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February 2025 | |
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 A Celebration of Women and Girls in ScienceOn the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, held annually on 11 February, ICTP and the Trieste Section of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) organised a public event based on the play "The Hidden Force". The play highlights the contributions of women to fundamental physics through the poetic storytelling of the life and work of four significant but only partly recognized scientists of the 20th century: the American astronomer Vera Rubin, the Austrian nuclear physicist Marietta Blau, the Chinese particle physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, and the Italian physicist Milla Baldo Ceolin. Read more ... | |
 ICTP-Italian Partnership Nurtures Mathematics in Developing CountriesMathematicians need little equipment – a blackboard and some chalk or alternatively a pencil and some paper -- to do their job. Good collaborators and some uninterrupted, quiet time, away from administrative tasks and frequent emails are also essential. The partnership that ICTP and the Italian National Institute of High Mathematics (INdAM) started ten years ago aims precisely at fostering new collaborations by providing mathematicians working in developing countries and INdAM members with the working conditions they need to exchange ideas and work on new projects together. Read more ... | |
 ICTP and the International Year of Quantum Science and TechnologyAcknowledging the importance of quantum science and the need for a wider awareness of its past and future impact, the United Nations proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). During the year, ICTP will organise several quantum-related event, including a special conference entitled “Quantum Physics: from Foundations to Emerging Technologies”, in collaboration with the Italian Accademia dei Lincei. Read more ... | |
 Renovation Underway to Modernise ICTP's LibraryOne of ICTP's most beloved spaces, its Library, is undergoing an important upgrade in both its physical space and its catalogue system. Thanks to generous funding from an anonymous donor, the Library has begun the task of digitising its book collection. The freed-up library space will be repurposed to create new workspaces for the scientific community in the future. Read more ... | |
 ICTP Director Atish Dabholkar discusses ICTP Global Science PortalICTP recently launched the world’s first global online community platform for physicists and mathematicians, the ICTP Global Science Portal. In a landscape of shifting attitudes to large social media platforms, ICTP Director Atish Dabholkar talks about the importance of a home-grown community platform for scientists in an era of increased concerns about censorship, data protection and misinformation on large social media platforms. Read more ... | |
 Spirit of Salam 2025 Awardees AnnouncedThe family of ICTP founder and Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam has revealed the recipients of the 2025 Spirit of Abdus Salam Award, which recognizes those who, like Salam himself, have worked tirelessly to promote the development of science and technology in disadvantaged parts of the world. The 2025 recipients are Qaisar Shafi and Renato Padovani. 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. The deadline for proposals is 31 March 2025. Read more ... | |
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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: 16 March 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, 2025 Dirac MedalICTP is now accepting nominations for its premier physics prize, the Dirac Medal. First awarded in 1985, the Dirac Medal is given in honour of P.A.M. Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a staunch friend of the Centre. Deadline: Friday 28 March 2025. Details ... |
APS-EPS-ICTP Travel Award Fellowship Programme 2025ICTP is now accepting applications for the APS-EPS-ICTP Travel Award Fellowships supporting active, early career scientists or doctoral students from developing countries to make two-consecutive-month research visits to a participating laboratory in Europe (excluding Italy) and North America, or to a more advanced developing country. Deadline: 31 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 March 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 ... | |
TWAS Grants AvailableSeveral grants from TWAS programmes are currently seeking applications from early to mid career scientists in the developing world who require funding for equipment, reagents, literature and support for MSc students. Applications for TWAS Research Grants, supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), are due by 3 April 2025. Applications for the Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI), supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), are due by 27 March 2025. Details ... | |
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12th Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate ModelsDeadline: 9 March 2025 | Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Single Ion Technologies for Bio-medical and Materials SciencesDeadline: 15 March 2025 |  |  |
School on Explicit Arithmetic GeometryDeadline: 15 March 2025 | Workshop on Explicit Arithmetic GeometryDeadline: 15 March 2025 |  |  |
Joint ICTP-Lincei Conference on Quantum Physics: from Foundations to Emerging TechnologiesDeadline: 15 March 2025 | Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Quality Assurance and Dosimetry in X-ray Breast ImagingDeadline: 15 March 2025 |  |  |
12th AAMP Meeting & EFOMP SchoolDeadline: 15 March 2025 | Magurele Summer School for Computing in a Rapidly Evolving Society: Parallel Algorithms and OptimizationsDeadline: 30 March 2025 |  |  |
School on Quantum Topology and Hyperbolic GeometryDeadline: 31 March 2025 | Joint ICTP-WE Heraeus School and Workshop on Advances in Quantum Matter: Pushing the BoundariesDeadline: 1 April 2025 |  |  |
ICTP-EAUMP School on Real and Harmonic AnalysisDeadline: 1 April 2025 | |
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Important links | |
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Uniting Minds, Igniting Discovery: ICTP Video Spotlights
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoxv42WBtfCCQynvMrPJAT_fT-bglH0vK 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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