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Workshop on Random Geometry and Random Matrices
Start time: September 3, 2014
Ends on: September 4, 2014
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Organizers:
Bergfinnur Durhuus (Copenhagen), Diego Trancanelli (USP), Stefan Zohren (PUC – Rio de Janeiro)
International Advisory Committee:
Gernot Akemann (Bielefeld), John Wheater (Oxford), Luiz Renato Fontes (USP), Renate Loll (Nijmegen), Vladas Sidoravicius (IMPA)
Confirmed Participants:
- Jakob Björnberg (Uppsala
- Zdzislaw Burda (Krakow)
- Nadav Drukker (London)
- Blai Garolera (Barcelona)
- João Gomes (Cambridge)
- Andrzej Görlich (Copenhagen)
- Thordur Jonsson (Iceland)
- George Napolitano (Lund)
- Andre Nock (Queen Mary, London)
- Ricardo Schiappa (Lisbon)
- Thomas Vallier (Helsinki)
- Maria Eulalia Vares (Rio de Janeiro)
- Nicholas Simm (Queen Mary, London)
Description:
Following the ICTP-SAIFR School on Random Geometry and Random Matrices, this two-day workshop will host a series of talks on recent progress on research in random geometry and random matrices. The topics include applications to string theory and quantum gravity, statistical physics and probability theory. Participants can either choose to register for the school which automatically includes participation in the workshop or just apply for the workshop. Applicants can submit an abstract for a poster or short talk. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for local support. This event received support from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) for the participation of Nordic scientists.
Registration deadline: August 4
Announcement
List of Participants and Speakers: Updated on August 22
Workshop Program: (You can download the program here)
| START | END | Wednesday 3 | Thursday 4 |
| 9:45 | 10:45 | Bootstrap percolation on the random graph G_np (Vallier) |
Universal distribution of Lyapunov exponents for products of Ginibre matrices (Burda) |
| 10:45 | 11:15 | Coffee break | Coffee break |
| 11:15 | 12:15 | Local limits of random bipartite planar maps and random trees (Björnberg) |
Touring the resurgent structure of random matrices and strings (Schiappa) |
| 12:15 | 14:00 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | IFT Colloquium (Drukker) | Simplicial quantum gravity in four dimensions (Görlich) |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee break | Phase transitions in layered systems (Vares) |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Quantum gravity and exact holography (Gomes) |
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| 16:00 | 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 | 17:30 | Statistics of K-Matrices in Quantum Chaotic Scattering (Nock) |
Ising model on random planar Lorentzian triangulation (Napolitano) |
| 17:30 | 18:30 | Applied localization (Garolera) |
Mesoscopic spectral statistics and the fractional Brownian motion process with H=0 (Simm) |
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Minischool on Biophysics of Protein Interactions
Start time: March 9, 2015
Ends on: March 13, 2015
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Organizers / Lecturers:
Fernando Luís Barroso da Silva (USP-Ribeirão Preto, Brazil): On the peculiar electrostatic effects observed in protein systems – a computational approach
Roland Netz (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany): Hydration and dielectric effects at surfaces
Rudolf Podgornik (U. Ljubljana, Slovenia): Charge regulation and electrostatic interactions in proteins
Invited Lecturers:
Ralf Eichhorn (Nordita, Sweden): Theory of phoretic effects induced by the (counter-)ions in the system
Leandro Barbosa (USP-São Paulo, Brazil): Protein interactions as revealed by small-angle x-ray scattering
Yan Levin (UFRGS, Brazil): Introduction to statistical mechanics of charged systems
João Ruggiero Neto (UNESP-Rio Preto, Brazil): Electrostatic and non-electrostatic features in the interaction of lytic peptides with model membranes
Jose Nelson Onuchic (Rice Univ.): Onuchic Minicourse on Energy Landscapes in Biophysics
Description:
The proposed school will compare and creatively confront different modern approaches to highly charged, structured, and disordered Coulomb systems. Its primary purpose will be to merge the different theoretical, experimental and simulation approaches in order to progress towards a unified description of the electrostatic interactions in soft- and bio-matter. An overview of approximate analytical theories as well as sophisticated simulations will put the students in contact with the state-of-the art research in biophysics and will allow them to build connections between these different theoretical approaches, as well as with the available experimental data.
Besides a poster session, attendants will be also invited to give short talks about their research activity. This school is aimed at graduate students and researchers in the fields of statistical mechanics, materials science, biophysics and nanobiotechnology. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.
This school will be preceded on Sunday March 8 by a one-day minicourse of Prof. Jose Nelson Onochic (Rice University) on Energy Landscapes in Biophysics.
Announcement
Registration:
ALL participants should register. The registration will be on Sunday, March 8 at the institute from 13:00 to 14:00. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195
Program:
Evaluations of School
Abstracts:
Fernando Luís Barroso da Silva (USP-Ribeirão Preto, Brazil): On the peculiar electrostatic effects observed in protein systems – a computational approach
The combination of the (bio)colloidal characteristics (specially size and charge) with pH and the thermal energy result in a unique collection of mesoscopic forces of high importance to the molecular organization and function both in industrial, scientific and biological systems. General physical and modeling issues will be presented. Protein-protein, protein-polyelectrolyte and protein-nanoparticle systems will be used as examples.
Roland R. Netz (Free University Berlin, Germany): Hydration and dielectric effects at surfaces
The molecular layer of water molecules on surfaces is important for the interaction between neutral as well as charged surfaces. We study how hydration and dielectric properties of interfacial water layers can be used to explain diverse phenomena such as the hydration repulsion between phospholipid membranes, cavitation between hydrophobic surfaces, surface capacitance data and the attraction between polar surfaces.
Rudolf Podgornik (U. Ljubljana, Slovenia): Charge regulation and electrostatic interactions in proteins
I will present a detailed account of charge regulation and its consequences for electrostatic interactions between proteins. I will describe a few simplified model systems where explicit calculations are possible and then concentrate on charge regulation in viral protein shells showing their fundamental importance for stability of capsids as well as interactions between proteinaceous capsids in ionic solutions.
Ralf Eichhorn (Nordita, Sweden): Theory of phoretic effects induced by the (counter-)ions in the system
When a charged particle is suspended in liquid solution, its charge is “compensated” by accumulating a non-uniform distribution of charges from the solution (ions) at the particle surface. In presence of an external field, this charge distribution is deformed, leading to a net interaction between the external field and the particle surface. As a result of this interaction, the particle is set into motion and moves through the liquid. We study the theory for such kind of phoretic transport phenomena. As specific examples we discuss electrophoresis (particle motion due to an external electric field) and thermophoresis (particle motion in a temperature gradient).
Leandro Barbosa (USP-São Paulo, Brazil): Protein interactions as revealed by small-angle x-ray scattering
In this presentation, bovine serum albumin, BSA, has been investigated at three different concentrations (10, 25, and 50 mg/mL) and pH values ranging from 4.0 to 9.0 by small angle X-Ray scattering (SAXS) in order to evaluate how the protein-protein interaction changes in crowding environments. Data were analyzed by means of the Global Fitting procedure, with the protein form factor calculated from human serum albumin (HSA) crystallographic structure; the interference function was described considering repulsive and attractive interaction potentials within a random phase approximation. SAXS data revealed that BSA maintains its native state from pH 4.0 up to 9.0 at all investigated concentrations. Further, the surface charge number per BSA is quantified to 10(2), 8(1), 13(2), 20(2), and 26(2) for pH values of 4.0, 5.4, 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0, respectively, showing a nice interplay between repulsive and attractive forces. In fact, the attractive potential diminishes as BSA concentration increases. The coexistence of monomers and dimers is observed at 50 mg/mL and pH 5.4, near the BSA isoelectric point. The results are discussed in the light of the interaction between proteins and polyelectrolytes.
Yan Levin (UFRGs, Brazil): Introduction to statistical mechanics of charged systems
The lectures will provide students with basic tools necessary to study thermodynamics of Coulomb systems. I will restrict myself to simple models and techniques, which nevertheless, when used correctly can give a clear insight into the fundamental physics behind various complex phenomena that appear when the interactions between the system’s constituents are dominated by the long-ranged Coulomb force.
The topics will cover the Debye-Hückel theory, Bjerrum cluster formation, phase transitions in the Restricted Primitive Model (RPM), Kosterlitz-Thouless metal-insulator transition in 2D, and charge renormalization in colloidal systems. For background, students may consult references [1] and [2].
[1] Y. Levin, Electrostatic correlations: from plasma to biology, Rep. Prog. Phys. 65, 1577 (2002).
[2] Y. Levin, Introduction to Statistical Mechanics of charged systems, Braz. J. Phys. 34, 1158 (2004).
João Ruggiero Neto (UNESP-Rio Preto, Brazil): Electrostatic and non-electrostatic features in the interaction of lytic peptides with model membranes
The adsorption of cationic peptides in anionic model membranes assessed by different experimental techniques will be presented. Electrostatic features of these interactions such as charge regulation, effect of the charges of N-terminus of the peptides, lipid segregation and the effect of the peptides on the expanded-liquid to condensed-liquid phase transition in lipid monolayers will be discussed as well as the additivity of the electrostatic and hydrophobic free energies.
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Poster Presentation: Participants who are presenting poster MUST BRING THE POSTER PRINTED. The poster size should be at most 1,5m x 1m. Please do not bring hanging banner, only sticking poster.
Project discussions: The idea is to bring your research project to be discussed with the lecturers.
BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.
List of Participants: Updated on March 2
General Information: General Information Sheet – Useful information specially for those who are not from São Paulo.
Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been provided by the institute has received the details on the accommodation individually by email.
Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).
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School on QCD and LHC Physics
Start time: July 22, 2015
Ends on: July 31, 2015
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Organizers / Lecturers:
- Fernando Febres Cordero (Freiburg University, Germany)
- Daniel de Florian (FCEyN – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- David A. Kosower (Saclay, France)
- Rogério Rosenfeld (IFT-UNESP / ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil)
Invited Lecturers:
- Zvi Bern (UCLA, USA): On-shell methods
- Claude Duhr (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium): Precision Higgs
- Johannes Henn (IAS – Princeton, USA): Feynman Integrals
- Stefan Prestel (SLAC, USA): Parton Showers
- Gavin Salam (CERN, Switzerland): Basics of QCD
- Andre Sznajder (UERJ, Brazil): LHC searches and Higgs results
- Febres Cordero/de Florian/Kosower: Higher-Order Calculations
Description:
With the start of Run II of the LHC, 2015 will be an exciting year for high-energy physics, posing new experimental and also theoretical challenges. Recent years have witnessed important advances in our ability to provide predictions for the increasingly complex final states that are of key importance to the LHC physics program. These advances draw on our greatly improved understanding of the structure of scattering amplitudes in gauge theories.
This school is aimed at preparing graduate students for theoretical research in quantum chromodynamics as applied to the future research program at the LHC. Aspects of the school will also be valuable to younger postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in experimental high-energy physics. Attendees are invited to present their research activities in a poster session. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.
Announcement
List of Participants: Updated on July 13
School Program:
Satisfaction Survey
Files:
*Files of Zvi Bern and Johannes Henn are not available, since both used the blackboard for their lectures.
- Gavin Salam
- Claude Duhr
- Stefan Prestel
- On Monte Carlo Event Generators (Part1 and Part 2)
- On Monte Carlo Event Generators (Part 3)
- On Monte Carlo Event Generators (Part 4)
- Fernando Febres Cordero
- Andre Sznajder
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Lectures Summary:
Zvi Bern (UCLA): On-Shell Methods
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On-shell methods will be covered. This includes on-shell recursion and unitarity. Explicit examples showing how amplitudes relevant for collider physics can be constructed with these methods will be worked out.
References:
- H. Ita, “Susy Theories and QCD: Numerical Approaches,” J.\ Phys.\ A{\bf 44}, 454005 (2011) [arXiv:1109.6527 [hep-th]].
- H. Elvang and Y. t. Huang, “Scattering Amplitudes”, arXiv:1308.1697 [hep-th].
- Sections on on-shell method in new book from Matt Schwartz: “Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model”
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Claude Duhr (Université Catholique de Louvain): Precision Higgs
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Determining the properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson is one of the main challenges for the Run II of the LHC. In these lectures we discuss the role played by higher-order corrections in this context. Indeed, Higgs observables are generically plagued by large quantum corrections, making the knowledge of corrections at NNLO and even beyond a necessity in order to obtain reliable theoretical predictions. We review the techniques required to compute inclusive Higgs observables to higher orders, and we also comment on first steps towards the exclusive computation of Higgs observables at NNLO.
References:
- L. Reina, “TASI 2011: lectures on Higgs-Boson Physics”, arXiv:1208.5504
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Johannes Henn (IAS – Princeton): Feynman Integrals
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At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), our current best theoretical understanding of particle physics is being tested against experiment, by measuring e.g. properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson. With run 2 of the LHC, experimental accuracy will further increase, making better theoretical predictions necessary. Obtaining the latter involves difficult higher-order calculations of scattering amplitudes and cross sections in quantum field theory. One of the major challenges is the evaluation of Feynman multi-loop integrals, which typically depend on several scales. Recently, much progress has come from generalizing new ideas on loop integrands from supersymmetric field theories to QCD, and combining them with the differential equations method. In these lectures we will give an introduction to modern methods for computing Feynman integrals, focusing on recent advances based on differential equations.
References:
- J.M. Henn, ‘Lectures on differential equations for Feynman integrals’, arXiv:1412.2296 [hep-ph].
- N. Arkani-Hamed, J.L. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, J. Trnka, ‘Local Integrals for Planar Scattering Amplitudes’, arXiv:1012.6032 [hep-th], JHEP 1206 (2012) 125.
- J.M. Henn, ‘Multiloop integrals in dimensional regularization made simple’, arXiv:1304.1806 [hep-th], Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 25, 251601.
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Stefan Prestel (SLAC): Parton Showers
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This lecture aims at describing how realistic collider events can be produced with numerical methods, focusing on General Purpose Event Generators in particular. This includes 1) a brief sketch of numerical integration techniques, 2) a more detailed description of parton showers and their connection to all-order resummation, 3) a discussion of improvement strategies, and 4) a short outline of the modeling of non-perturbative and multi-particle effects in hadron collisions.
References:
- Peter Skands, TASI lectures http://inspirehep.net/record/
1121892 - Stefan Hoeche, TASI lectures https://sites.google.com/a/
colorado.edu/tasi2014wiki/ lecture-topics/parton-showers- and-monte-carlo-simulations
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Gavin Salam (CERN): Basics of QCD
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These lectures will cover some of the essential ideas of QCD for colliders. They will discuss infrared and collinear divergences in perturbative QCD, show how these, together with non-perturbative physics are responsible for the structure of events at colliders. They will also introduce the main ingredients and tools that are available for making precise predictions at colliders, including a discussion of parton distribution functions.
References:
1. QCD and Collider Physics, by Ellis, Stirling and Webber, CambridgeUniversity Press.
2. Introduction to QCD, by P. Skands,http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:
3. Elements of QCD for hadron colliders, G. P. Salam,http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:
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Andre Sznajder (UERJ): LHC searches and Higgs results
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In these lectures we present a review of the LHC experimental results on the SM Higgs boson searches and the observed properties of a Higgs boson with a mass near 125 GeV. Comprehensive sets of production and decay measurements are combined, where the decay channels include gamma gamma, ZZ, WW, tau tau, bb, and mu mu pairs. The data samples were collected in 2011 and 2012 and correspond to a total of about 25 fb-1 from pp collisions at 7 and 8 TeV. We also present a short summary of BSM searches.
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Febres Cordero / de Florian / Kosower: Higher-Order Calculations
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We present an introduction to jet calculations at colliders with focus on higher order corrections in QCD. We discuss the structure of differential cross sections at the first few orders in QCD; subtraction methods at NLO; the KLN theorem, and related topics. The lab session will give an introduction to practical calculations with modern automated tools.
References:
1. QCD and Collider Physics, by Ellis, Stirling and Webber, CambridgeUniversity Press.
2. G. Dissertori, I. Knowles and M. Schmelling, Quantum Chromodynamics, High Energy Experiments and Theory.
3. T. D. Lee and M. Nauenberg, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/
4. S. Catani and M. Seymour, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on July 22 at the institute from 10:45 to 11:45 am.Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been provided by the institute has received the details on the accommodation individually by email.
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School on Gravitational Waves: from data to theory and back
Start time: August 3, 2015
Ends on: August 11, 2015
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Organizers / Lecturers:
- Riccardo Sturani (IFT-UNESP / ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil): Match filtering methods in data analysis
- Alberto Vecchio (U. Birmingham, UK)
Invited Lecturers:
- Alessandra Buonanno (MPI Potsdam, Germany): Modeling gravitational waves: The analytical/numerical relativity interface
- Stefano Foffa (U. Geneva, Italy): Effective field theory methods to model astrophysical binaries
- Sergej Klimenko (U. Florida, USA): Detection of transient signals and coherent network algorithms in the gravitational waves data analysis
- Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (U. California-Santa Cruz, USA): The Astrophysics of Compact Binaries
- Walter Del Pozzo (University of Birmingham, UK): Bayesian inference and gravitational wave observations
Invited Speakers:
- Odylio D. Aguiar (INPE & IF-USP, Brazil ): Gravitational wave detection: what is new
- Rafael Porto (ICTP-SAIFR & IFT-UNESP, Brazil): The Kerr/EFT duality
Description:
This school will present the research field in gravitational waves (GWs) from a phenomenological perspective. After a theoretical introduction to the basic theory of GWs, an astrophysical overview of compact binary coalescences will be given. It will be explained how analytical source modeling is performed and how it is used to extract the highest possible physical content from detection. The basis of signal modeling, signal extraction from noisy data, and parameter estimation from the signals will be presented. The school is intended for all physicists, from master students to researchers, willing to acquire a working knowledge in the new exciting field of GW data analysis, physics and astrophysics. Young masters and PhD students are particularly encouraged to participate. This activity will be followed by the Workshop on Astrophysics and Relativity: Astro-GR 2015. Candidates may apply either for one or both activities. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for local and travel support of participants.
Announcement
List of Participants: Updated on July 30
School Program:
Satisfaction Survey
Files:
- Stefano Foffa
- Sergej Klimenko
- Walter Del Pozzo
Riccardo Sturani
- Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
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Lectures Summary
Alessandra Buonanno (MPI Potsdam): Modeling gravitational waves: The analytical/numerical relativity interface
An introductory overview will be given to the theory of gravitational waves, including linearization of the Einstein equations, the wave equation and the issue of the gauge degrees of freedom, the energy and the angular momentum of the GW. The emission of GWs from compact astrophysical sources will be treated with particular emphasis on the construction of analytical waveform describing the GW emitted during the full coalescence of a binary system.
Stefano Foffa (U. Geneva): Effective field theory methods to model astrophysical binaries
The mini-course will start with an introduction to effective Field Theory methods to model binaries and the post-Newtonian approximation. Specific applications will include the conservative dynamics of the General Relativity 2-body problem within up to the 2nd post-Newtonian order. In the exercise sessions, explicit analytic computations will be carried on in detail and the students will be guided to automatize such computations via symbolic manipulation within the Mathematica computer program.
Sergej Klimenko (U. Florida): Detection of transient signals and coherent network algorithms in the gravitational waves data analysis
In this lecture I give an overview of the searches for gravitational wave transients (bursts) and methods used in the analysis of data from the ground-base detectors. The purpose of the lecture is to describe how a worldwide network of GW detectors works, explain the burst signal processing techniques and reconstruction methods. While burst methods can be used for detection of any transient GW signals, I will focus on applications to the compact binary coalescence (CBC) sources.
The lecture is organized in three parts:
1) Short introduction into the burst CBC searches
2) Signal processing methods and their applications to the analysis of single detector data
3) Analysis of data from multiple GW detectors (coherent network analysis)
Part 2) and 3) are followed by practical exercises with actual search algorithms used in the GW data analysis. Prerequisites: Unix or MAC OS, Wavelet Analysis Tool C++ library
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (U. California, Santa Cruz): The Astrophysics of Compact Binaries
The topics that will be treated are: Compact Binary Formation Scenarios, Dynamical Stability of Close Binaries, Compact Object Mergers and Accretion Disk Assembly, Compact Binary Mergers as Sites for the rapid neutron capture-process, Electromagnetic Signatures and Galactic Hosts and Cosmological Setting. A session with analytic exercises will follow the theory lectures, in which the students will be provided the most basic and direct connection between physics and the astrophysics of compact binaries.
Riccardo Sturani (IFT-UNESP / ICTP-SAIFR): Match filtering methods in data analysis
This mini-course intend to give an introduction to some general data analysis tools commonly used in gravitational wave data analysis, like matched-filtering, test of signal/model consistency and probability and statistics for parameter estimation. A session with analytic exercises will follow the theory lectures, analysis of simulated LIGO/Virgo data via LIGO computer libraries and data analysis software will be performed.
Walter Del Pozzo (U. Birmingham): Bayesian inference and gravitational wave observations
Basic concepts of Bayesian inference and relevant applications for GW observations will be presented, with emphasis on binary systems. The mini-course will include key conceptual aspects of the numerical techniques used to apply these methods to general problems in Bayesian inference, with specific examples for GW observations and software libraries used in the actual LIGO/Virgo analysis. The exercise sessions will be a hands-on session to design a simple stochastic sampler to measure the masses of binary compact objects and an actual analysis of LIGO/Virgo data with the standard LIGO library analysis tools to locate a source in the sky and provide information about the relevant astrophysical parameters.
Seminar Abstracts:
Odylio D. Aguiar (INPE & IF-USP, Brazil ): Gravitational wave detection: what is new
The quest for gravitational wave detection has been one of the toughest technological challenges ever faced by experimental physicists and engineers. Despite the null results to date, after four decades of research, the community involved in this area is continuously growing. One of the main reasons for this is because the first gravitational wave detection and the regular observation of gravitational waves are among the most important scientific goals for the beginning of this millennium. They will test one of the foundations of physics, Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and will open a new window for the observation of the universe, which certainly will cause a revolution in our knowledge of physics and astrophysics. In this talk I will give an updated report about the status of some relevant detectors (interferometers, bars, spheres, radio-telescopes, and CMB experiments), in operation, going to an upgrading, under construction, or still as projects. In particular, I will give details about the Brazilian Schenberg detector and INPE’s participation in the LIGO project.
Rafael Porto (ICTP-SAIFR & IFT-UNESP, Brazil): The Kerr/EFT duality
I review a duality between (spinning) black holes in 3+1 dimensions and 0+1 field theory. We discuss how this can be used to compute absorption effects for rotating binary black holes.
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on August 3 at the institute from 8:45 to 9:30 am. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195
BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.
Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been provided by the institute has received the details on the accommodation individually by email.
Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).
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3rd Joint Dutch-Brazil School on Theoretical Physics
Start time: February 2, 2015
Ends on: February 6, 2015
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Organizers:
Ana Achucarro (Leiden Univ.), Nathan Berkovits (IFT-UNESP/ICTP-SAIFR), Jan de Boer (Amsterdam Univ.), Rob Timmermans (Groningen Univ.)
Minicourse lecturers:
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS Princeton) – Scattering Amplitudes and the Amplituhedron
- Jan de Boer (Univ. of Amsterdam) – Entanglement Entropy and its Uses
- Cumrun Vafa (Harvard Univ.) – Topological Strings and Supersymmetric Amplitudes
Description:
The Joint Dutch-Brazil School on Theoretical Physics is now in its third edition with previous schools in 2007 and 2011. This edition of the school will feature minicourses by Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS Princeton), Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam) and Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), as well as student presentations. The school is jointly organized with the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) and is intended for graduate students and researchers in the field of high-energy theoretical physics. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for local and travel support of participants. This school in São Paulo will be preceded by the XVIII J. A. Swieca School in Campos de Jordão.
Announcement
Program:
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Lectures – Reading material:
Cumrun Vafa (Harvard Univ.) – Topological Strings and Supersymmetric Amplitudes
arXiv:1412.4793
Twistorial Topological Strings and a tt* Geometry for N=2 Theories in 4d
Sergio Cecotti, Andrew Neitzke, Cumrun Vafa
arXiv:1312.1008 [pdf, other]
tt* Geometry in 3 and 4 Dimensions
Sergio Cecotti, Davide Gaiotto, Cumrun Vafa
arXiv:hep-th/0410178
Topological strings and their physical applications
Andrew Neitzke, Cumrun Vafa
Topological antitopological fusion (Download pdf here)
Sergio Cecotti (SISSA, Trieste & INFN, Trieste), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.). Jun 1991. 122 pp.
Published in Nucl.Phys. B367 (1991) 359-461
Video: Topological Strings review lecture
Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS Princeton) – Scattering Amplitudes and the Amplituhedron
In these lectures, a new formulation for scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM will be described where the usual picture of unitary evolution though space-time is not primary. Instead, amplitudes are associated the “the volume” of a new geometric object, “the Amplituhedron”, closely connected to another object studied by algebraic geometers and physicists in recent years, known as “the Positive Grassmannian”. It wil be described how locality and unitarity arise as derived notions from the positive geometry.
The following reading material is recommended:
(1) There is an excellent review of scattering amplitudes by Elvang and Huang, arXiv:1308.1697
(2) The Introduction of this early paper of Arkani-Hamed and Cachazo, arXiv:0808.1446
(3) The positive grassmannian paper arXiv:1212.5605
(4) The amplituhedron paper arXiv:1312.2007
Jan de Boer (Univ. of Amsterdam) – Entanglement Entropy and its Uses
In these lectures we first review a few basic notions from quantum information theory with an emphasis on entanglement and its properties. We then discuss properties of entanglement in various systems, how they can be used to diagnose various phases, and how it can be computed in weakly and some strongly coupled field theories. Finally, we will discuss some aspects of the relation between entanglement and space-time geometry that has emerged in recent years.
some reading:
* Lindesay, Susskind, “An introduction to black holes, information, and the string theory revolution”, world scientific, 2005
* chapter 2 and 4 of the lectures notes of John Preskill, http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph219/index.html#lecture
* Daniel Harlow, Jerusalem lectures on black holes and quantum information, http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1231
Presentation files:
- Diego B. Cohen Maldonado
- Eduardo Teste Lino
- Eva Llabres Llambies
- Fabio Novaes
- Francesca Ferrari
- Geova Maciel
- Irfan Ilgin
- José Julián Barragán Amado
- Laurens Kabir
- Luis Pena Pires
- Mario Galante
- Mauricio Valenzuela
- Natália Alkofer
- Nick Poovuttikul
- Nicolas Kovensky
- Olga Papadoulaki
- Oscar Castillo-Felisola
- Panagiotis Betzios
- Petter Saterskog
- R. A. Jefferson
- Sabrina Cotogno
- Sam van Leuven
- Victor Penas
Videos:
- 02/02
- 03/02
- 04/02
- 05/02
- 06/02
Photos:
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on February 2 at the institute from 10:00 to 11:00 am. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195
BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.
List of Participants: Updated on January 29
General Information: General Information Sheet – Useful information specially for those who are not from São Paulo.
Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at Paulista Flat and The Universe Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been provided by the institute has received the details on the accommodation individually by email.
Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).
Ground transportation instructions:
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School on Pathogen Dynamics, Climate and Global Change
Start time: January 12, 2015
Ends on: January 23, 2015
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Lecturers / Organizers:
- Andy P. Dobson (Princeton University, USA)
- Giulio De Leo (Stanford University, USA)
- Graciela Canziani (Universidad Nacional del Centro, Argentina)
- Mercedes Pascual (University of Michigan, USA)
Invited Lecturers:
- Gabriela Gomes (Instituto Gulbekian de Ciência – IGC, Portugal)
- Aaron King (Univ. of Michigan, USA)
- Adrian Tompkins (ICTP, Italy)
- Matteo Marsili (ICTP, Italy)
Description:
Climate and land-use change are major drivers of the dynamics of infectious diseases. Understanding how disease dynamics are embedded in climate driven systems and complex ecological communities are problems deeply rooted in nonlinear dynamics. The school will provide an introduction to the basic underlying mathematical concepts used to study disease dynamics, their connections to climate systems, and the ecology and economics of land-use change.
Different aspects of these problems will be covered, ranging from theoretical to empirical work in parasite ecology, the evolution of virulence in pathogens of wildlife and human diseases. Throughout there will be a specific emphasis on quantitative aspects that use the most advanced mathematical and numerical techniques to describe the population dynamics of hosts and their pathogens in a changing environment. The school will bring together applied mathematicians, disease ecologists, epidemiologists, physicists, climate scientists, and economists. The two-week school should appeal to late-stage graduate students, post-docs, and young faculty with either strong interests in quantitative biology, or mathematicians and physicists interested in empirical non-linear systems.
Participants will be able to acquire a close acquaintance with the newest developments, not only as listeners of background keynote lectures, but also by active participation in computer demonstration and exercises; group projects will be developed on problems inspired by the lectures and each group with present their findings at the end of the course. Attendants will be invited also to give short talks about their research activity in their home country in specific sessions that will be reserved in the working agenda for this purpose. A sound background in mathematics, or physics, or statistics, or numerical computation is required. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.
This activity will be preceded by the ‘IV Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology’. Candidates may apply either for one or both schools.
Announcement
Reading material: general basic background in R (available here)
Programme:
Satisfaction Survey
Files
School Lectures:
- Aaron King
- Adrian Tompkins
- Andy Dobson
- Gabriela Gomes
- Giulio De Leo
- Graciela Canziani
- Matteo Marsili
- Mercedes Pascual
Photos
Videos:
- 12/01
- 13/01
- 14/01
- 15/01
- 16/01
- 19/01
- 20/01
- 21/01
- 22/01
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on January 12 at the institute from 9:00 to 9:45 am. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195.
Upon registration, participants from South America who are receiving financial support, please bring a photocopy of your ID or passport.
BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.
List of Participants of the Pathogen Dynamics: Updated on Dec 19
List of Participants of the Mathematical Biology & Pathogen Dynamics: Updated on Dec 19
General Information: General Information Sheet – Useful information specially for those who are not from São Paulo.
Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been provided vy the institute has received the details on the accommodation individually by email.
Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).
Ground transportation instructions:
Ground transportation from Guarulhos Airport to The Universe Flat
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IV Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology
Start time: January 5, 2015
Ends on: January 11, 2015
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Organizers:
Marcel Clerc (Univ. Chile), Roberto Kraenkel (IFT-UNESP, Brazil), Paulo Inácio Prado (USP/SP, Brazil)
Lecturer:
Roberto Kraenkel (IFT-UNESP, Brazil) – Introduction to Population Biology
1) single species dynamics
2) interacting species I: competition
3) interacting species II: predator-prey dynamics
4) models in epidemiology
5) spatial population dynamics
Description:
This school is aimed at graduate students in Physics, Mathematics, Ecology and Epidemiology, having at least a basic knowledge of calculus and differential equations. Lectures cover the basics of population biology and are supplemented with modelling exercises addressing mainly problems in ecology and epidemiology. Undergraduate students with exceptional records are also encouraged to apply. Limited funds are available for travel and local expenses. There is no registration fee.
This activity will be followed by the ‘School on Pathogen Dynamics, Climate and Global Change’. Candidates may apply either for one or both schools.
Please note that acceptance cannot be taken for granted, as we expect a much higher number of applications than the maximum number of participants. We advise the candidates to carefully complete the application form, providing enough information for the selection committee to take a decision.
In order to have an idea of the kind of activities that take place during the course, please visit the home-page of the first three editions of this school at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/mathbio, http://www.ictp-saifr.org/mathbio2 and http://www.ictp-saifr.org/mathbio3.
Announcement
References: wiki site of the Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology. In this page, participants of the School can share their results and other materials. Please access here
Programme:
Satisfaction Survey:
Files
School:
- Roberto Kraenkel lectures:
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Presentation of groups:
Photos:
Videos:
- 05/01
- 06/01
- 07/01
- 08/01
- 09/01
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on January 5 at the institute from 9:00 to 9:45 am. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195.
Upon registration, participants from South America who are receiving financial support, please bring a photocopy of your ID or passport.
BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.
List of Participants of the Mathematical Biology: Updated on Dec 10
List of Participants of the Mathematical Biology & Pathogen Dynamics: Updated on Dec 10
General Information: General Information Sheet – Useful information specially for those who are not from São Paulo.
Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been provided vy the institute has received the details on the accommodation individually by email.
Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).
Ground transportation instructions:
Ground transportation from Guarulhos Airport to The Universe Flat
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Minischool on Few-Body Physics
Start time: October 6, 2014.
Ends on: October 10, 2014
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Organizers:
Marcelo Yamashita (IFT-UNESP), Lauro Tomio (IFT-UNESP) and Aksel Jensen (Aarhus University/Denmark).
Lecturers:
- Dmitri Fedorov (Aarhus University/Denmark) – Correlated Gaussian method in quantum mechanics
1) Variational method with with correlated Gaussians: basic concepts.
2) Optimization of the Gaussian basis: deterministic vs. stochastic approach.
3) Resonances with correlated Gaussians: strength function method and stabilization method.
4) Reactions and decays with correlated Gaussians: hyper-spherical method and resonating group method.
- Tobias Frederico (Instituto Tecnológico da Aeronáutica / Brazil) – Strongly interacting two- and three-boson systems between two and three-dimensions The dimensionality of the space strongly affects the properties of quantum bound states. One may theoretically and experimentally study the transition between different dimensions, which is a topic of recent interest in different fields of physics. We study the bound state spectrum of non-relativistic two and three boson systems when evolving from a three (3D) to a two-dimensional (2D) regime by squeezing one dimension with either open or periodic boundaries, such that the model interpolates between 3D and 2D limits. Our results show a distinct dimensional crossover as three-boson states will either disappear into the continuum or merge with a 2D counterpart, and also a series of sharp transitions in the ratios of three-body and two- body energies from being purely 2D to purely 3D and vice versa.
- Aksel Jensen (Aarhus University/Denmark) – Universal properties of few-body systems (Seminar – Document.pdf )
- Alejandro Kievsky (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare/Pisa) – Exploring universal behavior in few-body systems (Seminar – Kievsky.pdf)
- Nikolaj Zinner (Aarhus University/Denmark) – Few-body physics in different dimensions
Few-body states for two particles are quite well-known from basic quantum mechanics class. There we learn that dimensionality is very important when trying to produce bound states of quantum particles. As we go beyond two particles the dimensional effects can become even stronger. In the course we will discuss some basic facts from quantum mechanics about bound states of two and three particles using simple examples as a guidance. We will then explore dimensional effects on the spectrum of bound states and the effects of quantum statistics. Finally, we will discuss how few-body bound states are embedded in a general many-body environment.
DOWNLOAD lectures I, II, III and Exercises
Description:
Quantum-mechanical few-body problems are of fundamental importance for all branches of microphysics. This subject has substantially broadened after the realization of Bose-Einstein condensation in cold-atom experiments (2001 Nobel Prize). In this one-week interdisciplinary school, lectures will be presented on the correlated Gaussian method, a powerful tool used to solve quantum few-body systems in atomic and nuclear physics, and on the relevance of dimensionality in quantum few-body systems and quantum magnetism. Additionally, a review talk on universal behaviours will be presented and there will be daily sessions for resolving homework exercises.
The school is aimed at graduate students and researchers in the fields of nuclear, atomic, molecular, condensed-matter, particle physics and quantum chemistry with a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for local and travel support of participants.
Application Deadline, August 15
Announcement
Programme: pdf programme_updated on October 7
| Start | End | From cold atoms to halo nuclei: minicourse on few-body phyisics | |||||
| MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | |||
| 9:00 | 10:00 | REGISTRATION | |||||
| 10:00 | 12:00 | OPENING | Lecture II: D. Fedorov | Lecture III: D. Fedorov | Lecture II: N. Zinner | Lecture III: N. Zinner | |
| Seminar: A. Jensen | |||||||
| 12:00 | 14:00 | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 | 16:00 | Lecture I: D. Fedorov | Lecture I: N. Zinner | IFT-COLLOQUIUM: N. Zinner | Seminar: T. Frederico |
Seminar: A. Kievsky | |
| COFFEE BREAK | COFFEE BREAK | FINAL REMARKS | |||||
| 16:00 | 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | COFFEE BREAK | ||||
| 16:30 | 18:30 | Activities: D. Fedorov | Activities: N. Zinner | Activities: D. Fedorov | Activities: N. Zinner | ||
| CLOSING PARTY | |||||||
List of Participants: Updated on Sept 18
General Information: General Information Sheet – Useful information specially for those who are not from São Paulo city.
Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been arranged and paid by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been arranged by the institute has received the details about the accommodation individually by email.
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on October 6 from 9:00 to 9:50 at the institute. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195.
Upon registration, participants who are receiving financial support, please bring a photocopy of your ID or passport.
BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.
Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).
Ground transportation instructions:
Ground transportation from Guarulhos Airport to The Universe Flat
Ground transportation from The Universe Flat to the institute
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ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School and Workshop on Observational Cosmology
Start time: December 1, 2014
Ends on: December 12, 2014
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Description:
Cosmology has entered a precision era driven by numerous experiments. Large scale surveys of structures such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Dark Energy Survey, together with experiments designed to carefully measure the cosmic microwave background, such as the Planck satellite and BICEP2, continue to explore and reveal vital information about our universe.
This School will provide students with the necessary tools to use this multifold of data to test different cosmological models and determine their parameters. Pedagogical lectures providing the necessary theoretical background will be followed by hands-on lectures focusing on the different cosmological probes that are currently used. On Sunday December 7, there will be a one-day Workshop where recent work in this field will be presented.
The event is intended for advanced graduate students and researchers. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.
Organizers:
Raul Abramo (IF-USP), Paolo Creminelli (ICTP-Trieste), Alessandro Melchiorri (Roma), Rogerio Rosenfeld (ICTP-SAIFR & IFT), Ravi Sheth (ICTP-Trieste & U. of Pennsylvania)
Lecturers:
- Philippe Brax (Saclay) – Beyond LCDM
- Paolo Creminelli (ICTP-Trieste) – Inflation
- Scott Dodelson (Fermilab & U. of Chicago) – Theory and Combined Probes
- Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP)
- Marcello Musso (U. de Louvain) – Large Scale Structure II
- Rafael Porto (DESY)
- Anais Rassat (EPFL-Lausanne) – Gravitational Lensing
- Ravi Sheth (ICTP-Trieste & U. of Pennsylvania) – Large Scale Structure I
- Joe Zuntz (U. of Manchester) – From Observations to Models (and back)
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on December 1 from 8:00 to 9:00 at the institute. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195.
Programme:
Announcement
Lectures Summary:
Philippe Brax (Saclay) – Beyond LCDM
After reviewing the current experimental status of modified gravity (from solar system experiments to the Casimir effect), and its relation to the cosmology of the late time Universe, I will give a pedagological introduction to screening in modified gravity, from chameleons to Galileons. I will derive its consequences for the growth of large scale structure and laboratory tests.
Reference: Justin Khoury´s Les Houches Lectures on Physics Beyond the Standard Model of Cosmology
Paolo Creminelli (ICTP-Trieste) – Inflation
The course will review the motivations for inflation and its classical dynamics.
The inclusion of quantum mechanics give rise to all the predictions for the primordial (scalar and tensor) perturbations that will be reviewed in detail.
Reference: D. Baumann, TASI lectures on Inflation
Scott Dodelson (Fermilab & U. of Chicago) – Physics from Combined Cosmological Probes
1: Physics and Probes: Dark Energy, Inflation, and Neutrinos
2: 2D Correlations: Limber Approximation and LSSXLensing
3: Cluster Masses: SZ, Richness, Weak Lensing, CMB Cluster Lensing
4: CMB Lensing: Quadratic Estimator, Cross-correlations with LSS, Lensed B-modes, De-Lensing
Alessandro Melchiorri (Roma) – Cosmic Microwave Background (including new Planck results)
1: CMB Angular Power Spectra Temperature Anisotropies
2: CMB Angular Power Spectra Polarization
3: CMB Parameters
Reviews:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5158
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3688
arXiv:astro-ph/9904102
arXiv:astro-ph/9706147
Marcello Musso (U. de Louvain) – Large Scale Structure II
I will review the gravitational collapse of dark matter perturbations and how to combine with the theory of Gaussian random fields in order to derive the statistical properties (abundance and correlation functions) of dark matter halos and their relation to the dark matter field (halo bias).
Day 1) Spherical collapse and the halo mass function.
Day 2) Halo correlation functions. Halo bias.
References:
On spherical collapse:
Cooray and Sheth
Waine Hu’s lecture notes
On excursion sets:
Bond et al.
Musso and Sheth
On bias:
Cooray and Sheth again, and Matsubara monster
Anais Rassat (EPFL-Lausanne) – Gravitational Lensing
I: Basics of lensing, derivation of alpha
II: Derivation of Kappa, C(l), tomography, cosmological constraints from lensing
III: Intrinsic Alignments, Impact on cosmological parameters & correlation with number counts
Ravi Sheth (ICTP-Trieste & U. of Pennsylvania) – Large Scale Structure I
I will develop a phenomenological model of large scale structure known as the Halo Model. The approach allows one to describe how different galaxy populations are related to the same underlying dark matter distribution. Therefore, it is the natural language for describing the dependence of clustering on galaxy type in real and redshift space, as well as weak lensing measurements, on linear and nonlinear scales. It also translates datasets obtained primarily to constrain cosmological parameters into useful constraints on galaxy formation models.
Reference: The Halo Model of Large Scale Structure; Asantha Cooray and Ravi K. Sheth, (2002), Physics Reports, 372, 1-129.
Joe Zuntz (U. of Manchester) – From Observations to Models (and back)
1. Essentials of probability and statistics (basic laws, distributions, descriptive stats)
2. Inference methods used in cosmology (ML, Fisher, Grids, MCMC, model selection)
3. Standard cosmological inference (types of cosmology data, computational implementations of inference)
4. Testing new cosmological theories and data sets (backgrounds, perturbations, covariances & other challenges)
List of Participants: Updated on Nov 19
Poster Presentation: Participants who are presenting poster MUST BRING THE POSTER PRINTED. The poster size should be at most 1,5m x 1m. Please do not bring hanging banner, only sticking poster.
General Information: General Information Sheet – Useful information specially for those who are not from São Paulo city.
Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been arranged and paid by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been arranged by the institute has received the details about the accommodation individually by email.
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on December 1 from 8:00 to 9:00 at the institute. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195.
Upon registration, participants from South America who are receiving financial support, please bring a photocopy of your ID or passport.
BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.
Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).
Ground transportation instructions:
Ground transportation from Guarulhos Airport to The Universe Flat
Ground transportation from The Universe Flat to the institute
Ground transportation from Congonhas Airport to th Universe Flat
Photos
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- 05/12
- 07/12
- 08/12
- 09/12
- 10/12
- 11/12
- 12/12
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- Paolo Creminelli’s lectures:
- Marcelo Musso lectures:
- Ravi Sheth lectures:
- Joe Zuntz lectures:
- Scott Dodelson lectures:
Workshop:
- Saeed Mirshekari talks:
- Joe Zuntz talks:
- Ravi Sheth talks:
- Miguel Quartin talks:
- Irène Balmès talks:
- Philippe Brax talks:
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Procedures for Organizing an Activity
Proposals for activities should be made using the online application form and submitted until January 1 of the year which precedes the year of the activity. If possible, a pre-proposal should be sent in December to director@ictp-saifr.org for comments before the final proposal is submitted. Every February, the Scientific Council meets to select activities for the following year. After the selection, we will confirm the accepted proposals and their starting date with the organizers.
The budget limit for two-week schools is approximately 150,000 Brazilian reais. Preferably, 70% of the budget should be destined to students and 30% to lecturers. Budgets for other activities, such as Mini-Schools and Workshops, will depend on the activity.
After the activity has been approved by the ICTP-SAIFR scientific council in February of the preceding year, the following schedule will be applied:
Ideally 9 months before the activity starts, the organizer should send the main information about the event to the ICTP-SAIFR secretaries, which includes:
– a brief description of the event;
– confirmation of the lecturers and their affiliations;
– application deadline for participation which is usually 2 months prior to the activity.
With this information, we will prepare a poster for the event, which will be sent to research institutions around the world, and we will organize the activity’s web page, which will be used for the applications.
We will also organize travel tickets and accommodation for the lecturers.
One week after the application deadline for participation, the organizer should send a list of the students accepted for the School. If the number of chosen students does not fit in the budget, the organizer will have to cut out some participants from the list; if it does, we will send the acceptance message to all selected applicants and they will have 1 week to confirm their participation. In case some of them do not confirm or decline, the organizer will be asked to choose others from a stand-by list.
Six weeks before the School, we will have a complete list of all participants. We will organize travel tickets and accommodations for those who have been accepted with financial support.
One month prior to the School, the organizer should send a schedule with the starting time of each lecture. This schedule will be on the event’s web page and will also be sent by e-mail to all participants.
In case the organizer wants special arrangements, such as poster presentations, he should inform us as soon as possible.
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