In the field of string theory, there are active groups both at IFT-UNESP and USP Sao Paulo and informal seminars are organized weekly at both institutions.
Permanent researchers include

Nathan Berkovits (IFT-UNESP)
Andrei Mikhailov (IFT-UNESP)
Horatiu Nastase (IFT-UNESP)
Victor Rivelles (USP Sao Paulo)
Diego Trancanelli (USP Sao Paulo)

Current research topics include covariant quantization of the superstring, the pure spinor formalism, AdS-CFT, integrability, higher-spin theories, AdS-CMT, noncommutative geometry, twistors, matrix models, super-Yang-Mills, and supergravity.

Research at the ICTP-SAIFR includes collaborations with scientists based at IFT-UNESP as well as at other São Paulo institutions such as USP São Paulo, Unicamp, UFABC, UNESP Rio Claro, UNESP Guaratinguetá, USP São Carlos, UFSCar, ITA and INPE.

Current active research areas include:

Atomic and few-body physics
Complex systems
Condensed matter theory
Cosmology
Experimental high-energy physics
General relativity
Gravitational wave physics
Mathematical physics
Particle physics
QCD and hadronic physics
String theory

Minicourse:
Integrability in N=4 super-Yang-Mills

Speaker:
Joseph Minahan (Uppsala University and MIT)

Schedule:
Monday, September 3, 14:00-16:00, Lecture 1 (video 1, video 2)
Tuesday, September 4, 9:00-11:00, Lecture 2 (video 1, video 2)
Tuesday, September 4, 12:00-14:00, Lecture 3 (video 1, video 2)

The SILAFAE (Simposio Latinoamericano de Física de Altas Energías) is now firmly established as being one of the premier series of international meetings in the field of Particle Physics. One of the main purposes of the Meeting is to foster the exchange of ideas, promote collaborations and exchanges among Latin-american physicists as well as to present the status of the recent advances in frontier topics in the field.

The previous SILAFAE meetings were held in Valparaiso, Chile (2010); Bariloche, Argentina (2009); Merida, Mexico (1996); San Juan de Puerto Rico (1998), Cartagena, Colombia (2000); Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil (2002); Lima, Peru (2004); Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2006).

Chile: http://www.fis.utfsm.cl/silafae2010/

Argentina: http://particulas.cnea.gov.ar/workshops/silafae/

Colombia: http://www.lnf.infn.it/conference/lnfss/Silafae-III/

Paulista Wall Street
Rua Itapeva, 636 – 01332-000 São Paulo
Rates: R$ 253 + 5% (single) or R$ 283 + 5% (double)
They have made the above rate special for an event organized by UNESP. In order to get this rate you have to make your reservation by calling to +55 (11) 3141-3000, extension number 8422, and you have to mention that you will participate in an event organized by UNESP.

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Rua Doutor Homem De Melo, 1206, Perdizes – 05007-002 SÃO PAULO  BRAZIL
Rate: R$220,00 + 5% per room (single), or R$260,00+5% (double)
They have made the above rate special for an event organized by UNESP.
In order to get this rate you have to make your reservation before September 14, by calling to +55 (11) 3674-7777 or send an email to recepcao@holidayexsp.com.br. You have to mention that you will participate in an event organized by UNESP.

Formule 1 Paulista
Rua da Consolação 2303 – Consolação – 01301100 SÃO PAULO BRAZIL
Rate: R$170,00 per room (single, double or triple)
Good rate, very well located and close to many amenities.
Click here to make your reservation. In case you do not get availability, please send an email to secretary@ictp-saifr.org .

After you have made your reservation, please send an email to secretary@ictp-saifr.org, informing the hotel where you will stay.

Start time: November 4

Ends on: November 7

Venue: São Paulo, Brazil

Organizers:

Eric Bergshoeff (Groningen Univ.) e-mail: e.a.bergshoeff@rug.nl

Gaston Giribet (Univ. of Buenos Aires & Conicet) e-mail: Gaston@df.uba.ar

Marc Henneaux (University of Bruxelles & Solvay Institutes) e-mail: henneaux@ulb.ac.be

Jorge Zanelli (Centro de Estudios Científicos, Valdivia) e-mail: z@cecs.cl

Review Speakers:

Andrea Campoleoni (Univ. de Bruxelles and Solvay Institutes), “Higher spins in D=3: a metric-like perspective”
Alejandra Castro (Harvard Univ.), “Holographic entanglement entropy in higher spin gravity”
Matthias Gaberdiel (ITP, ETH Zürich), “Minimal model holography”
Misha Vasiliev (Lebedev Institute, Moscow), “Higher spin theories and multiparticle symmetries”
Sasha Zhiboedov (Princeton Univ.), “Causality and unitarity constraints on gravitational theories in AdS”

Confirmed Speakers:
Max Banados (Univ. Catolica, Santiago), “Building black holes with higher spin”
Glenn Barnich (Univ. de Bruxelles and Solvay Institutes), “Holographic current algebras and BMS4”
Nicolas Boulanger (Univ. de Mons), “A higher-spin Chern-Simons model with fractional-spin fields”
Daniel Grumiller (Vienna Univ. of Tech.), “Holography and phase transition of flat space”
Juan Jottar (Univ. of Amsterdam), “Entanglement entropy in three-dimensional higher spin theories”
Carlos Mafra (Cambridge Univ.), “The superstring 3-loop amplitude”
Massimo Porrati (New York Univ.), “On a canonical quantization of pure AdS_3 gravity”
Rakibur Rahman (Univ. de Bruxelles and Solvay Institutes), “Gravitational Interactions of Higher-Spin Fermions”
Soo-Jong Rey (Seoul National Univ.), “Tensionless String in N*=2 SUSY Gauge Theory”
Jan Rosseel (Vienna Univ. of Tech.), “Three-dimensional flat space higher-spin theory”
Ergin Sezgin (Texas A+M Univ.), “Critical Prokushkin-Vasiliev Theory and Topologically Massive Higher Spins”
Dmitri Sorokin (INFN, Padova), “Higher Spins in Hyperspace”
Per Sundell (UNAB, Santiago), “Vasiliev’s equations, deformed oscillators and topological open strings”
Massimo Taronna (MPI, Potsdam), “Cubic-Interaction-Induced deformations of higher-spin symmetries”
Ricardo Troncoso (CECs, Valdivia), “Higher spin gravity in 3D: Asymptotic structure, black holes and thermodynamics”
Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute), “Tailoring Spin Operators and Integrability”

Announcement

• Confirmed Participants and Speakers
  

• Photos of School

• Videos of School

  • 04/11/2013
    • Video 1
    • Video 2
    • Video 3
    • Video 4
    • Video 5
  • 05/11/2013
    • Video 1
    • Video 2
    • Video 3
    • Video 4
    • Video 5
  • 06/11/2013
    • Video 1
    • Video 2
    • Video 3
    • Video 4
    • Video 5
    • Video 6
    • Video 7
  • 07/11/2013
    • Video 1
    • Video 2
    • Video 3
    • Video 4

School Program

Theoretical Astrophysics addresses the physics of the Universe and studies the fundamental properties of astronomical objects and their mutual interaction. Our goal during this School is to provide a comprehensive view of the fundamental problems in Theoretical Astrophysics, along with an up-to-date overview on current trends on Observational Astrophysics. Numerical methods will also be introduced through hands-on activities in the computer lab. The course is intended for graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers, who are expected to present their recent results in a poster session.

Start time: October 7

Ends on: October 18

Venue: São Paulo, Brazil

Organizers: Daniel Gomez (UBA, Argentina), Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino (USP, Brasil), Alejandro Raga (UNAM, Mexico), Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS Princeton, USA)

Lecturers:

Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino (USP, Brazil) – Plasma astrophysics

Alejandro Raga (UNAM, México) – Heating, cooling and ionization in astrophysical flows

Matías Zaldarriaga (IAS Princeton, USA) – Cosmic microwave background radiation: theory and observations

Daniel Gómez (UBA, Argentina) – MHD flows in astrophysics and space physics

Pablo Dmitruk (UBA, Argentina) – Turbulent flows in astrophysics

Axel Brandenburg (Nordita, Sweden) – Astrophysical dynamos

Luis Felipe Rodriguez (UNAM, México) – Observational astrophysics

Alejandro Esquivel (UNAM, México) – Numerical astrophysics

Grzegorz Kowal (USP, Brazil) – Particle acceleration in astrophysics

Application Deadline, August 7

Announcement

List of Participants: Updated on Oct 3

General Information: General Information Sheet

Poster Presentation: Participants who are presenting poster MUST BRING THE POSTER PRINTED. The poster size should be at most 1m x 1m.

Accommodation: Most participants whose accommodation has been arranged and paid by the institute will stay at Pousada Zilah. Each participant whose accommodation has been arranged by the institute has received the details about the accommodation individually.

Registration: We ask ALL PARTICIPANTS to arrive at IFT-UNESP (Rua Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz, 271 Bloco 2 4th floor, in front of Terminal Barra-Funda) on Oct 7  between 8:00 am –9:00 am in order to complete the registration form and to collect the school material. You can find arrival instructions 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: 982 338 671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 982 338 671 (from abroad), 11 982 338 671 (from outside São Paulo).

Ground transportation instructions:

From Pousada Zilah to the institute

From the airport to Pousada Zilah

Preliminary Programme: Updated on Oct 11

Files

• Raga1
• Rodriguez_1
• Rodriguez_2
• Rodriguez_3
• Rodriguez_4
• Zaldarriaga
• Brandenburg_1
• Brandenburg_2
• Brandenburg_3
• Brandenburg_4
• Dalpino_12
• Dalpino_3
• Dalpino_4
• Dmitruk_1
• Dmitruk_2
• Dmitruk_3
• Dmitruk_4
• Gomez_1
• Gomez_2
• Gomez_3
• Gomez_4

Student evaluations of school:

• Student evaluations of school

Photos:

• Photos of school

Although quantum mechanics and general relativity are among the most successful theories ever constructed in physics, complications arise when these two theories are combined to describe quantum gravity. This school will discuss several approaches to resolving the complications of quantum gravity which involve different communities of physicists. In addition to lectures by leaders of the different approaches, there will be daily discussion sessions on selected topics. The school is intended for advanced graduate students and researchers and will be followed by the Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone VI workshop in the Beach Hotel of Maresias from September 11-14.

Start time: September 2

Ends on: September 9

Venue: São Paulo, Brazil

Organizers: Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR and IFT-UNESP), Rodolfo Gambini (Montevideo), Olivera Miskovic (Valparaíso), Carmen Núñez (Buenos Aires), Jorge Pullin (Louisiana), Victor Rivelles (USP São Paulo), Jorge Zanelli (CECS Valdivia)

Lecturers:
Abhay Ashtekar (IGC, Penn State) – The Very Early Universe
Juan Maldacena (IAS Princeton) – AdS-CFT
Alejandro Perez (CPT, AMU Marseille) – Loop Quantum Gravity
Martin Reuter (Mainz) – Asymptotic Safety
John Schwarz (Caltech) – String Theory
Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam) – Entropic Gravity
L. Raul Abramo (USP Sao Paulo) – guest lecture on inflation 

Announcement

List of Participants: Updated on Aug 23

Accommodation: Most participants whose accommodation has been arranged and paid by the institute will stay at Pousada Zilah. Each participant whose accommodation has been arranged by the institute has received the details about the accommodation individually.

Participants whose accommodation has been arranged by the institute, but will pay for their own accommodation, will stay at Ibis-Budget Paulista. The information will be sent individually in a few days with the payment instruction. 

Emergency number to call in case of any problem on the hotel check-in: 982 338 671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 982 338 671 (from abroad), 11 982 338 671 (from outside São Paulo).

Registration: We ask ALL PARTICIPANTS to arrive at IFT-UNESP (Rua Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz, 271 Bloco 2 4th floor, in front of Terminal Barra-Funda) on Sept. 2 between 8:00 am –9:00 am in order to complete the registration form and to collect the school material. You can find arrival instructions at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195.

Upon registration, please bring a copy 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.

Ground transportation instructions:

From Pousada Zilah to the institute

From the airport to Pousada Zilah

Ibis-Budget Paulista

Links to pdf files of speakers:
Abhay Ashtekar: bibliography, slides I, slides II, homework I, homework II, homework III
Martin Reuter:  arXiv:0708.1317 and M.Niedermaier and M.Reuter, Living Rev. Relativity 9 (2006) 5-173,  homework exercises I,  homework exercises II
John Schwarz: notes on perturbative gravity, homework exercises,  colloquium file
Alejandro Perez: homework exercises, slides, notes on black holes
Erik Verlinde: homework exercises
L. Raul Abramo: homework exercises
Juan Maldacena: homework I, homework II, homework III

Student evaluations of school:

• Student evaluations of school

Photos of school:

• Photos

School Program: Print the PDF version

With the recent results from the 2011-2012 LHC runs, including the discovery of a new Higgs-like particle, it is timely to review what was learned and what can be learned in the near future about the High Energy Frontier. The purposes of the School are to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the Standard Model, to familiarize them with aspects of collider physics, to explore what may lay beyond the Standard Model, and to give them the necessary tools to test different models with the newest data.

Start time: April 1

Ends on: April 12

Venue: São Paulo, Brazil

Organizers: Marcela Carena (Fermilab), Aldo Deandrea (Lyon), Ricardo D’Elia Matheus (IFT-UNESP), Rogerio Rosenfeld (ICTP-SAIFR and IFT-UNESP), Giacomo Cacciapaglia (Lyon)

Lecturers:

. Standard Model @ LHC – Chris Quigg (Fermilab)
. Collider Physics – Joe Lykken (Fermilab)
. QCD – Daniel de Florian (University of Buenos Aires)
. Beyond SM @ LHC (Weakly coupled extensions) – Zackaria Chacko (Maryland) and Marcela Carena (Fermilab)
. Beyond SM @ LHC (Strongly coupled extensions) – Eduardo Ponton (ICTP-SAIFR and IFT-UNESP)
. Numerical Tools for Physics @ LHC – Alexander Belyaev (Southampton)

Student evaluations of school:

• Student evaluations of school

– Photos

Projects and Exercises:

Daniel de Florian
– Project

–QCD1.pdf
–QCD2.pdf
–QCD3.pdf

Alexander Belyaev
– Project
– cern_school_project_belyaev.pdf
– cern_school_project_belyaev.odp
– Dropbox

Eduardo Ponton
– Project

– XDim-Lecture1.pdf
–XDim-Lecture2.pdf

Marcela Carena
– Exercises
– SUSY-ICTP-SAIFR-2013.pdf

Chris Quigg

– Quigg-1.pdf
– Quigg-2.pdf
– Quigg-3.pdf
– Quigg-4.pdf
– Quigg-5.pdf

◊ List of Participants: List of Participants_Updated on March 28

◊Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been arranged by the institute will stay at Blair House Flat

◊ Registration for participants who will stay at Blair House Flat: ALL participants should register. Participants who will stay at Blair House Flat can complete the registration procedure on March 31 from 5 to 7 pm. Participants who will stay at Blair House Flat but will arrive later, can register on April 1 at the institute. The registration at the institute will be on April 1 from 8am to 9am. Upon registration, please bring a copy of your ID or passport.

◊Participants who live in São Paulo or have accommodation arranged on their own: We ask you to kindly arrive at IFT-UNESP (Rua Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz, 271 Bloco 2 4th floor, in front of Terminal Barra-Funda) on April 1 between 8 – 9:00am in order to complete the registration form and to collect the school’s material. Should you have any questions on how to reach the institute, please do not hesitate to contact us.

BOARDING PASS – All participants, whose travel has been provided by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.

◊Ground transportation instruction:

From Guarulhos Airport to Blair House Flat

From Blair House Flat to the institute

◊Upon arrival information: General Information sheet

◊Programme: PDF Version_updated on April 10

School on Particle Physics in the LHC Era

Programme

Seminars on Saturday (April 06)
11:00 – 11:45
Parameterisations for Higgs physics beyond the standard model
Aldo Deandrea (Lyon)

11:45 – 12:30
Dark matter in a twisted bottle
Giacomo Cacciapaglia (Lyon)

FIRST WEEK: April 1 to 6
Monday, 1 April
8:00 – 9:00	Registration
9:00 – 10:30	Quigg I
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	de Florian I
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Quigg II
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Tuesday, 2 April
9:00 – 10:30	Quigg III
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	De Florian II
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Quigg IV
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Wednesday, 3 April
9:00 – 10:30	Quigg V
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	De Florian III
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Discussion
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30	Lykken I
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Thursday, 4 April
9:00 – 10:30	Lykken II
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Pontón I
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Lykken III
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Friday, 5 April
9:00 – 10:30	Pontón II
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Lykken IV
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Lykken V
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Saturday, 6 April
9:00 – 10:30	Pontón III
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Seminar Deandrea Cacciapaglia
12:30 –	Free
SECOND WEEK: April 8 to 12
Monday, 8 April
9:00 – 10:30	Pontón IV
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Belyaev I
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Carena I
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Tuesday, 9 April
9:00 – 10:30	Pontón V
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Belyaev II
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Carena II
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Wednesday, 10 April
9:00 – 10:30	Carena III
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Belyaev III
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Chacko I
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Thursday, 11 April
9:00 – 10:30	Chacko II
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Belyaev IV
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Chacko III
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion
17:30 – 19:30	Exercises and Projects
Friday, 12 April
9:00 – 10:30	Belyaev V
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Chacko IV
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
Presentations
14:00 – 14:15 14:15 – 14:30 14:30 – 14:45 14:45 – 15:00 15:00 – 15:15 15:15 – 15:30 15:30 – 15:45 15:45 – 16:00	Lucia Duarte: “Top quark decay in A2HDM” Javier Orduz: A SIMPLE CALCULATION FOR HIGGS AND Z Alfredo Herrera Aguilar: “Corrections to Newton’s law in a tachyonic braneworld with de Sitter symmetry” Seng Pei Liew: “Axino dark matter with R-parity violation and 130 GeV gamma-ray line” Daniel Busbridge: “ Is supersoft supersymmetry breaking supernatural?” William Torres: “Rational Contribution to One-loop Gluon Amplitudes” David Stone: “Strong matrix element enhancement in light, flavored B-meson decays” Guillermo Palacio: “Neutrino masses in a Little Higgs Model with Electroweak Gauge Symmetry SU(4)_L x U(1)_X”
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	DISCUSSION

Lectures:

Chris Quigg – Standard Model

Daniel de Florian – QCD

Joe Lykken – Collider Physics

Eduardo Pontón – Extra dimensions

Marcela Carena – Introduction to SUSY

Zackaria Chacko – Little Higgs, SUSY breaking

Sasha Belyaev – Numerical tools for the LHC