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 ICTP Announces 2024 Dirac MedallistsICTP has awarded its 2024 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made pioneering contributions to the understanding of quantum entropy in gravity and quantum field theory. The winners are: Horacio Casini, National Scientific and Technical Council (CONICET) and Bariloche Atomic Centre, Argentina; Marina Huerta, CONICET and Bariloche Atomic Centre, Argentina; Shinsei Ryu, Princeton University, United States; and Tadashi Takayanagi, Kyoto University, Japan. Read more ... | |
 ICTP International Symposium: A Spotlight on Energy and ClimateThe year 2024 could be the hottest year on record. At the same time, global energy consumption continues to grow. How can development continue sustainably to ensure a future that is both economically viable and good for the environment? This was the main focus of ICTP's International Symposium on Energy and Climate, which featured renowned speakers from some of the world's most important energy and climate organizations addressing the opportunities and scientific challenges that climate change presents to the energy sector. Read more ... | |
 Diploma Programme Graduation CeremonyAn unforgettable year of scientific and personal growth has concluded for the 42 students of ICTP's Postgraduate Diploma Programme. The young scientists have successfully completed an intense 12 months of physics and mathematics studies and received their diplomas at a graduation ceremony held on 28 August. This year's graduates come from 25 countries; 38% are female. More than half will continue their studies at the masters or PhD level at universities in Europe and the United States. Read more ... | |
 Stories of the 2024 ICTP Diploma Graduates: Arwa Al Rashdi, OmanWhen they leave ICTP, graduates of ICTP's Postgraduate Diploma Programme are prepared for their next step to becoming a career researcher or professor. Several of the 2024 graduates shared their impressions of their year in Trieste and their hopes for the future. This month, we feature an interview with Arwa Al Rashdi of Oman, who aims to become a climate scientist. Read more ... | |
 Winners of ICTP Prize 2023 Honoured at CeremonyMohit Kumar Jolly from India and Xinan Zhou from China shared the 2023 ICTP Prize and were honoured for their ground-breaking research at a ceremony held at ICTP in August. Although their research interests are far apart along the broad spectrum of physics, both have made remarkable and novel contributions to their respective fields by developing new mathematical and computational methods with approaches rooted in theoretical physics. An interview with Jolly can be read here, and one with Zhou can be read here.Read more ... | |
 ICTP Meeting Focusses on Dramatic Polar Climate ChangesWhat are the connections and roles of the Earth's polar regions to the global climate system? As average global temperatures rise, what will be the long-term effects of melting sea ice? These questions were at the heart of a recent school and workshop, held at ICTP, that brought together international experts on the Arctic and Antarctic to discuss the interactions between the cryosphere, ocean and atmosphere within the polar regions, and how ongoing changes in the polar regions are affecting regional and global climate. The changes have important implications not only for the Earth's climate but also for ecosystems and human society. Read more ... | |
 Walter Kohn Prize 2024 AnnouncedICTP and the Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation have announced the awarding of their 2024 Walter Kohn Prize to Rafael Gonzalez Hernandez, a professor at the Universidad del Norte, Colombia, for his ground-breaking work in uncovering the physics and properties of altermagnetism, an unconventional magnetic state of matter, and for his ab initio predictions of related effects in real materials. Gonzalez Hernandez's work has paved the way for experimental validation of altermagnetism, which is considered a new branch of magnetism. Read more ... | |
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Opportunities | |
Call for Nominations, ICTP Prize 2024ICTP is now accepting nominations for young researchers from developing countries for the 2024 ICTP Prize. The prize recognizes outstanding and original contributions to physics. Deadline: 30 September 2024. Details ... | |
ICTP Short-term VisitsVisiting fellowships in ICTP's Mathematics section are available in 2024 for short-term visits of up to three months. Deadline: 31 December 2024. Details ... | |
ICTP's Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL) ProgrammeICTP's Training and Research in Italian Laboratories Programme places scientists in an Italian laboratory for research in the physical sciences. Application deadline: ongoing.Details ... | |
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2nd Workshop on the American MonsoonsDeadline: 15 September 2024 | ICTP and Vietnamese Science: Celebrating 60 Years of CollaborationsDeadline: 15 September 2024 |  |  |
11th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Management of Open Source Scientific PackagesDeadline: 25 September 2024 | Workshop on Fully-Programmable Systems-on-Chip for Scientific ApplicationsDeadline: 29 September 2024 |  |  |
African Biophysics Workshop on Experimental and Computational SciencesDeadline: 30 September 2024 | |
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ICTP Scientific Calendar:
https://www.ictp.it/home/scientific-calendar Marie Curie Library: https://library.ictp.it/ A Video Introduction to ICTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9dPsxEE6Pk ICTP Dirac Conversations video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoxv42WBtfCC_3PwuoOuEWxakUF9uhti8 | |
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