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 Season's Greetings from ICTPAs the year 2024 draws to a close, ICTP takes this opportunity to thank the thousands of scientists and mathematicians throughout the world who have become a part of our community. We commend your commitment to science and to ICTP's mission, and look forward to more quality research and scientific activities in 2025. Until then, the Centre wishes all of you a safe and healthy New Year! Read more ... | |
 2024 ICTP Prize AnnouncedICTP has awarded its 2024 ICTP Prize to two researchers who, although in different fields, exhibit notable creativity in their work: Ranjan Laha, an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, has received the prize for his outstanding and wide-ranging work in theoretical particle astrophysics and cosmology; and Enzo Tagliazucchi, professor of computational neuroscience at the University of Buenos Aires and principal researcher at the Latin American Brain Institute at Santiago, Chile, for his significant insights in human cognition and consciousness based on general theoretical principles, validated on empirical data from neural recordings according to the established standards of cognitive neuroscience. Read more ... | |
 Graduation Ceremony, Master in Medical PhysicsThe Master of Advanced Studies in Medical Physics (MMP) programme, run jointly by ICTP and the University of Trieste, held a graduation ceremony for 17 students who have completed the two-year degree programme. The year 2024 also marked the 10th anniversary of the MMP, which has opened the way to a successful career path for nearly 200 physicists from 72 countries spanning 5 different continents. Read more ... | |
 ICTP in Vietnam: Hanoi Event Celebrates ICTP-Vietnamese CollaborationSoon after its main 60th anniversary celebration on 15 November in Trieste, ICTP extended the festivities to its network of physicists and mathematicians in Vietnam. There, at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology's Institute of Mathematics in Hanoi, a two-day event titled ' ICTP and Vietnamese Science: Celebrating 60 Years of Collaborations and Building the Future' showcased the profound impact that ICTP has had on the development of physics and mathematics in Vietnam. Read more ... | |
 ICTP and IAEA: Empowering Global CollaborationICTP honoured its longstanding collaboration with its UN partner, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with a side event to the Agency's Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science, Technology and Applications and the Technical Cooperation. The activity highlighted the impact of ICTP in promoting global scientific collaboration and knowledge exchange, with a focus on the projects that the Centre carries out in collaboration with the IAEA. Read more ... | |
 Hands-on Quantitative Life Sciences: ICTP School in Cuba Exposes Young Scientists to Interdisciplinary ApproachICTP has been celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with scientific conferences, international symposia, schools and public science talks that have been taking place throughout the year, and across four different continents. One such anniversary event took place in early November, when ICTP’s Quantitative Life Science section organised a Hands-On Quantitative Biology School in Havana, Cuba, in collaboration with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and the University of Havana, where the school took place.Read more ... | |
 Ramanujan Prize 2024 Ceremony Celebrates MathematicsThe 2024 ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize Ceremony, honouring mathematician Ruochuan Liu, took place at ICTP on 9 December. Liu received the award "for his fundamental contributions to p-adic Hodge theory, especially his foundational study of relative p-adic Hodge theory and his remarkable work on rigidity and the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for p-adic local systems". He is a Distinguished Professor at Peking University. Read more ... | |
 Call for Proposals, ICTP Scientific Calendar 2026ICTP is planning its 2026 offering of conferences, workshops and schools—-also known as its Scientific Calendar—and seeks proposals from the international scientific community for activities to include. ICTP Scientific Calendar activities attract thousands of participants to the Centre, and online, every year, offering a unique opportunity for scientists from developing and emerging countries—-the main target of the activities-—to receive training not available in their home countries, and to meet with ICTP’s international network of scientists. Read more ... | |
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Call for Nominations: Spirit of Abdus Salam Award 2025ICTP is seeking nominations for the Spirit of Abdus Salam Award. The award recognizes any ICTP member (scientists or non-scientists) who has worked to further Abdus Salam's humanitarian passion and vision for the cooperation, promotion and development of science and technology in the developing world. Self nominations are discouraged. Deadline: 10 January 2025. Details ... | Arab Fund Postgraduate FellowshipsThe ICTP-Arab Fund Programme has opened a call for postgraduate fellowships at ICTP. PhD students from Arab Fund Member States working in the fields of physics, mathematics, and related areas are invited to apply for postgraduate fellowships to access ICTP’s research and training facilities in the years 2025-2027. Deadline: 28 February 2025. Details ... |
ICTP's Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP)ICTP's STEP Programme, coordinated jointly with its UN partner the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has opened a call for applications from students in developing countries who are enrolled in a PhD course at their home university. Physics and mathematics students from a wide range of fields are encouraged to apply. Deadline: 28 February 2025. Details ... | ICTP's Postgraduate Diploma ProgrammeICTP's one-year Postgraduate Diploma Programme helps students from disadvantaged countries gain the knowledge and study skills they need to pursue PhD degrees anywhere in the world. Applications for the 2025-2026 Diploma Programme are now being accepted; the deadline is 15 March 2025. Details ... |
Call for Nominations, Excellence in AI Research PrizeICTP and IBM have established an annual prize for outstanding young researchers working in AI for Science/Science for AI. The prize, worth €10,000, has been established to promote research focusing on approaches to AI and science that can benefit the society at large. The first award for the prize will be given in 2025. Deadline: 15 March 2025. Details ... | Call for Nominations: Ramanujan Prize 2025ICTP is now accepting nominations for the 2025 ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries. Deadline: 30 April 2025. 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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Workshop on TinyML for Sustainable DevelopmentDeadline: 25 January 2025 | Joint ICTP-IAEA Nuclear Knowledge Management SchoolDeadline: 31 January 2025 |  |  |
Joint ICTP-IAEA International School on Nuclear SecurityDeadline: 31 January 2025 | Joint ICTP-IAEA Nuclear Energy Management SchoolDeadline: 31 January 2025 |
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ICTP Scientific Calendar:
https://www.ictp.it/home/scientific-calendar Marie Curie Library: https://library.ictp.it/ ICTP Dirac Conversations video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoxv42WBtfCC_3PwuoOuEWxakUF9uhti8 | |
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