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CLAF/ICTP-SAIFR Latin-American Astroparticle Physics School

Written by Larissa Takeda on March 10th, 2025. Posted in

 

August 11 – 15, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP

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Astroparticle Physics is undergoing a major global revolution, with a number of breakthrough results coming from currently operational or recently-upgraded facilities, and with the near-future construction of new observatories for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and astrophysical neutrinos. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, which explores the universe over a broad energy range from 30 GeV to beyond the PeV scale, has established itself as the cornerstone of the field, studying the role of cosmic rays in astrophysics, searching for dark matter and probing fundamental physics in space.
 
The currently operational Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) and the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), together with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Southern Wide-Field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), whose start of construction is expected as early as 2026, will form a worldwide network surveying the entire sky with almost continuous coverage in the search for the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Both HAWC, located in Mexico, and CTAO and SWGO, which will have sites in Chile, involve a large number of Latin-American researchers from dozens of institutes across the continent, making the field particularly attractive for students and young researchers from the region.

The purpose of this school, which is jointly organised by the Latin-American Center for Physics (CLAF) and the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR) is to train Latin-American students in the science and tools of these two major facilities for astroparticle physics on the continent, covering a broad range of topics from Multi-Messenger to High-Energy Astrophysics. The students will also have the chance to work directly with the tools developed for CTAO and SWGO data analysis, through dedicated hands-on training activities and proposed challenge-projects. 

This event will occur after the V Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology and the IX High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows (HEPRO IX in Rio) Conference.

Organisers:

  • Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF & CLAF, Brazil)
  • Carola Dobrigkeit (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  • Claudio Dib (UTFSM, Chile)
  • Gustavo E. Romero (IAR, Argentina)
  • Rogério Rosenfeld (IFT-UNESP & ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil)

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

 

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application
Application deadline: June 6, 2025

Lecturers

Lecturers

  • Rafael Alves-Batista (IAP, France)
Lecture 1 – Introduction to HECRs: phenomenology, observations, and open questions
Lecture 2 – Cosmic-ray acceleration and sources
Lecture 3 – Extragalactic propagation of cosmic-rays
Lecture 4 – Galactic propagation of cosmic rays
  • Gustavo Romero (IAR, Argentina)
Lecture 1 – Very-High Energy Galactic Sources I
Lecture 2 – Very-High energy Galactic Sources II
Lecture 3 – Galactic PeVatrons
  • Michele Doro (INFN and University of Padova, Italy)
Lecture 1 – Introduction to Cherenkov Telescopes
Lecture 2 – Fundamental Physics with Gamma-rays I: Dark Matter
Lecture 3 – Fundamental Physics with Gamma-rays II: Other Topics
  • Elisabetta Bissaldi (INFN and University of Bari, Italy)
Lecture 1 – High-energy GRBs: Lessons learned from the Fermi mission and TeV observations
Lecture 2 – The Gamma-ray role in multi-messenger observations of gravitational waves: From Fermi to ground-based observations
  • Markus Boettcher (NWU, South Africa)
Lecture 1 – Active Galactic Nuclei with Gamma-rays
Lecture 2 – Active Galactic Nuclei and Multi-messenger neutrinos

 

Seminars
  • Felix Aharonian (DIAS, Ireland) : Overview of Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy
  • Shoushan Zhang (IHEP, China) : Introduction to Extensive Air-Shower Arrays and LHAASO
  • Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF, Brazil) : The Southern Wide-Field Gamma-ray Observatory, SWGO

 

Hands-on Activity
  • Raniere de Menezes (CBPF, Brazil):
    Session 1 – Stereoscopic analysis of the Crab Nebula with Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
    Session 2 – The Galactic center above 1 TeV: simulations with the SWGO science tools
    Session 3 – Analysis of a BL Lac object over 5 decades of energy with Fermi-LAT, CTA and SWGO

 

Posters

 

 

Registration

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application
Application deadline: June 6, 2025

Program

 The schedule might be changed.

Additional Information

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. Also, if you are staying at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista, please confirm with the Uber/Taxi driver that the hotel is located at Rua Pamplona 83 in Bela Vista (and not in Jardim Etelvina).

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.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA will be required to obtain a tourist e-visa for visits after April 10, 2025. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants whose accommodations are provided by ICTP-SAIFR will stay at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista. Other 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.

CLAF/ICTP-SAIFR Latin-American Astroparticle Physics School

Program on Fundamental Aspects of String Theory

Written by Larissa Takeda on February 27th, 2025. Posted in

August 4-15, 2025 

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

Venue: Principia Institute

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String theory is a mathematically consistent theory of quantum gravity, but no one has determined whether it describes quantum gravitational interactions in our own Universe. The principal obstacle is that the theoretical tools used to study string theory, including the worldsheet formalism, spacetime effective theory, and holographic dualities, can at the moment describe only limited and idealized phenomena in nearly flat space.

This 2-week program will bring together researchers working on various aspects of these tools such as the pure spinor formalism, string field theory, AdS-CFT and algebraic geometry to try to extend these tools to describe more complicated superstring backgrounds.

The format will include only a few seminars per day with lots of time for discussion and collaboration. The first week of the program from August 4-8 will be jointly organized with the last week of the annual Simons Bootstrap Collaboration meeting.

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

Organizers:

  • Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR,IFT/UNESP, Brazil)
  • Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada & ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
  • Xi Yin (Harvard University, USA)

 

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application 
Application deadline: June 28, 2025

Confirmed Speakers

  • Luis Fernando Alday (Oxford Univ., UK)
  • Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
  • Shai Chester (Imperial College, UK)
  • Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis, USA)
  • Henry Lin (Stanford U., USA)
  • Liam McAllister (Cornell U., USA)
  • Silviu Pufu (Princeton U., USA)
  • Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis, USA)
  • Ashoke Sen (ICTS Bangalore, India) – to be confirmed
  • Pedro Vieira (Perimeter I., Canada & ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
  • Xi Yin (Harvard U., USA)
  • Barton Zwiebach (MIT, USA)

Registration

Announcement:

Click HERE for online application 
Application deadline: June 28, 2025

Program

TBA

 

Additional Information

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. Also, if you are staying at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista, please confirm with the Uber/Taxi driver that the hotel is located at Rua Pamplona 83 in Bela Vista (and not in Jardim Etelvina).

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.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA will be required to obtain a tourist e-visa for visits after April 10, 2025.

Accommodation: Participants whose accommodations are provided by ICTP-SAIFR will stay at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista. Other 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.

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Workshop on Frontiers in Quantum Materials

Written by Larissa Takeda on February 27th, 2025. Posted in



September 1 – 5, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

Venue: Principia Institute

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The search for novel emergent phases of matter has played a pivotal role in Condensed Matter Physics in the past few decades. In these phases, strong correlations, disorder and non-trivial topology of the electronic wave functions lead to quantum effects that leave fingerprints in a wide range of length and energy scales. Examples include high-Tc superconductors, topological insulators and semimetals that host robust surface states, and fractionalized excitations in quantum spin liquids. The capability of characterizing these exotic phases of matter at a fundamental level, predicting their occurrence in various materials, and taking advantage of on-demand manipulation of their properties for technological applications is attracting increasing interest in the broad and rich field of Quantum Materials. Among the open questions in the field, the correlation-driven topological states and the role of the quantum geometry of the wave functions beyond the Berry curvature in macroscopic properties of matter remain topics of intense debate. The ICTP-SAIFR Workshop on Frontiers in Quantum Materials brings together experts to discuss the most recent theoretical and experimental developments in the field of Quantum Materials. The exchange of ideas stimulated by the workshop will be a fertile ground for new collaborations between the participants.

We are happy to announce that poster prizes will be awarded during the event, recognizing the best contributions presented in the poster session. These prizes are sponsored by EPL (Europhysics Letters) and we encourage all participants to present posters that showcase their work.
Learn more about EPL at https://www.epletters.net/.

 

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

Organizers:

  • Eric Andrade (USP, Brazil)
  • Rui Aquino (ICTP-SAIFR e IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
  • Daniel Barci (UERJ, Brazil)
  • Rafael Fernandes (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Eduardo Miranda (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  • Thaís Victa Trevisan (IFSC-USP, Brazil)

 

Announcement:

Click HERE for online registration
Registration deadline: July 8, 2025

 

Invited Speakers

Invited speakers

  • Maria Carolina de Oliveira Aguiar (UFMG, Brazil)
  • Flavia Alejandra Gómez Albarrazín (IFLYSIB-CONICET, Argentina)
  • Rodrigo Arouca (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Turan Birol (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Eduardo Bittar (CBPF, Brazil)
  • Vanuildo de Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil)
  • Luis Gregório Dias (IF-USP, Brazil)
  • Ian Fisher (Stanford, USA)
  • Vivian França (UNESP, Brazil)
  • Maria Gastiasoro (DIPC, Spain)
  • Elena Gati (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  • Santiago Andrés Grigera (IFLYSIB-CONICET, Argentina)
  • José Hoyos (IFSC-USP, Brazil)
  • Na Hyun Jo (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Mariana Malard (UNB, Brazil)
  • Valentina Martelli (IF-USP, Brazil)
  • Robert McQueeney (Iowa State University e Ames Lab, USA)
  • Joe Meese (UIUC, USA)
  • Paula Mellado (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile)
  • Tobias Micklitz (CBPF, Brazil)
  • Willian Natori (Unicamp, Brazil)
  • Eduardo da Silva Neto (Yale, USA)
  • Michal Papaj (University of Houston, USA)
  • Gabriela Pasquini (UBA, Argentina)
  • Rodrigo Pereira (UFRN, Brazil)
  • Victor Quito (IFSC-USP, Brazil)
  • Srinivas Raghu (Stanford, USA)
  • Dario Rosa (ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil)
  • Carmen Rubio-Verdu (IFCO Barcelona, Spain)
  • Jörg Schmalian (KIT, Alemanha)
  • Inti Sodemann (University of Leipzig, Germany)
  • Ricardo Urbano (Unicamp)
  • Krissia Zawadzki (IFSC-USP, Brazil)

Registration

Announcement:

Click HERE for online registration

Registration deadline: July 8, 2025

Program

TBA

 

Additional Information

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. Also, if you are staying at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista, please confirm with the Uber/Taxi driver that the hotel is located at Rua Pamplona 83 in Bela Vista (and not in Jardim Etelvina).

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.

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, but it is unclear if the exemption will be extended after this date.

Accommodation: Participants whose accommodations are provided by ICTP-SAIFR will stay at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista. Other 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.

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APS-SAIFR Satellite Global Physics Summit

Written by William Oropesa on February 6th, 2025. Posted in

March 17, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

Zoom ID: 840 2143 7098     Zoom password: APS

Room 3 and Auditorium of IFT-UNESP

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To extend the reach and diversity of its annual meetings, the American Physical Society has developed a pilot program of APS Satellite Meetings with the participation of ICTP-SAIFR in Latin America. As part of the APS Global Physics Summit from March 16-21, 2025, ICTP-SAIFR is organizing on March 17 (Monday) a 2-hour Satellite Session on Quantum Technologies that will be broadcast live to all participants of the APS Meeting, as well as a 2-hour session on Quantum Systems for student/postdoc presentations and a 50-minute seminar on “Avoiding Predatory Journals” to a local audience

Graduate students and postdocs can apply until March 7, 2025 to present a short talk or poster at the student-postdoc session on Quantum Systems.

The 2-hour satellite session from 15:30-17:30 on March 17 will be held both in the IFT-UNESP auditorium and in the Anaheim APS conference center as a joint hybrid activity.  The complete schedule of sessions of the APS Global Physics Summit can be found on the APS Global Physics Summit webapage.

There is no registration fee for participation in the APS-SAIFR Satellite Meeting.

Organizers:

  • Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP)
  • Dario Rosa (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP)
  • Gustavo Wiederhecker (Unicamp)

 

Announcement:

Invited Speakers

Invited Speakers:

  • 15:30 Fernando Brandão (Caltech, USA): Scale-efficient quantum error correction using concatenated bosonic qubits.
  • 15:50 Simon Groeblacher (Delft Univ. of Tech, Netherlands): Controlling a superconducting qubit with light.
  • 16:10 Yiwen Chu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): A mechanical qubit.
  • 16:30 Rafael Barros (USP São Paulo, Brazil): Hybrid quantum frequency conversion.
  • 16:50 Patricia Castilho (USP São Carlos, Brazil): A 2D Bose gas to study quantum hydrodynamic instabilities.
  • 17:10 Guilherme Temporão (PUC Rio, Brazil): Tackling engineering challenges in metropolitan quantum networks.

Abstracts: HERE

Short Talks

Monday March 17 (Room 3)
  • 11:00 – 11:20  Patricia de Assis Almeida  (UF Uberlandia): Kondo effect in strained Kagome ribbons
  • 11:20 – 11:40  Gustavo Moreto (Unicamp): Fabrication and Characterization of a Superconducting Qubit
  • 11:40 – 12:30  Lauren Flintoft (IOP Publishing): Avoiding predatory journals
  • 12:30 – 13:30  Lunch break
  • 13:30 – 13:50  Eduardo Gonçalves (Unicamp): Tunable Degenerate Optical Parametric Oscillation with Coupled Microresonators
  • 13:50 – 14:10  Lucas Cesar Gomes Alvarinho Squillante (Unesp Rio Claro): Grüneisen parameter as an entanglement compass and the breakdown of the Hellmann-Feynman theorem
  • 14:10 – 14:30  Pedro Ventura Paraguassú (PUC Rio de Janeiro): Effects of a quantum system upon a classical mesoscopic nanoparticle system
  • 14:30 – 14:50  Lauro Barreto Braz (IFUSP): Competing magnetic states on the surface of multilayer ABC-stacked graphene

Program

Monday March 17
  • 11:00 – 11:40  Student-postdoc presentations (Room 3 of IFT-UNESP)
  • 11:40 – 12:30  Lauren Flintoft (IOP Publishing): Avoiding predatory journals  (Room 3 of IFT-UNESP)
  • 12:30 – 13:30  Lunch break
  • 13:30 – 14:50  Student-postdoc presentations (Room 3 of IFT-UNESP)
  • 14:50 – 15:30   Poster Session/Coffee break
  • 15:30 – 16:30  APS Presentations from the Anaheim conference center (IFT-UNESP auditorium)
  • 16:30 – 17:30  APS Presentations from the IFT-UNESP auditorium

 

 

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Posters

Luca de Oliveira Trinchão (Unicamp): Stable and unstable dynamics in dual-pumped degenerate optical parametric oscillation
Ednilson Santos Lopes Cunha (Unicamp): Planar Non-Euclidean Lattices Using Superconducting Circuits
Luiz Peres (Unicamp): Towards Generation of Squeezed States of Light in Integrated Photonic Molecules

Application to present short talk or poster

Announcement:

Application deadline: March 7, 2025 (closed)

Additional Information

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. Also, if you are staying at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista, please confirm with the Uber/Taxi driver that the hotel is located at Rua Pamplona 83 in Bela Vista (and not in Jardim Etelvina).

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

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.

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2025 Meeting of ICTP-SAIFR Steering Committee and Scientific Council

Written by Nathan on February 5th, 2025. Posted in

On February 17-18, the 2025 meeting of the ICTP-SAIFR steering committee and scientific council will take place at the IFT-UNESP. The tentative schedule is:

Sunday February 16
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner

Monday February 17
10:30 – 13:00 Joint meeting of steering committee and scientific council
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Meeting of steering committee
19:30 – 21:30 Dinner

Tuesday February 18
10:00 – 12:45 Meeting of scientific council
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 17:00 Meeting of scientific council

V Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology

Written by Larissa Takeda on January 22nd, 2025. Posted in

July 28 –  August 8, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP

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Since the turn of the century, cosmology has become a data driven science. Several observational probes of the Universe, such as the cosmic microwave background, the large scale distribution of galaxies, the weak gravitational lensing of galaxy shapes, the mapping of supernovas, the number of clusters of galaxies and gravitational waves from coalescing binaries are being studied by different observatories to explore fundamental physics describing the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Moreover, new tools and data intensive techniques, like artificial intelligence and simulation based inference, are being developed and their potential for cosmological applications is yet to be fully explored.

This is the fifth edition of a joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR two-week Cosmology School, aimed at providing students and young researchers with the necessary tools for understanding the current issues in modern cosmology and to familiarize them with how recent observations can be used to constrain different cosmological models and parameters.

Previous events:

IV Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology: Challenges for the Standard Cosmological Model

III Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Observational Cosmology

II Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Open Problems in Cosmology

Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School and Workshop on Observational Cosmology

Organizers:

  • Paolo Creminelli (ICTP-Trieste)
  • Mehrdad Mirbabayi (ICTP-Trieste)
  • Rogerio Rosenfeld (IFT-UNESP/ICTP-SAIFR)
  • Riccardo Sturani (IFT-UNESP/ICTP-SAIFR)

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

 

List of participants here.

 

Announcement:

Application deadline: May 17, 2025 (closed)

Lecturers

Lecturers

1st week

  • Roman Scoccimarro (New York University, USA): Large scale structure theory
  • Gonzalo Palma (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile): Physics of Inflation
  • Jose M. Ezquiaga (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark): A premiere on Gravitational Wave Cosmology

2nd week

  • Emmanuel Schaan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA): Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background 
  • David Alonso (University of Oxford, UK): Large scale structure observables
  • Francisco Antonio Villaescusa Navarro (Simons Foundation and Princeton University, USA): Machine Learning Methods for Cosmology

 

Posters

TBA

 

Registration

Announcement:

Application deadline: May 17, 2025 (closed)

Program

 The schedule might be changed.

 

Reading Material

Jose M. Ezquiaga (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark):

Roman Scoccimarro (New York University, USA):

Additional Information

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. Also, if you are staying at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista, please confirm with the Uber/Taxi driver that the hotel is located at Rua Pamplona 83 in Bela Vista (and not in Jardim Etelvina).

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.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA are required to obtain a tourist e-visa. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants whose accommodations are provided by ICTP-SAIFR will stay at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista. Other 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.

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II School on Modelling Infectious Disease Dynamics

Written by Larissa Takeda on January 21st, 2025. Posted in

May 12 – 18, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

IFT-UNESP Auditorium

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This seven-day school will address modeling of infectious disease dynamics with the objective of improving public health policies. The program includes a course on deterministic epidemic models and a course on the numerical treatment of those models.  An important feature is the focus on group work involving “hands-on” modeling challenges. There will be classes in the morning and group projects in the afternoon. Participants from all areas related to the subject are welcome to apply. Knowledge of basic differential calculus is required.

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

 

Announcement:

Application deadline: March 7, 2025 (closed)

Organizers:

  • Renato Coutinho (UFABC)
  • Marcelo Ferreira Gomes (Fiocruz/RJ)
  • Roberto Kraenkel (IFT-UNESP)

List of Participants: Updated on May 26, 2025.

Lecturers

Lecturers:

  • Renato Coutinho (UFABC): Numerical Methods
  • Marcelo Ferreira da Costa Gomes (Fiocruz/RJ): TBA
  • Roberto Kraenkel (IFT-UNESP): Deterministic Epidemic Dynamics

Registration

Announcement:

Application deadline: March 1, 2025 (closed)

Program

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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. Also, if you are staying at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista, please confirm with the Uber/Taxi driver that the hotel is located at Rua Pamplona 83 in Bela Vista (and not in Jardim Etelvina).

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA will be required to obtain a tourist e-visa for visits after April 10, 2025. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants whose accommodations are provided by ICTP-SAIFR will stay at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista. Other 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.

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9th Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Fields in Quantum Matter

Written by Larissa Takeda on January 14th, 2025. Posted in

July 7-11, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: Principia Institute

Zoom ID: 812 5588 7092
Password: quantum

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This one-week conference brings together researchers from different domains of physics, both from theoretical and experimental communities, to discuss new avenues in exploring chiral and vortical phenomena and associated electromagnetic effects in strongly interacting matter, heavy-ion collisions, superconductors, (magneto-)hydrodynamical systems and astrophysical objects. This event is the 9th conference in the series on Chirality, Vorticity, and Magnetic Field in Heavy-Ion Collisions, which has been extended in 2024 to include other domains of Quantum Matter.

More information about previous events can be found at this link.

Limited funds are available for local expenses.

Organizers:

  • Ana Mizher (IFT-UNESP/USP, Brazil)
  • Giorgio Torrieri (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  • Dirk Rischke (Goethe Universitat, Germany)

List of participants here.

Announcement:

There is a registration fee of R$700.00 (~US$120.00 based on the exchange rate of February 2025) to be paid upon arrival at the event. Payment can be made in cash or by Visa and Mastercard credit cards. Graduate students from South America are exempt from this fee. 
Registration deadline: May 17, 2025 (closed)

 

Invited speakers

Invited speakers

  • Alejandro Ayala (UNAM, Mexico)
  • Francesco Becattini (Florence, Italy)
  • Fabio Braghin (UFG, Brazil)
  • Dyana Duarte (UFSM, Brazil)
  • Gergely Endrodi (Eotvos University, Hungary)
  • Ricardo Farias (UFSM, Brazil)
  • Eduardo Fraga (UFRJ, Brazil)
  • Kenji Fukushima (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Eduardo Garnacho (Eotvos University, Hungary)
  • Luis Hernandez (UAM, Mexico)
  • Mauricio Hilpert (CBPF, Brazil)
  • Huan Zhong Huang (UCLA, USA, and Fudan, China)
  • Mei Huang (UCAS, Beijing, China) TBC
  • Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook Uni. and BNL, USA) TBC
  • Gastão Krein (UNESP, Brazil)
  • Jinfeng Liao (Indiana Uni., USA)
  • Michael Lisa (Ohio State Uni., USA)
  • Marcelo Loewe (Universidad San Sebastian, Chile)
  • Cicero Municlnelli
  • Enrique Muñoz (PUC, Chile)
  • Leticia Palhares (UERJ, Brazil)
  • Alfredo Raya (UMSNH, Mexico)
  • Norberto Scoccola (UNSAM, Argentina)
  • Igor Shovkovy (Arizona State Univ., USA)
  • Jun Takahashi
  • Aihong Tang (BNL, USA)
  • Maria Elena Tejeda (UniCol, Mexico)
  • Cristian Villavicencio (UBB, Chile)
  • Sergei Voloshin (Wayne State, USA)

 

Registration

Announcement:

There is a registration fee of R$700.00 (~US$120.00 based on the exchange rate of February 2025) to be paid upon arrival at the event. Payment can be made in cash or by Visa and Mastercard credit cards. Graduate students from South America are exempt from this fee. 
Registration deadline: May 17, 2025 (closed)

Program

Titles and abstracts here.


    • The schedule may be updated.

 

The conference dinner will be held at the restaurant “Consulado Mineiro”: Alameda Santos, 1107 – Cerqueira César, São Paulo – SP, 01419-002

 

Posters+Flash Talks

    • Ana Gabriela Vargas Fernández (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa): Phase Diagram of Strongly Interacting Matter under Magnetic Fields: A Self-Consistent Effective Model Approach
    • Bernardo Andrade Perez-Rubio (School of Science, UNAM): Explicit Regularization within the proper time integral representation
    • Fernando César Sobrinho (Physics Institute of São Paulo University (IF-USP)): Production of meson molecules in photon induced processes at the LHC and EIC
    • Fillipe Marques Guedes (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): Unruh-De Witt detectors and the Bell-CHSH inequality
    • Flávia Gomes Fialho (UNICID): Electromagnetic Effecs on the QCD Coupling
    • Henrique Rodrigues Martins Fontes (Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo): Soft And Semi-hard Components Of Multiplicity Distributions In The kT Factorization Approach
    • Joana Carolina Sodré (CBPF): Thermomagnetic effects on light pseudoscalar meson masses within the SU(3) Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model
    • Letícia Laurindo (USP): Prebiotic Homochirality: An Overview of Theoretical Models and Environmental Constraints
    • Luis Alberto González (Autonomous Metropolitan University Iztapalapa Campus): Effects of a rotating medium on the phase diagram of QCD using the NJL model
    • Manuel Emiliano Monreal Cancino (Physics Department. School of Sciences, UNAM.): The propagator of a charged vector boson in the presence of an external magnetic field using the Ritus Eigenfunction method
    • Richard Terra (Instituto de Física da USP): Baryon junction and kT-factorization in pPb collisions
    • Santiago Bernal Langarica (Institute for Nuclear Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico): Two-gluon one-photon vertex in the presence of a magnetic field: general structure and one-loop approximation in the intermediate field regime
    • Sidney Avancini (universidade federal de santa catarina): Computation of light pseudoscalar meson screening masses in a magnetized medium
    • Úrsula Maria Martins Da Silva Fonseca (UFRJ): Thermal evolution of quark stars from perturbative QCD
    • Vinícius Silva Franção (Universidade de São Paulo): Electromagnetic Field Effects on Event-by-Event Simulations
    • Washington Francisco dos Santos Junior (IFT Unesp): Formation of Current Vortices in Curved Quantum Dots: The
      Role of Molecular Orbital Interference

Abstracts here.

Videos and Files

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  • 09:00 - Aihong Tang (BNL, USA): Probing Spin Dynamics and Magnetic Fields in Heavy-Ion Collisions
  • 09:30 - Sergei Voloshin (Wayne State, USA): Recent results on polarization in high energy nuclear collisions at LHC and RHIC energies
  • 10:00 - Fuqiang Wang (Purdue University): Measurements of azimuthal correlations with spectator and participant planes to search for the chiral magnetic effect in STAR
  • 10:50 - Mike Lisa (Ohio State University): Vortex rings from high energy central p+A collisions
  • 11:20 - Raul Wolters (Utrecht University): Spin-hydrodynamics and hyperon polarization in Trajectum
  • 11:40 - Mauricio Hippert (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas): Effective action for relativistic hydrodynamics from Crooks fluctuation theorem
  • 14:00 - Shu Lin (Sun Yat-sen University): Spin polarization in off-equilibrium medium at weak and strong coupling
  • 14:30 - Igor Shovkovy (Arizona State Univ., USA): Neutrino emission from quark cores of magnetars
  • 15:00 - Dyana Duarte (UFSM): Medium Separation Scheme and the Cold-Magnetized Superconducting Quark Matter
  • 15:30 - Osvaldo Ferreira Neto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro): Pion condensation and chiral symmetry breaking in the early universe
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  • Additional Information

    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. Also, if you are staying at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista, please confirm with the Uber/Taxi driver that the hotel is located at Rua Pamplona 83 in Bela Vista (and not in Jardim Etelvina).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 required to obtain a tourist e-visa.

    Accommodation: Participants whose accommodations are provided by ICTP-SAIFR will stay at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista. Other 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.

    9th Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Fields in Quantum Matter

    2025 Embed Activities

    Written by Felipe Saldanha on January 14th, 2025. Posted in

     

    São Paulo International Schools on Theoretical Physics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Fourth School on Data Science and Machine Learning
    November 17 – 21, 2025

     QCD meets Gravity XI School
    December 8 – 12, 2025

    Minicourses

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

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

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

    Minicourse on Black Hole Superradiance
    May 15 – 22, 2025

    Minicourse on Testing the Cosmological Principle
    June 16 – 17, 2025

    Minicourse on Fundamentals of Biological Physics
    November 10 – 14, 2025

    Meetings/Programs/Workshops

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

    Research Group Meetings on Quantum Technologies
    February – December, 2025

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

    APS-SAIFR Satellite Global Physics Summit
    March 17, 2025

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

    Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop 2025
    May 12 – 14, 2025

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

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

    Physics of Life South American Network Meetings
    June – December, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Outreach

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

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

    Ciência no Cinema
    January – December, 2025

    Ciência no Cinema para crianças
    February – December, 2025

    Clube do Livro Sci-SAIFR
    February – December, 2025

    Distinguished Public Lectures
    February – December, 2025

    Física Além da Sala de Aula
    February – December, 2025

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

    Minicursos para Estudantes de Ensino Médio
    March-December, 2025

    Jogos de Física para Estudantes
    March-December, 2025

    Papos de Física
    March – December, 2025

    Jogos de Física para Professores
    March – December, 2025

    Programa para Jovens Cientistas
    May-December, 2025

    Módulas de Aulas para Estudantes de Ensino Médio
    May-December, 2025

    Dia da Física
    May 19, 2025

    Arte-Ciência na Escola
    June 5, 2025

    IV Curso de Inverno para Jovens Físicos
    July 7-11, 2025

    ICTP-SAIFR Competition for Young Physicists
    July 19, 2025

    2025 Meeting of Steering Committee and Scientific Council

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    On February 17-18, the 2025 meeting of the ICTP-SAIFR steering committee and scientific council will take place at the IFT-UNESP. The tentative schedule is:

    Monday February 17
    10:00 – 13:00 Joint meeting of steering committee and scientific council
    13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
    14:15 – 16:15 Meeting of steering committee
    19:30 – 21:30 Dinner

    Tuesday February 18
    10:00 – 12:30 Meeting of scientific council
    12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
    14:00 – 17:00 Meeting of scientific council

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