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Description

An ICTP-IAEA Meeting

This School focuses on materials response to irradiation, covering a range of fields from space electronics to nuclear materials and radiotherapies.

This School is aimed at developing experimental and theoretical understanding of materials response to irradiation, of experimental and computational tools, and their application to control the properties of materials exposed to intense radiation environments. Areas of interest include: space electronics and photovoltaics, radiation-resistant materials and nanostructures, radiation detectors, hadron radiotherapy and space radiobiology, nuclear decommissioning, nuclear fusion, accelerator technologies, stopping power, computational methods, and safe analysis strategies of heritage objects.

Speakers
A. ALET, Universidad de Rosario, Argentina
M. ALURRALDE, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
E. ARTACHO, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain
A. BERTOLO, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
F. DJURABEKOVA, University of Helsinki, Finland
M. GALASSI, Universidad de Rosario, Argentina
A. HEMERYCK, LAAS-CNRS-Toulouse, France
N. MEDVEDEV, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
D. NGUYEN-MANH, UKAEA, UK
A. RIVERA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
E. SCIFONI, TIFPA-INFN, Italy
L. STELLA, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
A. TAMM, Tartu Ulikool, Estonia

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.

Material

Joint ICTP-IAEA-MAMBA School on Materials Irradiation: from Basics to Applications | (smr 4055)
Go to day
  • Monday, 10 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 09:45
      • 09:00 Registration and Welcome 45' 
        Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level). The Registration Desk will be open from 09.00 to 09.45
        Material: Video
    • 09:45 - 17:00
      • 09:45 Introduction to the School 45'
        Speaker: Jorge KOHANOFF (Madrid Polytecnic University, Spain)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Materials under irradiation: atomistic effects 45'
        Speaker: Raquel GONZALEZ ARRABAL (Madrid Polytecnic University, Spain)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:45 Materials under irradiation: macroscopic effects 45'
        Speaker: Raquel GONZALEZ ARRABAL (Madrid Polytecnic University, Spain)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 IAEA Welcome Remarks 15' 
        Remote
        Speaker: Najat MOKHTAR (Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA, Vienna)
        Material: Video
      • 14:15 Basics of electronic structure 30'
        Speaker: Jorge KOHANOFF (Madrid Polytecnic University, Spain)
        Material: Video
      • 14:45 Nuclear Fission Reactors 45'
        Speaker: Francisco ALVAREZ-VELARDE (CIEMAT, Spain)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:15 Basics of electronic excitation 45'
        Speaker: Jorge KOHANOFF (Madrid Polytecnic University, Spain)
        Material: Video
    • 18:30 - 20:00
      • 18:30 Welcome reception 1h30' ( Adriatico Cafeteria ) 
        All Participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception
  • Tuesday, 11 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:45
      • 09:00 Effects of different ionizing radiations on blood cells 1h30'
        Speaker: Analia ALET (Universidad de Rosario, Argentina)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Properties of a dosimetric material from an experimental point of view 45'
        Speaker: Guerda MASSILLON (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:45 Dosimetric materials: what do we need to know? 45'
        Speaker: Guerda MASSILLON (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Particle impact: from inelastic collision cross sections to the calculation of physical parameters of interest in hadron therapy 1h30'
        Speaker: Mariel GALASSI (Universidad de Rosario, Argentina)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Activities at IAEA, fusion materials 45'
        Speaker: Kalle HEINOLA (IAEA, Austria)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Wednesday, 12 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:45
      • 09:00 Radiation damage in satellites: why, what is it, and how to characterize it on Earth 1h30'
        Speaker: Martin ALURRALDE (Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Argentina)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:30 Group Photo 5'
      • 10:35 Coffee Break 25'
      • 11:00 Introduction to Generation IV reactors 45'
        Speaker: Francisco ALVAREZ-VELARDE (CIEMAT, Spain)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:45 Management of Nuclear Waste: Transmutation 45'
        Speaker: Francisco ALVAREZ-VELARDE (CIEMAT, Spain)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Radiation damage in nuclear materials: progress and challenges 45' 
        Remote
        Speaker: Alfredo CARO
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:45 Small Modular Reactors, the future of nuclear energy? 45' 
        Remote
        Speaker: Alfredo CARO
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Poster session 45'
  • Thursday, 13 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:45
      • 09:00 Multiscale Modelling of Irradiation in Materials from First Principles 1h30'
        Speaker: Duc NGUYEN (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), UK)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Introduction to energy transport and chemical models for highly excited insulators 1h30'
        Speaker: Lorenzo STELLA (Queen''s University Belfast, UK)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Participants talks 1h30'
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Synchrotron radiation photoelectron spectroscopy and soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy: applications to irradiated materials 45'
        Speaker: Igor Píš (Elettra, Trieste)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Friday, 14 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:45
      • 09:00 Visit to Elettra 3h30'
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Meeting MAMBA 2h45'
  • Monday, 17 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:45
      • 09:00 Multiscale atomistic simulations of radiation effects in materials 1h30'
        Speaker: Flyura DJURABEKOVA (University of Helsinki, Finland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Radiation damage simulations with first principles guided electron-ion interactions 1h30'
        Speaker: Artur TAMM (Tartu Ulikool, Estonia)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Combining transport Monte Carlo with other simulation methods 1h30' 
        Remote
        Speaker: Nikita MEDVEDEV (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Kinetic Monte Carlo method for the acceleration of defect evolution simulation 45'
        Speaker: Nicolas SALLES (CNR-IOM, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Tuesday, 18 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:45
      • 09:00 Electrical characterisation of defects in semiconductors - DLTS and related techniques 1h30'
        Speaker: Walter MEYER (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Defect modeling in semiconductors: bridging ab initio calculations and experiment 1h30'
        Speaker: Gabriela HERRERO SABOYA (CNR-IOM, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Particle beam Radiation Biophysics: from the nanoscale to therapy 1h30'
        Speaker: Emanuele SCIFONI (University of Trento, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Participants talks 45'
  • Wednesday, 19 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:45
      • 09:00 High-Entropy Alloys: Design, Manufacturing, and Characterization 45'
        Speaker: Alma BERTOLO (Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Argentina)
        Material: Video
      • 09:45 Accelerator-based neutron production targets for BNCT 45'
        Speaker: Alma BERTOLO (Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Argentina)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 IAEA Cultural Heritage 45' 
        Remote
        Speaker: Aliz SIMON (IAEA, Austria)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:45 Fundamentals and best practice on safe analysis of heritage objects 45' 
        Remote
        Speaker: Sebastian SCHOEDER (SOLEIL synchrotron, France)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Fundamentals and best practice on safe analysis of heritage objects 45' 
        Remote
        Speaker: Sebastian SCHOEDER (SOLEIL synchrotron, France)
        Material: Video
      • 14:45 Risk management strategies to minimize radiation damage of cultural heritage 45'
        Speaker: Franco ZANINI (Elettra - Sincrotrone, Trieste)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Participants talks 45'
  • Thursday, 20 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:45
      • 09:00 Atomistic Machine Learning and Simulation 1h30'
        Speaker: Pablo PIAGGI (CIC nanoGUNE, Spain)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Stopping Power of Ions in Matter: Insights from the IAEA Database and Machine Learning Predictions 45'
        Speaker: Alejandra Mendez (CONICET, Argentina)
        Material: Video
      • 11:45 Theoretical Models of Stopping Power: Bridging Fundamental Physics and Practical Applications 45'
        Speaker: Alejandra Mendez (CONICET, Argentina)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 TDDFT and approximations for real time simulations of moving projectile nuclei 45'
        Speaker: Emilio ARTACHO (CIC nanoGUNE, Spain)
        Material: Video
      • 14:45 Electronic stopping power from first principles 45'
        Speaker: Emilio ARTACHO (CIC nanoGUNE, Spain)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Participants talks 45'
  • Friday, 21 February 2025
    • 09:00 - 12:00
      • 09:00 Materials in nuclear fusion power plants 1h30'
        Speaker: Antonio RIVERA (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:30 Closing 1h0'