ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR) is a South American regional center in the city of São Paulo created in a collaboration of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the Instituto de Fisica Teorica (IFT) of São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Sao Paulo Research Funding Agency (FAPESP). Its activities include seminars, minicourses, schools and workshops for graduate students and researchers in all areas related to theoretical physics, as well as outreach activities for the general public and for high-school students and teachers. The center has funding for short-term and long-term visitors as well as for postdoctoral and permanent researchers.

 

São Paulo International Schools on Theoretical Physics

School on Synchronization: from collective motion to brain dynamics
February 3 – 14, 2025

School on the Origins of Life, Behavior and Cognition
March 10 – 21, 2025

School and Workshop on the Physics of Life
March 24 – 30, 2025

School on Biological Physics and Biomolecular Simulations in the Machine Learning Era
April 14 – 19, 2025

São Paulo Advanced School on Disordered Systems
April 28 – May 9, 2025

II School on Modeling Infectious Disease Dynamics
May 12 – 18, 2025

School on Multineutron Clusters in Nuclei and in Stars
May 27 – May 31, 2025

VI Siembra-HoLAGrav Young Frontiers Meeting at ICTP-SAIFR
June 30 – July  11, 2025

Perimeter-SAIFR-IFT Journeys School
July  14 – 20, 2025

V Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology
July  28 – August 8, 2025

CLAF/ICTP-SAIFR Astroparticle Physics School
August 11 – 15, 2025

IV School on Light and Cold Atoms
October 20 – 31, 2025

School on Emergent Phenomena in Many-Body Systems
November 3 – 14, 2025

Fourth School on Data Science and Machine Learning
December 1 – 5, 2025

 QCD meets Gravity XI School
December 8 – 13, 2025

Minicourses

Minicourse on Effective Field Theory in Large Scale Structure
January 6 – 7, 2025

Minicourse on Groundbreaking Papers in Theoretical Physics
April 1 – May 5, 2025

Minicourse on Partial Differential Equations: analytical and numerical tools
May 1 – June 30, 2025

Meetings/Programs/Workshops

Steering Committee and Scientific Council Meeting
February 17 – 18, 2025

Research Group Meetings on Quantum Technologies
February – December, 2025

Research Group Meetings in Astro & Cosmo
March – December, 2025

APS-SAIFR Satellite Global Physics Summit
March 17, 2025

II Brazilian Workshop on Soft Matter
April 7-11, 2025 (Instituto Principia)

Joint ICTP-Lincei Conference on Quantum Science and Technology
May 26-30, 2025

Workshop on Multineutron Clusters in Nuclei and in Stars
June 2-6, 2025 (Instituto Principia)

Program on Anomalies, Topology and Quantum Information in Field Theory and Condensed Matter Physics
June 16 – 27, 2025    (Instituto Principia)

9th Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Fields in Quantum Matter
July 7 – 11, 2025    (Instituto Principia)

Simons Collaboration Bootstrap 2025
July 21 – August 8, 2025    (Instituto Principia)

Program on Fundamental Aspects of String Theory
August 4 – 15, 2025   (Instituto Principia)

Workshop on Frontiers in Quantum Materials
September 1 – 5, 2025    (Instituto Principia)

Program on Quantum Many-Body Dynamics: Thermalization and its Violations
September 8 – 19, 2025   (Instituto Principia)

QCD meets Gravity XI Conference
December 15 – 19, 2025    (Instituto Principia)

Outreach

V Escola de Verão ICTP-SAIFR para Jovens Físicos
January 16-23, 2025

V Curso de Verão ICTP-SAIFR para Professores de Física de Ensino Médio
January 20-24, 2025

Ciência no Cinema
January – December, 2025

Clube do Livro Sci-SAIFR
February – December, 2025

Distinguished Public Lectures
February – December, 2025

Física Moderna para a Sala de Aula
March – November, 2025

Minicursos para Estudantes de Ensino Médio
March-December, 2025

Papos de Física
March – December, 2025

Jogos de Física para Professores
March – December, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR Competition for Young Physicists
July 19, 2025