajesh Menon\ , Electrical & Computer Engineering\, University of Utah\, USA)\n\n • O ptical design and novel technologies for high performance solar concentrat ors (Juán Carlos Miñano\, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid\, Cedint\, Campus de Montegancedo\, Madrid\, Spain)\n\n • Organic Photovoltaics (O PVs) (Oracio Barbosa García\, CIO\, México)\n\n • Solar energy storag e. (Arturo Fernández Madrigal\, Instituto de energías renovables\, UNAM\ , Mexico.)\n\n • Smart grid applications: optical fiber communication a nd sensors. Angela Guzmán\, College of Optics and Photonics\, UCF\, Flori da\, USA)\n\n • Lighting: new energy saving sources (Iván Moreno\, Uni versity of Zacatecas\, Mexico)\n\n • Power generation diagnostic with o ptical spectroscopy techniques (Elena Golinelli\, T&D Technologies Departm ent\, RSE – Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico\, Milano\, Italy)\n\n • Wo rkshop: Measuring the local solar spectrum for efficient solar energy harv esting with low cost equipment (Omar Ormachea. CIO\, UPB\, Bolivia)\n\n • Workshop: Characterization of solar cell systems (Miguel Torres-Cisne ros. University of Guanajuato\, Salamanca\, Mexico)\n\n • Workshop: Ene rgy saving sources for lighting (Iván Moreno\, University of Zacatecas\, Mexico)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13240/ LOCATION:Chiapas - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13240/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Internet of Things | (smr 2686) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140526T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140530T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14192@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:IoT describes a system where items in the physical world\, and sensors within or attached to these items\, are connected to the Internet via wireless and wired Internet connections.\nThese sensors can use vario us types of local area connections such as RFID\, NFC\, Wi-Fi\, Bluetooth\ , and Zigbee. Sensors can also have wide area connectivity such as GSM\, G PRS\, 3G\, and LTE.\nThe physical objects that are being connected will po ssess one or more sensors. Each sensor will monitor a specific condition such as location\, vibration\, motion and temperature. In IoT\, these sens ors will connect to each other and to systems that can understand or prese nt information from the sensor’s data feeds. IoT data differs from tradi tional computing. The data can be small in size and frequent in transmissi on.\nThe number of devices\, or nodes\, that are connecting to the network are also greater in IoT than in traditional PC computing. Machine-to-Mach ine communications and intelligence drawn from the devices and the network will allow businesses to automate certain basic tasks without depending o n central or cloud based applications and services.\nThese attributes pres ent opportunities to collect a wide range of data but also provide challen ges in terms of designing the appropriate data networking and security.\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14192/ LOCATION:Cotonou - Benin URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14192/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-NLAGA School in Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory | (smr 2 622) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140604T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140614T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13242@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:DIRECTORS Idris Assani (University of North Carolina\, USA) St efano Luzzatto (ICTP\, Italy) Marcelo Viana (IMPA\, Brazil)LOCAL ORGANIZER S Moussa Balde (Cheikh Anta Diop\, Senegal) Mouhamed Moustapha Fall (AIMS\ , Senegal) Diaraf Seck (Cheikh Anta Diop\, Senegal)Mini-courses: Hyperboli c isomorphisms in Banach spaces (Jose F. Alves\, University of Porto\, Por tugal) Idris Assani (to be confirmed)\, (University of North Carolina\, US A) One-Dimensional Group Actions (Christian Bonatti\, Université de Bourg ogne\, France) Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory (Zoltán Buczolich\, E ötvös Loránd University\, Budapest) Differentiable Ergodic Theory (Stef ano Luzzatto\, ICTP\, Italy) Interval Exchange Maps and Translation Surfac es (Marcelo Viana\, IMPA\, Brazil)\nThe fields of Dynamical Systems and Er godic Theory constitute very active areas of research with connections to many other areas of mathematics\, such as topology\, differential geometry \, control theory\, functional analysis and probability theory. They also have strong connections to several areas of mathematical physics and other disciplines such as biology and engineering. This school will be an intro duction to some current topics in the modern theory of Dynamical Systems a nd Ergodic Theory\, and is aimed primarily at students at the Master's lev el. Specific background in Dynamics or Ergodic Theory is preferred but not required\, whereas a very strong general mathematical background and matu rity is essential. \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13242/ LOCATION:Dakar - Senegal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13242/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on PDEs in Geometry and Physics | (smr 2625) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140630T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140711T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13245@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP)\, Trieste\, Italy\, along with the School of Mathematical Sciences\, University of Science and Technology of China\, Hefei\, P.R. China\, is j ointly organizing the "Advanced School on PDEs in Geometry and Physics"\, to be held at the University of Science and Technology of China\, Hefei\, P.R. China\, from 30 June to 11 July 2014.DIRECTORS Claudio Arezzo (ICTP\, Trieste) Li Jiayu (Chinese Academy of Sciences\, Beijing and USTC\, Hefei ) Tian Gang (Princeton and Beijing)MAIN TOPICS• HEAT EQUATION\n• CURVA TURE FLOWS\n• EXTREMAL METRICS AND STABILITY\n• COMPLEX MONGE-AMPERE E QUATIONS\nThe main focus of the school will be on various aspects of ellip tic and parabolic equations on real and complex manifolds aimed primarily at graduate students and young postdoc and researchers working in Geometri c Analysis and Differential Geometry. Six-hour lecture courses will be giv en by the following lecturers: H.-J. Hein (University of Nantes\, France) Y. Rubinstein (University of Maryland\, U.S.A.) J. Streets (University of California at Irvine\, U.S.A.) Three-hour lecture courses will be given by Q. Zhang (University of California at Riverside\, U.S.A.) Z.L. Zhang (Cap ital Normal University\, Beijing\, P.R. China) A number of advanced one-ho ur seminars will be given during the school by the following speakers: R. Bamler (Berkeley)\, P. Eyssidieux (Grenoble)\, T. Mabuchi (Osaka)\, C. Spo tti (Paris)\, Xiaohua Zhu (Beijing).PARTICIPATION Scientists and students from all countries which are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAE A may attend the School. As it will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. Although the main purpose of the Center is to help research workers from developing cou ntries\, a limited number of students and post-doctoral scientists from de veloped countries are also welcome to attend. As a rule\, travel and subsi stence expenses of the participants should be borne by the home institutio n. However\, limited funds are available for some participants\, to be sel ected by the organizers. Such financial support is available only for thos e who attend the entire activity. There is no registration fee. \n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/a13245/ LOCATION:Hefei - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13245/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MASTANI: Summer School on MAterials Simulation Theory And NumerIcs | (smr 2626) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140630T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140712T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13246@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s\, jointly with the Indian Institute of  Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune is organizing a Summer School on Materials  Simulations Theo ry And Numerics to be held in Pune\, India from 30 June to 12 July 2014.\n In the proposed school we plan to cover ground state density functional t heory (OFT) as well as  advanced techniques. OFT has become an important tool in the area of materials research\, to  understand properties of mat erials\, to complement/understand experimental results\, and design new ma terials. \n  \n\n The school is divided into two weeks. The first week i s intended for all participants\, and will cover the following topics: \n \n \n  Basics of ground state OFT and Kohn-Sham equations \n\n  Pseudop otentials \n\n  Structural optimization \n\n  Hybrid functionals \n\n  Spin polarization including non-collinear magnetism and spin-orbit inte ractions \n\n  DFT+U \n\n  Ab initio molecular dynamics \n\n \n The s econd week of the school will be restricted to participants with considera ble prior experience with OFT calculations\, and will cover the following topics: \n  \n\n  Density functional perturbation (DFPT) theory \n\n  Time dependent OFT \n\n  GW approximation \n\n  Berry phase and mode rn theory of polarization \n\n  Computational Infrared and Raman Spectro scopy \n\n  Efficient use of HPC and Parallelization \n\n \n The mornin g sessions of the school will consist of lectures on the basic principles and methodologies followed by research talks (covering experimental and th eoretical aspects) showing their applications. The afternoon sessions will consist of hands-on tutorials where the participants will do simple calcu lations using the Quantum ESPRESSO distribution \n\n//indico.ictp.it/even t/a13246/ LOCATION:Pune - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13246/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African School on Space Science: Related Applications and Awarenes s for Sustainable Development of the Region | (smr 2631) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140630T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140711T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13251@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13251/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda College of Science and Technology\, Kigali\, Rwan da URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13251/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Algebraic Number Theory and Applications | (smr 2627) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140707T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140719T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13247@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP) and the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics - CIMPA) are jointl y organizing the activity "Algebraic Number Theory and Applications"\, to be held in Dangbo\, Benin from 7 to 19 July 2014.PURPOSE OF THE ACTIVITY A lgebraic number theory is a very active field of mathematics. The purpose of the activity is to introduce the subject and its application to cryptog raphy. After given courses in elementary arithmetic\, algebraic numbers an d p-adic numbers\, we will focus on the basics of elliptic curves and fini te fields. Applications will also figure prominently in the programme\, (s ee courses 'Introduction to cryptography' and 'Elliptic curves and cryptog raphy'. Moreover\, we plan to cover the explicit construction of elliptic curves over finite fields with group of point of large prime order (as nee ded by cryptographic applications) via complex multiplication.TOPICS to be covered by the activity include:\n1.Introduction aux formes quadratiques binaires (Speaker : Claude Levesque\, Université Laval\, Canada)2.Introdu ction to the elementary arithmetic (Speaker : Alain Togbe\, Westville\, US A)3.Introduction to the algebraic number theory (Speaker : Franscesco Papp alardi\, Roma\, Italy)4.Elliptic curves and cryptography (Speaker : Jorge Jimenez Urroz\, UPC\, Barcelona\, Spain)5.Diophantine equations (Speaker : Florian Luca\, Morelia\, Mexico)6.Introduction to the theory of finite fi elds with application to error correcting codes (Speaker : Michel Waldschm idt\, Paris 6\, France)7.Introduction to p-adic numbers (Speaker : Adriana Salerno\, Lewiston\, USA) \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13247/ LOCATION:Dangbo - Benin URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13247/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mock Modular Forms | (smr 2630) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140728T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140808T215500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13250@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n * ACTIVITY CANCELLED *\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13250/ LOCATION:Kozhikode - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13250/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African School for Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP 2014) | (smr 2628) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140803T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140823T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13248@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Physics Topics:\n• Theoretical Physics\n• Experimental Phy sics\n• Applied Physics\n• Monte Carlo Generators\n• Detector Simula tion\n• Diagnostics and Instrumentation\n• Data Analysis\n• Grid an d ComputingFor the participants: Please find below some useful information regarding your travel to Dakar\, Senegal: - a valid passport is necessary to travel by air to Senegal - students not citizens of the the West Afric an country will need a visa for Senegal - a vaccination against yellow fev er is required - other vaccinations are highly recommended (Hepatitis A & B) - anti malaria treatment is also recommended \n\n//indico.ictp.it/even t/a13248/ LOCATION:Dakar - Senegal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13248/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First ICTP-IVIC Latin-American Advanced Workshop on Numerical\, In strumentation and Measurement Methods in Fluid Dynamics | (smr 2629) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140811T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140822T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13249@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Workshop will address fundamental aspects\, recent advance s\, and applications of numerical and experimental methods in fluid dynami cs. It will focus on advanced instrumentation\, measurement concepts\, and scientific fundamentals that enable new methods and applications of instr umentation in this field to train physicists\, engineers and computer scie ntists from Latin-American and Caribbean countries. The scope of the cours e is to promote new experimental methods\, instruments\, measurement techn iques\, and data analysis routines for both laboratory and industrial appl ications as well as to coordinate international activities in this area. B y focusing on theory and applications\, the workshop will also provide an interesting intersection of emerging development of methods as well as a u nique opportunity to learn about recent theoretical advances in the field including analytical\, numerical\, and experimental approaches. The lectur es will focus on a variety of topics from fundamental fluid dynamics to mi cro- and nano-fluidic applications to multiphase flows\, measurement of th e Soret coefficients\, thermocavitation\, optical manipulation\, heavy oil production and transportation\, self-mixing sensor for fluid-flow mapping \, experimental and computational issues of granular flows\, and numerical simulations of fluid-dynamic systems using SPH. It is also expected to st imulate collaborations among Latin-American and Caribbean scientific commu nities for the production of projects and other initiatives which will enh ance the availability of public domain technical resources especially for research and education in developing countries.\nMain topics\n1. Basics in microfluidic device fabrication\, and how to make it simple (Oscar Martin ez)\;\n2. Numerical simulations of fluid-dynamic systems using SPH and oth er methods (Jaime Klapp)\;\n3. Thermal convection at high Rayleigh and Tay lor numbers (Joseph Niemela)\;\n4. Experimental investigation of thermal d iffusion in binary fluid mixtures using thermal lens spectroscopy (Mladen Franko)\;\n5. The fluid dynamics of vortex formation in coalesced drops (J osé R. Castrejón-Pita)\;\n6. Diffuse-interface modeling of liquid-vapor phase separation in droplets (Leonardo Sigalotti and Jaime Klapp)\;\n7. Ph ysical principle and applications of self-mixing effect. An overview of se lf-mixing sensing applications in fluids. Flow profile measurements in mic ro-channels using the optical feedback interferometer sensing technique. ( Tierry Bosch)\;\n8. Fatigue life and dynamic behavior of submarine pipelin es subjected to slug flow and vortex-induced vibrations (Armando Blanco\;\ n9. Experimental and computational issues of granular flows (Leonardo Truj illo)\;\n10. Measurements of Statistical and Dynamical Forces in Silos. In frared Thermography for Thermo-Fluid-Dynamics in Fractured and Homogeneous Porous Media (Abraham Medina and Abel López\;\n11. Flow in microchannels (Luis Rojas-Solórzano)\;\n12. Multiphase flow issues for selection of he avy-oil transportation methods (Adriana Brito\;\n13. Generation of vortice s\, turbulence and thermodynamics of an atomic trapped superfluid (Vanderl ei Bagnato)\;\n14. On the use of thermal wave methods for characterization of nanofluids (Ernesto Marín Moares)\;\n15. Vorticity in a periodic forc ed flow (Gerardo Ruíz Chavarría):\n16. ABACUS-CINVESTAV a Strategic Supe rcomputer Center for Research in Mexico (Isidoro Gitler).\n17. Solar granu lation and their impact on chemical abundances (Claudio Mendoza)\nTentativ e Speakers:\n1. Jaime Klapp\, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nuclea res and Cinvestav-Abacus\, Mexico\;\n2. Joseph J. Niemela\, Abdus Salam In ternational Centre for Theoretical Physics\, Trieste\, Italy\;\n3. Vanderl ei Bagnato\, University of Sao Paulo\, Brasil\;\n4. Ernesto Marín Moares\ , Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología Aplicada\, IPN\, Méx ico\;\n5. Mladen Franko\, University of Nova Gorica\, Slovenia\;\n6. José R. Castrejón-Pita\, University of Cambridge\, United Kingdom\;\n7. Oscar Martinez\, UBA\, Argentina\;\n8. Leonardo Trujillo\, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)\, Venezuela\;\n9. Abraham Medina\, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN)\, Mexico\;\n10. Abel López\, Insti tuto Politécnico Nacional (IPN)\, Mexico\;\n11. Luis Ponce\, IPN\, Tampic o\, Mexico\;\n12. Adriana Brito\, Intevep-PDVSA\, Venezuela\;\n13. Armando Blanco\, Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB)\, Venezuela\;\n14. Luis Rojas- Solórzano\, Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB)\, Venezuela\;\n15. Gerardo Ruíz Chavarría\, Facultad de Ciencias\, UNAM\;\n16. Isidoro Gitler\, Cin vestav-Abacus\n17. Claudio Mendoza\, Centro de Física\, IVIC\nCo-sponsors and partner organizations:\n• International Centre for Theoretical Phys ics\, ICTP\, Italy.\n• Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research\, IV IC\, B. R. Venezuela\n• Latin-American Center for Physics (CLAF).\n• N ational Institute for Nuclear Research\, ININ\, Mexico.\n• Fondo Naciona l de Ciencia y Tecnología FONACIT\, B.R. Venezuela.\n• Intevep-PDVSA\, Venezuela.\n• Cinvestav-ABACUS\, Mexico.\n• Venezuelan Society of Flui d Mechanics (SVMF)\n• Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco.  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13249/ LOCATION:San Antonio de los Altos - Venezuela (the Bolivarian Republic of) URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13249/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2nd International Symposium on Optics and its Applications | (smr 2633) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140901T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140905T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13253@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP)\, in collaboration with the International Commission for Optics (ICO )\, the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (RAU)\, the Institute for P hysical Research of NAS (IPR of NAS)\, the LT-Pyrkal cjsc\, and the facult y of Physics of Yerevan State University (YSU) will organize the 2nd Inter national Symposium on Optics & its Applications (OPTICS-2014)\, which will be held at Yerevan and Ashtarak\, Armenia\, from 1 to 5 September\, 2014. Co-organizing student chapters: the YSU & NAS SPIE Armenian Student Chapte r\, and the BMSTU SPIE & OSA Student Chapters.Cosponsors: the Optical Soci ety (OSA)\, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)\, th e International Commission for Optics (ICO)\, the RAU\, and the LT-PyrkalD irectors: Gagik Buniatyan (LT-PYRKAL\, Armenia) Maria L. Calvo (Universida d Complutense de Madrid\, Spain) Narine Gevorgyan (RAU\, Armenia / ICTP\, Italy) Angela Guzman (CREOL\, USA) Joseph Niemela (ICTP\, Italy) Aram Papo yan (IPR of NAS\, Armenia) Hayk Sarkisyan (RAU\, Armenia / YSU\, Armenia)I nternational Advisory and Program Committees: Chairmen: David Blaschke (Un iversity of Wroclaw\, Poland / JINR Dubna\, Russia)\, and David Sarkisyan (IPR of NAS\, Armenia) Roman Alaverdyan (YSU\, Armenia)\, Levon Aslanyan ( YSU\, Armenia)\, Marcis Auzinsh (University of Latvia\, Latvia)\, Stefano Bellucci (Frascati National Laboratory INFN\, Italy)\, Michael Berry (Univ ersity of Bristol\, UK)\, Aranya Bhattacherjee (University of Delhi\, Indi a)\, Konstantin Bliokh (Advanced Science Institute RIKEN\, Japan / IRE\, U kraine)\, Dmitry Budker (University of California at Berkeley\, USA)\, Vig en Chaltykyan (IPR of NAS\, Armenia)\, Miltcho Danailov (Elettra\, Italy)\ , Carlos Duque (Universidad de Antioquia\, Colombia)\, Vladimir Gerdt (JIN R Dubna\, Russia)\, Gayane Grigoryan (IPR of NAS\, Armenia)\, Rafik Hakoby an (YSU\, Armenia)\, Alexey Kavokin (University of Southampton\, UK)\, Edu ard Kazaryan (RAU\, Armenia)\, Arsen Khvedelidze (Institute of Mathematics \, Georgia)\, Albert Kirakosyan (YSU\, Armenia)\, Radik Kostanyan (IPR of NAS\, Armenia)\, Takayuki Miyadera (Kyoto University\, Japan)\, Levon Mour adian (YSU\, Armenia)\, Atom Muradyan (YSU\, Armenia)\, Armen Nersessian ( YSU\, Armenia / ICTP\, Italy)\, Avinash Pandey (University of Allahabad\, India)\, Luis Ponce (CICATA IPN\, Mexico/Universidad de Havana\, Cuba)\, H artmut Ruhl\, (LMU\, Germany)\, Armin Scrinzi (LMU\, Germany)\, Marat Sosk in (Institute of Physics NASU\, Ukraine)\, Sergue Vinitsky (JINR Dubna\, R ussia)\, Gert von Bally (Centre for Biomedical Optics and Photonics\, Germ any)\, Ruben Zadoyan (Newport Technology & Applications Center\, USA)Local Organizing Committee: Coordinator: Paytsar Mantashyan (IPR of NAS\, Armen ia)\; Managers: David Hayrapetyan (RAU\, Armenia) and Artsrun Martirosyan (IPR of NAS\, Armenia)\; Melanya Grigoryan (Integrator Ltd\, Armenia)\, As tghik Kuzanyan (IPR of NAS\, Armenia)\, Lilit Mantashyan (Guw-Re Ltd Educa tional Centre\, Armenia)Topics: Optical properties of nanostructures Quant um optics & information Singular optics and its applications Laser spectro scopy Strong field optics Nonlinear & ultrafast optics Photonics & fiber o ptics Optics of liquid crystals Mathematical methods in optics This scient ific event will provide good opportunity for optics & photonics field scie ntists and industrial companies for information exchange. The objective of this symposium is to bring together leading specialists and young scienti sts working on various aspects of optics\, to discuss the most recent deve lopments in that area. OPTICS-2014 will combine: invited plenary lectures\ , sectional reports\, presentations of young scientists (there will be spe cial awards from the SPIE Armenian Students Chapter for the best student ’s contributions)\, poster presentations\, laboratory tours\, exhibition and excursion.Preliminary List of Speakers: Alber Gernot\, Technische Uni versitat Darmstadt\, Germany Bellucci Stefano\, Frascati National Laborato ry INFN\, Italy Bergou Janos\, City University of New York\, USA Berry Mic hael\, University of Bristol\, UK Bhattacherjee Aranya\, University of Del hi\, India Blaschke David\, University of Wroclaw\, Poland / JINR Dubna\, Russia Bliokh Konstantin\, Advanced Science Institute RIKEN\, Japan / IRE\ , Ukraine Cabrera Humberto\, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research IVIC\, Venezuela Calvo Maria L.\, Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, Spai n Cowan Thomas\, HZDR\, Germany Dennis Mark\, University of Bristol\, UK D esyatnikov Anton\, Australian National University\, Australia Duque Carlos \, Universidad de Antioquia\, Colombia Ekers Aigars\, University of Latvia \, Latvia Garcia Martin E.\, Universitaet Kassel\, Germany Ghulinyan Mher\ , CMM-Fondazione Bruno Kessler\, Italy Hatsagortsyan Karen\, Max-Planck-In stitut für Kernphysik\, Germany Kavokin Alexey\, University of Southampto n\, UK Khvedelidze Arsen\, Mathematical Institute\, Georgia Machnikowski P awel\, Wroclaw University of Technology\, Poland Manko Vladimir\, Lebedev Physical Institute\, Russia Muminov Khikmat\, Physical-Technical Universit y\, Tajikistan Niemela Joseph\, ICTP Trieste\, Italy Pandey Avinash\, Univ ersity of Allahabad\, India Petrosyan David\, Institute of Electronic Stru cture & Laser\, Greece Ponce Luis\, CICATA IPN\, Mexico/Universidad de Hav ana\, Cuba Reinholz Fred\, University of Luebeck\, Germany Reinholz Heidi\ , University of Rostock\, Germany Rhodes William T.\, Florida Atlantic Uni versity\, USA Ruhl Hartmut\, Ludwig-Maximilians-University\, Germany Scrin zi Armin\, Ludwig-Maximilians-University\, Germany Shahbazyan Tigran\, Jac kson State University\, USA Szafranska Monika\, National Institute of Tele communications\, Wroclaw\, Poland Vekua Temo\, University of Hannover\, Ge rmany Vinitsky Sergue\, JINR Dubna\, Russia von Bally Gert\, Centre for Bi omedical Optics and Photonics\, Germany Zadoyan Ruben\, Newport Technology & Applications Center\, USA\nMaterials of symposium will be published in ADVANCED SCIENCE FOCUS\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13253/ LOCATION:Yerevan-Ashtarak - Armenia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13253/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Geophysical Monitoring and Modeling for Sustainable En ergy and Geohazard Solutions | (smr 2624) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140915T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140925T120000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13244@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:We seek to convene a training workshop in Sub-Saharan Africa d esigned to build capacit in the detection\, understanding\, and mitigation of natural geohazards\, and in the development of alternative energy solu tions. The 10-day training course for African geoscientists will provide s trategic guidance to the international community based on lessons learned from natural hazards and sustainable energy exploration in sub-Saharan \n \n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13244/ LOCATION:KIGALI - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13244/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Advances in Quantum Information: Theory and Application s | (smr 2634) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140915T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140919T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13254@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Local organizing Committee:\nYassine Hassouni\, Chair (UMVA\, Rabat) Asmae Arbaoui\, Communications (UMVA\, Rabat) Morad El Baz\, co-Vic e-Chair/Treasurer (UMVA\, Rabat) El Houssine El Rhaleb\, Registration (UMV A\, Rabat) Mohamed Regueragui (UMVA\, Rabat) Morad El Belkacemi (UMVA\, Ra bat)International organizing Committee:\nA. Bassi (University of Trieste) F. Benatti (University of Trieste) Aziz Bouchene (University of Toulouse) Daniel Braun (University of Tuebingen) Jihane Mimih (American Physical Soc iety\, Ridge\, NY) Antonello Scardicchio (ICTP Trieste)DESCRIPTION\nThe Ab dus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in collabora tion with the University Mohamed V Agdal in Rabat and the COST Action MP10 06\, is organizing a "School in Advances in Quantum Information: Theory an d Applications" from 15 to 19 September 2014\, followed by the "3rd Quantu m Africa Conference: Advances in Quantum Sciences"\, from 22 to 26 Sep 201 4\, both events to be held at University Mohamed V Agdal in Rabat\, Morocc o. The last years have witnessed fast growing developments in the use of q uantum mechanics in technology-oriented and information-related fields\, i ncluding metrology\, nano-devices development\, biophysics together with c omputation\, communication and cryptography. Topics as quantum entanglemen t\, quantum coherence and decohering phenomena both in microscopic and mes oscopic systems have been attracting the interest of a growing number of r esearchers\, especially young ones from developing countries. A School on these themes would provide an invaluable focus on the interdisciplinary ch aracter of these disciplines and of particular importance for young resear chers of the whole of Africa.PARTICIPATION\nApplication to the School is o pen to last year PhD Students and young researchers from all countries tha t are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Activi ty. As it will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequ ate working knowledge of that language. Although the main purpose of the C entre is to help researchers from developing nations through a programme o f training activities within the framework of international cooperation\, students and scientists from developed countries are also welcome to atten d. As a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be made by candidate s to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare). However\, limi ted funds are available for some participants who are nationals of\, and w orking in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire activity. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13254/ LOCATION:Rabat - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13254/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quantum Africa Conference 3: Advances in Quantum Sciences | (smr 2 683) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140922T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140926T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14154@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Local organizing Committee: Yassine Hassouni\, Chair (UMVA\, R abat) Asmae Arbaoui\, Communications (UMVA\, Rabat) Morad El Baz\, co-Vice -Chair/Treasurer (UMVA\, Rabat) El Houssine El Rhaleb\, Registration (UMVA \, Rabat) Mohamed Regueragui (UMVA\, Rabat) Morad El Belkacemi (UMVA\, Rab at)International organizing Committee:\nA. Bassi (University of Trieste) F . Benatti (University of Trieste) Aziz Bouchene (University of Toulouse) D aniel Braun (University of Tuebingen) Jihane Mimih (American Physical Soci ety\, Ridge\, NY) Antonello Scardicchio (ICTP Trieste)ICTP Local Organizer :\nA. Scardicchio (Trieste)QUANTUM AFRICA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR:\nB. Sa nders (Calgary) F. Benatti (Trieste) A. Buchleitner (Freiburg) A. Ekert (S ingapore) P. Knight (London) F. Petruccione (Durban) N. Turok (Waterloo)QU ANTUM AFRICA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR:\nM. Plenio (Ulm) Alain Aspect (Ins titut d’Optique Paris) Angelo Bassi (Trieste) Michael Berry (Bristol) Mo hamed Bourennane (Stockholm) Luiz Davidovich (Rio de Janeiro) Jiangfeng Du (USTC Hefei) Morad El Baz (UMVA\, Rabat) Khalid Bouziane (IUR\, Rabat) Fe sseha Kassahun (Addis Ababa) Abdel-Shafy Fahmy Obada (Al-Azhar\, Cairo) Ge rard Milburn (Queensland) Michele Mosca (Waterloo) Mio Murao (Tokyo Univer sity) Terry Rudolph (Imperial College\, London) Herman Uys (CSIR Pretoria) Rienk van Grondelle (VU Amsterdam)DESCRIPTION\nThe Abdus Salam Internatio nal Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in collaboration with the Univer sity Mohamed V Agdal in Rabat and with the support of the European COST Ac tion MP1006\, the African Institue for Mathematical Sciences and the Afric an Laser Centre\, is organizing the "3rd Quantum Africa Conference: Advanc es in Quantum Sciences"\, from 22 to 26 Sep 2014\, to be held at Universit y Mohamed V Agdal in Rabat\, Morocco. The last years have witnessed fast g rowing developments in the use of quantum mechanics in technology-oriented and information-related fields\, including metrology\, nano-devices devel opment\, biophysics together with computation\, communication and cryptogr aphy. Topics as quantum entanglement\, quantum coherence and decohering ph enomena both in microscopic and mesoscopic systems have been attracting th e interest of a growing number of researchers\, especially young ones from developing countries. Quantum Africa 3 is the third conference in the Qua ntum Africa series\, which is held biennially in Africa. The Quantum Afric a conference series aims to engender exchanges and collaborations between African countries and between Africa and the rest of the world\, enable Af rica to play a leading research and development role in quantum science an d technology\, raise African stakeholder awareness of opportunities. The C onference will cover the following topics: quantum biology\, quantum contr ol\, quantum communication\, quantum dynamics\, quantum foundations\, quan tum information processing\, quantum materials\, quantum metrology\, quant um optics\, quantum spintronics and ultrafast phenomena.PARTICIPATION Appl ication is open to all qualified participants from countries which are mem bers of the UN\, UNESCO and IAEA. The Organizers will select participants upon evaluation of the application forms\, accessible through this webpage (see below link). As a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the part icipants are borne by their home institutions. Some funds are available fo r a limited number of applicants who are nationals of\, and working in\, d eveloping countries. As scarcity of funds allows travel to be granted only in a few exceptional cases\, every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare from their home country. Such financial sup port is available only to those attending the entire Conference. Upon comm unication of positive selection outcome\, selected candidates will be aske d to settle a conference fee\, as follows: • Euro 250 for senior partici pants\; • Euro 150 for junior participants (postdocs and students) to be paid to the University Mohamed V Agdal\, Rabat (see http://www.fsr.ac.ma/ QA3/). Those who wish to present a contributed talk (of 20 minutes)\, are kindly requested to upload title and abstract while going through the onli ne application procedure. File should be in pdf format. \n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/a14154/ LOCATION:Rabat - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14154/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Industrial Physics Forum 2014 - Conference on Industrial Physics i n Emerging Economies II | (smr 2636) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140928T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141003T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13257@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:PURPOSE AND NATURE Given the continuing globalization of advan ced technological development\, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) an d the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) have joined toge ther with the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and ICTP South Americ an Institute for Fundamental Research (SAIFR) to host an Industrial Physic s Forum (IPF) at UNICAMP (The University of Campinas\, Sao Paulo State\, B razil). This IPF follows up on the successful Industrial Physics Forum hel d at ICTP\, Trieste in April 2012. The goal of the IPF is to enlarge the r egional impact of basic and applied research by promoting links between sc ientists\, industry\, and societal needs as a key strategy for sustainable technological advancement. The theme of the conference is "Industrial Phy sics in Emerging Economies" and will focus on a set of technical and polic y topics closely related to scientifically driven economic development in Brazil\, and throughout Latin America more generally. The conference will have a rich array of sessions\, ranging from technical sessions to policy\ , and will include a field experience that will highlight examples of scie nce and scientists contributing to local economic development. Technical t hemes will cover topics such as advanced manufacturing\, energy\, communic ations\, optics\, and health. There will also be the popular Frontiers of Physics talks\, featuring renowned researchers who are making breakthrough scientific contributions. As part of the IPF\, there will be offered a tw o-day short course (Oct. 2-3) on entrepreneurship for scientists\, targete d at general scientific audiences\, including early career scientists\, po st-docs\, and students.ORGANIZERS o Carlos H. Brito Cruz\, UNICAMP/FAPESP o Newton C. Frateschi\, Physics Institute\, UNICAMP o Philip W. Hammer\, A merican Institute of Physics o Joe Niemela\, ICTPPLANNING COMMITTEE o Doug las Arion\, Carthage College o Solomon Assefa\, IBM o Hilda Cerdeira\, IFT - UNESP o Amy Flatten\, American Physical Society o Katharine Gebbie\, NI ST o Jim Hollenhorst\, Agilent o Vengu Lakshminaryanan\, University of Wat erloo o Duncan Moore\, Rochester University o Martin Poitzsch\, Schlumberg er o Anna Quider\, US State Department o Caroline Taylor\, UC Berkeley & U niversity of Bath o Richard Wiener\, Research Corporation for Science Adva ncementPARTICIPATION Scientists and students from all countries that are m embers of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the IPF. As the I PF will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate wor king knowledge of this language. Leaders from academia\, industry\, govern ment\, and NGOs\, as well as students and post-doctoral scientists from de veloped and developing countries are encouraged to attend. As a rule\, tra vel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by their home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure supp ort for their fare (or at least half-fare). Limited funds are available to support some participants\, to be selected by the organizers. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13257/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13257/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced Workshop on Landau-Zener Interferometry and Quantum Contr ol in Condensed Matter | (smr 2677) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140929T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141003T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14133@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The ICTP - Eurasian Centre for Advanced Research (ICTP-ECAR )\, Center for NanoScience (CeNS\, Munich\, Germafly) and Nanosystems Init iative Munich (NIM\, Munich\, Germany) are organizing an Advanced Workshop on Landau - Zener Interferometry and Quantum Control in Condensed Matter\ , to be held in ICTP-CAR Centre\, IZTECH\, Izmir (Turkey)\, from 29th Sept ember to 3rd October 2014.\n The workshop will address recent developments on Landau-Zener dynamics and related quantum control in complex systems i ncluding (but not limited to) many-body effects in ultracold gases\, dissi pative Landau-Zener transitions\, Landau-Zener interferometry in supercond ucting qubits\, double and triple quantum dots. 'spin & charge qubits\, N- V centers and nano-mechanical systems.\n The centra1 idea of this workshop is to bring together various condensed matter communities\, dealing with comRlex systems\, where the nonequilibrium dynamics at avoided crossings i s (other than in pure atomic systems) highly influenced by many-body inter actions and\, in many cases\, environmental fluctuations.\n We expect abou t 100 participants including about 25 invited presentations given by the w orld experts in order to exchange ideas and shape new links beyond the tra ditional community boundaries. We hope to facilitate Landau-Zener interfer ometry and quantum control as one of the key ectroscopic tools in condense d matter systems for the future.\n  \nmail contacts:Dr. Tina Beşeri Sevi m\,\nAcademic Relationstinabeseri@iyte.edu.trKoray Sevim\,\nIT Specialistk oraysevim@iyte.edu.trAhmet Devrim Gozukara\,Secretarydevrimgozukara@iyte.e du.trActivity Secretariat:\nThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theor etical Physics\nStrada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste\, Italy\nTelephone: +39-0 40-2240540\nTelefax: +39-040-22407540smr2677@ictp.it\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/a14133/ LOCATION:Izmir - Turkey URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14133/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First Workshop on Climate Change\, Variability and Modeling over C entral America and Mexico | (smr 2637) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141110T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141114T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13256@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Mexico and Central America are vulnerable regions to extreme c limatic events that causes socio-economical and natural disasters. Central America is a hot spot for climate change impact (Giorgi\, 2006)\, being o ne of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. Recent s imulations performed with RegCM\, contributing to the Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) over Central America have shown t hat the use of regional climate models allows for a better representation of the local climate features and meso-scale phenomena\, such as for \nexa mple tropical cyclones compared with coarser resolution Global Models. The refore\, the main purpose of the workshop will be to provide extensive ses sions focused on the implementation of techniques to carry out analysis of climate variability and climatic change in this area. The use of the regi onal climate model RegCM4 model will be shown as a tool to study climate-r elated phenomena at high resolution. \n \nThis workshop will be organized with lectures and lab sessions which intend to provide a background on cli mate studies focused over Central America and Mexico\, addressing issues l ike theory of regionaI climate dynamics and climatic change. \n\nOne aim o f the workshop is to start a community of users of Regional Climate Modele r focused over Mexico and Central America inline with the CORDEX framework . A limited number of participants is envisioned\, with proven experience in handling climate data\, and that have interest in starting to use the R egCM4 as a tool for regional climate studies.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1 3256/ LOCATION:Ensenada - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13256/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-NCP School on LHC Physics | (smr 2632) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141117T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141128T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13252@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP) is organizing\, in collaboration with the Pakistani National Centre for Physics (NCP)\, a School on LHC Physics to be held in Islamabad\, Paki stan from 25 August to 5 September 2014.INTRODUCTION\nThe Large Hadron Col lider (LHC) is the largest particle accelerator ever built in the history in terms of energy and luminosity. LHC is currently under operation at Eur opean Organization for Nuclear Physics (CERN)\, Geneva. The discovery of t he Higgs Boson was announced by two big LHC experiments called CMS and ATL AS on July 4\, 2012.PURPOSE The purpose of this School is to introduce you ng researchers in particular graduate students how to analyze the data fro m LHC. Several countries in the region are working on LHC such as: China\, India\, Iran\, Malaysia\, Turkey and Pakistan. This particular School is organized in the same spirit as the CMS Data Analysis Schools (CMSDAS) org anized on regular basis by CERN and Fermilab. The School will serve the p urpose of regional school.TOPICS\nThe real goal of the School is “from r aw data to physics publication”. During the School we plan to cover the following areas:•Standard Model and Beyond\n•Higgs Searches and Search es for Exotic Particles\n•Detector Physics\n•Event Generator\n•Analy sis tools for LHC data\nSupplementary lectures related to various programm ing tools needed to analyze LHC data will cover•Operating System (Linux) /Programming Languages (C++\, Python\, Perl)\n•Root/Event Generator – Pythia\n•CMSSW •Data Access using Grid\n•Statistical Techniques and Fitting data using Roofit FORMAT\nThe two-week school will consist of morn ing sessions devoted to inspirational plenary talks combined with the exec ution of a series of so-called "short" and "long exercises" that will repr esent the main goal of the School. The first part of the School will be de voted to "short exercises" (several hours duration) to cover all of the ob jects from jets to muons\, as well as various techniques from event genera tors to setting upper limits. During a 2.5 days intensive session\, focuse d teams of about 6-8 students each\, will perform "long exercises"\, i. e. detailed physics measurements using LHC data. Both short and long exercis es will be designed and facilitated by teams of 2-3 experts. Some long exe rcises go beyond the current state of the art of the corresponding CMS ana lysisPARTICIPATION Scientists and students from all countries that are mem bers of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA\, may attend the School\, howe ver\, since this is a regional activity\, priority will be given to gradua te researchers and research scientists from the region.\nAs the School wil l be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working k nowledge of that language. Although the main purpose of the Centre is to h elp research workers from developing countries through a programme of trai ning activities within a framework of international cooperation\, a limite d number of students from developed countries are also welcome to attend. As a rule travel and subsistence expenses for participants should be borne by their home Institutions. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half fare). However\, limited f unds are available for some participants who are nationals of\, and workin g in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those attending the entire activity. There is no registration fee. \n Activity Secretariat \n\n  \n\n At NCP \n\n e-mail: hcncp2014@ncp.edu.pk \n\n Phone: +92-51-2077360 \n\n  \n\n At ICTP \n\n e-mail: smr2632@ictp.it \n\n Phone: +39 40 2240 551 \n\n Tele fax: +39 40 2240 7551 \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13252/ LOCATION:Islamabad - Pakistan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13252/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Workshop on Singularities in Geometry\, Topology\, Foli ations and Dynamics | (smr 2640) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141124T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141219T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13260@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP)\, Trieste\, Italy\, Centre International de Mathematiques Pures e t Appliquees (CIMPA)\, Nice\, France\, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de M exico (UNAM)\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico\, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan (UAD Y)\, Merida\, Mexico\, are jointly organizing the School and Workshop on S ingularities in Geometry\, Topology\, Foliations and Dynamics. This event is co-sponsored by ICTP\, CIMPA\, UNAM\, UADY and CONACYT. \n  \n\n The School will take place at Instituto de Matematicas\, UNAM\, Unidad Cuernav aca\, Cuernavaca\, Mexico\, from 24 November to 5 December\, and the Works hop will take place at Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan\, Merida\, Mexico\ , from 8 to 19 December 2014. \n  \n\n Singularity theory is a crossroad of various areas of mathematics and science in general. In the last 5 yea rs we have seen striking developments\, both within singularity theory its elf and in its relations with other areas of mathematics. The purpose of t his event is to present some of the basic foundations of singularity theor y\, as well as recent results that brings us up to the boundary of our pre sent knowledge in various topics. Particular emphasis will be given to the theory of singularities in geometry\, topology\, foliations and dynamics.  \n\n  \n\n The first two weeks (24 November - 5 December) will be a ICT P-CIMP A School on the following topics: Local polar varieties in the stud y of singularities of spaces and maps (Bernard Teissier\, France)\; Theori e elementaire des feuilletages holomorphes (Dominique Cerveau\, France)\; Feuilletages holomorphes singuliers (Frank Loray\, France)\; Dynamical Sys tems and valuations (Felipe Cano\, Spain)\; \n\n Arc spaces and the Nash problem (Javier Fernandez de Bobadilla\, Spain)\; Characteristic classes o f singular varieties (Jean-Paul Brasselet\, France)\; Poincare Hopf's theo rem on singular varieties (Jose Seade\, Mexico)\; Invariants of holomorphi c foliations (Laura Ortiz\, Mexico)\; Singularites et valuations: interact ions entre geometrie et algebre commutative (Mark Spivakovsky\, France)\;  \n\n Introduction to mixed singularities and their applications (Mutsuo Oka\, Japan)\; \n\n Singularities and tropical geometry (Fuensanta Aroca\ , Mexico) and (Lucia Lopez de Medrano\, Mexico). \n  \n\n Up-to-date inf ormation about the Programme of the School can be found at the activity we bsite: www.matcuer.unam.mx/eventos/sing2014 \n  \n\n The Workshop will b e held during the third and fourth weeks (8 -19 December)\, with the parti cipation of renown experts. \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13260/ LOCATION:Cuernavaca - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13260/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on South Atlantic circulation variability and change: int egrating models and observations | (smr 2635) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141201T073000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141205T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13255@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP)\, Italy\, in collaboration with the University of Buenos Aires\, CLI VAR\, and CONICET\, is organizing a Workshop on "South Atlantic Circulatio n Variability and Change: Integrating Models and Observations" to be held from December 1-5\, 2014 in Buenos Aires\, Argentina.VENUE\nFundación Pab lo Cassará\, Avenida de Mayo 1194\, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos AiresOBJEC TIVES \nThe workshop will bring together theoreticians\, modelers and obse rvationalists interested in the South Atlantic Ocean region and its intera ctions with other basins.\nThe activity has a strong training component in tended for students and young researchers from South American countries. P articipants will have the opportunity to be in contact with experts from t he international South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC) community and other researchers that have an interest in the region and i ts effects on global circulation. The workshop will convey state-of-the-sc ience knowledge and understanding of the subject\, leading participants to improvements in their research\, knowledge transfer and developing new pr ofessional links.STRUCTURE\nDay 1 and 2: Teaching seminars\, oriented to a dvanced students and young researchers\, on the Meridional Overturning Cir culation and general ocean circulation in the Southern Ocean and South Atl antic: Modelling\, Observations and Theory. Topics will include: - The Sou th Atlantic Circulation -Modelling the Coastal and Regional Circulation in the South Atlantic - The Southern Ocean and global implications - Observa tions in the South AtlanticDay3: Presentations on South Atlantic general t opics. Topics will include: -Recent advances in our understanding of the S outh Atlantic - Recent modelling studies\, global and regional\, of the So uth Atlantic - In-situ observations: past\, on-going and future projects A fternoon poster session where students and researchers may present their w ork.Day 4 and 5: SAMOC & South Atlantic dedicated Workshop. In collaborati on with the SAMOC Initiative.\nAll lectures and training sessions will be held in the English language and proficiency in English is a requirement f or selection. Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for the post er. Limited funds are available to support the attendance of junior scient ists from South America. There is no registration fee for the workshop.\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13255/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13255/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint SAIFR-ICTP School and Workshop on Observational Cosmology | (smr 2638) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141201T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141212T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13258@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a13258/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13258/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Latin American Conference and FPGA School on Advanced Instrumentat ion | (smr 2641) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141201T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141219T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13261@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP\, Italy) and the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC\, Costa Rica ) will jointly organize a Latin-American FPGA  School on Advanced Instrum entation\, to be held in Santa Clara\, Costa Rica\, from 1 to 19 December 2014. The last three days of the school will be dedicated to the first reg ional Conference on Advanced Instrumentation (CRIA 2014) to be also held a t Costa Rica TEC from 17 to 19 December 2014. Specific information about t he Conference can be found a at http://cria2014.instrumentacionavanzada.n et/ \n\n PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL\n\n The aim of school is to introduce phys icists\, engineers\, computer scientists and other scientists to FPGA desi gn methodologies focusing applications in scientific instrumentation. The school will represent a unique opportunity for many of the participants to gain skills for designing and developing complete high performance system s for scientific applications at low cost. Since the main barrier to explo it this technology is knowledge\, this school will contribute to generate know how through hands-on experimental activities with state of the art ha rdware and software. The participants will count on international highly q ualified lecturers and laboratory assistants who are selected professional s from academy\, research centers and industry. This will contribute to pr ovide a balanced perception and deeper understanding about limitations\, t rends and potentialities of this key technology. The School will contain a bout 35 hours of lectures and 35 hours of tutorials and assisted hands on laboratory sessions. During the last three days of the school\, the select ed applicants will also participate to the first regional conference on ad vanced instrumentation (CRIA 2014). It is expected to enhance the capabili ties of researchers\, teachers\, and engineers in exploiting cost-effectiv e programmable logic devices for their instrumentation needs and R&D for s cientific and academic purposes. By promoting networking and open internat ional collaborations and by stimulating a community of experimental scient ists with the necessary skills and willingness to contribute to collaborat ive open hardware/software research projects\, this school will contribute to alleviate the lack of stimuli and isolation that typically afflicts ma ny professionals from developing countries. \n -------------------------- --------------------\n El Centro Internacional de Física Teórica Abdus Salam (ICTP\, Italia ) y el Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC) org anizarán conjuntamente la \n \n Escuela Latinoamericana de FPGA en Inst rumentación Avanzada que se celebrará en Santa Clara\, Costa Rica\, del 1 al 19 diciembre\, 2014. Los tres últimos días de la Escuela estarán d edicados a la Primera Conferencia Regional sobre Instrumentación Avanzada (CRIA 2014 http://cria2014.instrumentacionavanzada.net/) que también se celebrará en el TEC del 17 al 19 diciembre de 2014\n\n\n \n Objetivo de la Escuela\n \n Introducir físicos\, ingenieros \, informáticos y otros científicos experimentales a las metodologías de diseño de FPGA con é nfasis en aplicaciones en instrumentación científica. La Escuela represe ntará una oportunidad única para muchos de los participantes para adquir ir habilidades de diseño y desarrollo de sistemas de alta complejidad y b ajo costo para aplicaciones científicas y de educación superior.\n Dado que la principal barrera para explotar esta tecnología es el conocimient o\, esta Escuela contribuirá a generar know-how por medio de actividades experimentales con hardware y software de última generación. Los partici pantes contarán con profesores y asistentes internacionales altamente cal ificados provenientes del mundo académico\, científico e industrial\, co ntribuyendo de este modo a proporcionar una percepción equilibrada y una comprensión más profunda acerca de las limitaciones\, tendencias y poten cialidades de esta tecnología clave.\n \n La Escuela prevé aproximadame nte 35 horas de clases teóricas y 35 horas de prácticas de laboratorio c on supervisión y asistencia técnica. Como parte de la escuela\, los últ imos tres días \, serán dedicados a la participación a la Primera Confe rencia Regional sobre Instrumentación Avanzada (CRIA 2014).\n \n Como re sultado principal se espera mejorar las capacidades de investigadores \, p rofesores\, e ingenieros en la explotación de dispositivos lógicos progr amables para sus necesidades de investigación y desarrollo de instrumenta ción avanzada. También se espera promover la creación de redes y colabo raciones internacionales para proyectos de hardware y software abiertos. L a Escuela se propone paliar la falta de estímulos y aislamiento que frecu entemente afecta a muchos profesionales en países en vías de desarrollo.  \n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13261/ LOCATION:Santa Clara - Costa Rica URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13261/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School in Computational Algebra and Number Theory | (smr 2642) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141205T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141210T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13262@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP)\, Trieste\, Italy\, is organizing a  School in Computational Alg ebra and Number Theory\, to be held in Montevideo\, Uruguay\, from 5 –  10 December 2014.\n Facultad de Ingeniería - Universidad de la Repúbli ca\n Julio Herrera y Reissig 565\, 11300\, Montevideo\, Uruguay\n  \n\n T his school is a satellite of FoCM'14\n  \n\n TOPICS AND FACULTY\n\n \n T eresa Krick (Universidad de Buenos Aires)\n\n Arithmetic Nullstellensätze and Applications \n\n The purpose of these lectures is to introduce Hilb ert's Nullstellensatz\, a cornerstone in Algebraic Geometry\, and comment on its effective aspects\, including degree and height aspects when the de fining field admits a notion of height. We will introduce the ingredients used to obtain sharp estimates\, which\n\n can be useful on their own\, an d present some applications (by others) to problems on finite fields. \n  \n\n Christophe Ritzenthaler (Université Rennes 1)\n\n \n Elliptic Curv es and its Applications to Cryptography \n\n The course will be a brief i ntroduction to elliptic curves and its applications to cryptography and is divided into 4 lectures: \n  \n\n - definition(s) of an elliptic curve\ , group law\, isomorphisms\, torsion points\, Weil pairing. \n\n - ellipt ic curves over finite fields: two proofs of Hasse-Weil bound. \n\n - elli ptic curves over finite fields: how to count points? Overview of the diffe rent methods. \n\n - application to cryptography: protocols\, attacks and zoology of the existing models. \n\n \n Peter Stevenhagen (Universiteit Leiden) \n\n \n Algebraic Number Theory \n\n \n - roots of the topic: Fe rmat\, Euler\, quadratic reciprocity. \n\n - algorithmic requirements for the theory\, e.g. in view of the number field sieve. \n\n - working in n umber rings: integrality\, (explicit) ideal factorization \n\n - geometry of numbers\, finiteness theorems (class group\, Dirichlet unit theorem).  \n\n - Dedekind zeta function\, computing fundamental number field invar iants\, \n\n - local-global aspects: local fields\, adeles\, ideles. \n\ n - number field sieve.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a13262/ LOCATION:Montevideo - Uruguay URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13262/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:3rd African School on 'Electronic Structure Methods and Applicatio ns' (ASESMA) | (smr 2623) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150119T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150130T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14344@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The African School series on Electronic Structure Methods a nd Applications (ASESMA) is planned on a biennial basis from 2010 to 2020. The schools emphasize the theory and computational methods for predicting and understanding properties of materials through calculations at the fun damental level of electronic structure. Previous schools were held in Cape Town\, South Africa (2010) and Eldoret\, Kenya (2012).\n\n  \n\n TOPICS\ n\n The activity will cover basic methodological aspects such as density f unctional theory\, pseudopotentials\, plane waves\, iterative diagonalizat ion methods\, etc. It will also cover the application of electronic struct ure methods to the mechanical\, dynamical\, electronic\, and magnetic prop erties of materials. This school will focus in particular on:\n\n A) Optic al properties with time-dependent DFT and GW methods\n\n B) Quantum Monte Carlo methods\n\n C) Molecular Dynamics\n\n  \n\n It will consist of lect ures and of hands-on computational laboratories based on state-of-the-art codes. Each participant will engage in a project depending upon his/her le vel. The projects will vary from calculation of the stable structures of m aterials for those without previous background in density functional calcu lations to more advanced calculations for those with more experience.\n\n  \n\n PARTICIPATION\n\n The participation in the activity is open to youn g scientists from all countries which are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA\, and aimed preferably at candidates from the African conti nent. As it will be conducted in English\, participants should have an ade quate working knowledge of this language. Participants should have a backg round in solid state physics or chemistry at advanced undergraduate level\ , and be familiar with basic use of Linux and computer programming. Limite d travel funds are available for some participants\, who are nationals of\ , and working in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 yea rs old. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire Sch ool. There is no registration fee. Local accommodation and meals will be p rovided at no charge to all those selected for participation. \n\n  \n\n Further information may also be retrieved at      http://146.141.41. 27/\n\n  \n\n DEADLINE   for requesting participation :   19th Octobe r 2014\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14344/ LOCATION:Johannesburg - South Africa University of Witwatersrand\, Johanne sburg URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14344/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Current Trends in Frustrated Magnetism | (smr 2699) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150209T083000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150213T193000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14239@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy) in cooperation with Jawaharlal Nehru University (J NU\, New Delhi\, India) is organizing a Workshop on "Current Trends in Fru strated Magnetism" to be held in New Delhi from 9 - 13 February 2015.\nThe objective of the Workshop is to provide a means for experts and young res earchers from developing as well as developed countries to come together a nd become aware of the exciting new developments in the field of frustrate d magnetism\, with a healthy mix of pedagogy with advances. Besides servin g as a meeting point for active workers in the field\, it will offer a muc h needed opportunity for other participants to learn about and get interes ted in this beautiful and challenging subject. Frustrated magnetism has lo ng been a subject of active research and continues to be so in the present times. It deals with the problems of both classical as well as quantum na ture wherein the competing interactions or lattice geometries or disorder so "frustrate" the spins that it becomes hard for them to attain any order . Starting as a model exercise of antiferromagnetically interacting Ising spins on triangular lattice many decades ago\, the subject has grown treme ndously into a diverse field with current interests. While the resonating valence bond (RVB) theory of high-Tc superconductivity in cuprates helped resurge it in the 90's\, it has subsequently prospered very well on its ow n. The Workshop will focus on the progress in theoretical and experimental studies of frustrated magnets with emphasis on Kagomé\, Shastry-Sutherla nd and Kitaev problems\, magnetic monopoles in the spin-ice pyrochlores\, exotic quantum phases and transitions thereof\, and emulation of quantum s pin models using ultra-cold atoms on optical lattices. Their possible appl ications in material science and quantum information processing will also be discussed. The activity will combine lectures which pedagogically summa rize the main challenges and recent results in each area with short presen tations. Poster sessions will be arranged to stimulate discussions. An int roductory session aimed at giving the young participants an overview of th e basic concepts in frustrated magnetism will be held in the afternoon of 8th February to facilitate their participation in the workshop during 9-13 February 2015.TOPICS INCLUDE:\n• Quantum/classical frustrated systems\n • Systems with spin-orbit interaction\n• Metal-insulator transition on frustrated lattices\n• Entanglement & frustration\n• Disordered local and itinerant magnets\n• Magnetic structures in ultra-cold atomic syste msParticipation Scientists from all countries that are members of the Unit ed Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Workshop. As it will be conduct ed in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. Although the main purpose of the Centre is to help research workers from developing countries\, through a programme of training activ ities within a framework of international cooperation\, a limited number o f students and post-doctoral scientists from developed countries are also welcome to attend. As a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the part icipants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be m ade by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare) . However\, limited funds are available for some participants\, who are na tionals of\, and working in\, a developing country. Such support is availa ble only for those who attend the entire activity. There is no registratio n fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14239/ LOCATION:New Delhi - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14239/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-IITM-COLA/GMU Targeted Training Activity (TTA) on "Modelling and Prediction of Asian Monsoons: Improving Physical Processes" | (smr 271 3) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150209T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150220T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14260@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:LIMITED PARTICIPATION:\nThe TTA activity is exclusively tailor ed to train scientists from developing countries. Since 2004\, the ICTP Ea rth System Physics section has conducted “Targeted Training Activity (TT A)\,” a specialized educational activity with a team-oriented nature. Th is team-oriented aspect is aiming to develop groups of scientists who can work together on a specific goal within a developing-country institution. Previous TTAs on the seasonal predictability in tropical regions have been successful to initiate seasonal climate prediction researches and contrib uted to operational application in the developing countries.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/a14260/ LOCATION:Pune - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14260/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-CIMPA School on Minimal Surfaces\, Overdeterminated Problems and Geometric Analysis | (smr 2748) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150408T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150415T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14259@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP) and the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics - CIMPA) are jointl y organizing the "School on Minimal Surfaces\, Overdeterminated Problems a nd Geometric Analysis"\, to be held at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)\, Santiago\, Chile from 8 to 15 April 2015.TOPICS:\nIn this r esearch school topics related to minimal surfaces\, overdetermined problem s and\, more generally\, geometric analysis will be studied.\nThe main obj ective is to present to students and young researchers how tools from diff erential geometry and analysis of partial differential equations can be co mbined to obtain interesting\, new results in both fields.\nMinimal surfac es theory and geometric analysis are very active topics in Brazil. These t heories are quite advanced and expect to spur developments in new areas. F or example Allen-Cahn equation which models two phases transitions is a co unterpart of the minimal surface equation in semilinear elliptic partial d ifferential equations. Since the resolution of the De Gorgi conjecture by the group of non linear PDEs in Chile there have been growing interest in geometric aspects of semilinear elliptic equations. Regularity theory of a minimizer of an elliptic functional is at the origin of the subject\, beg inning with the work of Modica. De Giorgi’s conjecture is related to the Bernstein problem in minimal surface theory. Other topics like overdeterm ined problems show a deep interaction between differential geometry\, vari ational problems and PDE. Some classification of the space of Alexandrov e mbedded domain has been recently establish using Weierstrass representatio n and minimal surfaces techniques.\nFurther information about the activity can be found on the CIMPA web page and on the local activity web page.Adm inistrative and scientific coordinators: \n- Laurent Hauswirth (Universit é Paris-Est) hauswirth@univ-mlv.fr\n- Mariel Saez (PUC\, Chile) msaezt@ma t.puc.clScientific Committee:\nCamillo De Lellis (Zurich)\nManuel Del Pino (U. Chile)\nLaurent Hauswirth (Paris-Est)\nMichal Kowalczyk (U. Chile)\nR afe Mazzeo (Stanford)\nFrank Pacard (Polytechnique)Organizing Committee:\n Mariel Saez (PUC)\nMichal Kowalczyk (U. Chile)FORMAT AND PARTICIPATION:We expect to bring researchers and students in differential geometry from Sou th America in view of promoting interaction with the Chilean PDE group.\nT he activities of the School will include four mini-courses and several res earch talks.\nAlthough it is expected that participants should have workin g knowledge of basic aspects of differential geometry and analysis present ations will be accessible to students and\, in general\, to a public of no n-experts in these topics.\nAll expositors are leading experts on their su bjects\, which will give an opportunity to the participants to get acquain ted with the basic techniques in the area and to be exposed to the current state of art.APPLICATION PROCEDURE:Applicants from Chile should contact M ariel Saez (msaezt@mat.puc.cl)\, activity's local organizer.Applicants fro m outside Chile should apply online following the instructions given on th e school pages (see links above).DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION:   30 November 2014\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14259/ LOCATION:Santiago - Chile URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14259/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Scientific Programming and Man agement of Open Source Software Packages (13 - 24 April 2015) followed by the MCnet School on Event Generators (27 - 30 April 2015) | (smr 2763) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150413T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150430T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14258@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n PLEASE NOTE:  the reference web-page for this activity inc luding all the presented material is available hereINVITED LECTURERS: (as of 7.4.15)\n Jon Butterworth (University College\, London)\n Raphael Cobe (NCC)\n Ivan Girotto (ICTP)\n David Grellsheid (ICTP/Durham University)\n Axel Kohlmeyer (ICTP/Temple University)\n Beraldo Leal (NCC)\n Leif Loennb lad (Lund University)\n Olivier Mattelaer (Durham University)\n Christine Rasmussen (Lund University)\n Andrzej Siodmok (CERN)\n Jennifer Thompson ( Durham University)\n Gabriel von Winckler (NCC)\n The Hands-on Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Scientific Programming and Management of Open Sou rce Software Packages (13 - 24 April) focuses on disseminating best practi ces and building fundamental skills in creating\, extending and collaborat ing on modular and reusable software frameworks with a scripting language interface. The curriculum also covers using modern collaborative software management tools\, testing frameworks\, and embedding structured documenta tion into software packages.\n\n \n The Monte Carlo School (27 - 30 April) provides a four day course of training in the physics and techniques used in modern Monte Carlo event generators via a series of lectures and pract ical sessions. The School is aimed at advanced doctoral students and young postdocs. The core sessions comprise: a series of introductory lectures o n the physics of event generators\; a series of hands-on tutorials using a ll of the MCnet event generators for LHC physics\; and evening discussion sessions with Monte Carlo authors.\n\n \n Both events will take place at t he São Paulo Campus of the São Paulo State University (UNESP)\, in Brazi l and will be sponsored by the Center for Scientific Computing (NCC/UNESP) \, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP\, Trieste)\, ICTP So uth American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR)\, European Pa rticle physics Latin American NETwork (EPLANET)\, European Union Monte Car lo Network (MCnet)\, São Paulo Research and Analysis Center (SPRACE).INTE RNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: \n Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR\, Brazil)\n Ivan Girotto (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy)\n David Grellscheid (IPPP\, Durham U niversity\, UK)\n Axel Kohlmeyer (Temple Univ\, Philadelphia\, USA)\n Sér gio Novaes (NCC and SPRACE\, Brazil)LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: \n Eduardo Bach (NCC\, Brazil)\n Rogério Iope (NCC\, Brazil)\n Beraldo Leal (NCC\, Brazil)\n Gabriel von Winckler (NCC\, Brazil)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1 4258/ LOCATION:São Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14258/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Modern Trends in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics: F rom Low-Dimensional Nanoscale Systems to Advanced Materials for Photovolta ics | (smr 2701) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150518T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150529T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14241@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14241/ LOCATION:Khiva - Uzbekistan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14241/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Conference and School on Structure\, Tectonics and E arthquakes in the Alborz-Zagros-Makran Region | (smr 2712) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150522T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150531T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14263@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Geological Survey of Iran 'GSI'\, the Abdus Salam Inter national Centre for Theoretical Physics 'ICTP'\, Trieste\, and the Earthqu akes Without Frontiers International Partnership Programme (NERC-ESRC)\, w ill organize an International Conference and School on Structure\, Tectoni cs and Earthquakes in the Alborz-Zagros-Makran Region\, to be held at Tehr an\, Iran\, from 22 to 31 May 2015. The event will be directed by Morteza Talebian (GSI\, Iran)\, James Jackson (Univ. of Cambridge\, U.K.) and Abde lkrim Aoudia (ICTP\, Italy).\n \n\n        The Conference will pres ent the latest development in the field and the School will motivate and t rain its participants in the following topics:\n\n  \n\n - Continental Te ctonics:  kinematics (fault patterns) and dynamics (driving forces) of co ntinental deformation\, and their relation to understanding earthquake-rel ated hazard\;\n\n  \n\n - Monitoring and Observational Foundations of Ear thquake Hazards: the essential modern toolkit\, including earthquake seism ology\, satellite-based radar interferometry (InSAR)\, GPS\, field- and sp ace-based geomorphology and Quaternary geology\, paleoseismology\;\n\n  \ n\n - Associated Earthquake Hazards: understanding tsunamis and landslides \;\n\n  \n\n - Modelling Continental Deformation and the Earthquake Cycle : using models to link geophysical\, geological and geomorphological data to hazard evaluation.\n \n\n        For those interested in making an oral or poster presentation during the Conference\, a one-page abstract (size A4) should be uploaded directly to the online application (please u pload file attachments in .pdf).  Board size for Posters: 1.20 m. (width) x 1.90 m. (height).\n \n \n \n\n PARTICIPATION\n The Programme is spec ifically designed to benefit scientists in countries that are vulnerable t o earthquake hazards\, but who currently lack the local infrastructure\, e xpertise\, national capability or critical mass of researchers to be effec tive.\n Scientists and students from all countries that are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the event.  As it will be con ducted in English\, participants must have an adequate working knowledge o f this language.  Although the main purpose of the Centre is to help rese archers from developing countries\, through a programme of training activi ties within a framework of international cooperation\, a limited number of students and post-doctoral scientists from developed countries are also w elcome to attend.\n  As a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the p articipants are borne by their home institutions.  Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-far e). However\, limited funds are available for some participants who are na tionals of\, and working in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old.  Such support is available only for those who attend t he entire activity.  There is no registration fee.\n \n HOW TO APPLY FO R PARTICIPATION\n \nThe online application form can be accessed at the ac tivity website: https://onlineapps.ictp.it/ENTER/APPLICANT/2712.mhtml\n A ctivity Secretariat At ICTP \ne-mail: smr2712@ictp.it\nPhone: +39 40 2240 305\nTelefax: +39 40 224163\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14263/ LOCATION:Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14263/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1st East-African Workshop on the Internet Of Things | (smr 2799) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150525T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150529T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7383@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7383/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7383/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:REGCM Training Workshop for Southeast Asia | (smr 2719) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150525T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150529T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14269@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Southeast Asia is characterized by the presence of islands wit h very complex topographical features. These substantially affect local cl imates as well as the spatial distribution of quantities such as temperatu re\, precipitation and extremes. For this reason\, climate simulations ove r Southeast Asia require high spatial resolution\, well beyond that achiev able by today's Global Climate Models (GCMs). Regional Climate Models (RCM s) can fill this resolution gap\, and thus represent important tools to si mulate climate variability and change over the region. Despite this potent ial\, to date the use of RCMs over the Southeast Asia region has been rela tively limited\, partly because of the necessity to build know-how and com puting resources in the region. This workshop aims at improving this probl em by providing both theoretical and practical training on the use of RCMs over Southeast Asia. \n\n Theoretical lectures will cover the fundamental s of climate modeling and climate change\, focusing in particular on the c limate of the region and on the use of RCMs. The lectures will be compleme nted by lab sessions in which the participants will be introduced to the u se of the ICTP regional model RegCM4\, and will carry out small guided pro jects with the model. A further aim of the workshop is to build a communit y of users of the RegCM4 system for the Southeast Asia region towards stre ngthening its participation to the COordinate Regional Downscaling EXperim ent (CORDEX).\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14269/ LOCATION:Manila - Philippines URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14269/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Anomalous Transport\, Superconductivity and Magnetism in Nanosystems | (smr 2700) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150615T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150620T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14240@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The School has been organized by the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics\nin collaboration with Bogolyubov Institut e for Theoretical Physics\, NAS of Ukraine\, where it has been successfull y held from Monday\, 15 June to Saturday\, 20 June 2015.\n\nSOME LECTURES- RELATED MATERIAL IS AVAILABLE - PLEASE SEE BELOW UNDER "SLIDES"\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/a14240/ LOCATION:Kyiv - Ukraine URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14240/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:STRINGS 2015 | (smr 2724) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150622T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150626T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14274@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14274/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14274/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Modelling Tools and Capacity Building in Climate and Pub lic Health | (smr 2721) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150720T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150731T130000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14271@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Webnews Capacity building: modelling tools for climate and pub lic health\n\nA number of diseases with high socio-economic impacts have s ignificant climatic and environmental drivers. Although there is a wealth of environmental remote sensing data freely available via the internet\, these data are not always fully exploited to inform public health decision -making. To address this gap\, a two-week training activity entitled “Mo delling tools and capacity building for climate and public health” took place at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Itaboraí Palace in Petrópolis\, Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil from 20-31 July 215. The workshop was sponsored the I nternational Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\, the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS\, WMO)\, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and the Sc ience Without Borders Brazilian program\, via CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel). The aim of the workshop was to introduce several tools that can be used to access\, visualise and analys e climate and health datasets\, and to show how such data can be extracted and converted into a format suitable to devise public health early warnin g systems.\n\nThe course was attended by around 30 PhD students\, early ca reer scientists and public health practitioners from across the globe\, in cluding Brazil\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Mozambique\, Singapore\, France an d Australia. Participants were given a range of lectures from expert in th e field of climate services\, health risk management\, seasonal climate fo recasting\; remote sensing\, environmental epidemiology and space-time sta tistical modelling. Practical session were delivered using the free stati stical software R and OpenBUGS\, QGIS and the IRI Data Library. \n\nThe pa rticipants brought along scientific questions and data\, relevant to their own research to analyse during the course. Small teams were formed to dev elop collaborative projects\, which were presented at the end of the cours e. A diverse range of projects emerged\, with topics ranging from modellin g the effect of temperature on influenza and non-communicable disease in L atin America cities\, mapping the spatial distribution of malaria in Mozam bique and analysing the spatio-temporal distribution of Chagas disease vec tors in Colombia\, to assessing the role of El-Niño Southern Oscillation on leptospirosis outbreaks in Argentina and dengue outbreaks in some Asian and South American cities. \n\nDuring the course\, participants share p hotos and experiences on twitter\, using the hashtag #climatehealthBrazil. After completion of the course\, a selection of participants were subsequ ently invited to attend a follow-up activity at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundatio n\, sponsored by CAPES\, to further develop the group projects and deepen their knowledge of the modelling techniques that were introduced during th e initial training activity. Further\, all groups were invited to prepare manuscripts for submission to the Brazilian journal 'Public Health Reports '\, to disseminate promising results from the collaborative group projects . To facilitate ongoing collaboration between the participants and lecture rs\, an online team communication platform has been created\, hosted by sl ack\, to exchange ideas\, questions\, code and announcements about future climate and health events. \n\nScientific organizers: Marilia Sá Carvalh o\, Christovam Barcellos (FIOCRUZ)\, Pietro Ceccato (IRI)\, Rachel Lowe (I C3)\nICTP local organizer: Adrian Tompkins\nInvited lecturers: Trevor C. B ailey (University of Exeter)\, Caio A. S. Coelho (CPTEC/INPE)\n\nFigure 1: End-of-course group photo outside the Itaboraí Place\, Petrópolis\, Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14271/ LOCATION:Palacio Itaboraí – Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – Petrópolis - B razil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14271/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-CIMPA advanced school - "AGRA II: Aritmética\, Grupos y Anal isis" | (smr 2747) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150808T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150822T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14292@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP) in collaboration with the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA) and the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio A bad del Cusco (UNSAAC)\, is organizing an advanced school - "AGRA II: Arit mética\, Grupos y Analisis" - to be held from 8 to 22 August\, 2015 in Cu zco\, Peru. Number theory is both one of the core areas of mathematics and a crossroads for many other disciplines. Analysis\, diophantine geometry and combinatorics\, among other areas\, have a long history of interaction with number theory\; other subjects\, such as group theory and ergodic th eory\, are also developing often surprising connections with the field. Th is will be a two-week school\, following the lead of the first AGRA meetin g in Santiago\, Chile\, 2012. The main aim of the series is the developmen t of number theory (in the broadest sense) as an area of research in South America.SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: H. A. Helfgott (France)\, C. G. Moreira (Br azil)\, G. Tornaría (Uruguay).LOCAL COMMITTEE: R. López Cruz (Peru)\, F. Rodriguez Villegas (Italy)\, O. Velásquez (Peru)\, G. Álvarez Juáregui (Peru).INVITED SPEAKERS: Mikhail Belolipetsky (Brazil)\, Javier Cilleruel o (Spain)\, Antonio Córdoba (Spain)\, Harald Andrés Helfgott (France)\, Marc Hindry (France)\, Ricardo Menares (Chile)\, Roberto Miatello (Argenti na)\, Carlos Gustavo Moreira (Brazil)\, Ariel Pacetti (Argentina)\, Marusi a Rebolledo (France)\, Juanjo Rué (Germany)\, Fernando Rodríguez Villega s (Italy)\, Gonzalo Tornaría (Uruguay)\, Miguel Walsh (UK)\, Julia Wolf ( UK)\, Ana Zumalacárregui (Spain).PARTICIPATION:\n Scientists and students from all countries which are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IA EA may attend the School. While graduate students and young researchers wi ll be the main intended audience of the school\, all interested researcher s and students are welcome to participate. Our goal is to fund all partici pants from South America fully\, after a merit-based selection. Participan ts from elsewhere (including developed countries) are encouraged to find f unding for travel from their own institutions\; we will attempt to cover t heir local costs. There is no registration fee. The language of the school will be Spanish.ACTIVITY SECRETARIAT:\n Telephone: +39-040-2240-455 Telef ax: +39-040-224163 E-mail: smr2747@ictp.it ICTP Home Page: http://www.ictp .it/\n  \n\n DEADLINE for requesting participation 7 June 2015. \n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/a14292/ LOCATION:Cuzco - Peru URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14292/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Recent Progress in Quantum Field Theory and String T heory | (smr 2733) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150914T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150919T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14281@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n LINK TO THE CONFERENCE LOCAL WEBPAGE:\n \nhttp://theorp hyslab.ysu.am/a14281/confmain.html\n \n The aim of the conference is to br ing together active researchers in mathematical physics\, string theory an d quantum field theory and to facilitate the scientific exchange between r esearchers working in different areas.\n\n \n Last few years have been mar ked by a progress in our understanding of supersymmetric field theories an d by improved command of string theory in nontrivial backgrounds. Gauge/gr avity\, or AdS/CFT\, correspondence provides a meeting ground for these tw o research directions and will serve as the underlying unifying theme of t he conference.\nGeneral areas of the conference are:\n•  conformal fiel d theories in various dimensions\n•  progress in higher-spin gauge theo ries\n•  supersymmetric gauge theories and related integrable systems\n •  geometric aspects of string compactifications\, topological strings and mirror symmetry\n•  AdS/CFT correspondence and its applications\n A bout a quarter of the talks will provide pedagogical reviews of recent dev elopments. For many young participants the conference will represent a uni que opportunity to learn about the latest developments in a challenging an d exciting area of theoretical physics\, and to directly interact with som e of the leaders of the field.\n The conference will be preceded by a work shop « Supersymmetry in Integrable Systems (SIS) » 9-13 September\, Yere van and followed by a school « Selected Topics in Theoretical High Energy Physics » 21-25 September\, Tbilisi\, Georgia.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event /a14281/ LOCATION:Yerevan - Armenia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14281/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Climate Applications for Food Security | (smr 2621) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150928T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151002T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13241@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n          The Abdus Salam International Centre for T heoretical Physics (ICTP)\, Italy\, in collaboration with the AGRHYMET Reg ional Center\, Niger\, is organizing a "Workshop on Climate Applications f or Food Security" to be held from September 28 to October 2\, 2015 in Niam ey\, Niger.\n  \n           Sahel countries are highly vulnerabl e to climate change and strongly dependent on rainfed agriculture and live stock. This area of the world is subject to strong rainfall variability\, desertification and recurrent droughts\; consequently\, achieving food sec urity is an ongoing challenge. \n  \n          This interdiscipl inary workshop aims to bring together international researchers and Perman ent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) member states national services staff working in the area of climate modelling\, crop modelling\, and related fields.  Focus will be on state-of-the-art t echniques for using climate information for impact studies in crop modelli ng and will cover the following topics:\n  \n          -    In troduction to dynamical seasonal prediction systems \n          -     Climate data sources and the IRI data library \n          -    Crop modelling background and principles \n          -     Laboratory sessions with SARRAH and LEAP crop models  \n  \n                                 The one-week prog ramme will feature lectures in the mornings and laboratory classes in the afternoons.   All lectures and training sessions will be held in the Eng lish language and proficiency in English is a requirement for selection.  Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster session to b e held during the activity and demonstrate a research interest in the topi c of crop and climate modelling in the Sahel.  Limited funds are availabl e to support the attendance of junior scientists from the continent of Afr ica.  There is no registration fee for the workshop.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/a13241/ LOCATION:Niamey - Niger URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13241/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School/Workshop on Fibre Optics: Light in action from sci ence to technology | (smr 2697) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150928T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151001T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14237@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:PURPOSE AND NATURE \n\n The aim of the activity is to connect scientists from across Africa on a topic in which there is a critical mass of researchers and which will have a high impact on scientific and econom ic development for the continent. Fibre optics brings together diverse fie lds\, from the basic science on optics and light transport\, to material d esign\, through to application in communication and sensors. As such\, it is a topical field the world over and one of the few topics of critical ma ss in African photonics research. With the pressure to do science with app lications ever more present in developing countries\, this topic lends its elf to high impact science.\nVENUE \n\n Alice is the home of the U. Fort H are\, a venerable African institute responsible for the education of many of the continent’s leading figures\, e.g.\, Nelson Mandela. It has recen tly started a new programme in optics and lasers. Lectures will take place at the university campus\, while participants will be accommodated in nea rby Hogsback\, a small\, quaint mountain town a short drive away.\nTOPICS \n\n 1.   The science of fibre optics: design\, non-linear effects\, exo tic materials etc.\n 2. Optical fibres for communication\, including mode division multiplexing\, polarisation\, entanglement in fibres\, etc.\n 3.    Optical fibres for sensing\, including design and applications of sen sing devices. 4.   Photonic crystal fibres\nSPEAKERS Tijmen EUSER (Max P lanck Institute for the Science of Light\, Germany)Philippe GALLION (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications\, France)Andrea GALTAROSSA (Universita' degli Studi di Padova\, Italy)Tim GIBBON (Nelson Mandela Met ropolitan University\, South Africa)Melanie MCLAREN (University of the Wit watersrand\, South Africa)Alex HEIDT (University of Southampton\, UK)Marti n LAVERY (University of Glasgow\, UK)Mourad ZGHAL (University of Carthage\ , Tunisia)PARTICIPATION \n\n Application to the School and Workshop is ope n to scientists from all countries that are members of the United Nations\ , UNESCO or IAEA. As it will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of that language. Although the main pu rpose of the Centre is to help researchers from developing nations through a programme of training activities within the framework of international cooperation\, students and scientists from developed countries are also we lcome to attend.\n As a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the part icipants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be m ade by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare) . However\, limited funds are available for some participants who are nati onals of\, and working in\, a developing country\, and who are not more th an 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who attend the e ntire activity. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a1 4237/ LOCATION:Alice\, Eastern Cape - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14237/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Ocean Climate Modelling: Physical and Biogeochemical Dyn amics of Semi- Enclosed Seas | (smr 2711) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150928T070000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151001T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14262@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT VISA INFORMATION: (from Dr. Gokhan Danabasoglu)\n\nC itizens from some countries (such as USA) need a visa to enter Turkey. It takes less than 5 minutes to obtain a visa online. The web address is http s://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/. It contains all the needed information. The cost is $20 + some minor fee. It may be possible to get the visa upon arrival to Turkey\, but the cost goes up to $30.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14262/ LOCATION:Ankara - Turkey URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14262/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:6th ICTP Latin-American String School | (smr 2730) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151026T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151106T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14278@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/a14278/ LOCATION:Mexico City - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14278/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Cooperative Phenomena in Condensed Matter: From Bose-Ein stein Condensates to Quantum Optics | (smr 2639) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151102T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151113T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a13259@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics\, in collaboration with the University of Buea (South West\, Cameroon) is o rganizing a School on Cooperative Phenomena in Condensed Matter: From Bose -Einstein Condensates to Quantum Optics\, to be held at the University of Buea\, Cameroon\, from 2nd to 13th November 2015 (originally planned in No vember 2014). The School focuses on cooperative phenomena in condensed mat ter physics with special emphasis on atomic systems (ultra-cold gases)\, m esoscopic systems (quantum dots\, nanostructures) and quantum optics.\nPos sible ways of interfacing and complementing these systems will be discusse d as well as their applications to quantum transport\, quantum information processing and quantum optics. The activity will combine lectures which p edagogically summarize the main challenges and recent results in each area with short presentations\, especially from young researchers\, and roundt able sessions.\nPoster sessions will be also encouraged to stimulate discu ssions.TOPICS - Ultra-cold gases\, BEC\, superfluidity\, Mott insulators\; - Disordered systems (localization)\; - Quantum transport through nanostr uctures\; - Quantum information processing (adiabatic quantum computations )\; - Strong light-matter interaction\; - Quantum optics. LIST OF INVITED LECTURERS/SPEAKERS:  A. Buchleitner (Freiburg\, Germany)\; G.H. Gebreyes us (Accra\, Ghana/ Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia)\; Y. Gefen  (Rehovot\, Israel) \; A. Hassanali (Trieste\, Italy)\; A.H. Kastberg (Nice\, France)\; A. Ken fack (Berlin\, Germany)\; T.C. Kofane (Yaounde'\, Cameroon)\; B. M'Passi M abiala (Brazzaville\, Congo)\; Y. Meir (Beer Sheva\, Israel)\; T. Rasing ( Nijmegen\, the Netherlands)\; C. Tchawoua (Yaounde'\, Cameroon).\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/a13259/ LOCATION:Buea - Republic of Cameroon URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a13259/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Asian Regional School on FPGA Design for Scientific Instrumentatio n | (smr 2689) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151207T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151218T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14228@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL\n\nThe school is intended as a hands-on training activity that will provide an opportunity for physicists\, engine ers and computer scientists to access new technologies and gain the necess ary skills for designing and developing complete high-performance systems for scientific applications at low cost.\nThe practical sessions of the sc hool will be based on FPGA platforms\, IDE software tools and VHDL hardwar e description language. \nThe school will also introduce modern hybrid sys tem-on-chip devices that combine the software programmability of general p urpose processors with the hardware reconfigurability of FPGA.\nIt is expe cted to enhance the capabilities of researchers\, teachers and advanced st udents from Asia who are seeking to exploit modern technologies for challe nging scientific and academic purposes. \n\n\nPARTICIPATION\n\nScientists and students from Asian countries that are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may apply to attend. As the School will be conducted in E nglish participants should have an adequate working knowledge of it.\n\n// indico.ictp.it/event/a14228/ LOCATION:Jamshoro - Pakistan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14228/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology | (smr 2756) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151207T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151220T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14299@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) and t he Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\, are o rganizing a Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology from 7 to 20 Dec ember 2015 (QSB2015)\, as part of the ICTP- ICTS Programme in Biology. Thi s is the fourth school in the series on Quantitative Systems Biology\, hel d alternately at Trieste and Bangalore. QSB2015 will be hosted in the ICTS campus in Bangalore. The School is targeted towards young researchers\, p articularly those at the PhD and post -doctoral level with backgrounds in the physical and mathematical sciences and engineering\, who are working i n biology or hope to do so. It will give participants a broad introduction to open problems in modern biology\, and provide pedagogical instruction on new quantitative approaches being used to address those problems. The m ain school will be preceded by an intensive three-day pre-school (5-7 Dece mber\, 2015) targeted to non-biologists. QSB2015 is centred around bacteri a\, the simplest known forms of life. The focus is on the basics of cellul ar life and the principles thereof. The emphasis is on the structures and processes that allow bacteria to survive\, reproduce\, evolve and form com munities in their environment. This is a setting that is fertile for quant itative work\, both theoretical and experimental\, and for grasping some u niversals in biology. Lecture courses on different topics are envisaged fo r the school by an array of distinguished lecturers. The courses will prov ide an intensive background to the specific topics before turning towards cutting edge research. Subjects include • Bacterial cell physiology and growth • Metabolism\, regulation and response to the environment • Str ucture and dynamics of biochemical networks • Bacterial ecology • Evol ution • Energy\, information and computation in cells PARTICIPATION: Sci entists and students from all countries that are members of the United Nat ions\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the School. Researchers working in develo ping countries are particularly encouraged to apply. As it will be conduct ed in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. The subsistence expenses of all selected out-station partic ipants will be borne by the School. As a rule\, travel expenses of the par ticipants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be made by the candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half- fare). However\, limited funds are available for some participants. Select ed participants are expected to attend the entire main school. Selection f or the main school automatically guarantees selection for the pre-school\, but attending the pre-school is not compulsory. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14299/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14299/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CIMPA-ICTP School on Toric Methods in Geometry\, Arithmetic and Dy namics | (smr 2869) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160111T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160122T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7651@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n CIMPA-ICTP Research School on Toric methods in geometry\, a rithmetics and dynamics Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile\, Santia go\, Chile\, January 11- 22\, 2016.\nhttps://sites.google.com/site/cimpato rico2016/Registration is now open (deadline: October 4th\, 2015)\,\n Funds are available to support the participation of students and young research ers. In recent years\, toric geometry has experienced a rapid growth with a wealth of new results and connections with other areas of mathematics li ke arithmetic geometry and number theory\, dynamical systems\, non-Archime dean and tropical geometry\, mirror symmetry and birational geometry. This adds to the more classical connections to combinatorics\, computer algebr a and singularity theory among others\, and applications to other areas of science like mathematical biology and chemistry. At the same time\, the c oncrete and explicit nature of toric varieties makes them a perfect entran ce door for young students and researchers to higher dimensional algebraic geometry.\n  \n\n The main purpose of this research school is to motivat e and train Latin American students and young researchers in these subject s.The first week consists of the following four courses:-Introduction to t oric varieties by Alicia Dickenstein\, Universidad de Buenos Aires.\n -Com binatorics and topology of toric varieties by Mircea Mustata\, University of Michigan.\n - Introduction to tropical geometry by Sam Payne\, Yale Uni versity.\n -The classical n-body problem and its relative equilibria by Al ain Albouy\, Observatoire de Paris.The second week consists of the followi ng two courses and ten survey talks:-Toric varieties\, their birational mo difications and their deformations by Bernard Teissier\, CNRS & Universit é de Paris 7.\n -Arithmetic intersection theory on toric varieties by Mar tin Sombra\, ICREA & Universitat de Barcelona.\n -Survey talks given by Ca rolina Araujo\, Michela Artebani\, José Ignacio Burgos\, Ana-Maria Castra vet\, Javier Elizondo\, Javier Fernández de Bobadilla\, Pedro González-P érez*\, Antonio Laface\, Álvaro Liendo\, Jenia Tevelev.\n * to be confir medScientific Committee: José Ignacio Burgos\, Alicia Dickenstein\, Javie r Elizondo\, Javier Fernández de Bobadilla\, Antonio Laface\, Álvaro Lie ndo\, Sukhendu Mehrotra\, Ricardo Menares\, Juan Rivera-Letelier\, Martín Sombra and Giancarlo Urzúa.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7651/ LOCATION:Santiago - Chile URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7651/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on Nano\, structural and single molecule approache s to biology: understanding and handling life at higher resolution | (smr 2698) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160111T080000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160116T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14238@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n To be held at: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scienti fic Research (JNCASR)\, Bangalore\, India\n  \n The Abdus Salam Internati onal Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy)\, in cooperat ion with Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) \, Bangalore\, India is organizing a School on “Nano\, structural and si ngle molecule approaches to biology: understanding and handling life at hi gher resolution” to be held in Bangalore\, India.\n The aim of the schoo l is to introduce young researchers to the latest developments in the fiel d of nano-biophysics/biochemistry and structural biology\, and to their re volutionary impact on biology\, biotechnology\, drug design and delivery a s well as early diagnostics of wide spread diseases. The rapid development of nano-sciences and novel nano-materials has in fact made available a ne w range of tools and approaches that have revolutionized biological and me dical research\, by allowing scientist to manipulate nano-particles and ma cromolecular objects\, to build supramolecular entities with improved func tionalities\, to monitor the function of single molecules\, and to underst and cell behavior at molecular level.Topics will include: single molecule approaches\, optical manipulation\, scanning probe techniques\, high resol ution optical techniques\, nanoscale bio-devices\, novel bio-inspired nano materials\, molecular design and structural biology techniques.\n The uniq ue location (Bangalore\, India) will provide an exciting learning and rese arch environment stimulating the development of local research initiatives in such a multidisciplinary field. A few practical sessions will provide the students with hands-on experience in some of the subjects covered by t he lectures.PARTICIPATION: Scientists and students from all countries that are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend\, with part icular emphasis on scientists coming from the Indian subcontinent and othe r Asian countries. As the event will be conducted in English\, participant s should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. As a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by the ir home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure s upport for their fare. However\, very limited funds are available for part ial support of some participants\, who are nationals of\, and working in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such suppo rt is available only for those who attend the entire School. There is no r egistration fee for attending this activity.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14 238/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14238/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint IAS-ICTP School on Quantum Information Processing | (smr 270 2) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160118T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160129T080000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7574@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7574/ LOCATION:Singapore - Singapore URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7574/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional Workshop on the use of Wireless Sensor Networks and UAVs for Radiation Monitoring | (smr 2696) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160125T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160129T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7573@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP) Telecommunications/ICT4D Laboratory (T/ICT4D)\, in collaboration wit h the The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nuclear Science & Inst rumenation Laboratory and Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission (CNE A) Bariloche Atomic Centre\, Argentina\, will jointly organize a Regional Workshop on the use of Wireless Sensor Networks and UAVs for Radiation Mon itoring\, to be held in San Carlos de Bariloche\, Argentina\, from 25 to 2 9 January 2016.\n\nWireless technology has resulted in a data collection r evolution in recent years. The continuing improvements in consumer electro nics\, photovoltaics and batteries have enabled the construction of low-co st custom built detectors and data acquisition / wireless control systems. The ability of such systems to gather data in remote locations e.g. no gr id power\, over long periods of time and through volume large area coverag e facilitates the possibility of developing (near) real-time broad area ma ps. \n\nThe deployment of sensors on a rapid basis and to precise location s in 3D has been made possible even for the lowest cost systems by taking advantage of UAVs or RPAS. The ability to perform remote measurements make s the platform ideal for many radiation monitoring measurements and at a fraction of the cost of manned aircraft. \n\nThe workshop will consist of presentations\, demonstrations and hands-on sessions to learn how to monit or radiations with wireless sensor networks and UAVs. The participants are expected to have undertaken some introductory tutorials to ensure they ha ve a basic knowledge prior to the workshop. \n\nParticipation\nScientists and makers from Latin American and Caribbean countries that are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may apply for participation. As th e Workshop will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adeq uate working knowledge of this language. Although the main purpose of the Centre is to help researchers from developing countries through a programm e of training activities within a framework of international cooperation\, a limited number of students and post-doctoral scientists from the region is also welcome to attend.\n\nAs a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at leas t half-fare). However\, limited funds are available for some participants to be selected by the Organizers\, who are nationals of\, and working in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such su pport is available only for those who attend the entire activity. \nThere is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7573/ LOCATION:San Carlos de Bariloche - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7573/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Workshop on Large Scale Structure: from Galaxies to the Cosmic Web | (smr 2848) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160201T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160212T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7630@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTION\nUnderstanding the cosmological Large Scale Struct ure (LSS) — both its growth starting from small fluctuations to the evol ution of its constituent galaxies and inter-galactic medium — is at the frontier of research in extra-Galactic astronomy and cosmology. A number o f large international efforts are enabling these studies by providing an u nprecedented quantity and quality of data\, with low redshift surveys alre ady under way and Stage IV surveys (e.g.\, Euclid\, LSST) being planned. T he near future will also see the construction and commissioning of high qu ality instruments such as the Thirty Metre Telescope and the Square Kilome tre Array\, which will offer unparalleled advances in observations at\, re spectively\, optical and radio wavelengths.\nPainting a holistic picture o f the Cosmos from these observational efforts requires a deep understandin g of the complex interplay of the physics on atomic\, astrophysical and co smological scales that determines the evolution of galaxies on the one han d\, and fundamental questions such as the nature of Dark Matter\, Dark Ene rgy and tests of General Relativity at the largest scales\, on the other. The School for graduate students will cover the necessary basics in multip le areas of cosmology and astrophysics\, including the following topics:\n * Growth of cosmological LSS and the Cosmic Web\n* Physics of the evolutio n of galaxies and the inter-galactic medium\n* Connection between LSS and galaxy evolution\n* Large sky surveys and cosmological probes\n* Analytica l and (semi-)numerical methods for studying LSS\nThe Workshop following th e School will bring together a larger number of scientists working in thes e areas for a more advanced discussion of the latest developments in these as well as complementary topics.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7630/ LOCATION:Pune - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7630/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR Advanced School on Regional Climate Modeling over South America | (smr 2836) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160215T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160219T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7618@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Regional climate models (RCMs) are widely used tools to produc e high-resolution climate simulations at regional scales. The ICTP regiona l climate modeling system\, RegCM\, is one of the most used RCMs worldwide \, with applications ranging from regional process studies to paleoclimate \, climate change\, chemistry-climate and biosphere-atmosphere interaction s. \n\nAccording to global model (GCM) projections\, temperatures may incr ease over South America (SA) by a wide range: by ~1.0 to 7.0°C by the end of the 21st century. Although ensemble average changes indicate a general drying of the Amazon and wetting of southern SA\, individual model projec tions range from a reduction of 20-40% to an increase of 5-10% over centra l and tropical SA\, with even larger inter-model spread over southern SA.\ n\nDue to their coarse resolution\, however\, the GCMs considered in those studies do not reproduce all features of climate and its variability. RC Ms can represent important local forcing features of the climate (such as complex topography\, land-surface heterogeneity\, coastlines and regional water bodies) and also better capture the interannual climate variability. It is argued that RCMs can reproduce the observed interannual variability of precipitation due to ENSO in some SA sectors better than the driving G CM can. Recent RegCM4 simulations over the SA region\, contributing to the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)\, have verif ied previous results with GCMs with a better representation of local and r emote influences such as El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).\n\nAs in pr evious workshops\, this event will include lectures and extensive hands-on sessions on the theory of regional climate dynamics and regional climate change while providing a background on regional climate modeling studies f ocused on the SA region. Part of the workshop will involve the community o f RCM over SA users in meetings and discussions about past and future acti vities in line with the CORDEX framework. The school is foreseen for a li mited number of participants with proven experience in handling climate da ta and an interest in starting use of the RegCM4 as a tool for regional cl imate studies.\n\nPARTICIPATION\nScientists and students from countries th at are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA\, may attend the wor kshop subject to approval by the activity Directors. The School is intende d for early career scientists and advanced Ph.D. students from developing countries\, in particular South America. As the classes will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of tha t language.\n\nAlthough the ICTP mandate is to help researchers from devel oping countries through a programme of training activities within a framew ork of international cooperation\, a limited number of students and post-d octoral scientists from developed countries are also welcome to attend. As a rule\, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be bo rne by the home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or a least half-fare). However\, limited fu nds are available for some participants who are nationals of\, and working in\, a developing country. No registration fee is required.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/7618/ LOCATION:SAIFR\, São Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7618/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CIMPA-CIMAT-ICTP School on Moduli of Curves | (smr 2870) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160222T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160304T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7652@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n CIMPA-ICTP School on Moduli of Curves\n CIMAT\, Guanajuato\ , Mexico\n 22 February - 4 March 2016\n  \n\n Please refer to the followi ng Web-page for further information: http://moduli2016.eventos.cimat.mx/\n Programme can be seen on: http://moduli2016.eventos.cimat.mx/sites/modul i2016/files/CIMPA2016prog.pdf\n  \n\n  \n\n The courses will be in Engli sh\n Algebraic Curves and their Moduli Spaces\n Higher Dimensional Varieti es and their Moduli Spaces\n Gometric Invariant Theory and Bridgeland Stab ility\n Minimal Model Program / Birational Geometry and Topology of Mg\n M oduli and Degeneratons of Algebraic Curves via Tropical Geometry\n\n  \n\ n Scientific Committee:\n Leticia Brambila-Paz (CIMAT\, Mexico)\n Ciro Cil iberto (Universita' Roma 2\, Italy)\n Edoardo Esteves (IMPA\, Brazil)\n Ma rgarida Melo (University of Coimbra\, Portugal & Universita' Roma III\, It aly)\n Claire Voisin (NRS\, Ecole Polytechnique\, France)Organizing Commit tee:\n Leticia Brambila-Paz (IMAT\, Gto)\n Abel Castorena (CM. UNAM-Moreli a)\n Osbaldo Mata (Universidad de Guadalajara)\n Claudia Reynoso (DEMAT\, Gto)\n Hugo Torres (CIMAT\, Gto)\n Victor Bautista-Ancona (Universidad Aut onoma de Yucatan)\n Claudio Arezzo (ICTP\, Italy)\n Please refer to the fo llowing link:http://www.cimpa-icpam.org/ecoles-de-recherche/ecoles-de-rech erche-2016/liste-chronologique-des-ecoles-de/article/moduli-of-curves-736\ n Further information: moduli2016@cimat.mx\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/ 7652/ LOCATION:Guanajuto - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7652/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IASBS-ICTP School on Active Matter and Chemotaxis | (smr 2880) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160514T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160525T180000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7662@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) a nd the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) are organizing a spring School on Active Matter and Chemotaxis from 14 to 25 May 2016. The School is intended for graduate students\, post-doctoral fel lows\, faculty members\, and others who would like to gain an understandin g of the fundamentals of nonequilibrium cooperative phenomena for applicat ion to research in their respective fields. The school is centred on Acti ve Matter and Chemotaxis. Active matter deals with self-moving units\, the ir interactions\, and their collective dynamics\, both in living and synth etic systems\, such as catalytic self-propelled colloidal particles\, swim ming bacteria\, muscles\, and flocking birds. Chemotaxis is movement of a n organism in response to a chemical stimulus. Somatic cells\, bacteria\, and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements ac cording to certain chemicals in their environment. Topics will cover both experiment and theory. In addition to about 50 hours of invited lectures a nd seminars\, there will be tutorials and discussions.\nPARTICIPATION - Sc ientists and students from all countries which are members of the United N ations\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the School. Participants should have an adequate working knowledge of English. Although the main purpose of ICTP is to help research workers from developing countries through a programme of training activities within a framework of international cooperation\, a limited number of students and post-doctoral scientists from developed co untries are also welcome to attend. As a rule\, travel and subsistence exp enses of the participants should be borne by the home institution. Every e ffort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare). However\, limited funds are available for some particip ants to be selected by the Organizers\, who are nationals of\, and working in\, a developing country\, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire activity.\nDetai led information on board and lodging costs (for participants not selected for financial support)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7662/ LOCATION:Zanjan - Islamic Republic of Iran URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7662/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:4th African School on "Electronic Structure Methods and Applicatio ns" (ASESMA-2016) | (smr 2882) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160613T000100Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160624T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7664@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:ORGANIZED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA\, LEGO N \nThe African School series on Electronic Structure Methods and Applicat ions (ASESMA) is planned on a biennial basis from 2010 to 2020. The school s emphasize the theory and computational methods for predicting and unders tanding properties of materials through calculations at the fundamental le vel of electronic structure. Previous schools were held in Cape Town -Sout h Africa (2010)\, Eldoret - Kenya (2012)\, and Johannesburg (2015).\nPROGR AMME:  The activity will cover basic methodological aspects such as densi ty functional theory\, electronic structure\, many-body methods such as DF T+U\, BSE\, GW and quantum Monte Carlo\, as well as molecular dynamics. It will also cover the application of these methods to the mechanical\, dyna mical\, electronic\, optical and magnetic properties of materials. The sch ool will consist of lectures and of hands-on computational laboratories ba sed on state-of-the-art codes. Each participant will engage in a project d epending upon his/her level. The projects will vary from calculation of th e stable structures of materials for those without previous background in density functional calculations to more advanced calculations for those wi th more experience.\nGRANTS: A limited number of grants are available to s upport the travel and living expenses of selected participants\, with prio rity given to participants working in Africa and who are at the early stag es of their career.\nHOW TO APPLY FOR PARTICIPATION: Participants should h ave a background in solid state physics or chemistry at advanced undergrad uate level\, and be familiar with basic use of Linux and computer programm ing. The online application form can be accessed here below. Once in the w ebsite\, comprehensive instructions will guide you step-by-step\, on how t o fill out and submit the application form.NEW DEADLINE:  for requesting participation: 11th March 2016.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7664/ LOCATION:Legon\, Accra - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7664/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICO/ICTP Workshop on Lasers\, Laser Safety and Applications | (smr 2820) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160620T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160701T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7602@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n * ACTIVITY CANCELLED *\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7602/ LOCATION:Manizales - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7602/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:EAUMP-ICTP School in Number Theory | (smr 2868) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160704T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160722T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7650@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The proposed school is the next one in a series of schools org anized under the Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Programme (EAUMP) \, which started in 2004. This programme has core funding from the Interna tional Science Programme (ISP) of the Government of Sweden\, and has as on e of its aims to improve the pure mathematics Masters and Postgraduate tra ining in the Eastern Africa region. The participating Universities of the EAUMP are University of Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania\; University of Nairobi\, Kenya\; University of Zambia\; Makerere University\, Uganda\; University of Rwanda (recently merged from National University of Rwanda and Kigali I nstitute of Science and Technology)\, Rwanda. This African Mathematical Sc hool is also supported by CIMPA.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7650/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7650/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on Earth System Modelling & Workshop on Climate Ch ange and Regional Impacts over South Asia | (smr 2837) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160718T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160729T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7619@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7619/ LOCATION:Pune - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7619/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP/CAS/IAEA School and Workshop on Plasma-Material Interac tion in Fusion Devices | (smr 2855) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160718T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160722T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7637@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP)\, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will jointly organize a School and Workshop on Plasm a-Material Interaction in Fusion Devices from 18 to 22 July 2016. The eve nt will be hosted by the CAS Institutes of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) and of S olid State Physics (ISSP) and held at the CAS Hefei Institutes of Physical Science in Hefei\, China.\n\nIntroduction\nThe study of plasma-material i nteraction in fusion devices is devoted foremost to the twin topics of ero sion and hydrogen (tritium) retention\, and it is closely connected to the study of material microstructure and radiation damage. Basic computationa l methods include first-principles electronic structure calculations\, cla ssical molecular dynamics\, kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) and rate equation mo deling\, quantum transition state theory\, and path integral approaches to hydrogen and defect migration\, among other methods. The field has a stro ng interest in predictive simulations and also in simulations to support i nterpretation of experimental data. Relevant research is carried out in fu sion and materials research institutes and in university departments of ph ysics\, chemistry and engineering science.\n\nPurpose\nThe purpose of the School and Workshop is to provide advanced training and a forum for discus sion concerning computational studies of plasma-material interaction proce sses in fusion devices. The meeting will bring together researchers (lectu rers\, invited speakers and participants by application) from the areas of materials science and plasma-material interaction in connection with nucl ear fusion. Participants should return from the meeting with a richer unde rstanding of computational methods for study of plasma-material interactio n processes and of the applications of these methods in fusion energy rese arch. The school and workshop is being held in China in order to take adva ntage of that country's rapidly growing expertise in modelling of fusion m aterials and plasma-material interaction and to promote interaction betwee n younger Chinese scientists and their international peers.\n\nTopics to b e covered\n1. Electronic structure methods and tools for study of material microstructure and trapping and transport of H and He in fusion wall mate rials.\n2. Development of classical interaction potentials for molecular d ynamics studies.\n3. Development of rate coefficients for KMC and other lo ng-time evolution calculations.\n4. Simulation methods for interpretation of experimental data\, for example data obtained by thermal desorption spe ctroscopy.\n5. Specific computational studies of erosion of plasma-facing materials due to plasma exposure\, of radiation damage in plasma-facing ma terials and of trapping and migration of hydrogen and helium in such mater ials.\n\nApplicants are asked to submit\, as a part of the application pro cedure\, a 1-page abstract of a scientific contribution that is suitable f or presentation at the meeting. We do not supply a template\; applicants can format it as they like. The presentation will generally be given as a Poster\, but in some cases the Organizers may ask the accepted applicant to give a short talk.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7637/ LOCATION:Hefei - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7637/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mediterranean Youth Mathematical Championship (MYMC)\, 2016 | (smr 2925) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160720T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160723T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7862@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7862/ LOCATION:ROME - Italy University of Roma La Sapienza. URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7862/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African School for Fundamental Physics and Applications 2016 (ASP 2016) | (smr 2846) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160801T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160819T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7628@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Physics Topics:\n• Theoretical Physics\n• Particle Physics \n• Nuclear Physics\n• Medical Physics\n• Monte Carlo Generators & S imulations\n• Accelerators & Technology\n• Grid Computing\n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/7628/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7628/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Workshop on Homological Methods in Algebra and Geometry | (smr 2867) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160801T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160812T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7649@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n School webpage: http://aimsictp2016.weebly.com/\n In collab oration with AIMS Ghana\, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoret ical Physics (ICTP) is organizing a "School and Workshop on Homological Me thods in Algebra and Geometry". The school and workshop will be held at AI MS Ghana\, from 1st August to 12th August 2016.\n\n The first week will co nsist of three minicourses:\n Brent Everitt (University of York)Khovanov h omology and categorification\, \n Paul Smith (University of Washington)No ncommutative algebraic geometry\,\n Geordie Williamson (MPI Bonn)Geometric representation theory.\n\nThe second week will comprise of research talks on these topics.\n Invited speakers:\n Gwyn Bellamy (University of Glasgo w)\n Tomasz Brzezinski (University of Swansea)\n Joshua Greene (Boston Col lege)\n Peter Jorgensen (University of Newcastle)\n Joe Karmazyn (Universi ty of Bath)\n Aaron Lauda (University of Southern California)\n Andrew Lob b (University of Durham)\n Shinnosuke Okawa (Osaka University)\n Sarah Sch erotzke (University of Bonn)\n Sue Sierra (University of Edinburgh)\n Anne -Laure Thiel (University of Bourgogne)\n Hokuto Uehara (Tokyo Metropolitan University)\n Chelsea Walton (Temple University)\n Liam Watson (Universit y of Glasgow).The goals of the workshop are twofold: on the one hand\, we want to inspire the communication of state-of-the-art research within thes e flourishing areas and the exchange of ideas between them. On the other h and\, we also want to give African postgraduates and researchers the oppor tunity to get in touch with international experts in order to help them en ter one of these fields.Participation: Mathematicians from all countries t hat are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the acti vity. There is no registration fee.\n\n Deadline 30 April 2016\n\n Activit y Secretariat:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Phys ics (ICTP)\n (SMR 2867)\, Strada Costiera 11\, I-34151 Trieste\, Italy\n E -mail: smr2867@ictp.it\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7649/ LOCATION:Biriwa - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7649/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CIMPA-ICTP Mathematics Research School on Lattices and Application to Cryptography and Coding Theory | (smr 2894) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160801T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160812T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7665@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP) and the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliqué es (International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics - CIMPA) are joi ntly organizing a research School on "Lattices and applications to cryptog raphy and coding theory"\, to be held at Saigon University\, Vietnam from 1 to 12 August 2016.\nPURPOSE OF THE ACTIVITY\n\n Lattices play a central role in number theory and its applications. The aim of this school is to i ntroduce participants to the ubiquity of lattices in number theory\, algeb ra\, arithmetic algebraic geometry\, cryptography and coding theory. The t heory of lattices will be developed from its very beginning and the basic notions required for the applications in number theory\, algebra and arith metic algebraic geometry will be provided. Appearances of lattices that we intend to cover include: the natural lattices structures of Mordell-Weil groups and unit groups\, lie algebra root lattices\, the lattice basis red uction algorithm "LLL"\, which has many applications to many areas of math ematics and finally the construction of the famous Leech lattice. On the a pplied side we plan to cover constructions of good error-correcting codes and of good sphere packings via dense lattices.TOPICS to be covered by the activity include:\n - Lattices and Number theory (Ring of integers\, Diri chlet Unit Theorem\, Minkowski Theorem\, Euclidean rings\; Arakelov diviso rs\, ideal lattices\, Arakelov class group\, Buchmann's algorithm)\n - Lat tices in Lie algebras (Lie groups and algebras\, Root systems and Dynkin d iagrams\; Root lattices and Weight lattices)\n - Lattices and cryptography (Lattice basis reduction\, shortest vector problem\, nearest vector probl em\, LLL-algorithm\; Lattices based cryptography\, Kissing number\, sphere packings)\n - Lattices and Coding theory (Linear codes\, Hamming distance \, Cyclic codes\, Golay codes\; Construction of the Leech lattice)\n - Lat tices and modular forms (Theta functions\, Modular forms for SL2(Z)\, Eise nstein series\; Theta series\, Unimodular even lattices)\n - Lattices and Mordell-Weil groups (Elliptic curves\, Mordell-Weil groups\, Quadratic for ms\, Heights\; Elliptic curves over function fields\, Elkies constructions )Scientific Committee:\n Laura Geatti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)\n Phong Nguyen (Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automat ique) René Schoof (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)\n Anton Mellit (SISSA -ICTP)\n Peter Stevenhagen (Leiden Universiteit)\n Valerio Talamanca (Univ ersità Roma Tre)REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:Only applicants who are NOT from V ietnam should submit their request for participation through the following online application system\n Applicants from Vietnam should instead contac t the local organizing committe by e-mail (cimpa2016@gmail.com)Deadline fo r registration: May 22\, 2016\n For further information about this activit y please visit the local web site available at http://ricerca.mat.uniroma3 .it/users/valerio/hochiminh16.html \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7665/ LOCATION:Ho Chi Minh City - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7665/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Workshop on Structured Light and Matter: Concept and Applications | (smr 2821) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160917T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160923T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7603@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS ) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) are organizing an autumn school on Structured Light and Matter from 17 to 23 September 2016. The School is intended for graduate students\, post-doc toral fellows\, faculty members\, and others who would like to gain an und erstanding of the fundamentals of singular optics for application to resea rch in their respective fields.\nTOPICS INCLUDE\n1. Super-resolution and i maging techniques\n2. Optical tweezers and medical applications\n3. Hologr aphic approach to shape a beam of massive particles\n4. Fundamental tests of quantum mechanics\n5. Quantum information with structured light\n6. BEC and exciton-polariton condensates\n7. Shaping light beams with a metasurf ace.\nFor more information at IASBS:http://iasbs.ac.ir/seminar/slm2016\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/7603/ LOCATION:Zanjan - Islamic Republic of Iran URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7603/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Capacity Building for Industrial Physics in Emerging Economies III | (smr 2814) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161003T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161007T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7596@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/7596/ LOCATION:TBC - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7596/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional Workshop and Conference on Advanced Reconfigurable Instru mentation for Scientific Applications | (smr 2816) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161114T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161125T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7598@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoreti cal Physics (ICTP\, Italy) and the University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM\, M alaysia) will jointly organize the Asian Regional Conference and Workshop on Advanced Reconfigurable Instrumentation for Scientific Applications\, t o be held at the UKM\, Bangi\, Selangor\, Malaysia\, from 14 to 25 Novembe r 2016.\n The first three days of the activity will be dedicated to th e 2016 International Conference on Advances in Electrical\, Electronic and Systems Engineering (ICAEESE 2016) to be held at Putrajaya Marriot Hotel\ , Putrajaya\, Malaysia\, from 14 to 16 November 2016.  The theme of the c onference is "Technologies for Society's Well-being". Prof. Kajita Takaaki \, 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics\, and Prof. Fernando Quevedo\, Director of ICTP\, will be Keynote Speakers at the Conference. Specific information ab out the Conference can be found at http://www.icaeese2016.org/ \n  BR IEF DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP\n This Workshop is mainly intended as a training activity on modern FPGA-based Programmable System-on-Chip (SoC) with emphasis on scientific and academic applications. The purpose of the Workshop is to provide key know-how for the implementation of complete di gital systems using low-cost high-performance reconfigurable hardware plat forms.  New generation of SoC technology relays on embedded processing ba sed on the combination of general purpose processors with traditional FPGA integrated in a single chip. This means that the processor and the FPGA c an be complementary used for what they do best\, achieving unprecedented p erformance.\n The main topics of the Workshop will include the fundame ntals of:\n \n Modern Digital Design and Digital Arithmetic\n \n FPGA and VHDL for Modeling\, Simulation and Logic Synthesis\n \n Embedded C Language Programming and Dual-Core ARM Cortex Processor \n \n SoC Design Methodology\n \n Advanced SoC Trends\n \n Hands-on Training and Experimentation\n \n  Scientists \, technologists\, teachers and students from South and Southeast Asian c ountries may apply for participation. \n  GRANTS\n A limited num ber of grants are available to support the travel and living expenses of s elected participants\, with priority given to participants working in a de veloping country and who are at the early stages of their career.There is no registration fee to attend the Workshop.Selected participants of the Wo rkshop will automatically enjoy the waiver of the ICAEESE 2016 registratio n fees.\n \n \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7598/ LOCATION:Bangi\, Selangor - Malaysia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7598/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Second Workshop on Climate Change\, Variability and Modeling over Central America and Mexico | (smr 2839) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161114T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161118T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7621@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\nThis workshop will include theoretical lectures on climate v ariability and change over Central America and Mexico\, along with tutoria l sessions on the use of the RegCM4 model over the region. An important ai m for this workshop is to strengthen the community of users of the RegCM4 model in Mexico and Central America. A limited number of participants is e nvisioned\, with proven experience in handling climate data and running cl imate models (in particular RCMs)\, and that have interest in using the Re gCM4 as a tool for regional climate studies.\nInvited speakers include: Ch ris Castro\, Univ. of Arizona\, USA\; Graziano Giuliani\, ICTP\, Italy\; K yo Lee\, NASA\, USA\; Matias Mendez\, Univ. Veracruzana\, Mexico\; Sara Ra uscher\, Univ. of Delaware\, USA\; Raymond Arritt\, Iowa State Univ.\, USA \; Ruth Cerezo-Mota\, UNAM\, Mexico\; Tereza Cavazos\, CICESE\, Mexico\; T ercio Ambrizzi\, Univ. of Sao Paulo\, Brazil.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/76 21/ LOCATION:San Jose - Costa Rica URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7621/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Workshop on Driven Quantum Systems | (smr 2829) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161121T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161202T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7611@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy) in collaboration with Centro Atómico Bariloche (CAB\, Argentina) is organizing a one week School followed by a week Work shop on Driven Quantum Systems to be held at San Carlos de Bariloche (Arge ntina) from 21st November to 2nd December 2016.\n The field of driven quan tum systems has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years\, fuel ed by the impressive experimental advances achieved in the design and mani pulation of quantum systems of very different nature: cold atoms\, quantum dots in semiconductors\, graphene\, topological insulators\, superconduct ing qubits\, optical cavities\, etc. Interest in these systems ranges from the need to deepen our understanding of the response (dynamics) of single and many-body systems to periodic or pulsed external fields\, to the desi gn of new states of matter with interesting topological properties\, or th e precise control of multi-qubit systems for quantum computation. The driv en dynamics of quantum systems has raised important questions that gathere d efforts from communities located on the interface of quantum optics\, co ndensed matter\, many-body physics and statistical mechanics.\n Primary go al of the activities will be to increase the level of communication and co llaboration between researchers from different backgrounds through tutoria ls and informal discussions as well as invited presentations. The activiti es will highlight recent experimental and theoretical results at the foref ront of international research\, including\, but not limited to\, the foll owing topics:\n\n- Cold atoms\n- Driven topological insulators and graphen e\n- Irradiated superconductors\n- Quantum optics\n- Adiabatic quantum com puting. Quantum memories\n- Quantum control of driven solid state qubits\n GRANTS\n A limited number of grants are available to support the attendan ce of selected participants working in the regional latin-american countri es.NEW DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:  Sunday\, 14th August 2016.\n ========= ===========================================\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/76 11/ LOCATION:San Carlos de Bariloche - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Climate System Prediction and Regional Climate Informati on | (smr 2720) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161121T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161125T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-a14270@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Topics\n From a societal perspective\, many management deci sions in agriculture and food security\, water\, disaster risk reduction a nd health fall into the sub-seasonal to seasonal time range\, from two wee ks and up to a season\, while interest has also grown in the potential to provide multiannual predictions in an initialized decadal prediction frame work.\n  \n Research has indicated important potential sources of predict ability over sub-seasonal ranges through better representation of atmosphe ric phenomena such as the Madden–Julian Oscillation and improved couplin g with\, and initialization of\, the land–ocean–cryosphere and stratos phere\, leading to the promise that better understanding of these potentia l sources of predictability together with improvements in model developmen t\, observations\, data assimilation and computing resources will translat e into more accurate forecasts. Over longer timescales\, research has star ted to document the current limits of initialized climate prediction. Rece nt advances in open data resources to aid research in this area include th e new subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) databases that contain both forecasts and hindcasts from many global operational centres with lead times up to 2 months\, as well as the US Multi-model ensemble (NMME) which presently pr ovides operational real-time seasonal forecasts\, and also has a higher re solution S2S extension planned.This one week school will include lectures by leading experts from the world Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Workin g Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (WGSIP) on predictability ov er the sub-seasonal to decadal timescales\, with concrete examples from so me of the world’s leading operational centers. Lab-based classes will in troduce the participants to the new S2S Project subseasonal and CHFP seaso nal forecast databases.\n  \n Participants are expected to be working in a research or operational environment on the problem of sub-seasonal\, sea sonal or decadal prediction and/or their societal applications in health\, agriculture\, energy or water resource management\, for example. As instr uction will be in English\, a working knowledge of the language is require d. Familiarity with linux would be a benefit but is not mandatory as the d ata acquisition can also be performed in a Windows environment. Both linux and Windows users are expected\, however\, to be able to already perform rudimentary data analysis with a programming language (examples include R\ , python or NCL).\n  \n NOTE: You are strongly encouraged to bring a lapt op to the school (preferably with linux installed) as this will allow us t o install the relevant software to access the databases and facilitate you r continued use of the tools after the event. Please indicate this on the application form if you are able to do so to allow us to plan required com puting resources.\n\n Invited Speakers include:\n Francisco Doblas-Reyes ( BSC\, Barcelona)\n Alessandra Giannini (IRI\, Columbia U.)\n Maialen Iturb ide (IFCA\, CSIS\, Santander)\n Bill Merryfield (Environment Canada)\n And rew W. Robertson (IRI\, Columbia U.)\n Ramiro Saurral (CIMA\, Buenos Aires )\n Wassila Thiaw (NOAA)\n  \n\n \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/a14270/ LOCATION:Dakar - Senegal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/a14270/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Climate Impacts on Health in Asia | (smr 2838) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161205T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161216T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7620@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The state of the atmosphere can have a critical impact on huma n health. Climate extremes such as droughts\, floods\, heat waves &cold wa ves and floods have obvious direct impacts on human health and morbidity t hat can be immediate and serious impacts on morbidity and mortality. Clima te anomalies can also lead to serious outbreaks of diseases such as dengue and malaria. Poor air quality is also a leading issue of concern for the health of populations in the 21st century\, with some countries in Asia pa rticularly affected. This school will aim to provide a series of lectures that focus of four key aspects of atmosphere-health interactions: Dengue\, malaria\, gastro intestinal illness\, heat stress\, and air quality\, par ticularly in urban environments. Through the lectures and the hands on cla sses\, the workshop will aim to equip the participants with\n\n• Knowled ge about sources of climate observations and reanalysis product\, includin g their relative strengths and weaknesses\n\n• Numerical weather predict ion\, seasonal forecasting\, climate models and the assessment of uncertai nty\n\n• Studies and statistics showing how climatic variations can trig ger the adverse health outcomes and in what magnitude. \n\n• Processing of climate information to gain information on means and extremes\n\n• Ba sic statistical tools and instructions on their strengths and limitations \n\n• Statistical and dynamical modelling techniques for vector borne di seases such as dengue \n\n• Aerosol modelling and observations together with aerosol impacts on health \n\n• Optional evening classes: Basic int roduction to the linux environment\, cdo and R\n\nParticipants will have t he opportunity to learn basic techniques to access these various datasets and perform simple analyses on a linux operating system environment to all ow them to be input to dynamical or statistical impacts models or modellin g techniques. While not essential for selection\, familiarity with the lin ux environment and basic shell commands would be an advantage for particip ants. Participants will be invited to state their impacts area of interest on the application form and invited to bring relevant data to the worksho p to enable workshop project work to be oriented towards participant needs .\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7620/ LOCATION:New Delhi - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7620/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:5th Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Scientific Programming and Management of Open Source Software Packages | (smr 3107) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170304T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170315T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7952@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n  \n\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics\, in collaboration with the Sharif University of Technology\, is organizing the 5th edition of the Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Scie ntific Programming and Management of Open Source Software Packages\, to be held in Tehran\, Iran from 4th to 15th March 2017.\n Modern scientific re search work involves using computers for simulation\, modeling\, data proc essing and visualization. The growing complexity of those calculations fav ors using software packages that provide an abstract interface to computat ions through scripting language interfaces\, modular software design\, and code reuse. Such design patterns also facilitate transparent optimization s for modern multi- core architectures or accelerators\, and specializatio n of contributors to subsets of a package program. Software package develo pers therefore need to learn how to work effectively in a collaborative en vironment.\n This Hands-on Workshop focuses on disseminating best practice s and building fundamental skills in creating\, extending and collaboratin g on modular and reusable software frameworks with a scripting language in terface. The curriculum also covers using modern collaborative software ma nagement tools\, testing frameworks\, and embedding structured documentati on into software packages.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7952/ LOCATION:Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7952/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on the Science of Climate Change: a focus on Central Amer ica and the Caribbean Islands | (smr 3103) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170314T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170316T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7949@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Workshop is addressed to researchers from Central America and the\nCaribbean regions with the main aim to enhance local collaboratio ns and\nfoster international research and educational projects on topics r elated\nto climate and climate change in this region.\n\nThe general objec tives of the proposed workshop are to expose the local and regional commun ities to a broad and historical perspective on the science of climate and climate change. This includes anthropogenic influences on climate and the state-of-the-science on global and regional climate change studies. The i dea for a workshop stems from the need to foster and promote collaboration s\, research projects and educational programs between experts in the fiel d and their universities and central American institutions and Universitie s on climate dynamics\, \nglobal and regional climate change\, and adaptat ion and mitigation strategies for the central American and Caribbean rim c ountries. The workshop should also pave the way for fruitful discussions b etween world experts and central American scientists with a goal of identi fying the most needed research topics to be developed in the region.\n\n// indico.ictp.it/event/7949/ LOCATION:Antigua - Guatemala URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7949/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-CIMPA School: Théorie Algébrique des Nombres et App lications notamment en Cryptographie | (smr 3112) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170410T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170422T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7957@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n http://delaunay.perso.math.cnrs.fr/ABIDJAN/index.html\n Alg ebraic number theory is a very active field of mathematics. We plan to int roduce the subject and its application to cryptography. After given course s in elementary arithmetic\, algebraic numbers and p-adic numbers\, we wil l focus on the basics of elliptic curves and finite fields. Applications w ill also figure prominently in the program as it is shown by the presence of the following courses : Introduction to cryptography\, Elliptic curves and cryptography.\n Moreover\, we plan to cover the explicit construction of elliptic curves over finite fields with group of point of large prime o rder (as needed by cryptographic applications) via complex multiplication. \nAdministrative and scientific coordinators:\nChristophe Delaunay\, Unive rsité de Franche-Comté\, France\nchristophe.delaunay@univ-fcomte.fr\nFra ncois Tanoe\, Université Félix Houphouet Boigny\, Abidjan\, Cote d’Ivo ire\, aziz_marie@yahoo.frScientific Committee:\nFrancesco Pappalardi (Univ ersità degli Studi Roma Tre\, Italy)\nAlain Togbe (Purdue University Nort h Central\, Westville\, USA)\nMichel Waldschmidt (Université Pierre et Ma rie Curie - Paris 6\, France)\nFrancois Tanoe\, (Université Félix Houpho uet Boigny\, Abidjan\, Cote d’Ivoire) Adriana Salerno (Bates College\, L ewiston\, USA)Local Organizing Committee:\nFrançois Emmanuel TANOE\, Univ ersité Félix Houphouet Boigny (aziz_marie@yahoo.fr)\nMathias KOUAKOU\, U niversité Félix Houphouet Boigny\n(cw1kw5@yahoo.fr)\nKoffi ABALO\, Unive rsité Félix Houphouet Boigny\n(abalokmaj@yahoo.fr)\nEric Dago AKEKE (eri cdago@yahoo.com)\nMlle Affly Roce Aurélie Claude MAHI\, Université Féli x Houphouet Boigny (roceaffly@gmail.com).Scientific Program:\n1- Applicati on of the elementary Number Theory to cryptography\n(Alain Togbe\, Westvil le\, USA)\n2- Introduction to topics of algebraic number theory related to cryptography   (Michel Waldschmidt\, Paris 6\, France)\n3- Décompositi on cyclotomique sur les corps finis\n(François Emmanuel TANOE\, Abidjan\, Cote d’Ivoire)\n4- Lattices and Cryptography\n(Adriana Salerno\, Lewist on\, USA)\n5- Approche élémentaire aux courbes elliptiques. Elementary A pproach to elliptic curves (Lassina DEMBELE (Warwick\, UK)\n6- Introductio n to the theory of modular forms and applications\n(Lassina DEMBELE\, Warw ick\, UK)\n7- TD : An introduction to PARI/GP (Christophe DELAUNAY\, Besan çon\, France)Deadline for registration : December 18\, 2016\nApplication procedure only for applicants not from Cote d’Ivoire.\nApplicants from C ote d’Ivoire must contact local organizer : Francois Tanoe\, Université Félix Houphouet Boigny\, Abidjan\, Cote d’Ivoire\,\nE-mail: aziz_marie @yahoo.fr\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7957/ LOCATION: - Cote d'Ivoire URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7957/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-CIMPA School on Artin L-functions\, Artin's Primitive R oots Conjecture and Applications | (smr 3121) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170529T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170609T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7965@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Online application form for:\nTurkish applicant -    https:/ /tr.surveymonkey.com/r/L9BRWQP\nNon-Turkish applicant - http://students.ci mpa.info/login\nDeadline to apply: 22 January 2017\n This School is intend ed to foster anlytic theory as well as algebraic number theory and arithme tic geometry in Turkey. The School revolves around Artin's primitive root conjectures and Artin's L-functions\, two subjects that lie at the crossro ads of these three fields.\n It will give the attendees the opportunity to learn some basics notions on the following topics:\n\n a brief introduct ion to algebraic number theory culminating in the celebrated Chebotarev De nsity Theorem\;\n \n an introduction to the representation theory of fini te groups culminating in the definition of Artin's L-functions and the gro up theoretic proof of their meromorphicity\;\n \n an introduction to zeta functions and L-functions\;\n \n distribution of primes\;\n \n an intro duction to elliptic curves and analogues of Artin's Conjecture\n \n Hoole y's Theorem and quasi resolution\n\n All courses will be taught in English .\n\nFor further information\, kindly see the following links:\nLocal Link in Turkey -     http://www.rnta.eu/Nesin2017/\nCIMPA Link -  http://w ww.cimpa-icpam.org/ecoles-de-recherche/ecoles-de-recherche-2017/liste-chro nologique-des-ecoles-de/article/artin-l-functions-artin-s-821\n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/7965/ LOCATION:Nesin - Turkey URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7965/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-EAUMP School on Modern Functional Analysis | (smr 3133) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170619T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170707T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7977@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The summer school is intended to provide a thorough introdu ction to various topics in functional analysis\, from introductory to more advanced\, and with a particular focus on functional analytic methods use d in current research.\n The two introductory courses in the first week co ver some of the fundamentals of functional analysis and of operator theory \, before two more advanced courses in the second week will introduce idea s which establish a link between the methods of classical functional analy sis and the modern theory of partial differential equations.\n Finally\, t he two courses in week three will expose participants to some more advance d topics which tie together the areas of functional analysis\, differentia l equations and geometry. Each of the courses will consist of a series of lectures and accompanying classes\, which are intended to give participant s an opportunity to deepen their understanding of the material introduced in the lectures.\n All of the lecture courses will be delivered by interna tionally recognised researchers in analysis.\n In the final week of the su mmer school\, participants will have a chance to work independently on a s mall topic of their choice.COURSESWeek 1\, 19-23 June - Introductory cours esCourse 1: An introduction to function spacesLecturer: Dr Lassi Paunonen (Tampere\, Finland)Description: An overview of the basic theory of Banach and Hilbert spaces\, with a focus on function spaces which play a part in modern applications of functional analysisSyllabus: Overview of basic prop erties of Banach and Hilbert spaces (completeness\, separability\, reflexi vity\, etc)\, some fundamental theorems in functional analysis (e.g. the R iesz Representation theorem and the Hahn-Banach theorem)\, examples with r elevance to modern applications of functional analysis (Sobolev spaces\, B ergman spaces\, Hardy spaces etc)Course 2: An introduction to operator the oryLecturer: Prof. Charles Batty (Oxford\, UK)Description: An overview of some of the central theorems on linear operators between normed vector spa ces\, touching on the theory of unbounded linear operatorsSyllabus: Overvi ew of the basic theory of bounded linear operators between Banach spaces\, spectral theory\, some fundamental results in classical operator theory ( uniform boundedness theorem\, closed graph theorem\, open mapping theorem\ , inverse mapping theorem)\, introductory material on the theory of closed unbounded operators (as time permits)Week 2\, 26-30 June - Advanced cours esCourse 3: Advanced operator theoryLecturer: Dr David Seifert (Oxford\, U K)Description: An overview of some more advanced topics in operator theory \, making the connection with modern PDE theorySyllabus: Compactness in no rmed vector spaces\, compact operators (characterisation\, properties\, sp ectral theory\, examples)\, operators with closed range\, the closed range theorem\, Fredholm theory (Fredholm index\, Fredholm alternative\, pertur bation results)\, existence and uniqueness for simple elliptic PDEs via th e Fredholm alternativeCourse 4: The theory of operator semigroups and thei r applicationsLecturer: Dr Sachi Srivastava (University of Delhi)Descripti on: An introduction to the theory of strongly continuous operator semigrou ps and their applicationsSyllabus: C0-semigroups\, infinitesimal generator s\, spectral theory of generators\, Lumer-Phillips theorem\, Hille-Yosida theorem\, examples\, abstract Cauchy problems\, mild solutions\, applicati ons to simple PDEs (heat equation\, wave equation) and quantum systemsWeek 3\, 3-7 July - Modern applications of functional analysisCourse 5: The La placian on a Riemannian manifoldLecturers: Prof Claudio Arezzo and Dr Luca Di Cerbo (ICTP)Syllabus: Basic theory of differential and Riemannian mani folds. Differential forms and integration. L2 functions and forms. Gradien t\, divergence and Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold. Towards Hodge Theor em\, as much as time permits.Course 6: Distribution solutions to ordinary differential equationsLecturer: Dr Ismail Mirumbe (Makerere\, Uganda)Local organizing committee\n • James Katende (University of Nairobi)\n • Da mian Maingi (University of Nairobi)\n • Bernard Nzimbi (University of Na irobi)\n • Jared Ongaro (University of Nairobi\, Chair)\n • Patrick We ke (University of Nairobi)Scientific advisory committee\n • Leif Abraham son (University of Uppsala\, Sweden)\n • Rikard Bogvad (Stockholm Univer sity\, Sweden)\n • Damiani Maingi (University of Nairobi\, Kenya)\n • Fernando Rodrigues Villegas (ICTP)\n • David Ssevviiri (Makerere Univers ity\, Uganda)\n • Balazs Szendroi (University of Oxford\, UK\, main Inte rnational Organizer)\n • Patrick Weke (University of Nairobi\, Kenya)EAU MP Country Coordinators\n • Juma Kasozi (Makerere University\, Uganda)\n • Sylvester E. Rugeihyamu (Dar es Salaam University\, Tanzania)\n • J ared Ongaro (University of Nairobi\, Kenya)\n • Michael Gahirima (Univer sity of Rwanda)\n • Mubanga Lombe (University of Zambia)\n\n//indico.ict p.it/event/7977/ LOCATION:Nairobi - Kenya URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7977/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Open Problems in Cosmology | (sm r 3164) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170717T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170728T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8142@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The primary temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwav e background (CMB) have now been mapped by the Planck satellite to near th e limits set by cosmic variance and foregrounds. As a result\, the future of the field will now shift toward large-scale structure (LSS) surveys and CMB polarization. This new territory presents both a challenge and an opp ortunity. While data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and smallscale CMB experiments like ACTpol and SPTpol have been available for a few years\, t hese experiments have yet to compete with measurements of the CMB temperat ure in raw sensitivity. Ultimately\, new experiments must surpass existing constraints if we are going to address unresolved questions we face today in regards to the physics of the early universe. Existing data supports t he framework of inflation at early times\, nevertheless\, we know very lit tle about the mechanism that leads to an accelerated expansion\, either in the past or in our current universe. In addition\, motivations from parti cle physics\, and from the observation of late time acceleration\, suggest our cosmological history may be more intricate than previously thought. C osmological observations may be thus our only hope to address these issues .\n The aim of the school is to familiarize students with both the importa nt theoretical questions left in cosmology and the observations that may s hed light on them in the future. The first week will develop the theoretic al background\, while in the second week future observational probes are d iscussed.\n On Saturday\, July 22\, ICTP-SAIFR will host the workshop on o pen problems in cosmology. Presentations will provide a review of the newe st developments in both theoretical tools\, forecasts and observations. Th e discussion will be oriented towards the problems that are most relevant for further progress.\n The application for the school automatically inclu des participation in the workshop. There is no registration fee and limite d funds are available for travel and local expenses.\n First week:\n \n Daniel Baumann (University of Amsterdam\, The Netherlands) & Paolo Cremi nelli (ICTP-Trieste): Introduction to Primordial Physics\n \n Raphael Flauger (UC San Diego\, USA): Introduction to CMB Theory\n \n Oliver Hahn (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur/Université de Nice\, France) & Ra fael Porto (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP\, Brazil): Introduction to LSS: Theory a nd Simulations\n \n Second week:\n \n Julien Lesgourgues (Universität Aachen\, Germany): Introduction to CMB observations\n \n Will Percival (University of Portsmouth\, USA): Introduction to LSS observations\n \n Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS Princeton\, USA): Advanced topics for the stu dy of LSS\n The link to the activity webpage for registration is:\n http: //www.ictp-saifr.org/cosmology17\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8142/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8142/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mediterranean Youth Mathematical Championship 2017 (Roma Tre Unive rsity\, Rome) - (smr 3171) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170719T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170722T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8060@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An initiative to encourage Mediterranean youth\, both male and female\, to develop an interest in Mathematics\, a discipline which ha s been of great importance for the growth of the cultural community of the Mediterranean\, with its many nations and religions.\n Working language o f the championship: English\n Some 20 teams involved\, one for each of the Mediterranean countries.\n Each team consisting of 4 people\, 2 boys and 2 girls\, presently attending the last three years of high school (and at most nineteen years old).\n Each team selected by appropriate local entiti es (e.g.\, the local entities in charge of the IMO).\n For more informatio n on MYMC 2017:http://www.mymc.it/MYMC2017/index.htmProgram:\n July 19\, 2 017 - Arrival in Rome\n July 20\, 2017 - Opening ceremony and contest on t he premises of Roma Tre university\n July 21\, 2017 - Awards ceremony and visit of Rome\n July 22\, 2017 - Departure from RomeContest operating meth ods:July 20 in the morning1. A common list of problems for all teams2. Pre liminary ranking of the teams according to their scoreJuly 20 in the after noon (direct clashes)1. First round – direct clashes between 1st and 2nd ranked teams\, 3rd and 4th ranked teams\, 5th and 6th ranked teams\, etc. 2. Second round – direct clashes between randomly coupled teams3. Each d irect clash carries some points to the teams4. The points accumulated in t he afternoon are added to those scored in the morning.Description of a dir ect clash\n Each team receives two lists of problems and decides which one to keep\, the other being passed to the opponent. Thus every team has two lists of problems to solve in a fixed amount of time. The winner is the t eam able to solve more problems (hence a tie is possible).July 20 in the a fternoon (final problem)\n A common problem is given to each team\, to be solved in at most 10 minutes. The team which first provides the correct an swer is awarded 3.5 points\; all the other teams providing a correct answe r are awarded 1 point. If a team provides an incorrect answer\, it is awar ded 0 points. If a team does not provide an answer\, it is awarded 0.5 poi nts. The points awarded are added to those already accumulated.\n The fina l ranking of the MYMC is decided by the Jury based on the final score obta ined by the various teams\, at the conclusion of the competitions describe d above.Local Organizing Committee:\n Claudio Bernardi\, Sapienza Univer sità di Roma\n \n Luca Biasco\, Università degli Studi Roma Tre\n \n Giandomenico Boffi\, Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma\n \n Corrado Falcolini\, Università degli Studi Roma Tre\n \n Marta Me nghini\, Sapienza Università di Roma\n \n Marina Monsurrò\, Universit à Europea di Roma\n \n Francesco Pappalardi\, Università degli Studi Roma Tre\n \n Maria Grazia Proietti\, Università degli Studi Roma Tre\ n \n Valerio Talamanca\, Università degli Studi Roma Tre\n \n Franc esca Tovena\, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata\n \n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/8060/ LOCATION: - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8060/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Third Latin American School on Algebraic Geometry and Applications | (smr 3138) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170731T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170811T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7982@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The ICTP is organizing\, in collaboration with CONACYT\, CIMAT\, MCTP and Instituto de Matematica de la UNAM\, the Third Latin Ame rican School on Algebraic Geometry and Applications (ELGA3)\, to be held a t CIMAT\, Guanajuato\, Mexico from 31 July to 11 August 2017.\n The School aims at bringing together experts in algebraic geometry and present diffe rent topics of current research to advanced graduate students\, postdocs a nd young researches from Latin America and other parts of the world.TOPICS :\n In addition to research talks on diverse topics in algebraic geometry\ , the programme of the activity includes the following lectures:First week : \n • Introduction to Valuation Theory and Resolution of Singularities (Mark Spivakovsky)\n • Differential Forms in Algebraic Geometry and Appl ications (Duco van Straten)\n • Quantum Toric Varieties (Ernesto Luperci o)Second Week:\n • Fano Manifolds (Carolina Araujo)\n • Arithmetic of Toric Varieties (José Ignacio Burgos Gil)\n • Perverse Sheaves and the Topology of Algebraic Varieties (Mark de Cataldo)\n • Virtual Topologica l Invariants of Moduli Spaces of Sheaves on Surfaces (Lothar Göttsche)\n For further information please visit the CIMAT web page for this event:htt p://elga3.eventos.cimat.mxScientific Committee:\n C. ARAUJO\, IMPA\n L. BR AMBILA PAZ\, CONACYT\n A. DICKENSTEIN\, IMU\n A. LAFACE\, Universidad de C oncepción\n J. A. SEADE KURI\, Instituto de Matemáticas de la UNAM\n \n \n  \n \n Deadline for application expired in June\n\n\n\n//indico.ict p.it/event/7982/ LOCATION:Guanajuato - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7982/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:First Regional Maker Expo of Open Technologies and Inclusive Devel opment | (smr 2873) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170818T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170819T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7655@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The ICTP Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) is organizing\ , together with the Scientific Fabrication Laboratory of the University of Cartagena\, the First  Regional Maker Expo of Open Technologies and Incl usive Development\, to be held at University of Cartagena\, Colombia on 18 and 19 August 2017.\n  \n This regional activity is a public event aimin g at emphasizing the learning and research aspects linked to the making of something new using science and innovation. This kind of exposition activ ities arises great interest in scholars\, society and the media. They also represent good platforms to deepen the knowledge about the creative work carried out in an institution and in its surrounding region.\n That is why we particularly encourage exhibits that are interactive and that highligh t the process of making things\, making science and technology accessible to the public. Particular attention will be paid to original activities\, projects\, ideas and contents created to the benefit of society\, which ca n be reproduced within a Scientific Fabrication Laboratory.\n IT IS REQUES TED THAT EXHIBITOR PARTICIPANTS BE PART OF A RUNNING PROJECT TO BE PRESENT ED AT THE MAKER EXPO.\n The project should be briefly described in the app lication form available below and fall into one of the following categorie s:\n  \n\n Science\, Biology/Biotech\, Physics and Chemistry projects\n \n Electronics\, Radios\, Vintage Computers and Game Systems\n \n Arduin o\, Raspberry Pi\, etc.\n \n 3D Printers and other prototyping technologi es\n \n Robotics and DIY RC Toys and Models\n \n DIY Home Automation and IoT\n \n Recycling (How to Fix Things or Take them Apart)\n \n Interact ive art projects\, Large-scale Art\, Shelter (Tents\, Domes\, etc.)\n\n \n \n For further information regarding the event\, please write to the Lo cal Organizers in Colombia at makerexpo@unicartagena.edu.co\n or\n visit t he Facebook web page of the event:https://www.facebook.com/MakeExpoCtg/Gra nts:\n Scientists and Makers from all countries that are members of the Un ited Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA\, may attend the event\, however\, since thi s is a regional activity\, priority will be given to those coming from Col ombia and neighbouring countries. As a rule\, travel and subsistence expen ses of the participants should be borne by their home institution. The eve nt is free of charge for participants and visitors.DEADLINE FOR ONLINE APP LICATION EXPIRED ON 20 JULY 2017\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7655/ LOCATION:Cartagena - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7655/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:South Caucasus-Black Sea Regional Climate Conference | (smr 3122) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171003T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171005T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7966@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy) in collaboration with Batumi Shota Rustaveli St ate University (BSU) is organizing a 3-day regional Conference on the Effe cts of climate change in South Caucasus-Black Sea region. This regional Co nference will bring together scientists and students from Georgia/Caucasus /Black Sea region to initiate the dialogue and experience shearing for two main processes at play: unsustainable use of environmental resources and the global climate change. Countries in Caucasus-Black Sea region now suff er from increased frequency and intensity of extreme events such as floods \, landslides\, etc\, as a result of the environmental changes. Such extre me events are expected to be exacerbated by climate changes. Numerical sim ulation and regional climate models are valuable tools to assess such impa cts. The focal point will be to teach trainees how to set up the ICTP Regi onal Climate Model RegCM4 for the study of past\, present and projected cl imate. The trainees will also learn how to use observational products and processing tools for climate data analysis. \n Topics:\n • South Caucas us-Black Sea Regional climate modeling\n • Regional Climate Model system RegCM4\n • Climate change and extreme events impact\n • Environmental issues in the Southern Caucasus – Black Sea region\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/7966/ LOCATION: - Georgia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7966/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Laboratory and Synchrotron X-ray Crystallography: Applications to Emerging Countries | (smr 3163) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171120T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171202T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8243@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Crystallography is an interdisciplinary science that finds app lication in technological areas of strategic importance for emerging count ries\, such as cement\, mining\, electronic and pharmaceutical research. S pecial emphasis will be placed on the role of advanced synchrotron light s ources.\nCrystallography enables to access the inner properties of matter and accurate atomic structures of molecules\, materials\, proteins and any kind of compound\; without the knowledge of the structure\, the functiona lity of a given material cannot be understood and therefore improved. Mini ng and cement companies use crystallography for quality and purity control and for research aimed at developing novel materials\; the pharmaceutical industry uses crystallography to identify the correct polymorph and under standing the functionality of new medicines. Today synchrotron light sourc es complement laboratory X-ray equipment and allow access to unprecedented capabilities. Students will be encouraged to test their understanding on crystallography using single crystal and powder portable diffractometers\, which will be installed on site for at least the duration of the school.\ n Topics:\n\n•    X-ray and neutron diffraction physics\n•    p owder and single-crystal methods\n•    physical properties of crystal s\n•    symmetry and space groups\n•    structural refinement\n •    crystallographic databases\n•    applications to cement\, m ining\, electronic and pharmaceutical industries\n•    nano-crystallo graphy\n•    bio-crystallography\n•    quasicrystals\n•    synchrotron light sourcesNEW DEADLINE for applying: 31st August 2017.\n\n/ /indico.ictp.it/event/8243/ LOCATION: - Senegal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8243/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology | (smr 3162) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171204T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171222T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8005@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Apply at: https://register.icts.res.in/program/qsb2017\n De adline: 1 July 2017\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8005/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8005/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Workshop on Geometry and Physics of Moduli Spaces) | (s mr 3100) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171211T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171215T210000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-7947@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Indo-European Collaboration on Moduli Spaces (MODULI) j ointly with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\, Trie ste\, Italy and the NSF Network GEAR is organizing a follow-up of the acti vity on "Geometry and Physics of Moduli Spaces" to be held at Indian Natio nal Science Academy (INSA)\, New Delhi\, 11-15 December 2017.\n This is a continuation of the School and Workshop\, held in March 2017\, Bangalore\, India.\n In addition to this conference there will be two workshops assoc iated\n to this conference:\n - Moduli and arithmetic\, TIFR\, Mumbai\,  4-8 December\n - Moduli and geometry and physics\, CMI\, Chennai\, 7-9 Dec emberThis is the final conference of the Indo-European Marie Curie IRSES p rogramme MODULI.Deadline: October 11\, 2017.\n A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with pr iority given to participants from developing countries.There is no registr ation fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/7947/ LOCATION:New Delhi - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/7947/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop-Conference on Earthquakes and Tsunami: Modeling and Obser vations | (smr 3165) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171211T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171222T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8176@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy)\, in collaboration with the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM)\, the Institute of Geophysics (Vietn am Academy of Science and Technology\, VAST) and VNU - Hanoi University of Science\, is organizing a two-week international school to be held in Han oi from 11 to 22 December 2017.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8176/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8176/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Latin American Introductory School on Parallel Programming and Par allel Architecture for High Performance Computing | (smr 3187) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180212T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180223T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8344@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The School has the goal of teaching participating scientist s about modern computer hardware and programming to provide a foundation f or future computational research using High Performance Computing (HPC). P articipants will go through an intensive programme with a focus on practic al skills.\n School participants will learn to improve the efficiency of t heir research codes\, and to parallelize them. Lectures on a selection of technical aspects of modern HPC hardware will be mixed with introductions to widely used parallel programming tools and libraries. The hands-on sess ions will allow participants to practice on small example problems of gene ral scientific interest. Example topics will cover numerical methods and p arallel strategies\, as well as data management.\n The programme specifica lly addresses the needs of scientists using\, writing\, or modifying HPC a pplications\, and will not assume\, require\, or provide significant IT an d HPC resource management skills.\n It will be mainly based on fundamental HPC-relevant features in widely used scientific software for high-perform ance computing:\n  \n\n  \n\n   •  Computer architectures for HPC an d how to optimize for them\n   •  Parallel programming tools (MPI & Op enMP)\n   •  Portable\, flexible and parallel I/O (HDF5)\n   •  Pa rallel programming best practices\n   •  Floating-point math\n   •   High-performance libraries for the solution of common math problems\n\n NOTES:\n •  The School is organized in collaboration with the CADING-R ed Group.\n •  Accommodation and meals are covered at the campus for al l selected participants.DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: expired on 26 November 2 017\n  \n\n ------------------------------------------------------------- -\n\n \n ICTP Secretariat contact:  smr3187@ictp.it\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/8344/ LOCATION: - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8344/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:6th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open Source Scientific Packages | (smr 3199) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180428T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180509T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8346@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Writing software has become central to research in many fie lds of science. This school aims to give early-career scientists an introd uction to a variety of topics that help them to write efficient\, clean\, maintainable and long-lived code that is useful beyond solving an immediat e problem. In a mixture of talks and many hands-on sessions\, the focus li es on showing best practices and building fundamental skills in creating\, extending and collaborating on modular and reusable software.\n\nTOPICS:\ n ●    Python / shell scripts as glue code\n ●    Mixing programmi ng languages\n ●    Introduction to computer architectures and softwar e optimization\n ●    Modular\, reusable software design\n ●    Ef fective collaborative development with multiple co-authors\n ●    Vers ion control and release cycles\n ●    Automated testing frameworks\n ●    Structured documentation\n ●    Systematic debugging\n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/8346/ LOCATION:Sharif University of Technology Physics Department URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8346/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:TMU-ICTP School and Conference on Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Th eory | (smr 3200) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180505T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180510T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8353@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory constitute a vibrant a nd exciting eld of current research in pure mathematics\, with lots of con nections to other areas such as probability theory\, differential geometry \, ODEs\, and potential applications to such diverse areas as natural and biological sciences\, economics\, engineering\, climate and disease modeli ng and many others. It can be thought of as a modern development of classi cal theories of Differential Equations and the fundamental concepts and gu iding ideas go back more than a century to pioneering thinkers such as Poi ncaré\, Birkhoff and Kolmogorov. Its interest and importance has only gr own in time and several Fields Medals have been awarded in the area.\n The ICTP-TMU School on Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory will consist of i ntroductory mini-courses aimed specifically at masters and beginning PhD s tudents who are expected to have an excellent general mathematics backgrou nd but not necessarily any previous experience of the particular topics co vered in the courses. The mini-courses will be complemented by a series of research-level seminars\, given by internationally renowned scholars in t he eld\, and aimed at more advanced PhD students and local faculty and res earchers. All students and researchers are welcome to all the lectures.Sci entific CommitteeS. LUZZATTO\, ICTP\, ItalyM. NASSIRI\, IPM\, IranA. TAHZI BI\, ICMC\, Brazil\n  Lecturers C. BONATTI\, Dijon\, FranceP. ESLAMI\, Wa rwick\, UKC. LIVERANI\, Rome\, Italy\n  SpeakersJ.F. ALVES\, Porto\, Port ugalP. BERGER\, Paris\, FranceO. BUTTERLEY\, ICTP\, ItalyS. LUZZATTO\, ICT P\, ItalyM. POLLICOTT\, Warwick\, UKM. TSUJII\, Kyushu\, JapanTutorL.D. SI MONELLI\, ICTP\, Italy\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8353/ LOCATION:Tehran - Islamic Republic of Iran URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8353/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Global Differential Geometry | (smr 3205) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180521T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180525T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8347@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) are organizing a Workshop on Global Differential Geometry\, to be held at the African Institute of Mathematic al Sciences (AIMS) in Mbour\, Sénégal\, May 21 - 25\, 2018.\n The worksh op will focus on recent developments in Global Differential Geometry\, in particular on symplectic and Poisson geometry\, including foliations and L ie theory\, as well as classical differential geometry with its connection s to differential topology and global analysis. There are close relations to the index theory of elliptic operators\, generalized complex geometry a nd geometric flows\, all of which open the door to applications in mathema tical physics.Summer School on Global Differential Geometry (14-18 May) we b page:http://home.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/mathphys/konf/diffgeo-summer school/index.html\n  \n\n Organizing Committee:\n Hamidou Dathe (Dakar)\n Bernhard Hanke (Augsburg)\n Aissa Wade (Penn State and AIMS Mbour)\n Katr in Wendland (Freiburg)DFG Coordinators:\n Carsten Balleier\n Alida Höbene r\n Beate WilhelmThe list of speakers includes:\n Claudio Arezzo (ICTP)\n Augustin Banyaga (Penn State)\n Augustin Tshidibi Batubenge (South Africa) \n Kai Cieliebak (Augsburg)\n A. Degeratu (Stuttgart)\n Hassimou Diallo (C ote d’Ivoire)\n Abdoul Salam Diallo (Senegal)\n Cheikh Mbacke Diop* (Sen egal)\n Jonathan Mboyo Esole* (Northeastern)\n Urs Frauenfelder (Augsburg) \n Sebastian Goette (Freiburg)\n Djideme Franck Houenou (Benin)\n El-Kaiou m Mohamed Moutuou* (USF Florida)\n Karl-Hermann Neeb (Erlangen)\n Sylvie P aycha (Postdam)\n Philippe Rukimbira (FIU Florida)\n Thomas Schick (Götti ngen)\n Léonard Todjihoundé (Benin)\n Joel Tossa (Benin)\n Burkhard Wilk ing (Münster)\n *to be confirmed\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8347/ LOCATION:Mbour - Senegal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8347/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1st Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Particle Physics | (sm r 3220) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180618T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180629T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8356@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n In 2018\, Run II of the LHC will be well under way\, and it will be important to assess what has been learned\, as well as to discuss the directions in which the field might move in the near-term and medium- term future. The school will therefore be largely focused on LHC Physics\, but without forgetting other areas that can give complementary informatio n regarding the nature of the physics at the TeV scale.\n Following the tr adition of the Summer Schools on Particle Physics at the ICTP in Trieste\, the school aims at giving a detailed overview of particle physics\, and c overing important areas where recent progress has been made in the field. We will have at most three lectures per day\, giving ample time for discus sion and problem solving by the students. We will also encourage students to give short presentations on their research.There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.\n \n  \n \n \n First week:\n \n Lectures on the Standard Model: Benjamin Gr instein (UCSD\, USA)\n \n Practical QCD at Colliders: Giulia Zanderi ghi (University of Oxford\, UK)\n \n Particle Physics and the Early U niverse: Laura Covi (Institute for Theoretical Physics – Göttingen\, G ermany)\n \n Second week:\n \n Lectures on Beyond the Standard Mode l Physics: Alex Pomarol (IFAE\, Spain)\n \n Dark Matter and Particle Physics: Paddy Fox (FERMILAB\, USA)\n \n Experimental Elements for Theorists: A Roadmap to the Future: Gustaaf Brooijmans (Columbia Universit y\, USA)\n \n The link to the activity webpage for registration and fur ther information is:\n \n http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=16149\n \n \n  \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8356/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8356/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The 5th Biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Applica tions | (smr 3216) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180625T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180713T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8348@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:For more information please visit: http://www.africanschoolofp hysics.org/asp2018/\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8348/ LOCATION: - Namibia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8348/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:EAUMP-ICTP School and Workshop on Homological Methods in Algebra a nd Geometry II | (smr 3219) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180709T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180728T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8373@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n This is a three-week school and workshop on homological met hods in algebra and geometry. The first two weeks will be a school for stu dents from East Africa and beyond. International and African researchers w ill join for a workshop in the third week.\n The school begins with two in troductory courses on some basic techniques that are widely used in the ar ea. These are then built upon in the second week with slightly more advanc ed topics. The goal here is to give the participants a glimpse into some i deas used in algebraic geometry and homological algebra with the hope of i nspiring them to pursue further research in a related topic.\n The school is intended for advanced graduate students (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) and young aca demic staff members from East Africa and beyond. Senior academic members a re also welcome to participate.\n In the last week\, the activity turns in to a research focus-session involving international and African experts. T he focus-session will study tensor categories and how they arise naturally in algebraic geometry with the aim of exploiting them using homological a lgebra.\n School Website: eaumpictp2018.weebly.comSchool Topics:\n\n Adva nced linear algebra\n \n Galois theory\n \n Elementary algebraic geometr y\n \n Introduction to homological algebra\n\n Workshop topic:\n\n Tenso r categories of coherent sheaves\n\n Organizers:\n Tarig Abdelgadir (UNSW Sydney)\n Ulrich Krähmer (TU Dresden)\n Sylvester Rugeihyamu (Dar Es Sala am)\n David Ssevviiri (Makerere)\n Balázs Szendrői (Oxford)\n Fernando R odriguez Villegas (ICTP)School speakers:\n Ravi Ramakrishna (Cornell)\n David Ssevviiri (Makerere)\n Chelsea Walton (Temple)\n Paul Wedrich (ANU Canberra)\n Michael Wemyss (Glasgow)\n Workshop speakers:\n Raf Bocklan dt (Amsterdam)\n John Boiquaye (Accra)\n Andre Saint-Eudes Mialebama Bou esso (AIMS-South Africa)\n Alexandru Chirvasitu (Boulder)\n Joshua Green e (Boston College)Pinhas Grossman (UNSW Sydney)Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo)\n Shinnosuke Okawa (Osaka)\n Sue Sierra (Edinburgh)\n Hermann Sore (Burkin a Faso)\n Angela Tabiri (Glasgow)\n Ralph Twum (Accra)\n ICTP Scientific Contact: L. GOETTSCHE (ICTP)\n Application is open to all mathematicians and graduate students from developing countries. Applicants from EAUMP mem ber states will be given priority. We encourage participants to secure the ir own funding for travel and subsistence from their home institution. Lim ited funds are available for participants from Sub- Saharan African Countr ies. There is no registration fee.\n Deadline: 1st of April 2018Activity e -mail: smr3219@ictp.it\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8373/ LOCATION:Dar-es-Salaam - United Republic of Tanzania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8373/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-CIMPA School: AGRA III (Aritmética\, Grupos y Analisis III) | (smr 3222) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180709T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180720T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8385@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n ICTP-CIMPA School: AGRA III (Aritmetica\, Grupos y Analisis III)\n from the 9 - 20 July 2018 in Cordoba\, Argentina\n to held at the Academia Nacional de Ciencias and at FaMAFPlease note:   Arrival date sh ould be 8 July 2018 and\n                        Dep arture date should be 21 July 2018For Schedule and further information ple ase refer to following link: \n http://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/agra3/http:// www.anc-argentina.org.ar/web/actividades/bienvenida\n  \nDeadline for req uesting participation: 4 MARCH 2018\n The area of the School is number the ory\, broadly understood - analytic\, algebraic\, combinatiorial\, with li nks to groups and geometry.\n\nAll of the course topics lie at thematic in tersections.\n The course on Galois representations will focuse on their connections with modular forms and elliptic curves.\n \n The course on ar ithmetic groups will involve familiarizing students with topics in group t heory and modular forms.\n \n Equidistribution in a diophantine context w ill be the main subject of a course.\n \n Another lecture series will foc us on analysis\, combinatorics and discrete geometry.\n \n The study of c urves over finite fields\, and the resulting codes\, will allow for an acc essible introduction to deep issues in algebraic geometry\, with immediate applications.\n \n Finally\, the course on primes\, parity and analysis will combine classical tools and the use of entropy and independence.\n\n The plan is\, then\, to introduce advanced students to a variety of fields and tools and to notable recent developments.\nScienfific Committee:\nMic hael Harris\nHarald Helfgott\nRoberto Miatello\nNuria Vila Oliva\nFernando Rodriguez VillegasLocal Committee:\nMaria Chara\nEmilio Lauret\nAriel Pac etti\nRicardo Podesta\nDiego SulcaInvited Speakers:Miram Abdon\, Universid ade Federal Fluminense\, BrazilMikhail Belolipetsky\, IMPA - Instit.  Nac . de Matematica Pura e Aplicada\, BrazilJosé Burgos Gil\, ICMAT\, SpainLu is Dieulefait\, Universitat de Barcelona\, SpainCicero Fernandes De Carval ho\, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia\, BrazilMichael Harris\, Universit é Paris VII\, France & Columbia University\, U.S.A.Harald Helfgott\, Geor g-August Universität Göttingen & CNRS - Centre National \nde la Recherc he Scientifique & Université Paris VI/VII\, FranceMarc Hindry\, Univesit é Paris VII\, FranceBenjamin Linowitz\, Oberlin College\,  Ohio\, U.S.A. Ricardo Menares\, PUCV - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso\, ChileRoberto Miatello\, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba\, ArgentinaAriel Pacetti\, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba\, ArgentinaDaniel Panario\, Ca rleton University\, CanadaMarusia Rebolledo\, Université Blaise Pascal Cl ermont-Ferrand 2\, FranceDavid Roberts\, University of Minnesota\, Morris\ , U.S.A.Fernando Rodriguez Villegas\, ICTP - the Abdus Salam International Centre for\nTheoretical Physics\, ItalyAdrián Ubis Martínez\, Universid ad Autonoma de Madrid\, SpainCo-sponsors:\nAcademia Nacional de Ciencias\n Alexander von Humboldt\nCentre International de Mathematiques Pures et App liques (CIMPA)\nFacultad de Matematica\, Astronomia\, Fisica y Computacion (FAMAF)\nFoundation Compositio Mathematica\nUniversidad Nacional de Cordo ba (UNC)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8385/ LOCATION:Cordoba - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8385/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mediterranean Youth Mathematical Championship 2018 | (smr 3254) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180718T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180721T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8500@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:MYMC 2018 web page: http://www.mymc.it/2018/REGULATIONS: http: //www.mymc.it/2018/doc/MYMC2018REGULATIONS.pdfPARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:\nAl bania\, Algeria\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Croatia\, Cyprus\, Egypt\, Fran ce\, Greece\, Italy\, Lebanon\, Montenegro\, Morocco\, Palestine\, Sloveni a\, Spain\, Tunisia\, TurkeyTRAINING EXERCISES: http://www.mymc.it/2018/do c/training_exercises.pdf\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8500/ LOCATION:Roma - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8500/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana | (smr 3230) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180730T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180805T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8349@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana (https:// coessing.org) is an international collaboration aimed at building capacity in oceanographic and environmental sciences in Ghana specifically\, and A frica more generally. \nThe Summer School was previously held in 2015\, 2 016 and 2017. We intend to hold the schools every year\, and to alternate the schools between Regional Maritime University and University of Ghana\, which are both located in Ghana's capital city of Accra. \nMarine issues of great importance to Ghana include fisheries\, piracy\, pollution\, shi pping and port management\, and the recent advent of offshore oil drilling . Long-term goals of our collaborative effort include securing funding to continue the school on an annual basis\, increasing the number of links w ith institutions in other African countries\, and incorporating research p artnerships as part of the summer school.\nThe school will include lecture s\, hands-on labs\, and a field trip\, and will address the physics and bi ogeochemistry of the coastal ocean environment\, as well as the tools that \nscientists use to describe and understand this environment.\n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/8349/ LOCATION: - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8349/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The First Xinjiang International Summer School and Workshop on Hig h Energy Physics | (smr 3217) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180801T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180810T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8355@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:For more information please visit: https://indico.cern.ch/even t/680421/overview\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8355/ LOCATION:Xinjiang - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8355/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Tropical Geometry and Moduli Spaces | (smr 3233) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180813T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180817T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8350@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:For registration and more information please visit:https://imp a.br/en_US/eventos-do-impa/eventos-2018/tropical-geometry-and-moduli-space s/\nDeadline to apply for funding: 28 February 2018\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/8350/ LOCATION:Rio de Janeiro - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8350/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ethiopian Regional Workshop on Solar Energy and Energy Storage Tec hnologies: Materials\, System Design\, and Applications | (smr 3149) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181015T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181019T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8352@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\nDirector: Teketel YOHANNES\, AASTU\, Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia\ n\n ICTP Contacts: Ralph GEBAUER & Nicola SERIANI\, ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy \n The Workshop addresses students and researchers working in the field of solar energy and energy storage.  The event will focus on fundamental an d applied research on functional materials\, on devices and on their appli cation.\n To cope with increasing global energy demand\, solar energy is o ne of the best alternatives.  The feasibility of solar energy technology in Africa\, where the sun is available throughout the year\, is not questi onable.  This huge energy can be used as photo-thermal and in photovoltai c forms.  For efficient conversion of solar energy it is very important t o have a clear understanding of the photo-physical and opto-electrical pro perties of materials.  In parallel with the development of photovoltaic d evices\, due attention has to be given to the storage of electrical energy in easily portable chemical energy forms and/or in an electrical field.  Since solar energy is collected only in the day time\, it is also wise to develop alternative technologies such as storage for renewable energy for ms.\n Please note that funds from the Joint Undertaking for an African Mat erials Institute (JUAMI) are also available for US students.TOPICS:\n \n \n \n Current photovoltaic systems\, new technologies\;\n \n Promise of nanostructures and technology in this field\;\n \n Wind and geothermal energy: potential and installations in Ethiopia\;\n \n Energy storage: fuel cells\, batteries and supercapacitors\;\ n \n Importance of materials science\, experimental and computati onal approach\;\n \n Renewable energy potentials in the region.\n WORKSHOP SPEAKERS:\n Michael ARMAND\, Minano\, Spain\n \n Vladimir DYAKONOV\, Wuerzburg\, Germany\n \n Gebrekldan G. ESHE TU\, Aachen\, Germany\n \n Sosina M. HAILE\, Northwestern\, U.S.A .\n \n Harold HOPPE\, Jena\, Germany\n \n Kenneth I. OZO EMENA\, Johannesburg\, South Africa\n \n Markus C. SCHARBER\, Lin z\, Austria\n \n Veronika WITTMANN\, Linz\, Austria\n \n \n \ n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8352/ LOCATION:Addis Ababa - Ethiopia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8352/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reviving the African Physical Society - A Tribute to Professor Fra ncis Allotey | (smr 3372) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181017T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181019T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8684@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Slides of talks presented are being uploaded -- see link "S lides" at foot (last update: 17.06.2019)\n Some photos taken at the Franci s Allotey tribute meeting in Kigali can be viewed here:https://www.flickr. com/photos/ictpimages/albums/72157702697977105\n  \n\n * * *\n\n The Work shop was successfully held on 17th and 19th October 2018 in Kigali\, Rwand a as part of the festivities for the official opening on the 18th of Octob er 2018 of the East African Institute of Fundamental Research (EAIFR)\, an ICTP partner Institute in Africa.\n  \n The activity began with a tribut e to Prof. Francis Allotey who passed away last year.\n Focussed on discus sions about all the great science that is currently going on in the Africa n continent\, promoting networking amongst African scientists and setting out a roadmap for the future of science in general in Africa\, the Worksho p counted 41 attendees (organizers\, speakers\, and selected participants) .\n\n  \n\n Final List of Speakers \n Amna Abdalla Mohammed Khalid\n John Akindayo Adedoyin\n George Amolo\n Rondrotiana Barimalala\n Paul Buah-Bas suah\n Nithaya Chetty\n Mmantasae Moche Diale\n Kedro Diomande\n Moses Joj o Eghan\n Jean Paul Faye\n Garu Gebreyesus\n Assia Harbi\n Estelle Inack\n Stephane Kenmoe\n Rasha M. Khafagy\n Lucy Kiruri\n Timoleon Crepin Kofane \n Bernard M'Passi Mabiala\n Malik Maaza\n Liliana Mammino\n Sekazi Mtingw a\n Joe Niemela\n Lawrence Norris\n Solofoarisoa Rakotoniaina\n Bonfils Sa fari\n Mohammed Semlali\n Charles Tabod\n Mourad Telmini\n Ahmadou Wague\n Amanda Weltman\n Hisham Widatallah\n  \n\n Related links:\n ICTP news at : https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/10/eaifr.aspx\n EA IFR webpage: https://eaifr.ictp.it/\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8684/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8684/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Space-Apps Challenge | (smr 3341) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181020T063000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181021T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8640@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n A Global Community\n \n Space Apps is an international hackathon that occurs over 48 hours in cities around the world. Because o f citizens like you\, we continue to grow each year. If you haven't alread y\, join us to share ideas and engage with open data to address real-world problems\, on Earth and in space. Work alone or with a team to solve chal lenges that could help change the world.\n The Trieste event is organized and hosted by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP) with the Patronage of the municipality Comune di Trieste and Univ erstiy of Trieste\, and the sponsorship of the United States Consulate of Milan.\n\n\n \n The World Needs Your Ideas\n \n Part of the Open Governm ent Partnership\, Space Apps is an annual event that pulls citizens togeth er regardless of their background or skill level. Don't let the name fool you... it's not just about apps! Tackle a challenge using robotics\, data visualization\, hardware\, design and many other specialties! Inspire each other while you learn and create using stories\, code\, design and\, most of all\, YOUR ideas. Show us your problem-solving skills and share your t alents with the world!\n \n  \n \n Find out more at https://2018.spacea ppschallenge.org/locations/trieste/\n \n Con il patrocinio di: / With pat ronage of:\n Comune di Trieste\n Università degli Studi di Trieste\n\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/8640/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8640/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:5th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Application s (ASESMA-2018) | (smr 3234) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181022T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181102T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8354@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Directors:\nN. CHETTY\, University of Pretoria\, South Africa\ nR. MARTIN\, Stanford University\, U.S.A.\nS. NARASIMHAN\, JNCASR Bangalor e\, India\nS. SCANDOLO\, ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy\nN. SERIANI\, ICTP\, Tries te\, ItalyLocal Organizer:\nT. YOHANNES\, AASTU\, Addis Ababa\, EthiopiaIC TP contacts:\nS. SCANDOLO\, ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy\nN. SERIANI\, ICTP\, Tr ieste\, Italy\n The Schools provide an introdution to the theory of electr onic structure and other atomistic simulation methods\, with an emphasis o n the computational methods for practical calculations.\n  \n\n The Afric an School series on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications is plann ed on a biennial basis from 2010 to 2020.  Previous schools were held in Cape Town\, South Africa (2010)\, Eldoret\, Kenya (2012)\, Johannesburg\, South Africa (2015) and Accra\, Ghana (2016).\n The School will also cover basic and advanced topics and applications of these methods to the struct ural\, mechanical and optical properties of materials.\n The School will i nclude hands-on tutorial sessions based on public license codes (including \, but not limited to\, the Quantum Espresso package).\n  \n\n During the second week\, students will be asked to split up in teams and work on spe cific projects under the guidance of the lecturers and mentors.\n Please n ote that funds from the Joint Undertaking for an African Materials Institu te (JUAMI) are also available for US students.\nInvited Speakers:\n O. AK IN-OJO\, ICTP-EAIFR\, Rwanda\n \n G. AMOLO\, TU Kenya\, Nairobi\n \n M. CASIDA\, Universite' Grenoble Alpes\, Saint-Martin-d'Heres\, France\n \n M. GATTI\, ETSF\, LSI - CNRS\, Palaiseau\, France\n \n G. GEBREYESUS\, Un iversity of Ghana\n \n E. LUIJTEN\, Northwestern McCormick Sch. of Eng.\, Evanston\, U.S.A.\n \n D. MAGERO\, University of Eldoret\, Kenya\n \n A . MARINI\, ISM\, Rome\, Italy\n \n R. MAEZONO\, JAIS\, Ishikawa\, Japan\n \n S. NARASIMHAN\, JNCASR Bangalore\, India\n \n Y. SHAIDU\, SISSA\, Tr ieste\, Italy\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8354/ LOCATION:Addis Ababa - URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8354/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Second Training Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Southeas t Asia | (smr 3166) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181022T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181026T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8556@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Regional climate models (RCMs) have become important tools to study climate variability and change at regional scales. They can also be used to provide climate change information for impact and adaptation studi es. Within the context of RCM research\, the Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX) provides the basis for generating multi-mo del RCM-based projections over regions Worldwide. The community of users o f the ICTP regional model RegCM is one of the most active in contributing to the CORDEX program and in involving the scientific community from devel oping countries in climate change research. With the aim of enlarging and strengthening the RegCM user community\, the ICTP organizes a series of tr aining workshops in different regions of the World. This workshop represen ts the second of a series of RegCM training activities in Southeast Asia\, and includes the following lectures:\n\n* Climate and climate change over the South-east Asia region\n* Regional climate modeling and the physical processes that regulate regional climate \n variability and change\n* Reg ional modeling for the South-east Asia region\n* Hands-on sessions on the structure and use of the RegCM model \n (latest release RegCM4).\n* Discu ssion of the contribution of the RegCM community to the CORDEX initiative\ n* Discussion of future developments of the RegCM system\n\n//indico.ictp. it/event/8556/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8556/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Second Regional Maker Expo of Open Technologies and Inclusive Deve lopment | (smr 3192) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181027T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181028T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8345@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Second Regional Maker Expo of Open Technologies and Inc lusive Development will take place on 27 and 28 October 2018 in Guatemala\ , at Centro Cultural Miguel Angel Asturias. This public event\, originated by the ICTP Science Dissemination Unit (SDU)\, aims at bringing together science\, technology and the community of resourceful and creative people for the benefit of all. Maker Expos indeed bring together design\, enginee ring\, creativity and enthusiasm to showcase projects at the intersection of science\, art and technology.\n This event focuses on open source\, ope n hardware\, citizen science\, do-it-yourself solutions and innovative app roaches to local problems empowered by collaboration through the Internet. \n GOALS\n Besides bringing science and technology closer to the public\, this Maker Expo aims to be a platform where designers\, engineers\, invent ors (or "Makers") meet in a single place to exchange ideas and resources\, make contacts\, meet proactive people to form working groups and collabor ations.TOPICS\n\n Science Projects\n \n Prototyping Technologies\n \n 3 D Printers\n \n Robotics\, RC Toys\, Drones\n \n DIY Automation and IoT\ n \n Sound Utensiles/Instruments\n \n Low Cost Microcopmputers\n \n Mod ular Architecture\n \n Recycling Electronics\n\n ACTIVITIES\n\n Mathemat ical Games\n \n Fun Electronics\n \n Interactive Art Projects\n \n Arts and Crafts\n \n Workshopos\n \n Programming\n \n Tinkering/Hacking\n \ n Etc...\n\n \n PARTICIPATION\n Scientists and Makers from all countries that are members of the United Nations\, UNESCO or IAEA\, may attend the e vent\, however\, since this is a regional activity\, priority will be give n to those coming from Guatemala and neighbouring countries. As a rule\, t ravel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by thei r home institution. The event is free of charge for participants and visit ors.\n For further information (in Spanish) regarding the event please vis it http://www.ecfm.usac.edu.gt/makerexpo\n or contactmakerexpoecfm@ecfm.us ac.edu.gt\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8345/ LOCATION:Guatemala City - Guatemala URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8345/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Latin American Initiative for Molecular Simulations | (smr 3245) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181105T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181115T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8431@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8431/ LOCATION:Montevideo - Uruguay URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8431/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Second Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling and Extreme Events ov er South America | (smr 3195) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181105T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181109T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8636@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The focus of this workshop will be on the application of dynam ical (RegCM4) and statistical tools for the generation of high resolution climate experiments\, in particular within the framework of the CORDEX-SES A Flagship Pilot Study. Lectures and hands-on sessions on these tools appl ied to climate change studies will provide a background for regional clima te modelling focused on the South America region (SA). \n Workshop venue: \n Auditório Prof. Dr. Paulo Benevides Soares\n\n \n Instituto de Astron omia\, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas da Universidade de São Paulo\ n (IAG/USP)\n \n Rua do Matão\, 1226 – Cidade Universitária\, CEP: 0 5508-090 – São Paulo – SP\n\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8636/ LOCATION:São Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8636/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Earthquakes and Tsunami: Modeling and Observations | (smr 3211) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181119T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181130T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8661@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The two-week international school will bring together inter national experts and train Master & PhD students and early career scientis ts in Earthquake and Tsunami Physics so that each participant has a better understanding of the range of circumstances and knowledge related to seis mic hazard in the region. The aim is to raise national capability in the v ulnerable countries and increase their resilience\, through an ad-hoc adva nced training and also favor international cooperation among the school pa rticipants also in the framework of the North African Group for Earthquake and Tsunami studies.\n The programme will involve a series of lectures\, seminars\, exercises and discussion sessions in Earthquake and Tsunami sci ences. For those interested in presenting their research work during the c onference (oral and poster) an abstract should be uploaded directly to the online application.Topics:\n  \n\n Theoretical Seismology\n \n Observa tional and Computational Seismology\n \n Mechanics of Earthquakes and Fau lting\n \n Earthquake Hazard and Strong Ground Motion\n \n Tsunami Physi cs and Hazard\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8661/ LOCATION:Tunis - Tunisia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8661/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Central American and Caribbean Workshop on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Predictability of the Mid-Summer Drought | (smr 3342) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181203T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181207T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8671@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8671/ LOCATION:Antigua - Guatemala URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8671/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics | (smr 3264) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181214T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181218T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8604@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8604/ LOCATION:Mumbai - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8604/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste School on Mathematical Models of Evo lution | (smr 3265) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190121T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190126T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8645@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP School on Mathematical Models of Evol ution\n January 21 – 26\, 2019\n  \n\n Although new experimental techno logy is partly responsible for the current revolution in biological resear ch\, theoretical models developed by physicists are also playing an import ant role in changing the way biological research is being performed. The n umber of theoretical physicists and applied mathematicians migrating into biology has dramatically increased throughout the world\, but South Americ a still lags behind.\n  \n The one-week school on mathematical models on evolution\, co-organized with the ICTP-SAIFR\, UNESP\, FAPESP and IFT-UNES P\, will feature lectures by physicists and applied biologists who have ma de important contributions to this area of biological research. The school is intended for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the phy sical and biological sciences.\n  \n This activity will be preceded by th e ‘VIII Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology’. Candidates ma y apply either for one or both schools\, and preference will be given to P hD students in South America. There is no registration fee and limited fun ds are available for travel and local expenses.Lecturers and courses:Popul ation genetics and evolution – Luca Peliti (SMRI\, Italy)\n Understandin g how genetic information is transmitted across generations is at the basi s of evolutionary theory. This course will review the mechanisms of reprod uction\, selection\, mutation and drift and will be the backbone for the m ore specific courses below.Evolution of individuality – Paul Rainey (IAS – Massey University\, New Zeland)\n 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)\n The immune system has the ability to respon d 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)\n Viruses shape t he fate of cells\, populations\, and ecosystems. These lectures will provi de an overview of the nonlinear dynamics of viruses and their microbial ho sts\, including theory\, models\, and evidence for the joint influence of population and evolutionary dynamics.\n  \n\n The program will be availab le in December 2018\n  Click here for online application\n  Application deadline: November 4\, 2018\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8645/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8645/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Trieste System Optical Sciences and Applications (TSOSA) Meeting | (smr 3377) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190219T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190219T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8850@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8850/ LOCATION:ICTP Lundqvist Lecture Hall (AGH) URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8850/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Climate and Environmental Modelling in the West African Region | (smr 3243) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190311T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190315T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8360@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n  \n \n West African climate is characterized by c omplex atmospheric dynamics and growing anthropogenic pressures. These pre ssures\, combined with climate change and variability\, have many environm ental impacts. Regional climate models include now capabilities such as in teractive coupling with oceans\, surface hydrology\, atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles. Combined with process study and observation an alysis\, such systems are interesting frameworks for impact assessments ov er West Africa. However their complexity is such that they require high co mputing power and appropriate “know-how”. This point has motivated the recent development of a supercomputing center at the University of Abidja n.\n  \n In this context\, the school proposes theoretical and practica l computing sessions on regional climate and environmental modeling. It is co-organized with the final conference of the DACCIWA project (https://ww w.dacciwa.eu/) so that participants can benefit from both of these events. Participants are required to have a pre-existing background in Atmospheri c / Earth system science and be familiar with Linux/Unix environment. Engl ish will be the spoken language during theoretical and practical sessions.  \n      \n  Topics:\n Basis of regional climate and Earth System modeling \n \n Examples of climate and Earth system studies over sub-S aharan Africa\n \n  Extensive hands-on regional climate and Earth syst em modeling sessions using HPC facilities \n \n Review and discussion of on-going projects involving climate and Earth system modeling over sub- Saharan Africa \n \n Beyond the school : Identification of regional wo rking groups\, projects and networks\n \n  \n  \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/8360/ LOCATION:Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8360/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-Rwanda Joint School on Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather and Cl imate Prediction | (smr 3140) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190429T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190503T160000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8752@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:This ICTP school will introduce the Copernicus climate service s platform that now provides open access to state of the art reanalysis\, real-time seasonal forecast and climate model products.\n\nDaily lectures will be given on reanalysis\, subseasonal to seasonal forecasting\, and pr edictability\, including lectures on ENSO-driven variability and teleconne ctions. Each afternoon will be spent carrying out hands-on exercises using state-of-the-art products now available on the Copernicus climate data st ore hosted at ECMWF. These exercises will demonstrate how to access files through python scripts or perform analysis directly at ECMWF using the pyt hon-based toolbox. The aim would be to assess some aspect of the seasonal forecast skill in a participants’ projects during the ICTP school in we ek 1. \n\nTopics:\n• Analysis and Reanalysis products\n• Sub seasonal to Seasonal forecasting\n• Predictability\, ENSO and teleconnections\n • Copernicus climate services and the data store\n\n//indico.ictp.it/eve nt/8752/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8752/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Advances in Condensed Matter Physics:New Trends and Mate rials in Quantum Technologies | (smr 3287) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190507T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190515T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8676@ictp.it DESCRIPTION: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 phys ics and engineering\, based on the use some of the phenomena in quantum me chanics\, such as quantum entanglement\, quantum superposition and quantum tunneling and interference effects for practical applications such as qu antum computing\, quantum sensing\, quantum cryptography\, high precision quantum metrology and quantum imaging.\nThis will be done by presenting se ries of lectures for the broad auditorium of young researchers (e.g. Maste r 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 chemica l physics. Invited lecturers will be world-wide well-known experts on the above topics.\nThe lectures to be presented will be focused on most advanc ed topics of condensed matter physics which are relevant to novel material s for energy conversion\, quantum information and medical applications. Th e goal of the lectures will be twofold\, educational and expert-level disc ussions of novel results. The latter will be done both during the panel le ctures and informal seminars.\nTopics:\n• Graphene\, two-dimensional mat erials and their heterostructures\;\n• Majorana fermions\;\n• Topologi cal insulators\;\n• Quantum hall effect\;\n• Novel superconducting mat erials\;\n• Quantum entanglement and quantum computing\;\n• Quantum ne tworks and their applications\;\n• Quantum optics and cold atoms\;\n• Quantum metrology\nInvited speakers:\nA. Akhmerov   (Delft University o f Technology\, The Netherlands)\nG. Casati    (University of Insubria\ , Italy)\nA.H. Castro Neto (National University of Singapore)\nR. Fazio     (The Abdus Salam ICTP\, Italy)\nK. Flensberg    (Niels Bohr Inst itute\, Denmark)\nY. Gefen    (Weizmann Institute\, Israel)\nA. Geim  (The University of Manchester\, U.K.)\nL. Glazman    (Yale University \, U.S.A.)\nM. Katsnelson    (Radboud University Nijmegen\, The Nether lands)\nA.H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin)\nC. Marcus (Univers ity of Copenhagen\, Denmark)\nT. Martin    (Aix-Marseille University\, France)\nL. Molenkamp  (University of Wurzburg\, Germany)\nF. Von Oppen     (Free University of Berlin\, Germany)\nY. Oreg    (Weizmann In stitute\, Israel)\nF. Peeters    (University of Antwerp\, Belgium)\nS. Sachdev  (Harvard University\, U.S.A.)\nA. Stern    (Weizmann Instit ute\, Israel)\nFurther information may be obtained from the poster and at http://acmp2019.las.uz/ Deadline: 1st February 2019\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/8676/ LOCATION:Samarkand - Uzbekistan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8676/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Conference on Complex Quantum Systems out of Equilibriu m in Many-Body Physics and Beyond | (smr 3295) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190527T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190607T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8687@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The first week of this activity (May 27-31) will consist of in troductory lectures aimed at graduate students\, postdocs\, and junior res earchers. Topics include – far from equilibrium physics\, many-body cohe rent dynamics\, Anderson and many-body localization\, and quantum informat ion processing from many-body physics perspective. \n\nIn 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 co ndensed matter physics and related areas. Additional subjects include quan tum gases\, superconductivity and superconducting qubits\, topological sta tes of matter\, integrable systems\, low-dimensional physics\, disordered systems\, quantum thermodynamics\, driven and driven-dissipative dynamics etc.\n\nFurther information is available on poster below.\n\nNEW DEADLINE for applicants not requesting financial support: 17th March 2019\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/8687/ LOCATION:Yerevan - Armenia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8687/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Young Scientists School and Conferenceon Computation al Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences: “CITES-2019” | (smr 3339) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190527T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190605T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8739@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Programme for the Conference (3 - 6 June 2019)\n is availab le via the following link:http://www.scert.ru/en/conferences/cites2019/ \n \n Organizers: E. Gordov\n Institute for Monitoring of Climate and Ecologi cal Systems\, SB RAS\, RussiaV. Khan\n Hydrometcentre of RussiaM. Tolstykh \n Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics RAS and Hydrometcentre of Ru ssiaICTP Contact/Organizer:A. Tompkins\, ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy\n The them e of the School is subseasonal to decadal (S2D) weather and climate predic tions. The school will cover aspects from the modeling and data assimilati on to forecast information delivery and relevant practical applications.\n  \n\n Recently\, The accuracy of S2D predictions have significantly adva nced\, exploiting potential sources of atmosphere predictability\, such as interactions of the atmosphere with the ocean\, sea-ice\, land surface\, and internal atmosphere modes of variability such as the MJO and QBO. The event comprises of a one-week School with lectures given by leading expert s from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Subsea sonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP)\, introducing systems from some o f the world’s leading operational centers. The lectures will be compleme nted by lab exercises using open-access data of near-real time and histori cal forecasts.\n\n \n In the second week\, the Computational Information T echnologies for Environmental Sciences Conference will take place.\n\nMore information on the Conference\, including abstract requirements\, is avai lable at: http://www.scert.ru/en/conferences/cites2019/ Topics: \n• Subs easonal prediction\;\n• Seasonal prediction\;\n• Interannual predictio n\;\n• Earth system modelling\;\n• Practical applications of long rang e forecasts.Speakers include: L. Batte\, Meteo-FranceL. Ferranti\, ECMWF\, UKD. Hudson\, BoM\, AustraliaV. Khan\, Hydrometcentre of RussiaLee\, June -Yi\, University of Pusan\, KoreaB. Merryfield\, CCMA\, CanadaR. Saural\, CIMA\, University of Buenos Aires\, ArgentinaA. Tompkins\, ICTP\, Trieste\ , ItalyM. Tolstykh\, INM RAS\, Russia\n\n \n The School invites applicatio ns from PhD students\, early career scientists and national meteorological services specialists. A working knowledge of English language is required and a motivation letter in English forms part of the application process. Participants are expected to know how to handle NetCDF data and to visual ize them.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8739/ LOCATION:Moscow - Russian Federation URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8739/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP Caribbean School on Materials for Clean Energy | (smr 3297) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190530T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190605T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8688@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n MOST OF KEY LECTURERS' SLIDES ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE.\n FI NAL PROGRAMME  IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD\n (see link at foot or click her e)\n\n  \n\n - - -\n  \n\n Energy and environmental issues are particula rly challenging for the developing countries in general\, both politically and economically. This may be due to the technological\, cultural\, and a wareness gaps that exist in the general public in those countries  with r espect 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 is sued a report which argues that no sustainable development can occur witho ut sustainable energy. The Global Action Agenda defined by SE4ALL will req uire a critical mass of highly trained individuals within developing natio ns.\n  \n Currently\, the three major areas of energy-related research ar e energy conversion\, energy saving (including efficiency) and energy stor age\, all of which will require significant capacity building within devel oping countries. Strengthening the scientific and technological knowledge base in these areas represents a realistic approach to reduce the dependen ce on foreign imported skills and resources.\n We believe that the underst anding of the fundamental processes that are experimentally observed withi n materials at different scales can guide a very much needed approach of m aterials-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 a n in-depth treatment of some advanced computational methodologies that are used to address the problem of materials for energy and environmental app lications.\n  \n A multiscale view of the materials modeling\, with elect ronic 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.\n In particular\, methods such as Density Fu nctional Theory are based on the almost exact solution of the Schrödinger equation for the electrons and allow for the description of the mechanica l\, vibrational\, electrical\, magnetic\, and several other properties of solids with "chemical accuracy\," without any empirical input.\n This is a rapidly evolving field\, which also offers people in developing countries the opportunity to carry out cutting-edge theoretical research with relat ively low financial investments in equipment.\n Our ultimate goal is to br ing young scientists from those countries up to speed by providing them wi th the most recent knowledge about experimental developments as well as fu ndamental concepts coming from electronic structure research.\n This activ ity offers also networking opportunities for participants to facilitate ca rrying out state of the art theoretical research on clean-energy materials \, back in their home institutions.\n \nAmong the topics covered\, we fin d:\n \n- Computational multiscale techniques for the study of new materia ls\n- Latest experimental developments in clean energy\n- Structural\, mec hanical\, optical\, and transport properties of Surfaces and Interfaces\n- Energy generation and storage materials design\n- Catalysts and energy-sa ving materials\nLecturers:\nP. Balbuena (TAMU)\nS. Baroni (SISSA Trieste)\ nF. Giustino (Oxford)\nN. Marzari (EPFL)\nE. Menendez (U. Chile)\nC. R. Mi randa (USP)\nS. E. Reyes-Lillo (UNAB\, Chile)\nA. Samtsevych (Skolkovo Ins t.\, Moscow)\nJ. Seminario (TAMU)\nC. Wolverton (Northwestern U.)\n- - -\n Deadine for application: expired March 2019.\nICTP Secretariat: smr3297@ic tp.it\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8688/ LOCATION:Cartagena - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8688/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1st Latin American School in Applied Mathematics | (smr 3301) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190617T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190628T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8691@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \nAll lessons will be held in English at the\nUniversidad S an Francisco de Quito Campus Cumbaya\nhttp://www.usfq.edu.ec/Paginas/Inici o.aspx and\nEscuela Politécnica Nacional\nhttps://www.epn.edu.ec/\n\n\nTo pics:\n\n Optimal Control and Applications to Biology\n \n Fluid Mechani cs\n \n Machine Learning\n \n Cancer Dynamics Description continued\n\n This activity serves as an opportunity to highlight current research topic s and real-world applications in applied mathematics. Students exposed to the mini-courses will learn mathematical tools used to efficiently solve r eal world problems. Specifically\, the intention is to highlight the appli cations of mathematics in other disciplines as well as in industry in an e ffort to illustrate mathematics as a useful and necessary tool as well as a lucrative career option.\n  \n\n Courses aim to address both theoretica l aspects as well as real world applications. The courses will be compleme nted by additional computer lab sessions where students will solve relevan t problems and be given an opportunity to run simulations and learn comput ational skills. In addition\, students will be provided with mentoring reg arding jobs in industry as well as opportunities for advanced studies in m athematics.\nLecturers include: \nM. S. Aronna\, Escola de Matemática Apl icada (FGV)\, Brazil\nJ. Bedrossian\, University of Maryland\, U.S.A.\nR. Cóbe\, Sao Paulo State University\, Brazil\nD. Levy\, University of Maryl and\, U.S.A.Organizers: \nM. Audelo\, ESPOCH\nM. Calahorrano\, EPN\, Ecuad or\nM. G. Delgadino\, Imperial College\, U.K.\nD. C. Ramirez\, USFQ\, Ecua dor\nL. D. Simonelli\, ICTP\, Italy\nG. Violini\, Pontificia Universidad C atolica\, Dominican RepublicLocal Organizer:\nC. Arezzo\, ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8691/ LOCATION:Quito - Ecuador URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8691/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2nd East-African Workshop on the Internet of Things | (smr 3279) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190624T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190628T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8652@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:For more information\, please visit the following website:http s://eaifr.ictp.it/events/2019-04-08-2nd-east-african-workshop-on-the-inter net-of-things/\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8652/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8652/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:StatPhys27 | (smr 3308) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190708T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190712T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8696@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n ICTP supports the participation of scientists from developi ng countries in STATPHYS27 with a limited number of travel fellowships.\n For all information on the conference and how to apply\, please visit the STATPHYS27 website https://statphys27.df.uba.ar \n The deadline for applic ations is March 8\, 2019.\n Program -> https://statphys27.df.uba.ar/prog ram.html\n  \n \n Speakers -> https://statphys27.df.uba.ar/speakers.ht ml\n  \n \n Applications -> https://statphys27.df.uba.ar/registration. html\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8696/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8696/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:EAUMP - ICTP Summer School on Algebraic Topology and its Applicati ons | (smr 3310) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190715T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190730T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8699@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Programme (EAUM P) courtesy of the International Science Programme (ISP) of Sweden\; joint ly with ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy\; Sida\, CIMPA\, DAAD\, LMS/AMMSI\, COMPOSI TIO is organizing a three weeks summer School on Algebraic Topology and it s Applications to be held at Makerere University\, Kampala\, Uganda from 1 5th July to 30th July\, 2019.\n It is intended that the School will take t he audience comprising young academic staff members and advanced graduate students (M.Sc\, Ph.D and Postdoctoral Students) of Mathematics from the E astern African region and beyond. The school is the next one in a series o f schools organized under the Eastern African Universities Mathematics Pro gramme (EAUMP). The most recent EAUMP schools were organized in 2015 at Ma kerere 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 D ar es Salaam on Homological methods in Algebra and Geometry. All the schoo ls are within one of the main aims of EAUMP which is to improve the pure m athematics in the region.\n The member Universities of the EAUMP are Unive rsity of Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania\; University of Nairobi\, Kenya\; Univer sity of Zambia\, Zambia\; Makerere University\, Uganda\; University of Rwa nda\, Rwanda.GOALS OF THE SCHOOL\n\n 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 an d PhD studies.\n \n To provide a forum for African mathematicians to inte ract\, exchange ideas and initiate collaborations.\n \n Identify talented students for possible PhD programs.\n \n To produce digital lecture mate rial for dissemination\, which contributes to the training of master stude nts in the Eastern Africa region.\n\n STURCTURE AND PROGRAMME\n As in the years 2013-2017\, participants will be asked to submit mini-projects on th e material studied at the School\, with the best submissions receiving pri zes/awards. They will work on their projects after the end of the School a nd will submit them during the third week of the school.Here is the detail ed course plan for the School.\nWeek 1: Introductory courses\n\nCourse 1: Introductory Topology\nLecturer: Venuste Nyagahakwa (University of Rwanda) \nDescription: This course will introduce the basic ideas of topology\, st arting with an abstract definition of topological space\, and treating man y examples.\n\nCourse 2: The Fundamental Group\nLecturer: Jean-Baptiste Ga tsinzi (Botswana Institute of Science and Technology)\nDescription: The fu ndamental group is a basic but key algebraic invariant of a topological sp ace. This course will define this group and give some interesting examples of how to compute it.\n\nCourse 3: Introduction to knot theory\nLecturer: Balazs Szendroi (University of Oxford)\nDescription: A knot is a tangled piece of rope in the three dimensional space\, with the two loose ends glu ed together. Knot theory asks questions such as: can this knot be untangle d by continuously deforming the rope? Are there ways to tell two knots apa rt? This course will discuss these motivating questions and present some i deas how to solve them. \n\nWeek 2: Advanced courses\n\nCourse 3: Manifold s\nLecturer: Claudia Scheimbauer (NTNU\, Trondheim)\nDescription: Manifold s provide a very interesting class of examples of topological spaces\, of great interest in applications to geometry\, physics and elsewhere. This c ourse will introduce this notion with many examples\, mainly from dimensio ns 1\, 2 and 3.\n\nCourse 4: Topological Data Analysis\nLecturer: Ulrike T illmann (University of Oxford)\nDescription: Topological data analysis is a recent and fast-growing field providing a set of new topological and geo metric tools to infer global features from complex data. This course will give an introduction to this circle of ideas.\n\n\n\n\n SCHOOL PARTICIPATI ON\n Online application form is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8 699/\, and will close on 28th April\, 2019. Alternative request for partic ipation 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 applican ts who will be successful shall be contacted. Letters of invitation will b e issued to participants upon request for the processing of travel documen ts or soliciting for funding.INTERNATIONAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE\n Leif Abr ahamson (University of Uppsala\, Sweden)\, Prof. Bengt-Ove Turesson (Linko ping University\, Sweden)\, Fernando Rodriguez Villegas (ICTP\, Italy)\, B alazs Szendroi (University of Oxford\, UK)\,  Patrick Weke (University of Nairobi\, Kenya).LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE\n David Ssevviiri (Makerere U niversity)\, Juma Kasozi (Makerere University)\, John Mango Makerere Unive rsity)\, Patrick Weke (University of Nairobi)\, Jared Ongaro (University o f 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).\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8699/ LOCATION:Kampala - Uganda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8699/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-Trieste and ICTP-SAIFR School on Observational Cosmolog y | (smr 3305) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190722T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190802T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8704@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/8704/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8704/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on American Monsoons - Progress and Future Plans | (smr 3307) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190819T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190823T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8713@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:For ICTP-SAIFR school website click here\nThe Advanced School and Workshop will bring together scientists and students for presenting an d discussing the progress in research on the American monsoons and their r ole in the global monsoon system\, and for planning future activities.\nTh e American monsoons are important components of the global monsoon system. A very high percentage of the annual precipitation over most of South Ame rica occurs during the summer monsoon\, including subtropical regions. The economy\, agriculture\, water and energy resources and\, consequently\, t he livelihoods of the great majority of South America population are heavi ly dependent on the summer monsoon. Also the North American monsoon provid es crucial water resources for Mexico\, Central American countries\, sever al island nations in the Caribbean and parts of the southwest USA. Predict ing the intensity of American monsoon rainfall is not only a regional chal lenge\, but is also relevant in the framework of a global sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting system.\nThe Advanced School and Workshop are fostere d by the Working Group on American Monsoons\, one of the regional monsoons working groups established under the coordination of the CLIVAR/GEWEX Mon soons Panel.Topics to be covered include:\n\n Global context\, main featu res\, life cycle of the American monsoons\;\n \n Variability on diurnal\, mesoscale and synoptic time scales\; sub-seasonal to seasonal variability \;\n \n Variability on interannual and decadal/interdecadal time scales\; modulation of extreme events by climate variability\; longer term variabi lity and climate change\;\n \n Predictability and prediction (weather\, s ub-seasonal\, seasonal and longer lead times)\; modelling studies\;\n \n Impacts on society\; future challenges\; plans for observational studies\, diagnostic analyses\, and modelling activities. Discussions on future col laboration.\n\n Participation\nThe targeted audience includes scientists and advanced undergraduate and graduate students\, interested in the Ameri can monsoons and their role in the global monsoon system. There is no regi stration 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.\nAs a rule\, support for travel and subsistence expenses should be secured by the part icipants. However\, limited funds are available for graduate students and early career researchers (PhD obtained within the last 5 years) who are na tionals of\, and working in\, a developing Latin American country\, subjec t to selection by the activity organizers. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire activity. Those applying for support are r equested to submit an abstract. As the activity will be conducted in Engli sh\, participants should have an adequate knowledge of that language.\n C onfirmed Speakers\nPedro Silva Dias - University of São Paulo\, Brazil\nM arcelo Barreiro - Universidad de la Republica\, Uruguay\nCecilia Hidalgo – University of Buenos Aires\, Argentina\nLeila Carvalho - University of California at Santa Barbara\, USA\nFrancina Dominguez - University of Ill inois at Urbana\, USA\nRong Fu - University of Texas at Austin\, USA\nTere za Cavazos - CICESE\, Mexico\nAlice M. Grimm - Federal University of Paran a\, Brazil\nIracema F. A. Cavalcanti - National Institute for Space Resear ch\, Brazil\nManoel Gan - National Institute for Space Research\, Brazil\n   \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8713/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8713/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Biophysical Approaches to Macromolecules and Cells: Inte grated Tools for Life Sciences and Medicine | (smr 3323) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190909T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190920T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8718@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n  \n \n • SLIDES of SCHOOL LECTURES are online\n See below under "Slides"\, or click here\, directly  \n • TUTORIALS related material can be found under "Tutorials"\, otherwise click here.\n  \n \n • SCHOOL PROGRAMME IS ONLINE\n • LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IS ON LINE\n  \n \n  \n \n * * *\n  \n \n  \n \n School on Biophysical Approaches to Macromolecules and Cells:\n Integrated Tools for Life Scie nces and Medicine\n PURPOSES & DESCRIPTION\n \n The application of physic s to the life sciences has a long history\, but over the last decades ther e has been a marked acceleration in a variety of related fields. Current a pproaches require a much closer link between physicists\, chemists\, compu tational 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 researcher s to the latest developments in the field of molecular biophysics\, and to help forge links between theoretical and experimental communities\, actin g as a focus for the emerging biophysical sciences in Africa.\n The rapid development in the fields of biophysics\, structural biology and nanotechn ology has made available a new range of tools and approaches that have rev olutionized biological and medical research\, by allowing scientists to un derstand biology at the molecular level\, manipulate nano-particles and ma cromolecular objects\, and to monitor the behavior of single molecules.\n These developments are strongly connected to advances in computational bio logy and structural bioinformatics - ranging from structural biology to na nobiophysics\, nanomedicine\, single-molecule approaches - and with a revo lutionary  impact  on  biotechnology\, pharmacology\, drug delivery and early diagnostics of wide spread diseases.\n\n Topics\n • Structural Bi ology\n • Molecular Biophysics\n • Single-molecule Experiments\n • D ata Science\n • Drug Design\n • Molecular Dynamics\n • Aqueous Chemi stryLecturers\n O. AKIN-OJO\, EAIFR\, Rwanda\n L. CASALIS\, Elettra\, Ital y\n P. COSSIO\, University of Antioquia\, Colombia\n A. HASSANALI\, ICTP\, Italy\n J. FERNANDEZ\, Columbia University\, USA\n F. FRATERNALI\, King ’s College London\, UK\n L. KIRURI\,Kenyatta University\, Kenya\n A. LAI O\, SISSA\, Italy\n A. A. MOHAMMED KHALID\, Göttingen University\, Germa ny\n M. NGAVOUKA\, University Marien Ngouabi\, Congo\n F. OLAJUYIGBE\, Fed eral Univ. of Technology\, Nigeria\n S. ONESTI\, Elettra\, Italy\n F. PERI SSINOTTO\, Elettra\, Italy\n S. POGREBNAYA\, NM-AIST\, Tanzania\n M. RIZZI \,  Univesità del Piemonte Orientale\, Italy\n A. RODRIGUEZ\, ICTP\, Ita ly\n V. RONDELLI\, University of Milan\, Italy\n Z. SAYERS\, Sabancy Unive rsity\, Turkey\n C. SCHMIDT\, Duke University\, USA\n D.M. SHADRACK\, CREA TES\, NM-AIST\, Tanzania\n H.S. SWAI\, CREATES\, NM-AIST\, Tanzania\n A po ster session will be organized during the School and applicants are encour aged to submit a short poster abstract (max. half page) when submitting th eir online application: please retrieve relevant templates from below link s.\n A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of African selected participants. There is no registration fee. Female scien tists are encouraged to apply.This School adheres to IUcr and IUPAP polici es on scientific freedom\, affirming non-discrimination on the basis of su ch factors as ethnic origin\, religion\, citizenship. language\, political stance\, gender\, or age.The IUCr strives to achieve gender balance in al l its institutions and activities bearing in mind other diversity needs an d its existing obligations to geographic and academic discipline represent ation where appropriate. \n IUPAP calls special attention on conference po licies on Free Circulation of Scientists (section 1)\, and on Harassment ( section 4) .\n - - -\n ICTP Secretariat: smr3323@ictp.it\n  \n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/8718/ LOCATION:Arusha - United Republic of Tanzania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8718/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tenth Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory | (smr 3494) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190915T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190922T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9007@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9007/ LOCATION:Kolymbari - Greece URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9007/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Smooth and Homogeneous Dynamics | (smr 3271) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190923T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191004T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8647@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Ergodic theory has its origins in the the work of L. Boltzm ann on the kinetic theory of gases. The closely related field of dynamical systems has a much older origin\, going back at least to Newtonian mechan ics. Both subjects have since flourished into extremely active subjects wi th connections to many parts of mathematics and the physical sciences. Pro gress has been especially rapid in the last few years in differentiable dy namics and homogeneous dynamics. Differentiable dynamics studies flows on smooth manifolds and has links with geometry while homogeneous dynamics is the study of subgroup actions on homogeneous spaces of Lie groups and has connections to number theory. It is the aim of this two week workshop to ga ther top experts in these two subjects to deliver expositions on the st ate of the art in these subjects. The first week will be devoted to differ entiable dynamics and the second week to homogeneous dynamics.\n Special Lectures:\n Infosys-ICTS Ramanujan lectures - by Elon Lindenstrauss\n IC TS Distinguished lecture -  by Marcelo Viana.\n List of invited Speakers\ n Speakers week 1:\n Alex Blumenthal\, Maryland\, USA\n Sylvain Crovisie r\, Paris Sud\n Carlangelo Liverani\, Rome\, Italy\n Federico Rodriguez- Hertz\, Penn State\, USA\n Jana Rodriguez-Hertz\, Shenzen\, China \n Ma rcelo Viana\, IMPA\n Khadim War\, IMPA\, Brazil\n Zhiyuan Zhang\, Prince ton\n                                              \n \n \n \n Speakers week 2:\n \n \n Victor Beresnevich\, Univ ersity of York\n S. G. Dani\, University of Mumbai\n Manfred Einsiedle r\, ETH Zurich\n Alexander Gorodnik\, University of Zurich\n Seonhee L im\, Seoul National University\n Elon Lindenstrauss\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\n \n Jens Marklof\, University of Bristol\n \n Shahar M ozes\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\n \n Amos Nevo\, Technion\, Haifa \n Sanju Velani\, University of York\n \n Barak Weiss\, Tel Aviv Univ ersity\n Minicourse Lecturers\n Sylvain Crovisier\, Paris Sud\, Fran ce\n Stefano Luzzatto\, ICTP\n \n Both weeks will feature research talks by leading mathematicians as well as mini courses. A number of slot s will be available in the program for younger participants to present th eir research and a poster session will also be organized.A number of slots will be available in the programme for younger participants to present th eir research and a poster session will also be organized.\n \n \n The pro gram is jointly organised and supported by ICTS and IMPA.\n Program link: https://www.icts.res.in/event/page/18511\n List of Participants: https://w ww.icts.res.in/event/page/18225\n General Information: https://www.icts.re s.in/program/Information-for-Participants\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8647/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8647/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Conference on Fully-Programmable Systems-On-Chip for Sc ientific Instrumentation | (smr 3332) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191102T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191109T220000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8733@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Directors:A. CICUTTIN\, ICTP\, ItalyM.L. CRESPO\, ICTP\, It alyM.B.I. REAZ\, University of Kebangsaan MalaysiaB. TIRU\, Gauhati Univer sity\, IndiaICTP Scientific Contact:\n M.L. CRESPO\, ICTP\, ItalyLocal Org anizing Committee:\n H.J. Goswami\, Gauhati University\, IndiaH.K. Kalita\ , Gauhati University\, IndiaJ.J. Laskar\, Gauhati University\, IndiaP. Phu kon\, Gauhati University\, IndiaD. Saikia\, Gauhati University\, IndiaC. S arma\, Gauhati University\, IndiaK.K. Sarma\, Gauhati University\, IndiaU. Sarma\, Gauhati University\, IndiaA. Tamuli\, Gauhati University\, IndiaL ecturers:A. Nizar\, SoC Products\, Microsemi\, U.S.A.P. Bazargan Sabet\, U niversite' Pierre et Marie Curie (VI)\, FranceK.S. Mannatunga\, University of Sri Jayewardenepura\, Sri LankaS.H. Md Ali\, Universiti Kebangsaan Mal aysiaC.A. Sisterna\, Universidad Nacional de San Juan\, Argentina\n  \n\n The School will cover key aspects of fully-programmable Systems-On-Chip ( SoC) and its applications to advanced scientific instrumentation.\n The fi rst two days of the activity will be dedicated to the 2019 Second Internat ional Conference on Advances in Electrical\, Electronic and System Enginee ring (ICAEESE 2019).  Specific information about the Conference can be fo und at:  http://www.icaeese2019.org\n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n \n \n Description:\n The School will contain theoretical lectures\, tuto rials and assisted hands-on laboratory sessions on modern SoC development hardware platforms. \n The School will be primarily addressed to res earchers\, teachers and advanced students from the Asia-Pacific region who need to master modern FPGA-based SoC technologies for their scientific an d academic activities.\n The School and Conference will provide a for um for researchers\, teachers and advanced students to cross the geographi cal boundaries for pursuance of science and technology through fruitful in teractions\, discussions and presentations.  The activity will also act a s a window enabling the participants to get a glimpse of trends of researc h in an era of borderless science.  The exposure to talks by renowned Spe akers will be motivations for young minds to pursue research as a career a nd thereby building manpower for overall social development.\n  \n \n Topics:\n \n Review of Fully-programmable SoC Archite ctures\;\n \n Software Automation Tools\;\n \n SoC D esign Methodologies\;\n \n Hardware/Software System Design\;\n \n FPGA and VHDL for Modeling and Logic Synthesis\;\n \n Embedded C Language Programming\;\n \n Real-time Data Acqu isition\, Processing and Transmission\;\n \n Laboratory Session s for Hands-On Training and Experimentation.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Selected parti cipants will also enjoy the\n waiver of the ICAEESE 2 019 registration fee\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \ n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8733/ LOCATION:Guwahati - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8733/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Distilling Climate Information for Sectoral Applicatio ns | (smr 3315) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191209T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191214T100000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8675@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n There is an urgent need to enhance the resilience of develo ping countries to climate and weather shocks in order to foster sustainabl e development. Better management of current climate variability can help s ocieties better adapt to future climate change. For example\, effective us e of sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts of rainfall hold the promise of ef fective early warning systems for floods and droughts\, and actionable inf ormation for decision makers in agriculture\, water management\, and publi c health. Meanwhile\, robust use of climate change scenarios can inform lo nger term policy decisions on time-scales of decades. For these applicatio ns\, it is essential to build capacities for researchers\, policy-makers a nd practitioners in developing countries to appropriately use climate info rmation for evidence-based planning\, and to apply a systems thinking lens towards discerning how climate considerations weave into interconnected s ectoral issues. This one-week workshop therefore highlights the need for m ainstreaming the integration of climate information into systems across se ctors. Researchers and policy-makers need to understand the basics of clim ate data and their sources and uncertainties\, and to become familiar with simple techniques for processing and distilling these into useful informa tion for different scenarios or contexts. To achieve this\, a lectures com bined with hands-on exercises will be implemented. Participating researche rs and practitioners will guided towards the application of concepts and t echniques learned towards specific applications in their respective sector s\, which will serve as the culminating activity of the workshop.\n\nTOPIC S:\n\n Sources of climate data (e.g. IPCC Climate Atlas\, Copernicus C3S\ , ERA5\, CMIP\, CORDEX\, hydro-met agencies)\n \n Basic Linux-based techn iques for processing climate data\n \n Use of RS-GIS for climate-related applications\n \n Systems approach to the climate-land-energy-water nexus \nFor travel arrival and general information please click below\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/8675/ LOCATION:Manila - Philippines URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8675/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2019 | (sm r 3338) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191209T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191220T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-8736@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) are organizi ng a joint winter school on quantitative systems biology.\n This is the 8 th school in the series and will be held at ICTS\, Bengaluru\, India.\n \n  \n \n https://www.icts.res.in/program/qsb2019\n \n  \n QSB2019 is a n advanced school aimed at graduate students and postdocs working in quant itative systems biology. The focus this year is on 'morphogenesis'.\n The main school will be held between December 9-20\, 2019 and will be preceded by a pedagogic and intensive ‘Pre-School’ between December 3-6\, 2019 .\n The Pre-School will cover the basic concepts in cell and developmental biology and will have short modules on mathematical modelling and physica l approaches to biology.  \n \n  \n \n The deadline for applications i s 1 September 2019.\n \n  \n \n The development of an organism from a si ngle-celled zygote to an embryo involves a tight integration between gene expression\, signaling and mechanochemical processes. In recent years\, th ere has been an explosion in studies that attempt to unravel the physical principles behind how organisms self-organize to generate their three-dime nsional shape and functional form. Novel microscopy techniques are giving unprecedented views into the processes of development at very high spatiot emporal resolution. This deluge of data necessitates a larger scale system s-level understanding how organisms build themselves.\n The eighth edition of the ICTP - ICTS winter school on quantitative systems biology is focus sed on Morphogenesis and will allow students from different backgrounds to become familiar with exciting developments at the interface of Physics an d Developmental Biology. The participants of the school will be exposed to contemporary research areas\, covering a large variety of topics\, includ ing mechanochemical pattern formation\, regeneration and growth regulation \, evolutionary-developmental biology. The school will emphasize how major questions in developmental biology such as stem cell differentiation\, mo rphogenesis\, tissue patterning\, and tissue mechanics\, can be asked with the help of quantification and physical theory.\n \n INVITED SPEAKERS I NCLUDE\n Karen Alim\n Bill Bialek\n Fernando Cesares\n Suzanne Eaton\n Frank Jülicher\n Mounia Lagha\n Yasmine Meroz\n Matteo Rauzi\n Joc hen Rink\n Tim Saunders\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/8736/ LOCATION:Bengaluru - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/8736/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on LPWAN Solutions for the Internet of Things | (smr 3437 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200217T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200221T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9033@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n  \n\n SLIDES + other material available at:\n https://gith ub.com/marcozennaro/uganda-2020\nDirectors:N. Bonimpa\, Research and Educa tion Network for Uganda (RENU)L. Chemane\, Mozambique Research and Educati on Network (MoRENet)M. Kashorda\, Kenya Education Network (KENET)M. Mushi\ , Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET)J. Sansa-otim\, Makarere University\, UgandaM. Zennaro\, ICTP\, ItalyICTP Scientific Contact:  M. Zennaro\, ICTP\, Italy\n The involvement of National Research and Educati on Networks (NREN) in East Africa is key for the growth of Internet of Thi ngs (IoT) applications in the region\, as they can host the access infrast ructure to foster research in IoT and to serve the IoT community at large. \n  \n\n The growth of the Internet of Things will depend crucially on th e establishment of a low cost infrastructure to handle traffic generated b y IoT nodes. Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) solutions based on open s tandards that address the requirements of scalability\, heterogeneity\, se curity and complexity will be presented in the Workshop.\n  \n\n We will focus on The Things Network (TTN)\, an initiative to build a world-wide op en source infrastructure to facilitate a public Internet of Things. TTN op erates by allowing users to share the access to gateways. We think NRENs i n the region should play a leading role in hosting this infrastructure. As TTN allows for low-bandwidth communications over long distances\, it can facilitate the deployment of applications relevant to East African countri es.\n  \nTopics:\n• Wireless solutions for IoT\;\n• LoRa and LoRaWAN protocols\;\n• Prototyping of sensor boards\;\n• Planning and deployme nt of a LPWAN network\;\n• Collection and visualization of the data.Gran ts:\n\n A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from East Africa. There is no registration fee.\n\n The Workshop is organized in col laboration with:\n UbuntuNet Alliance\n Internet Society\n MoRENet - Mozam bique Research and Education Network\n Makarere University\, Uganda\n Kene t - Kenya Education Network\n RENU - Research and Education Network for Ug anda\n TERNET - Tanzania Education Research Network\n NSRC - Network Start up Resource Center\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9033/ LOCATION:Makerere - Uganda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9033/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nan oscale | (smr 3426) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200224T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200228T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9023@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:---\nIMPORTANTE NOTICE: SCAM ALERT! ICTP has been reported cas es of unsolicited phone calls from a travel agency pretending to make hote l reservations on behalf of its activitiesl: Please do NOT disclose any se nsitive information\, it is a fraudulent attempt to collect credit card da ta! No agency has been delegated to take care of accomodation arrangements for this activity\, and communications on this matter will occur through official channels only. In case of any doubt\, or should you receive any s imilar request\, please contact the ICTP Secretariat at smr3426@ictp.it\n- --This SCHOOL is part of a two-week event consisting ofWeek 1: School on Q uantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (24 - 28 Feb ruary 2020)Week 2: Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynami cs at the Nanoscale (2 - 6 March 2020).\n Pre-arrival practical Informatio n provided by the organizers in Morocco\n * * *LECTURE-RELATED SLIDES are being uploaded here! (updated 24.04.2020)FINAL SCHOOL PROGRAMME is availab le for download here====================================================== =\n\n The topics of these activities (School\, 24 - 28 February\, and Work shop\, 2 - 6 March) are at the forefront of current research in the field of quantum technologies\, a fast growing research area involving questions of both fundamental and practical relevance.\n  \n What are role and val ue of coherence and entanglement in solid state devices in quantum informa tion\, and in the working and efficiency of mesoscopic quantum engines?\n  \n What are the mechanisms behind thermalization of closed quantum syste ms and what is the role of non-Markovianity in the physics of quantum info rmation?\n  \n These and other issues will be covered during the School a nd subsequent Workshop addressed to graduate students and junior researche rs\, providing them with the opportunity of a good training and the possib ility to meet some leading experts in the field.Grants:  A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participant s\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There i s no registration fee. \n  \n Topics:\n Open Quantum Systems\n \n Non -equilibrium Quantum Dynamics\n \n Complex Quantum Systems\n \n Quantum Machine Learning\n \n Many-body Quantum Systems\n \n Physical Foundation s of Quantum Information\n\n Lecturers:\n \nGiuliano BENENTI\, Universit y of Insubria\, Italy\nAndreas BUCHLEITNER\, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg\, Germany\nSteve CAMPBELL\, University College Dublin\, Ireland\n Dariusz CHRUŚCIŃSKI\, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun\, Poland\n Elisa ERCOLESSI\, University of Bologna\, Italy\nMatteo PARIS\, University of Milano\, Italy\n Related Workshop webpage: http://indico.ictp.it/even t/9155/\n ICTP Secretariat for both School and Workshop on  Quantum Info rmation Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (24 February - 6 March 2020):\nNicoletta Ivanissevich\, e-mail: smr3426@ictp.it\n\n//indico.ictp. it/event/9023/ LOCATION:Al Hoceima - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9023/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the N anoscale | (smr 3500) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200302T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200306T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9155@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:---\nIMPORTANTE NOTICE: SCAM ALERT! ICTP has been reported cas es of unsolicited phone calls from a travel agency pretending to make hote l reservations on behalf of its activitiesl: Please do NOT disclose any se nsitive information\, it is a fraudulent attempt to collect credit card da ta! No agency has been delegated to take care of accomodation arrangements for this activity\, and communications on this matter will occur through official channels only. In case of any doubt\, or should you receive any s imilar request\, please contact the ICTP Secretariat at smr3426@ictp.it\n- --This WORKSHOP  is part of a two-week event consisting ofWeek 1: School on Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (24 - 28 February 2020)Week 2: Workshop on Quantum Information Theory and Thermody namics at the Nanoscale (2 - 6 March 2020).  UPDATE: because of the lates t Covid-19 developments and their impact on flights with subsequent last m inute cancellations\, we are forced to shorten the Workshop\, and end on T hursday 5 March 2020\n  Participants are invited to read this set ofPract ical Information provided by the organizers in Morocco\n * * *The WORKSHOP   PROGRAMME* is available for download here*updated as of 3 March 2020\n Please click here for the list of poster presentations.Because of the late st Covid-19 developments and their impact on flights with subsequent last minute cancellations\, we are forced to shorten the Workshop\, and end on Thursday 5 March 2020\n  \n\n =========================================== ============\n\n The topics of these activities (School\, 24 - 28 February \, and Workshop\, 2 - 6 March) are at the forefront of current research in the field of quantum technologies\, a fast growing research area involvin g questions of both fundamental and practical relevance.\n  \n What are r ole and value of coherence and entanglement in solid state devices in quan tum information\, and in the working and efficiency of mesoscopic quantum engines?\n  \n What are the mechanisms behind thermalization of closed qu antum systems and what is the role of non-Markovianity in the physics of q uantum information?\n  \n These and other issues will be covered during t he School and subsequent Workshop addressed to graduate students and junio r researchers\, providing them with the opportunity of a good training and the possibility to meet some leading experts in the field.Grants:  A lim ited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countri es. There is no registration fee. \n  \n Topics:\n Open Quantum System s\n \n Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics\n \n Complex Quantum Systems\n \ n Quantum Machine Learning\n \n Many-body Quantum Systems\n \n Physical Foundations of Quantum Information\nList of Speakers*:\n \nMohammed AZZO UZ\, International University of Rabat Morocco\nAdil BELHAJ\, Université Mohammed V\, Rabat\, Morocco\nKoen BERTELS\, Delft University of Technolog y\, Netherlands\nDaniel BRAUN\, Institut für Theoretische Physik Universi tät Tübingen\, Germany\nGabriele DE CHIARA\, Queen's University of Belfa st\, UK\nGian Luca GIORGI\, IFISC\, CSIC-UIB\, Palma de Mallorca\, Spain\n Nikolay KIESEL\, University of Vienna\, Austria\nStefano MANCINI\, Univers ity of Camerino\, Italy\nDaniel MANZANO\, University of Granada\, Spain\nG onzalo MANZANO PAULE\, ICTP\, Italy\nMark MITCHISON\, Trinity College\, D ublin\, Ireland\nJorden SENIOR\, Aalto University School of Science\, Finl and\nBassano VACCHINI\, La Statale University of Milan\, Italy\nRobert WHI TNEY\, LPMMC CNRS Grenoble\, France\nKarol ZYCZKOWSKI\, Jagiellonian Unive rsity\, Krakow\, Poland\n *updated on 1 March 2020\n =================== ====================================Because of the latest Covid-19 develop ments and their impact on flights with subsequent last minute cancellation s\, we are forced to shorten the Workshop\, and end on Thursday 5 March 20 20=======================================================Related School we bpage: http://indico.ictp.it/event/9023/\n ICTP Secretariat for both Scho ol and Workshop on  Quantum Information Theory and Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale (24 February - 6 March 2020):\nNicoletta Ivanissevich\, e-mail: smr3426@ictp.it\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9155/ LOCATION:Al Hoceima - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9155/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:3rd Latin American Introductory School on Parallel Programming and Parallel Architecture for High Performance Computing * POSTPONED * | (smr 3444) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200518T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9089@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE:       DUE TO THE CURRENT ONGOING COVID-19 S ITUATION\, THIS ACTIVITY IS TEMPORARILY POSTPONED TO\nA FUTURE DATE    \n The School is organized in collaboration with the Simon Bolivar Univers ity.\nDirectors: I. Girotto (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy)A. Kohlmeyer (ICTP\, T rieste\, Italy & Temple University\, Philadelphia\, US)L. Paheco (Simon Bo livar University) J.Y. Reyes (Simon Bolivar University)P.A. Sepulveda (Si mon Bolivar University)ICTP Scientific contact:  I. Girotto (ICTP\, Tries te\, Italy)\n The School has the goal of teaching participating scientists about modern computer hardware and programming to provide a foundation fo r future computational research using HPC\, through an intensive programme with focus on practical skills.\n  \n\n School participants will learn t o improve the efficiency of their research codes\, and to parallelize them . Lectures on a selection of technical aspects of modern HPC hardware will be mixed with introductions to widely used parallel programming tools and libraries. The hands-on sessions will allow participants to practice on s mall example problems of general scientific interest. Example topics will cover numerical methods and parallel strategies\, as well as data manageme nt. The programme specifically addresses the needs of scientists using\, w riting\, or modifying HPC applications. It will be mainly based on fundame ntal HPC- relevant features in widely used scientific software for high-pe rformance computing:\n\n• Computer architectures for HPC and how to opti mize for them\n• Parallel programming tools (MPI & OpenMP)\n• Parallel programming best pactices\n• High-performance libraries for the solutio n of common math problems\n• Floating-point math..Speakers:I. Girotto (I CTP\, Trieste\, Italy)A. Kohlmeyer (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy & Temple Univer sity\, Philadelphia\, US)F. Posada (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy & Temple Univer sity Philadelphia\, US)M. Brenes (Trinity College\, Dublin\, Ireland )J. A guilar Mena (Barcelona Supercomputing Center\, Barcelona\, Spain)Grants:\n \n A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of s elected participants from developing countries\, with priority given to yo ung scientists from Latin America.  Accommodation and meals are covered f or all participants coming from outside Baranquilla.  There is no registr ation fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9089/ LOCATION:Baranquilla - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9089/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:6th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Application s (ASESMA-2020) * POSTPONED * | (smr 3449) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200601T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200612T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9094@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Due to Covid-19 pandemic\, the 2020 edition of ASESMA has b een postponed to 2021 and will be held as an online school\, see:\n\n \n 6th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESM A-2021) - smr3578\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9094/ LOCATION:Kigali URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9094/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2nd Joint ICTP and SAIFR School on Particle Physics | (smr 3459) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200622T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200703T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9104@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:II Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Particle Physics\nD ue to COVID-19\, the school may need to be postponded or held online. \nHo wever\, the application procedure is unchanged\nApplication deadline: 12 April 2020\n\nFollowing the tradition of the Summer Schools on Particle Ph ysics at the ICTP in Trieste\, the school aims at giving a detailed overvi ew of particle physics\, and covering important areas where recent progres s has been made in the field. We will have at most three lectures per day\ , giving ample time for discussion and problem solving by the students. \n \nA poster session will be organized for advanced students that wish to sh ow their work.\n\nThere is no registration fee and limited funds are avail able for travel and local expenses.\n\nPlease also refer to following link : https:www.ictp-saifr.org/spp2020/\n\nOrganizers:\nEnrico Bertuzzo (USP\ , Brazil)\nJoan Elias Miró (ICTP-Trieste\, Italy)\nRogerio Rosenfeld (IFT -UNESP/ICTP-SAIFR\, Brazil)\nGiovanni Villadoro (ICTP-Trieste\, Italy)\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/9104/ LOCATION:São Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9104/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Strings 2020 | (smr 3506) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200629T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200703T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9325@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n *** VIRTUAL ***\n\n http://strings2020.com/\n  \n\n \n The Strings conferences have been annual events since 1988 (one year was missed in the 1990’s) and are the major international meeting on string theory as a framework for a new understanding of physics. These conference s generally feature a wide range of talks on contemporary developments inv olving quantum fields\, strings\, and gravity\, as well as connections wit h condensed matter physics\, quantum information and mathematics and have developed into the premier event in the theoretical physics calendar. This large gathering allows researchers from different parts of the world to i nteract across sub-fields and the conference regularly sees the presence o f many of the most eminent theoretical physicists in the world and has ser ved as the site for the announcement of several major discoveries in the f ield.\n \n This year the Strings conference will see two major new develo pments. For the first time in its 30 year history it will be hosted by an institution on the African continent and\, another first\, it will be run as a virtual conference.\n The conference itself will be hosted on Zoom a nd live-streamed to Youtube. For registration purposed please refer to the Strings 2020 web page.INVITED SPEAKERS:\n \n Ibrahima Bah\, Alexander Be lin\, Clay Cordova\, Roger Deane\, Netta Engelhardt\, Rajesh Gopakumar\, D avid Gross\, Shamit Kachru\, Charlotte Kristjansen\, Juan Maldacena\, Sam ir Mathur\, David Meltzer\, Shiraz Minwalla\, Joao Penedones\, Geoff Peni ngton\, Andrea Puhm\, Suvrat Raju\, Nathan Seiberg\, Ashoke Sen\, Charlott e Sleight\, Douglas Stanford\, Andy Strominger\, Cumrun Vafa\, Yifan Wang\ , Edward Witten & Xi YinPROGRAMME\n \n  \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/932 5/ LOCATION:Cape Town - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9325/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:6th Biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Application s * POSTPONED * | (smr 3458) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200706T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200724T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9103@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n Update (March 2021):  Due to Covid-19 pandemic\, the 2 020 edition of ASP has been posponed to 2021. Update (May 2020):  Since M ay 2020\, weekly seminars / colloquia supplementing the school are held on line\, via the interactive webinar platform Zoom.Check this link https://w ww.africanschoolofphysics.org/online-lecture-series/  for upcoming online lectures!\n \n  \n\n\n Update (March 2020): ASP2020 has been postponed due to ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.Organizers plan to hold the school at a l ater moment\, still to be determined.\n\n - - -\n\n The aim of the Biennia l Africal School of Fundamental Physics and Application is to build capaci ty to harvest\, interpret\, and exploit the results of current and future physics experiments and to increase proficiency in related applications.\n The school is based on a close interplay between theoretical\, experiment al\, and applied physics.\n The participating students are selected from a ll over Africa. A limited number of grants are available to support the at tendance of  selected participants.\n The school also offers a workshop t o train high school teachers\, an outreach to motivate high school pupils and a physics conference to support a broader participation of African res earch faculties. The duration of the school allows for networking-€“inte ractions among the participants.\n Access and participation in fundamental science is an important right. Through this work\, it is hoped that the c ommunity of scientists who are at the forefront of science is enhanced and diversified thus fulfilling the mission of international research and edu cation.\n\n  \n\n Main topics:\n 1. Nuclear and Particle Physics\;\n 2. A strophysics and Cosmology\;\n 3. Accelerators\, Radiation and Medical Phys ics\;\n 4. Material Physics\;\n 5. High Performance Computing\;\n 6. Physi cs Education\;\n 7. Physics Communciation\;\n 8. Renewable Energies and En ergy Efficiency\;\n 9. Quantum Information\n There will be lectures / talk s in theory and experiment in the above fields\, some of which are applied physics\, and hands-on exercises on computing-related aspects.\n\n \n  \ n\n For full information please visit  https://www.africanschoolofphysic s.org/asp2020/\n\n DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS OVER\n * * *\n  \n\n IMPOR TANTE NOTICE: SCAM ALERT!\n ICTP has been reported cases of unsolicited ph one calls from a travel agency pretending to make hotel reservations on be half of its activitiesl: Please do NOT disclose any sensitive information\ , it is a fraudulent attempt to collect credit card data! No agency has be en delegated to take care of accomodation arrangements for this activity\, and communications on this matter will occur through official channels on ly. In case of any doubt\, or should you receive any similar request\, ple ase contact the local organization or ICTP Secretariat at smr3458@ictp.it\ n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9103/ LOCATION:Marrakesh - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9103/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DSU2020 (The Dark Side of the Universe) * POSTPONED * | (smr 3452) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200713T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200717T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9097@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n *** POSTPONED to 2023 ***\n\nNote: ICTP has suspended all e ducational activities from 24 February up to 26 June as precautionary meas ures due to COVID-19\; more details athttps://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media -centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_activities.aspx\nICTP-EAIFR DSU2020 web p age:https://eaifr.org/events/dsu-2020/\n\n \n The Dark Side of the Univers e (DSU) is a series of international workshops in cosmology and astro-part icle physics.  The workshops bring together a wide range of theorists and experimentalists to discuss current ideas on models of the dark sector of the Universe\, and relate them to ongoing and future experiments.  The 1 6th event of the series will be hosted by ICTP-EAIFR in Kigali\, Rwanda fr om 13 to 17 July 2020.Topics covered include:\n  \n\n dark matter\n \n dark energy\n \n cosmic rays\n \n neutrino physics\n \n large-scale str ucture\n \n black holes\n \n gravitational waves\n \n physics beyond th e standard model\n\n Speakers include:\n Yacine Ali-Haïmoud (NYU\, USA)\n Francesca Calore (LAPTH\, France)\n Kiwoon Choi (CTPU-IBS\, South Korea)\ n Basudeb Dasgupta (TIFR Mumbai\, India)\n Ruth Durrer (Geneva\, Switzerla nd)\n Silvia Galli (IAP Paris\, France)\n Joerg Jaeckel (Heidelberg\, Germ any)\n Shaaban Khalil (Cairo\, Egypt)\n Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA\, Germany)\n Manuel Meyer (Erlangen\, Germany)\n Chiara Mingarelli (U. Connecticut & F latiron Institute\, USA)\n Shinji Mukohyama (YITP\, Japan)\n Ajith Parames waram (ICTS Bangalore\, India)\n Mario Santos (U. of the Western Cape\, So uth Africa)\n Ignacy Sawicki (CEICO\, Czech Republic)\n Leonardo Senatore (Stanford\, USA)\n Ravi Sheth (UPenn\, USA)\n Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (KIT Karlsruhe\, Germany)\n Piero Ullio (SISSA\, Italy)\n Mark Vogelsberger (MI T\, USA)\n  \n\n Steering Committee members:\n Csaba Balazs (Monash U.\, Australia)\n Genevieve Belanger (LAPTh-CNRS\, France)\n Kiwoon Choi (CTPU- IBS\, South Korea)\n David Delepine (Guanajuato U.\, Mexico)\n Peter Dunsb y (Cape Town U.\, South Africa)\n Christiane Frigerio Martins (U. de São Paulo\, Brazil)\n Joern Kersten (Bergen U.\, Norway)\n Shaaban Khalil (Zew ail City of Science and Technology\, Egypt)\n Pyungwon Ko (KIAS\, South Ko rea)\n Daniel Lopez-Fogliani (U. of Buenos Aires)\n Yann Mambrini (LPT CNR S-Univ Paris Sud 11\, France)\n Carlos Muñoz (IFT UAM-CSIC\, Spain)\n Kei th Olive (Minnesota U.\, USA)\n Paolo Salucci (SISSA\, Italy)\n Qaisar Sha fi (Delaware U.\, USA)\n Fumihiro Takayama (YITP\, Japan)\n Yu-Feng Zhou ( KITPC/ITP-CAS\, China)PLEASE NOTE that most fields in the APPLICATION FORM are optional. Junior researchers and those requesting financial support a re encouraged to provide more detailed information.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/9097/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9097/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mediterranean Youth Mathematical Championship * CANCELLED * | (smr 3505) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200723T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200724T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9308@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:http://www.mymc.it/2020/mymc-2020.htmlMYMC 2020 is promoted by :MUR - Ministero dell'Università e della RicercaINdAM - Istituto Nazional e di Alta MatematicaUMI - Unione Matematica ItalianaICTP - Abdus Salam Int ernational Centre for Theoretical PhysicsUNINT- Università degli Studi In ternazionali di RomaPLS - Piano nazionale Lauree Scientifiche\nSapienza Un iversità di Roma\nUniversità degli Studi Roma Tre\nUniversità degli Stu di di Roma "Tor Vergata"Scientific Committee:Maria Letizia Melina (Chair)\ , Direttore Generale – Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca (MUR )Federico Cinquepalmi (Vice-Chair)\, MUR\, Dirigente Ufficio internazional izzazione della formazione superioreClaudio Arezzo\, ICTP (International C entre for Theoretical Physics\, Trieste)\, Head of Mathematics GroupClaudi o Bernardi\, Sapienza Università di RomaLuca Biasco\, Università degli S tudi Roma TreGiandomenico Boffi\, Università degli Studi Internazionali d i Roma\, Direttore del Laboratorio di Scienze MatematichePiermarco Cannars a\, Unione Matematica Italiana\, PresidenteCorrado Falcolini\, Università degli Studi Roma TreClaudia Malvenuto\, Sapienza Università di RomaMirko Maracci\, Piano Lauree Scientifiche\, Coordinatore nazionale del progetto per la MatematicaRoberto Natalini\, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calc olo “M. Picone” (CNR)\, DirettoreGiorgio Patrizio\, Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica\, PresidenteLudovico Pernazza\, Commissione Olimpiadi di Matematica\, PresidenteCarlo Sbordone\, Accademia Pontaniana\, Tesorier eFrancesca Tovena\, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”\n\n/ /indico.ictp.it/event/9308/ LOCATION:Rome - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9308/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CSRC-ICTP Joint Workshop on Big Data\, Machine Learning and Comple xity Research | (smr 3553) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200730T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200731T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9427@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n As the world becomes increasingly connected both virtua lly and physically\, aspects of human societies behave more and more like evolved natural systems such as microbial communities and the brain networ k. Exploration of similarities and differences between them could offer no vel insights and understanding that benefit mankind. Both data-driven mode lling in the AI community and hypothesis-driven modelling in statistical p hysics can play important and complementary roles in tackling the hugely c omplex dynamics and behavior exhibited by these systems. The workshop aims at showcasing some of the successful research outcomes in this rapidly ex panding interdisciplinary field\, and promoting exchange of ideas and meth odologies particularly among the young researchers.\n \n Topics:\n \n S ocial network dynamics (epidemiology\, crowdsourcing\, opinion dynamics)\n \n Statistical mechanics in Data Science (algorithmic phase transition s\, spin glasses\, compressive sensing)\n \n Systems Biology (statistic al laws in microbiomes\, biological networks)\n \n Systems Neuroscience (connectomics\, avalanche dynamics\, grid cells)\n Speakers:\n J. BARBIER \, ICTP\, ITALY\n\n A. BASHAN\, BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY\, ISRAEL\n L. DAI\, SI AT/CAS SHENZHEN\, CHINA\n\n A. MUKHERJEE\, IIT KHARAGOUR\, INDIA\n\n W. QU ATTROCIOCCHI\, UNIVERSITY OF VENICE\, ITALY\n\n A. TREVES\, SISSA\, ITALY\ n C. WANG\, INST. AUTOMATION/CAS\, CHINA\n\n X.-K. XU\, DALIAN MINZU UNIVE RSITY\, CHINA\n\n Z. XU\, SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY\, CHINA\n Y. YU\, F UDAN UNIVERSITY\, CHINA\n\n C. ZHOU\, HK BAPTIST UNIVERSITY\, CHINA\n\n   \nOnline Broadcast：    https://live.bilibili.com/6782735\n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/9427/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9427/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2nd International High Energy Physics School in Western China * PO STPONED * | (smr 3464) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200731T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200810T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9109@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 Fe bruary up to 26 June as precautionary measures due to COVID-19\; more deta ils athttps://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend _activities.aspx\n ***    POSTPONED to 2021    *** (dates to be conf irmed)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9109/ LOCATION:Shaanxi - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9109/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana 2020 - CANCEL LED | (smr 3462) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200803T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200808T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9107@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana (https:// coessing.org) is an international collaboration aimed at building capacity in oceanographic and environmental sciences in Ghana specifically\, and A frica more generally. Marine issues of great importance to Ghana include f isheries\, piracy\, pollution\, shipping and port management\, and the rec ent advent of offshore oil drilling.
 We held schools in 2015\, 2016\, 2 017\, 2018\, 2019 and ICTP co-organized the school in 2018. We hold the sc hool every year\, alternating between Regional Maritime University and Uni versity of Ghana\, which are both located in Ghana’s capital city of Acc ra. In 2020\, for the 6th summer in a row\, we will host a summer school. It will be the third school hosted at the University of Ghana.\nDuring the summer school\, around 100 African participants receive a broad general t raining in marine and environmental sciences. At the same time\, a subgrou p of participants receive more specific training in their areas of interes t\, through conducting a short research project on specialized topics rela ted to ocean biogeochemistry\, ocean modeling\, satellite oceanography\, d ata analysis\, and seagoing oceanography. The emphasis in this project tra ck is on hands-on research rather than on lectures. Project track particip ants will thus have a chance to spend an entire week working closely under the guidance of the instructors\, deepening their knowledge of their topi c of interest\, and presenting their projects on the last day of the schoo l.
\nWe believe that repeat visits are the key to establishing meaningfu l long-term connections between western and African scientists. Our long-t erm goals for the school include developing a research and education netwo rk of marine and environmental scientists in several African countries.\nT opics:\n• Coastal ocean dynamics\n• Environmental science\n• Oil and gas basin development\n• Shoreline geomorphology\n• Organic and isoto pe biogeochemistry\n• Satellite and field oceanography\n• Numerical mo deling of the ocean\n• Data analysis techniques\nSpeakers:\nProf. E. L. Shroyer\, Oregon State University\, USA\nProf. Adam Simon\, University of Michigan\, USA\nProf. Aline Cotel\, University of Michigan\, USA\nDr. Paig e Martin\, Columbia University\, USA\nProf. Andrew Lucas\, Scripps Institu tion of Oceanography\, USA\nDr. Madeline Foster-Martinez\, University of N ew Orleans\, USA\nDr. D. Menemenlis\, Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, USA\nDr. E. Nyadjro\, Mississippi State University\, USA\nDr. J. K. Ansong\, Unive rsity of Ghana\, Legon\nDr. W. Johnson\, Naval Research Laboratory\, USA\n Dr. C. Buckingham\, Universite Bretagne Occidentale\, France\nDr. S. Howde n\, The University of Southern Mississippi\, USA\nDr. A. M. Lamptey\, Univ ersity of Ghana\, Legon\nProf. B. K. Arbic\, University of Michigan\, USA\ nDr. R. Farneti\, Abdus Salam ICTP\, Italy\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9107/ LOCATION:Accra - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9107/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:EAUMP-ICTP School: Topics in Concrete Mathematics | (smr 3465). CA NCELLED DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200803T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200814T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9110@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n DUE TO THE COVID19 PANDEMIC THIS SCHOOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED. \n --------------------- Original text purpose of the School ------------- ---------\n This School will be held at the ICTP-East African Institute fo r Fundamental Research [EAIFR] in Kigali\, Rwanda\; it will offer students concrete and effective mathematical tools from algebra\, group theory and geometry that can be applied to any scientific field.Description of Cours es:\n  \n Advanced linear algebra\n \n This goes beyond a first course on the subject. Topics like Jordan normal form will be studied as well as bilinear forms\, multilinear forms and tensor products\; \n Groups\, Co unting and FFT \n \n We start with group theory via rotations in 3d space\ ; this will be used in Pólya counting problems. We then moves on to chara cter theory culminating in fast Fourier transform\; \n Introduction to Lie Algebras\n \n The course introduces Lie algebras and aims towards of t he classification of semisimple Lie algebras  which is widely considered one of the most elegant results in mathematics\; \n Modular forms\n \n The course introduces modular forms. We will study many concrete examples \, like the Eisenstein series\, from which we will construct the finite di mensional spaces of modular forms of any weight.\n  \n \n  \n\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/9110/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9110/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frontiers of Nanomechanics | (smr 3552) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200915T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200917T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9434@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The online Workshop is supported by ICTP.\n\n \n This onlin e Workshop will recapitulate the fundamental concepts of nano-and optomech anical systems and introduce the key concepts behind future potential nano - and optomechanical technologies.\n To account for the breadth of the fie ld\, the workshop will consist of nine talks delivered by international ex perts.  These talks will reflect the fields which currently attract the h ighest scientific interest and/or application potential and cover landmark implementations of nanomechanical systems. They also represent a good bal ance between experimental and theory perspectives\, fundamental recurrent topics and modern topics which only developed in the last couple of years\ , as well as between classical and quantum mechanical aspects of nanomecha nics.\nSpeakers:\nM. ASPELMEYER\, University of Vienna\, Austria\nA. BLESZ YNSKI JAYICH\, University of California in Santa Barbara\, USA\nY. CHU\, E TH Zurich\, Switzerland\nA. CLERK\, University of Chicago\, USA\nM. DYKMAN \, Michigan State University\, USA\nJ. HARRIS\, Yale University\, USA\nS. HUBER\, ETH Zurich\, Switzerland\nA. SAFAVI-NAEINI\, Stanford University\, USA\n *Posters* Everyone is invited to submit links to posters\, which wi ll be displayed on the website\n\n  \n\n https://mpl.mpg.de/divisions/mar quardt-division/workshops/2020-nanomechanics-online-workshop/\n\n  \n\n P lease follow the instructions there on how to submit the link. The poster website will be briefly advertised during the workshop and participants ar e encouraged to directly contact the poster authors.*Poster flashes* Wedne sday\, Sep 16\, after the talks\, starting around 7pm\, we will give any i nterested participant the opportunity to present their poster using 2 slid es within 3 minutes.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9434/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9434/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dissipative Quantum Many-Body Systems | (smr 3480) - * CANCELLED * DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200921T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200925T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9125@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Due to Covid-19 pandemic\, the activity has been cancelled (last update: 01.03.2021) \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9125/ LOCATION:Beijing - People's Republic of China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9125/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Differential Geometry Week 1 * POSTPONED * | (smr 3431 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201013T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201016T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9028@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 Fe bruary up to 15 May as precautionary measures due to COVID-19\; more detai ls athttps://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_ activities.aspx\n Conference venue is Hotel Ponta Verde in Praia do Franc ês. \n\n Please\, find detailed information on the local website. \n\n https://geometry-maceio.sciencesconf.org\n\nThe "Workshop on Differential Geometry” has become a traditional event that takes place every year in the state of Alagoas\, Brazil\, during the Brazilian summer\,\ncongregatin g renowned international experts and members of the Brazilian geometry com munity.\nThe 2020 edition will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the event \, which has been organized since 2011 by the Institute of Mathematics of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL). There will be a balance of topic s that are active in\nBrazil and research directions that need to be stimu lated and further developed.\nIn the  first week 5 advanced mini courses will be given by international experts while the second week will be devot ed to research seminars.\nApplicants should specify if they want to take p art to only one of the two weeks of the Workshop.\nTopics:\n• Minimal su rfaces\, constant mean curvature surfaces • Kahler geometry\, extremal m etrics\n• Mathematical relativity\, stability/rigidity phenomena • Mea n curvature  ow\n• Gluing and desingularization techniques\, phase tran sition PDEs\nMinicourses:\nLucas Ambrozio\, University of Warwick  \nJoel Fine\, Université Libre de Bruxelles   \nLaurent Hauswirth\, Universit é de Marne-la-Vallée   \nCelso Viana\, University of California - Irvi ne  \nLu Wang\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nInvited Speakers:\nSér gio Almaraz\, Universidade Federal Fluminense\nClaudio Arezzo\, Internatio nal Centre for Theoretical Physics\nGérard Besson\, Institut Fourier - Un iversité de Grenoble\nJosé María Espinar\, Universidad de Cadiz\nAbigai l Folha\, Universidade Federal Fluminense\nAilana Fraser\, University of B ritish Columbia\nGregory Galloway\, University of Miami\nCasey Kelleher\, Princeton University*\nLevi Lima\, Universidade Federal do Ceará\nVanders on Lima\, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul\nJorge Lira\, Universi dade Federal do Ceará\nAndrea Loi\, Università di Cagliari\nAndrea Malch iodi\, Scuola Normale Superiore\nAna Menezes\, Princeton University\nFrank Pacard\, École Polytechnique\nPaolo Piccione\, Universidade de São Paul o\nÁlvaro Ramos\, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul\nTristan Rivi ère\, ETH Zürich\nRichard Schoen\, University of California - Irvine\nGa ng Tian\, Beijing University\nFeliciano Vitorio\, Universidade Federal de Alagoas\nJun-cheng Wei\, University of British Columbia\nXi-Ping Zhu\, Sun Yat-sen University\n*To be confirmedAttention for the 2nd week of the "Wo rkshop on Differential Geometry - Week 2"\, 19 - 23 October 2020 go to lin k:http://indico.ictp.it/event/9228/\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9028/ LOCATION:Maceio - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9028/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Differential Geometry Week 2 * POSTPONED * | (smr 3503 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201019T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201023T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9228@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 Fe bruary up to 26 June as precautionary measures due to COVID-19\; more deta ils athttps://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend _activities.aspx\n \n Conference venue is Hotel Ponta Verde in Praia do Fr ancês. \n\n Please\, find detailed information on the local website. \n \n https://geometry-maceio.sciencesconf.org\n\nThe "Workshop on Differenti al Geometry” has become a traditional event that takes place every year in the state of Alagoas\, Brazil\, during the Brazilian summer\,\ncongrega ting renowned international experts and members of the Brazilian geometry community.\nThe 2020 edition will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ev ent\, which has been organized since 2011 by the Institute of Mathematics of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL). There will be a balance of to pics that are active in\nBrazil and research directions that need to be st imulated and further developed.\nIn the  first week 5 advanced mini cours es will be given by international experts while the second week will be de voted to research seminars.\nApplicants should specify if they want to tak e part to only one of the two weeks of the Workshop.\nTopics:\n• Minimal surfaces\, constant mean curvature surfaces • Kahler geometry\, extrema l metrics\n• Mathematical relativity\, stability/rigidity phenomena • Mean curvature  ow\n• Gluing and desingularization techniques\, phase t ransition PDEs\nMinicourses:\nLucas Ambrozio\, University of Warwick  \nJ oel Fine\, Université Libre de Bruxelles   \nLaurent Hauswirth\, Univer sité de Marne-la-Vallée   \nCelso Viana\, University of California - I rvine  \nLu Wang\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nInvited Speakers:\nSe ́rgio Almaraz\, Universidade Federal Fluminense\nClaudio Arezzo\, Interna tional Centre for Theoretical Physics\nGérard Besson\, Institut Fourier - Université de Grenoble\nJosé María Espinar\, Universidad de Cadiz\nAbi gail Folha\, Universidade Federal Fluminense\nAilana Fraser\, University o f British Columbia\nGregory Galloway\, University of Miami\nCasey Kelleher \, Princeton University*\nLevi Lima\, Universidade Federal do Ceará\nVand erson Lima\, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul\nJorge Lira\, Unive rsidade Federal do Ceará\nAndrea Loi\, Università di Cagliari\nAndrea Ma lchiodi\, Scuola Normale Superiore\nAna Menezes\, Princeton University\nFr ank Pacard\, École Polytechnique\nPaolo Piccione\, Universidade de São P aulo\nÁlvaro Ramos\, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul\nTristan R ivière\, ETH Zürich\nRichard Schoen\, University of California - Irvine\ nGang Tian\, Beijing University\nFeliciano Vitorio\, Universidade Federal de Alagoas\nJun-cheng Wei\, University of British Columbia\nXi-Ping Zhu\, Sun Yat-sen University\n*To be confirmedAttention for the 1st week of the "Workshop on Differential Geometry - Week 1"\, 12 - 16 October 2020 go to link:http://indico.ictp.it/event/9028/\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9228/ LOCATION:Maceio - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9228/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Integrating Climate Data\, Predictions and Projections into Health Planning - CANCELLED | (smr 3442) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201026T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201106T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9087@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Cancelled\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9087/ LOCATION:Addis Ababa - Ethiopia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9087/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Collective Animal Behaviour *CANCELLED* | (smr 3432) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201102T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201113T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9029@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 February to 15 May as precautionary measures due to COVID-19\; more detai ls athttps://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_ activities.aspx\n  \n\n \n The School has been CANCELLED.\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n Collective behavior is a distinctive trait of human and animal societies.\n \n The School aims at providing a thorough introduct ion to basic notions and\n advanced topics in this subject from the viewp oints of physics\, biology\, computer science and robotics.\n\n\n \n  \n\ n Provisional list of Speakers:\n Iain Couzin\, Max Planck Institute of An imal Behavior\, Konstanz\n Deborah Gordon\, Stanford University\n Marcelo Magnasco\, Rockefeller University\, New York\n Melanie Moses\, University of New Mexico\n David Sumpter\, University of Uppsala\n Guy Theraulaz\, CR CA\, Toulouse\n  \n\n \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9029/ LOCATION:Havana - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9029/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Hitchhiker's Guide to Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics :Machine Learning for Condensed Matter * POSTPONED * | (smr 3588) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201104T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201125T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9459@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n This online school is the first in a series of events to be held during 2021 under the joint title “The Hitchhiker's Guide to Conde nsed Matter and Statistical Physics” whose goal is to sketch a roadmap o f current exciting research directions in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics.\n These events are aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students\, as well as young researchers interested in learning more about different subjects\, both from the developing world and elsewhere.\n The l ectures will be held once a week over 4 weeks in January and February 2021 and will lead the students from basic notions to the open problems in eac h topic. Each week one of the four lecturers will present 1h of basic noti ons + 1h of a colloquia style lecture\, with ample time for discussions.\n The first series of lectures will be dedicated to Machine Learning (ML) a nd its intersections with Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics. How ca n statistical physics help in understanding the theory behind ML technique s? What are the most fruitful applications of ML methods to condensed matt er physics? The lectures will answer these and other questions related to ML and many-body quantum systems\, quantum computing\, and material physic s.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9459/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9459/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Regional Climate Modeling and Extreme Events over So uth America: Results from the CORDEX-Flagship Pilot Study * POSTPONED * | (smr 3428) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201117T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201119T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9025@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9025/ LOCATION:Buenos AIres - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9025/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African Physical Society (AfPS) International Conference | (smr 34 76) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201118T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201120T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9121@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The Conference is live-streamed on the ICTP Condensed M atter and Statistical Physics YouTube page at the following link:\n \n ht tps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcW7z2pE37Z4I1koTwahBfA\n \n This virtual e vent is aimed at bringing together African scientists working in the broad area of experimental and theoretical physical sciences to share their lat est research activities. This conference is aimed at promoting better awar eness of the research going on in the African continent and to facilitate networking especially amongst younger scientists. The conference will incl ude a series of plenary talks in collaboration with the African Light Sour ce (AfLS) meeting that will be occurring in parallel\, research talks by i nvited speakers and a selected number of contributed talks and posters.\nT opics: \n\n Condensed Matter Physics\, Material Science\, Nanotechonology & Energy\n \n Research High Energy Physics\, Cosmology\, Gravitational P hysics\n \n Nuclear & Medical Physics\n \n Climate & Atmospheric Physics \n \n Computational Physics\n \n Biological and Medical Physics\n \n At omic\, Molecular and Optical Physics\nSpeakers:\n\n \n O. ABAH\, Queens U niversity Belfast\, Ireland\n \n A. ABDALLA\, Georg August University Go ettingen\, Germany\n \n J. BABALOLA\, University of Ibadan\, Nigeria\n \n I. DABO\, Penn State University\, USA\n \n \n F.B. DEJENE\, Universi ty of the Free State\, South Africa\n \n M. DIALE\, University of Preto ria\, South Africa\n \n \n A. ELFIKY\, Cairo University\, Egypt\n \n E. INNACK\, Perimeter Institute\, Canada\n \n S. KENMOE\, Duisberg Essen Uni versity\, Germany\n S. KHALIL\, The Center for Fundamental Physics (CFP) at Zewail City of Science and Technology\, Egypt\n \n N.A.B. KLUTSE\, G hana Space Science and Technology Institute\, Ghana\n \n T. KRUGER\, Univ ersity of Pretoria\, South Africa\n C. LECOMTE\, Université de Lorraine \, France\n \n O.D. MAKINDE\, Stellenbosch University\, South Africa\n \n G.B. MBENG\, University of Innsbruck\, Austria\n \n S. NDENGUE\, EAIFR\ , Rwanda\n \n M. NKOUA\, University Marien Ngouabi\, Republic of the Cong o\n A. SEIDU\, Aalto University\, Finland\n A.G. SEMIE\, Addis Ababa Un iversity\, Ethiopia\n \n D. SHADRACK\, NM-AIST\, Tanzania\n \n H.S. SWAI \, NM-AIST\, Tanzania\n Y. TAYALATI\, Mohammed V University\, Morocco\n A. TRAORE\, Cheikh Anta Diop University\, Senegal\n \n A. WELTMAN\, Univ ersity of Cape Town\, South Africa\n \n H.M. WIDATALLAH\, Sultan Qaboos U niversity\, Oman\n\n\nParallel Workshop will be held Virtually entitled "T he African Synchrotron Light Source Virtual Workshop (AfLS2020)". More inf o can be found at http://afls3.africanlightsource.org/\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/9121/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9121/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Light-matter Interactions: Theory and Experiments at the Border wi th Biology * POSTPONED * | (smr 3488) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201123T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201127T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9133@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n Due to Covid-19 pandemic\, the activity has been postpon ed to November 2021 and will be held online\, see:\n  \n\n Light-matter I nteractions: Theory and Experiments at the Border with Biology - smr3637\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9133/ LOCATION:Trivandrum - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9133/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Virtual Winter School on Strongly Correlated Quantum Matter | (smr 3591) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201130T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201218T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9474@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\nJointly organized with Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.\nPlease click here for further information https://www .pks.mpg.de/scqm20/\n \n The last two decades have witnessed the developme nt of an increasingly interdisciplinary approach to the theory of strongly correlated systems interfacing with quantum field or quantum information theory and more recently with artificial intelligence. This has been accom panied by rapid experimental progresses\, both in solid state and atomic p hysics platforms. The aim of this virtual school is to present a broad-spe ctrum introduction to the field of strongly correlated systems\, with part icular attention dedicated to cross- disciplinary aspects. The school is s tructured combining pedagogical lectures with several small scale\, 'pyram idal' tutoring for some of the lectures\, a series of 'overview' selected seminars\, and a poster session. It will be a particular goal to foster sc ientific interactions\, where we eagerly await also initiative actions and contributions by the participants.\nTopics include:\n\n Computational ap proaches to correlated quantum matter\n \n Quantum many-body dynamics\n \ n Frustrated magnets and topology\n \n Quantum information\n \n Program mable quantum devices\n \n Lattice gauge theories\n  \nInvited Speakers :\nA. BROWAEYS (FR)\n G. CARLEO (CH)\n\n C. CASTELNOVO (UK)\n\n A. GEORGES (US)\n\n T. HATSUDA (JP)\n\n V. KHEMANI (US)\n\n C. KOLLATH (DE)\n\n B. L AKE (DE)\n\n R. MELKO (CA)\n\n M. PALMA (IT)\n\n F. VICENTINI (CH)\n\n U.- J. WIESE (CH)\nScientific Coordinators:\n M. COLLURA\, SISSA\, Italy\n M. DALMONTE\, ICTP\, Italy\n M. HEYL\, MPIPKS\, Germany\n D. LUITZ\, MPIPKS\, Germany\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9474/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9474/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IITB-ICTP-TIFR Workshop on Physics\, Geometry and Number Theory * CANCELLED * | (smr 3491) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201207T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201218T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9324@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 Fe bruary up to 26 June as precautionary measures due to COVID-19\; more deta ils athttps://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend _activities.aspx\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9324/ LOCATION:Bombay - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9324/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Limits to Diversity Assembly | (smr 3594) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210119T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210121T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9511@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP virtual meeting\n The stunning diversity of many ec ological communities is often the result of a long process in which the co mmunity is assembled. No community is a closed system\, and the observed t axonomic and functional diversity is the result of successful invasions an d local extinctions. Some aspects of this process are reproducible and gen eral\, depending on fundamental ecological and functional constraints and determining a directionality in the assembly process. These constraints de pend on fundamental limits to diversity\, such as competitive exclusion\, but also on the trajectory of the assembly itself\, for instance through n iche construction. Other factors are intrinsically random\, as they depend on the limitedness of the available pool of diversity and on historical c ontingency. The interplay of universal features and contingent ones --- to gether with the combinatorial character of possible assembly histories --- makes the process of assembly non-trivial to study quantitatively.\n This workshop aims at exploring ecological assembly at the interface between t heory\, experimental results\, and field data.Topics:\n\n community assem bly\n \n competitive exclusion\n \n bottom-up vs top-down assembly\n \n biodiversity\n\n Confirmed Speakers:\n L. BITTLESTON\, Boise State Univer sity\, USA\n G. BUNIN\, Technion\, Israel\n J.A. CAPITAN\, Technical Unive rsity of Madrid\, Spain\n C.-Y. CHANG\, Yale\, USA\n M. DAL BELLO\, MIT\, USA\n Q. HE\, University of Chicago\, USA\n D. MAYNARD\, ETH\, Switzerland \n V. MARQUIONI MONTEIRO\, UNICAMP\, Brazil\n M. TIKHONOV\, Washington Uni versity in St.Louis\, USATime: The workshop will be held between 3:00pm (C ET) to 6:00pm (CET).Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/9511/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:20th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science:Total Energy and Force Methods | (smr 3554) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210223T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210225T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9510@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The workshop is live-streamed on the ICTP Condensed Mat ter and Statistical Physics YouTube page at the following link:\n \n http s://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYc-eBoIpXTLq-HnP5EisEwxEoVpxw70P\n An ICTP virtual meeting\n The “Total Energy” Workshop has been held tradi tionally in Trieste every two years since 1987.  The Workshop is about re cent progress in electronic structure methods and their applications.\n\n \n The aim is a critical discussion of methods and of possible combination s and challenging applications. It has become one of the most popular regu lar events of the international ab-initio electronic structure community. In these strange times\, it is important to keep our community together an d to continue to exchange information on exciting developments in our fiel d. For this reason\, we decided to opt for an on-line “micro” version of the workshop\, which has been for decades an essential place for meetin g and discussion. The event will take place daily from 2 pm to 5 pm CET\, to allow participation from many time zones. Beside three plenary talks\, we plan to have 12 contributed talks\, to be chosen among the applications \, and 2 poster sessions.\n\n  \n\n \n Plenary Speakers:\n M. PARRINELL O\, ETHZ\, Switzerland\n \n N. SPALDIN\, ETHZ\, Switzerland\n \n A. ZUNG ER\, University of Colorado\, USA\n Scientific Advisory Board:\n\n E. ARTA CHO\, University of Cambridge\, UK (Chair)\n\n O. AKIN-OJO\, EAIFR\, Rwand a\n\n W. ANDREONI\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n\n S. BIERMANN\, Ecole Polytechniq ue Palaiseau\, France\n\n R. CAR\, Princeton University\, USA\n\n C. FILIP PI\, University of Twente\, The Netherlands\n\n M. FINNIS\, Imperial Colle ge\, UK\n\n R. GEBAUER\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n X.-G. GONG\, Fudan University\, China\n\n J. IHM\, Seoul National University\, Korea\n\n E. KOCH\, Forschu ngszentrum Juelich\, Germany\n\n G. KRESSE\, University of Vienna\, Austri a\n\n R. M. MARTIN\, Stanford University\, USA\n\n F. MAURI\, University o f Rome Sapienza\, Italy\n\n A. MOSTOFI\, Imperial College London\, UK\n\n S. NARASIMHAN\, JNCASR\, India\n\n J.B. NEATON\, University of California\ , USA\n\n W. PICKETT\, University of California\, USA\n\n A. RAPPE\, Unive rsity of Pennsylvania\, USA\n\n L. REINING\, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau \, France\n\n G. RIGNANESE\, UC Louvain\, Belgium\n\n Registration: There is no registration fee.Note: Selected posters and talks are in the booklet s.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9510/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9510/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Time Crystals | (smr 3593) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210308T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210310T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9504@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The conference is live-streamed on the ICTP Condensed M atter and Statistical Physics YouTube page at the following link:\n \n ht tps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYc-eBoIpXTKtxdfNJ59foWzdgfqUMOrV\n \ n  \n \n An ICTP virtual meeting\n \n  \n \n Landau's idea of classif ying phases of matter in terms of symmetry breaking is a cornerstone of mo dern physics. Can time-translation invariance be spontaneously broken? The possible existence of time-crystals was first addressed by Wilczek for qu antum many-body systems\, and together with Shapere for classical systems\ , launching an intense activity both theoretically and experimentally. Des pite their conceptual simplicity and apparent similarity to ordinary cryst als\, they were experimentally observed only three years ago\, eighty year s after the Landau theory of symmetry breaking. \n\n The field is continu ing to grow fed with new theoretical ideas and experimental works. Main go al of the conference is to bring together the most active groups in the fi eld to exchange their latest results.Topics that will be covered in the ac tivity include:\n\n - discrete time-crystals\n\n - continuous time-transla tion symmetry breaking\n\n - dissipative time crystals\n\n - time-crystals in classical systems\n\n - condensed matter physics in time crystalsSpeak ers:\n V. ELTSOV\, Aalto University\, Finland\n\n L. GUO\, MPI for the Sci ence of Light\, Germany\n\n P. HANNAFORD\, Swinburne University of Technol ogy\, Australia\n\n A. HEMMERICH\, University of Hamburg\, Germany\n\n V. KHEMANI\, Stanford University\, USA\n\n A. KOSIOR\, MPI for Complex System s\, Germany\n\n O. KYRIIENKO\, University of Exeter\, UK\n\n I. LESANOVSKY \, Nottingham University\, UK\n\n W.V. LIU\, University of Pittsburgh\, US A\n\n J. MARINO\, Mainz University\, Germany\n\n A. NUNNENKAMP\, Cambridge University\, UK\n\n A. RUSSOMANNO\, MPI for Complex Systems\, Germany\n\n A. SANPERA\, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona\, Spain\n\n M. SCHIRO\, Colle ge de France\, France\n\n M. SEGEV\, Technion\, Israel\n\n A. SHAPERE\, Un iversity of Kentucky\, USA\n\n H. TAHERI\, University of California Rivers ide\, USA\n\n M. UEDA\, University of Tokyo\, Japan\n\n P. VAN DER STRATEN \, Utrecht University\, The Netherlands\n\n F. WILCZEK\, MIT\, USA\n\n N. YAO\, UC Berkeley\, USA\n\n O. ZILBERBERG\, ETH Zurich\, Switzerland\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9504/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9504/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Indian Ocean Variability and Teleconnections | (smr 35 92) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210315T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210317T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9494@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n This workshop will focus on obse rvational and modelling studies of the Indian Ocean climate and its variab ility and telconnections to other regions across sub-seasonal through mult i-decadal time scales.\n\n\n  \n\n The Indian Ocean hosts two important m odes of interannual variability: the Indian Ocean Basin Mode and the India n Ocean Dipole. Both modes have two-way interactions with ENSO\, but they may also exist independently. Through their influence on rainfall anomalie s\, they have important teleconnections to other tropical and extratropica l regions.  At sub-seasonal scales\, organized convection over the Indian Ocean occurs during the early phases of the MJO mode\, producing global t eleconnections. ENSO teleconnections to the Indian Ocean also change on su b-seasonal timescales. At decadal scales\, the Indian Ocean shows importan t variability associated with a strong warming trend\, which affects globa l decadal variability and regional climate change. Recent findings on thes e and related topics will be discussed in invited presentations\, panel di scussions and breakout groups\, organized in sessions covering themes comm on to different time scales.  \n\n Topics:\n\n Observations and diagnost ics of oceanic and atmospheric variability in the Indian Ocean basin\n \n Tropical and extratropical teleconnections from and into the Indian Ocean at intra-seasonal to decadal scales: similarity and differences across ti me scales\n \n Simulation of Indian Ocean variability and its teleconnect ions in climate models\, and predictability arising from Indian Ocean tele connections\n\n  \n\n Speakers include:\n \n K. ASHOK\, University of Hy derabad\, India\n \n M.A. BALMASEDA\, ECMWF\, UK\n \n W. HAN\, Universit y of Colorado\, USA\n \n S. HARDIMAN\, Met Office\, UK\n \n S. HENDERSON \, University of Wisconsin\, USA\n \n H. HENDON\, Bureau of Meteorology\, Australia\n \n S. HU\, Columbia University\, USA\n \n I.-S. KANG\, Seco nd Institute of Oceanography\, China\n \n R.M. KOLL\, IITM\, India\n \n P. KUSHNER\, University of Toronto\, Canada\n \n C. UMMENHOFER\, WHOI\, U SA\n \n F. VITART\, ECMWF\, UK\n \n J. WANG\, Stony Brook University\, U SA\n T. WOOLLINGS\, University of Oxford\, UK\n \n P. YADAV\, ETH Zurich \, Switzerland\n \n L. ZHANG\, University of Colorado\, USA\n  \n\n\n R egistration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/ 9494/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9494/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Citizen Science with Application to Nuclear\, Seismic and Air Qual ity Monitoring: Applications | (smr 3596) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210315T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210319T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9532@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n Open Science refers to an umbrell a concept that combines various movements and practices aiming to make sci entific knowledge\, methods\, data and evidence freely available and acces sible for everyone\, increase scientific collaborations and sharing of inf ormation for the benefits of science and society. This includes scholarly research that is collaborative\, transparent and reproducible and whose ou tputs are publicly available. Within this framework\, Citizen Science is a key element aiming inter alia to extend collaboration with societal actor s beyond the scientific community by opening up practices and tools that a re part of the research cycle.\n In this online workshop we will understan d how to balance low cost scientific tools and academic rigor. We will pr esent several examples of successful Citizen Science projects\, including nuclear monitoring\, seismic sensors and air quality monitoring.\n The wor kshop will include a first introductory week where we will present the sci entific benefits of Citizen Science\, its societal impact and the latest t ools and instruments. The second week will be devoted to the development o f low-cost nuclear radiation\, seismic and air quality sensors. Participan ts may choose to only attend the first week or the complete activity\, i.e . including the practical work on the development of low-cost sensors. For the second week\, participants will have to indicate their preference in attending one of the three practical activities dedicated to nuclear radia tion\, seismic or air quality sensors.Time: Lectures will be held daily fr om 1pm to 4pm CET. Discussions will be held using an online collaboration platform.Topics:\n\n Sustainable Development Goals and the role of techno logy\n \n Open Science and Citizen Science\n \n Citizen Science as Scien ce\n \n 3D printing and the FabLab revolution\n \n The role of inexpensi ve technology in Citizen Science\n \n Statistical inference in scientifi c reasoning\n \n What to do with data from Citizen Science Projects\n \n Practical work on the development of low-cost nuclear radiation\, seismic or air quality sensors\n\n Applications:\n  \n \n Applications for the first week ONLY 'Introduction' can be submitted at the following link http ://indico.ictp.it/event/9462/ by clicking on 'Apply here'.\n If you are i nterested in attending the second week of the workshop 'Applications' too\ , please submit your application on this page by clicking on 'Apply here'. \n You will have to indicate your preference in attending one of the thre e practical activities dedicated to nuclear radiation\, seismic or air qua lity sensors.\n  \n \n Lecturers:\n K. AOUDIA\, ICTP\, Italy\n E.M. B ALLI\, INGV\, Italy\n L. BASTIN\, Aston University\, UK\n M. BOGOVAC\, I AEA\, Austria\n A. BROWN\, SAFECAST\, USA\n S. BUETTRICH\, IT University of Copenhagen\, Denmark\n B. CAPONE\, Universita Roma Tre\, Italy\n J. CASSIDY\, GAS X\, UK\n C. FONDA\, ICTP\, Italy\n M. FRANZEN\, KWI\, Germ any\n D. FRIGERIO\, University of Vienna\, Austria\n E. GIRARDI\, POP Ai \, Italy\n N. JOVALEKIC\, TTTech Computertechnik AG\, Austria\n F. MARCH IS\, SETI Institute\, USA\n A. MEIRA\, GRILLO\, USA\n E. MILOTTI\, Unive rsity of Trieste\, Italy\n P. MOONEY\, Maynooth University\, Ireland\n J . MOROSS\, SAFECAST\, USA\n L. MUSTAFA\, Institut IRNAS Race\, Slovenia\n B. NEUPANE\, UNESCO\,Paris\n M. PAOLI\, TWAS\, Italy\n F. PILLA\, Smar t Cities & Urban Innovation\, Ireland\n P. SPOTTERON\, SPOTTERON\, Austri a\n J. TIRAPU AZPIROZ\, IBM Research\, Brazil\n B. VICIC\, ICTP\, Italy\ n K. VOHLAND\, Natural History Museum Wien\, AustriaTutor:\n R. NEUMANN BARROS FERREIRA\, IBM Research\, Brazil\n Registration: There is no regist ration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9532/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9532/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Adriatic Conference on Strongly Correlated Systems | (smr 3600) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210322T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210324T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9595@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP virtual meeting\n The study of strongly correlated many-body systems is a topic of historically enormous theoretical and expe rimental importance\, which has recently garnered even more interest due t o the possibility of experimental realization of some of its hallmark resu lts via quantum simulation.\n In this framework\, some of the central issu es in the field include the search for novel exotic phenomena and many-bod y phases\, problems related to quantum entanglement\, with its deep relati on to quantum computing\, or the analysis of many-body dynamics and transp ort properties.\n\n  \n\n Due to the considerable challenges often encoun tered in the analysis of such issues\, the introduction of new analytical and numerical techniques for their study\, and the improvement of existing ones\, is also a fundamental research direction.\n\n  \n\n This online c onference is intended to provide a platform for researchers working in the se domains to share their research and establish collaboration networks. T he event is particularly targeted at scientists at the post-doctoral level \, but researchers at all points in their academic career are welcome to a ttend.\n\n ​The topics discussed in the conference include:\n\n Quantum phases and critical phenomena\n \n Strongly correlated materials\n \n N on-equilibrium quantum dynamics\n \n Topological phases and phenomena\n \ n Quantum information\n \n Computational techniques for strongly correla ted systems\nSpeakers:\nG. CHIRIACÒ\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n K. FALLS\, SISSA\ , Italy\n\n L.A. GRAMAJO\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n K. HOVHANNISYAN\, ICTP\, Italy \n\n A. KUNDU\, SISSA\, Italy\n\n G. MAGNIFICO\, QTG\, Italy\n\n S. NOTARN ICOLA\, QTG\, Italy\n\n A. PAVLOV\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n A. RICHAUD\, SISSA\, Italy\n\n S. SCOPA\, SISSA\, Italy\n\n S. SHARMA\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n P. SIE RANT\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n S. SOTIRIADIS\, DCCQS\, Germany\n\n E. TIRRITO\, S ISSA\, ItalyRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/9595/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9595/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA 2021 International School on Nuclear Security | (s mr 3569) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210412T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210423T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9546@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\nThis year we will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of ICTP-IAEA International School on Nuclear Security.\n The two-week School is designed for early career professionals from develo ping countries\, ideally with 1-3 years of experience and working at relev ant institutions in their home country. The school provides an intense con temporary overview of nuclear security. Candidates should have a specific career interest in or knowledge of nuclear security\, although academic an d technical backgrounds may vary. Candidates with a scientific or technica l background in a discipline such as nuclear physics\, nuclear engineering \, political science\, law enforcement\, or related fields are especially encouraged to apply.\nSchool curriculum will include the following topics: \n•    International legal framework for nuclear security\n•     Identification of and measures to address\, threats against nuclear securi ty\n•    Physical protection of nuclear material and nuclear faciliti es\n•    Physical protection system design and evaluation\n•     Nuclear security regime for radioactive material and associated facilities \n•    Transport security for nuclear and other radioactive material\ n•    Threat and risk assessment\, nuclear security detection archite cture\n•    Radiation detection instruments and detection strategies and techniques\n•    Nuclear security culture\, concept and definitio n\, self-assessment and enhancement\n•    Information and computer se curity\n•    Introduction to Nuclear Material Accounting & Control an d threats addressed by NMAC\n•    Threat and risk for material out of regulatory control\n•    Nuclear security systems and measures for m ajor public events\n•    Incident and trafficking database global ana lysis\n•    Nuclear forensics and radiological crime scene management \n•    IAEA Programmes and Assistance for Human Resource Development in Nuclear Security.\n There will also be practical exercises in the form of recorded videos designed to show the participants some detection equipm ents\, how to use them and the range of their applications.Prerequisites:\ n As a prerequisite to admission to the School\, all applicants will be as ked to complete at least 6 of the 17 existing IAEA e-learning modules on n uclear security\, based on their interest and their field of expertise. Pl ease find the link to all e-learning modules:https://elearning.iaea.org/m2 /course/index.php?categoryid=48\n\n \n Given the global health situation d ue to COVID 19 pandemic and travel restrictions\, the International Atomic Energy Agency has re-designed the curriculum of the International School on Nuclear Security to be adapted to the virtual format. The School will s tart each day at 10:00 am Trieste time and will last maximum 5 hours inclu ding breaks.\nRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp .it/event/9546/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9546/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA 3rd Course on Scientific Novelties in the Phenomen ology of Severe Accidents in Water Cooled Reactors | (smr 3571) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210426T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210430T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9530@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n The course programme covers scientific topics of direct relevance to the physical\, chemical and radio logical phenomena occurring during progression of severe accidents in Wate r Cooled Reactors\, including an overview of past events and advanced tech nologies designed to cope with such events.\n\n  \n\n The course aims at building a comprehensive understanding of the complex phenomena associated with progression of severe accidents in WCRs and their consequences. Know ledge transfer will be facilitated between the international expert lectur ers and the young nuclear professional and engineer participants through o nline discussions aiming at a comprehensive understanding of the physical\ , chemical and radiological phenomena specific to severe accidents in WCRs . Relevant nuclear safety principles\, recent advancements in scientific m ethods\, approaches and simulation tools to assess the interrelated phenom ena during different phases of severe accident progression\, and the role of technologies designed to prevent progression of\, and mitigate conseque nces from\, such accidents in WCRs will be presented.\n\n  \n\n Introduct ion:\n\n Physics of Water Cooled Power Reactors\n \n Nuclear Safety and IAEA Safety Standards for Water Cooled Power Reactors\n\n Phenomenology in Severe Accident Progression:\n\n Nuclear Fuel Degradation\n \n Relocati on of Melted Fuel\n \n In-Vessel Melt Retention\n \n Reactor Vessel Fail ure Mechanisms\n \n Ex-Vessel Corium Cooling\n \n Early-Phase Containmen t Failure\n \n Late-Phase Containment Failure\n \n Physics and Chemistry of Source Term\n \n Fission Products Behaviour and Transport\n \n Hydro gen Generation\, Transport and Explosion\n \n Numerical Simulations of Se vere Accident Phenomena\n\n Phenomenology of Technological Challenges in P ropagation of Severe Accidents and Mitigation of their Consequences:\n\n Containment Pressure Venting\n \n Prevention of Hydrogen Explosions\n \n Severe Accident Management\n\n Registration: There is no registration fee .\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9530/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9530/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2D Materials for Spin-Orbitronics | (smr 3608) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210503T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210505T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9607@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP virtual meeting\n The emerging field of spin-orbitr onics utilizes the relativistic spin-orbit interactions and is opening fas cinating new directions for basic research and exciting potential applicat ions in spintronics.\n This mini workshop will cover selected spin-orbit p henomena in low-dimensional materials\, comprising their potential and con crete realizations for spin-orbitronics\, mostly from the computational-ma terials perspective\, but including also experimental view and results. Lo w-dimensional materials provide a fertile ground for generating interestin g spin-orbit phenomena and are also ideal for incorporation in devices. Th e presentations will span the range from basic features to the forefront r esults in the field and are targeting final-year graduate students and ear ly-career researchers in general. The talks will include the speakers’ v iews of the current trends\, challenges and future directions in their fie lds.Topics:\n\n Properties and potential of 2D materials for spin-orbitro nics\n \n Skyrmions and exotic magnetism\n \n Spin-orbit torque\n\n Spea kers:\n P. BARONE\, CNR-SPIN\, Italy\n S. BLÜGEL\, Forschungszentrum Jül ich\, Germany\n \n J. FABIAN\, University of Regensburg\, Germnay\n \n P . GAMBARDELLA\, ETH Zürich\, Switzerland\n \n B. NIKOLIC\, University of Delaware\, USA\n \n O. YAZYEV\, EPFL Lausanne\, Switzerland\n  \n Regi stration: There is no registration fee.\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9 607/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9607/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Hitchhiker's Guide to Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics :Topological Phenomena in Condensed Matter | (smr 3625) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210506T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210603T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9627@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual School\, 2nd edition\n The aim of this online school is to sketch a roadmap of current exciting research directions in c ondensed matter and statistical physics. It will lead the students from ba sic notions to the open problems in each topic. The lectures will be held once a week\, 4 weeks in a row in May and June 2021\, each week a new subj ect.\n\n \n Given the success of the first Hitchhiker's School in January 2021 (smr3589)\, we continue with the same format. The first series of lec tures was dedicated to machine learning and had covered several different aspects of the application of machine learning in condensed matter physics .\n In this second series\, we focus on topological phenomena in condensed matter. What is topology? Does it explain the properties of some unconven tional materials? Why is it important for future technologies?\n\nThe form at of the lectures will be the following:\n- 1h of basic notions relevant for the subject\, including Questions and Answers session.\n- 15 min break \n- 1h of colloquia style lecture\, that will start with the basics and br ing the student to the set of open problems in the topic.Speakers:\nB.A. B ERNEVIG\, Princeton\, USA\nC. CASTELNOVO\, Cambridge\, UK\nC. CHAMON\, Bos ton\, USA\nY. GEFEN\, Weizmann\, IsraelRegistration: There is no registrat ion fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9627/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9627/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on the Use of Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor f or Soil Moisture Management and Validation of Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Maps | (smr 3574) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210510T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210519T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9562@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (C RNS) has potential for soil moisture monitoring of agricultural land. The results can be used for irrigation scheduling and extreme weather events f orecasting. Remote sensing can extrapolate the acquired soil moisture data to larger areas.\n  \n\n The increasing demand for food production due t o population increase and climatic hazards requires improving land managem ent practices. One of major demands is to support the decision processes b y reliable and representative information on soil moisture\, which is diff icult to obtain by conventional soil moisture measurements. CRNS is a suit able technique for this purpose since it is non-invasive and has a large f ootprint overcoming the problem of soil moisture spatial microvariability. The data acquired from CRNS measurements can be used for hydrological mod elling\, validation remote sensing soil moisture products and practical ag ricultural and environmental applications such as improving agricultural w ater use efficiency\, irrigation scheduling\, drought management and flood forecast.Topics: \n\n Basic principles of soil moisture measurements us ing Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS)\n \n Overview and demonstration of d ata download and data processing\n \n CRNS data products: time series fil ter\, root zone moisture extrapolation and rainfall estimation\n \n Spati al mapping with CRNS\n \n Use of CRNS data for irrigation agriculture\n \ n Use of CRNS for supporting agricultural land management\n \n Use of CR NS for supporting drought monitoring\n \n Added value of combining CRNS a nd point scale soil moisture\n \n Overview of remote sensing soil moistur e data products\n \n Use of CRNS data for validation of remote sensing so il moisture products\n \n Applications of remote sensing soil moisture da ta products\n \n Factors affecting the accuracy of cosmic-ray neutron cou nts and estimated soil moisture\n \n Efforts to a harmonized data process ing approach for cosmic-ray neutron sensors\n \n The use of cosmic-ray ne utron sensors in hydrometeorology\n\n Speakers:\n G. BARONI\, Alma Mater S tudiorum – University of Bologna\, Italy\n\n T. FRANZ\, University of Ne braska-Lincoln\, USA\n R. ROSOLEM\, University of Bristol\, UK\n\n W. WAGN ER\, Vienna University of Technology\, AustriaRegistration: There is no re gistration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9562/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9562/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MaX School on Advanced Materials and Molecular Modelling with Quan tum ESPRESSO | (smr 3622) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210517T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210528T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9616@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n \n The School is live-streamed on t he ICTP YouTube Channels.  The links for each session are available in th e programme.All hands-on are included in a Virtual Machine (VM) made for p urpose\, which must be pre-installed. Please follow the link for instructi ons.\n  \n The school will introduce students and young researchers to m aterials and molecular modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO (QE)\, covering bas ic concepts\, recent advances and developments\, with emphasis on density- functional-theory (DFT) based methods and High-Performance Computing (HPC) .\n Computational methods in electronic structure theory are a powerful to ol for the understanding and the prediction of materials properties at the atomistic level. The combination of the progresses made by condensed matt er theory with the increasing computing capabilities provided in HPC cente rs foster a great interest in computational materials science. Ab-initio e lectronic structure software like QE makes easily available such potential ities to a wide audience of scientists and students.\n The school aims to train beginners in computational materials sciences to the efficient use o f QE on modern massively parallel architectures\, with special emphasis on the emerging architectures based on GPGPUs and on the use of advanced too ls for generating\, managing\, storing\, and sharing results.\n\n \n Keynote Speakers:\n \n \n  \n \n \n Tutors:\n \n \n S. BLÜGEL\, Peter Grünberg Institut and Institute for Advanced Simula tion\, Germany\n R. CAR\, Princeton University\, USA\n F. MAURI\, Sa pienza University of Rome\, Italy\n N. SPALDIN\, ETH Zurich\, Switzerla nd\n X. GONG\, Fudan University\, China\n Lecturers:\n S. BARONI \, SISSA\, Italy\n M. BERCX\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n P. BONFA'\, Unive rsity of Parma\, Italy\n S. DE GIRONCOLI\, SISSA\, Italy\n P. DELUGA S\, SISSA\, Italy\n R. GEBAUER\, ICTP\, Italy\n P. GIANNOZZI\, Unive rsity of Udine\, Italy\n A. KOKALJ\, Jožef Stefan Institute\, Sloveni a\n S. SCANDOLO\, ICTP\, Italy\n A. STROPPA\, CNR-SPIN\, Italy\n I. TIMROV\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n Hands-on Lecturers:\n A. P. SEITSO NEN\, École Normale Supérieure Paris\, France\n O. BASEGGIO\, SISSA\, Italy\n R. BERTOSSA\, SISSA\, Italy\n I. CARNIMEO\, SISSA\, Italy\n A. URRU\, ETH\, Switzerland\n \n  \n \n F. CONTE\, Universi ty of Naples\, Italy\n P. CHANDRAMATHY SURENDRAN\, Cochin University of Science and Technology\, India\n Y. CUI\, SHU EDU\, China\n F. DOS SANTOS\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n M. HUŠ\, National Institute of Chemistry \, Ljubljana\, Slovenia\n T. JIANG\, SHU EDU\, China\n C. MALICA\, S ISSA\, Italy\n U. MONDAL\, IISER Pune\, India\n P. PEGOLO\, SISSA\, Italy\n M. POBERŽNIK\, CNR-IOM\, Italy\n L. QIAO\, SHU EDU\, China\ n F. RAMIREZ\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n M. SAFARI\, SISSA\, Italy\n S . SAPPATI\, Research Raman Institute\, Bengaluru\, India\n C. SEWELL\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n S. STAVRIC\, University of Trieste\, Italy\n G. SUKANYA\, ICTP\, Italy\n D. TISI\, SISSA\, Italy\n N. VELANKANNI\, ICTP\, Italy\n  \n \n Registration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9616/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9616/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:11th Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory | (smr 3606) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210519T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210520T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9604@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/mideast11/information.html\n ***V IRTUAL***\n\n \n Purpose of the meeting is to bring together string theori sts from countries of the "Old World" (from Greece to India) in order to d iscuss most recent developments in the field. It has been co-organised by Israeli\, Iranian\, Indian and Greek string theory communities successfull y since 2001.Participation is by invitation only.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/even t/9604/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9604/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Physics and Chemistry of Solid/Liquid Interfaces for E nergy Conversion and Storage | (smr 3577) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210524T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210528T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9536@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual MeetingThe Workshop is live-streamed on the ICTP YouTube Channel. The links for each session are available in the pro gramme.\n The purpose of the online workshop is to bring together scientis ts working on the characterization of electrochemical interfaces at the at omistic level\, and developing characterization methods\, to discuss devel opments\, current challenges\, and perspectives.\n The workshop is dedicat ed to the characterization of electrochemical interfaces by means of advan ced experimental and theoretical techniques.\n  \n\n The focus will be on the understanding at atomic level of interface structure and stability\, charge dynamics and charge transfer\, chemical adsorption and reactivity. Space will be devoted to advances in interface-sensitive characterization techniques. Consequences of the progress in the field will be discussed in the context of applications to catalysis\, energy conversion and storage\ , and environmental remediation. \n\n Topics:\n\n Atomic structure of el ectrochemical interfaces \n \n Charge dynamics and charge transfer\n \n Electrochemical reactions at interfaces\n \n Interface-sensitive experim ental techniques \n \n Computer simulations of electrochemical interface s \n\n Speakers:\n​A. BIEBERLE-HÜTTER\, DIFFER\, the Netherlands\nK. C AMPEN\, Universität Duisburg-Essen\, Germany\nK. CHAN\, Technical Univers ity of Denmark\, Denmark\nJ. CHENG\, Xiamen University\, China \nT. CUK\, University of Colorado Boulder\, USA  \nJ.R. DURRANT\, Imperial College London\, UK  \nA. GROSS\, University of Ulm\, Germany  \nJ. LIBUDA\, Uni versity Erlangen-Nürnberg\, Germany  \nD. PRENDERGAST\, Lawrence Berkele y National Laboratory\, USA  \nR. SCHLÖGL\, Fritz Haber Institute\, Germ any\nM. SPRIK\, University of Cambridge\, UK \nP. STRASSER\, TU Berlin\, Germany  \nM. TODOROVA\, MPI for Iron Research\, Germany  \nF.M. TOMA\, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, USA\nR. VAN DE KROL\, Helmholtz Ze ntrum Berlin\, Germany\n\n Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9536/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9536/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP–IAEA Nuclear Knowledge Management School Webinar Seri es | (smr 3576) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210524T070000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210528T215500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9548@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n This School webinar series i s a certificate online course providing specialized education and training on development and implementation of knowledge management programmes in n uclear science and technology organizations. It is intended for young prof essionals in current or future leading roles in managing nuclear knowledge .\n Jointly organized by ICTP and the IAEA since 2004\, this Nuclear Knowl edge Management (NKM) School focuses on methodologies and practices and ex plores various dimensions of nuclear knowledge management.  These include processes and tools\, challenges and benefits\, culture influence\, relat ionship with human resource development\, IT for knowledge preservation an d sharing. Learning is supplemented with real life examples from NKM progr ammes in different types of nuclear organizations. The aim is to encourage ‘forward thinking’ and to enable participants to apply theory and ins ights in their daily work. Lectures by recognized experts are coupled with an online forum and dedicated panel discussions where participants have t he opportunity to discuss issues and solutions related to the implementati on of NKM programmes.\nTopics:\n\n Nuclear knowledge and knowledge manage ment fundamentals\n \n Developing policies and strategies in managing nuc lear knowledge\n \n Managing nuclear information resources\n \n Human re sources development\n \n Risk of knowledge loss and knowledge transfer\n \n Practical guidance and good practices on NKM\nRegistration: There is n o registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9548/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9548/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Summer School on Particle Physics | (smr 3560) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210531T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210611T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9538@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual MeetingThe School is live-streamed on the ICTP YouTube page at the following link:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list= PL11nn_gZTAYrRa1EFp52J1oAA_epGFXuy\n The goal of the school is to give a d etailed overview of particle physics from the basics of Standard Model phe nomenology to the most important areas where significant progress has been achieved recently.\n  \n\n The school is especially targeted to PhD stud ents in high energy physics\, but qualified MSc students in their last yea r as well as young postdocs can also apply.\nLecturers and topics:\n \nN. ARKANI-HAMED (IAS Princeton) - Physics at Future Colliders\nC. BOEHM (Syd ney University) - Astroparticle Physics\nM. CACCIARI (LPTHE and Universit é de Paris) - QCD Physics for Colliders\nV. DOMCKE (CERN and EPFL) - Grav itational Waves from the Early Universe\nS. GORI (UC\, Santa Cruz) - Stand ard Model\nY. HOCHBERG (Hebrew University) - Non-WIMP Dark Matter Models\n T. LIN (UC\, San Diego) - New Directions for Dark Matter Searches\nI. ROTH STEIN (Carnegie Mellon University) - Effective Field Theory for Gravitatio nal WavesRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/9538/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9538/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:6th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Application s (ASESMA-2021) | (smr 3578) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210531T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210611T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9553@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n A final version of the ongoing ASESMA 2021 programme is onl ine* * * School-related material is available from the online programme * * * \n  \n\n ==========================================\n  \n\n \n The A frican School series on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASE SMA) is planned on a biennial basis since 2010. Previous schools were held in Cape Town\, South Africa (2010)\, Eldoret\, Kenya (2012)\, Johannesbur g\, South Africa (2015)\, Accra\, Ghana (2016)\, and Addis Ababa\, Ethiopi a (2018).In 2021\, ASESMA will be held as an ICTP Virtual school. \n The a im of the School is to introduce young African researchers and students to the theory of electronic structure and other atomistic simulation methods \, with an emphasis on the computational methods for practical calculation s.\n The School will cover introductory concepts such as: electronic struc ture theory\, density functional theory and functionals\, phonons\, magnet ism\, enhanced sampling methods in molecular dynamics\, ab-initio molecula r dynamics\, etc.\n It will also cover more advanced topics and applicatio ns of these methods to the structural\, mechanical and optical properties of materials\, and to the properties of biological systems.\n The School w ill include hands-on tutorial sessions based on public license codes (incl uding\, but not limited to\, the "Quantum Espresso" package).\n During the second week students will be asked to split up in teams and work on speci fic projects under the guidance of the lecturers and mentors.\n LIST OF LE CTURERS\n George Amolo\, The Technical University of Kenya\n Michele Cerio tti\, EPFL Lausanne\, Switzerland\n Matteo Gatti\, Ecole Polytechnique ETS F Palaiseau\, France\n Javier Junquera\, Universidad de Cantabria\, Santan der\, Spain\n Ryo Maezono\, JAIST\, Japan\n Neepa Maitra\, Rutgers Univers ity\, Newark\, USA\n Nisha Mammen\, JYU University of Jyväskylä\, Finlan d\n Andrea Marini\, Istituto di Struttura della Materia\, CNR\, Italy\n Gi acomo Melani\, UZH University of Zürich\, Switzerland\n Lucia Reining\, E cole Polytechnique ETSF Palaiseau\, France\n Ram Seshadri\, University of California at Santa Barbara\, USA\n Natasa Stojic\, ICTP Trieste\, Italy\n Carsten Ullrich\, University of Missouri\, Columbia\, USA\n  \n\n * * *\ n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9553/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9553/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP–IAEA Nuclear Energy Management School Webinar Series | (smr 3579) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210531T050000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210611T215500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9561@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n This School webinar series i s a certificate online course introducing participants to the foundation s kills and knowledge required to successfully manage and lead a nuclear ene rgy programme. The target audience for this training event is new and youn g nuclear professionals entering the field of nuclear energy and nuclear t echnology.\n Jointly organized by ICTP\, the objectives of this training e vent are to:\n\n Provide an international educational experience and an o pportunity for worldwide networking to future leaders and managers of nucl ear energy\;\n \n Raise awareness of participants about recent developmen ts in nuclear energy\;\n \n Broaden participants’ understanding on key issues and challenges associated with peaceful uses of nuclear energy\; an d\n \n Introduce participants to the leadership and managerial competenci es needed to successfully run the national nuclear energy programme.\n\n T opics:\n\n ​Introduction to the IAEA and nuclear technology\n \n IAEA and its services\n \n Overview of nuclear applications\n \n Climate chan ge and the economics of nuclear energy\n \n An integrated approach to hum an resource development and nuclear knowledge management\n \n Management and leadership in a nuclear organization\n \n Nuclear safety\n \n Nuclea r security\n \n Nuclear safeguards\n \n Emergency planning\, preparednes s and response\n \n Radiation safety and protection\n \n Nuclear law\n \ n Nuclear power\n \n Nuclear fuel cycle and waste management\n\n Registr ation: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9561/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9561/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CIRM-ICTP Complex Analysis and Geometry - XXV | (smr 3601) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210607T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210611T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9605@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:A CIRM-ICTP virtual meeting\n The CIRM "Meeting on Complex Ana lysis and Geometry" has now reached its 25th edition and is well known to be an ideal occasion to share among experts and young researchers the most interesting advances in these fields. 5 online mini-courses with discussi on sessions will be broadcasted online.\nLecturers and topics:\n•     J.-P. DEMAILLY (Université Grenoble Alpes\, France) - L^2 extension theor ems and applications to algebraic geometry\n•    V. TOSATTI (McGill U niversity\, Canada) - Introduction to the Kähler-Ricci flow\n•    A. FINO (University of Torino\, Italy) - Interplays of Complex and Symplecti c Geometry\n•    V. GUEDJ  (Université Paul Sabatier\, Toulouse\, F rance) - Canonical metrics on mildly singular compact Kaehler varieties\n •    F. FORSTNERIC (University of Ljubljana\, Slovenia) - Minimal Sur faces from a Complex Analytic Viewpoint\nThe detailed abstracts are indica ted in the file 'Lecturers abstracts' below.Registration: There is no regi stration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9605/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9605/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development | (smr 3581) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210614T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210701T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9549@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n The SDSummerSchool 2021 will be held from 14th June to 2nd July. It is developed with UNDESA\, IAEA\, UNDP\, I RENA\, The World Bank Group\, and the following Universities:  Imperial C ollege London\, University of Oxford\, Loughborough University\, Universit y of Cambridge\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, and Simon Fraser Univ ersity\, with the OpTIMUS community of practice\, GIZ\, UK Foreign Commonw ealth and Development Office\, and the Climate Compatible Growth (#CCG) pr ogram.\n\n  \n\n There are 5 tracks. They will focus on:\n\n CLEWs - Cli mate\, Land\, Energy and Water systems modelling\n \n Energy Modelling an d Power System Flexibility\n \n Energy Balances and Projections\n \n Fin ancial Planning of Bulk Infrastructure\n \n Spatial Electrification Model ling\n\n Each course has two parts: the first is an online self-paced port ion that you can take at any time before the start of the second portion\, and the second is a hands-on\, interactive component with dedicated train ers. You will receive two certificates: one from the Open University for t he self-paced portion\, and one from the ICTP on successful completion of the hands-on training. \n\n  \n\n There is no fee to attend. However\, c ompetition for space is high and space is limited.\n\n  \n\n To apply you will have to demonstrate:\n\n 1. That the output of your study (which wil l include a policy note) is in demand by the government that you represent \; or\n\n 2. That the skills\, tools\, and teaching material that you acqu ire will be used in university teaching or government planning knowledge m anagement\; or\n\n 3. That the output will fit into policy-relevant resear ch to be published in a visible platform.\n\n  \n\n Supporting documentat ion for 1 and 2 will require a letter from a head of unit or higher (gover nment) or a head of department or higher (university). (Exceptions are mad e for selected and ongoing technical assistance programs of participating organisations\, and you will be notified via those channels.)  Priority w ill be given to participants from countries that have a demonstrated need and ability to apply the training to policy development\, and selection of participants will include considerations of equity\, diversity\, and incl usion.\n\n  \n\n Discussion forums are available online to support you an d coaching sessions will be scheduled during week 1 of the training.  If you have not completed the self learning material\, you will not be admitt ed to week 2.\n\n  \n\n In week 2 you will receive coaching and training to use the tool for a national case study. You will be expected to develop a policy note\, a poster\, and an 'elevator pitch' presentation for a sen ior decision maker. \n\n  \n\n You will present the powerpoint\, poster\ , and policy note in week 3\, and receive feedback. And be invited to a hi gh level dialogue.\n\n  \n\n Note that participants will require a comput er with stable internet access to participate in the training. It is recom mended\, for all tracks\, that participants have at least 8 GB of RAM and a relatively new computer. Specific tracks have additional computer requir ements above and beyond this minimum:\n\n CLEWs - Windows 10 computer\, 8 GB RAM\n \n Energy Modelling and Power System Flexibility - Windows 10 co mputer\, 8GB RAM\, MS Office.\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9549/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9549/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Youth in High-Dimensions | (smr 3602) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210615T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210618T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9596@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n  \n\n The aim of the conference is to give young researchers the opportunity to present their results rela ted to high-dimensional statistical problems\, as arising in machine learn ing\, inference or statistical physics.\n\n  \n\n Typical problems in hig h-dimensions include the detection and estimation of noisy signals (compre ssed sensing\, PCA and tensor decomposition etc)\, the analysis of (deep) neural-networks and their learning and generalization dynamics\, the detec tion of communities in large networks\, or disordered spin systems. While these problems may seem of different natures\, they actually share many si milarities in their common phenomenology and the tools used to analyze the m.\n The core of the field is made of a very active\, diverse and quickly expanding community of physicists\, computer scientists\, mathematicians\, information theorists and engineers\, with the common desire to tackle in creasingly challenging problems at the forefront of data science.\n This c onference aims at reinforcing the links among this interdisciplinary commu nity\, and in particular of its youngest theory-oriented members\, and to bring forward the latest development happening in the high-dimensional wor ld.Topics:\n \n Machine learning\n \n High-dimensional statistics\n \n Applied maths\n \n Computer sciences\n Participants interested to present a poster are kindly requested to submit their title and a short ab stract in the application form.Speakers:\n L. BENIGNI\, University of Chic ago\, USA\n M. CELENTANO\, Stanford University\, USA\n \n L. CHIZAT\, Uni versity of Paris-Saclay\n SY. CHUNG\, Massachusetts Institute of Technolo gy\, USA\n \n E. DOBRIBAN\, University of Pennsylvania\, USA\n Z. FAN\, Yale University\, USA\n \n C. GERBELOT\, ENS Paris\, France\n \n A. GLIE LMO\, SISSA\, Italy\n \n A. INGROSSO\, ICTP\, Italy\n A. JACOT\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n \n F. MASTROGIUSEPPE\, University College London\, UK\n \n F. MIGNACCO\, IPHT Saclay\, France\n \n T. MISIAKIEWICZ\, Stanford Unive rsity\, USA\n P. NAKKIRAN\, Harvard University\, USA\n \n M. REFINETTI\, ENS Paris\, France\n \n C. RUSH\, Columbia University\, USA\n \n T. SCH RAMM\, Stanford University\, USA\n \n S. VILLAR\, Johns Hopkins Universit y\, USA\n \n I. ZADIK\, New York University\, USA\n \n J. ZARKA\, ENS Pa ris\, France\n  \n Registration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/9596/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9596/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Eastern Africa GNSS and Space Weather Capacity Building Workshop | (smr 3603) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210621T110000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210625T140000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9621@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n \n \n \n This Wor kshop will give the participants an in-depth view of Space Weather\, inclu ding its main effects on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and re lated scientific and technological applications. Focus will be on Space We ather research and capacity building in the Eastern African Countries.\nDe scription: \n\n Space Weather is a term generally used to indicate “the conditions on the Sun and in the solar wind\, magnetosphere\, ionosphere\, and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of sp ace-borne and ground-based technological systems and can endanger human li fe or health”.  In particular\, Space Weather is the cause of the most significant errors experienced by GNSS and their users since through its e ffects on the ionosphere\, it represents the largest error contribution in the GNSS single-frequency positioning applications. The effects of space weather are more variable and highly unpredictable over the low latitude i onospheric regions\, where most of the sub-Saharan Developing Countries ar e located and where still limited efforts have been made to study the impa ct of Space Weather events on technological systems.Topics:\n • Global N avigation Satellite Systems generalities\n • Space Weather and Sun-Earth coupling\n • Ionospheric monitoring and modelling\n • Ionospheric irr egularities\n • Space weather services and programmesSpeakers:\n K. Alaz o\, ICTP\, Italy\n C. Amory-Mazaudie\, LPP-CNRS\, France\n P. Baki\, Techn ical University Kenya\n C. Cesaroni\, INGV\, Italy\n P. Doherty\, Boston C ollege\, USA\n S. Gadimova\, UNOOSA-ICG\, Vienna\n K. Groves\, Boston Coll ege\, USA\n J.B. Habarulema\, SANSA/AFIPS\, South Africa\n K. Kauristie\, FMI\, Finland\n Y. Migoya-Orue'\, ICTP\, Italy\n B. Nava\, ICTP\, Italy\n D. Okoh\, NASRDA\, Nigeria\n J.C. Olwendo\, Pwani University\, Kenya\n B. Rabiu\, NASRDA\, Nigeria\n S.M. Radicella\, ICTP\, Italy\n L. Spogli\, ING V\, Italy\n K. Venkatesh\, NARL\, IndiaRegistration:  There is no registr ation fee\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9621/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9621/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Strings 2021 | (smr 3619) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210621T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210702T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9648@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The conference will be broadcasted live at the ICTP* allowi ng to join the discussion from Trieste.To attend the live broadcasting at the ICTP in Trieste\, please request participation by e-mail smr3619@ictp. it.\n Seats are subject to availability.\n* Budinich Lecture Hall\n(Euler Lecure Hall on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 June )\n \n Please refer to th e following web page for the direct link to ICTP-SAIFR\, the detailed prog ramme and other information:https://www.ictp-saifr.org/strings2021/\n  \n \n//indico.ictp.it/event/9648/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9648/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:London Mathematical Laboratory Summer School | (smr 3598) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210705T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210730T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9545@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n The London Mathematical Laborator y (LML) is pleased to announce its 2021 Summer School. This will be held a s an ICTP Virtual school from 5 to 30 July 2021. The school engages postgr aduate students for a period of four weeks on research projects under the supervision of active research scientists.\n Each project addresses one or more open questions in order to expose students to the frontier of scient ific cross-disciplinary research in several fields (statistical physics\, systems ecology\, quantitative economics\, dynamical systems\, information and large deviation theory\, and neural networks). This provides a first hand experience of “research in action”\, where asking the right quest ions is at least as important as finding the right answers. Many previous students have found this a life changing experience that transformed their view of science as an activity and as a possible career.The list of proje cts:\n \n 1. Stability of ecosystems with a core-periphery structure2.  The evolution of income or wealth distribution with higher order autoregre ssive processes3. Exploring the Connections between Information Theory an d Ergodicity Economics Through the Lens of Inequality Measurement4. Grow th incidence curves in reallocating geometric Brownian motion5. Optimal a llocation and risk parity6. Time-average based saving versus Ensemble-ave rage based saving and the evolution of wealth distribution7. Learning ran dom dynamical systems from data8. Explainability and rationalization in d ecision theory: a coding theory approach9. Beyond Rational Herding10. Ve rifying interaction among different types of discrete events by using the multivariate Hawkes process11. Anomalous diffusion in random dynamical sy stems12. The trade-off between profit and time constraints and market imp act13. Large deviation theory in diluted random matrices14. Tackling Qua ntum Many-Body Systems with Artificial Neural Networks15. Experiments in e rgodicity16. Epidemic spreading models in the presence of feedback\n \n  \n\n\n Supervisors include LML Fellows and colleagues from the ICTP and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). Students will also attend a series of scientific lectures and a scientific writing course\, a nd the School will culminate with student presentations of their research. Project Supervisors:\n A. ADAMOU\, London Mathematical Laboratory\, UK\n \ n Y. BERMAN\, London Mathematical Laboratory\, UK\n \n J. BHASEEN\, King ’s College London\, UK\n F. CACCIOLI\, University College London\, UK\ n \n I.P. CASTILLO\, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana\, Mexico\n D. D E MARTINO\, Biofisika Institute - Ikerbasque\, Spain\n \n J. GRILLI\, ICT P\, Italy\n \n O. HULME\, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre\, Denma rk\n \n R. KANBUR\, Cornell University\, USA\n \n M. KIRSTEIN\, London M athematical Laboratory\, UK\n \n R. KLAGES\, Queen Mary University of Lon don\, UK\n \n J. LAMB\, Imperial College\, UK\n \n S. LUZZATTO\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n M. MARSILI\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n L.F. METZ\, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul\, Brazil\n \n O. PETERS\, London Mathematical Labor atory\, UK\n \n S. RUFFO\, SISSA\, Italy\n \n Y. SATO\, Hokkaido Univer sity\, Japan\n \n M. WERNER University of Bristol\, UK\n \n J. ZHUANG IS M\, Japan\n Grants: London Mathematical Laboratory intends to provide a g rant of 500 EUR to all selected participants. Further information will be provided in due course.Registration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\ n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9545/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9545/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Trieste Algebraic Geometry Summer School (TAGSS) 2021 - Hyperkähl er and Prym varieties: classical and new results | (smr 3609) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210719T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210723T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9610@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n Hyperkähler manifolds are a clas s of manifolds with vanishing first Chern class\, constituting an active a rea of current research.  Another fundamental problem concerns moduli spa ce of polarized abelian varieties\, studied via Prym varieties and the Pry m map to the moduli of abelian varieties.\n\n  \n\n Hyperkähler manifold s\, an overview and some open problems\n\n  \n\n Hyperkähler manifolds a re mainly characterized by their second cohomology. The period maps from t he moduli spaces of hyperkähler manifolds to the period domains of their second cohomology are surjective\, which is a rare phenomenon happening al most exclusively in weight 1 and weight 2.\n\n The course will give an int roduction to hyperkähler manifolds and their known examples\, survey some of the known results\, and present some open problems. In the examples\, interesting connections between hyperkähler manifolds\, Fano manifolds an d abelian varieties will be shown.\n\n  \n\n Prym varieties\n\n  \n\n Th e course we will review the classical theory and recent advances on Prym v arieties and the Prym map\, with special focus on the low genera cases whi ch display beautiful geometry. The moduli aspect and the appearances of Pr ym varieties in other mathematical contexts will also be discussed.\n\n   \n\n Topics:\n\n Characterization of hyperkähler manifolds via their coh omology\n \n Period maps from the moduli spaces of hyperkähler manifolds to the period domains of their second cohomology\n \n Connections betwee n hyperkähler manifolds\, Fano manifolds and abelian varieties\n \n Fano manifolds\n \n Abelian varieties and Polarized abelian varieties\n \n P rym varieties and the Prym map: classical theory and applications\n\n Spea kers:\n E. IZADI\, University of California\, San Diego\, USA\n A. ORTEGA\ , Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, GermanyAdditional:\n Contributed talks : Participants interested in giving a short communication are invited to s ubmit an abstract.Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/9610/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9610/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:6th Biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Application s | (smr 3610) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210719T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210730T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9612@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The aim of the Biennial Africal School of Fundamental Ph ysics and Application is to build capacity to harvest\, interpret\, and ex ploit the results of current and future physics experiments and to increas e proficiency in related applications.\n Due to Covid-19 pandemic\, the 20 20 edition of ASP had to be postponed. It is now being organized in a virt ual format: from 19 to 30 July 2021\, online lectures\, tutorials and work shops will be held for selected students from all over Africa.\nMain topic s:\n Nuclear and Particle Physics\;\n \n Astrophysics and Cosmology\;\n \n Accelerators\, Radiation and Medical Physics\;\n \n Materials Physics \, Nanoscience\;\n \n Biophysics\, Fluid and Plasma Physics\, Atomic & Mo lecular Physics\;\n \n Light Sources and Neutron Sources\;\n \n Theoreti cal & Applied Mechanics\, Earth Science\;\n \n Physics Education\;\n \n Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency.\n\n \n Please visit the website of the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications for further details.\n\nThe Scientific Programme of ASP 2021 is available here.\n\n//i ndico.ictp.it/event/9612/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9612/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:EAUMP-ICTP School: Topics in Concrete Mathematics | (smr 3604) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210811T070000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210820T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9669@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:This is an EMA (Ecole Mathematique Africaine) School of CIMPA. \n This hybrid School is nominally based at the ICTP-East African Institut e for Fundamental Research [EAIFR] in Kigali\, Rwanda\; it will offer stud ents concrete and effective mathematical tools from algebra\, group theory and geometry that can be applied to any scientific field.\n Consisting of 8 working days 12-15 August and 17-20 August\, with one rest day the  2+ 2 courses shall be running concurrently. Lectures will be given remotely b y video link.Description of Courses:\nWEEK 1 [12-15 August] R. K. Ramakris hna: Class numbers of number rings A. Taribi: Group representation theory and combinatoricsWEEK 2 [17-20 August]: C. Kurujyibwami / B. Szendroi: Lie algebras K. Wendland: Modular forms\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9669/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9669/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AGRA IV (Arithmetic\, Groups and Analysis) - Part I (smr 3617) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210816T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210820T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9617@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An IMPA - ICTP Online School -  held in Spanish and Portugues e\n The AGRA series of summer schools (Santiago de Chile\, 2012\; Cusco\, 2015\; Córdoba\, 2018) has as its goal to foster the development of numbe r theory in Latin America: it provides a formative experience for young re searchers\, and it also brings together senior and mid-career mathematicia ns working in the field. The primary languages for this event are going to be Spanish and Portugese.\nDescription:\n The target audience of AGRA inc ludes undergraduate students\, graduate students and young researchers wit h a serious interest in number theory and neighboring fields. The AGRA IV has been divided into two parts: part 1 is this online school in August 20 21\, while part 2 is preliminarily scheduled to take place in the first se mester of 2022 in Cabo Frio\, Brazil. The adjoined list of topics is repre sentative of the two parts. The AGRA series has traditionally been held in Spanish but\, this time\, Spanish and Portuguese will share a role as pri mary languages of the school. Part 1 will consist of 4 minicourses deliver ed by a pool of distinguished mathematicians\, followed by tutorials and p roblem sessions.\n  \nTopics:\n• Arithmetic geometry\n• Group approxi mations\n• Arithmetic combinatorics\n• Mahler measure\n• Model theor y\n• Square-tiled surfaces\n• Analytic methods in number theoryProgram me:Minicourse 1:\nIntroducción al análisis de Fourier de orden superior\ n(Introduction to higher order Fourier analysis)\n• Julia Wolf (Cambridg e\, UK)\n• Pablo Candela (UAM / ICMAT\, Spain)SyllabusMinicourse 2:\nSup erficies racionales sobre un cuerpo\n(Rational surfaces over a field)\n• Tony Varilly-Alvarado (Rice\, USA)\n• Damiano Testa (Warwick\, UK)Sylla busMinicourse 3:\nCombinatória de superfícies quadriculadas e geometria de espaços de módulos\n(Combinatorics of lattice surfaces and geometry o f moduli spaces)\n• Carlos Matheus (École Polytechnique / CNRS\, France )\n• Vincent Delecroix (Bordeaux / CNRS\, France)SyllabusMinicourse 4: \ nNormativa para Ecuaciones diofantinas con pocas soluciones\n(Diophantine equations with few solutions)• Hector Pasten (PUC\, Chile)SyllabusRegist ration:  There is no registration fee\n \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9617/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9617/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The CODATA RDA Research Data Science Summer School | (smr 3615) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210906T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211119T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9638@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n This school provides Early Career Researchers (at MSc-level to 3 years after their PhD) and Professionals w ith the necessary set of foundational Data Science skills to enable them t o analyse their data in an efficient and effective manner for the 21st cen tury.\n\n  \n\n The material covered here is fundamental to all areas of Data Science and hence open to researchers from all disciplines that deal with significant amounts of data. The focus is to provide a practical intr oduction to these topics with extensive labs and seminars.\n\n  \n\n Topi cs:\n\n Open Science and Responsible Conduct of Research\n \n Introducti on to Unix Shell\n \n Programming for Analysis\n \n Git\n \n Research D ata Management\n \n Author Carpentry\n \n Data Visualisation\n \n Infor mation Security\n \n Machine Learning\n \n Computational Infrastructures \n\n  \n\n The school will be run on an online basis. Participants will b e allowed seven days (a week) to complete each topic. Generally the partic ipant would need to make provision for at least seven to eight hours to wo rk through the content of the theme. The content also makes provision for practical exercises and at least one live question and answer session wher e facilitators will address concerns participants may have. Content will b e provided as video lectures as well as presentation slides.Registration: there is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9638/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9638/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Statistical Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 3624) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210908T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210910T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9625@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Conference is live-streamed on the ICTP YouTube page at the following link:\n \n http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRwcSE2bm yBxCM3ZHnFYLBZcijJ0yR_dI\n \n This is the 3rd conference on Statistical Ph ysics organised under the auspices of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Ph ysics Division\, during which the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Pr ize will be awarded.\n  \n\n The previous conferences took place in 2019 at Nordita\, Stockholm and in 2017 in Krakow.\n\n \n The conference is pla nned to take place in hybrid format. The on-site program will take place a t SISSA campus at Miramare\, Via Beirut\, 2-4\, I - 34151 Trieste (Italy). \n\n The EPS conference on Statistical Physics of Complex systems will hel p to connect the European community of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics t o the one in developing countries. A special effort in this respect will b e made in this activity by building bridges on statistical physics with re searchers from developing countries. To this aim\, there will be ample opp ortunity for informal discussions and interdisciplinary interaction betwee n people from different scientific backgrounds within the broad area of st atistical and nonlinear physics. A session of the Conference will be devot ed to the prestigious junior and senior prizes of the EPS Statistical Nonl inear Physics Division\, which were created and awarded for the first time in 2017 at the Marian Smoluchowki Symposyum in Krakow.\nTopics: \n Activ e matter\n \n Complex networks\n \n Disordered quantum systems and spin glasses\n \n Interdisciplinary applications in physics\, biology\, econom ics\, and the social sciences.\n \n Nonlinear dynamical systems\, chaos a nd turbulence\n \n Phase transitions and critical phenomena\n \n Stochas tic modelling\n \n Stochastic Thermodynamics\n \n Theory and application s of Machine Learning\nSpeakers: \nA. ALTIERI\, Paris University\, France\ nC. ANTENEODO\, PUC Rio De Janeiro\, Brasil\nA. AUFFEVES\, Institut Neel\, France\nU. BASU\, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences\, India  \nR. BURIONI\, Parma University\, Italy\nG. CIMINI\, University of Rome To r Vergata\, Italy\nD. DEAN\, Bordeaux University\, France\nG. GONNELLA\, B ari University\, Italy\nR. HARRIS\, Queen Mary University London\, UK\nE. INACK\, Perimeter Institute\, Canada\nK. KANEKO\, University of Tokyo\, Ja pan\nN. MERHAV\, Technion\, Israel\nD. SAAD\, Aston University\, UK\nU. SE IFERT\, Stuttgart University\, Germany\nD. M SHADRACK\, University of Tanz ania\, Tanzania\nJ. SULKOWSKA\, University of Warsaw\, Poland\nH. TOUCHETT E\, Stellenbosch University\, South Africa\nF. VAN WIJLAND\, Paris Univers ity\, France\nG. VOLPE\, University of Gothenburg\, SwedenThe Board of the  EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division is pleased to announce t he winners of the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize 2021.Registr ation: There is no registration fee for online participation.\n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/9625/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9625/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-SISSA-CECAM Workshop on Molecular Dynamics and its Applicatio ns to Biological Systems | (smr 3627) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210913T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210917T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9641@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP-SISSA-CECAM Virtual Meeting\n There continues to be a growing community of scientists in both the developed and developing world \, interested in and working on applications of molecular dynamics techniq ues to understand biological systems. This is highly relevant for problems in health and medicine.\n\n  \n\n This virtual gathering is aimed at bri nging together both current students and alumni of SISSA and ICTP working in the broad area of atomistic simulations as applied to biological system s. This event will include introductory lectures to various aspects of bio molecular simulations\, research talks by alumni working both in academia and industry and highlights of the research at SISSA and ICTP delivered by young researchers. This virtual activity is structured to enhance informa l social interactions which will take place through the gather.town platfo rm.\n\n Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/9641/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9641/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Course on Theoretical Foundations and Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Nuclear Engineering | (smr 3640) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210913T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210917T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9658@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n ​The course will provide g raduate students and professionals with theoretical foundations and exampl es for application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling in nucl ear engineering. The need for high fidelity nuclear reactor thermal hydrau lic simulations has led to increased application of the CFD codes that are prevailing substitute of currently established one dimensional system the rmal hydraulics codes and coarse mesh sub-channel analyses codes. Therefor e\, CFD constitutes the “third approach” in the philosophical study an d development of the whole discipline of fluid dynamics. Combining the pow er of experimentation and theory\, this approach has made possible the acc ounting of flow fields in complex geometries. This course will outline the se aspects and provide the participants with hands-on examples.\n\n  \n\n The course will build a theoretical understanding on the science of CFD a nd its applications in nuclear engineering supported by various hands-on p ractical examples. Knowledge transfer will be facilitated between the inte rnational experts as lecturers\, and students\, professionals and engineer ing analysists\, as participants. Given that the CFD codes\, which have em pirical models for simulating heat transfer\, turbulence\, single-phase an d multi-phase flow\, are currently available along with general applicatio n-oriented training in their use\, the focus of this course is on providin g the required background about the embedded models with the goal to impro ve the participants’ theoretical foundation for CFD applications in the area of nuclear engineering.\n\n  \n\n Along with the theoretical lecture s and hands-on learning examples\, the course will include comprehensive o verview of the history of CFD development and its applications in nuclear engineering\, including development\, status\, and challenges.\n\n  \n\n As part of the application\, participants should submit min 1-page to max 2-page original essay\, covering one of the course topics of their choice. The best five essays will be selected for participants to present at spec ially designated session (for which they will need to develop up to 10 sli des and present in no longer than 10min time slot) – other participants and lecturers will be asked to vote. At the closing of the course\, the or ganizer will announce the best voted presenter.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n1. His tory and theory of computational fluid dynamics\n    1.1 Brief review of vector calculus and discretization process with emphasis on domain and ph ysical modelling of phenomena\n    1.2 Navier Stokes governing equations \n    1.3 Finite volume method and two-phase approximations in CFD\n    1.4 Mathematical and numerical solution methods\n2. Basics of turbulenc e modelling – from RANS to DNS\n3. Application of CFD codes in nuclear r eactor design and safety analysis\n4. Multi-scale approach to nuclear reac tor analysis: system analysis approach vs CFD approach\n5. Uncertainty qua ntification and error analysis\n6. Hands on session: Mesh generation and s imulation using OpenFOAM\n\n Lecturers:\n D. BESTION\, CEA\, France\n \n E. FREDERIX\, NRG\, Netherlands\n \n A. GERSCHENFELD\, CEA\, France\n \n G. GIUSTINI\, Imperial College London\, UK\n \n Y. HASSAN\, Texas A&M\, USA\n \n S. KELM\, FZJ\, Germany\n \n B. KHUWAILEH\, University of Sh arjah\, UAE\n \n A. MANERA\, ETH Zurich\, Switzerland\n \n E. MERZANI\,  Pennsylvania State University\, USA\n V. PETROV\, PSI Switzerland\n \n K.R. QURAISHI\, PIEAS\, Pakistan\n \n F. ROELOFS\, NRG\, Netherlands\n \n Y. SATO\, Paul Scherrer Institute\, Switzerland\n \n H. YUAN\, ANL \, USA\n Registration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/9658/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9658/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Dosimetry in Radionuclide Therapy and Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine | (smr 3570) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210920T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211001T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9593@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n \n In recent years\, there has been an increase of therapeutic applications using radiopharmaceuticals. T his workshop\, which is intended for clinically qualified medical physicis ts with experience in radionuclide therapy\, will provide the participants with a comprehensive review of the developments in the field of nuclear m edicine image quantification and practical internal dosimetry.\n\n  \n\n The purpose of this workshop is to contribute to the knowledge of clinical ly qualified medical physicists in nuclear medicine by providing theoretic al and practical tools for internal dosimetry. Molecular radiotherapy has demonstrated unique therapeutic advantages in the treatment of an increasi ng number of cancer types. Such treatments can deliver high absorbed doses to specific targets (tumour lesions) and healthy organs (organs at risk) and\, thus\, require a patient specific dose assessment. These calculation s would help to optimize the amount of radioactivity to be administered an d to reduce the risk of under- or over-dosing patients\, otherwise observe d when using empirical approaches to activity determination. As part of th e selection\, candidates will be requested to undertake a written test.\n\ n \n The workshop is under the umbrella of ICTP and IAEA and is expected t o strengthen the knowledge of clinically qualified medical physicists work ing in nuclear medicine. The expected audience are clinically qualified me dical physicists working in a hospital\, with at least 5 years’ experien ce in the field of nuclear medicine medical physics including radionuclide therapy. \n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Introduction to radiopharmaceutical do simetry and MIRD formalism\n \n Time integrated activity coefficient calc ulation\n \n Radiation transport and energy deposition\n \n ICRP Interna l dose coefficient for radiological protection\n \n Y-90 microspheres dos imetry\n \n Bone seeking radiopharmaceuticals (including Ra223 therapy)\n \n Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy\n \n I131 therapy\n \n Radiat ion safety for staff and the public in therapeutic nuclear medicine\n\n Le cturers:\n M. BARDIES\, Cancer Research Institute of Montpellier U1194 INS ERM/ICM/Montpellier University\, France\n W. BOLCH\, Advanced Laboratory f or Radiation Dosimetry Studies\, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Bi omedical Engineering\, University of Florida\, USA\n C. CHIESA\, Fondazion e IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori\, Milano\, Italy\n M. CREMONESI\, Istitu to Europeo di Oncologia\, IRCCS\, Milano\, Italy\n L. FERRER\, ICO René G auducheau\, Saint Herblain\, France\n F. GIAMMARILE\, IAEA\, Austria\n G. GLATTING\, Abteilung für Nuklearmedizin | Medizinische Strahlenphysik\, U niversity Ulm\, Ulm\, Germany\n R. HOBBS\, Department of Radiation Oncolog y and Molecular Radiation Sciences Johns Hopkins Medical Institution\, Bal timore\, USA\n M. LASSMANN\, Department of Nuclear Medicine\, University H ospital Würzburg\, Würzburg\, Austria\n G. LORETI\, IAEA\, Austria\n L. STRIGARI\, Department of Medical Physics\, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Unive rsitaria di Bologna\, Italy\n A. VERGARA-GIL\, CRCT\, Toulouse\, FranceReg istration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9593/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9593/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Virtual Workshop on Atomistic Modelling of Radiati on Damage in Nuclear Systems | (smr 3573) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211004T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211008T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9547@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n This virtual workshop will assi st Ph.D. students and early-career researchers in developing a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the atomistic modelling of radiation da mage on materials\, both for existing fission and proposed fusion reactors .\n Atomistic modelling is the simulation of the behaviour of complex syst ems by explicitly taking its smallest constituent parts into account. In t he context of radiation damage in nuclear materials\, these simulations in volve the bulk and surface atoms of reactor components and their interacti ons with energetic neutrons and plasma in the form of free atoms\, molecul es and ions. The computational techniques employed include molecular dynam ics\, rate theory equations\, density functional theory\, and a variety of Monte Carlo methods\; this Workshop provides an introduction to some popu lar software used to implement these techniques\, with practical sessions on the free packages LAMMPS and SRIM.\n\nMore details are available at IAE A web site: https://amdis.iaea.org/workshops/ictp-2021Topics:\n Irradiat ed material: defect and cascade production\n \n Damage dose-rate\, energi es\, and atomic displacement\n \n Neutron-induced material defect simulat ion\n \n Theoretical modelling of radiation effects\n \n Plasma-surface interaction: erosion and surface-evolution studies\n \n Hydrogen isotope deposition\, trapping and permeation in fusion-relevant materials.\nSpeake rs:\nT. AHLGREN\, University of Helsinki\, Finland\nM. J. CATURLA\, Univer sity of Alicante\, Spain\nP. DERLET\, Paul Scherrer Institute\, Switzerlan d\nF. GRANBERG\, University of Helsinki\, Finland\nD. MASON\, UKAEA\, UK\n A. SAND\, Aalto University\, Finland\nK. SCHMID\, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics\, Germany\nU.V. TOUSSAINT\, Max Planck Institute for Plasm a Physics\, GermanyRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/9547/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9547/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Course on Nuclear–Renewable Integrated Energy Sy stems: Phenomenology\, Research and Development | (smr 3641) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211004T090000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211008T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9659@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n This course will provide lec tures and exercises on the phenomenology\, research and development addres sing new concepts in nuclear–renewable integrated energy systems (N-R IE Ss) for decarbonized energy production and cogeneration and share the know ledge on these technologies\, designs and related innovations. Based on re cent scientific novelties and research-supported analyses inclusive of the overview of the supporting numerical methods and codes to model such syst ems\, the course will provide unique hands-on opportunities using the IAEA learning tools such as but not limited to E-learning modules and basic pr inciple simulators. The scope of this course’s activities is selected on the basis of its importance to the international energy community with sp ecial emphasis on bringing together young professionals from developing an d developed countries\, and in increasing the participation of women scien tists and engineers.\n\n  \n\n Nuclear–renewable integrated energy syst em (N-R IES) represents an integrated energy system encompassing nuclear p ower reactor(s)\, a composite of renewable energy sources\, and industrial processes that can simultaneously address the need for electricity and he at\, grid flexibility\, optimal use of investment capital and ultimately c limate change mitigation. With more than 170 parties having ratified the P aris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Ch ange\, interest has increased in finding viable\, financially sound and in tegrated solutions for providing low carbon\, affordable\, resilient energ y production for generation of electricity\, chemicals\, process heat and fuels. Two principal options for low carbon energy are renewables\, includ ing hydropower and nuclear energy. There is an increased awareness in expl oring this synergy of two with an accelerated interest in Member States on understanding the physics fundamentals of such systems\, technical/instit utional gaps and needs for innovation.\n\n  \n\n The course is intended t o combine pedagogical materials with advanced research results and provide hands-on exercises using the IAEA basic principle simulators and E-learni ng modules. Thus\, the course will provide a transfer of specific knowledg e from international experts’ to young professionals and engineering ana lysts coming from nuclear regulatory agencies\, academia\, research instit utes and/or private companies of the IAEA Member States in supporting thei r national human capacity development. Specifically\, the course will cont ribute to a better understanding of the phenomenology and relevant R&D to enhance the capabilities and identify opportunities\, gaps and challenges based on four-quadrant matrix (nuclear & renewables // heat & electricity) addressing reactor technologies (impacts to design phase\; design innovat ion)\, enabling technologies (understanding of water chemistry\, siting\, dry versus wet cooling designs\, etc.)\, as well as interfaces and integra tion schemes.\n\n  \n\n As part of the application\, participants should submit min 1-page or max 2-page original essay\, covering one of the cours e topics of their choice. The top five essays will be selected\, and autho rs will prepare a 10-minute slide-presentation. The lecturers and particip ants will vote\, and the best presenter will be announced at the closing o f the course.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n  \n\n Introduction\n\n Physics of w ater-cooled reactors (WCRs) and small modular reactors (SMRs) of relevance to N-R IES\n \n Physics of renewable energy systems of relevance to N-R IES\n\n  \n\n Phenomenology of N-R IES\n\n Nuclear power technology clas sification\n \n Renewable technologies\n \n Base-load and load-follow op erations of nuclear power plants\n \n N-R IES coupling scenarios: loosely coupled vs tightly coupled systems\n\n  \n\n Phenomenology of Technologi cal Challenges with Case Studies\n\n Tightly coupled N-R HESs that have a single energy generation source (the nuclear reactor) and multiple energy products (electricity and a second product)\n \n Multiple resources that generate electricity and microgrids focusing on other opportunities that produce electricity exclusively\n \n Techno-economic analyses\n \n Techn ical gaps and challenges\, R&D and deployment prospective\n\n \n Uniquely to this course\, the participants will have the opportunity for hands-on l earning of relevant phenomena covered during the lectures using the IAEA l earning tools and recently published documentation on close relevance to t he course topics.Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/9659/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9659/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Radiation Protection in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine | (smr 3633) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211011T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211015T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9654@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n The workshop aims to enhance kn owledge on safety standards and good practice for radiation protection of patients and staff in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine\, thus c ontributing to reducing risks and strengthening safety culture while deliv ering high quality medical services.\n\n  \n\n Nuclear medicine procedure s for diagnostic and therapy are rapidly growing\, and the access to them improves worldwide. Along with the substantial benefits for patients\, the introduction of new technologies\, new procedures or new radiopharmaceuti cals poses new radiation protection challenges and risks for unintended or accidental exposures of patients or staff members. The workshop will supp ort knowledge exchange for ensuring safe use of nuclear medicine methods f or diagnosis and treatment\, in line with the International Basic Safety S tandards (GSR Part 3) and good international practice.\n\n The workshop se eks to target qualified clinical medical physicists with at least five yea rs of experience in nuclear medicine. It is particularly relevant to candi dates from departments that intend to introduce new methods and new radiop harmaceuticals into clinical use. Participants will be requested to presen t the radiation protection programme of their departments.\n\n  \n\n Topi cs:\n\n Planning of nuclear medicine facility and shielding calculations\ ;\n \n Management of radioactive material and radiation waste in nuclear medicine\;\n \n Workplace and personal dose monitoring\;\n \n Radiation protection during production and administration of radiopharmaceuticals\;\ n \n Practical methods for optimization of radiation protection of patien ts and staff\; \n \n Radiation protection in therapy with classical and new radiopharmaceuticals\;\n \n Criteria for release of patients after di agnostic and therapy and associated measures\;\n \n Nuclear medicine proc edures during pregnancy and breastfeeding\;\n \n Prevention and managemen t of incidents\;\n \n Incident reporting and learning\; \n \n Safety cu lture.\nSpeakers:\n\n O. BELYAKOV\, IAEA\, Austria\n \n S. CHAUVIE\, EFO MP\, Italy\n \n J. KURTH\, EANM\, Germany\n \n S. LEIDE-SVEGBORN\, Lund University\, Sweden\n \n M. MARENGO\, AOSP\, Italy\n \n J. VASSILEVA\, I AEA\, Austria\n\n Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n  \n\n// indico.ictp.it/event/9654/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9654/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IUGG Workshop on Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems in Geophysical Sciences | (smr 3607) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211018T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211029T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9609@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP-IUGG Virtual meeting\n The Workshop will discuss state -of-the-art\, applications and perspectives of data assimilation and inver se problems in geophysical sciences. World leading scientists will be attr acted to the program to present and discuss these topics in relation to sp ecific geophysical disciplines.\n\n  \n\n Understanding the complex opera tion of the Earth system requires an interdisciplinary approach and intern ational collaboration. Data assimilation and modern methods of solving inv erse problems provide unique opportunities to exploit such approach and co llaboration by integrating data and information from disciplinary sources. These techniques become major forecasting tools in meteorology\, oceanogr aphy\, atmospheric chemistry\, hydrology\, and recently they started to be applied to solid Earth problems. The workshop organized jointly by the In ternational Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)\, ICTP\, and EAIFR will discuss applications of data assimilation and inverse problem methodologi es to specific geophysical fields. The related scientific progress may con tribute to the solutions of major societal challenges\, such as climatic a nd environmental changes\, disaster risk reduction\, and sustainability. P hD students\, postdocs\, and advanced practitioners are encouraged to atte nd the workshop.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Inverse problems\n \n Data assim ilation\n \n Atmospheric sciences and meteorology\n \n Oceanography\n \n Climatology\n \n Hydrology and cryospheric sciences\n \n Geodynamics a nd seismology\n \n Volcanology\n \n Geodesy\n \n Geomagnetism and aeron omy\n\n Lecturers:\n F. CASTELLI\, University of Florence\, Florence\, Ita ly\n K. CHANARD\, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris\, France\n A. FIC HTNER\, ETH Zürich\, Switzerland\n A. FOLCH\, Geosciences Barcelona\, CSI C\, Barcelona\, Spain\n C. GRUDZIEN\, University of Nevada\, Reno\, USA\n K. GWIRTZ\, University of California\, San Diego\, USA\n A. ISMAIL-ZADEH\, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology\, Germany and Russian Academy of Scienc es\, Moscow\, Russia\n D. JONES\, University of Toronto\, Canada\n S.M. LE E\, Seoul National University\, Republic of Korea\n M. MOORKAMP\, Ludwig M aximillian University\, Munich\, Germany\n M. SAMBRIDGE\, Australian Natio nal University\, Canberra\, Australia\n A. SHAPOVAL\, HSE University\, Mos cow\, Russia\n V. TITOV\, NOAA\, Seattle\, USARegistration: There is no re gistration fee.\n  \n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9609/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9609/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SciTinyML: Scientific Use of Machine Learning on Low-Power Devices | (smr 3612) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211018T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211022T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9622@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n \n TinyML enables machine learn ing technologies to perform on-device analytics of sensor data at extremel y low power. This allows for new scientific applications to be developed a t an extremely low cost and at large scale.\n \n  \n \n In recent years \, hardware advancements have made it possible for microcontrollers to per form calculations much faster. Improved hardware has made it easier for de velopers to build programs on these devices. Perhaps the most important tr end for scientists has been the rise of tiny machine learning\, or TinyML. \n \n  \n \n Between hardware advancements and the TinyML community’s recent innovations in machine learning\, it is now possible to run increa singly complex deep learning models directly on microcontrollers. TinyML r epresents a collaborative effort between the embedded power systems and m achine learning communities\, which traditionally have operated independen tly.\n \n  \n \n Topics:\n \n ML general concepts\n \n Scientific Applications of ML\n \n Introduction to TinyML\n \n Examples of Tiny ML applications\n \n Speakers:\n \n B. PLANCHER\, Harvard University\, U SA\n \n V.J. REDDI\, Harvard University\, USA\n \n M. ROVAI\, UNIFEI\, B razil\n \n S. STINCKWICH\, United Nations University Institute in Macau\, China\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9622/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9622/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP\, SAIFR and UNESP School on Systems-on-Chip\, Embedded Microcontrollers and their Applications in Research and Industry | (smr 35 57) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211018T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211029T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9644@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n The School will focus on the deve lopment of scientific instrumentation based on fully programmable Systems- on-Chip (SoC) and embedded microcontrollers. The aim is to provide appropr iate methodological practices and key know-how to effectively take advanta ge of this technology for applications in research and industry.\n  \n\n Modern SoC are extremely exible and performant devices\, being able to run traditional software in their powerful microprocessors and make use of th e high-performance logic of their FPGA fabric. The characteristic versatil ity of this technology is a key aspect in allowing the implementation of a dvanced instruments\, and is often essential for applications that require parallel data acquisition\, real-time processing and high-speed data tran smission.\n\n \n Microcontrollers are widely used in different areas such as consumer electronics\, and industrial and scientific applications. They integrate energy-efficient processing cores with application-specific per ipherals in a compact device. They are used for control in many scientific instruments\, and for low-to mid-performance data acquisition up to the o peration of complete instruments in simpler applications.\n Participants w ill be familiarized with professional software design tools and hardware p latforms through theoretical lectures\, demonstrations\, tutorials and pra ctical exercises\, and will apply the acquired knowledge in projects. In a ddition\, they will be introduced to an open-source SoC-FPGA firmware plat form\, providing a well-tested interface with the control computer.\n Lect ures will be held daily from 1pm to 5pm CET.  Discussions will be held us ing an online collaboration platform.  Candidates that need to use SoC-FP GA and embedded microcontrollers for their research projects are especiall y encouraged to apply.\nTopics:\n• Systems-on-Chip: Architecture and Des ign Methodology\n• Hardware/Software Interface Design\n• VHDL for FPGA design\, Modeling and Logic Synthesis\n• Embedded Microcontrollers: Arc hitecture and Common Peripherals\n• Programming in Bare-Metal and Real-t ime Operating Systems\n• Design Automation Tools and High Level Synthesi s\n• FPGA for Acceleration of Arti cial Intelligence and\n          Machine Learning Algorithms\n• Real-time Data Acquisition\, Processin g and Transmission\n \n \n \n Directors:NATHAN BERKOVITS\, ICTP-SAIF R\, Brazil\n LUIGI CALLIGARIS\, NCC UNESP\, Brazil\n ANDRES CICUTTIN \, ICTP\, Italy\n MARIA LIZ CRESPO\, ICTP\, Italy SERGIO NOVAES\, NCC U NESP\, Brazil ICTP Scientific Contact:MARIA LIZ CRESPO\, ICTP\, ItalyUNESP Organizing Committee:LUIGI CALLIGARIS\, NCC UNESP\, Brazil\n ANDRE CAS CADAN\, NCC UNESP\, Brazil\n THIAGO TOMEI FERNANDEZ\, NCC UNESP\, Brazi l \n \n \n\n\nRegistration:  There is no registration fee\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/9644/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9644/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics | (smr 3629) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211018T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211022T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9650@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual MeetingThe School is live-streamed on the I CTP YouTube page at the following link: \n \n https://youtube.com/playli st?list=PL11nn_gZTAYqocHo8RuZR06ufPNT3rgdN\n \n ICTP's annual Spring Schoo l on Superstring Theory and Related Topics provides pedagogical treatment of those subjects through lectures by some of the world's top string theor ists. The activity is intended for theoretical physicists or mathematician s with knowledge of quantum field theory\, general relativity\, and string theory. It is organized in collaboration with the Italian Institute for N uclear Physics (INFN).\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Holography with Averaging\n \n Aspects of the Swampland\n \n Symmetries\, Anomalies and Topology\n\ n Lecturers:\n\n A. MALONEY\, McGill University\, Canada\n\n I. VALENZUELA \, Harvard University\, USA\n\n K. YONEKURA\, Tohoku University\, JapanReg istration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/96 50/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9650/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:8th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open Source Scientific Packages | (smr 3646) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211019T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211209T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9700@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n Writing software has become centr al to research in many fields of science. This school aims to give early-c areer 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 fundam ental skills in creating\, extending and collaborating on modular and reus able software.\nTopics:\n Effective collaborative development with multip le co-authors\n \n Python / shell scripts as glue code\n \n Modular\, re usable software design\n \n Software optimization\n \n Version control a nd release cycles\n \n Automated testing frameworks\n \n Structured docu mentation\n \n Management of open source scientific packages\n \n Contin uous integration & deployment\n \n Conversational development\nSpeakers:\ nA. CORBETTA\, Eindhoven University of Technology\, Netherlands\n\n A. FAR NUDI\, École normale supérieure de Lyon\, France & Sharif University of Technology\, Tehran\, Iran\n\n D. GRELLSCHEID\, University of Bergen\, Nor way & ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy\n\n S. HOLMGEIRSDOTTIR\, Sensar Marine\, Berg en\, Norway\n\n S. RICHTER\, University of Stockholm\, SwedenTutors:\n S. ALIEI\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n O.D. ARBELÁEZ ECHEVERRI\, Core of Science\, C olombia\n \n I. GIROTTO ICTP\, Italy\n C. JARNE\, Universidad Nacional d e Quilmes\, Argentina\n \n E. MENKAH KNUST\, Ghana\n \n W.F. OQUENDO\, U niversidad de la Sabana\, Colombia\n \n A. SARTORI\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n J .M. SOLANO-ALTAMIRANO\, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla\, Mexi co\n\nPrerequisite: Participants are expected to have some experience in a programming language\, this course is not suitable for beginners in progr amming.Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/eve nt/9700/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9700/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Generalized Cohomology and Physics | (smr 3631) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211102T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211104T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9639@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n The event will bring together physic ists working on various topics in physics that utilize generalized cohomol ogy theories\, as well as mathematicians working on functorial quantum fie ld theories and their classification\, topological modular forms\, cobordi sms\, and other cohomology theories that appear in physics problems.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Classification of symmetry protected topological state s (SPTs) and anomalies in QFTs via cobordisms\, with applications to conde nsed matter\, particle physics and beyond standard model theories. The mat hematical counterpart is classification of extended invertible topological QFTs\, defined on manifolds with various structures.\n \n Classification of supersymmetric QFTs via generalized cohomology theories such as KO (re al K-theory)\, TMF (topological modular forms)\, and their possible genera lizations. Construction of new renormalization group flow invariants gener alizing (flavored) Witten index.\n \n Swampland program and cobordisms. C obordisms with extra structures that appear in quantum gravity\, String th eory and M-theory.\n\n Speakers:\n D. BERWICK-EVANS\, University of Illino is\, USA\n \n G. BURATTI\, IFT\, Madrid\, Spain\n \n D. FREED\, Universi ty of Texas\, USA\n \n T. JOHNSON-FREYD\, Dalhousie University and Perime ter Institute\, Canada\n \n M. MONTERO\, Harvard University\, USA\n \n L . MÜLLER\, MPIM\, Bonn\, Germany\n \n L. STEHOUWER\, MPIM\, Bonn\, Germa ny\n \n M. YAMASHITA\, RIMS\, Kyoto University\, Japan\n \n K. YONEKURA\ , Tohoku University\, Japan\n Registration: there is no registration fee.\ n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9639/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9639/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA International School on Radioactive Waste Package Performance Testing | (smr 3636) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211102T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211122T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9656@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n Radioactive waste requires i mmobilization to meet the waste acceptance criteria (WAC) for storage and disposal. Waste package performance testing is critical aiming to confirm that the final waste package\, including the wasteform\, fulfils all the s pecified requirements as stated in the relevant WAC\, and to ensure long-t erm safety.\n Nuclear energy is a reliable solution to the finite energy s upply and climate change issues of fossil fuels. All Member States (MSs) t hat benefit from the peaceful uses of nuclear energy have radioactive wast e that must be managed in a way that it does not present a burden now and to future generations. Thus\, long-term durability of waste packages is a key parameter to ensure a high degree of safety during storage\, transport ation\, and disposal.\n The most practical approach to obtain a better un- derstanding of the durability of waste packages earmarked for disposal is to focus on performance testing of the wasteform itself\, its compatibili ty with the waste container\, and the influence of proposed geochemical di sposal conditions. Since the waste- form is considered the primary barrier for radionu-clide release\, the focus is on wasteform properties. This is particularly the case of many legacy and novel waste streams as well as f or the novel waste-forms devised to improve the retention of contam-inants \, where performance testing is necessary to approximate long term lifetim es.\n While it is recognised that short-term waste package performance tes ting does not accurately define long-term durability\, waste package perfo rmance testing results provide a first indication of relative long-term wa ste package performance and are therefore included in many repository wast e acceptance criteria.Specific topical areas within the scope of this work shop includes:\n  \n\n In dept description of international wasteform qu ality control protocols with illustrated examples (for instance water cont ent\, penetration\, viscosity\, leaching test\, differential thermal analy sis (DTA)\, flammability\, radiolysis and radiation durability)\n \n In d ept description of international waste container quality controls with ill ustrated examples (for instance mechanical tests\, corrosion and radiation resistance properties)\n \n International protocols regarding long-term durability determination of total waste package (for instance leaching\, m echanical strength\, transportation requirements\, radiation durability an d geochemical durability)\n \n Wasteform-waste container compatibility\n \n New testing protocol developments\nRegistration: There is no registrat ion fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9656/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9656/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:10th ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Model s | (smr 3575) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211108T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211112T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9643@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual Meeting \n \n This is the 10th workshop of the series on regional climate modeling and the ICTP RegCM modeling system. T he focus of the workshop will be on the testing and release of the 5th gen eration version of the model RegCM5\, which includes a new non-hydrostatic dynamical core.\n\n  \n\n The workshop will include theoretical and tuto rial lectures on regional climate modeling in general\, the history and pe rformance of the RegCM system\, its application to different CORDEX activi ties (CORDEX-CORE\, CORDEX FPS) and the structure of the new version RegCM 5. The participants will be requested to learn how to run the new model an d carry out short experiments over different domains\, possibly testing di fferent model components\, both at convection-permitting resolutions of a few km and coarser resolutions of a few tens of km.\n\n Topics:\n\n Regio nal climate modeling\n \n Added value of RCMs\n \n The Coordinated Regio nal Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)\n \n History of the regional modeling system RegCM\n \n Analyses of the recently completed CORDEX-CORE ensemble simulations\n \n Simulations at convection permitting scales\n \n The new dynamical core of RegCM5\nSpeakers:\n S. ABBA-OMAR\, ICTP\, It aly\n\n M. ASHFAQ\, ORNL\, USA\n\n M. BUKOVSKY\, NCAR\, USA\n\n T. CAVAZOS \, CICESE\, Mexico\n\n J. CIARLO\, OGS\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n R.P. DA ROCHA\, Universidade de Sao Paulo\, Brasil\n\n S. DAS\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n F. DI SAN TE\, OGS\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n O. DROFA\, CNR\, Italy\n\n G. GIULIANI\, ICTP\ , Italy\n\n R. GLAZER\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n E.-S. IM\, UST\, Hong-Kong\n\n M. LLOPART\, SPSU\, Brasil\n\n R.B. LUNA NIÑO\, CICESE\, Mexico\n\n S. MUEL LER\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n R. NOGHEROTTO\, OGS\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n M. G.-V. OJE DA\, INOGS\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n E. PICHELLI\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n W. SAWADOGO\, University of Augsburg\, Institute of Geography\, Germany\n\n J.A. TORRES -ALAVEZ\, ICTP\, Italy\nRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//i ndico.ictp.it/event/9643/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9643/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA College on the Evaluation of Cost Effective Energy Options as Nationally Determined Contributions for Climate Change Mitigat ion | (smr 3635) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211115T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211119T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9655@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n \n The College will provide ana lytical training and information on the assessment of energy system and en ergy technologies when developing Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the global climate treaty of Paris Agreement.\n  \n\n Transition t o low carbon economies depends heavily on actions within energy system\, a s the major source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG). There is a nee d to identify and evaluate cost-effective\, low-carbon energy demand and s upply paths of future.\n\n  \n\n The expertise to conduct such assessment s is lacking in many developing countries. The special tools and methodolo gies are needed to conduct assessments for developing realistic set on NDC s. This College will provide information about energy related climate and sustainable development issues and interlinkages\, and training on evaluat ion of NDCs. The College is aimed at improving knowledge and skills needed for assessment of various energy technologies in relation to climate chan ge and consequently provide national policy-makers with technically sound information.\n\n Topics:\n \n Climate change and sustainable development \n \n Energy demand and supply scenarios\n \n Enabling mechanisms fo r transition to low carbon energy options\n \n Methodological approache s for assessment of NDCs\n \n Case studies on assessment of NDCs\n \nRe gistration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9655/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9655/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Markov Partitions and Young Towers in Dynamics | (smr 3642) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211115T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211210T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9684@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLq_gUfXAnkm6iDpTP4q zbGbXJPyxt1nbhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLq_gUfXAnkk84vDzT4pPL IXgifiLkS3ghttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLq_gUfXAnkmuZtzDtmz6Sp1 dJJt_dEpY\n In the 1970s\, Sinai\, Ruelle\, and Bowen\, developed groundbr eaking new ideas and techniques which made it possible to apply the powerf ul results of Ergodic Theory to concrete\, and sometimes quite explicit\, differentiable dynamical systems. In particular they showed that smooth Un iformly Hyperbolic systems admit Markov Partitions\, from which one can ob tain a Symbolic Coding with a finite number of symbols. This Symbolic Codi ng makes it possible to apply methods from statistical mechanics to descri be the statistical properties of the system through the construction of a particular class of invariant measures which are now called Sinai-Ruelle-B owen (SRB) measures.\n Over the last 20 years there has been a huge progre ss in extending the results of Sinai\, Ruelle\, and Bowen\, to the much la rger class of more general (Nonuniformly) Hyperbolic systems\, including s ystems with discontinuities/singularities. The geometry of these systems i s much more complicated and one cannot expect to be able to code them with a symbolic dynamics with a finite number of symbols\, making them much mo re challenging to study. Two inter-related but distinct approaches have em erged. At the end of the 1990s\, Lai-Sang Young introduced a construction which is now generally refereed to as a Young Tower\, based on constructin g an induced uniformly hyperbolic system within the given system. More rec ently\, around 2013\, Sarig generalised the original Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen ap proach to construct infinite Markov Partitions. Both approaches have prove d quite powerful and have been used to construct SRB measures and to study their statistical properties in a number of classes of dynamical systems of great interest. On the other hand\, both approaches are also technicall y non-trivial and as a consequence\, notwithstanding the applications of b oth to similar systems and their inevitable underlying connections\, most researchers have developed an expertise in either one or the other. The ma in purpose of this event is to bring together experts in both areas in ord er to create opportunities to understand better the similarities and diffe rences between them\, and the advantages and disadvantages of the two appr oaches.\n The entire event will be held online with 2 mini courses by Jos é Ferreira Alves on Young Towers and Yuri Lima on Markov Partitions. Thes e mini-courses will be introductory and require only some familiarity with Uniformly Hyperbolic Dynamics and will be spread out over a period of 2 t o 3 weeks\, and be accompanied by some additional tutorial sessions\, in o rder to give participants time to actually study the material and consolid ate their knowledge. The mini courses will then be followed by a week of r esearch level seminars describing recent results on these topics.\n Mini-C ourse Lecturers:\n José Ferreira Alves\, U. of Porto\, Portugal\n Yuri Li ma\, UFC\, Brazil\n Speakers:\n Jerome Buzzi (Paris)\n Jianyu Chen (Soocho w U.)\n Sylvain Crovisier (Paris)\n Peyman Eslami (Rome)\n Carlos Matheus (Paris)\n Snir Ben Ovadia (Weizman)\n Yakov Pesin (Penn State)\n Vilton Pi nheiro (UFBA)\n Omri Sarig (Weizman)\n Agnieska Zelerowicz (U. Maryland)\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9684/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9684/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Career Development Workshop for Women in Physics | (smr 3614) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211117T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211119T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9675@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n \n Women remain a minority in the ph ysics community\, which can impede their career advancement. This workshop will bring together women physicists from all over the world to learn fro m one another's experiences and form a sense of community. In addition to talks and panel discussions\, the workshop will offer training sessions on crucial non-technical skills that women physicists may otherwise have les s opportunity to acquire than their male peers.\n\n  \n\n We hope the vir tual format will enable participation by individuals for whom attending an in-person workshop abroad is usually challenging\, even in ordinary times .\n\n  \n\n The Workshop is primarily aimed at women early in their scien tific career (e.g.\, postdocs and junior faculty members)\, but applicatio ns from those at other career stages will be considered.  \n\n  \n\n Thi s is part of a continuing series of workshops at ICTP. As applications exc eed capacity\, applications from those who have attended a previous worksh op in this series will be given lower priority.\n\n Topics will include:\n \n Keynote addresses from successful women physicists\n \n Writing CVs f or academic job applications\n \n Giving oral presentations about one’s work\n \n Writing articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals\n \ n The art of negotiation in an academic environment\n \n Building mentor networks and finding community\n \n Balancing personal and professional commitments \nSpeakers:\n J. BORNALES\, MSU-IIT\, Philippines\n R.S. CHIV UKULA\, University of California\, USA\n L. CHILUKURI\, University of Cali fornia\, USA\n\n E. COPPOLA\, ICTP\, Italy\n M.C. CYULINYANA National Coun cil for Science and Technology\, Rwanda\n V.M. DELMOTTE\, IPCC & Laborato ire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environment\, France\n\n A. GIRDHAR\, Harish Chandra Research Institute\, India\n\n M. GOPALAKRISHNA\, Parivart han\, India\n S. GRIFFIN\, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, USA\n S. GUPTA\, Panjab Unuiversity\, India\n\n N. GUPTE\, IIT Madras\, India\n\ n S.M. HAILE\, Northwestern University\, USA\n\n A. HATT\, Pacific Northwe st National Laboratory\, USA\n N. JAYARAJ\, The Life of Science\, India\n\ n K. KAUSHIK\, Savitribai Phule University\, India\n\n A.C.D. LOPEZ\, Fri tz Haber Institute\, GermanyS. MOHAMED\, South African Astronomical Observ atory & University of Cape Town\, South Africa\n\n S. NARASIMHAN\, Jawahar lal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research\, India\n C.A. RICO-YUSO N\, Central Mindanao University\, Philippines\n\n R.S. SAID\, Bayero Unive rsity\, Nigeria\n\n \n Y.E. SANCHEZ MENDOZA\, National University of Colo mbia\, USA\n \n D. SIDHAYE\, Savitribai Phule Pune University\, India\n \ n E. SIMMONS\, University of California\, USA\n \n S. TAJIMA\, Universit y of Osaka\, Japan\n\nRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/9675/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9675/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Light-matter Interactions from scratch: Theory and Experiments at the Border with Biology | (smr 3637) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211122T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211125T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9631@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n TO ALL PARTICIPANTS\n  \n\n Link to video recording of the workshop:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYc-eBoIpXTI2d_5Govhx2 7BS-3MKfR6v\n ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------\n\n \n This virtual Workshop will bring together young researchers from all over the world and established scientists working on the interaction of light with biological matter. A v ariety of perspectives will provide interdisciplinary contents of both int roductory and advanced nature.\n Multidisciplinarity\, theory and experime nts\, as well as different backgrounds are crucial to understanding the di versity of phenomena and the fundamental processes that govern the complex interaction of light with living matter.\n This online format is an adapt ation of the ICTP school and workshop originally planned in IISER\, Trivan drum\, India\, to promote scientific development and exchanges in the whol e area.The programme will include:\n • oral invited presentations by hig h-profile senior scientists\, covering introductory aspects and most recen t research developments\;\n • young researchers’ contributed talks\;\n • poster presentations through virtual poster sessions.Topics:\n • ad vanced spectroscopy and imaging to probe bio-interfaces\;\n • dynamical processes: electron and energy transfers\, quantum biology\;\n • excited states\, photophysics and photochemistry in biological matter.Preliminary list of speakers:\n Ellen Backus\, University of Wien\n Ross McKenzie\, U niversity of Queensland\n Henrik Ottosson\, Uppsala University\n Igor Scha piro\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\n Massimo Trotta\, Consiglio Naziona le delle Ricerche at Bari\n Julia Weinstein\, University of SheffieldCall for contributed posters / contributed talks:\n Applicants are encouraged t o present their work through posters or contributed talks. Candidates wish ing to do so will be requested to upload relevant abstracts in PDF format during application process. Please make sure you use our templates to gene rate such PDFs. Templates are available below for download.Online applicat ion is open (via the "Apply here" button).Deadline for application: 31 Oct ober 2021 (midnight\, Rome time)\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9631/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9631/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Medical Physics Aspects of Stereotacti c Radiotherapy Techniques | (smr 3566) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211206T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211210T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9537@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n Please note that the Workshop has been postponed to 2022 . We invite you to consult the ICTP Scientific Calendar for updated inform ation.\n There is an increasing number of requests from Member States for assistance in the introduction of stereotactic radiotherapy and radiosurge ry for intra-and extra-cranial targets. This workshop will assist clinical medical physicists to understand the complexities of this mode of radioth erapy.\n Modern radiotherapy has substantially increased the use of variou s forms of Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT)\, including Stereotactic Body R adiotherapy (SBRT) and Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS). For these techniqu es a high radiation dose is delivered in a reduced number of fractions. Th ese treatments are not only performed with specialized\, dedicated machine s\, but also with conventional\, non-dedicated linear accelerators equippe d with high resolution multi-leaf collimators.\n  \n\n In radiotherapy\, accurate dose delivered to the patient is essential. For conventional radi otherapy this has been achieved by internationally adopted codes of practi ce and standardized radiotherapy techniques. However\, many of these techn iques are not applicable for stereotactic radiotherapy. This course will i nstruct the participant on how to ensure the quality of stereotactic radio therapy to provide patients with safe and effective treatments.\n  \n\n T opics:\n\n Justification for using stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT)\n \n The physics of SRT with an emphasis on small field dosimetry\n \n Simulat ion and Treatment planning for SRT\n \n Treatment delivery of SRT to incl ude the technologies\, motion management and image guidance\n \n Radiobio logy of SRT including fractionation and dose constraints\n \n Audits\, Cl inical trials and quality control\n\n Lecturers:\n E. LINDBÄCK\, Karolins ka University Hospital\, Stockholm\, Sweden\n P. MANCOSU\, HUMANITAS Cance r Center\, Rozzano\, Italy\n T. RITTER\, McGuire VA Medical Center\, Richm ond\, USAPrerequisites:\n\n This workshop is for clinically qualified medi cal physicists (CQMPs as per IAEA publication HHS-25) from United Nations\ , UNESCO or IAEA Member States who hold a postgraduate-level university de gree\, preferably in medical physics. The candidate should also have at le ast 3 years working experience in a hospital and must participate in stere otactic radiotherapy in the clinic. Participants should have an understand ing of IAEA TRS-398\, "Absorbed dose determination in external beam radiot herapy" and IAEA TRS-483\, “Dosimetry of small static fields used in ext ernal beam radiotherapy”.\n The process of selection of participants mig ht include a mandatory written examination.\n The workshop will be benefic ial to clinically qualified medical physicists working in radiotherapy and employing treatment modalities using small fields such as SRT\, SBRT and SRS.Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/ 9537/ LOCATION:Seibersdorf\, Wien - Austria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9537/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications | (smr 3611) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211206T115000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211217T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9645@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n \n The School will introduce young s cientists to the design\, operation\, and research opportunities offered a t a modern synchrotron light source and how such sources are realized.\n\n  \n\n The school will be held over two weeks and will consist of three m odules: (1) the physical aspects concerning the design and function of the main components: accelerators\, insertion devices and beamline optics (2) an overview of the arguments that can be made in order to fund and build a synchrotron light source\, including socioeconomic benefit\, stakeholder engagement\, communication (3) Overview of common synchrotron light techn iques  including synchrotron infrared techniques and XANES/EXAFS.\n\n  \ n\n Topics:\n\n Fundamentals of synchrotron radiation from storage rings\ n \n Fundamentals of X-ray interactions with matter\n \n Design and oper ation of storage rings\n \n Beamline design: Photon transport and optics\ n \n Bending magnets and insertion devices\n \n Project management at a large facility\n \n Ancillary devices for light sources\n \n Socioeconom ic justification\n \n Cultural heritage\n \n Stakeholder engagement/comm unications\n \n Starting up user operations at a new facility\n \n Indus trial Applications\n \n IR microscopy\n \n Basics of X-ray crystallograp hy and powder diffraction\n \n Basics of structural biology\n \n Fundame ntals of X-ray absorption: EXAFS and XANES\n \n XRF\, TXRF\, GXRF and the ir applications in materials and life sciences\n \n Tomography\nSpeakers: \nM. ALTISSIMO\, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste\, Italy\n\n R. BARTOLINI\, DE SY\, Germany\n\n K. CHAPELLE\, American Museum of Natural History\, USA\n\ n T. D'ALMEIDA\, X-TechLab\, Benin\n\n S. DI MITRI\, Elettra Sincrotrone T rieste\, Italy\n\n A. FROIDEVAL\, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf\, G ermany\n\n J. GILLIES\, CERN\, Switzerland\n\n M. HARFOUCHE\, SESAME\, Jor dan\n G. IORI\, SESAME\, Jordan\n\n K. JAKATA\, ESRF\, France\n\n G. KAMEL \, SESAME\, Jordan\n\n L.U. KHAN\, SESAME\, Jordan\n\n K. KIEFER\, Helmhol tz Zentrum Berlin\, Germany\n\n A. LAUSI\, SESAME\, Jordan\n\n F. LEHNER\, DESY\, Germany\n\n K. LORENTZ\, Cyprus Institute\, Cyprus\n\n G. MARGARIT ONDO\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n\n A. MIGLIORI\, IAEA\, Austria\n\n E. MITCHELL \, ESRF\, France\n G. SANTONI\, ESRF\, France\n\n K. TOUKAN\, SESAME\, Jor dan\n N. VALLS\, ALBA Synchrotron\, Spain\n\n A. VOLLMER\, Helmholtz Zent rum Berlin\, Germany\n  \nRegistration: there is no registration fee.\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/9645/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9645/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-ICTS Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2021 | (sm r 3616) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211206T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211217T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9646@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Winter School Program: https://www.icts.res.in/program/qsb2 021/talksVideos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04QVxpjcnjiFw7wvP Z24v9LRe0smzwXA\n\n \n The series of Winter Schools on Quantitative System s Biology (QSB) under the aegis of the ICTP-ICTS Programme in Biology is i ntended to help researchers from the theoretical sciences transition into life sciences research and experimental biologists with a quantitative bac kground to assimilate theoretical perspectives and methodologies in their research.\n How organisms sense the world and generate behaviours is an ex citing question that has motivated neuroscientists over more than a centur y. Neural command for generating behavioural output arises from operations at multiple scales\, ranging from the flip-flops of ion channels to dynam ics in circuits comprising ensembles of neurons.\n New tools to geneticall y manipulate organisms\, monitor and perturb neural activity\, and advance d microscopy that enables large scale imaging of neurons in vivo have yiel ded a hitherto unprecedented quantum of data with high resolution. Quantit ative approaches are needed to mine these data sets for generating testabl e hypotheses regarding nervous system function.\n The 2021 QSB Winter Scho ol aims at exposing students from different backgrounds to the latest rese arch in systems neuroscience\, with an emphasis on quantitative methods an d theory.Topics: \n\n introduction to neuroscience\, including electrical properties of neuronal membranes and single neuronal biophysics\;\n \n h ow circuit dynamics emerge in diverse circuits using invertebrate and vert ebrate model organisms as examples\;\n \n population coding\, variability and stochasticity\, and plasticity\;\n \n applications of quantitative t ools to neuroscience data sets such as whole-brain imaging data sets or be havioural clustering data sets.\n\n \n Throughout\, we will also explore h ow theory can contribute to a normative understanding of various phenomena \, and motivate future experiments. Participants in this quantitative scho ol in systems neuroscience and behaviour will have a broad understanding o f exciting questions in these fields and how to address them with modern c omputational tools.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9646/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9646/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Geometric\, Algebraic and Topological Methods in Quantum Field The ory | (smr 3618) - CANCELLED DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211209T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211218T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9647@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9647/ LOCATION:Villa de Leyva - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9647/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Atomic Processes in Plasmas: Data-driv en Research | (smr 3638) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211213T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211217T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9657@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA Virtual Meeting\n This School will assist Ph.D . students and other early-stage career researchers to develop their skill s and understanding in the application of modern data science techniques t o the calculation and evaluation of data relevant to the physics and behav iour of plasmas.\n\n  \n\n The properties of laboratory\, industrial\, as trophysical and fusion energy plasmas are determined by numerous atomic an d molecular processes. Modelling such plasmas requires a large amount of d ata concerning its collisions\, spectroscopic properties and plasma-materi al interactions\, not all of which is directly accessible by experiment. P lasma physicists therefore turn to calculations and approximations to comp lete their data needs.\n\n The last 10 years have seen a huge increase in the amount of computing power available to run the codes that calculate th ese data. Accompanying this expansion has been the development of so-calle d data science techniques which unify statistical methods\, data analysis and machine learning.\n\n This School will provide training for and knowle dge-transfer between scientists working in the fields of computational pla sma physics and data science. Participants are expected to have some exper ience with basic programming in a language such as Python.\n\n \n More det ails are available at IAEA web site: https://amdis.iaea.org/workshops/ict p-2021b\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Plasma emission modelling\n \n Practical ex ercises using FLYCHK and the NIST LIBS database\n \n The principles of Mo lecular Dynamics modelling\n \n Bayesian Inference for the determination of plasma-material interaction parameters\n \n Demonstration and practica l exercises using LAMMPS\n \n Accessing\, assessing and exploiting online data resources\n \n Managing atomic and molecular data\n \n Linux comma nd line usage\; Using Python and the JupyterLab environment for research\n \n Speakers:\n M. BAUTISTA\, Western Michigan University\, USA\n M.-L. DUB ERNET\, Paris Observatory - PSL\, France\n C. HILL\, IAEA\, Austria\n \n L. MARIAN\, IAEA\, Austria\n \n Y. RALCHENKO\, National Institute of Stan dards and Technology (NIST)\, USA\n E. STAMBULCHIK\, Weizmann Institute o f Science\, Israel\n \n U. VON TOUSSAINT\, Max Planck Institute for Plasm a Physics\, Germany\n ​\n Registration: There is no registration fee.Du ring the application process the applicants will be requested to upload po ster abstracts in PDF format. Please make sure you use our templates to ge nerate such PDFs. Templates are available below for download.\n\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/9657/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9657/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spring College in the Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 3690) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220221T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220318T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9774@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n ICTP and SISSA\, in collaboration with the partner institut ions of the International Master Course in Physics of Complex Systems\, ar e organizing the Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems from 21 February to 18 March 2022.\n Many complex systems in physics\, biology\, e ngineering and economics are characterized by a large number of interactin g degrees of freedom\, giving rise to a non-trivial collective behavior.\n The theoretical and computational tools for a quantitative analysis of co mplex systems are often rooted in modern theoretical physics. The Spring C ollege on the Physics of Complex Systems aims to expose students to a sele ction of topics at the forefront of research during an intensive\, 4-week programme. It consists of 5 courses.\n The Spring College is part of the M aster programme in the Physics of Complex Systems. The 2022 Spring College will be held online\, with limited in person participation by invitation\ , and it is open to qualified Master and PhD students.\nLecturers and Cour ses:\n J.S. WEITZ\, Georgia Tech\, USA\n“Quantitative viral dynamics” \nD. WOLPERT\, Santa Fe Institute\, USA\n“Stochastic thermodynamics and  Computation” \nT. SHARPEE\, Salk Institute\, USA\n“Hyperbolic geome try and information maximization in biological circuits”\nS. RUFFO\, SI SSA\, Italy & N. DEFENU\, ETH Zurich\, Switzerland\n“Statistical mechani cs of long-range interacting systems”\nF. CECCONI & A. VULPIANI\, La Sa pienza\, Italy\n“Chaos: From Simple Models to Complex Systems”Registr ation: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9774/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9774/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Medical Physics Aspects of Stereotacti c Radiotherapy Techniques | (smr 3692) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9808@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n There is an increasing number of requests from Member State s for assistance in the introduction of stereotactic radiotherapy and radi osurgery for intra-and extra-cranial targets. This workshop will assist cl inical medical physicists to understand the complexities of this mode of r adiotherapy.\n Modern radiotherapy has substantially increased the use of various forms of Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT)\, including Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) and Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS). For these te chniques a high radiation dose is delivered in a reduced number of fractio ns. These treatments are not only performed with specialized\, dedicated m achines\, but also with conventional\, non-dedicated linear accelerators e quipped with high resolution multi-leaf collimators.\n In radiotherapy\, a ccurate dose delivered to the patient is essential. For conventional radio therapy this has been achieved by internationally adopted codes of practic e and standardized radiotherapy techniques. However\, many of these techni ques are not applicable for stereotactic radiotherapy. This course will in struct the participant on how to ensure the quality of stereotactic radiot herapy to provide patients with safe and effective treatments.\nTopics:\n\ n Justification for using stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT)\n \n The physi cs of SRT with an emphasis on small field dosimetry\n \n Simulation and T reatment planning for SRT\n \n Treatment delivery of SRT to include the t echnologies\, motion management and image guidance\n \n Radiobiology of S RT including fractionation and dose constraints\n \n Audits\, Clinical tr ials and quality control\nLecturers:\nK. CHELMINSKI\, IAEA\, Vienna\, Aust ria\nL. CORDERO MENDEZ\, IAEA\, Vienna\, Austria\nA. DIMITRIADIS\, IAEA\, Vienna\, Austria\nE. LINDBAECK\, Karolinska University Hospital\, Stockhol m\, Sweden\nM. HEARD\, IAEA\, Vienna\, Austria\nP. MANCOSU\, HUMANITAS Can cer Center\, Rozzano\, Italy\nT. RITTER\, McGuire VA Medical Center\, Rich mond\, USAPrerequisites:\n\n This workshop is for clinically qualified med ical physicists (CQMPs as per IAEA publication HHS-25) from United Nations \, UNESCO or IAEA Member States who hold a postgraduate-level university d egree\, preferably in medical physics. The candidate should also have at l east 3 years working experience in a hospital and must participate in ster eotactic radiotherapy in the clinic. Participants should have an understan ding of IAEA TRS-398\, "Absorbed dose determination in external beam radio therapy" and IAEA TRS-483\, “Dosimetry of small static fields used in ex ternal beam radiotherapy”.\n The process of selection of participants mi ght include a mandatory written examination.\n The workshop will be benefi cial to clinically qualified medical physicists working in radiotherapy an d employing treatment modalities using small fields such as SRT\, SBRT and SRS.\nRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/eve nt/9808/ LOCATION:Seibersdorf - Austria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9808/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Plasmids as Vehicles of Antimicrobial Resistance Sprea d | (smr 3761) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9875@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual meeting\n Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) re presents a major challenge to public health worldwide. Mobile elements suc h as plasmids play a crucial role in Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) and AM R spread. Understanding plasmid evolution and mobility is fundamental to u nravel the population genetics of plasmid-encoded genes\, especially antib iotic genes.\n The combination of breakthroughs in sequencing and computat ional approaches has led to a new vision of the eco-evolutionary processes involved in HGT dynamics of pathogens. The Workshop will focus on modelli ng efforts to integrate genomic\, experimental and computational results\, to build a unified framework to tackle the expansion of plasmid borne AMR . Special focus will be put in the discussion on methods to go beyond poin t mutation- and tree- based phylogenetics in cases such as plasmids where HGT is the main evolutionary mechanism.\n The Workshop is aimed both at re searchers working on plasmids and modellers with no previous experience on plasmids and/or AMR. Introductory lectures on bacterial evolution\, popul ation genetics and epidemiology and their applications to AMR and plasmids will be provided on the website.Speakers:\n J. ALDERLIESTEN\, Utrecht Uni versity\, Netherlands\n S. BEDHOMME\, CEFE/CNRS\, France\n M. BROCKHURST\, University of Manchester\, UK\n M. COSENTINO LAGOMARSINO\, IFOM and Unive rsity of Milan\, Italy\n A. COUCE IGLESIAS\, CBGP – Madrid\, Spain\n T. DAGAN\, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel\, Germany\n T. DIMITRIU\, U niversity of Exeter\, UK\n S. DUXBURY\, University of Warwick\, UK\n J. P. HALL\, University of Liverpool\, UK\n J. HAWKEY\, Monash University\, Aus tralia\n J. HUISMAN\, ETH Zurich\, Switzerland\n E. JAUNEIKAITE\, Imperial College London\, UK\n O. KOSTERLIZ\, University of Washington\, USA\n J. KRUG\, University of Cologne\, Germany\n S. LEHTINEN\, ETH Zurich\, Switze rland\n W. MATLOCK\, University of Oxford\, UK\n J.O. MCINERNEY\, Universi ty of Nottingham\, UK\n \n M. MOLARI\, University of Basel\, Switzerland\ n R. MORAN\, University of Birmingham\, UK\n C. POLETTO\, INSERM - Sorbonn e University\, France\n A. ROBERTS\, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine \, UK\n A. SAN MILLAN\, IRYCIS\, Spain\n L. SHAW\, University of Oxford\, UK\n K. SMALLA\, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)\, Germany\n W. VAN SCHAIK\, U niversity of Birmingham\, UKRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9875/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9875/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African regional workshop on SciTinyML: Scientific Use of Machine Learning on Low-Power Devices | (smr 3708) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220425T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220429T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9792@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME as of 22.04.2022\n (updated on 26. 04.2022: please note changes on Day 3).\n  \n\n \n The Workshop will run each day from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM GMT (please check your local time https: //greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/time-zones/).  The agenda of the Workshop is also available at tinyml.seas.harvard.edu/SciTinyML-22/africa /\, with further links.\n  \n \n DAY 1\n \n \n DAY 2\n DAY 3\n DAY 4\n DAY 5\n \n \n - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n \n TinyML is a su bfield of Machine Learning focused on developing models that can be execut ed on small\, real-time\, low-power\, and low-cost embedded devices. This allows for new scientific applications to be developed at an extremely low cost and at large scale.\n The TinyML process starts with collecting data from IoT devices\, then training the collected dataset to extract knowled ge patterns\; these patterns are then packaged into a TinyML model that co nsiders the target microprocessor’s limited resources such as memory and processing power.\n The resulting model is then deployed on embedded devi ces where it is used to evaluate new sensor data in real-time. Typically\, power requirements are in the mW range and below which enables a variety of use-cases targeting battery operated devices. TinyML represents a colla borative effort between the embedded power systems and Machine Learning c ommunities\, which traditionally have operated independently.\n\nTOPICS\n • ML general concepts\n• Introduction to TinyML\n• Getting started w ith the TinyML training kit\n• Examples of TinyML applications\n• Scie ntific Applications of MLDeadline for applications expired on 15 April 202 2  \nPriority has been given to African participants that are part of the ICTP TinyML Academic Network.Interested candidates from Latin America and from Asia are invited to consider applying for dedicated editions of this online activity\, namely:\n- Latin American Regional Workshop on SciTinyM L: Scientific Use of Machine Learning on Low-Power Devices (see: smr.3721) \n- Asian Regional Workshop on SciTinyML: Scientific Use of Machine Learni ng on Low-Power Devices (see: smr.3715)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9792/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9792/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint WASCAL-ICTP Hands-on workshop on HPC technology for Climate Sciences | (smr 3689) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220503T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220513T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9773@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n During this hands-on workshop\, IT/HPC admins and climate c hange scientists will be trained on how to make effectively operational an d remotely accessible HPC technology\, and how to use the computational re sources of operational HPC systems in West Africa (WA) to compute climate models and run simulations. This activity will also ease the creation of H PC community in WA.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n HPC IMPORTANCE\, DESIGN\, PURC HASE\, AND INSTALLATION PROCESSES: e.g. HPC Facilities for scientific chal lenges in Climate modeling\n \n HPC TECHNOLOGY & ADMINISTRATION: Fundamen tals of Computer Architecture and programming\, Raking and building HPC cl usters\n \n HPC NETWORK AND SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION / MANAGEMENT: e.g. HPC batch queue systems\, storage\, data formats (HDFS/NETCDF)\n \n HPC SYSTE M COMMON USAGE AND OPERATIONS: e.g. Hands-on work on compiling software an d submit jobs on HPC clusters\, Hands-on work on REGCM\, WRF\n \n NETWORK ING FOR FUTURE OPERATIONALISATION AND COLLABORATION OF EXISTING HPC CENTRE S\n \n KEYNOTES ON ADDRESSING SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES IN CLIMATE SCIENCES\n \n INVITED TALKS FROM CHPC\, EAIFR\, NiMET\, Univ of Cocody\nResource Pe rsons:\n\n \n K. ADEWARA\, Obafemi Awolowo University\, Nigeria\n \n V. AJAYI\, FUTA\, Nigeria\n \n A. AKINTOMIDE\, University of Georgia\, USA\n \n S. BAMBA\, AIMS\, Rwanda\n \n B. DIALLO\, WASCAL\, Burkina Faso\n \n U. GARTERNICHT\, DKRZ\, Germany\n \n I. GIROTTO\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n G. GIULIANI\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n J. GOGWIM\, University of Jos\, Nigeria\n \ n K. HACKMAN\, WASCAL\, Burkina Faso\n \n T. LUDWIG\, DKRZ\, Germany\n \ n S. MEDA\, WASCAL\, Burkina Faso\n \n K. OGUNJOBI\, WASCAL\, Burkina Fa so\n \n C. ONIME\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n E. PEDANOU\, WASCAL\, Burkina Faso\ n \n S. SALACK\, WASCAL\, Burkina Faso\n \n M. SAVADOGO\, WASCAL\, Ghana \n \n W. SAVADOGO\, University of Augsburg\, Germany\n \n B. SINSIN\, WA SCAL-SAC\, Benin\n M. SULE\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n H. THIEMANN\, DKRZ\, Germ any\n\n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries.\n\n There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indic o.ictp.it/event/9773/ LOCATION:Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9773/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Electrochemical Energy Storage: Theory\, Experiments\, and Applications | (smr 3698) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220505T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220526T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9783@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Online Meeting\n The workshop will discuss progress in the investigation of materials for batteries\, and of the related chemica l and physical processes\, including lithium- and sodium-based\, high-vale nce-ion\, and metal-air batteries\, electrodes and electrolytes.\n Descrip tion continued: The world is likely to see an increase of the importance o f energy storage in the near future. One reason is the increasing presence of renewable energy sources\, most of which are intermittent in nature. A nother reason is the drive towards alternatives to fossil fuels for the tr ansportation sector. Across these fields\, requirements on the storage sys tem may be very different\, for example in terms of energy and power densi ty. For all these solutions\, a key issue is the development of functional materials able to perform the required tasks efficiently\, produced from safe\, widely available and easy-to process raw materials. Aim of the work shop is to discuss recent progress in the investigation of materials for b atteries\, and of the related chemical and physical processes.\nTopics:\n\ n Alkali-ion batteries\n \n Lithium-sulphur batteries\n \n Batteries wi th high-valence ions\n \n Metal-air batteries\n \n Experimental techniqu es\n \n Computational modeling of materials\nSpeakers:\nG. CEDER\, UC Ber keley\, USA\nR. DOMINKO\, National Institute of Chemistry\, Slovenia\nA. F RANCO\, University of Picardie\, France\nY. GOGOTSI\, Drexel University\, USA\nF. LA MANTIA\, Bremen University\, Germany\nY.-H. NA\, IBM\, USA\nS. PASSERINI\, KIT\, Germany\nL. YASHINA\, Moscow State University\, Russia\n A. WALSH\, Imperial College London\, UK    Registration: There is no re gistration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9783/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9783/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional Workshop on GNSS and Space Weather | (smr 3693) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220509T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220513T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9778@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n  \n\n Regional Workshop on GNSS and Space Weather - A hybr id event held in presence in Rabat Morocco\, and online.\n Slides presente d can be retrieved through the online programme. Please select relevant li nk on the left of this page.\n  \n  * * *\n Speakers\n C. AMORY\, Sorbo nne University\, France\n Y. BENIGUEL\, IEEA\, France\n A. BOUNHIR\, Unive rsity Mohammed V\, Rabat\n C. CESARONI\, INGV\, Italy\n P. CILLIERS\, SANS A\, South Africa\n A. COSTER\, MIT\, USA\n P. DOHERTY\, Boston College\, U SA\n S. GADIMOVA\, UNOOSA-ICG\, Austria\n K. GROVES\, Boston College\, USA \n M. KHIDER\, Google\, USA\n B. NAVA\, ICTP\, Italy\n Y. MIGOYA ORUE'\, I CTP\, Italy\n Y. J. MORTON\, University of Colorado\, USA\n O. OBROU\, Uni versity FHB\, Côte d’Ivoire\n R. PRADIPTA\, Boston College\, USA\n B. R ABIU\, CAR NASRDA\, Nigeria\n S.M. RADICELLA\, Boston College\, USA\n J. R AQUET\, Integrated Solutions for Systems\, USA\n F. VAN DIGGELEN\, Google\ , USA\n T. WALTER\, Stanford University\, USATopics\n • Introduction to GNSS\n • GNSS Applications\n • Sun-Earth coupling and Space Weather\n • Ionospheric Irregularities\n • Introduction to Ionospheric Monitorin g \n • Introduction to Ionospheric Modeling\n Space Weather refers to c onditions on the Sun\, in the solar wind\, magnetosphere\, ionosphere and thermosphere\, which can influence the performance and reliability of a va riety of space borne and ground-based technological systems.\n\n \n Space Weather is recognised as the cause of significant errors experienced by Gl obal Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS)\, including Satellite Based Augme ntation Systems (SBAS). GNSS or SBAS signals\, propagating from a satellit e to a receiver on the ground\, pass through the ionosphere where they are subject to Space Weather effects. Under these conditions pseudorange erro rs and signals scintillations at user receiver level may be present. The p urpose of this workshop is to give an introduction to the physics of ionos phere and to provide a basic knowledge on GNSS systems and their scientifi c and technological applications. Particular attention will be devoted to Space Weather research with GNSS data in the African Countries.\n \n \n A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of sele cted participants\, with priority given to participants from developing co untries.\n There is no registration fee. Female scientists are encouraged to apply.\n Deadline for application is over.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9 778/ LOCATION:Rabat - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9778/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Young Researchers' Workshop on Machine Learning for Materials | (s mr 3701) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220509T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220513T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9786@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual Meeting \nThe event aims at providing the next generation of young researchers with a didactic platform on the latest ad vancements in methods and applications of AI for material discovery. Moreo ver\, the even will bring forth a discussion on the implications of the la test advancements in data-driven methods on the different sub-areas of Mat erials discovery. Topics of discussion include\, but are not limited to:\n Energy materials discovery\n \n High-performance materials discovery\n \n Drug discovery\n \n Industrial applications of machine learning and m olecular modelling\n \n Machine learning potentials\n \n Generative mode ls\n \n Data-driven characterization\n \n High-throughput screening\n \n Physics-based linear and kernel methods\n \n Advanced neural network me thods\nSpeakers\n A. ANELLI\, Roche\, Switzerland\n\n L. BANKO\, Ruhr-Univ ersität Bochum\, Germany\n\n A. BOCHKAREV\, Ruhr-Universität Bochum\, Ge rmany\n\n S. DZEROSKY\, Jozef Stefan Institute\, Slovenia\n\n F. FABER\, U niversity of Cambridge\, UK\n\n A. GLIELMO\, Banca d'Italia\, Italy\n\n F. GRISONI\, Eindhoven University of Technology\, Netherlands\n\n B. KOZINSK Y\, Harvard University\, USA\n\n A. LAIO\, SISSA\, Italy\n\n N. LOPEZ\, In stitute of Chemical Research of Catalonia\, Spain\n\n J. MARGRAF\, Fritz-H aber-Institut der MPG\, Germany\n\n F. PELLEGRINI\, SISSA\, Italy\n\n M. R UPP\, University of Konstanz\, Germany\n\n S. SACCANI\, Aindo\, Italy\n\n K. SCHUTT\, Technische Universität Berlin\, Germany\n\n M. TODOROVIC\, Un iversity of Turku\, Finland\n\n Z. ULISSI\, Carnegie Mellon University\, U SA\n\n R. VAN DEN BERG\, Microsoft Research\, USA\n\n J. WESTERMAYR\, Univ ersity of Warwick\, UK\n\n R. WINTER\, Bayer\, USA\n\n  \nRegistration: T here is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9786/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9786/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning in Electronic Structure and Molecular Dynamics | (smr 3702) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220516T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220520T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9787@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n This is the culminating workshop of the Machine Learning (M L) in Electronic Structure (ES) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) training works hop that began in October 2021. The focus is to train African researchers in ML and its application in ES and MD.\nDescription: \n\n A recap of the Python language\, ML and Materials Databases will be made. This will be qu ickly followed by joint projects in materials discovery. Each day will fea ture hands on training sessions as well as two to three talks from experts in the eld presenting their research.\nTopics: \n• Introduction to the Python language\n• Introduction to Machine Learning (ML)\n• Databases for Materials Discovery\n• Machine Learning for force elds development f or\n• MolecularDynamics(MD)Simulations\n• Machine Learning in Electron ic Structure (ES)Speakers: \nO. Akin-Ojo (ICTP-EAIFR & Univ. Rwanda)\nJ. B ehler (Univ. Göttingen\, Germany)\nM. Ceriotti (EPFL\, Switzerland)\nB. Cheng (IST. Austria)\nG. Csanyi (Univ. Cambridge\, U.K.)\nS. Cutarolo (Duk e Univ. U.S.A.)\nS. de Gironcolli (SISSA\, Trieste\, Italy)\nL. Ghiringhel li (FHI\, Berlin\, Germany)\nA. Jain (LBNL\, USA)\nE. Kucukbenli (Boston U niv.\, USA)\nA. Laio (SISSA\, Italy)\nM. Parrinello (ETH\, Zurich)\nG-M. R ignanese (UCL\, Belgium)\nM. Scheffler (Fritz-Haber MPG\, Germany\nY. Shai du (UC Berkely\, U.S.A.)\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9787/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9787/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP College on Optics: Theory and Applications of Lidar | (smr 37 06) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220516T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220519T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9790@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Deadline extended: 12 May 2022An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n ​ Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is a remote sensing method that is gro wing rapidly as a method of generating three-dimensional images in applica tions as diverse as climate science\, archaeology\, fisheries\, and autono mous vehicle navigation.\n\n  \n\n A lidar instrument must be designed wi th careful consideration of the application-driven needs\, but this design is based on some common optical principles. This will be a forum where th ese principles are taught and discussed\, along with representative applic ations drawn from current research and industry activities.\n\n  \n\n The college will be entirely virtual and abbreviated so that it is reasonably accessible over a wide range of time zones. In addition to lidar there wi ll be special topics related to the UNESCO International Day of Light touc hing on best practices in outreach\, training and research.\n\n  \nTopics in Lidar:\n\n Atmospheric Lidar\n \n Insect and Fish Lidar\n \n Lidar for Autonomous Vehicles\n \n Coherent Lidar\n \n Photon-Counting Compres sive Lidar\nSpeakers:\n J. HOWELL\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Israel\n \n W. R. BABBITT\, Montana State University\, USA\n \n J. SHAW\ , Montana State University\, USA\n\n \n  \n\n Special Topics:\n\n Educat ional outreach and gender equity\n \n ICTP Laboratory opportunities for d eveloping country scientists\n \n Optical Encryption \n\n Speakers:\n\n I. ASHRAF ZAHID\, Quaid-i-Azam University\, Islamabad\, Pakistan\n \n J. F. BARRERA\, Universidad de Antioquia\, Colombia\n \n H. CABRERA\, ICTP\ , Italy\n\n \n Applicants are encouraged to submit a 'Research Abstract'.\ n Please use our templates (available below for download) to format your a bstract in PDFs. A number of abstracts may be selected for a short contrib uted presentation.Registration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/9790/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9790/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Graduate Course on Tight Closure of Ideals and its Applications | (smr 3707) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220516T120000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220725T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9791@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n The aim of the course is to provi de training in the foundations of commutative algebra and algebraic geomet ry in prime characteristic and to present some of the exciting recent deve lopments. The local theory of prime characteristic singularities is a beau tiful and historically important subject. Singularities which are defined in terms of the behaviour of the Frobenius endomorphism have been labeled “F-singularities”. The course gives an introduction on the most promin ent F-singularity classes that emerged from Hochster–Huneke’s tight cl osure theory. Since its introduction in the late 1980s\, it has had a dram atic effect on the field of commutative algebra. Tight closure gives unifi ed proofs and strong generalisations of many major theorems in commutative algebra\, as well stimulated recent proofs of longstanding conjectures.\n \n Topics:\n\n An overview of tight closure of ideals\n \n Test ideals\n \n Direct summands\n \n F-rational rings and rational singularities\n \ n Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities\n \n Briançon-Skoda Theorems\n \n Big Co hen-Macaulay algebras\n \n The absolute integral closure\n \n Symbolic p owers of ideals\n \n The localisation problem\n \n Uniform Artin-Rees re sults \n\n Speakers:\n I. ABERBACH\, University of Missouri\, USA\n \n F . ENESCU\, Georgia State University\, USA\n \n N. EPSTEIN\, George Mason University\, USA\n \n E. GRIFO\, University of Nebraska\, USA\n \n G. LY UBEZNIK\, University of Minnesota\, USA\n \n L. MA\, Purdue University\, USA\n \n T. POLSTRA\, University of Virginia\, USA\n \n I. SWANSON\, Pur due University\, USA\n \n V. TRIVEDI\, Tata Institute of Fundamental Rese arch\, India\n \n K. TUCKER\, University of Illinois\, USA\n \n W. ZHANG \, University of Illinois\, USASchedule: Mondays and Wednesdays\n \n 1.00 -3.00 pm GMT (link)\n \n  \n \n Lectures. There will be 3  lectures   and  a  tutorial  on each topic  each week.  The speakers will provid e detailed   typed notes of their lectures on the day  they finish their lectures. These notes will contain exercises  which the participants sho uld try to solve  and submit to the tutorial instructor before 12 pm GMT on Fridays.\n \n  \n \n Tutorials. The tutorial on each topic will be h eld a week after the lectures are delivered. The tutorial instructor will present solutions to problems assigned by the Lecturer that are received f rom the participants and discuss some  material covered during the lectur es. Grades will be assigned to the solutions.\n Registration: There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9791/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9791/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Recent Progress in Thermal Transport Theory and Experiments | (smr 3711) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220530T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220603T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9794@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n Thermal management is becoming more relevant nowadays in ever decreasing-size electronic and optical devices g enerating more heat per unit volume\, and in materials used in jet engines . We have witnessed many advances in the theories of thermal transport in the past decade: discovery of new excitations\, a better understanding bey ond the Fourier regime\, description of highly anharmonic systems are but a few examples.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Anharmonic transport at high-tempe ratures\n \n Solid-solid phase change materials\n \n Systematic methods for high-throughput calculations\n \n Machine-learned potentials\, their speed and success in predicting thermal properties\n \n Phonon hydrodynam ics\, relevant excitations\n \n Electron-phonon coupling\n \n Advances i n solving Boltzmann Transport Equation\n \n Amorphous and disordered syst ems\n \n Phonon coherence in superlattices\n \n Phonon metamaterials\, p honon engineering and novel phononic devices\n \n Excitations in strongly anharmonic systems\n\n Speakers:\n J. ALARIA\, University of Liverpool\, UK\n \n S.M.V. ALLAEI\, University of Tehran\, Iran\n \n X. ALVAREZ\, UA B\, Spain\n \n A.A. BALANDIN\, UC Riverside\, USA\n \n M. BERNARDI\, CAL TECH\, USA\n \n G. CASATI\, University of Insubria\, Italy\n \n A. CEPEL OTTI\, Harvard University\, USA\n \n G. CHEN\, MIT\, USA\n \n O. DELAIRE \, Duke University\, USA\n \n A. DHAR\, ICTS-TIFR\, India\n \n K. ESFARJ ANI\, University of Virginia\, USA\n \n Z. FAN\, Varian and Aalto Univers ity\, Finland\n A. FIORENTINO\, SISSA\, Italy\n \n G. FUGALLO\, CNRS\, F rance\n \n M. HILKE\, McGill University\, Canada\n \n M. HU\, University of South Carolina\, USA\n \n C. HUA\, ORNL\, USA\n \n F. KNOOP\, Linkö ping University\, Sweden\n \n S. LEE\, University of Pittsburgh\, USA\n \ n C. LEWENKOPF\, Fluminense Federal University\, Brazil\n \n B. LIAO\, U C Santa Barbara\, USA\n \n T. LUO\, University of Notre Dame\, USA\n \n I.J. MAASILTA\, University of Jyväskylä\, Finland\n \n F. MAURI\, Unive rsity of Rome La Sapienza\, Italy\n \n A. MCGAUGHEY\, Carnegie-Mellon Uni versity\, USA\n \n C. MELIS\, University of Cagliari\, Italy\n \n N. MIN GO\, CEA\, France\n \n A.J. MINNICH\, CALTECH\, USA\n \n B. MORTAZAVI\, Leibniz University Hannover\, Germany\n \n L. PAULATTO\, CNRS & Sorbonne University\, France\n \n A. RAJABPOUR\, IKU\, Iran\n \n N. RAVICHANDRAN\ , IISc\, India\n \n G. ROMANO\, MIT\, USA\n \n I. SAVIC\, Tyndall Nation al Institute\, Ireland\n \n A. SHAKOURI\, Purdue University\, USA\n \n J . SHIOMI\, University of Tokyo\, Japan\n \n T. TADANO\, NIMS\, Japan\n \n Z. TIAN\, Cornell University\, USA\n \n S. VOLZ\, CNRS\, University of Tokyo\, Japan\n \n J.S. WANG\, National University of Singapore\, Singapo re\n \n Applicants are encouraged to submit poster abstracts (maximum 2).\ n \n A number of abstracts will be selected for a poster session.\n Regis tration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/97 94/ LOCATION:ICTP URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9794/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Asian regional workshop on SciTinyML: Scientific Use of Machine Le arning on Low-Power Devices | (smr 3715) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220606T050000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220610T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9800@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME\n \n Below static programme is i ndicated in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).\n If you check the agenda d etails through the buttom Programme on the left of this page\, instead\, t ime appears adjusted to your local time zone (i.e. adjusted to your comput er system time). For info see Time.\n \n \n \n \n \n DAY 1 - Monday\, 6 June 2022 \n \n 07:00 Welcome to the Workshop 30' Speaker: Marco Zennaro (ICTP) 07:30 Introduction to TinyML 1 h0' Speaker: Vijay Janapa Reddi (Harvard University) 08:30 Introduction to ML 1h30' Speaker: Mehran Behjati (National University of Malaysia) \n \n DAY 2 - Tuesday\, 7 June 2022 07:00 Introduction to ML part 2 1h0' Speaker: Mehran Behjati (National University of Malaysia) 08:00 Edge Impulse Intro and Workflow 1h0' Speaker: Louis Moreau (Edge Impulse) 09:0 0 Seeed TinyML kit intro and interface to EI 1h0' Speaker: Momodou B Jallo w (SeeedStudio) \n \n DAY 3 - Wednesday\, 8 June 2022 \n \n 07:00 Hands-on Motion classification/Anomaly detection 1h30' S peaker: Momodou B Jallow (SeeedStudio)08:30 University Case Studies 30' 09 :00 Ethical issues in TinyML 1h0' Speaker: Susan Kennedy (Santa Clara Univ ersity) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DAY 4 - Thursday\, 9 June 2022 \n \n 07:00 Hands-on Sound/KW S 1h30' Speaker: Momodou B Jallow (SeeedStudio)08:30 Hands-on Computer Vis ion 1h0' Speaker: (Video) Brian Plancher (Harvard University) 09:30 Univer sity Case Studies 30' \n \n DAY 5 - Friday\, 10 June 2022 \n \n 07:00 FOMO 1h0' Speaker: (Video) Shawn Hymel (Edge Impulse)08: 00 Case Study: Our Experience in Building an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Solution Business 30' Speaker: Apinun Tunpan (SMART Sense Industri al Design Company Limited\, Thailand) 08:30 Case Study: Design and Deploym ent of IoT Devices\, from Edge to Data Centers 30' Speaker: Reginald Juan Magpantay Mercado\, (GTek Research\, Philippines) 09:00 Artificial Intelli gence as a driver for the sustainable development Application to disaster risk reduction 1h0' Speaker: Soichiro Yasukawa (UNESCO) 10:00 Discussion: Specific TinyML Research Asian challenges 1h0' \n \n \n \n \n \ n  \n\n\n \n * * *\n\nTinyML is a subfield of Machine Learning focused o n developing models that can be executed on small\, real-time\, low-power\ , and low-cost embedded devices. This allows for new scientific applicatio ns to be developed at an extremely low cost and at large scale.\nThe TinyM L process starts with collecting data from IoT devices\, then training the collected dataset to extract knowledge patterns\; these patterns are then packaged into a TinyML model that considers the target microprocessor’s limited resources such as memory and processing power.\nThe resulting mod el is then deployed on embedded devices where it is used to evaluate new s ensor data in real-time. Typically\, power requirements are in the mW rang e and below which enables a variety of use-cases targeting battery operate d devices. TinyML represents a collaborative effort between the embedded power systems and Machine Learning communities\, which traditionally have operated independently.\nTOPICS\n• ML general concepts\n• Introduction to TinyML\n• Getting started with the TinyML training kit\n• Examples of TinyML applications\n• Scientific Applications of ML\n\n  \n\n \n  \n * * *\n  \nDEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS OVER.Priority given to Asian candidates that are part of the ICTP TinyML Academic Network.\nInterested candidates from other regions:\n- Potential candidates from Latin America are invited to consider applying for a dedicated edition of this online ac tivity: Latin American Regional Workshop on SciTinyML: Scientific Use of M achine Learning on Low-Power Devices (see: smr.3721)\n- The African Region al Workshop on SciTinyML: Scientific Use of Machine Learning on Low-Power Devices has been held from 25 to 29 April 2022  (see: smr.3708)\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/9800/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9800/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AGRA IV (Arithmetic\, Groups and Analysis) - Part 2 | (smr 3695) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220620T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220625T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9809@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The AGRA series of summer schools (Santiago de Chile\, 2012 \; Cusco\, 2015\; Córdoba\, 2018\; Online\, 2021) has as its goal to fost er the development of number theory in Latin America: it provides a format ive experience for young researchers\, and it also helps bring together mo re senior or mid-career mathematicians working in the field. It has been o ur tradition to have all courses and associated discussions in Spanish or Portuguese\, in part so as to make all activities accessible to all studen ts in Latin America\, regardless of their English proficiency.\n The targe t audience of AGRA includes undergraduate students\, graduate students and young researchers with a serious interest in number theory and neighborin g fields. Due to the pandemic situation\, AGRA IV was divided in two insta lments. The first one was an ICTP – IMPA Online School that took place o n August 16 – 20\, 2021\, with four minicourses covering topics in arith metic combinatorics\, arithmetic geometry\, square-tiled surfaces and alge braic number theory (see http://indico.ictp.it/event/9617/). The plan for this second instalment\, which shall happen in hybrid mode in the state of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil\, is to have another group of minicourses\, fol lowed by tutorials and problem sessions.Minicourses will be as follows:Min icourse 1:Interactions between ergodic theory and number theory\n • Joel Moreira (Warwick\, UK)\n • Sebastián Donoso (Univ. de Chile)\n  Minic ourse 2:Applications of homology and cohomology in group theory\n • Lev Glebsky (Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi\, Mexico)\n • Dessislav a Kochloukova (Unicamp\, Brazil)\n  Minicourse 3:Expansion\, divisibility and parity: a walk on numbers and graphs\n • Harald Helfgott (Univ. Gö ttingen\, Germany/ CNRS\, France)\n • Adrián Ubis (UAM\, Spain)\n  Min icourse 4:Arithmetic groups and homogenous dynamics\n • Sebastian Hurtad o-Salazar (Univ. Chicago\, USA)\n • Plinio Pino (UFF\, Brazil)Minicourse 5:Mori dream surfaces\n • Michela Artebani (Univ. de Concepción\, Chil e)\n • Antonio Laface (Univ. de Concepción\, Chile)\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/9809/ LOCATION:Cabo Frio (Rio de Janeiro) - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9809/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:12th Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory | (smr 3722) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220704T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220710T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9812@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Link to Web Page\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n International Organizing Committee\n \n O. Aharon y (Weizmann I.) \n \n M. Alishahiha (IPM\, Teheran)\n \n D. Anninos (King's College\, London)\n \n F. A rdalan (IPM\, Teheran)\n \n H. Arfaei (IPM\, Teheran)\n \n A. Dabholkar (ICTP\, Trieste)\n \n R. Gopaku mar (ICTS\, Bengaluru)\n \n E. Kiritsis (U. of Crete and AP C\, Paris)\n \n D. Luest (LMU\, Munich)\n \n K. Narain (ICTP\, Trieste)\n \n A. Naseh (IPM\, Teheran)\n \n V. Niarchos (U. of Crete and Durham University)\n \n Y. Oz (Tel Aviv University)\n \n K. Papadodima s (CERN)\n \n E. Rabinovici (Hebrew U.\, Jerusalem)\n \n S. Wadia (ICTS and Tata I.\, Mumbai)\n \n E. W itten (IAS\, Princeton)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nParticipation is by invitation only.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9812/ LOCATION:Chania\, Crete - Greece URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9812/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Topological Quantum Electrons Interacting In-person | (smr 3726) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220710T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220716T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9816@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n Please refer to the following link for further informat ion.https://www.icisequynhon.com/conferences/2022/topological/registration .html\n Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)\n \n  \n \n Nurit Avrah am (Co-chair)\, Weizmann Institute of Science\, Israel\n \n Gregory Fie te (Co-chair)\, Northeastern University\, USA\n \n Ady Stern\, Weizmann Institute of Science\, Israel\n \n Tran Minh Tien\, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology\, Vietnam\n \n Jean Tran Thanh Van\, Rencontres du Vietnam\, Vietnam\n \n  \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9816/ LOCATION:Quy Nhon - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9816/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Latin American regional workshop on SciTinyML: Scientific Use of M achine Learning on Low-Power Devices | (smr 3721) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220711T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220715T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9811@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The workshop will be bilingual (English and Spanish).\n Tin yML is a subfield of Machine Learning focused on developing models that ca n be executed on small\, real-time\, low-power\, and low-cost embedded dev ices. This allows for new scientific applications to be developed at an ex tremely low cost and at large scale.\n The TinyML process starts with coll ecting data from IoT devices\, then training the collected dataset to extr act knowledge patterns\; these patterns are then packaged into a TinyML mo del that considers the target microprocessor’s limited resources such as memory and processing power.\n The resulting model is then deployed on em bedded devices where it is used to evaluate new sensor data in real-time. Typically\, power requirements are in the mW range and below which enables a variety of use-cases targeting battery operated devices. TinyML represe nts a collaborative effort between the embedded power systems and Machine Learning communities\, which traditionally have operated independently.To pics:\n • ML general concepts\n • Introduction to TinyML\n • Getting started with the TinyML training kit\n • Examples of TinyML application s\n • Scientific Applications of MLRegistration: There is no registratio n fee.\n Priority will be given to the participants from Latin America tha t are part of the ICTP TinyML Academic Network.\n Link to the programme:  http://tinyml.seas.harvard.edu/SciTinyML-22/latam/\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.i t/event/9811/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9811/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-EAUMP School on Mathematical Programming and Algorithms - an African Mathematical School | (smr 3725) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220711T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220729T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9815@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP-EAUMP Hybrid Meeting. You can submit your application for participation in presence or online.This African Mathematical School i s also an activity of AMU\, supported by CIMPA\n Organised by the Universi ty of Nairobi\, to be held at Kenya School of Government\, Nairobi\, Kenya \n The school will include:\n\n An intensive course in Programming in Pyt hon\, coordinated by Jean-Baptiste Yunès (Institut de Recherche en Inform atique Fondamentale\, Université Paris Cité) where the participants will learn to write correct programs.\n \n An intensive course in Algorithms\ , coordinated by Roberto Mantaci (Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fo ndamentale\, Université Paris Cité) where the participants will learn to write efficient programs.\n \n An intensive course on SageMath\, a free\ , open-source\, Python-based mathematics software system\, coordinated by Anna Vanden Wyngaerd (Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale\, Paris and Université libre de Bruxelles) where the participants will lea rn to apply to Mathematical Research the efficient programming techniques learnt in the two other courses.\n\n All courses will be composed of main lectures and applications in the form of exercise sessions or work session s on machines.Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participa nts from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/9815/ LOCATION:Nairobi - Kenya URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9815/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-Africa Joint School on Rainfall and Water Resources Managemen t | (smr 3724) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220725T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220729T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9814@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:As water is an important resource for different uses\, an accu rate estimate of how much water is available is crucial for planning purpo ses in areas such as agriculture\, energy production\, and others sectors or assets. In addition\, this timely information is important for flood an d drought management. This joint school will train Africans in hydrologica l modeling\, hydrology\, and hydroclimatology. At the same time\, the work shop will promote collaboration and data sharing between workers in differ ent African countries as well as interaction between African researchers/w orkers and their counterparts in other parts of the world. The school will link with the Global network on Water and Development Information for ari d lands (G-WADI) under UNESCO'S Intergovernmental Hydrology Program (IHP) and will examine issues related to water security. The activity will contr ibute to the implementation of the 9th phase of IHP 2022-2029\, " Science for a Water Secure World in a Changing Environment".\nTopics:\n1. Introduc tion to hydrology and water cycle. From real time flood forecast to climat e flood risk projection.\n2. Introduction to the PERSIANN family of produc ts including the iRain system for climate risk management\,\n2. Use of iRa in for weather monitoring\, analysis\, and resilience building.\n3. Develo pment of region-specific hydrological models\, and providing and understan ding of how climate change is influencing water availability in Africa and in different regions of Africa.\n5 Fostering of  collaboration and coope ration among technical personnel and scientists in the Africa on weather a nd climate monitoring and\n6. Hydroclimatic projection of river flood and river drought hazard using global and regional climate model projection\n7 . Training on analysis/evaluation of local in situ rain gauge data: each p articipant is required to bring local in situ rain gauge data from their h ome country for the purpose of evaluation of satellite rainfall data estim ates and use in bias correction for improving the satellite precipitation estimates for future use over their regions\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9814 / LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9814/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Summer School in Group Theory and Representation Theory | (smr 373 0) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220809T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220821T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9820@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM)\nh ttps://viasm.edu.vn/en/hdkh/viasm-ictp-ss2022\nThe goal of this school is to introduce graduate students\, advanced\nundergraduate students\, young researchers\, and interested\nmathematicians in Vietnam\, Southeast Asia\, and other countries in Asia\,\nto basics of group representation theory\, linear algebraic groups\, structure\nand representation theory of finite groups of Lie type\, including an\nintroduction to the Deligne-Lusztig the ory. It will also introduce the audience\nto a number of applications of g roup representation theory to various areas\nof mathematics\, including nu mber theory\, algebraic geometry\, and\ncombinatorics.\n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/9820/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9820/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Regional Climate Modeling and Extreme Events over So uth America: results from the CORDEX-Flagship Pilot Study | (smr 3745) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220904T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220906T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9835@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Program and Logistical Information available for download belo w\nThe South America-Flagship Pilot Study Initiative (FPS-SA) endorsed by the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) aims to investiga te multi-scale aspects\, processes and interactions that result in extreme precipitation events using dynamical models (high resolution\, convection permitting and coupled models) and statistical models. With focus on extr eme events\, the Added Value of dynamical (RCM) and statistical (ESD) down scaling is also explored. The main objective of the conference is to share and discuss results from this initiative with the South and Central Ameri can (SAM/CAM) regional modeling community\, as well as lessons learned fro m the experience of European scientists which are relevant to advance with the FPS-SA. The conference is intended not only for researchers actively involved in the FPS- SESA but also for early career SAM/CAM scientists and researchers in the field of regional climate modeling and statistical dow nscaling and related applications. The conference will include a capacity- building activity focussing on regional climate modeling and the 5th gener ation version of the model RegCM5\, which includes a new non-hydrostatic d ynamical core. The activity may be taken by participants of the conference or by other scientists from SAM/CAM. The Conference will have presentatio ns of recent results of the FPS-SESA and discussions on ongoing research a ctivities covering the following topics: * Analysis of dynamical and stati stical model results in the South America domain based on convection permi tting model simulations and on several ESD methods\; * Added Value of dyna mical and statistical downscaling in simulating precipitation extremes in southeastern South America\; * Lessons learned from the CORDEX FPS over Eu rope and the Mediterranean on convection permitting modeling and ESD metho ds: * Climate variability at regional scale influenced by local and remote forcings\; * Applications in hydrological and crop models\; * The FPS-SES A collaborative experience: future collaborative research and coordinated activities with focus on relevant climate phenomena in South America. Spea kers: Santiago Vianna Cuadra\, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation \, Brazil Michelle Reboita\, UNIFEI\, Brazil Tereza Cavazos (CICESE\, Mexi co) Jesús Fernández\, CSIC / University of Cantabria\, Spain Sin Chan Ch ou\, INPE\, Brazil Josipa Milovac\, CSIC/University of Cantabria\, Spain M oira Evelina Doyle\, UBA/CONICET\, Argentina Jorge Baño-Medina\, CSIC / U niversity of Cantabria\, Spain José Manuel Gutierrez\, CSIC / University of Cantabria\, Spain Erika Coppola\, ICTP\, Italy Rosmeri Porfirio da Roch a\, IAG/USP\, Brazil Marta Llopart\, São Paulo State University\, Brazil Silvina Solman\, University of Buenos Aires/CIMA- CONICET\, Argentina Mari a Laura Bettolli\, University of Buenos Aires /CONICET\, Argentina Marcelo Barreiro\, University of the Republic of Uruguay\n\n//indico.ictp.it/even t/9835/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9835/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African School on Quantum Simulation and Quantum Information Scien ce (ASQSQIS) | (smr 3686) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220905T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220909T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9807@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The aim of this school is to introduce students to advanced quantum mechanics concepts relevant to the growing field of quantum techn ologies\, via a two-fold approach combining theoretical and computational aspects.\n The first part of the school will feature an introduction to qu antum information\, computation and simulation. This part will also includ e a panoramic view of most quantum hardware platforms - atomic\, photonic\ , and solid state.\n The second part of the school will consist of an intr oduction to Qutip - an open-source software to simulate quantum systems\, as well as several case studies in connection to real- world applications of quantum computing and simulation. Prior knowledge of quantum mechanics is necessary. Prior knowledge of Python is highly recommended. It is also highly recommended that students study about QuTiP (there are tutorials on line) before joining the school\, and also for the students to bring their laptops\, to do practice sessions at the school.\n The event is aimed at master and graduate students from all over Africa\, and will feature a com bination of blackboard-style lectures and tutorials on computational techn iques.\n  \nLECTURERSS. CROSS (RIKEN)M. DALMONTE (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy) A. PITCHFORD (Aberystwyth University)A. SAMPERA (ICREA & Universitat Auton oma de Barcelona)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ICTP SCIENTIFIC CONTACTM. DALMONTE (ICTP\, Trieste\, Italy)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n//indico.ic tp.it/event/9807/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9807/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Information\, Noise\, and Physics of Life | (smr 3736) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220919T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220930T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9826@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n Complex signals are ubiquitous in non-equilibrium physic s\, biophysical processes\, and in the noise of measurement devices.\n The school will provide advanced tools from information theory\, statistical physics and machine learning to offer participants key knowledge on stocha stic analysis and modelling.Topics:\n\n Control theory                        \n \n Entropy foundations\n \n Mean field th eory and inference methods\n \n Information theory\n \n Biophysics\n \n Stochastic thermodynamics\n\n Lecturers:\n\n \n Ada ALTIERI (Paris Didero t University\, France) -- online --\n Andre C. BARATO (University of Houst on\, USA) -- online --\n John BECHHOEFER (Simon Fraser University\, Canada )\n Raphael CHETRITE (Universite Cote d'Azur\, Nice\, France)Andjelka HEDR IH (Mathematical Institute of SASA\, Belgrade\, Serbia)\n Jan KORBEL (Comp lexity Science Hub Vienna\, Austria)\n Jelena MANOJLOVIC  (University of Nis\, Serbia)\n Juan MR PARRONDO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, Spai n)\n Dimitri PETRITIS (Univeristy of Rennes\, France) -- online --\n Edgar ROLDAN (ICTP Trieste\, Italy)\n Iva TOLIC (R. Boskovic Institute Zagreb\, Croatia) --online colloquium--\n\n  \nVolunteers: Bogdan Djordjević (M ISANU\, Belgrade\, Serbia)\, Katarina Djordjević (PMF\, University of Nis \, Serbia)\n The event is partially supported by the Republic of Serbia Mi nistry of Education\, Science and Technological Development and OeAD - Aus tria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation\, through the project ITEMCS (no. 337-00-577/2021-09/28)\, and through the visiting program for the stay of researchers from abroad in the Republic of Serbia by invitati on.\n\n \n  \n\n \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9826/ LOCATION:Nis - Serbia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9826/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frontiers of Matter Wave Optics Conference | (smr 3769) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220919T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220923T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9987@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Click here for the School and the Conference web page\n\n   \n\n Matter-wave interferometry has remarkably advanced with systems as di verse as electrons\, neutrons\, cold atoms\, molecules and nanoparticles. The conference Foundations of Matter-Wave Optics (FOMO) unites world exper ts in the field to review the state-of-art and to discuss new challenges.\ n\n           \n\n Matter-wave interferometers are essential tools i n the exploration of the foundations of physics and have been developed in to modern quantum sensors with applications in precision measurements\, in ertial navigation or geodesy. Since its beginning in 2010\, Frontiers of M atter Wave Optics (FOMO) has become the most comprehensive bi-annual confe rence series in the field of matter-wave science. It combines one week of Summer School (12-16.9) with an international conference (19-23.9.). In 2 022 both meetings are hosted by the International Center for Theoretical P hysics (ICTP) in Trieste/Italy\, which is known for scientific excellence combined with international hospitality and scenic beauty. Contributed tal ks\, poster sessions and excursions provide ample opportunity for discussi ons. An afternoon session on Sept. 22\, will also honor the late Helmut Ra uch and the beginnings of neutron matter-wave optics\, almost 50 years ago .\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Foundations of matter wave interferometry\n \n Matter-wave technologies: electrons\, neutrons\, atoms\, macromolecules\, nanoparticles\n \n Matter-wave sensors: gravimetry and geodesy\n \n Matt er-waves in precision metrology: fundamental constants\n \n Matter-wave e nabled navigation \n \n Tests of quantum physics at the interface to Gen eral Relativity & the Classical World\n \n Modeling of ultra-cold quantum devices\n \n Matter-wave science & industry\n\n Speakers include: \n B. BATTELIER\, CNRS\, France  \n \n O. BUCHMUELLER\, CERN\, Switzerland\n \n U. DELIC\, University of Vienna\, Austria\n \n A. DEREVIANKO\, Univer sity of Nevada\, USA\n \n G. DUTIER\, Université Paris\, France\n \n N. GAALOUL\, Universität Hannover\, Germany\n \n S. GUELLATI-KHELIFA\, Sor bonne University\, France  \n \n Y. HASEGAWA\, TU Wien\, Austria\n \n M . HOLYNSKI\, University of Birmingham\, UK\n \n P. HOMMELHOFF\, Universit y of Erlangen\, Germany\n \n M. KASEVICH\, Stanford University\, USA\n \n A. MINGUZZI\, Université Grenoble Alpes\, France\n \n H. MÜLLER\, UC Berkeley\, USA\n \n M. OLSHANII\, Boston University\, USA\n \n M. PATERN OSTRO\, Queen's University Belfast\, UK\n \n H. PERRIN\, Université Sorb onne\, France\n \n E. RASEL\, University of Hannover\, Germany\n \n J. R UDOLPH\, Stanford University\, USA\n \n D. SABULSKY\, Université Bordeau x\, France\n \n W. SCHLEICH\, Ulm University\, Germany\n \n J. SCHMIEDMA YER\, TU Wien\, Austria\n \n W. VON KLITZING\, IESL-FORTH\, Greece\n \n A. ZEILINGER\, University of Vienna\, Austria\n \n M. ZHAN\, Chinese Acad emy of Sciences\, China\n \n  \n \n  \n\n\n Participants are required to submit poster abstract and encouraged to submit abstracts for a talk. A number of posters abstracts will be selected for poster session and a num ber of short oral presentation slots will be available for some of them up on selection. During the application please make sure to use our templates to format your abstract in PDFs. Templates are available below for downlo ad.\n\n  \n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to particip ants from developing countries.\n\n  \n\n \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event /9987/ LOCATION:ICTP Budinich Lecture Hall (LB) URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9987/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:C and Linux for Science & Engineering | (smr 3821) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221025T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221129T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10051@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Applications are accepted only from applicants whom residen t institution is within Rwanda.\n Further information can be also found at the following links:\n\n https://ur.ac.rw/?C-and-Linux-for-Science-Engine ering\n\n https://eaifr.org/events/training-c-and-linux-for-science-engine ering/\n\n \n The relevance of computers in all fields of both applied and basic sciences has rapidly grown in the last decades and is crucial nowad ays to the point where computer simulations have now become a de-facto thi rd pillar of scientific progress together with theory and experiments.  W ithin its mission of fostering higher education in Rwanda\, EAIFR\, togeth er with ICTP Trieste Italy\, is organizing a series of e-lectures on scien tific computing.\n The program is open to students and scientists at diffe rent levels whose resident institutions are based within the country. Lect ures will be given via ZOOM and delivered on the ICTP e-computer laborator y that grants access via web browser to a homogeneous virtual environment for all participants. The e-class will be restricted to a limited number o f participants and applications selected mainly based on technical backgro und and motivation\n (a reference letter will be requested too).\n The fir st series of lecture "C and Linux for science and engineering" will be sch eduled twice a week with two e-classes of about 2.5 hours each\, and for 5 weeks in a row.\n  \n Learning C and Linux is important as this would pr ovide a good understanding of important basics in the workings and operati ons of computers.Topics:\n  \n\n 1. Linux CLI\n\n Editing files from Lin ux CLI\n \n Plotting with Gnuplot\n \n Search of text patterns in the Li nux CLI environment\n \n BASH and AWK scripting\n\n 2. Basics of C\n\n P rogramming\n \n Compiling and linking from the Linux CLI environment\n \n Memory management and basic I/O\n\n \n Lectures will be mostly based on practicals and supported by a significant number of tutors at disposal of the participants\, during the hands-on sessions.\n\n \n Main Lecturers:\n Dr. E. MENKAH\, KNUST\, Ghana\n Dr. I. GIROTTO\, ICTP\, Trieste\, ItalyTut ors:\n Dr. S. DI GIOIA\, MHPC/SISSA\n Dr. M.-J. SULE\, ICTP\n Dr. O. N. TR OCONIS\, MHPC/ICTP\n A. C. TRUJILLO OCHOA\, MHPC/ICTPRegistration: There i s no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10051/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10051/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-KIAS School on Statistical Physics for Life Sciences | (smr 3 746) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221031T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221108T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9836@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n  \n\n The video recordings of the lectures and seminars he ld during the School can be viewed at this link:https://www.youtube.com/pl aylist?list=PLRwcSE2bmyBwzkJzLAT__C7h_FaweUqDL\n\n \n Life can be thought of as a type of stochastic information processing realized out of thermody namic equilibrium. Living systems indeed consume energy to sustain order a nd information flow in fluctuating environments. Recent advances in non-eq uilibrium statistical physics and information theory offer a new framework to unravel the underlying principles of the dynamical processes in living matter. As an example of the developing interface between biology\, infor mation theory and statistical physics\, a recently discovered new principl e\, the thermodynamic uncertainty relation\, quantifies the energy-precisi on trade-off of biological processes and its physical bounds. Another impo rtant example of the richness of this interface is offered by machine lear ning\, which couples ideas from neuroscience\, computer science and statis tical physics.\n The new language developed in modern statistical mechanic s is then expected to play a key role in the understanding of how order\, and eventually life\, emerges from disorder. It has been widely demonstrat ed that statistical mechanics is an essential tool for the development of the above subjects\, and great interest in these subjects is currently sha red by statistical physics and biophysics communities in Korea.\n The 2022 ICTP-KIAS School on Statistical Physics for Life Sciences aims to introdu ce the next generation of students and researchers to these important them es: the quantitative understanding of life sciences\, machine learning\, a nd data science from the perspective of modern statistical physics. In add ition to the pedagogical lectures\, the school includes a small workshop f or sharing recent research progresses among scientists at the frontier of this field.\n The school aims at providing unique opportunities for (junio r) scientists in the Asia Pacific region to learn modern statistical physi cs and its applications to quantitative life science\, machine learning\, and data science. The 2022 ICTP-KIAS School will contribute to the cross-f ertilization between physics and biology as well as to long-term scientifi c collaborations between researchers in Asia and ICTP scientists.Topics \n Information theory\, machine learning and statistical physics\n\n Statis tical mechanics of machine learning\n \n Information theory and criticali ty\n \n Statistical mechanics and reasoning\n\n \n Out-of-equilibrium sta tistical physics and life\n\n Biochemical rhythms and thermodynamics\n \n Non-equilibrium thermodynamics\n \n Information thermodynamics\n \n St ochastic thermodynamics\n\n \n Lecturers for the School:\n  \n \n Vipu l Periwal (National Institutes of Health)\n Jae Sung Lee (Korea Institute for Advance Study)\n \n Pankaj Mehta (Boston University)\n \n Takahiro Sagawa (University of Tokyo)\n Speakers for the workshop:\n  \n \n Changbong Hyeon (Korea Institute for Advance Study)\n \n Hyunggyu Park (Korea Institute for Advance Study)\n \n Yongjoo Baek (Seoul National University)\n \n Tetsuya Kobayashi (University of Tokyo)\n \n Jae-Hy ung Jeon (Pohang University of Science and Technology)\n \n Yong Woon K im (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)\n \n Kunihiko K aneko (Niels Bohr Institute)\n \n Antonio Celani (The Abdus Salam Inter national Centre for Theoretical Physics)\n \n Vipul Periwal (National I nstitutes of Health)\n \n Deok-Sun Lee (Korea Institute for Advance Stu dy)\n \n Junghyo Jo (Seoul National University)\n \n \n  \n \n  \n \n \n  \n \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9836/ LOCATION:Seoul - Republic of Korea URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9836/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:*** CANCELLED *** Climate Data and Seasonal Forecast Analysis Tech niques - II part | (smr 3747) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221107T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221111T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9837@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/9837/ LOCATION:Harare - Zimbabwe URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9837/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ethical and Societal Challenges of Machine Learning | (smr 3749) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221107T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221111T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9839@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Virtual Meeting\n From helping farmers adapt to cli mate change to predicting disease outbreaks\, scientists in developing cou ntries have begun turning to ML for more effective solutions. With this po tential\, however\, comes the possibility for abuse\, misuse\, and uninten ded consequences.Topics\n\n Embedding Ethics Education in Machine Learnin g: case studies from various parts of the world that demonstrate the need for a wider perspective on ML ethical challenges.\n \n Big data\, privacy and democracy: ethical questions linked with big data exploitation\, priv acy and the dangers for democracy.\n \n Machine Learning\, bias and fairn ess: problems of ML amplified bias\, and some of the possible solutions.\n \n Diversity in ML: causes and impact of this lack of diversity\, and so me of the success stories that demonstrate how diverse teams are more succ essful.\n \n Impact of new technologies: impacts of novel technologies li ke TinyML and global satellite-enabled internet services\, especially on p eople in least developed countries.\n\n Keynote Speakers\n P. AHRWEILER\, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz\, Germany\n C. HEITZ\, ZHAW School of Engineering\, Switzerland\n D. HUYSKES\, Privacy Network\, Italy\n S. KEN NEDY\, Santa Clara University\, USA\n A. LAWRENCE\, Institute for Astronom y\, UK\n P. PALMA\, UNESCO\, France\n M. ROVERI\, Politecnico di Milano\, Italy\n T. SCANTAMBURLO\, University of Venice\, Italy\n V. SCHIAFFONATI\, Politecnico di Milano\, Italy\n R. TROTTA\, SISSA\, ItalyRegistration: Th ere is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9839/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9839/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Workshop on Machine Learning for Space Weather: Fund amentals\, Tools and Future Prospects | (smr 3750) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221107T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221111T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9840@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n This is a hybrid meeting\n This workshop aims to foster Spa ce Weather research through the application of Machine Learning (ML) and s tatistical techniques by providing the participants with theoretical and p ractical training on Space Weather and Machine Learning fundamentals\, wit h hands-on tutorials.\n The complex and highly coupled Sun-Earth system is constantly being monitored by ground and space-based instrumentation whic h produces a huge amount of daily data. These datasets\, in addition to th e increasing computing capability\, are regularly used to produce forecast ing models and other Space Weather products. In particular\, Space Weather data analysis and modeling using ML techniques are showing promising resu lts.\n The purpose of the workshop is to give theoretical and tailored pra ctical training on Machine Learning fundamentals\, its application to Spac e Weather and future prospects\, covering also important topics like Resea rch to Operations (R2O)\, explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and tr ustworthiness and ethics.Participation\n A limited number of grants are av ailable to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from Latin America and other developing countries.   There is no registration fee.\n Female candidates are encouraged to app ly.\n Applicants can submit a ‘Research Abstract’. A small number of a bstracts may be selected for a contributed talk.Deadline for Applications: 4 September\, 2022 - for participation in presence.30 September\, 2022 -  for online attendance only.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9840/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9840/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications\, Editi on 2022 | (smr 3723) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221128T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221209T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9813@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:https://www.africanschoolofphysics.org/asp2022/\nprogramme\;ht tps://indico.cern.ch/event/1210872/\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9813/ LOCATION:Gqeberha - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9813/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:10th International Symposium "Optics & its applications" | (smr 37 56) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221205T080000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20221210T000000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9846@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physic s (ICTP)\, in collaboration with the Universidad del Valle in Cali\, Colom bia\, the Quindio University in Armenia\, Colombia\, the CASUS-HZDR\, Germ any and the A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory in Yerevan\, Armenia will or ganize the 10th International Symposium on "Optics & its Applications" (OP TICS-10)\, which will be held in Cali and Armenia\, Colombia from 5 to 9 D ecember\, 2022.\n Inaugurated in 2011 in Yerevan\, Armenia\, this series o f symposia has become an important forum for scientists working on optics\ , stimulating exchanges among theorists and experimentalists. The objectiv e of this symposium is to bring together leading specialists and young sci entists working on various aspects of optics and to discuss the most recen t developments in that area.\n OPTICS-10 will combine: invited plenary lec tures\, sectional reports\, presentations of young scientists (there will be special awards from the A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory for the best student's contribution)\, poster presentations\, laboratory tours\, and so cial events.Topics\n\n Quantum optics\n \n Quantum Information\n \n Bio photonics\n \n Strong field optics\n \n Spectroscopy\n \n Nonlinear & u ltrafast optics\n \n Fiber optics\n \n Integrated photonics\n \n Optica l design\n \n Optical sensing\n \n 2D materials\n \n Nanophotonics\n \n Laser dynamics\n \n Singular optics\n \n Mathematical methods in optic s\n\n Speakers\n F. BELTRAN MEJIA\, Padtec\, Brazil\n D. BLASCHKE\, Univer sity of Wroclaw\, Poland\n ​A. CASAS BEDOYA\, The University of Sydney\, Australia\n T. CHALYAN\, Vrije University of Brussels\, Belgium\n C. GALI NDEZ\, Universidad del Valle\, Colombia\n J. I. GARCIA-SUCERQUIA\, Univers idad Nacional\, Colombia\n A. GUZMAN\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, Colombia\n E. KARIMI\, University of Ottawa\, Canada\n K. LARIN\, Universi ty of Houston\, USA\n I. MEGLINSKI\, Aston University\, UK\n M. S. MILLAN GARCIA VARELA\, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya\, Spain\n Z. MOLDABEK OV\, CASUS\, HZDR\, Germany\n J. NIEMELA\, ICTP\, Italy\n A. PAPOYAN\, Ins titute for Physical Research\, Armenia\n L. PAVESI\, University of Trento\ , Italy\n K. RODRIGUEZ\, Universidad del Valle\, Colombia\n K. SOKOLOV\, U niversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center\, USA\n Local Organising Com mittee\n \n I. AGUILERA CUENCA\, Universidad del Valle\, Colombia\n \n A.M. ENRÍQUEZ ZAMUDIO\, Universidad del Valle\, Colombia\n \n S. OL AVE ESCOBAR\, Universidad del Valle\, Colombia\n \n K. RODRIGUEZ\, Univ ersidad del Valle\, Colombia\n \n Grants: A limited number of grants are a vailable to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priorit y given to participants from developing countries. There is no registratio n fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/9846/ LOCATION:Cali\, Armenia - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9846/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Latin American Summer School in Computational Neuroscience - LACON EU 2023 | (smr 3813) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230109T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230120T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10055@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP meeting in presence in Valparaiso - Chile\n The pri ncipal aim of LACONEU is to promote in Latin America the field of Computat ional Neuroscience through mathematical and computational tools and their applications in Biomedical Research and Artificial Intelligence.\n In LACO NEU 2023 we expect to contribute to the development of the great potential \, not always well exploited\, that Latin America has in the field of nume rical sciences: physics\, engineering and mathematics. Along LACONEU 2023\ , we will encourage and motivate young graduate students and researchers t o initiate interdisciplinary work on bioengineering and related problems. We will also encourage the creation of regional and international networks of collaborations reflected in joint research projects and theses.\nTopic s:\n Network dynamics\n \n Learning in biological and artificial neural networks\n \n Knowledge representation\nSpeakers:\nS. DURA-BERNAL\, State University of New York\, USA\nM. ESCOBAR\, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María\, Chile\nA. INGROSSO\, ICTP\, Italy\nC. SAVIN\, NYU\, USA\nE. TAGLIAZUCCHI\, Universidad de Buenos Aires\, Argentina\nF. TOBAR\, Univer sity of Chile\, Chile\nA. TREVES\, SISSA\, Italy\n Grants: A limited numbe r of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participan ts\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10055/ LOCATION:Valparaiso - Chile URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10055/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The 17th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings\, Particles and Cosm ology | (smr 3826) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230109T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230118T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10153@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The Kavli Asian Winter School (KAWS) on Strings\, Particles and Cosmology is a pan-Asian collaborative effort of high energy theorist s from China\, India\, Japan and Korea to give young researchers in Asia a n opportunity to come together and learn about the latest developments in high energy theory from leading experts on the subject.\n This school is a imed towards advanced graduate students\, postdoctoral fellows and active researchers in the field. This is the 17th in a series of Asian Winter Sch ools that have been organized on a rotating basis between China\, Japan\, Korea and India. We welcome students from all of these participating count ries as well as students from outside.\n The previous Asian Winter Schools in this series have provided young researchers with opportunity for discu ssions with leading experts in diverse  areas and also for initiating col laboration with other young researchers from  different countries. We hop e that KAWS 2023 will continue this tradition.\n Due to the covid 19 pand emic\, the meeting will take a mixed format of in-person and online. We ha ve high hopes for all lecturers to present the lectures in person.\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/10153/ LOCATION:Daejeon - Republic of Korea URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10153/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Climate Data and Seasonal Forecast Analysis Techniques | (smr 3691) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230111T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230329T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-9777@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP virtual meeting\n A collaboration with UNESCO\, thi s online workshop will outline how to access and process gridded climate d ata. \n\n  \n\n Based on the eDX open-learning platform\, the course wil l take the form of a series of pre-recorded\, video-based lectures\, each one focussed on a specific topic outlined below\, with related exercises. The course assessment will consist of two larger assignments\, which are a ssessed automatically. The successful completion of the assignments will l ead to course certification.  Once a week\, the lecturer will be availabl e for an  interactive tutorial sessions to help with issues related to th e course.\n In this initial release of this course the focus is on basic a nalysis techniques of reanalysis and climate data\, the extension to sub-s easonal and seasonal prediction will be contained in part 2 which will fol low in 2023.Instructions:\n Open the page https://openedx.ictp.it/ in a br owser\, and click to sign in or register using the buttons in the top righ t hand corner.  Once you have done this\, click on the course "Climate Da ta Analysis" and then click to enroll.  The first part of the course is d ivided into 5 chapters\, with each lesson consisting of either a short you tube instructional video and/or a longer expert's lecture.  Most modules also contain a small text explanation along with a short exercise to compl ete.  At the end of section 4 and 5 there are several "projects" to compl ete with are more involved in nature and require you to put together sever al of the techniques acquired in the earlier videos.\n The exercises are w orth 20% of the total mark\, the remainder is from the projects.  Note th at the exercises allow infinite attempts\, but for the project you are lim ited to THREE attempts only.  The pass grade for the course is 50%.  On completion of the exercises and projects\, certification is awarded  auto matically if you have achieved the pass grade.  Note\, that there is no c ertificate of attendance for this course.\n\n Topics:\n\n Accessing state -of-the-art reanalysis climate data from the Copernicus Climate Data store \n \n Extracting data for specific areas and locations\n \n Calculating spatial and temporal statistics and anomalies\n \n Calculating derived va riables and indices for extreme weather and heatwaves.\n \n Making your o wn ENSO and Indian-Ocean Dipole indices\n \n Calculating the impact of EN SO on weather in your region of interest\n\n Lecturers:\n A. ABID\, ICTP\, Italy\n A. BENEDETTI\, ECMWF\, UK\n S. BORDONI\, University of Trento\, I taly\n C. BUONTEMPO\, Director of Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) at ECMWF\, UK\n E. DUTRA\, IPMA\, Portugal\n F. KUCHARSKI\, ICTP\, Italy\n T. MCNALLY\, ECMWF\, UK\n V. THOMPSON\, KNMI\, Netherlands\n A. TOMPKINS\ , ICTP\, ItalyRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/9777/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/9777/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications | (smr 3815) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230123T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230203T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10057@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP online meeting\n The School will introduce young sc ientists to the design\, operation\, and research opportunities offered at a modern synchrotron light source and how such sources are realized.\n\n  \n\n The school will be held over two weeks and will consist of three mo dules: (1) the physical aspects concerning the design and function of the main components: accelerators\, insertion devices and beamline optics (2) an overview of the arguments that can be made in order to fund and build a synchrotron light source\, including socioeconomic benefit\, stakeholder engagement\, communication (3) Overview of common synchrotron light techni ques including synchrotron infrared techniques and XANES/EXAFS.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Fundamentals of synchrotron radiation from storage rings\n \ n Fundamentals of X-ray interactions with matter\n \n Design and operati on of storage rings\n \n Beamline design: Photon transport and optics\n \ n Bending magnets and insertion devices\n \n Project management at a lar ge facility\n \n Ancillary devices for light sources\n \n Socioeconomic justification\n \n Cultural heritage\n \n Stakeholder engagement/communi cations\n \n Starting up user operations at a new facility\n \n Industri al Applications\n \n IR microscopy\n \n Basics of X-ray crystallography and powder diffraction\n \n Basics of structural biology\n \n Fundamenta ls of X-ray absorption: EXAFS and XANES\n \n XRF\, TXRF\, GXRF and their applications in materials and life sciences\n \n Tomography\n\n Registrat ion: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10057/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10057/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference and Advanced School on Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems | (smr 3820) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230313T043000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230324T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10062@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Meeting in presence in Santiago - Chile\n\n \n Low-dim ensional quantum systems continue to be an exciting area of research. The frontiers have been continuously pushed forward by fabricating novel mater ials and developing experimental techniques that provide a gateway for exp loring new physics. Examples of such new endeavors include hydrodynamic ph enomena in interacting electron systems in ultra-pure materials\; driven q uantum systems\, where strong light-matter interactions can lead to novel states of matter\; generation and control of entangled states in low-dimen sional devices\; emergent correlated phases in novel low-dimensional mater ials and structures (e.g.\, twisted graphene).\n The main goal of this eve nt will be to nurture collaborations and exchange of knowledge among resea rchers\, advanced students and postdocs of different continents and subfie lds.\n The activities will highlight recent progress in this area in topic s including\, but not limited to:\n\n Electronic hydrodynamics\n \n Driv en/dissipative systems and light-matter interaction\n \n Low-dimensional devices and disorder\n \n Topological systems\n \n Emergent phases in no vel materials\n\n The  “Conference and Advanced School on Low-Dimension al Quantum Systems” will take place in Santiago\, Chile\, from March 13 to March 24\, 2023. The event will combine a set of lectures and talks dur ing the two weeks and will be a meeting point for researchers worldwide.Le cturers:\n G. FALKOVICH\, Weizmann Institute of Science\, Israel - “An i ntroduction to hydrodynamics for condensed matter physicists”.\n A. MIRL IN\, KIT\, Germany - “Disordered systems”\n B. NAROZHNY\, KIT\, German y -  "Graphene hydrodynamics”\n M. POLINI\, Università di Pisa\, Italy - "Cavity quantum electrodynamics of atomically thin crystals"\n J. SCHMA LIAN\, KIT\, Germany - "Topologically Enabled Superconductivity"Speakers:\ n C. BALSEIRO\, Centro Atómico Bariloche and CONICET\, Argentina\n A. CHA VES\, Universidade Federal do Ceará\, Fortaleza\, Brazil\n C. CORMICK\, U niversidad Nacional de Córdoba\, Argentina\n D. DULIC\, Universidad de Ch ile\, Chile\n Y. GEFEN\, Weizmann Institute of Science\, Israel\n A. FAINS TEIN\, Centro Atómico Bariloche and CONICET\, Argentina\n R. FAZIO\, ICTP \, Italy\n M. KISELEV\, ICTP\, Italy\n J. KLINOVAJA\, University of Basel\ , Switzerland\n A. LEVCHENKO\, University of Wisconsin–Madison\, USA\n A . LUCAS\, University of Colorado\, USA\n J. MAZE\, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile\, Chile\n P. MELLADO\, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez\, Ch ile\n F. von OPPEN\, Freie Universität Berlin\, Germany\n H. M. PASTAWSKI \, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba\, Argentina\n A. PRINCIPI\, The Univer sity of Manchester\, UK\n T. RAPPOPORT\, UFRJ\, Brazil\n S. ROCHE\, ICN2 a nd ICREA\, Spain\n M. RÖSNER\, Radboud University\, Netherlands\n D. SHEE HY\, Louisiana State University\, USA\n A. STERN\, The Weizmann Institute of Science\, Israel\n V. VILDOSOLA\, GIyA-CNEA\, Argentina\n Z. ZANOLLI\, Utrecht University\, NetherlandsVenue:Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (FCFM)\, Av. Beauchef 851\, Universidad de Chile\, Santiago\, Ch ile.Poster presentations: prepare your poster in size A0 or smaller in por trait format.\n  \n\n 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.\n   \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10062/ LOCATION:Santiago - Chile URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10062/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:High Performance Computing for Sustainable Development | (smr 3828 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230417T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230421T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10162@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP meeting in person in Stellenbosch - South Africa\n The joint ICTP\, NITheCS and CHPC School has the goal of providing early care er scientists with technical guidance and best practices on advanced compu ting tools\, fundamental for modern quantitative sciences. The program inc ludes a mix of lectures and practicals\, focusing on a wide range of topic s from HPC\, to ML/AI and QC.\n  \n School participants will learn best p ractices commonly applied in modern computational research to extend scien tific frontiers in fields of direct impact for sustainable development\, b oth through the analysis of large\, rich datasets and through the simulati ons of physical processes. Lectures on selected research topics will showc ase major technical issues across several scientific fields\, from Astroph ysics to Biophysics and Climate Sciences.\n A series of tutorials will com plete the program\, providing participants with hands-on experience on an extended set of practical aspects:\n  \n\n Scaling 3D computational code s on a large scale facility for HPC\n \n I/O and Visualization\n \n GPGP U\n \n HPC for ML\n \n Deep Learning\n \n Applied QC\n\n \n The ideal c andidate is an early career scientist either with short term perspectives to work or currently working (ref. letter from project PI is recommended)\ , on a research project strongly tied to computer simulations and/or large scale data analysis. He/She has successfully attended previous courses on foundations of HPC and advanced programming (i.e.\, CHPC winter school) o r demonstrate extended previous experience in scientific computing.The fir st day of the school includes a series of public talks from leading scient ists in their related field of computational science (for more information see the link). For a restricted number of selected participants the week- event will be a unique opportunity to interact with scientists\, as well a s share and discuss computationally related problems with peers and techni cal experts with years of experience on applied high-end computing for sci entific research.     Speakers:\n S. ABBA OMAR\, ICTP\, Italy\n O. AK IN-OJO\, ICTP EAIFR\, Rwanda\n A. BALLON\, Xanadu\, Canada\n M.-J. BOPAPE\ , National Research Foundation - South African Environmental Observation N etwork\, South Africa\n C. CROSBY\, CHPC\, South Africa\n A. DABHOLKAR\, I CTP\, Italy\n S. DI GIOIA\, ICTP\, Italy\n A. DI PIERRO\, Università di V erona\, Italy\n G. FONSECA\, Intel Corporation\, Germany\n I. GIROTTO\, IC TP\, Italy\n K. GOVENDER\, University of Johannesburg\, South Africa\n J. GREEFF\, North West University\, South Africa\n D. HUPPENKOTHEN\, SRON\, N etherlands\n W. JANSE VAN RENSBURG Werner\, CHPC\, South Africa\n S. KASON GO\, Stellenbosch University\, South Africa\n A. MAHOMED ABBAS\, UKZN\, So uth Africa\n S. MCFARTHING\, Qunova Computing\, South Africa\n M. NASILA\, First National Bank\, South Africa\n A. PELLOW-JARMAN\, Qunova Computing\ , South Africa\n F. PETRUCCIONE Francesco\, NITheCS & Stellenbosch Univers ity\, South Africa\n A. SCAIFE\, University of Manchester\, UK\n H. SITHOL E\, NICIS\, South Africa\n B. WATSON\, Stellenbosch University\, South Afr icaGrants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attenda nce of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from de veloping countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ev ent/10162/ LOCATION:Stellenbosch - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10162/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Scientific Use of Machine Learning on Low-Power Device s: Applications and Advanced Topics | (smr 3832) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230417T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230421T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10166@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP virtual meeting\nAll the videos recording are here: ht tps://tinyml.seas.harvard.edu/SciTinyML-23/\n TinyML is a subfield of Mach ine Learning focused on developing models that can be executed on small\, real-time\, low-power\, and low-cost embedded devices. This allows for new scientific applications to be developed at an extremely low cost and at l arge scale.\n TinyML represents a collaborative effort between the embedd ed power systems and Machine Learning communities\, which traditionally ha ve operated independently. TinyML has a significant role to play in achiev ing the SDGs and facilitating scientific research in areas such as environ mental monitoring\, physics of complex systems and energy management.\n Th e TinyML process starts with collecting data from IoT devices\, then train ing the collected dataset to extract knowledge patterns\; these patterns a re then packaged into a TinyML model that considers the target microproces sor’s limited resources such as memory\, processing power\, and energy.\ n Through hands-on examples\, this workshop will focus on both introductor y and advanced topics in TinyML to pave the way to the development of real -world applications.Topics:\n\n Introduction to TinyML\n \n Getting Star ted with the TinyML Kit\n \n Examples of TinyML Applications\n \n The Ti nyML Development Workflow\n \n Scientific Applications of ML\n \n Recent Research and Advanced Topics in TinyML\n\n Call for Contributed Abstracts : All applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a case study pre sentation. Abstract templates are available below for download.\n  \n\n R egistration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/ 10166/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10166/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics - WOST IV | (smr 3837) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230518T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230526T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10171@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP virtual meeting\n Stochastic thermodynamics has revolu tionized our understanding of far-from-equilibrium statistical physics ove r the last few decades and continues to result in profound\, powerful resu lts\, ranging from fluctuation theorems to speed-limit theorems to thermod ynamic uncertainty relations.  \n With this series of online workshops\, we aim to provide a platform to everyone with an interest in stochastic th ermodynamics to present and discuss their current research\, fostering col laboration among communities and promoting the field to a broad range of s cientists. We aim to have a wide-ranging cross-section of the stochastic t hermodynamics community present their current research in one forum. We ai m to support academics from under-represented groups working in the field\ , and we especially encourage junior researchers to submit their work for 10 minute lightning talks.\nTopics:\n\n Fundamental Principles\n \n Phys ics and Chemistry\n \n Computation and Information Processing\n \n Bioph ysics and Active Matter  \n \n Quantum Stochastic Thermodynamics\nSpeake rs:\nTUTORIALS\nMassimiliano Esposito (U Luxembourg)\nHugo Touchette (Stel lenbosch University)\nVijay Balasubramanian (UPenn)\nFUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE S\nColloquium: Edgar Roldán (ICTP)\nAljaz Godec (MPI NAT)\nSalambo Dago (ENS Lyon)\nOlga Movilla Miangolarra (UC Irvine)\nJan Korbel (CSH Vienna)\ nPHYSICS & CHEMISTRY\nColloquium: Hong Qian (U Washington)\nJohn Bechhoefe r (Simon Fraser U)\nDaniel Busiello (MPIPKS)\nSosuke Ito (Tokyo U)\nAnnwes ha Dutta (IISER Tirupati)\nCOMPUTATION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING\nColloqu ium: John Baez (UC Riverside)\nGülce Kardeş (CU Boulder)\nAdolfo del C ampo (U Luxembourg)\nShin-Ichi Sasa (Kyoto U)\nQUANTUM STOCHASTIC THERMODY NAMICS\nColloquium: Sebastian Deffner (UMBC)\nKay Brandner (U Nottingham)\ nDvira Segal (U Toronto)\nNicole Yunger Halpern (U Maryland)\nObinna Cosma s Abah (QUB)\nBIOPHYSICS AND ACTIVE MATTER\nColloquium: Christian Maes (KU Leuven)\nNikta Fakhri (MIT)\nMichael Hinczewski (CWRU)\nPieter Rein ten W olde (AMOLF)\nRiccardo Rao (CeMSIIS)\n\n Call for Contributed Abstracts: A ll applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentati on and/or a contributed talk. Abstract templates are available below for d ownload.\nRegistration: There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/10171/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10171/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:7th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Application s - ASESMA 2023 | (smr 3847) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230612T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230623T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10181@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP meeting in person in Kigali - Rwanda\n\n \n The aim of the School is to introduce young African researchers to the theory of ele ctronic structure and other atomistic simulation methods\, with an emphasi s on the computational methods for practical calculations.\n The African S chool series on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications is planned o n a biennial basis from 2010 to 2020. Previous schools were held in Cape T own\, South Africa (2010)\, Eldoret\, Kenya (2012)\, Johannesburg\, South Africa (2015)\, Accra\, Ghana (2016)\, ans Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia (2018). In 2021\, ASESMA was held as an ICTP Virtual school.\n The School will als o cover basic and advanced topics and applications of these methods to the structural\, mechanical and optical properties of materials.\n The School will include hands-on tutorial sessions based on public license codes (in cluding\, but not limited to\, the Quantum Espresso package).\nTopics:\n\n Electronic structure theory\n \n Density functional theory and function als\n \n Phonons\n \n Magnetism\n \n Molecular dynamics\n \n Ab-initio molecular dynamics\n \n Optical spectroscopies\n \n Machine learning an d data science\nLecturers:\nO. AKIN-OJO\, ICTP EAIFR\, University of Rwand a\, Rwanda\nS. BONELLA\, EPFL\, Switzerland\nA. CARTA\, ETH\, Switzerland\ nC. DREYER\, Stony Brook University and Flatiron Institute\, USA\nM. GATTI \, CNRS\, France\nS. M. GRIFFIN\, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, University of California\, USA\nG. G. HAGOSS\, University of Ghana\, Ghana \nS. KENMOE\, University of Duisburg-Essen\, Germany\nR. MAEZONO\, JAIST\, Japan\nA. MARINI\, CNR\, Italy\nR. M. MARTIN\, Stanford University\, USA\ nS. NARASIMHAN\, JNCASR\, India\nS. A. NDENGUE\, ICTP EAIFR\, University o f Rwanda\, Rwanda\nM. PAVANELLO\, Rutgers University\, USA\nA. SCHLEIFE\, UIUC\, USA\nN. STOJIC\, ICTP\, Italy\nI. TIMROV\, EPFL\, Switzerland\nA. U RBAN\, Columbia University\, USA\nR. WENTZCOVICH\, Columbia University\, U SA\nH. ZHUANG\, Arizona State University\, USA\n Call for Contributed Abst racts: In the application form\, all applicants are requested to submit a brief abstract for a poster presentation. A limited number of contributed abstracts will be selected for the poster session.\n\n Grants: A limited n umber of grants are available to support the attendance of selected partic ipants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. Th ere is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10181/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10181/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-EAIFR-IUGG Workshop on Computational Geodynamics: Towar ds Building a New Expertise Across Africa | (smr 3849) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230702T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230707T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10183@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Note: The school will start on Sunday\, 2 July.\n This worksho p will bring together cutting-edge researchers in computational geodynamic s to Kigali (Rwanda) with the aim to expose young African talents to this field. This event is co-sponsored by the ICTP-East African Institute for F undamental Research (ICTP-EAIFR) of the University of Rwanda and the Inter national Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).Topics that will be covere d consisting of the basic toolkit include:\n 1) An introduction to geodyna mics with particular emphasis on Africa. This activity will show the force s acting on the Earth\, and the resulting movement and deformation on the Earth.\n 2) An introduction to the theoretical physical background. Emphas is will be placed on the essentials of continuum mechanics and rheological models.\n 3) Scaling analysis and dimensional analysis.\n 4) Model Valida tion.\n 5) The concepts of parallel computing and the scalability of model s on parallel architecture.\n The activities will combine formal lectures and practical work using some open source softwares for geodynamics.\nSpea kers:\nG. DUCLAUX\, Côte d’Azur University\, France\nI. GIROTTO\, ICTP\ , Italy\nR. KATZ\, University of Oxford\, UK\nB. KAUS\, Johannes Gutenberg University\, Germany\nD. MAY\, UC San Diego\, USA\nW. SCHELLART\, VU Amst erdam\, Netherlands\nC. TIBERI\, CNRS Geosciences Montpellier\, University of Montpellier\, France\n\n Call for Contributed Abstracts: All applicant s are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation. Abstract templates are available below for download.\n\n 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.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10183/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10183/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2023 EAUMP-ICTP School on Enumerative Combinatorics\, in Collabora tion with AMU\, CIMPA and ISP | (smr 3854) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230710T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230728T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10188@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP meeting in presence in Arusha\, Tanzania\n The topic o f this year EAUMP-ICTP school is Enumerative Combinatorics\, chosen follow ing recent efforts at strengthening combinatorics in East Africa\, a topic that is easily accessible and yet little taught and researched. It relate s to the research group Combinatorial Research Studio (CoRS) funded by  t he International Science Programme.\nMinicourses topics:\nPer Alexandersso n: Introductory combinatorics\nBalazs Szendroi: Generating functions\nStep han Wagner: Analytic combinatorics\nFernando Rodriguez-Villegas: Combinato rics\, finite fields and geometry\nHans Höngesberg: Combinatorics of latt ice paths\nNadia Lafrenière: Combinatorics with SageMathLectures topics:\ nFufa Beyene: Merging-free partitions and run-sorted permutations\nFrether Getachew: Parity Alternating Permutations Starting with an Odd Integer\nO livia Nabawanda: A weighted Murnaghan-Nakayama rule for (P\,w)-partitions\ n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendan ce of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from dev eloping countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/eve nt/10188/ LOCATION:Arusha - United Republic of Tanzania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10188/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DSU2023 (The Dark Side of the Universe) | (smr 3863) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230710T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230714T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10197@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n A series of international workshops in cosmology and ast roparticle physics bringing together theorists and experimentalists.Topics include:\n  \n\n dark matter\n \n dark energy\n \n cosmic rays\n \n neutrino physics\n \n large-scale structure\n \n black holes\n \n gravi tational waves\n \n physics beyond the standard model\n\n Please see thi s EAIFR LINK for more information.\n Grants: A limited number of grants ar e available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with prio rity given to participants from developing countries. There is no registra tion fee.\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10197/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10197/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Giambiagi Winter School on Cosmology | (smr 3856) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230717T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230728T201500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10190@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Hybrid Meeting in Buenos Aires - Argentina\n This scho ol is a joint activity by ICTP and DF-UBA with the goal of providing an in troduction to the current state of research in cosmology and astroparticle physics. It is geared toward graduate students as well as more senior non -expert researchers interested in the field.\nTopics:\n\n CMB\n \n Dark Matter\n \n Gravitational Waves\n \n Inflation\n \n Statistical Methods \n \n Structure Formation\nSpeakers:\nM. AMIN\, Rice University\, USA\nC. DVORKIN\, Harvard University\, USA\nJ. LESGOURGUES\, RWTH\, Germany\nM. M IRBABAYI\, ICTP\, Italy\nR. ROSENFELD\, ICTP-SAIFR\, Brazil\nM. SIMONOVIĆ \, CERN\, Switzerland\nR. STURANI\, ICTP-SAIFR\, Brazil\nM. ZALDARRIAGA\, IAS\, USA\n\n Call for Contributed Abstracts: All applicants are encourage d to submit an abstract for a poster presentation and/or a contributed tal k. Abstract templates are available below for download.\n\n Grants: A limi ted number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected p articipants\, with priority given to participants from developing countrie s. There is no registration fee.\n\nThere is a special funding for members of the Asociación Física Argentina. If you are a member\, please indica te it in the comments when applying. The application deadline for this fun d is 29 April 2023.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10190/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10190/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:*** CANCELLED *** Conference on the Middle East Material Science | (smr 3860) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230726T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230728T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10194@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10194/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10194/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:VIASM-ICTP Summer School on Differential Geometry | (smr 3862) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230814T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230825T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10196@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:This school is organised in partnership with the Clay Mathemat ics Institute and is also supported by a grant from the IMU-CDC Conference Support Program\, which is partially supported by the Abel Board.\n The s chool gives an ideal platform for advanced undergraduates\, graduate stude nts\, and early-career mathematicians to learn the basics of differential geometry in close connection with recent breakthrough developments. Concre te topics include Kähler geometry\, Ricci curvature\, geometric convergen ce\, and minimal surfaces.\n\n  \n\n Differential geometry is among the m ost active fields in mathematics with fundamental connections to physics a nd other sciences. Indeed\, J. Douglas was awarded the first Fields Medal for his remarkable contribution to the study of minimal surfaces in Euclid ean space. Today the field is as exciting and vibrant as ever. For example \, the resolutions of Willmore’s and Lawson's conjectures bring new insi ghts and revitalize old techniques. This summer school would allow experts in the field to gather\, share ideas\, and pass on their knowledge to the next generations.\n\n  \nClay lecturer:\n \n A. NEVES\, University of Ch icago\, USA\n  \n\n Clay Early Career Researcher: \n\n  \n\n T. BUTTSWO RTH\, University of Queensland\, Australia\nPrincipal Lecturers:\n\n  \n\ n \n B. ALLEN\, CUNY Lehman College\, USA\n \n C. AREZZO\, ICTP\, Italy\ n A. NEVES\, University of Chicago\, USA\n\n A. PULEMOTOV\, University of Queensland\, Australia\n\n G. WEI\, The University of California\, Santa B arbara (UCSB)\, USA\n\n Brainstorm Session:\n  \n\n \n T. BUTTSWORTH\, U niversity of Queensland\, Australia\n \n N.T. DUNG\, Vietnam National Uni versity\, Hanoi\n \n N.M. HOANG\, Vietnam National University\, Hanoi\n \ n T.T. HUNG\, Texas Tech University\, USA\n\n\n \n For more information p lease see VIASM school web page.Grants: A limited number of grants are ava ilable to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10196/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10196/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:3rd Latin American Introductory School on Parallel Programming and Parallel Architecture for HPC | (smr 3872) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230904T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230915T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10206@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The School is organized in collaboration with the Simon Boliva r University.CLICK HERE for the repository of the lecture material.\n This school has the goal of teaching participating scientists basic parallel p rogramming paradigms and using tools for scientific computing on modern pa rallel architectures. Through an intensive programme combining lectures an d exercises with focus on practical skills\, it shall provide a foundation for future computational research using HPC. The ideal candidate is an ea rly career scientist that either will start soon or has already started wo rking on a research project strongly tied to large scale computer simulati ons and/or large scale data analysis. Providing a referral letter from the PI supervising the project is strongly recommended.\n      \n Partici pants will learn fundamental techniques in parallel programming\, parallel data processing\, parallel machine learning and data analytics. The targe t is to improve the efficiency of their research workflows\, and to parall elize them where possible and meaningful. Lectures are meant to provide an overview and relevant references on the presented topics\, while the hand s-on sessions will allow participants to practice on small example problem s of general scientific interest. The programme specifically addresses the needs of scientists using\, writing\, or modifying modern workflows for s cientific computing.\n Main presented topics includes foundation of modern HPC:\n\n Computer architectures for HPC and building of software environ ments\n \n Parallel programming tools (MPI & OpenMP)\n \n GPU Computing\ n \n HPC for Machine Learning\n \n Mixing of compiled and scripting lang uages\n\n Lecturers:\n S. DI GIOIA\, ICTP\, Italy\n I. GIROTTO\, ICTP\, It aly\n A. KOHLMEYER\, ICTP/Temple University\, USA\n J.A. LEYVA ROJAS\, Po ntificia Universidad Javeriana\, Colombia\n J. MONTOYA\, Universidad de C artagena\, Colombia\n E. F. POSADA CORREA\, Temple University\, USAGrants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of sel ected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing c ountries. There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/102 06/ LOCATION:Barranquilla - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10206/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Summer School on New Trends in Modern Quantum Science: from Novel Functional Materials to Quantum Technologies | (smr 3877) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230922T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230930T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10211@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The focus of this Summer School is on advanced ideas\, nove l results\, current problems\, and future prospects in the area of modern quantum science\, with a special focus on quantum materials and their appl ications in quantum technology. This constitutes a new and advanced resear ch area of physics and engineering\, aiming at exploiting phenomena of qua ntum mechanics such as entanglement\, quantum superpositions\, tunneling\, and quantum interference for practical applications: in quantum computing \, quantum sensing\, quantum cryptography\, high precision quantum metrolo gy\, and quantum imaging. The lectures will be presented by leading expert s on different issues of modern condensed matter physics\, quantum science and technology.\n\n Topics:\n\n Graphene: Two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures \n \n Topological insulators \n \n Quantum Hall effects \n \n Novel superconducting materials \n \n Quantum computati on and information\n \n Majorana fermions and topological quantum computa tion \n \n Quantum metrology and sensing\n \n Quantum imaging\n \n Phy sics Informed Machine learning for material design and simulation\n \n No n-Hermitian and PT-symmetric physics in quantum materials\n \n Non-Equili brium Quantum Matter\n \n Quantum networks\nSpeakers:\n A. AHARONY\, Tel- Aviv University\, Israel\n\n S. BANERJEE\, Indian Institute of Science\, B angalore\, India\n\n Y. BLANTER\, TU Delft\, The Netherlands\n X. BONET MO NROIG\, Leiden University\, The Netherlands\n\n A. BUCHLEITNER\, Universit y of Freirburg\, Germany\n\n I. BURMISTROV\, Landau Institute for Theoreti cal Physics\, Russian Federation\n\n R. EGGER\, University of Duesseldorf\ , Germany\n\n O. ENTIN-WOHLMAN\, Tel-Aviv University\, Israel\n\n V. FALKO \, University of Manchester\, UK\n\n S. FLACH\, IBS\, Daejeon\, Korea\n M. FRANZ\, University of British Columbia\, Canada\n\n D. GUTMAN\, Bar-Ilan University\, Israel\n\n F. HASSLER\, RWTH Aachen\, Germany\n\n T. IHN\, E TH\, Zurich\, Switzerland\n M. KISELEV\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n S. KOHLER\, ICMM CSIC Materials Science Institute of Madrid\, Spain\n M. KOSHINO\, Osaka University\, Japan\n\n D. MEIDAN\, Ben-Gurion University\, Israel\n\n L. M OLENKAMP\, University of Wuezburg\, Germany\n\n C. MORA\, Universite Paris Diderot\, France\n\n A. SAHA\, Institute of Physics\, Bhubaneswar\, India \n\n F. VON OPPEN\, Frei University of Berlin\, Germany\n\n  \n\n \n \n Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation or a contributed talk. During the application please make sure to use our templates to format your abstract. Templates are available below for down load.\n Link to the local web-page of the activity is here https://mqs202 3.las.uz/ where you can get information about visa\, travel\, and other or ganizational matters.\n \n \n  \n \n \n Grants:\n \n A limited numbe r of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participan ts\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10211/ LOCATION:Bukhara - Uzbekistan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10211/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:*** CANCELLED *** Climate Data and Seasonal Forecast Analysis Tech niques | (smr 3880) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231002T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231006T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10214@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10214/ LOCATION:Harare - Zimbabwe URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10214/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Eastern Africa Capacity Building Workshop on Space Weather and Low -latitude Ionosphere | (smr 3882) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231003T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231012T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10216@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Space Weather is a relatively new discipline of space scien ce that investigates the effects of the Sun’s activity and interactions on human technology\, life and health. It is defined as the variations in the space environment induced by different phenomena occurring on the Sun ’s surface\, like coronal mass ejections and solar flares\, and disturba nces resulting from interactions between the ionosphere-thermosphere syste m.\n\n  \n\n Modern technological infrastructures\, such as GNSS and HF c ommunication facilities\, are susceptible to the adverse impacts of space weather\, which can induce large errors in single-frequency GNSS positioni ng and even radio signal black-outs. Developing countries in Africa are pr edominantly located in equatorial/low latitudes\, where space weather effe cts make the ionosphere more variable and highly unpredictable. However li mited efforts have been made to study the impact of space weather in these regions owing to lack of the required infrastructure.\n\n The NORISK proj ect\, a collaboration between INGV and Italian Space Agency\, is contribut ing to fill this gap with the deployments of a new ionospheric observatory in Malindi\, Kenya. This workshop\, organized in the framework of the NOR ISK activities\, aims to enhance capacity building in GNSS and HF technolo gy for Space Weather monitoring over the Eastern African region. It is the refore planned to include lectures on the following topics.\n\n Topics:\n\ n Space Weather and Sun-Earth coupling\n \n GNSS fundamentals\n \n HF S ystems generalities\n \n The Low latitude ionosphere\n \n Ionospheric mo nitoring\, modelling and forecasting\n \n ICT infrastructure for space we ather data sharing\n\n 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.\n   \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10216/ LOCATION:Malindi - Kenya URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10216/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2023 Pugwash Council Meeting | (smr 3987) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231021T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231022T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10546@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP hybrid meeting\n The Pugwash Council is holding its fi rst meeting at the ICTP. Both institutions were founded by Nobel Laureates with the vision of achieving Peace by means of Science.\n\n \n The missio n of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is to bring scie ntific insight and reason to bear on namely\, the catastrophic threat pose d to humanity by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.  It was i n recognition of its mission to “diminish the part played by nuclear arm s in international politics and\, in the longer run\, to eliminate such ar ms” that Pugwash and its co-founder\, Sir Joseph Rotblat\, were awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.\n It draws its inspiration from the Russell-Ei nstein Manifesto of 1955\, which urged leaders of the world to “think in a new way”:  to renounce nuclear weapons\, to “remember their humani ty” and  to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of di spute between them.”Pugwash seeks a world free of nuclear weapons and ot her weapons of mass destruction. Through our long-standing tradition of ‘dialogue across divides’ that also earned us the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995\, Pugwash aims to develop and support the use of scientific\, eviden ce-based policymaking\, focusing on areas where nuclear and WMD risks are present. By facilitating Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues\, we foster creat ive discussions on ways to increase the security of all sides and promote policy development that is cooperative and forward-looking.Officers of Pug wash:\n K. A. HALLBERG\, Balseiro Institute and Bariloche Atomic Center\, Argentina (Chair of the Pugwash Council)\n S. DUARTE\, former UN High Repr esentative for Disarmament Affairs\, Brazil (President of Pugwash)\n P. CO TTA RAMUSINO\, Professor of Mathematical Physics\, University of Milano\, Italy (Pugwash Secretary General)\n S. MILLER\, Harvard University\, USA ( Chair of the Pugwash Executive Committee)\n G. NEUNECK\, IFSH and Universi ty of Hamburg\, Germany (co-Chair of the meeting)\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/10546/ LOCATION:ICTP Lundqvist Meeting Room URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10546/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:High-Resolution Atmospheric Models for Regional Applications: a Re gCM and WRF Advanced School | (smr 3873) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231030T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231103T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10207@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP meeting in Kigali\, Rwanda\n High impact weather event s (HIWEs) strongly affect society with devastating effects on agriculture\ , infrastructures and human lives. This is particularly true in regions of the world which lack up-to-date and dense weather observational networks\ , powerful computational tools and efficient early warning systems\, such as sub-Saharan Africa. HIWEs are often characterized by relatively small-s cale and complex atmospheric dynamical features\, which make them hard to forecast with mesoscale numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. The use of cloud-resolving NWP configurations (with horizontal grid spacing 1-5 k m) for operational and research-oriented activities have proven to be effe ctive in producing more skilful forecasts\, benefiting the entire society. High resolution numerical models can also be employed in idealized experi ments to understand relevant atmospheric processes. The Weather Research a nd Forecasting (WRF) model and the Regional Climate Model (RegCM) system a re two state-of-the-art atmospheric models capable of cloud-resolving conf igurations. The aim of this advanced school is to train a diverse group of young motivated researchers in using high resolution NWP models for eithe r research-oriented or applied activities.Topics\n\n 1. The first part of the training will be composed of a set of online lectures to introduce the numerical models. The fundamental principles of atmospheric numerical mod eling will be covered including (and not limited to):\n\n equations of mo tion\n \n numerical schemes\n \n parameterizations\n \n choice of the n umerical grid\n\n 2. The second part will be organized in presence. It wil l consist of five days of lectures and hands-on sessions in which two grou ps will focus on the set up and running of numerical simulations either wi th WRF or with RegCM. The school will cover:\n\n the introduction to the models architecture\n \n the explanation of how the relevant model parame ters can be modified to perform either a realistic or an idealized simulat ion\n \n hands on session covering all steps needed to perform a simulati on from the beginning to the end\n \n examples of post-processing analyse s using different tools (e.g. CDO\, Python\, Ferret)\nSpeakers      \ nF. DESBIOLLES\, University of Milano-Bicocca\, Italy    \nG. GIULIANI\ , ICTP\, Italy            \nS. KRISHNAKUMAR\, University of Milan o-Bicocca\, Italy    \nA. N. MERONI\, University of Milano-Bicocca\, It aly\nT. R. MAISHA*\, SAWS\, South Africa (remote)\nR. R. MUITA\, Kenya Met eorological Department\, Kenya\nA. TOMPKINS\, ICTP\, Italy             \n* to be confirmed   TEMBO Africa: The work leading to these resu lts has received funding from the European Horizon Europe Programme (2021- 2027) under grant agreement n° 101086209.\n\n Venue:East African Institut e for Fundamental Research\n KIST2 Building CST\n Nyarugenge Campus\n Univ ersity of Rwanda\n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to s upport the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to pa rticipants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//i ndico.ictp.it/event/10207/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10207/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Collective Animal Behavior | (smr 3892) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231113T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231124T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10226@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Collective behavior is a distinctive trait of human and animal societies.\nThis school aims at providing a thorough introduction to basi c notions and advanced topics in this subject from the viewpoints of physi cs\, biology\, computer science and\nrobotics.Speakers:\nR. ALONSO\, Biolo gy Faculty\, University of Havana\, Cuba\nA. BARRO\, Biology Faculy\, Univ ersity of Havana\, Cuba\n\n F. GINELLI\, University of Insurbia\, Italy\n\ n P. GONZALEZ\, Center for Marine Investigations\, University of Havana\, Cuba\n\n D. GORDON\, Stanford University\, USA\n A. LAGE\, Center for Comp lex Systems\, University of Havana\, Cuba\n ​M. MAGNASCO\, Rockefeller U niversity\, New York\, USA\nM. MOSES\, University of New Mexico\, USAGrant s: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of s elected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10226/ LOCATION:La Havana - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10226/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-ICTS Quantitative Systems Biology Winter School 2023 | (smr 3 896) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231204T034500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231216T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10230@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Link to ICTP ICTS web page: https://www.icts.res.in/program/Q SB2023\n Cells are the basic units of all living matter. They harness ener gy flows to drive biological functions. Most bio-chemical networks involve d in energy transduction are nowadays well-characterized. However\, the en ergetic costs and constraints for specific cellular processes remain large ly unknown. In particular\, what are the energy budgets of cells? What are the constraints and limits energy flows impose on cellular processes? Do cells operate near these limits\, and\, if so\, how do energetic constrain ts impact cellular functions? Physics has provided poweerful tools to stud y nonequilibrium systems and to define these physical limits\, but applyin g these tools to cell biology remains a challenge. Physical bioenergetics resides at the interface of nonequilibrium physics\, energy metabolism\, a nd cell biology. It seeks to understand how much energy cells use\, how th ey partition this energy between different cellular processes\, and the as sociated energetic constraints. In this School\, we shall review the state of the art in physical bioenergetics with an aim to discuss and articulat e open questions and future challenges.\n\n  \n\n This is the twelfth sch ool in the series on Quantitative Systems Biology\, held alternately at Tr ieste and Bangalore. The school responds to the strong need\, especially a t the Ph.D. and postdoc level\, for providing scientists with a broad expo sure to quantitative problems in the study of living systems. The audience will range from Ph.D. students to young faculty\, who either work in this area or plan to do so.  \n\n  \n\n The aim of QSB2023 will be to allow students from different backgrounds to become familiar with exciting devel opments at the interface of physics\, bioenergetics\, and cellular metabol ism. Starting with an overview of cellular bioenergetics\, biochemistry an d metabolism\, the students will be exposed to contemporary research areas covering a broad range of topics\, including energetics of mechano-chemic al processes\, active matter and biological processes such as cellular gro wth\, function and organismal development.\n\n \n SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMM ITTEE:\n\n Vijay BALASUBRAMANIAM\, University of Pennsylvania\, USA\n\n An tonio CELANI\, ICTP Trieste\, Italy\n\n Sanjay JAIN\, University of Delhi\ , India\n\n Vijay KRISHNAMURTHY\, ICTS\, India\n\n Matteo MARSILI\, ICTP T rieste\, Italy\n\n Mukund THATTAI\, NCBS\, IndiaLecturers include:\n Amite sh ANAND\, DBS-TIFR\, India\n\n Vaishnavi ANANTHANARAYANAN\, University of New South Wales\, Australia\n\n Massimiliano ESPOSITO\, University of Lux embourg\, Luxembourg\n\n Sunil LAXMAN\, inStem\, Bengaluru\, India\n\n Mic hael LYNCH\, Arizona State University\, USA\n\n Jonathan RODENFELS\, MPI- CBG\, Germany\n\n Pablo SARTORI\, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência\, Portu gal\n\n Xingbo YANG\, Harvard University\, USA\n\n  \n\n  \n\n Eligibil ity criteria: Scientists and students from all over the world can apply fo r the School. Researchers from developing countries are particularly encou raged to apply. As the program will be conducted in English\, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language.\n\n  \n\n Th e school will not have an online component.Grants: A limited number of gra nts are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, wit h priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no re gistration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10230/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10230/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The 18th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings\, Particles and Cosm ology | (smr 3915) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231205T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231214T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10443@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n On this school\n\n  \n\n The Kavli Asian Winter School (KA WS) on Strings\, Particles and Cosmology is a pan-Asian collaborative effo rt of high energy theorists from China\, India\, Korea\, and Japan to give young researchers in Asia an opportunity to come together and learn about the latest developments in high energy theory from leading experts on the subject.\n\n  \n\n This school is aimed towards advanced graduate studen ts\, postdoctoral fellows and active researchers in the field. This is the 18th in a series of Asian Winter Schools that have been organized on a ro tating basis between China\, India\, Korea\, and Japan. We welcome student s from all of these participating countries as well as students from outsi de.\n\n  \n\n The previous Asian Winter Schools in this series have provi ded young researchers with opportunity for discussions with leading expert s in diverse areas and also for initiating collaboration with other young researchers from different countries. We hope that 18th KAWS will continue this tradition.\n\n  \n\n Invited Lecturers:\n\n Fernando Alday (Oxford) : Conformal Bootstrap\n\n Clay Cordova (Chicago): Generalized Symmetries\n \n Sergei Gukov (Caltech): Machine Learning and QFT/Strings\n\n Veronika H ubeny (UC Davis): Quantum Information and Holography\n\n Igor Klebanov (Pr inceton): Confinement and QCD strings\n\n Hong Liu (MIT): Algebraic Quantu m Field Theories and Quantum Gravity\n\n Ana-Maria Raclariu (Perimeter): C elestial Holography\n\n Susanne Reffert (Bern): Large-charge Expansions in QFT\n LINK for applications in person & online: https://www2.yukawa.kyot o-u.ac.jp/~kaws18th/registration.php\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10443/ LOCATION:Kyoto - Japan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10443/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Synchrotron Light Sources and Their Applications | (smr 3917) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240115T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240126T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10455@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\nAn ICTP Online Meeting\n The School will introduce young sci entists to the design\, operation\, and research opportunities offered at a modern synchrotron light source and how such sources are realized.\n\n  \n\n The school will be held over two weeks and will consist of three mo dules: (1) Physical aspects concerning the design and function of the main components: accelerators\, insertion devices and beamline optics\; (2) Ov erview of the arguments that can be made in order to fund and build a sync hrotron light source\, including socioeconomic benefits\, stakeholder enga gement\, communication\; and (3) Overview of common beamline techniques\, including those utilizing X-rays and infrared radiation.\n\n  \n\n Topics :\n\n Fundamentals of synchrotron radiation from storage rings\n \n Fund amentals of X-ray interactions with matter\n \n Design and operation of s torage rings\n \n Beamline design: Photon transport and optics\n \n Bend ing magnets and insertion devices\n \n Project management at a large faci lity\n \n Ancillary devices for light sources\n \n Socioeconomic justifi cation\n \n Cultural heritage\n \n Stakeholder engagement/communications \n \n Starting up user operations at a new facility\n \n Industrial Appl ications\n \n IR microscopy\n \n Basics of X-ray crystallography and pow der diffraction\n \n Basics of structural biology\n \n Fundamentals of X -ray absorption: EXAFS and XANES\n \n XRF\, TXRF\, GXRF and their applica tions in materials and life sciences\n \n Tomography\n\n Registration:   There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10455/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10455/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School of Physics and Mathematics Without Frontiers (ZIGZAG) | (sm r 3923) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240311T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240323T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10461@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The ICTP Meeting\n The aim of this project is to inspire an d engage students' on different subjects in theoretical physics and mathem atics. The scientific program will be complemented by soft skills sessions .\n\n \n  \n \n The school is an interdisciplinary activity: it include s lectures in theoretical physics\n and mathematics and it consists of in teractive lectures centered around exercises. We expect that the students will be at the end of an undergraduate degree and they plan to apply for n ew positions.\n \n The school will be composed of several mini-courses on different topics. Our ultimate goal is to help the students to engage wit h the material in a more active and inspiring way. At the end of the two w eeks there will be some colloquiums on “Future directions” that will i ntroduce the students to some more advanced topics and give them a flavor of possible research topics connected to the objects they have encountered in the school. \n \n  \n \n Topics:\n \n Advanced Quantum Mechanics \n \n Advanced Statistical Physics\n \n Introduction to Python\n \n Topology\n \n Group Theory\n \n Differential Geometry\n \n Com plex Analysis\n \n Speakers:\n Claudio AREZZO\, ICTP\, Italy\n Michela ARTEBANI\, University of Conception\, Chile\n \n Fabio BERNASCONI\, Unive rsity of Basel & Université de Neuchâtel\, Switzerland\n \n Alejandra C ASTRO\, University of Cambridge\, UK\n \n Lorenzo DI PIETRO\, University of Trieste\, Italy\n \n ​Leticia CUGLIANDOLO\, Sorbonne Université\, F rance\n Sergei GUKOV\, California Institute of Technology\, USA\n Pamela HARRIS\, University of Wisconsin\, USA\n \n Uriel MORZAN\, Universidad de Buenos Aires\, Argentina\n Terry RUDOLPH\, Imperial College London - P siQuantum\, UK\n \n  \n\n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are avail able to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority gi ven to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fe e.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10461/ LOCATION:La Habana - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10461/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Parallel Programming and Parallel Architecture for High Performance Computing | (smr 3935) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240422T021500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240503T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10473@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP 60th Anniversary satellite event\nLink to lecture mat erial is HERE\n \n \n \n This school has the goal of teaching partici pating scientists basic parallel programming paradigms and tools for scien tific computing. Through an intensive programme combining lectures and exe rcises with focus on practical skills\, it shall provide a foundation for future computational research using HPC. The ideal candidate is an early c areer scientist that either will start soon or has already started working on a research project strongly tied to intensive computing for simulation s and/or data analysis. Providing a referral letter from the PI supervisin g the project is strongly recommended.\n \n  \n \n \n Participan ts will learn fundamental techniques in parallel programming\, GPU program ming and machine learning. The target is to improve the efficiency of thei r research workflows\, and to parallelize them where possible and meaningf ul. Lectures are meant to provide an overview and relevant references on t he presented topics\, while the hands-on sessions will allow participants to practice on small example problems of general scientific interest. The programme specifically addresses the needs of scientists using\, writing\, or modifying modern workflows for scientific computing. During second wee k participants will work on applied project of parallel programming of the ir own choosing if it fits into the scope of the workshop\, otherwise assi gned by the lecturers on a range of typical problems.\n  \n \n \n Main presented topics includes foundation of modern HPC:\n \n Building of software environments for scientific computing\n \n Parallel prog ramming tools (MPI & OpenMP)\n \n GPU Computing\n \n Machine Lea rning\n \n Mixing of compiled and scripting languages\n \n  \n \n \n Lecturers:\n \n S. DI GIOIA\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n I. GIROTTO\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n A. KOHLMEYER\, Temple University\, USA\n T. NGUYEN\, Univers ity of Chicago\, USA\n 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.\n\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/10473/ LOCATION:Kathmandu - Nepal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10473/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-UNU Workshop on TinyML for Sustainable Development | (smr 392 5) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240426T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240430T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10463@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP 60th anniversary satellite eventAn ICTP meeting in Macao-China\, Special Administrative Region\n TinyML is a new technology t hat allows machine learning models to run on low-cost\, low-power microcon trollers. This technology has a significant role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in enabling new applications in f ields such as healthcare\, agriculture\, environmental monitoring and cons ervation.\n The rise of TinyML has opened new opportunities for developing intelligent\, low-power devices in resource-constrained environments. In recent years\, TinyML has gained significant attention from researchers\, developers\, and industries due to its potential for enabling new applicat ions in fields such as healthcare\, agriculture\, transportation\, conserv ation\, and smart homes. TinyML is a great educational tool as it explores topics from across the computer science and engineering curricula.\n This technology’s low bandwidth and energy requirements have particular rele vance for countries with limited access to energy and computing resources. However\, access to this technology is currently limited in many parts of the world\, particularly in the Global South. In this workshop we will fo cus on applications that are particularly relevant to Asian researchers an d provide hands-on training on commercially available hardware.Topics:\n\n Introduction to TinyML\n \n Sensors and Data Collection\n \n Energy Ef ficiency\n \n Environmental Monitoring\n \n Health Monitoring\n \n Agri culture Monitoring\n \n Smart Cities\n \n Ethics and Machine Learning\n\ n Venue: The United Nations University Institute in Macau\, Casa Silva Men des\, Estrada do Engenheiro Trigo No 4\, Macao SAR\, China\n\n Visa: Pleas e check the document about Entry Visa Requirements for Macau SAR in the 'M aterial section'Grants: A limited number of grants are available to suppor t the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to partici pants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/10463/ LOCATION:Macao - China\, Macao Special Administrative Region URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10463/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Machine Learning on Low-Power Devices: Applications an d Advanced Topics | (smr 3926) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240506T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240510T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10464@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP virtual meeting\n\n \n TinyML empowers machine lear ning technologies to conduct on-device analytics of sensor data with remar kably low power consumption. This opens the door for the development of no vel applications at an exceptionally affordable cost and on a large scale. \n  Topics:\n\n Introduction to TinyML\n \n The TinyML Development Work flow\n \n TinyML Applications\n \n Scientific Applications of ML\n \n R ecent Research and Advanced Topics in TinyML\n\n Speakers:\n José Antonio BAGUR NÁJERA\, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala\, Guatemala\n David CU ARTIELLES RUIZ\, Malmo University\, Sweden (Arduino Co-Founder)\n Evgeni G OUSEV\, TinyML Foundation\, USA\n Shawn HYMEL\, Edge Impulse\, USA\n Gian Marco IODICE\, ARM\, Italy\n Jesus Alfonso LOPEZ SOTELO\, Universidad Auto noma de Occidente\, Colombia\n Diego MENDEZ CHAVES\, Pontificia Universida d Javeriana\, Colombia\n Moises Stevend MEZA RODRIGUEZ\, Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University\, Peru\n Claudio MICELI\, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\n Hao Eric PAN\, Seeed Studio\, China\n Brian PLANCHER \, (Barnard College\, Columbia University\, USA\n Marcus RÜB\, Hahn-Schic kard\, Germany\n Robert THAS JOHN\, ARM\, Italy\n Marco ZENNARO\, ICTP\, I taly\n\n Call for Contributed Abstracts: All applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a case study presentation. Abstract templates are a vailable below for download.Registration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10464/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10464/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:East African Summer School on Optics and Lasers | (smr 3934) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240506T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240517T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10472@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP hybrid meeting in Nairobi\, Kenya\n The scope of th e school is to promote new theoretical and experimental methods\, concepts \, instruments\, measurement techniques and data analysis routines for bot h Laboratory and industrial applications\, as well as to coordinate intern ational activities and collaboration in the area of Optics and photonics. By focusing on both theory and applications\, the school will also provide an intersection of emerging techniques and experimental methods with theo retical advances in the field of Optics and lasers.\n This summer school a ims to build a larger workforce who will drive Lasers and photonics resear ch to higher heights in future in the African continent and other developi ng countries.\n The participants will be equipped with hands on training s kills and be able to do some advanced experiments which they have never do ne in their respective institutions with the aim of transferring knowledge and skill.\n We hope to motivate the participants to take up research act ivities in this field of Lasers and photonics.\n This will be an opportuni ty for networking and learning from experts from abroad\, who will share a nd motivate the young scientists in Africa and other developing countries (who will manage to attend the school)\, to pursue or carry out innovative projects in lasers and photonics. Innovative technology aspects of modern low-cost laser facilities will be covered experimentally in the hands-on activities.Topics\n\n Introduction to laser physics and optical metrology \n \n Optics and quantum information\n \n Digital holography microscopy and photothermal spectroscopy\n \n Nano-optics and optics metamaterials\n \n Chiral nanophotonics\n \n Flat optics: Enabling novel science and ap plications\n \n Biomedical optics with a focus on the theory and applicat ions of near-infrared tissue spectroscopy for point-of-care monitoring of cerebral blood flow\, metabolism\, and oxygenation\n \n Y-shaped diode la sers for terahertz technology applications\n \n Isolated attosecond pulse s\n \n The potential of optical biosensor in bridging the diagnostic gap in developing countries\n \n Laser spectroscopy of atomic systems\n \n O ptical fibre communication technology\n \n Advancing imaging technologies \n \n Lasers & photonics impact on sciences for the society\n \n The squ eezing light via self-induced transparency solitons\n \n Ultrashort pump generation from Yb:YAG lasers\n \n Solar pumped lasers\n \n Designing mu lticore fibers for high-power fiber amplifiers\n \n Kerr squeezing in fib ers and sub-shot-noise interferometry\n \n Assessing the second-order cor relation function of a quantum state from its Wigner function\n \n Comput ational electromagnetics and photonics: from conventional fast solvers to the novel fractional formulations and their applications\n \n AI-driven b iomedical imaging for smart diagnostics\n\n Call for Contributed Abstracts : All applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster present ation. Abstract templates are available below for download.Speakers\n H. C ABRERA MORALES\, ICTP\, Italy\n A. CANDEO\, Milan Polytechnic\, Italy\n M. DIOP\, Western University London\, Canada\n H. FATTAH\, Max Planck Instit ute for the Science of Light\, Germany\n J. O. GWARO\, Maasai Mara Univers ity\, Kenya\n N. KALININ\, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light\, Germany\n J. KAMUTI KALWE\, Multimedia University of Kenya\, Kenya\n D. K INYUA\, Kirinyaga University\, Kenya\n G. LEUCHS\, Max Planck Institute fo r the Science of Light\, Germany\n J. LI\, Harbin Institute of Technology\ , China\n M. MAAZA\, UNESCO-UNISA-iThemba LABS\, South Africa\n M. Q. MEHM OOD\, Information Technology University (ITU)\, Pakistan\n S. NJOROGE\, Ka ratina University\, Kenya\n E. OGARO\, Multimedia University of Kenya\, Ke nya\n S. PEREIRA\, TU Delft\, The Netherlands\n G. K. RURIMO\, Multimedia University of Kenya\, Kenya\n M. SHIKHALI NAJAFABADI\, Max Planck Institut e for the Science of Light\, Germany\n W. SULTANI\, Information Technology University (ITU)\, Pakistan\n D. WASWA\, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Univ ersity\, South Africa\n M. ZUBAIR\, Information Technology University (ITU )\, PakistanVenue: Multimedia University of Kenya\, P.O. Box 15653 - 00503 NairobiWelcome Remarks: Please check in the 'Material Section' the Welcom e Remarks from the Ag Deputy Vice Chancellor of Multimedia University of K enyaVisa: Please use the following link to apply for your Visa https://www .etakenya.go.ke/enGrants: A limited number of grants are available to supp ort the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to parti cipants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/10472/ LOCATION:Nairobi - Kenya URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10472/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA-UNESCO Workshop on Open Hardware Solutions for Sus tainable Development | (smr 3919) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240513T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240517T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10457@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP-IAEA-UNESCO Meeting in presence in Stellenbosch\, S outh Africa\n Open hardware solutions can play a crucial role in promoting sustainable development. By enabling transparency and collaboration\, ope n hardware solutions can lead to the development of sustainable technologi es that can easily be adapted to local contexts.\n Open hardware\, charact erized by open access to designs and specifications\, presents an opportun ity for promoting sustainability and equity. By design\, it facilitates a reduction in waste through modularity and repairability\, extending the li fespan of electronic devices and diminishing electronic waste. Enhanced ef ficiency is another hallmark of open hardware. The collaborative nature of its development allows for diverse inputs and innovations\, which can lea d to more resource-efficient and high-performance hardware systems.\n Open hardware empowers communities\, particularly those with unique challenges and limited access to technology. The open nature of these projects democ ratizes technology\, enabling local communities to develop solutions tailo red to their specific needs. It cultivates self-reliance and participation in global technology discourse.\nTopics:\n\n Introduction to Internet of Things for SDGs\n \n Open Hardware solutions for Internet of Things\n \n Communications options for Internet of Things\n \n Innovating for Effic iency: Open Hardware Solutions in Water and Agriculture\n\n Grants: A limi ted number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected p articipants\, with priority given to participants from developing countrie s. There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10457/ LOCATION:Stellenbosch - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10457/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on the Biophysics of Fungal Spore Dispersal and its Relev ance to Plant Disease | (smr 3942) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240610T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240614T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10480@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Meeting\n Growing food insecurity is a major concern i n the developing world. Reducing chemical use for pest management is an ur gent need in Africa and globally\, for cost\, food safety\, and environmen tal sustainability. The biophysics of pathogen spore dispersal is hardly s tudied but offers potential targets for the disruption of plant disease. R esearch on this topic can guide more accurate use of fungicides in the sho rt term and explore less toxic alternatives in the long term. This worksho p aims to stimulate research on basic phenomena of fungal spore dispersal and explore how research might be used in applied contexts. \n\n  \n\n T opics:\n\n Introduction to biophysics\n \n Introduction to mycology and biology of spore development and release\n \n Environmental factors influ encing fungal spore development\, release\, and dispersal\n \n Basics of fluid dynamics\n \n Physics of spore dispersal\n \n Applications of the physics of spore dispersal\n\n Representative of the Government of RSA:\n Mr. Jan Hendrik VENTER\, Director of Plant Health\, Department of Agricult ure\, Land Reform and Rural DevelopmentSpeakers:\n Carlos AGUILAR-TRIGUERO S\, University of Jyväskylä\n Tjaart KRÜGER\, University of Pretoria\n \n Veera NORROS\, The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)\n ​Anne PR INGLE\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\n \n Agnese SEMINARA\, University of Genoa\n Bernard SLIPPERS\, FABI Director\n \n Mark UNGER\, The Wonde r Lab\n  \n\n\n  \n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given t o participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10480/ LOCATION:Pretoria - South Africa URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10480/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Niš School 2024: Information\, Noise and Physics of Life | (smr 3 946) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240617T053000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240628T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10484@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Meeting in Niš\, Serbia \n Statistical physics and in formation theory have a ubiquitous role in the research of life sciences a nd complex systems. The interplay of these research fields represents a un ique basis for analyzing real biological systems\, such as active matter a nd gene regulatory systems\, which are usually far from equilibrium and st rongly influenced by fluctuations and noise. In addition\, the synergy of statistical physics and information theory provides powerful tools for the analysis of inference and optimization methods that are at the heart of a rtificial intelligence.\n The school provides key knowledge about the fund amentals of information theory and statistical physics and about the appli cations to machine learning\, biophysics and bioinformatics. The courses r equire little or no prior knowledge and aim to equip participants with gro undbreaking multidisciplinary research in cutting-edge scientific fields\, being suitable for Masters and PhD students as well as postdocs. The ulti mate goals of the school are to expand international collaboration and the exchange of scientific and professional knowledge and experience\, and to promote active interactions between students and researchers from develop ed and developing countries.\nTopics:\n\n Information Theory and Entropy Foundations\n \n Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics\n \n Out of Equil ibrium Physics\n \n Statistical Physics in Bioinformatics\n \n Active Ma tter in Biological Systems\n \n Statistical Physics of Machine Learning\n Lecturers: \nP. CALABRESE\, SISSA\, Italy\nL. CUGLIANDOLO\, Sorbonne Unive rsity\, France\nA. DECELLE\, Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, Spain\nS. GUPTA\, TIFR Mumbai\, India\nV. JAKŠIĆ\, McGill University\, Canada (re mote)\nA. JELIĆ\, ICTP\, Italy\nI. KLICH\, university of Virginia\, USA\n M. MARSILI\, ICTP\, Italy\nZ. STOJANOVIĆ-RADIĆ\, PMF\, University of Ni š\, Serbia - colloquium\nB. TODOROVIĆ\, PMF\, University of Niš\, Serbi a - colloquium\nM. VUCELJA\, University of Virginia\, USA\nM. WEIGT\, Sorb onne University\, France\n Grants: A limited number of grants are availabl e to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\ n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10484/ LOCATION:Niš - Serbia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10484/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Classical and Quantum Machine Learning for Condensed M atter Physics | (smr 3948) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240619T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240621T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10486@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:To watch the Workshop in Live - Streaming:\nDay 1 on YouTube CLICK HERE\nDay 2 on YouTube CLICK HERE\nDay 3 on YouTube CLICK HEREAn ICTP Online Meeting\n The workshop will be held for three days\n from 10a m to 3pm CEST for each day\n\n This workshop aims to provide an overview o f machine learning (ML) and quantum computing (QC) techniques\, in particu lar\, to solve condensed matter physics problems. The workshop will also g ive the participants a hands-on experience of some useful ML+QC packages.\ n\n  \n\n In recent years\, classical ML techniques have been applied to analyze vast datasets\, uncover hidden patterns\, and predict material pro perties with unprecedented accuracy. Concurrently\, the advent of QC promi ses to revolutionize the field by harnessing the computational power of qu antum computers to tackle complex quantum many-body problems.\n\n  \n\n I n this workshop\, we will listen to some presentations from leading resear chers and young researchers who have been exploring classical ML\, quantum ML\, and other quantum-related research\, which could be beneficial for t he development of condensed matter physics. During the workshop\, particip ants will also be equipped with hands-on sessions for learning cutting-edg e tools of quantum ML.\n  \n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Classical machine lear ning approaches for condensed matter physics\, such as supervised and unsu pervised learning\, deep learning\, and reinforcement learning\n \n Appli cations of classical machine learning in materials discovery\, phase trans itions\, electronic structure prediction\, and beyond\n \n Quantum comput ing and quantum machine learning algorithms\, along with their potential t o address fundamental challenges in physics and engineering\, particularly in condensed matter physics\, including simulating quantum many-body syst ems and solving optimization problems\n \n Hybrid classical-quantum compu ting techniques for enhancing computational efficiency and accuracy\n \n Challenges and limitations in applying machine learning techniques to phys ics problems\n \n Future prospects and directions for advancing the syner gy between classical and quantum techniques\, especially in condensed matt er physics research\n\n Speakers: \n \n Khoirul ANWAR\, Telkom Universit y\, Indonesia\n Cica GUSTIANI\, Sorbonne Université\, France\n \n Muham mad Yusrul HANNA\, BRIN\, Indonesia\n Mingda LI\, MIT\, USA\n \n Andriya n B. SUKSMONO\, ITB\, Indonesia\n \n  \n \n  \n \n The accepted parti cipants will be provided with the Zoom meeting link and\n Discord communi ty invitation through their emails by June 12\, 2024.\n Contributed talk:  Applicants who want to give a contributed talk are asked to submit an ab stract. Please use the ICTP templates that are available below for downloa d.Registration: There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/10486/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10486/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:3rd Joint SAIFR/ICTP Summer School on Particle Physics | (smr 3949 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240624T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240705T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10487@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Meeting in person\n The Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) has been tested at unprecedented levels at the LHC and other facilities. Although extremely successful\, the SM is known to be incomple te\, since it does not address issues such as the origin of neutrino masse s and the nature of dark matter and dark energy.\n The six courses at the third edition of the Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Partic le Physics will cover some of these topics.\n In the first week the course s will provide a review of the SM\, its shortcomings and how to explore Ph ysics beyond it\, a discussion of the future of particle accelerators and the connection of particle physics with cosmology.\n The second week will address the issue of dark matter and the more formal developments in appro aching Physics beyond the Standard Model\, as well as the use of amplitude methods in particle physics.Lecturers:\n  \nChristophe Grojean (DESY\, G ermany): Standard Model and BeyondKfir Blum (Weizmann Institute\, Israel): Cosmology and Particle PhysicsLaura Reina (Florida State University\, USA ): Collider PhysicsYu-tin Huang (National Taiwan University\, Taiwan): Amp litudes and applicationsMarkus Luty (University of California at Davis\, U SA): Formal developments in Beyond Standard ModelsNicolás Bernal (New Yor k University Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates): Dark Matter\nThe programme and more information can be found at the following link:\n\n https://www. ictp-saifr.org/sspp2024/\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10487/ LOCATION:Sao Paolo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10487/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:13th Crete Regional Meeting in String Theory | (smr 3954) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240702T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240708T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10492@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/10492/ LOCATION:Kolymbari - Greece URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10492/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:8th Biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Application s (ASP 2024) | (smr 3955) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240707T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240721T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10493@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP 60th anniversary satellite event\nASP\nTo increase cap acity development in fundamental physics and related applications in Afric a. The ASP has evolved to be much more than a school. It is a programe of actions with directed ethos toward physics as an engine for development in Africa.Topics:\n\n Space physics\, Astrophysics & Cosmology\n \n Nuclea r & Particle Physics\n \n Medical and Radiation Physics\n \n Condensed a nd Material Physics Biophysics\n \n Applied and Industrial Physics\n \n Theoretical and Computational Physics\n \n Physics education\, outreash a nd Communication\n \n Physics for Sustainable Development\nActivites:\n-  Workshop for High School Teachers\n- Outreach for Secondary Schools\n- P hysics Lectures and Tutorials for students\n- Capacity development and Ret ention discussion\nASP link is here: https://www.africanschoolofphysics.o rg/asp2024/\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participa nts from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n  \n\n//i ndico.ictp.it/event/10493/ LOCATION:Marrakesh - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10493/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2024 EAUMP-ICTP School on the Mathematics of AI | (smr 3956) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240708T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240726T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10494@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n 2024 EAUMP-ICTP School on the Mathematics of AI\, in collab oration with AMU\, CIMPA and ISPAn ICTP Meeting in person\n The school pre sents a distinctive opportunity to explore the foundational mathematics of artificial intelligence (AI).\n By convening experts in diverse fields\, encompassing data assimilation\, inverse problems\, statistics\, control t heory\, and graph theory — integral components of the mathematical machi nery driving successful AI systems — the school offers participants a co mprehensive perspective. Engaging lectures and workshops will cover key to pics such as mathematical modeling of AI algorithms\, optimization techniq ues\, and the theoretical underpinnings of machine learning.\n Positioned centrally in Kampala\, this inclusive curriculum provides a dynamic platfo rm for students and researchers to deepen their comprehension of the Mathe matics of AI\, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange in the heart of Africa.Speakers and titles:\n Week 1\n Jana DE WILJES (TU Ilmenau\, Ge rmany) - Sequential Decision Making\n Jan-Hendrik DE WILJES (Freie Uni Ber lin\, Germany) - Graph tools for AI and ML\n Week 2\n Matt MOORES (Univers ity of Wollongong\, Australia) - R and machine learning\n Antonietta MIRA (Universita della Svizzera italiana\, Switzerland/Università degli Studi dell’Insubria\, Italy) - Statistics of AI\n Week 3\n Lassi ROININEN (LUT University\, Finland) - Probabilistic machine learning\n Denis NDANGUZA ( University of Rwanda) - Data analytics and Machine Learning\n Dinna RANIRI NA (AIMS - Rwanda)\, Andrew KATUMBA (Makerere University\, Uganda) - Found ations of Neural Networks and Deep LearningGrants: A limited number of gra nts are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, wit h priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no re gistration fee.The school gratefully acknowledges the support of The Barto n and Chandaria Families.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10494/ LOCATION:Kampala - Uganda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10494/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on TinyML for Sustainable Development | (smr 3961) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240722T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240726T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10499@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Meeting in Sao Paulo\, Brazil \n \n TinyML enables mac hine learning on low-power microcontrollers\, democratizing access to perf ormant AI in remote\, resource-constrained settings. This revolutionary te chnology unlocks new possibilities for sustainable development and scienti fic research by increasing equitable access to on-device intelligence worl dwide.\n The emergence of TinyML has created new possibilities for buildin g smart\, ultra low-power devices ideal for resource-constrained settings. In recent years\, TinyML has attracted significant interest from research ers\, developers\, and industries for its potential to enable innovative a pplications in healthcare\, agriculture\, transportation\, conservation\, smart homes\, and more. TinyML's extremely low bandwidth and energy requir ements make it uniquely suited for regions with limited access to reliable energy and computing infrastructure. Though currently restricted in reach \, TinyML intersects topics across computer science and engineering curric ula\, making it an impactful educational tool. This hands-on workshop focu ses on TinyML applications relevant to Latin American researchers\, provid ing training on commercially available hardware optimized for embedded ML deployment. By making TinyML more accessible\, especially in the Global So uth\, this workshop will empower researchers to develop localized solution s that benefit their communities.Topics\n\n Introduction to TinyML\n \n Sensors and Data Collection\n \n Energy Efficiency\n \n Environmental Mo nitoring\n \n Health Monitoring\n \n Agriculture  Monitoring\n \n Smar t Cities\n \n Ethics and TinyML\n\n Keynote speaker:\n R. M. O. GALVÃO\n President\, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development \, BrazilVenue: IBM Office São Paulo\, R. Tutóia\, 1157 - Vila Mariana\, São Paulo\, 04007-900Grants: 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.\n\n\ n//indico.ictp.it/event/10499/ LOCATION:São Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10499/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Maker Faire Trieste 2024 | (smr 3938) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240831T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240901T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10476@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP 60th anniversary satellite event\n\n \n  \n\n \n M aker Faire is a gathering of fascinating\, curious people who enjoy learni ng and who love sharing what they can do.\n From engineers to artists to s cientists to crafters\, Maker Faire is a venue for these "makers" to show hobbies\, experiments\, projects.\n We call it the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth - a family-friendly showcase of invention\, creativity\, and reso urcefulness.\n  \n\n Glimpse the future and get inspired!\n\n To learn mo re\, visit the official page: https://trieste.makerfaire.com/en/home-page/ \n The CALL for MAKERS was open until mid August 2024.\n - - -INSTITUTION AL PARTNERS & SPONSORSHIPS:\n For the implementation of the Maker Faire 2 024\, the ICTP received the following contributions:\n \n Euro 30\,000 from Regione Friuli Venezia-Giulia\n \n Euro 30\,000 from Comune di Trieste\n \n - - -\n \n \n FURTHER SPONSORS and PARTNERS:\n \n  \n\n  \n\n        \n  \n\n  \n\n Maker Faire Trieste 2024 PRIZES AWAR DEESLady Maker MFTS Award offered by Rotary Club Alto Adriatico\, assigned to Vittoria Protani for her project M48 “Abruzzo Technology – Water R ecovery”\n with the following motivation: “For having enhanced\, thank s to her invention\, the crucial role of women in Italian engineering\, th rough environmental sustainability with the recovery of otherwise wasted w ater resources.”1st MAKER MFTS Award offered by Rotary Club Alto Adriati co\, assigned to Luciano Fumagalli for his project M55 “Assemble ANGELO\ , build solidarity” with the following motivation: “For having made hi s idea available to the entire community to help the hearing impaired\, a smart and innovative idea\, which combines in the best way the generationa l passage\, an object for grandparents that can be built by grandchildren. ”2nd MAKER MFTS Award offered by Rotary Club Alto Adriatico\, assigned t o Simone Klinkon for his project M29 “AMMS – DIY Autonomous Environmen tal Monitoring System” with the following motivation: “For having reth ought\, from an open source perspective for the benefit of the entire comm unity\, the integration of meteorological data collection systems by creat ing a monitoring platform that integrates the themes of attention to the e nvironment and sustainability.”3rd MAKER MFTS Award offered by Rotary Cl ub Alto Adriatico\, assigned to Beatrice Bove for her project M49 “MagiC al” with the following motivation: “For having integrated innovation a nd teaching\, thus allowing children to learn\, in a pleasant and playful way\, a complex subject such as mathematics.”Special Award “Innovative ideas for tomorrow’s world” offered by ESTECO SpA\, awarded to Erika Ronchin for her project M67 “Detector of soil respiration: IRGA4soil” with the following motivation: “For having created and presented an inno vative system for acquiring and monitoring the health of cultivated land\, based on an easily available sensor. The acquired data are collected with in a computer system. The innovative intent of simplifying the measuring i nstrumentation is emphasized\, making the solution transportable and low-c ost”Special Jury Award to Davide Prodan for his project M82 “ClassLab Biology in schools” with the following motivation: “For his great comm unication skills and the contagious enthusiasm he transmits. A path to tou ch with your hand to fill the gaps between theoretical teachings and pract ical reality.”Young Maker Award to Davide Rudes\, 14 years old\, who bro ught the M41 project “The various battery systems in history and the dis covery\, with these\, of electrolysis”Three Prize Vouchers offered by AR DUINO and delivered by the “guest maker” Alessandro Ranellucci:\n - Fo r the typically maker solution to a problem that affects a disadvantaged c ategory\, the M55 “ANGELO” device by Luciano Fumagalli\n - For the att ention towards the training of the new generation of makers\, the projects of the M22 “Linolab” fablab by Luca Baruzzo\n - For the application o f the maker spirit to a productive reality\, the M21 “CornTech 0.1” ag ricultural robot by Roberto Fior.\n FULL DETAILS ON MAKERS AND THEIR PROJE CTS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE OFFICIAL PAGE https://trieste.makerfaire.com/\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/10476/ LOCATION:TRIESTE Piazza Unità d'Italia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10476/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Recent Developments in Topological Quantum Field The ory (TQFT) | (smr 3958) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240902T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240907T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10496@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:For the latest information please see https://bimsa.net/activi ty/TQFT/An ICTP Meeting in Beijing\n \n The conference will be held at the Beijing Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA). BIM SA is located in the Huairou District of Beijing which is famous for its n ature and great scenery.\n The aim is to bring together renowned local and international experts on modern aspects of topological quantum field theo ry for talks and discussions. The range of covered topics will include\n\n 1) Classification of TQFTs\n2) Modular Tensor Categories\n3) Subfactors\n4 ) Gauge Theory aspects\n5) Representation theory of Quantum Algebras\n6) V ertex Operator Algebras\n7) Quantum invariants of knots and manifolds\n8) Topological twisting of supersymmetric field theories\n9) Topological Quan tum Computation\n10) Infinite TQFT\n \n The goal will be to give participa nts a global view on current developments in topological quantum field the ory and encourage interactions and connections.\nConfirmed Speakers:\nJ. B ROWN\, University of Edinburgh\, UK\nT. DIMOFTE\, University of Edinburgh\ , UK\nJ. FUCHS\, Karlstad University\, Sweden\nS. GAROUFALIDIS\, Max Planc k Institute for Mathematics\, Germany\nJ. GU\, Southeast University\, Chin a\nB. GUI\, Tsinghua University\, China\nS. GUKOV\, California Institute o f Technology\, USA\nA. KAPUSTIN\, California Institute of Technology\, USA \nR. KASHAEV\, University of Geneva\, Switzerland\nY. KAWAHIGASHI\, Univer sity of Tokyo\, Japan\nT. LE\, Georgia Institute of Technology\, USA\nZ. L IU\, Tsinghua University\, China\nA. LOSEV\, SIMIS\, China\nS. MING\, BIMS A\, China\nS. PARK\, Harvard University\, USA\nI. RUNKEL\, University of H amburg\, Germany\nC. SCHWEIGERT\, University of Hamburg\, Germany\n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/10496/ LOCATION:Beijing - China URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10496/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on High Performance Computing for Materials Characterizat ion\, Design and Discovery | (smr 3966) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241021T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241026T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10504@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\nAn ICTP meeting\n \n The event includes a two-and-a-half-da y hands-on workshop along with participation in the XXV Latin American Sym posium on Solid State Physics (SLAFES). More details about the symposium a re available here: https://slafesxxv.sue-caribe.org/. Applications through this webpage are required only for those participants interested in atten ding the entire program. For those interested in attending the symposium o nly\, applications must be made here: https://slafesxxv.sue-caribe.org/. A ttending only the hands-on workshop is not an option.\n \n  \n \n The e vent aims to enhance the capabilities of scientists in Latin America by co mplementing the efforts of local networks like SCALAC\, Red-Clara\, and La RedCCA2 in utilizing high-performance computing (HPC) in materials science . This event addresses inequalities and promotes the adoption of HPC metho dologies by covering topics such as modern parallel architectures\, practi cal skills for non-IT experts in using open-source scientific codes\, runn ing hybrid programs with accelerators\, and hands-on experience in configu ring and managing calculations for materials research and visualization. T he workshop offers an intensive program that balances theoretical knowledg e with practical application\, ensuring that participants gain a solid und erstanding of how to apply HPC techniques to their research endeavours in materials science.Speakers:\n Camilo A. Espejo (Universidad Del Norte\, C olombia)\n Ivan Girotto (ICTP\, Italy)\n Rafael Gonzales (Universidad De l Norte\, Colombia)\n Bruno Gucco (University of Texas\, USA)\n Andrea M arini (ISM-CNR\, Italy)\n Javier A. Montoya (Universidad de Cartagena\, C olombia)\n \n \n Carlos C. Pinilla (Universidad Del Norte\, Colombia)\n \n \n Sabyasachi Tiwari (University Of Texas\, Usa)\n Luis A. Tor res (Universidad Industrial De Santander\, Colombia)\n \n  \n \n \n  \n \n Only a limited number of participants will be selected to attend the entire program at no registration fee. Additionally\, a limited number of grants are available to support attendance for the entire program\, wi th priority given to participants from Latin America.\n  \n\n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of sele cted participants\, with priority given to participants from developing co untries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10504/ LOCATION:Barranquilla - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10504/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Fully-Programmable Systems-on-Chip for Scientific Appl ications | (smr 3983) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241027T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241031T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10522@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The workshop will cover key aspects of fully programmabl e Systems-on-Chip (SoC) and their applications to scientific instrumentati on and reconfigurable computing. SoC is an affordable technology typically used in systems requiring high-parallelism\, low-latency\, and high-throu ghput.\n Modern nuclear and particle physics experiments require online da ta acquisition (DAQ) systems that process multiple parallel signals coming from detectors and reduce both the data rate and the amount of data to be storage in disk for further offline analysis. These systems usually rely on:\n The reconfigurable computing paradigm that combines software’s f lexibility and hardware’s high performance\, such as SoC and FPGA.\n \n Advanced digital pulse processing and machine learning methods for part icle detection and discrimination.\n \n \n Participants will be familiar ized with open-source methods\, software design tools\, and hardware platf orms through tutorials and hands-on activities. They will build embedded i nstruments using low-cost detectors and SoC-FPGA devices.\n Topics\n Sys tems-on-chip: architecture and design methodology\n \n Good practices i n firmware and software development\n \n SoC-FPGA development framework and remote access\n \n Digital electronics for standard and modern sen sors\n \n Advanced digital pulse processing methods for detector’s si gnals. \n \n Machine learning and model compression techniques for rec onfigurable hardware accelerators\n \n Reconfigurable supercomputing ar chitectures based on SoC-FPGA.\n \nGrants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priori ty given to participants from developing countries. There is no registrati on fee.\nVenue: Qatar University\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10522/ LOCATION:Doha - Qatar URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10522/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:*** CANCELLED *** 2nd Workshop on the American Monsoons | (smr 397 6) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241104T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241108T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10514@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for applications is open. Please click on 'Apply here ' to submit your application.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10514/ LOCATION:Merida - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10514/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hands-On Quantitative Biology School | (smr 3979) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241104T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241115T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10517@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP 60th anniversary satellite event\n \n This school is t o expose students to quantitative and interdisciplinary approaches in biol ogy\, with a combination of theoretical lectures and experiments.\n The in tegration of physical\, mathematical\, and life sciences has proven to be a very successful avenue for deepening our understanding of biological sys tems. These interdisciplinary approaches provide great opportunities benef iting all the disciplines involved.\n  \n The school will have an hands-o n format: the students\, divided in groups\, will be introduced to a parti cular biological problem\, which will be formalized and analyzed by using and formulating mathematical theory. The students will then perfom experim ents to quantitatively test the quantitative predictions.\nSpeakers\nR. AL ONSO University of Havana\, Cuba\nE. ALTSHULER\, University of Havana\, Cu ba\nM. COSENTINO LAGOMARSINO\, IFOM\, Italy\nJ. GRILLI\, ICTP\, Italy\nG. MICALI\, Humanitas\, Italy\nR. MULET\, University of Havana\, Cuba\nA PETR OFF\, Clarck University\, USA\nW. SHOEMAKER\, ICTP\, Italy\nG. TALLARICO\, IFOM\, Italy\nL.F. TOLEDO\, Unicamp\, Brazil\n Grants: A limited number o f grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\ , with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.Visa: Please check the following link https://evisacub a.cu/en/inicio\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10517/ LOCATION:Havana - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10517/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Day of Medical Physics: Inspiring Next Generations o f Medical Physicists & Celebrating 10 years of the Master of Advanced Stud ies in Medical Physics | (smr 4132) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241107T123000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241107T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10898@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) is an annual g lobal celebration dedicated to advancements in the field of medical physic s. This year at the ICTP\, the celebration holds a special significance as we also mark the 10th anniversary of the Master of Advanced Studies in Me dical Physics programme. The event can be attended and followed online\, v ia zoom:https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpdu-hqTwrGtUu4GBlHnyt6COmTxewc gIU\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10898/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10898/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP and Vietnamese Science: Celebrating 60 Years of Collaboration s and Building the Future | (smr 3951) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241129T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241130T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10489@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP 60th anniversary satellite event\n ICTP and Vietnam share a proud history of scientific collaboration. Over the years\, the C entre has supported the visits of more than 1\,500 scientists from Vietnam to participate in conferences\, workshops and training and educational pr ogrammes. That collaboration has deepened thanks to the establishment of t he two UNESCO Category 2 science institutes in Vietnam\, the International Centre of Research and Postgraduate Training in Mathematics and the Inter national Centre of Physics\, both under the auspices of the Vietnam Academ y of Science and Technology.\n  \n In recognition of this strong partners hip\, ICTP is organising an event in Hanoi for its many Vietnamese alumni as well as policymakers who will see first-hand the important impact that ICTP has had on Vietnamese science.Keynote speakers:\n Dam Thanh SON\, Uni versity of Chicago\, USA\n Ngo Bao CHAU\, University of Chicago\, USAInvit ed Speakers: \n Dao Thi NHUNG\, Phenikaa University\, Vietnam\n Nguyen Hon g PHUONG\, Institute of Geophysics\, VAST\, Vietnam\n Nguyen Thi Kim THANH \, Institute of Physics\, VAST\, Vietnam\n Nguyen The TOAN\, VNU Universit y of Sciences\, Vietnam\n Le Cong TRINH\, Quy Nhon University\, Vietnam\n Ngo Viet TRUNG\, Institute of Mathematics\, VAST\, Vietnam\n Nguyen Thi Ho ng VAN\, Institute of Physics\, VAST\, Vietnam\n Pham Chi VINH\, VNU Unive rsity of Sciences\, Vietnam\n Venue: \n \n Hoang Tuy Lecture Hall\n \n Institute of Mathematics\, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology\n \n Address: 18 Hoang Quoc Viet\, Cau Giay\, 10072 Hanoi\, Vietnam\n \n  \ n Grants:\n\n A limited number of grants are available to support the atte ndance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/e vent/10489/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10489/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African Biophysics Workshop on Experimental and Computational Scie nces | (smr 3973) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241209T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20241213T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10511@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP 60th anniversary satellite event\n The aim of the work shop is to introduce researchers to the latest developments in molecular b iophysics including structural biology\, nano-biophysics\, nano-biophysica l medicine\, single molecule approaches\, to computational tools such as m olecular modeling as well as advanced data analysis.\n\n  \n\n Novel biop hysical tools are transforming biological\, agricultural and medical resea rch. Besides having a great impact on basic research\, it has also become a driving and innovative seed in the modern economic and industrial framew ork\, particularly for health and biotechnology. In this workshop\, studen ts will be exposed to recent advances in experimental methods such as atom ic-force microscopy and structural biology\, as well as computational appr oaches within the common theme of drug-design and drug-delivery. \n\n  \ n\n The structure of the workshop will be focused on a journal-club style where lecturers will deconstruct relevant topics with the goal of triggeri ng discussions and interactions on open problems in the field.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Chemical Physics of Molecules in Solution\n \n Molecular Mod eling\n \n Free Energy Calculations\n \n Data and Statistical Analysis\n \n Mechanobiology\n \n Structural Biology\n\n Speakers:\n ​Loredana C ASALIS\, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste\, Italy\n\n Sara BONELLA\, EPFL\, Swi tzerland\n\n Ali HASSANALI\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n Germaine Neza HOZANA\, ICTP\ , Italy.\n\n Alessandro LAIO\, SISSA\, Italy\n\n Mauro MANNO\, CNR Palermo \, Italy\n\n Riccardo MIGGIANO\, UNIUPO\, Italy\n\n Silvia ONESTI\, Elettr a Sincrotrone Trieste\, Italy\n\n Daniel SHADRACK\, dNMIST-Arusha\, Tanzan ia\n\n  \nGrants: 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.Abstract: Applic ants who want to present a poster or give a talk are required to submit a research abstract for a poster session. Please use the ICTP templates that are available below for download.\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10511/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-ICTS Quantitative Systems Biology Winter School | (smr 4052) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250106T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250117T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10817@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n An ICTP Meeting\n Ecosystems embody a remarkable diversity of life\, forming intricate networks that exhibit both stability and the p otential for rapid change. These systems\, governed by complex interaction s among organisms and their environment\, present a rich tapestry for scie ntific exploration. This Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology (QS B) will dive into the heart of understanding how biodiversity underpins ec osystem stability\, resilience\, and the mechanisms that drive their dynam ics. We will explore cutting-edge questions such as: How does biodiversity contribute to the robustness of ecosystems against perturbations? What ar e the underlying principles that predict the stability of ecosystems? What happens to ecosystem dynamics when they become unstable? And how can we m odel the interplay between species to understand potential critical or tip ping points? Through a multidisciplinary approach that combines theory wit h data\, participants will engage with the latest methodologies and tools in theoretical ecology\, complex systems\, and statistical physics. The sc hool aims to shed light on the fundamental processes that sustain biodiver sity\, while charting open questions and future challenges.Scientific Advi sory Committee\n V. BALASUBRAMANIAN\, University of Pennsylvania\n A. CELA NI\, ICTP Trieste\n S. JAIN\, University of Delhi\n V. KRISHNAMURTHY\, ICT S Bengaluru\n M. MARSILI\, ICTP Trieste\n M. THATTAI\, NCBS BengaluruSpeak ers\n P. AMARASEKARE\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, USA\n M. B ARBIER\, Plant Health Institute Montpellier\, France\n V. GUTTAL\, Indian Institute of Science\, Bengaluru\, India\n G. KANDLIKAR\, Louisiana State University\, USA\n S. MASLOV\, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign\, USA\n S. MITRI\, University of Lausanne\, Switzerland\n D. RODRIGUEZ AMOR \, École Normale Supérieure\, France\n Further Information: https://icts .res.in/program/qsb2024\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10817/ LOCATION:Bangalore - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10817/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications | (smr 4051) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250113T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250124T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10816@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP virtual meeting\n \n The School will introduce young s cientists to the design\, operation\, and research opportunities offered a t a modern synchrotron light source and how such sources are realized.\n T he school will be held over two weeks and will consist of three modules:\n (1) Physical aspects concerning the design and function of the main compo nents: accelerators\, insertion devices and beamline optics\;\n (2) Overvi ew of the arguments that can be made in order to fund and build a synchrot ron light source\, including socioeconomic benefits\, stakeholder engageme nt\, communication\;\n and (3) Overview of common beamline techniques\, in cluding those utilizing X-rays and infrared radiation.Topics:\n\n Fundame ntals of synchrotron radiation from storage rings\n \n Fundamentals of X- ray interactions with matter\n \n Design and operation of storage rings\n \n Beamline design: Photon transport and optics\n \n Bending magnets an d insertion devices\n \n Project management at a large facility\n \n Anc illary devices for light sources\n \n Socioeconomic justification\n \n C ultural heritage\n \n Stakeholder engagement/communications\n \n Startin g up user operations at a new facility\n \n Industrial Applications\n \n IR microscopy\n \n Basics of X-ray crystallography and powder diffractio n\n \n Basics of structural biology\n \n Fundamentals of X-ray absorptio n: EXAFS and XANES\n \n XRF\, TXRF\, GIXRF and their applications in mate rials and life sciences\n \n Tomography\n\n Registration:  There is no r egistration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10816/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10816/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on the Damage Caused by Hurricanes in Mexico and Centr al America | (smr 4049) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250117T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250117T233000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10814@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Hybrid meetingSpeakers:\n\n \n \n Simona Bordoni\, U niversity of Trento\, Italy\n \n Roberto Arroyo Matus\, UAGro\, Mexico\n \n Christiane Dominguez\, CCAyCC-UNAM\, Mexico\n \n Adrian Tompkins\, IC TP\, Italy\n \n Cuauhtémoc Turrent\, CICESE\, Mexico\n \n Fabián Vázq uez\, SMN\, Mexico\n \n Jorge Zavala\, CCAyCC-UNAM\, Mexico\n\n\n \n The Conference was live-streamed\, CLICK HERE to see the livestreaming by Inst ituto de Energías Renovables UNAM.Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priori ty given to participants from developing countries. There is no registrati on fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10814/ LOCATION:Acapulco - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10814/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Global Monsoons: Theory\, Models and Observations | (s mr 4053) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250120T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250124T233000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10818@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n This workshop provides an overview of atmospheric convec tion and the broader dynamics of monsoon systems with a particular focus o n the north American Monsoon. \n\n \n The workshop consists of 3 days of lectures\, giving a basic overview of atmospheric thermodynamics\, stabili ty and moist convection on day 1\, before moving onto the theory of monsoo n dynamics and the role of convective mesoscale organization as components of monsoon systems. Day 3 of the lectures will introduce topics at a rese arch level\, including some of the recent ground-breaking global km-scale climate simulations. The last two days of the workshop give participants t he opportunity to investigate some of the aspects of monsoons in observati ons and simulations in hands on sessions. \n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Convec tion and its organization \n \n Modern theories of monsoons\n \n Focus on the north American Monsoon\n \n Monsoons in seasonal forecasts and CMI P\n\n Speakers:\n David Adams\n Simona Bordoni\n ​Christian Domíngue z\n \n Spencer Hill\n Alejandro Jaramillo\n \n Arturo Quintanar\n Adri an Tompkins\n ​Cuauhtémoc Turrent\n \n Jorge Zavala\n \n  \n For mo re information please click here to visit the UNAM web page.Click here to find the UNAM live-streaming links.Grants: A limited number of grants a re available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with pri ority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registr ation fee.\n  \n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10818/ LOCATION:Mexico City - Mexico URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10818/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Trieste System Optical Sciences and Applications (TSOSA) board mee ting | (smr 4133) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250304T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250304T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10909@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/10909/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10909/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Differential Geometry | (smr 4060) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250310T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250314T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10825@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n This workshop focuses on Differential Geometry\, a key area in modern mathematics\, aiming to bring together renowned experts and young researchers to discuss recent advances\, foster collaborations\, an d address open problems in the field.\n \n  \n \n Differential Geometry is a dynamic and central field in contemporary mathematics\, bridging fou ndational concepts and practical applications. This workshop is highly rel evant to the academic and scientific community\, providing an intensive le arning environment through lectures by distinguished experts. It is partic ularly dedicated to supporting young researchers and graduate students by offering a platform to present their work\, exchange ideas\, and build las ting scientific collaborations. The event also promotes discussions on cut ting-edge topics and future directions in the field.\n \n  \n \n Topics :\n \n Complex geometry\n \n Geometric flows\n \n Mathematical rel ativity\n \n Min-Max theory\n \n Riemannian geometry\n \n Submani fold theory\n \n Variational problems\n \n Speakers:\n \n \n Sergio Almaraz (Universidade Federal Fluminense\, Brazil)\n \n Maria Andrade (Universidade Federal de Sergipe\, Brazil)\n \n Shuli Chen (Stanford Un iversity\, USA)\n \n José Espinar (Universidad de Granada\, Spain)\n \n Isabel Fernández (Universidad de Sevilla\, Spain)\n \n Greg Gallo way (Miami University\, USA)\n \n Laurent Hauswirth (Université Gustav e Eiffel\, France)\n \n Vanderson Lima (Universidade Federal do Rio Gra nde do Sul\, Brazil)\n \n Jorge Lira (Universidade Federal do Ceará\, Brazil)\n \n Eduardo Longa (Universidade de São Paulo\, Brazil)\n \n Ana Menezes (Princeton University\, USA)\n \n Ivaldo Nunes (Universid ade Federal do Maranhão\, Brazil)\n \n Tristan Rivière (ETH Zurich\, Switzerland)\n \n Magdalena Rodríguez (Universidad de Granada\, Spain) \n \n Henrique Sá Earp (Universidade de Campinas\, Brazil)\n \n Alm ir Santos (Universidade Federal de Sergipe\, Brazil)\n \n Feliciano Vit ório (Universidade Federal de Alagoas\, Brazil)\n \n \n \n  \n \n Sci entific Committee:\n \n Hilário Alencar (UFAL)\n \n Claudio Arezzo (ICT P)\n \n Marcos P. Cavalcante (UFAL)\n \n José Espinar (U. Granada)\n \n Isabel Fernandez (U. Sevilla)\n \n Fernando Codá Marques (Princeton Un iversity)\n \n Detang Zhou (UFF)\n  \n \n Poster session:  There will be a poster session on March 12\, 2025. You may  submit a poster abstrac t using ICTP template available here and below.\n\n\n \n  \n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of select ed participants\, with priority given to participants from developing coun tries. There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10825/ LOCATION:Maceio - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10825/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on TinyML for Sustainable Development | (smr 4057) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250331T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250404T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10822@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Meeting\n \n TinyML is a new technology that allows ma chine learning models to run on low-cost\, low-power microcontrollers. Thi s technology has a significant role to play in achieving the Sustainable D evelopment Goals (SDGs) and in enabling new applications in fields such as healthcare\, agriculture\, environmental monitoring and conservation. Tin yML is also a great educational tool as it explores topics from across the computer science and engineering curricula. In this workshop we will disc over practical applications of TinyML in addressing global challenges that are particularly relevant to African researchers and we will provide hand s-on training on commercially available hardware.Topics:\n\n Introduction to TinyML\n \n Sensors and Data Collection\n \n Energy Efficiency\n \n Environmental Monitoring\n \n Health Monitoring\n \n Agriculture Monito ring\n \n Ethics and Machine Learning\n\n Programme: https://tinymlmalawi .notion.site/Note: Participants will be invited to submit articles in Spec ial Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development of the Jo urnal of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development (JAISD).The W orkshop is partially supported by the European Union’s-funded project RA IDO with the Grant Agreement No 101135800Grants: A limited number of grant s are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no regi stration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10822/ LOCATION:Zomba - Malawi URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10822/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Quantum Topology and Hyperbolic Geometry | (smr 4075) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250609T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250613T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10840@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n This school is organised by Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics\, in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute. \n\n  \n\n The program consists of two parts:\n the conference “Quantum Topology and Hyperbolic Geometry”\, which will be held from June 2 to 6 \, 2025\,  \n followed by\n the summer school from June 9 to 13\, 2025. T he conference will be held in Phu Quoc island\, Vietnam. \n\n \n For more information\, please visit: https://viasm.edu.vn/hdkh/Conf-Topo-Geo-2025\ n\n \n  \n\n The school would feature 5 minicourses (around five hours ea ch) and 3-4 problem sessions. The morning minicourses will be accompanied by afternoon brainstorm sessions. \n\n \n For more information\, please v isit: https://viasm.edu.vn/hdkh/School-Topo-Geo-2025\n\n \n  \n\n The goa l of this conference and school is to introduce graduate students\, advanc ed undergraduate students\, young researchers\, and interested mathematici ans in Vietnam\, Southeast Asia\, and other countries in Asia\, to the bas ics of quantum topology and its connection to many branches of mathematics \, including low-dimensional topology\, representations of quantum groups\ , combinatorics\, and in particular hyperbolic geometry. It will also intr oduce the audience to applications of quantum topology to various areas of mathematics.\n\n Principal lecturers:\n\n ● Francis Bonahon\, Universit y of Southern California\, USA\n\n ● Francois Costantino\, University of Toulouse\, Toulouse\, France\n\n ● Ingrid Irmer\, Southern University o f Science and Technology\, Shenzhen\, China\n\n ● Ciprian Manolescu\, St anford University\, USA\n\n ● Garoufalidis Stavros\, SUSTech Internation al Center for Mathematics\, Shenzhen\, China\n\n  \n\n Clay lecturer:\n\n Ciprian Manolescu\, Stanford University\, USA\n\n  \n\n Brainstorm leade rs:\n\n ● Vu Huynh\, VNU-HCM University of Science\, Vietnam\n ● Dionn e Ibarra\, Monash University\, Australia\n\n ● Andrew Kricker\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\n\n ● Thang Tu-Quoc Le\, Georgia I nstitute of Technology\, USA\n ● Hanh Vo\, Arizona State University\, US A\n\n  \n\n  \n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to su pport the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to par ticipants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.CLICK HE RE to consult the interview with Prof. Manolescu.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it /event/10840/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10840/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:8th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Application s - ASESMA 2025 | (smr 4081) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250609T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250620T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10846@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Meeting in presence in Accra - Ghana \nThe aim of the School is to introduce African researchers to the quantum-mechanical theor y of electronic structure and other atomistic simulation methods.\n \n The ASESMA is planned on a biennial basis. The School will cover basic and ad vanced topics and applications of these methods to the structural\, mechan ical and optical properties of materials. The School will include hands-on tutorial sessions based on public license codes (including\, but not limi ted to\, the Quantum Espresso package). On the occasion of the 2025 Intern ational Year of Quantum Science and Technology\, a special session will be dedicated to quantum computing for materials science and materials for qu antum computing.Speakers\n S. Bonella\, CECAM and EPFL\, Switzerland\n C. Carbogno\, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society\, Germany\n M. Casida\, University of Grenoble-Alpes\, France\n N. Chetty\, Witwatersrand University\, South Africa\n E. Donkor\, Politecnico of Tourin\, Italy\n N . Dzade\, Penn State University\, USA \n M. Gatti\, Ecole Polytechnique\, France\n O. R. Jolayemi\, Covenant University\, Nigeria\n J. Junquera\, U niversity of Cantabria\, Spain\n P. Kowalski\, Juelich\, Germany\n G. Many ali\, Kaimosi Friends University\, Kenya\n F. Mohamed\, Ecole Polytechniqu e\, France\n M. A. A. Musa\, Ecole Polytechnique\, France\n S. Narasimhan\ , JNCASR Bangalore\, India\n M. Pavanello\, Rutgers University\, USA\n J. Sifuna\, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa\, Kenya\n I. Timrov\, P aul Scherrer Institut\, Switzerland    \n H. Zhuang\, Arizona State Un iversity\, USAGrants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participa nts from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indico .ictp.it/event/10846/ LOCATION:Accra - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10846/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1st Mesoamerican Workshop on Reconfigurable X-ray and Scientific I nstrumentation for Cultural Heritage | (smr 4078) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250616T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250620T233000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10843@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n Cultural heritage studies are essential for preserving the rich and diverse artifacts of Latin America. However\, conventional X-ray analytical instruments used to study historical samples are often speciali zed and expensive. Reconfigurable instrumentation presents a cost-effectiv e alternative\, reducing the need for multiple dedicated devices.\n\n \n T his workshop aims to foster an environment for exchanging innovative ideas and promoting effective collaboration\, ultimately advancing cultural her itage studies in Latin America. This is particularly significant in the Me soamerican region\, given its vital role in preserving indigenous knowledg e and the legacies of diverse cultures. By offering participants hands-on experience with affordable\, reconfigurable modular hardware and sensors\, the workshop seeks to enhance their skills and cultivate human resources capable of driving technological advancements\, the development of scienti fic instrumentation\, and academic progress. During the intensive five-day workshop\, participants will engage with software design tools\, FPGA bas ed hardware platforms\, and sensors\, through tutorials and guided lab ses sions.\n\n \n  \n\n Topics:\n\n X-ray analytical methods: fluorescence ( XRF)\, diffraction (XRD)\, micro-computed tomography (μCT)\n \n X-ray so urces and detectors\n \n Portable XRF scanner for in-situ measurements\n \n Elemental map reconstruction techniques and data analysis\n \n Reconf igurable  instrumentation: systems-on-chip (SoC-FPGA) and their applicati ons to cultural heritage\n\n Organizing Committee:\n \n Andres Cicuttin\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n Luis García Ordóñez\, ICTP\, Italy\n \n Hector Per ez\, San Carlos University\, Guatemala \n \n Jorge Balsells\, San Carlos University\, Guatemala\n Zaida Urrutia\, Universidad del Valle de Guatem ala\n \n  \n\n\n   \n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are availab le to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority give n to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. \n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10843/ LOCATION:Antigua Guatemala - Guatemala URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10843/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Magurele Summer School for Computing in a Rapidly Evolving Society : Parallel Algorithms and Optimizations | (smr 4077) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250630T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250711T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10842@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n IMPORTANT: All presented lecture material is available at the following GitHub link\n Computational tools are an integral part o f many areas of research nowadays. Also computational models and algorithm s are becoming more diverse\, detailed\, and complex and thus require scie ntists to write efficient and parallel software to support their research. The education for preparing researchers to use computation in their work\ , however\, commonly focuses on theoretical and methodological aspects of the computational research. Which results in a lack of understanding and p ractical skills to meet the requirements of modern computational research and utilizing an advanced computing infrastructure effectively. While mode rn computer hardware for HPC is becoming increasingly well accessible to s cientists all around the globe\, it also differs from the traditional simp le monolithic picture of a single powerful machine through its diversity\, flexibility\, and variety of hardware configurations. Many scientific pro blems can only be properly addressed through using parallelism and underst anding important technical aspects this hardware\, which is frequently non -uniform in many ways: CPU architecture\, memory access\, network\, and pe rsistent storage for data. In the second part of the school more advanced topics will be addressed such as use of techniques of ML and QC on large s cale infrastructures.\n  \n \n The Magurele Summer School for Computing in a Rapidly Evolving Society – “Parallel Algorithms and Optimization s” aims to familiarize the participants with the fundamentals of high-pe rformance computing (HPC) within a parallel environment\, making use of tr aditional CPU architecture\, but also accelerators such as GPUs. The main courses focus on coding for HPC clusters in C and FORTRAN. The expected ou tcomes are related to enabling the participants to solve difficult computa tional problems using the most modern software and hardware tools availabl e.\n\n\n Main presented topics includes foundation of modern HPC:\n\n Sof tware environments for scientific computing\n \n Intro to parallel progra mming paradigms\n \n GPU Computing\n \n Machine Learning for HPC\n \n I ntro to applied QC\nLecturers\nF. Andreucci\, SISSA\, Italy\nS. Ataman ELI -NP\, Romania\nM. Celoria\, CINECA\, Italy\nI. Davydenkova\, ICTP\, Italy\ nA. M. Elena\, STFC\, UK\nI. Girotto ICTP\, Italy\nR. Ionicioiu IFIN-HH\, Romania\nF. Spiga\, NVIDIA\, UK\nN. Tosato\, Area Science Park and Units\, Italy\n\n Candidate profile:\n\n This School is dedicated to early career scientists who envision a path into scientific modelling\, programming\, or theoretical research. Providing a referral letter from the PI supervisi ng the project is strongly recommended. \n\n A basic background in progra mming is required\, such as experience on a compiled language i.e.\, C\, F ORTRAN\, C++. Experience with scripting languages is preferable. Demonstra ted familiarity with the Linux operating system is mandatory.\n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/10842/ LOCATION:Magurele - Romania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10842/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School and Workshop: StatPhys in Kigali | (smr 4085) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250705T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250710T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10850@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\nSatellite meeting of StatPhys29\n School on complex systems (5-6 July)\n \n Workshop (7-10 July)\n \n The first-ever StatPhys satelli te meeting hosted in Africa aims to bridge the African and International s cientific communities in statistical physics\, data science\, nonlinear dy namics\, and related applications\, and provide ground for reciprocal know ledge and cross-fertilization.\n\n  \n\n Grasping an effective understand ing of the behavior of complex systems is recognized as a major strategic issue in the development of modern societies as well as an outstanding cha llenge to modern physics and data science applications. Different approach es germinated in statistical physics\, data science\, and nonlinear dynami cs have proven to provide reliable models to describe a variety of complex evolutions successfully. The meeting aims to bring together scientists fr om a broad range of fields who are willing to exchange their experience in dealing with both fundamental and applicative problems. A two-day intense school on complex systems will forego the main workshop to favor African students' participation.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Statistical mechanics: Th eory\, Computing\, Experiments\n \n Nonlinear dynamical systems\n \n Qua ntum thermodynamics\n \n Quantum information\n \n Geoscience\n \n Bioph ysics\n\n Speakers:\n Giorgio PARISI\, Physics Nobel laureate\, Universit y of Rome La Sapienza\, Italy\n  \n\n Susana A. BARBOSA\, INESC-TEC\, Por tugal\n\n Mulugeta BEKELE\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\n Somendra B HATTACHARJEE\, Ashoka University\, India\n Daniel Maria BUSIELLO\, Univers ità di Padova\, Italy\n\n Raphael CHETRITE\, University of Nice Sophia An tipolis\, France\n Federico CORBERI\, University of Salerno\, Italy\n\n Ge rmaine DJUIDJE KENMOE\, University of Yaounde\, Cameroon\n Reza EJTEHADI\, Sharif University\, Iran\n Rosemary J. HARRIS\, University College London \, UK\n\n Rhoda HAWKINS\, AIMS Ghana and University of Sheffield\, UK\n\n Doris HEINRICH\, Technische Universität of Ilmenau\, Germany\n Meyer-Ortm anns HILDEGARD\, Constructor University Bremen\, Germany\n\n Jean Francois JOANNY\, Institut Curie\, Paris\, Francen\n\n Tanniemola LIVERPOOL\, Univ ersity of Bristol\, UK\n\n Emanuele LOCATELLI\, Università di Padova\, It aly\n\n Jean-Pierre NGUENANG\, University of Douala\, Cameroon\n\n Innocen t NKURIKIYIMFURA\, University of Rwanda\, Rwanda\n\n Kingsley OBODO\, ICTP -EAIFR\, University of Rwanda\, Rwanda\n\n Silvina Dawson PONCE\, Universi dad de Buenos Aires\, Argentina\n\n Edgar ROLDAN\, ICTP\, Italy\n\n Daniel Madulu SHADRACK\, NM-AIST\, Tanzania\n\n Yusuf SHAIDU\, University of Cal ifornia Berkeley\, USA\n\n Ana-Suncana SMITH\, FAU Erlangen-Nümnberg\, Ge rmany\n\n Hulda SWAI\, NM-AIST\, Arusha\, Tanzania\n\n Conrad Bertrand TAB I\, BIUST\, Botswana\n\n Antonio TROVATO\, Università di Padova\, Italy\n \n Tatek YERGOU\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\n\n Poster abstracts: In the application form\, all applicants are encouraged to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation. Please use ICTP templates ava ilable for download here or below under 'Material'.\n  \n\n Grants: A li mited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countr ies. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10850/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10850/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-EAUMP School on Real and Harmonic Analysis | (smr 4087) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250721T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250801T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10852@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n A School in collaboration with  AMU\, CIMPA\, ISP\, CoRE-M ath\, and University of Rwanda\n An ICTP Meeting in person\n This school f ocuses on the foundations of real and harmonic analysis\, and their intera ctions with other areas of pure and applied mathematics.\n  \n\n Real ana lysis studies the fine properties of functions and sets\, while harmonic a nalysis provides a mathematical framework to study different types of osci llatory phenomena in nature. Together\, they lie in the backbone of many a pplications in other areas\, including partial differential equations\, co mplex analysis\, number theory\, computer science and engineering. In this school\, several experts in the field will deliver a series of introducto ry minicourses presenting core topics and some of these connections.\n\n M ini-Courses:\n Week 1\n Emanuel Carneiro (ICTP\, Italy) - Introduction t o Real analysis\n Mateus Sousa (BCAM\, Spain) - Introduction to Fourier a nalysis I\n Luz Roncal (BCAM\, Spain) - Introduction to Fourier analysis IIWeek 2\n Job Bonyo (MMU\, Kenya) - Spaces of analytic functions\n Diog o Oliveira e Silva (IST - Lisbon\, Portugal) - Nonlinear Fourier analysis and connections to quantum computing\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with pr iority given to participants from developing countries. There is no regist ration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10852/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10852/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:V Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology | (smr 4093) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250728T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250808T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10858@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n This is the fifth edition of a joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIF R two-week Cosmology School\, aimed at providing students and young resear chers with the necessary tools for understanding the current issues in mod ern cosmology and to familiarize them with how recent  observations can b e used to constrain different cosmological models and parameters.\n\n  \n \n Topics and Speakers:\n  \n\n Theory of large scale structure\n Roman S coccimarro\, New York University\, USA\n\n \n Primordial inflation\n Gonz alo Palma\, Universidad de Chile\, Santiago\, Chile\n\n \n A premiere on G ravitational Wave Cosmology\n José M. Ezquiaga\, Niels Bohr Institute\, D enmark\n\n \n Physics of CMB\n Emmanuel Schaan\, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\, USA\n  \n\n Large scale structure observables\n David Alons o\, University of Oxford\, England\n\n \n Machine Learning Methods for Cos mology\n Francisco Antonio Villaescusa Navarro\, Simmons Foundation and P rinceton University\, USA\n\n\n \n For more information please consult the ICTP-SAIFR web page here [ https://www.ictp-saifr.org/ictptriestesc2025/ ]Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A PRINTED BANNER . The banner size should be at most 1 m (width) x 1\,5 m (length). We do not accept A4 or A3 paper.\n\n  \n\n Grants: A limited n umber of grants are available to support the attendance of selected partic ipants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. Th ere is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10858/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10858/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The CODATA-RDA Advanced Workshops for Research Data Science | (smr 4168) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250811T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250815T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10990@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:An ICTP Meeting\n\n \n The advanced workshops are a week-long hands-on activity that exposes participants to advanced techniques/approac hes in specialized areas. Participants are expected to have a suitable bac kground or have participated in a prior Summer School part of of this acti vity.\n\nFour applied/thematic workshops on Research Data Science will run in parallel:Workshop 1: Big-Data Analytics \n\n Analysis of Large Scale Real-Time and Streaming Data\n \n Real time event processing\, low laten cy query and visualization\n \n Hands-on sessions on Data ingesting and t ools for capturing real time events/ streams\, processing\, low latency qu ery and visualization\nWorkshop 2: Compute Infrastructure\n\n Data analys is tasks (from laptops to HPC platforms)\n \n Deploying and using applica tions (jupyter notebooks) on laptops and HPC clusters\n \n A look at larg e scale data analysis on Cloud Computing Platforms\nWorkshop 3: Urban Data Science\n \n Foundations of Urban Data Science and Geospatial Analytics (data integration\, ethics and FAIR data principles).\n \n Urban Data Creation\, Integration\, and Analysis Techniques (using tools like QGIS\, Google Earth Engine\, on spatial data modelling\, urban land use change de tection\, and visual analytics).\n \n Health\, Mobility\, and Sustainab ility (mapping and tracing disease\, mobility patterns).\n \n Predictiv e Modeling and Decision Support for Smart Cities (machine learning models to forecast urban dynamics e.g population growth\, infrastructure\, climat e change and health risk).\n \nWorkshop 4: Ocean Science Data\n \n FAIR ocean data stewardship through enhanced discoverability of metadata\, shar ing of best practices\, co-developing standards\, and dataset documentatio n.\n \n Ocean observation to data services using real workflows from ac quisition to dissemination via platforms like ODIS and GLOSS.\n \n Appl ied ocean data analytics with open-source platforms to facilitate modellin g of coastal dynamics & processes for data-driven decision making\n \n Marine biodiversity data practices using OBIS for species distribution map ping\, data submission\, and regional ecosystem assessments.\n \n\n Call f or Contributed Abstracts: All applicants are requested to submit an abstra ct for a poster presentation. Abstract templates are available below for d ownload.\n  \nIndividuals seeking an introduction to Research Data Scienc e can apply to The CODATA-RDA School that runs immediately before the work shops.Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the atte ndance of selected participants from developing countries. There is no reg istration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10990/ LOCATION:ICTP Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH) URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10990/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference on Volcanic Processes: a Variety of Length and Time Sca les | (smr 4097) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250901T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250905T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10862@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n This conference aims to be a platform where young Afric an scientists will have the opportunity to rub shoulders with global exper ts on physical processes at all length and time scales. \n \n  \n \n T he conference will cover a wide range of topics related to volcanic proces ses from the subsurface to the atmosphere to volcanic particles and soils using a physical lens.\n  \n \n Topics will include:\n  \n \n Multi phase flows\n \n Theoretical and numerical modelling of subsurface magm a propagation\n \n Volcanic-induced seismic signals and surface displac ement analysis\n \n Volcanic emissions dispersion modelling\n \n Vol canic lake dynamics\n \n Soil particle-water interactions\n \n Relat ionships between volcanic eruptions - climate - volcanic environment and  health\n Click here to see the sessions details Speakers:\n \n Atalay Ayele\, University of Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia\n \n Julyan Cartwright\, I nstituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra\, CSIC–Universidad de Granada\ , Spain\n Valerie Cayol\, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans Université\, F rance\n \n Laurent Charlet\, Distinguished Emeritus Professor\, ISTerr e\, University Grenoble Alpes\, France\n \n Francois Darchambeau\, Kivu Watt\, Rwanda\n Keir Derek\, University of Florence\, Italy\n \n Arna u Folch\, Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN – CSIC)\, Spain\n \n Benjami n Gilbert\, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, USA\n Alexandra Gour lan\, University of Grenoble\, France\n \n Carolina Pagli\, University of Pise\, Italy\n \n Eleonora Rivalta\, University of Bologna\, Italy\n \n Roberto Sulpizio\, University of Bari\, Italy\n \n Andrew Woods\ , Institute of Energy and Environmental Flows\, Cambridge\, UK\n \n \n  \ n\n Research abstracts: In the application form\, all applicants are reque sted to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contributed talk. A limited number of abstracts will be selected for the p oster session or to give a talk. Please use ICTP templates available for d ownload here and below under 'Material'.\n\n  \n\n Grants: A limited numb er of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participa nts\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10862/ LOCATION:Kigali - Rwanda URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10862/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on High-Performance Computing and Applied AI for H igh-Resolution Regional Climate Modeling | (smr 4054) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250908T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250919T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10819@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n One of the new scientific frontiers in climate science is H igh-Resolution Kilometer-Scale Climate Projections. In the last years the role and potential of AI has been explored to complement the standard phys ically based dynamical models to overcome the main limitation due to the n eed of massive computational resources\, to decrease the simulation time a nd to possibly improve the understanding of fine scale dynamic. The 2-week s joint ICTP/UM6P/Toubkal Supercomputer event\, with the participation of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development \, aims to equip scienti sts with an understanding of contemporary computer tools to master the sta te of the art techniques for advanced Climate Modeling using the most powe rful facility for high-performance computing hosted in the African contine nt. It offers an intensive curriculum emphasizing hands-on skills vital fo r modern scientists using HPC resources\, alternating direct lectures and lab sessions.\n\n  \n\n Special emphasis will be placed on young research ers and practitioners\, as well as master’s and PhD students interested in enhancing their climate modeling skills. Gender balance will also be pr ioritized\, as much as possible\, while considering qualifications and ava ilable candidates. The call for applications will specify the main criteri a of selection\, underlining that applications from Africa and the Arab wo rld are strongly encouraged and financially supported.\n\n  \n\n The Scho ol will cover mainly:\n\n Regional climate modeling : from theory to appl ications\n \n High-Perfomance Computing and Applied AI\n \n ML based Reg ional Climate Emulators\n\n  \n\n NOTE: An intense series of parallel se ssions specific to the learning of modern techniques for parallel programm ing will be offered to scientists from UM6P and partners.\n  \n\n Researc h abstracts: In the application form\, all applicants are requested to sub mit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contributed talk. A limited number of abstracts will be selected for the poster sessi on and/or to give a talk. Please use ICTP templates available for download here and below under 'Material'.\n\n  \n\n Grants: A limited number of g rants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, w ith priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10819/ LOCATION:Ben Guerir - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10819/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on the Use of GNSS Data for Ionospheric Monitoring and Mo delling | (smr 4140) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251103T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251107T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10919@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n  \n\n \n The ionosphere is the part of the Earth’s uppe r atmosphere where free electrons and ions are present in quantities suffi cient to affect the propagation of radio waves. It is a highly dynamic med ium that exhibits significant weather variations with altitude\, latitude\ , longitude\, local time\, solar cycle\, season\, and geomagnetic activity . \n \n Understanding ionospheric variability is essential for improving the reliability of satellite-based technologies\, including navigation\, communication and positioning systems. In addition\, Global Navigation Sat ellite Systems (GNSS)-based ionospheric monitoring provides a valuable too l for studying the impact of space weather on the Earth's ionosphere. Expl oiting GNSS data analysis can therefore help to overcome current limitatio ns in modelling ionospheric behaviour\, supporting both scientific researc h and practical applications.\n \n The workshop will provide an introduct ion to GNSS\, physics of the ionosphere\, and space weather along with its effects on such technological systems. Emphasis will be placed on the use of GNSS data for ionospheric monitoring and modelling\, particularly thro ugh the analysis of ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC).\n \n  \n \ n Topics\n \n GNSS basics\n \n Introduction to Space Weather\n \n Introduction to Ionosphere\n \n Ionospheric TEC and irregularities\n \n Ionospheric monitoring and modelling\n \n  \n\n\n Grants: A limite d number of grants are available to support selected participants to take part in this workshop and the Beacon Satellite Symposium 2025\, with prior ity given to participants from developing countries. There is no registrat ion fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10919/ LOCATION:Rome - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10919/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Beacon Satellite Symposium 2025 | (smr 4068) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251110T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251114T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-10833@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n  \n\n\n \n\n \n The periodic symposia organized by th e Beacon Satellite Group of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI ) Commission G offer an exceptional platform for ionospheric scientists wo rldwide to meet\, collaborate\, and deepen their understanding of the iono spheric effects on radio propagation. These symposia are an integral part of the group's mission\, bringing together experts from diverse discipline s within science\, research\, technological applications\, and engineering . Formed in 1972\, the Beacon Satellite Group held its first symposium tha t same year in Graz\, Austria\, marking the beginning of a longstanding tr adition.\n \n \n Historically\, the symposia have been held at various p restigious locations across the globe. Recent events include the 2010 symp osium at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (Spain)\, the 2013 symp osium at the University of Bath (UK)\, the 2016 symposium at the Internati onal Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\, the 2019 symposium at the Uni versity of Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland)\, and the most recent one in 2022 at Boston College (USA). This year the Beacon Satellite Symposium (BSS) will be held in Rome\, Italy.\n  \n \n Over the years\, there has been a no ticeable increase in the participation of attendees from developing countr ies\, highlighting the growing global interest in ionospheric research. Fo r this reason\, the BSS will be preceded by a dedicated workshop focused o n the use of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data for ionospheri c monitoring and modeling. The workshop\, hosted by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) at its premises in Rome\, will provide participants with a unique opportunity to engage with experts and receive relevant training in this important field of study.\n \n  \n\n\n \n Re gistration fees\n Professional Participants:\n \n Early Registration – by 13 October                                    €400 \n \n Late Registration – after 13 October                                  €500\n \n  \n \n Student Participants:\n \n Ea rly Registration – by 13 October                                    €100\n \n Late Registration – after 13 October                                  €150\n \n  \n \n Registrat ion fees include all break refreshments\, lunches\, and a social dinner.\n Relevant information is available at INGV BSS 2025 website.\n  \n \n  \n\n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the a ttendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants f rom developing countries. Registration fees for these participants will be waived.\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/10833/ LOCATION:Rome - Italy URL://indico.ictp.it/event/10833/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Al-Nour Winter School on Fusion Energy | (smr 4192) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260105T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260110T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11118@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The call for applications is open at the following link: ht tps://indico.cern.ch/event/1555741/overview\n\n Fusion is one of the most promising sources of green and limitless energy for the future. It does no t produce long-lived by-products or greenhouse gases. The goal of this win ter school\, which is organized by SESAME\, the Arab Physical Society\, an d the Arab Fusion Energy Initiative\, is to spread knowledge about this st rategic field among students and scientists. It will bring together studen ts and early-career scientists from a variety of backgrounds\, like mathem atics\, physics\, and engineering\, to learn about this cutting-edge field from Arab and non-Arab experts in this field.\n\n We aim to empower the s cientific community with fusion knowledge\, foster collaboration\, and pos ition the region as a proactive player in the future of clean energy.\n   \n\n Key Objectives of this winter school\n\n ·   Introduce students and scientists to fusion\, plasma physics\, and enabling technologies.\n\n ·   Equip the next generations of scientists with the skills to enter fusi on research and development.\n\n ·   Encourage young scientists to engag e in high-impact energy challenges\, such as fusion.   \n\n ·   Introd uce the participants to international programs and facilitate networking w ith experts.\n  \n\n Deadline: 15 November 2025Grants: A limited number o f grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\ , with priority given to participants from developing countries.\n\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/11118/ LOCATION:Amman - Jordan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11118/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Synchrotron Light Sources and Their Applications | (smr 4205) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260112T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260123T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11131@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n An ICTP virtual meeting\n\n  \n\n The School will intro duce young scientists to the design\, operation\, and research opportuniti es offered at a modern synchrotron light source and how such sources are r ealized.\n\n  \n\n The school will be held over two weeks and will consis t of three modules:\n\n  \n\n (1) Physical aspects concerning the design and function of the main components: accelerators\, insertion devices and beamline optics\;\n\n (2) Overview of the arguments that can be made in or der to fund and build a synchrotron light source\, including socioeconomic benefits\, stakeholder engagement\, communication\; and\n\n (3) Overview of common beamline techniques\, including those utilizing X-rays and infra red radiation.\n\n  \n\n Topics:\n\n Fundamentals of synchrotron radiati on from storage rings\n \n Fundamentals of X-ray interactions with matter \n \n Design and operation of storage rings\n \n Beamline design: Photon transport and optics\n \n Bending magnets and insertion devices\n \n Pr oject management at a large facility\n \n Ancillary devices for light sou rces\n \n Socioeconomic justification\n \n Cultural heritage\n \n Stake holder engagement/communications\n \n Starting up user operations at a ne w facility\n \n Industrial Applications\n \n IR microscopy\n \n Basics of X-ray crystallography and powder diffraction\n \n Basics of structural biology\n \n Fundamentals of X-ray absorption: EXAFS and XANES\n \n XRF \, TXRF\, GIXRF and their applications in materials and life sciences\n \n Tomography\n\n  \n\n Registration:  There is no registration fee.\n   \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11131/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11131/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International School on Statistical Inference from Biological Data | (smr 4187) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260202T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260213T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11113@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \n The last two decades have witnessed giant experimental b reakthroughs in different areas of the life sciences\, from genomics to ep idemiology. Thanks to modern high-throughput techniques\, biological syste ms across multiple scales –from single molecules up to entire population s– can now be probed quantitatively at high spatial and temporal resolut ions.These data potentially encode a plethora of information about the fun ctional constraints that govern its evolution and the physical constraints that limit its performance. Extracting this information is also crucial f or applications ranging from the design of proteins with a desired functio nality to the reconstruction of contacts during epidemics. Inverse statist ical mechanics attempts to do it by inferring generative models from data using methods from the physics of disordered and random systems but more r ecently also exploring AI approaches. Specific characteristics of biologic al data however\, like strong undersampling and heterogeneity\, limit the effectiveness of these tools. The school will explore the oppourtinies and limits of statistical inference across biological systems and application s.\n  \nSpeakers: \nA. BRAUNSTEIN\, Politecnico di Torino\, Italy \nC. BOSIA\, Politecnico di Torino\, Italy \nD. DE MARTINO\, Biofisika Institu te - Ikerbasque\, Spain \nJ. FERNANDEZ-DE-COSSIO-DIAZ\, Université Paris -Saclay\, France \nL. FERRETTI\, Oxford University\, UK \nA. FUENTES-HER NANDEZ\, UNAM\, Mexico \nJ. GRILLI\, ICTP\, Italy\nA. INGROSSO\, Radboud University\, Netherlands \nC. LUCIBELLO\, Bocconi University\, Italy \nD . THIEFFRY\, ENS\, France \nM. WEIGT\, Sorbonne University\, France \n R esearch abstracts: In the application form\, all applicants are asked to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contribu ted talk. Please use ICTP templates available for download here and below under 'Material'.Grants: A limited number of grants are available to supp ort the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to parti cipants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indi co.ictp.it/event/11113/ LOCATION:Havana - Cuba URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11113/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:WCRP-WGSIP School on Climate Prediction Across Timescales | (smr 4 188) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260223T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260227T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11114@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The call for application is closed.\n The WCRP School on Cl imate Prediction Across Timescales is designed for early career researcher s and advanced students interested in climate prediction science and its a pplications. It will address the key challenges of producing\, assessing\, and integrating forecasts from sub-seasonal to inter-decadal timescales.\ n The School will host 30 graduate students\, postdocs\, and early-career professionals in climate-related fields who have a basic background in cli mate science or statistics\, some programming experience (ideally in Pytho n)\, and an interest in climate services or operational prediction. The sc hool will be taught in English.Topics\n\n Preprocessing forecasts\n \n U nderstanding and measuring predictability\n \n Predictions across timesca les\n \n Novel methods in climate forecasting\n \n Forecast evaluation\n \n Climate prediction in practice\n\n Speakers\n C. Ardilouze\, CNRM (Un iversité de Toulouse\, Météo-France\, CNRS)\, France\n L. Diaz\, DCAO-C IMA-IFAECI (UBA-CONICET-CNRS-IRD)\, Argentina\n L. DiSera\, ICTP\, Italy\n L. Hermanso Met Office\, UK\n D. Hudson\, Bureau of Meteorology\, Austral ia\n K. Mayer\, NSF NCAR\, USA William Merryfield ECCC\, Canada\n A. Molod \, NASA\, USA Ángel G. Muñoz ICTP\, Italy\n M. Osman\, DCAO-CIMA-IFAECI (UBA-CONICET-CNRS-IRD)\, Argentina\n Y. Takaya\, Meteorological Research I nstitute\, Japan\n B. Niraula\, ESMO IPO\, Germany\n S. Pasqualetto\, ESMO IPO\, Germany\n  \n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available t o support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n //indico.ictp.it/event/11114/ LOCATION:Buenos Aires - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11114/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:WCO5 - 5th Workshop on Convective Organization | (smr 4191) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260309T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260312T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11117@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n \nThere will be a small registration fee charged to cover c atering that includes\nlunches\, coffee breaks and a reception.\n\n\n \n O rganized convective systems are often responsible for high impact precipit ation extremes\, and changes in convective organization have the potential to amplify or dampen future climate change. The conference follows the pr evious iterations of this meeting (held online\, in Utrecht and Trieste)\, with the goal of examining our understanding of cloud organization in mod els and observations.\n\n  \n\n The meeting’s central themes are:\n\n Extreme precipitation from organized convection\n \n Convective organizat ion over land\n \n Organization of convection in global km-scale models\n \n Artificial intelligence applied to convective organization\n \n Cold -pool driven convective organization\n \n Shallow and congestus convectiv e organization (over ocean and land)\n \n Convective organization’s fee dback on climate change\n \n Convective organization and tropical waves\n \n  \n\n Research abstracts: In the application form\, all applicants ar e requested to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contributed talk. A limited number of abstracts will be selected fo r the poster session or to give a talk. Please use ICTP templates availabl e for download here and below under 'Material'.\n\n Grants: A limited num ber of grants are available to support the attendance of selected particip ants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. \n  \n\nPlease see the conference website for further details on accommodati on options and transport.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11117/ LOCATION:Brazilian National Space Institute (INPE)\, São José dos Campos - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11117/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Conference on Photophysics and Photochemistry | (smr 4189) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260326T030000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260328T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11115@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The call for application is now closed.\n This conference a ims to bring together global experts to discuss advances in photophysics a nd photochemistry with a focus on renewable energy\, light-matter interact ions\, and interdisciplinary innovation.\n The conference aims to foster c ollaboration between theorists and experimentalists in the fields of photo physics and photochemistry\, with a strong focus on the participation of r esearchers from developing and underrepresented communities. It is designe d to provide a dynamic and interactive platform for in-depth discussions b etween established experts and early-career researchers and students. The scientific program will cover a broad range of topics\, including green sy nthetic methodologies\, photo(electro)catalysis\, carrier transport phenom ena\, single-junction/tandem photovoltaics\, CO2 reduction reactions\, and advanced spectroscopic techniques. Distinctively\, the conference emphasi zes interdisciplinary collaboration by uniting specialists from both photo physics and photochemistry. The program will feature invited lectures\, co ntributed talks\, and poster sessions.\n\n \n Topics:\n \n Artificial p hotosynthesis\n \n Photo(electro)catalytic water splitting\n \n Carb on dioxide and nitrogen reduction\n \n Photoelectrochemical cells\n \n Charge carrier recombination pathways\n \n Photovoltaics (monolithic /tandem\, bulk/anomalous)\, LED\, photodetectors\n \n Photoluminescence spectroscopy\n \n Polarization-sensitive optoelectronic devices\n \n Nonlinear optics\n \n Valleytronics\n \n Quantum Emitters\n \n Quantum-confined excitonic systems\n \n Exciton-polariton transport\n \n Theoretical and experimental synergy in energy materials\n \n Disc overy of Photovoltaic materials using AI and ML\n Directors:\n A. ALAM\,  Indian Institute of Technology\, Bombay\, India\n N. SINGH\, Khalifa Univ ersity\, United Arab EmiratesSpeakers:\n S. Ahmad\, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur\, India\n S. Bhattacharya\, Birla Institute of Technol ogy and Science Pilani\, India\n T. C. Nagaiah\, Indian Institute of Tech nology Ropar\, India\n S. Chakraborty\, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad (Prayagraj)\, India\n F. Chuan-Chuang\, NSYSU\, Taiwan\n D. Das Sarma\, Indian Institute of Science\, India\n T. Das\, Harish-Ch andra Research Institute\, India\n S. Dutta Choudhury\, Bhabha Atomic Res earch Centre\, Mumbai\, India\n D. Ghosh\, School of Chemical Sciences\, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science\, India\n S. Ghosh\, In dian Institute of Technology Guwahati\, India\n M. Jain\, Indian Institut e of Science\, India\n M. Kabir\, Indian Institute of Science Education a nd Research\, India\n D. Kabra\, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai\, India\n D. Khushalani\, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research\, India\n A. Kumar Chandiran\, Indian Institute of Technology Chennai\, India\n S. Kumar Gupta\, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre\, India\n Y. Liu\, A*STAR In stitute of High Performance Computing (IHPC)\, Singapore\n C. Narayana\, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research\, India\n P. R. Nair\, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay\, India\n K. S. Narayan\, Ja waharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research\, India\n S. K. Pa ti\, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research\, India\n B . Singh\, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research\, India\n A. Yella\, Ind ian Institute of Technology Bombay\, India\n U. Waghmare\, Jawaharlal Neh ru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research\, India\n S. Ray\, Department of Physics\, IIT Kharagpur\, India\n A. Rahman\, Indian Institute of Scie nce Education and Research (IISER) Pune\, India\n B. Sanyal\, Uppsala Uni versity\, Sweden\n S. Tao\, Eindhoven University of Technology\, Netherla nds\n K. Polychronopoulou\, Khalifa University\, UAE\n S. Patil\, Indian Institute of Science\, India\n B. Pathak\, Indian Institute of Technolog y Indore\, India\n K. Tarafder\, National Institute of Technology Karnata ka\, Surathkal\, India\n F. Vasilievich Kusmartsev\, Khalifa University\, UAE\n  \n\n\n Research abstracts: In the application form\, all applic ants are asked to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentati on. Please use ICTP templates available for download here and below unde r 'Material'.\n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to supp ort the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to parti cipants from developing countries. There will be no registration fee from the attendees participating from developing countries\, but nominal regis tration fee may apply from the developed and host country participants. \ n Please see the conference website for further details.\n  \n\n//indico. ictp.it/event/11115/ LOCATION:Mumbai - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11115/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTN) Solutions for Environmen tal Monitoring | (smr 4193) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260511T041500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260515T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11119@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for application is now closed.\nDelay-Tolerant Networ ks (DTNs) support reliable data collection in extreme environments\, essen tial for ecological\, pollution\, and disaster science\, especially in Asi a’s remote or rural regions with frequent disasters and sparse infrastru cture.\nDTNs provide a robust solution for reliable data gathering and tra nsmission in environments that face significant connectivity challenges or disruptions. DTNs are invaluable for scientists engaged in ecological pre servation\, pollution monitoring\, and emergency response operations\, as these fields often require seamless information flow in areas with little or no communication infrastructure. Their importance is particularly prono unced in Asia\, a continent marked by vast\, sparsely populated regions\, recurrent natural disasters\, and underdeveloped rural infrastructure. By enabling interventions and monitoring in these hard-to-reach locations\, D TNs support better decision-making and more effective protection of enviro nmental and human health.Topics:\n \n- Introduction to Delay-Tolerant Net works (DTNs)\n- Applications of DTNs in Environmental Monitoring\n- DTN Ne twork Design and Optimization\n- Mobile Nodes and Data Mules\n- Environmen tal Challenges and Adaptations\n- Low-power design\n- Basic know-how about antennas and radio coverage\n- Real-Time Monitoring and Early Warning Sys temsDirectors:\nMarco Zennaro\, ICTP\, Italy\nSamoGrasic\, ICTP\, Italy\nP rashant Manandhar\, Center for Information and Communication Technology fo r Development\, Nepal\nPavan Shakya\, Center for Information and Communica tion Technology for Development\, Nepal\nRajan Parajuli\, Nepal Research a nd Education Network\, Nepal\nRolisha Sthapit\, Prime College\, Nepal\n Re search abstracts: In the application form\, all applicants are asked to s ubmit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contribut ed talk. Please use ICTP templates available for download here and below under 'Material'.\nGrants: A limited number of grants are available to su pport the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to par ticipants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/11119/ LOCATION:Kathmandu - Nepal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11119/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The 9th Biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Applica tions (ASP2026) | (smr 4194) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260705T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260719T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11120@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for applications is closed.\n\n \n ASP:  https://afr icanschoolofphysics.org/\n To increase capacity development in fundamental physics and related applications in Africa. The ASP has evolved to be muc h more than a school. It is a programe of actions with directed ethos towa rd physics as an engine for development in Africa.Topics:\n \n Fundament al and applied physics\n \n Societal engagements\n Grants: A limited nu mber of grants are available to support the attendance of selected partici pants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. The re is no registration fee.\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11120/ LOCATION:Nairobi - Kenya URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11120/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Workshop on Exotic Quantum Phases in Equilibrium and Dr iven Matter | (smr 4195) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260712T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260724T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11121@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The call for applications is now closed.\n\n This School an d Workshop explores exotic quantum phases in equilibrium and driven matter \, focusing on quantum spin liquids\, spin–orbit–coupled materials\, e xperimental probes\, and nonequilibrium control via Floquet engineering an d ultrafast dynamics.\n\n The program combines pedagogical lectures and re search talks covering fractionalization and topological order\, experiment al probes of quantum spin liquids\, candidate materials with strong spin –orbit coupling\, and microscopic modeling. It further addresses nonequi librium phases in driven and synthetic quantum matter\, including Floquet engineering\, nonlinear spectroscopy\, and quantum state preparation\, alo ngside modern theoretical and numerical methods.\n\n Topics\n\n General i ntroduction to quantum spin liquids: fractionalization\, topological order \, and phase classification\n \n Experimental probes of quantum spin liqu ids\n \n Candidate quantum materials and their microscopic models\n \n E xotic phases in driven matter Synthetic quantum matter and its nonequilibr ium aspects\n \n Theoretical and numerical approaches Quantum state prepa ration and control\n\n Speakers\n\n F. Assaad\, University of Würzburg\, Germany\n\n F. Becca\, University of Trieste\, Italy\n\n S. Bhattacharjee\ , ICTS\, India\n\n P. Bonetti\, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Resea rch\, Germany\n\n C. Broholm\, Johns Hopkins University\, USA\n\n C. Caste lnovo\, University of Cambridge\, UK\n\n N. Chepiga\, University of Oxford \, UK\n\n A. Chernyshev\, University of California\, USA\n\n A. Coldea\, U niversity of Oxford\, UK\n\n R. Coldea\, University of Oxford\, UK\n\n N. Davier\, University of Bordeaux and CNRS\, France\n\n K. Damle\, TIFR\, In dia\n\n R. Fazio\, ICTP Trieste\, Italy\n\n S. Gao\, University of Science and Technology of China\, China\n\n H. Jin\, ShanghaiTech University\, Ch ina\n\n A. Keselman\, Technion IIT\, Israel\n\n S.B. Lee\, KAIST\, South K orea\n\n E. Lhotel\, CNRS\, France\n\n P. van Loosdrecht\, University of C ologne\, Germany\n\n F. Mila\, EPFL\, Switzerland\n\n R. Narayanan\, IIT M adras\, India\n\n M. Oshikawa\, Ohio State University\, USA\n\n D. Pejakov ić\, Moore Foundation\, USA\n\n K. Penc\, Wigner Research Centre for Phys ics\, Hungary\n\n N. Perkins\, University of Minnesota\, USA\n\n S. Petit\ , CNRS\, France\n\n J. Rau\, University of Windsor\, Canada\n\n J. Romhán yi\, University of California\, USA\n\n U. Seifert\, University of Cologne \, Germany\n\n K. Shtengel\, UC Riverside\, USA\n\n S. Streltsov\, Russian Academy of Sciences\, Russia\n\n S. Trebst\, University of Cologne\, Germ any\n\n V. Tripathi\, TIFR\, India \n\n A. Vassiliev\, Moscow State Unive rsity\, Russia\n\n M. Vojta\, TU Dresden\, Germany \n\n A. Wietek\, MPI-P KS\, Germany \n\n S. Wilson\, UC Santa Barbara\, USA\n\n K. Wohlfeld\, Un iversity of Warsaw\, Poland\n\n A. Zheludev\, ETH Zurich\, Switzerland\n\n Call for Contributed Abstracts: All applicants are encouraged to submit a n abstract for a poster presentation. Abstract templates are available for download here or below under 'Abstract Templates'.\n  \n\n Grants: A lim ited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countri es. There is no registration fee.\n\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11121/ LOCATION:IIT Madras Zanzibar\, Bweleo\, Zanzibar - United Republic of Tanz ania URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11121/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IV Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics | (smr 4196) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260713T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260724T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11122@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:There will be no application process at ICTP. All applications will be handled by ICTP‑SAIFR. Please refer to the activity page for fu rther details.Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participa nts from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.i ctp.it/event/11122/ LOCATION:Sao Paolo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11122/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ICTP-IISc Workshop on Physics of Cancer | (smr 4197) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260720T040000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260731T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11123@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for application is now closed.\n The proposed worksho p intends to help early career researchers from diverse theoretical scienc es background to transition to work in physical and systems oncology areas \, and experimental cancer biologists with a quantitative bent to incorpor ate theoretical frameworks in their research.\n A tumor is a complex ecosy stem with a myriad of bio-physical and -chemical effects operative over va rying time and length scales – from genetic/non-genetic changes in cells during cancer initiation to colonization of distant organs and resurgence of tumor after therapy. While it has been largely been studied from a red uctionist and descriptive molecular perspective\, recent advancements in e xperimental tools have enabled mapping systems-level spatiotemporal change s with high precision and thus attracted the attention of physicists\, mat hematicians\, and engineers. However\, developing concerted theoretical fr ameworks to make testable predictions for disease progression is still in its infancy. Participants will be exposed to the latest open questions in the field and experience an intellectual cross-fertilization of research i deas in terms of applying different models to better predict cancer progre ssion dynamics.\n Topics:\n Stochastic cell-fate decisions in cancer\n \ n Cellular cooperation and competition in cancer\n \n Cell mechanics and soft matter aspects in cancer\n \n Emergent dynamics of tumor-stroma int eractions and co-evolution\nSpeakers:\n N. Balasubramanian\, IISER Pune\, India\n R. Bhat\, IISc Bangalore\, India\n D. Bi\, Northeastern University \, USA\n H. Byrne\, Oxford University\, UK\n S. Chakrabarti\, NCBS Bangalo re\, India\n F. Eduati\, TU Eindhoven\, Netherlands\n J. George\, Texas A& M University\, USA\n M. Jolly\, IISc Bangalore\, India\n R. Laubenbacher\, University of Florida\, USA\n C. La Porta\, University of Milan\, Italy\n T. Lele\, Texas A&M University\, USA\n K. Miroshnikova\, Max Planck Insti tute for Molecular Biomedicine\, Germany\n A. Puliafito\, University of To rino\, Italy\n E. Regan\, Wooster College\, USA\n S. Sen\, IIT Bombay\, In dia\n V. Shenoy\, University of Pennsylvania\, USA\n S. Singh\, National I nstitute of Biomedical Genomics\, India\n K. Tanner\, NIH\, USA\n M. Vishw akarma\, IISc Bangalore\, India\n S. Zapperi\, University of Milan\, Italy \n\n \n  \n\n Poster: Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation.\n\n Please use ICTP templates available for downlo ad here and below under 'Material'.\n\n Grants: A limited number of grant s are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no regi stration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11123/ LOCATION:Bengaluru - India URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11123/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AGRA V - School on Arithmetic\, Groups and Analysis | (smr 4198) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260727T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260807T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11124@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The call for applications is now closed.\n The AGRA series of summer schools (Santiago de Chile\, 2012\; Cusco\, 2015\; Córdoba\, 20 18\; Rio de Janeiro\, part I online in 2021 and part II physically in 2022 ) has as its goal to foster the development of number theory in Latin Amer ica: it provides a formative experience for young researchers\, and it als o helps bring together more senior or mid-career mathematicians working in the field. It has been our tradition to have all courses and associated d iscussions in Spanish or Portuguese\, in part so as to make all activities accessible to all students in Latin America\, regardless of their English proficiency.\n The target audience of AGRA includes undergraduate student s\, graduate students and young researchers with a serious interest in num ber theory and neighboring fields. This next edition will take place in Po payan\, Colombia\, featuring a collection of minicourses\, followed by tut orials and problem sessions.Topics:\n Formas modulares p-ádicas\n Micha el Harris\n Juan Esteban Rodríguez Camargo\n  \n \n Curvas algebraica s\, superficies de Riemann y estratificaciones de sus espacios de módulos \n Sebastián Reyes-Carocca\n Pietro Speziali\n Elisa Lorenzo García ( como coordinadora)\n  \n \n Semigrupos numéricos\, puntos de Weierstra ss y aplicaciones\n María Bras-Amorós\n Luciane Quoos\n María Chara (como coordinadora)\n  \n \n A caballo entre Fourier y lo complejo: zet a\, primos y Möbius\n Harald Helfgott\n Adrian Ubis\n Métodos explí citos de Chabauty: un punto de vista computacional a los puntos racionales \n \n \n Juanita Duque\n Jerson Caro Reyes\n Cecilia Salgado (como coo rdinadora)\n For additional information\, you can visit https://sites.goo gle.com/view/agrav/main-page\n  \n\n\n Grants: A limited number of grant s are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no regi stration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11124/ LOCATION:Popayan - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11124/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2026 School on Arithmetic\, Geometry and Algorithms | (smr 4199) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260817T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260828T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11125@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for applications is now closed.\n Coordinated by AAU- AMU-CIMPA-CoRE-Math-ICTP-ISP\n The topics of this school are arithmetic an d algebraic geometry\, with a view toward applications\, computational asp ects and modern algorithms.\n Arithmetic and algebraic geometry are classi cal topics\, yet highly active fields in pure mathematics which recently h ave found practical applications\, for instance in cryptography and coding theory. The school will give an accessible introduction to various founda tional topics in arithmetic and algebraic geometry\, including basics of c ommutative algebra\, the language of modern algebraic geometry.\n Moreover \, we will highlight computational aspects and introduce the students to t he usage of computer algebra systems. These are indispensable tools for re search in arithmetic and algebraic geometry\, as well as for practical app lications. \nTopics:\n\n Algebraic varieties\n \n Commutative algebra\n \n Elliptic Curves\n \n Algebraic Number Theory\n \n Finite Fields\n \ n Applications of Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry in Cryptography\n \n Computer Algebra Systems\n  \nSpeakers:\n\n Introductory Commutative A lgebra\n S. Nakato\, Kabale University\, Uganda\n \n Introductory Algebr aic Geometry \n S. Gammelgaard\, Università degli Studi di Milano\, Ital y\n \n Algebraic Number Theory\, Finite Fields and RSA Cryptography\n A. El-Guindy Cairo University\, Egypt\n \n Elliptic Curves I: geometry and arithmetic\n D. Festi\, University of Naples Federico II\, Italy\n \n El liptic Curves II: elliptic curves over finite fields and applications to c ryptography\n J. Duque-Rosero\, Boston University\, USA\n \n Additional talks by \n B. Bekele\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\n A. Fufa Samu el Asefa\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\n T. Abebaw\, Addis Ababa Un iversity\, Ethiopia\n Dereje Kifle\, Dilla University\, Ethiopia\n\n Gran ts: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developin g countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11125 / LOCATION:Addis Ababa University - Ethiopia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11125/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Edge Artificial Intelligence for Envir onmental and Radiation Sensing | (smr 4190) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260914T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260918T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11116@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The call for applications is now closed.\n  \n\n This work shop is dedicated to exploring the transformative potential of Edge Artif icial Intelligence (EdgeAI) and Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) in advan cing environmental and radiation sensing technologies.\n\n \n By enablin g powerful\, real-time data analysis directly on resource-constrained devi ces\, EdgeAI and TinyML offer a crucial shift from cloud-dependent process ing. This paradigm allows for the deployment of intelligent\, ultra-low-p ower sensors in remote\, infrastructure-poor\, or time-critical environme nts. Participants will learn how these technologies facilitate tracking cl imate-related changes\, monitor environmental parameters and provide rapid \, localized radiation detection. Ultimately\, the focus is on developing and deploying robust\, autonomous\, and cost-effective sensing solutions e ssential for proactive disaster management\, environmental protection\, an d public safety.Topics:\n\n Introduction to EdgeAI and TinyML\n \n Low-P ower Edge Devices for Environmental Monitoring\n \n Small Size\, Weight\, and Power (SWaP) Radiation Detection Instrumentation\n \n Deploying Mach ine Learning Models on Edge Devices\n \n Case Studies & Applications\n \n Data Collection and Preprocessing for EdgeAI\n \n Energy-Efficient AI M odel Design\n \n Scalability and Sustainability of EdgeAI Solutions\n\n  \n\n Research abstracts: In the application form\, applicants are encour aged to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contributed talk. A limited number of abstracts will be selected for the p oster session or to give a talk. Please use ICTP templates available for d ownload below.\n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to sup port the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to part icipants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/11116/ LOCATION:Bishkek - Kyrgyzstan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11116/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School and Conference on Edge Intelligence for Scientific Instrume ntation and Reconfigurable Computing | (smr 4200) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260914T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260924T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11126@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for application is now closed.\n\n \n This school and conference is dedicated to teaching key principles of edge intelligence o n FPGA-based heterogeneous devices\, focusing on real-time processing near data sources and applications in scientific instrumentation.\n Modern sci entific instruments require online data acquisition systems capable of rea l-time\, parallel processing to reduce data storage and accelerate analysi s. Edge intelligence on reconfigurable FPGA-based platforms combines softw are flexibility with hardware performance for efficient\, responsive opera tion. Through lectures\, hands-on sessions\, and research presentations\, participants will gain practical experience with edge-based solutions\, op en-source tools\, and heterogeneous hardware platforms. The program equips attendees to design and deploy intelligent instrumentation for advanced s cientific applications\nTopics: \n Introduction to Edge Intelligence\n \ n FPGA-Based Systems-on-Chip: Architecture and Design Methodology\n \n H ardware–Software Co-Design\n \n Reconfigurable Instrumentation\n \n Fu ndamentals of Applied Machine Learning\n \n Model Optimization and Compre ssion (Quantization\, Pruning\, Distillation)\n \n Heterogeneous Computin g\n \n Deploying Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Devices\n\n Research a bstracts: Applicants are encouraged to submit a brief research abstract on applications of edge intelligence for an oral presentation. A limited num ber of abstracts will be selected for contributed talks. Please use the IC TP template available for download below.Grants: A limited number of grant s are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no regi stration fee.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11126/ LOCATION:Cyberjaya\, Selangor - Malaysia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11126/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open Quantum Systems - from Quantum Information to Condensed Matte r | (smr 4204) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261116T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261120T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11130@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for application is now open.\n Focusing on the compet ition between unitary evolution and environmental decoherence/dissipation\ , the school is intended to cover several key topics including quantum pha se transitions in open systems\, the dynamics of entanglement in the prese nce of noise\, monitored quantum circuits\, and the dynamics of noisy quan tum devices. The lecture series are intended to teach the students about t he foundations of the corresponding topics. A broad spectrum of PhD studen ts in theoretical quantum physics is expected\, and the lectures will be c orrespondingly accessible.Speakers\n S. Gopalakhrisnan\, Princeton Unive rsity\, USA\n \n M. Joshi\, Singapore University for Technology and Des ign\, Singapore\n \n K. Modi\, Singapore University for Technology and Design\, Singapore\n \n T. Mori\, Keio University\, Japan\n \n G. Mo rigi\, Saarland University\, Germany\n \n R. Vasseur\, University of Ge neva\, Switzerland    \n \n M. Znidaric\, University of Ljubljana\, Slovenia\n \n  \nPoster abstracts: In the application form\, young applic ants (BSc\, MSc\, PhD) are requested to submit a brief research abstract f or a poster presentation. Please use ICTP templates available for download here or below under 'Material'.\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priori ty given to participants from developing countries. There is no registrati on fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11130/ LOCATION:Singapore - Singapore URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11130/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Scientific Computing and AI | (smr 4202) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261121T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261123T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11128@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:\n The call for applications is now open. Please\, click on 'A pply here' on the left side.\n The Workshop on Scientific Computing and AI \, tailored for students and early-career researchers based in the Arab Re gion\, will provide theoretical and hands-on training in high-performance computing\, crucial data analysis pipelines\, and the latest applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to accelerate scientific d iscovery. As part of the workshop activities\, selected participants will present their research findings in a poster format.\n  Topics:\n\n Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery\n \n Scientific Data Analysis\n \n HPC for Science\n \n HPC for AI \n \n Foundation models for Science \n \n Edge AI\n  \n\n Speakers\n N. Burahmah\, Kuwait University\, Kuwait\n Z. Hussain\, Kuwait University\, Kuwait\n T. Alrushaid\, Kuwait University \, Kuwait\n A. Alsenafi\, Kuwait University\, Kuwait\n E. Al-Hetlani\, Kuw ait University\, Kuwait\n S. Di Gioia\, ICTP\, Italy\n M. Zennaro\, ICTP\, Italy\n Following this\, the 1st Joint Kuwait University-ICTP Science S ymposium will serve as a high-level platform for faculty from both institu tions and from scientific institutions in the Arab region to present pione ering research\, engage in strategic discussions\, and lay the groundwork for impactful\, long-term international collaborations.Research abstracts:  In the application form\, applicants willing to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation are kindly requested to use the templa te available for download here or in the below section.IMPORTANT NOTE: Ap plicants who wish to attend the workshop must also register for the sympos ium here.\n  \n\n Grants: A limited number of grants are available to sup port the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to part icipants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//ind ico.ictp.it/event/11128/ LOCATION:Kuwait City - Kuwait URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11128/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:1st Joint Kuwait University-ICTP Science Symposium | (smr 4305) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261124T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261126T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11262@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:Registrations are open. Please\, click on 'Apply here' on the left side.\n The 1st Joint Kuwait University-ICTP Science Symposium will serve as a high-level platform for faculty from both institutions and fro m scientific institutions in the Arab region to present pioneering researc h\, engage in strategic discussions\, and lay the groundwork for impactful \, long-term international collaborations.\n  \n\n The symposium will be preceded by the Workshop on Scientific Computing and AI\, tailored for stu dents and early-career researchers based in the Arab Region. The workshop will provide theoretical and hands-on training in high-performance computi ng\, crucial data analysis pipelines\, and the latest applications of Arti ficial Intelligence and Machine Learning to accelerate scientific discover y. As part of the workshop activities\, selected participants will present their research findings in a poster format.\n\n If you are interested in attending the workshop\, please visit the following page: https://indico. ictp.it/event/11128/Grants: A limited number of grants are available to su pport the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to par ticipants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//in dico.ictp.it/event/11262/ LOCATION:Kuwait City - Kuwait URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11262/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African Biophysics Workshop in Experimental and Computational Tech niques | (smr 4186) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261207T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261218T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11112@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for applications is now open. \nDeadline: 15 Aug 202 6\n \n African biophysics workshop advancing integrated computational and experimental approaches through training\, mentorship\, networking\, and c ollaboration across the continent.\n The workshop promotes integrated comp utational and experimental biophysics through lectures\, hands-on training in molecular simulations\, structural biology\, spectroscopy\, membrane b iophysics\, and AI-driven approaches for biophysical research. Participant s will gain experience with open-source scientific tools and resources for molecular modeling\, protein structure analysis\, and data-driven studies relevant to biomedicine and agriculture. Experimental sessions will explo re techniques including AFM\, cryo-EM\, single-molecule biophysics\, prote in crystallization\, and structure determination\, with applications to di seases of major relevance in Africa such as malaria and tuberculosis. Post er and oral sessions will foster scientific exchange and collaborative Afr ican research networks.\nTopics\n- Chemical Physics & Statistical Mechanic s\n- Molecular Dynamics\n- Data Science\n- Structural Biology\n- Mechanobi ology\n- Spectroscopic Techniques to Probe Biological MatterTentative Spea kers\nBonella Sara\, CECAM\, EPFL\, Switzerland\nCasalis Loredana\, Elettr a Sincrotrone Trieste\, Italy\nDe Basio Alfredo\, KAUST\, Saudi Arabia\nGa su Edward Ntim\, ICTP\, Italy\nGorfe Alemayehu\, UTHealth Houston\, USA\nH assanali Ali\, ICTP\, Italy\nKruger Tjaart\, University Of Pretoria\, Sout h Africa\nLaio Alessandro\, SISSA\, Italy\nOnesti Silvia\, Elettra Sincrot rone Trieste\, Italy\nRondelli Valeria\, University of Milan\, Italy\nSeta rge Yedilfana\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\nShadrack Daniel\, NM-AI ST\, Tanzania\nShenkutie Sintayehu\, Hawassa University\, EthiopiaPoster a bstracts: In the application form\, young applicants (BSc\, MSc\, PhD) are requested to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation. Please use ICTP templates available for download here or below under 'Mat erial'.Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the att endance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants fro m developing countries. There is no registration fee.\n\n//indico.ictp.it/ event/11112/ LOCATION:Addis Ababa - Ethiopia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11112/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bangkok School on Cosmology | (smr 4203) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261207T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261212T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11129@ictp.it DESCRIPTION:The call for applications is open. Please click on 'Apply here ' to submit your application.\nThis school provides an introduction to the current state of research in cosmology and astroparticle physics. It is i ntended for beginning graduate students\, as well as more senior non- expe rt researchers interested in the field.Lecturers and Topics:\n Dark Matter A. Arvanitaki - Perimeter Institute\, CanadaInflationP. Creminelli - ICTP\ , ItalyLarge Scale StructureA. Moradinezhad - LAPTh Annecy\, FranceIntrodu ction to CosmologyF. Schmidt - Max Planck Institute\, Germany Cosmic Micro wave BackgroundB. Sherwin - University of Cambridge\, UK\n\n Cosmology and StringsSpecial Lecture by: C. Vafa - Harvard University\, USA (TBC)\nGran ts: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants\, with priority given to participants from developin g countries. There is no registration fee.Venue and Local Information\nBan gkok School on Cosmology 2026 will be hosted at the department of physics\ , faculty of science\, Chulalongkorn University  (commonly abbreviated as "Chula"\, pronounced choo-lah\, with a stressed second syllable)\, Thaila nd's leading school in natural science fields centrally located in the mod ernized Pathumwan district of Bangkok.\nClick here for a Google map link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/asZ5FsxvgLGKkK1j8\nThe school will be followed by the Dark Side of the Universe (DSU) Conference. Website: https://indico.gl obal/event/16194/\n The School on Cosmology adheres to the IUPAP Policies on Conferences.Please refer to the section “Material” for further deta ils.\n  \n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11129/ LOCATION:Bangkok - Thailand URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11129/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Al-Nour Winter School on Fusion Science | (smr 4333) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270104T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270108T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11407@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11407/ LOCATION:Allan - Jordan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11407/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School on Synchrotron Light Sources and Their Applications | (smr 4334) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270111T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270122T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11408@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11408/ LOCATION:Online - Online URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11408/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-IAEA School on Detector Signal Processing and Edge AI f or Nuclear Instrumentation | (smr 4336) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270113T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270122T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11410@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11410/ LOCATION:San Carlos de Bariloche - Argentina URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11410/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint ICTP-MSA-COMSTECH-SESAME School on AI-Driven Biomaterials De sign: from Characterization to Additive Manufacturing - Bringing Lab to Ma rket | (smr 4343) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270321T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270401T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11417@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11417/ LOCATION:Allan - Jordan URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11417/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:African Workshop on High Performance Computing for Sustainable Dev elopment | (smr 4352) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270510T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270514T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11426@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11426/ LOCATION:Benin City\, Edo State\, Nigeria - Nigeria URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11426/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:9th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Application s (ASESMA-2027) | (smr 4359) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270607T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270618T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11433@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11433/ LOCATION:Dakar - Senegal URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11433/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Summer School in Climate Change and Infectious Diseases Modelling | (smr 4363) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270621T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270702T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11437@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11437/ LOCATION:Bogota - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11437/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ghana School on Non-Equilibrium Physics | (smr 4369) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270705T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270716T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11443@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11443/ LOCATION:Accra - Ghana URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11443/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:VI Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR Cosmology School | (smr 4372) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270719T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270730T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11446@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11446/ LOCATION:Sao Paulo - Brazil URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11446/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Summer School on Topological Data Analysis and Applications | (smr 4373) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270719T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270730T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11447@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11447/ LOCATION:Lusaka - Zambia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11447/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Summer School on Bayesian Analysis and Stochastic Processes | (smr 4375) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270720T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20270730T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11449@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11449/ LOCATION:Hanoi - Viet Nam URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11449/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Regional Climate Change Conference 2027 (RCCC 2027) | (smr 4392) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20271007T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20271008T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11466@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11466/ LOCATION:Colombo - Sri Lanka URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11466/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on the use of GNSS Data and Machine Learning for Ionosphe ric Monitoring\, Modelling\, and Space Weather Research | (smr 4399) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20271019T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20271028T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11473@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11473/ LOCATION:Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11473/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hands-on School in Quantitative Biology | (smr 4401) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20271108T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20271119T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11475@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11475/ LOCATION:Ben Guerir - Morocco URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11475/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on COSMIC-INNOVATION: from the Sky to Society | (smr 4402 ) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20271129T060000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20271203T200000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260722T205919Z UID:indico-event-11476@ictp.it DESCRIPTION://indico.ictp.it/event/11476/ LOCATION:Santa Marta - Colombia URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11476/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR