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January 2025 | |
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 2025 Salam Distinguished Lectures SeriesThe 2025 Salam Distinguished Lecture Series took place on 27 and 28 January with a series of three talks by Aleksandra Walczak, a professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. The theme of her series was "Prediction in immune repertoires: learning rules in a self-organised mess"; her lectures focused on immune repertoires, which provide a unique fingerprint reflecting the immune history of individuals, with potential applications in precision medicine. While she was at ICTP, she talked about her research in an interview. Read more ... | |
 Altermagnets, a New Magnetic PhaseRafael Gonzalez Hernandez, the winner of the 2024 Walter Kohn Prize awarded by ICTP and the Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation, was honoured at a ceremony at ICTP in January. He lectured on his ground-breaking work on altermagnetism, an unconventional magnetic state of matter that has been highlighted as one of the most important discoveries of the past few years. Read more ... | |
 ICTP and the Impact of FundraisingThe ICTP community reaches far and wide, and many people who have had a deep connection with the Centre over its 60-year history have made financial contributions to ensure that ICTP can continue to fulfill its mission and carry on the legacy of Abdus Salam. To make ICTP's community aware of those who have been supporting the Centre over the last several years, we want to highlight not only the donors -- to give them a chance to talk about why they think giving to ICTP is important -- but also some of the scientists who have been directly impacted by the generosity of our donors. In this article, we highlight Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin, a long-time friend of ICTP. Read more ... | |
 ICTP Global Science Portal Reaches 800 usersICTP recently launched the world’s first global community platform for physicists and mathematicians to support its scientists in a safe, inclusive online space. The ICTP Global Science Portal allows all past and present members of the ICTP family to stay connected to the institute and each other. The Portal works on all mobile and desktop devices and features personal profile pages, a live feed for sharing research updates and opportunities, direct messaging, groups for each research section with discussion forums, a map-based people search tool, news, events listings and soon, dedicated media centres for each Group. Join this growing community!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 28 February 2025. Read more ... | |
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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 ... |
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 Plus - The World Academy of Sciences e-bulletinTWAS Plus is a digital bulletin sent to subscribers via email – without charge – six times per year. The focus is on science and engineering in the developing world. The audience is global. Every issue has news about TWAS's work in areas such as African science education or science diplomacy. There's timely information about the opportunities offered by TWAS and its partners – including PhD and post-doctoral fellowships, research grants, award competitions and visiting scientist posts. And you'll find news from our associated organizations: the TWAS Young Affiliates Network (TYAN), the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD); and ICTP. Subscribe here | |
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Workshop on Differential GeometryDeadline: 09 February 2025 | Conference on Mixing Times between Probability, Computer Science and Statistical PhysicsDeadline: 15 February 2025 |  |  |
Advanced School and Workshop: StatPhys in KigaliDeadline: 16 February 2025 | Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related TopicsDeadline: 28 February 2025 |  |  |
Summer School on Modern Tools in Low-Dimensional Topology; Conference on Modern Developments in Low-Dimensional TopologyDeadline: 01 March 2025 | |
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Important links | |
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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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