There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

This school will be preceded by the II Brazilian Workshop on Soft Matter from April 7-11.

• Fernando Luís Barroso da Silva (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• Ralf Eichhorn (Nordita, Sweden)

Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: February 1, 2025

Lecturers

• Cecilia Clementi (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany): Design of protein models with machine learning
• Fernanda Selingardi Matias (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil): Biological neural networks
• Rosangela Itri (IFUSP, Brazil): Experimental techniques in structural biophysics
• Oliver Lieleg (Technical University of Munich, Germany): Machine learning approaches for biomolecular and biophysical research
• Shaker Chuck Farah (IQUSP, Brazil): Proteins and nucleic acids: basic concepts and challenges?
• Fernando Barroso (FCFRP/USP, Brazil): Constant-pH simulation methods for biomolecular systems: the physics behind it
• Ralf Eichhorn (Nordita, Sweden): Introduction to Machine Learning

Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: February 1, 2025

TBA

 The schedule might be changed.

Attention! Some participants in ICTP-SAIFR activities have received email from fake travel agencies asking for credit card information. All communication with participants will be made by ICTP-SAIFR staff using an e-mail “@ictp-saifr.org”. We will not send any mailings about accommodation that require a credit card number or any sort of deposit.

BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by ICTP-SAIFR, should bring the boarding pass  upon registration. The return boarding pass (PDF, if online check-in, scan or picture, if physical) should be sent to secretary@ictp-saifr.org by e-mail.

COVID-19: Brazilians and foreigners no longer have to present proof of vaccination before entering the country.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA are exempt from tourist visa until April 10, 2025. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A PRINTED BANNER . The banner size should be at most 1 m (width) x 1,5 m (length). We do not accept A4 or A3 paper. Click here to see what a banner looks like: http://designplast.ind.br/produtos/detalhe/impressao-digital/banner/119/9

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses. This workshop will be followed by the School on Biological Physics and Biomolecular Simulations from April 14-19.

• Pablo de Castro (ICTP-SAIFR and IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
• Danilo B. Liarte (ICTP-SAIFR and IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
• Mateus B. Cardoso (Sirius-CNPEM, Brazil)
• Cristiano L. P. de Oliveira (IF-USP, Brazil)

Click HERE for online registration

Registration deadline: February 15, 2025

Speakers

• Márcia Barbosa (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Dan Beller (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Ana Laura Benavides (Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico)
• Ignacio Bordeu (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• Clécio Clemente (UFPE, Brazil)
• Kaline Coutinho (USP, Brazil)
• Eduardo Jagla (Instituto Balseiro, Argentina)
• Liesbeth Janssen (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
• Eleni Katifori (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Yan Levin (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Frederic Nallet (Université de Bordeaux, France)
• Wim Noorduin (AMOLF, Netherlands)
• M. Leticia Puzzo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
• Chantal Valeriani (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
• Rafael Zola (URFPR, Brazil)
• Edgar Zanotto (UFSCAR, Brazil)

Click HERE for online registration

Registration deadline: February 15, 2025

 The schedule might be changed.

Attention! Some participants in ICTP-SAIFR activities have received email from fake travel agencies asking for credit card information. All communication with participants will be made by ICTP-SAIFR staff using an e-mail “@ictp-saifr.org”. We will not send any mailings about accommodation that require a credit card number or any sort of deposit.

BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by ICTP-SAIFR, should bring the boarding pass  upon registration. The return boarding pass (PDF, if online check-in, scan or picture, if physical) should be sent to secretary@ictp-saifr.org by e-mail.

COVID-19: Brazilians and foreigners no longer have to present proof of vaccination before entering the country.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA are exempt from tourist visa until April 10, 2025. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A PRINTED BANNER . The banner size should be at most 1 m (width) x 1,5 m (length). We do not accept A4 or A3 paper. Click here to see what a banner looks like: http://designplast.ind.br/produtos/detalhe/impressao-digital/banner/119/9

School on Origins is an interdisciplinary school that tackles the foundational questions concerning the origins of biophysical systems which include but are not limited to : molecular, cellular, neural and behavioral systems. We aim to find principles shared across systems using tools from statistical physics, mathematical analysis and numerical simulations to explore these questions. We have invited researchers that work both on the experimental and theoretical side to cover a variety of biophysical systems and theoretical approaches. The school is aimed at graduate students either at the master’s or PhD level who have a strong quantitative background and a keen interest to pursue interdisciplinary research.

We invite students pursuing degrees in physics, computer science, engineering, or mathematics. Those pursuing degrees in biology need to provide evidence of strong and extensive quantitative background in topics such as calculus, dynamical systems and numerical programming.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

• Ahmed El Hady (Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Germany)
• Antonio C. Roque (USP Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)
• Daniel Y. Takahashi (UFRN, Brazil)

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: December 28, 2024

Lecturers

• Suzanne Still (University of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA)
• Randall Beer (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
• Asif Ghazanfar (Princeton University, USA)
• Don Katz (Brandeis University, USA)
• Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN, Brazil)
• Bruno Mota (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Ana Amador (University of Buenos Aires,  Argentina)

Announcement:

School: Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: December 28, 2024

 The schedule might be changed.

Attention! Some participants in ICTP-SAIFR activities have received email from fake travel agencies asking for credit card information. All communication with participants will be made by ICTP-SAIFR staff using an e-mail “@ictp-saifr.org”. We will not send any mailings about accommodation that require a credit card number or any sort of deposit.

BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by ICTP-SAIFR, should bring the boarding pass  upon registration. The return boarding pass (PDF, if online check-in, scan or picture, if physical) should be sent to secretary@ictp-saifr.org by e-mail.

COVID-19: Brazilians and foreigners no longer have to present proof of vaccination before entering the country.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA are exempt from tourist visa until April 10, 2025. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here.

How to reach the Institute: The school will be held at ICTP South American Institute, located at IFT-UNESP, which is across the street from a major bus and subway terminal (Terminal Barra Funda). The address which is closer to the entrance of the IFT-UNESP building is R. Jornalista Aloysio Biondi, 120 – Barra Funda, São Paulo. The easiest way to reach us is by subway or bus, please find instructions here.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A PRINTED BANNER . The banner size should be at most 1 m (width) x 1,5 m (length). We do not accept A4 or A3 paper. Click here to see what a banner looks like: http://designplast.ind.br/produtos/detalhe/impressao-digital/banner/119/9

Gravitational waves start propagating (almost) freely at energies about 27 orders of magnitude larger than those characterizing the decoupling of the photons that form the Cosmic Microwave Background. Therefore, they represent a powerful and unique tool for understanding the evolution of our universe before the CMB. We derive the basic formalism to compute the gravitational wave spectrum walking through different methods, and discuss the results for the most studied sources in the earliest universe: inflation, reheating and first-order phase transition.

There is no registration.

Lecturer:

• • Simona Procacci (U. of Geneva, Switzerland)

Organizer:

• • Riccardo Sturani (IFT-UNESP, São Paulo)

Program:

Lecture 1: September  3, 2024.  10:00-12:00, Computer Lab (3rd floor)

Lecture 2: September  5, 2024.   10:00-12:00, Computer Lab (3rd floor)

Lecture 3: September  10, 2024. 10:00-12:00, Computer Lab (3rd floor)

Class 1 – Video

Class 2 – Video

Class 3 – Video

How to reach the Institute: The minicourse will be held at ICTP South American Institute, located at IFT-UNESP, which is across the street from a major bus and subway terminal (Terminal Barra Funda). The address which is closer to the entrance of the IFT-UNESP building is R. Jornalista Aloysio Biondi, 120 – Barra Funda, São Paulo. The easiest way to reach us is by subway or bus, please find instructions here.

We will present five 3-hour lectures that will introduce participants to the world of Bayesian Machine Learning for scientific purposes. The minicourse is tailored to suit both senior and junior researchers, catering to their respective levels of experience and interest.

In the first block of each lecture, we aim to transmit the big picture of the lecture’s topic with a focus on the details from a supervising point of view. The fine points and subtleties will be addressed here, but without strict demonstrations or supplied code. This block is intended for both seniors and juniors: for seniors as a summary that shows how to apply these tools to scientific research; and for juniors as an entrance to the second block in which we put our hands in the dough. We conclude the block with an extended coffee break where we expect that the proposed ideas trigger discussions around each participant’s field of study and how to apply it in their data.

The second block is very hands-on and is intended for juniors, but seniors interested in getting actively involved in the calculations are welcome as well. We present, discuss and write code. Participants are engaged in coding exercises and discussing practical applications. This block emphasizes practical skills and real-world problem-solving. We use different libraries, and we deploy statistical software especially designed to tackle the presented problems

The minicourse is generally designed for any scientific career. We use mostly physics examples, but the material will be useful and insightful for any other field with hard scientific research. We will try to adapt and discuss the problems within the participants’ fields of research.

Participants are expected to have taken courses in algebra and analysis, be familiar with multi-dimensional vectors and expressions, have some knowledge of probability and statistics, and be prepared for non-trivial abstract reasoning and thinking. Juniors, in addition, are expected to have some knowledge of Python.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for local expenses.

Lecturer:

• Ezequiel Alvarez (ICAS-UNSAM, Argentina)

Organizer:

• Rogério Rosenfeld (IFT-UNESP/ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil)

List of Participants: Updated on October 15,2024.

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: September 18, 2024

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: September 18, 2024

Reading Materials: HERE

• Lecture 1: Introduction to Bayesian techniques
  – Theory: Bayes theorem, fields of application (games, puzzles, problems, machine learning, etc.). Bayes theorem in scientific research: Bayesian Machine Learning and Bayesian Workflow. Trade-off in replacing Neural Networks by Bayesian techniques when simulations are not reliable enough. Learning from the data. Graphical Models. Mixture Models as a general problem faced by scientists. Algorithms for tackling Mixture Models. Simple Gaussian Mixtures
  – Hands-on: Introduction to STAN Statistic Language. Solving basic inference problems with STAN. Gaussian Mixture.

• Lecture 2: Simple Bayesian examples
  – Theory: Simple well known Bayesian Machine Learning problems (Eight-schools, etc). Parameters, hyperparameters and Hierarchical Bayes. Bernoulli mixture. Self-conjugate priors on a simple counting problem.
  – Hands-on: Notebooks and numerical analysis to solve the problems presented in the Theory section

• Lecture 3: Mixture Models
  – Theory: Internal structure of the data. Latent variables. Graphical Models. Constructing non-trivial Probability Density Functions (PDFs) from trivial PDFs. Mixture Models. Conditionally-independent variables. Explicit expression for likelihood in Mixture Models. Explicit examples of Mixture Models, e.g. pp > hh > bbAA.
  – Hands-on: Introduction to different distributions (Dirichlet, truncated exponential, truncated Normal, etc.) Solving real mixture model problems using STAN. Hacks and tricks in Mixture Models.

• Lecture 4: Studying consistency between data, model and results
  – Theory: How to check whether the results make sense. Testing the modeling against the data. Probability of the data. Posterior predictive check.
  – Hands-on: Implementing posterior predictive check. Making statements on the modeling, and on the inference results. Testing unbiasedness in chain samplings. Rhat.

• Lecture 5: Mixture Model for non-parametric distributions
  – Theory: Including structured priors to take advantage of expected properties in the distributions. Exploiting continuity in the distributions. Gaussian Processes. Exploiting unimodality in distributions. Tagging in Mixture Models, ROC curves comparison. Limitations and adaptations in presented Mixture Models. Discussion on not conditionally independent variables, using and modeling correlations.
  – Hands-on: Scripts to infer on structured priors. Sampling smooth and unimodal distributions. Parallelizing inference programming for complex datasets in STAN.

How to reach the Institute: The program will be held at ICTP South American Institute, located at IFT-UNESP, which is across the street from a major bus and subway terminal (Terminal Barra Funda). The address which is closer to the entrance of the IFT-UNESP building is R. Jornalista Aloysio Biondi, 120 – Barra Funda, São Paulo. The easiest way to reach us is by subway or bus, please find instructions here.

Synchronization is one of the fundamental phenomena in complex systems and nonlinear dynamics. There are a large number of systems where synchronization is an important effect and we shall focus on two of them:

a) Mobile systems: the emergence of coordinated movement in space and time without an apparent controller.

b) The Janus-faced nature of synchronization in brain dynamics, or how synchronization impairs and drives the brain, and the importance of physics for the prediction of epileptic seizures.

The school will cover:

– A general introduction to synchronization phenomena;
– Systems where spatial and temporal synchronization occur simultaneously, as observed in sperm cells, starfish embryos and swarmalators in general;
– Introduction to epilepsy and seizure dynamics;
– Seizure prediction methods: Modern nonlinear models for the detection and forecasting of dynamical transitions from time series; challenges and opportunities for more efficient data analysis.

The event will also include a workshop on the weekend of February 8-9 covering current research in the field.

This school is part of the Topics in Nonlinear Science: Fundamentals and Applications.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

• Marcus Aguiar (UNICAMP, Brazil)
• Hilda A. Cerdeira (IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
• Mario Chavez (Sorbonne University, France)
• Albert Diaz Guilera (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
• Klaus Lehnertz (University of Bonn, Germany)

Announcement:

School: Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: November 23, 2024

Workshop: Click HERE for online registration

Registration deadline: December 14, 2024

Lecturers

• Hitten Zaveri (Yale University, USA): Monitoring the brain in epilepsy and Controlling seizures

• Fernando Peruani (Cergy Paris University, France): Emergence of order in active matter: From synchronization of moving oscillators to collective motion

• Arkady Pikovsky (University of Potsdam, Germany): Synchronization phenomena in oscillator networks
• Maria Del Carmen Miguel Lopez (Barcelona University, Spain): Collective motion and decision making in the dynamics of social animals and robot swarms
• Christian Meisel ( Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany): An introduction into epilepsy and  Long-range correlations in the brain and their implications for seizure forecasting
• Ulrike Feudel (University of Oldenburg, Germany): Critical transitions in complex dynamical systems: theory and implication for neuroscience and Metastability and transient dynamics in neuroscience

Announcement:

School: Click HERE for online application

Application deadline: November 23, 2024

Workshop: Click HERE for online registration

Registration deadline: December 14, 2024

 The schedule might be changed.

Attention! Some participants in ICTP-SAIFR activities have received email from fake travel agencies asking for credit card information. All communication with participants will be made by ICTP-SAIFR staff using an e-mail “@ictp-saifr.org”. We will not send any mailings about accommodation that require a credit card number or any sort of deposit.

BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by ICTP-SAIFR, should bring the boarding pass  upon registration. The return boarding pass (PDF, if online check-in, scan or picture, if physical) should be sent to secretary@ictp-saifr.org by e-mail.

COVID-19: Brazilians and foreigners no longer have to present proof of vaccination before entering the country.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA are exempt from tourist visa until April 10, 2025. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here.

How to reach the Institute: The school will be held at ICTP South American Institute, located at IFT-UNESP, which is across the street from a major bus and subway terminal (Terminal Barra Funda). The address which is closer to the entrance of the IFT-UNESP building is R. Jornalista Aloysio Biondi, 120 – Barra Funda, São Paulo. The easiest way to reach us is by subway or bus, please find instructions here.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A PRINTED BANNER . The banner size should be at most 1 m (width) x 1,5 m (length). We do not accept A4 or A3 paper. Click here to see what a banner looks like: http://designplast.ind.br/produtos/detalhe/impressao-digital/banner/119/9