Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

🌐 22nd International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: #TotalEnergy and Force Methods 🗓️ January 8 to 10, 2025 📍Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) 👉https://lnkd.in/dmv9kZ79 . *The registration deadline is November 7*. Organizers: Ion Errea, Antimo Marrazzo, Shobhana Narasimhan, Gian-Marco Rignanese. The #TotalEnergy is a renowned workshop about recent progress in electronic structure methods and their applications.The program features focused sessions on novel functionals, theory and applications of machine learning, correlated materials and excited states, electron-phonon coupling, materials design and discovery, applications and materials platform for quantum computing, time-dependent and out-of-equilibrium phenomena, and more. The workshop will also include poster sessions, a memorial session on semiconductors & ferroelectrics honoring late Prof. Alfonso Baldereschi, and a moderated discussion on current challenges in the field. The conference will feature talks from a distinguished list of invited speakers, including: Federica Agostini, University Paris-Saclay (France) Raffaello Bianco, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) Giuseppe Carleo , EPFL (Switzerland) Gábor Csányi, University of Cambridge (UK) Maria Chatzieleftheriou , Ecole Polytechnique (France) Nicola Colonna , Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) Tommaso Chiarotti, Caltech (USA) Giulia Galli, University of Chicago (USA) Vikram Gavini, University of Michigan (USA) Leeor Kronik, Weizman Institute (Israel) Roxane Margine, Binghamton University (USA) Nisanth Nair, IIT Kanpur (India) Maria Clelia Righi, University of Bologna (Italy) Mariana Rossi, Max Planck Hamburg (Germany) Gianluca Stefanucci , University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) Massimiliano Stengel, ICREA (Spain) QuanSheng Wu, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Claudio Zeni , Microsoft Research AI4Science (UK) In addition to these invited talks, a limited number of contributed abstracts will be selected for upgrade to invited presentations. The conference will also host the ceremony for the Walter Kohn Prize 2024 (https://lnkd.in/dCtD_9mA) that is awarded to Rafael Julian Gonzalez Hernandez (Universidad del Norte, Colombia) for his ground-breaking work in uncovering the physics and properties of altermagnetism and for his ab initio predictions of related effects in real materials. We look forward to welcoming you to Trieste! Cosponsors: SISSA CECAM PSI-K Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation ICSC - Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in HPC, Big Data e Quantum Computing

A journey from Pak-ICTP Alumni to ICTP Global Science Portal The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a dramatic loss of human life globally, leading to significant social and economic disruption. Its impact has been particularly severe in developing and economically disadvantaged countries, resulting in interrupted learning, compromised healthcare and worsening economic conditions. In response to these challenges, I proposed the creation of a platform to support the scientific community in Pakistan by bringing together ICTP alumni. Beginning in Fall 2020, I assembled a founding team, including DR. Joe Niemela as our international scientific advisor, along with Dr. Raheel Ali (Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad), Dr. Jehan Akbar (Hazara University, Mansehra), Nigum Arshed (University of Education, Lahore), and Sardar Abdul Rahman Rahman (University of Szeged, Hungary), to lay the groundwork for the society. The membership drive for the Pak-ICTP Alumni Society (PIAS) received an overwhelming response, with over a hundred alumni—including associates, diploma program alumni, TRIL fellows, and visitors—signing up. The founding committee identified major research areas among PIAS members, including Experimental and Theoretical Particle Physics, Cosmology, Atmospheric Physics, Atom Optics, Material Sciences, Quantum Information Theory, Medical Physics, Bio Sciences, Plasma Physics, Fiber Optics, and LASER Systems. The society was formally inaugurated on January 26, 2021. At the inaugural session, the Italian Ambassador to Pakistan, H.E. Andreas Ferrarese, welcomed the initiative and assured participants of the Embassy's support. In a special video message, Prof. Atish Dabholkar, Director of ICTP, congratulated funding members on the rapid establishment of PIAS and emphasized the importance of such platforms for uniting scientists and researchers. Since its inauguration, PIAS organized 36 online scientific talks, including Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg lectures series, by eminent scientist from ICTP and around the globe. All activities organized are advertised and streamed live on the society’s social media accounts” and thousands of participants from across Pakistan have attended the sessions organized so far. One can find videos of all these lectures on PIAS Facebook page: https://lnkd.in/d_SSHbsT On October 11, 2024, our three-and-a-half-year-old Pak-ICTP Alumni Society officially joined the ICTP Global Science Portal. Director ICTP Atish Dabholkar welcomed PIAS affiliates to the Portal. Following this, Charlotte Phillips and Filippo Blasetti from the ICTP Public Information office presented the Portal, and Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy delivered a scientific talk titled “New Mathematics for Old Physics”. Recording of this event can be found on link given below. https://lnkd.in/dJmk-hfB Passcode: km%4RG+a

In this ICTP Conversation video, meet mathematician @Ngô Bảo Chaû, professor at the The University of Chicago, as he is interviewed by Director Atish Dabholkar and Arezzo Claudio, Head of the ICTP Mathematics section. Full Article available HERE: 👇👇👇 https://lnkd.in/eyJXqCPN YouTube Link: 🔗https://lnkd.in/e-27h_Dy #ICTP60 #Mathematics #Dirac #Conversation

Carla Cannone and Elizabeth Tennyson are co-lead authors of a new paper that reveals critical gaps in the current approaches to energy planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (#LMICs). The paper also introduces a framework to address these challenges. This research highlights gaps in capacity-building, data integration, and tool accessibility – key areas of interest to strategic partners, collaborators and fellow researchers. Carla: "The paper’s core finding is that the current energy planning landscape in LMICs is fragmented. There’s a disconnect between the availability of open-source tools and the actual ability of local stakeholders to use these tools in a meaningful way. Our paper reveals gaps in technical skill capacity, data access, and institutional coordination. It highlights the need for a strategic, long-term approach that provides tools AND ensures that LMICs can adapt them to their unique contexts and challenges." Elizabeth: "The framework we propose isn’t just about solving a short-term problem; ⚠️ it’s about creating a sustainable ecosystem where knowledge, tools, and resources are fully accessible, usable, and ultimately can be independently developed by local experts. ⚠️ The paper is a collaborative effort with contributions from many partners: The OpTIMUS community, (OpTIMUS Open Tools Integrated Modelling and Upskilling for Sustainable Development) initiated by Mark Howells and Holger Rogner, plays a crucial role in maintaining the energy modelling ecosystem. Mark also led the foundation of the Energy Modelling Platform (EMP) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Sustainable Development Summer School in which many of the modelling and capacity-building activities that informed this paper are rooted. Other collaborators included KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Eunice, Ioannis, Vignesh and Constantinos who were key in developing EMP-Europe and EMP-Africa. The team also benefited greatly from the support of international organisations like the African Development Bank Group, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the World Resources Institute, and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Their collaboration and partnership were crucial in bringing this work to life and extending its impact. We couldn’t have done it without these incredible individuals and organizations. Read an interview with Carla and Elizabeth, and get the link to the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/eVKbMZbX

Erika Coppola enjoyed her first Bjerknes Annual Meeting last week as the newest member of the scientific advisory council at the Bjerknes Centre.    She comes from Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). Discover more about Coppola`s research and her insights on contributing to the IPCCs Sixth Assessment Report 🌍 👇

Coinciding with Earth Science Week, I've been here at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy, participating in a two-week workshop on the Structure and Influence of the Earth’s Lithospheric System. The workshop has been so well organised! Covering a broad range of topics across seismology, petrology, mineral physics, and lithospheric dynamics, and focusing on both foundational knowledge of these disciplines to advanced/up-to-date techniques used by the scientific community. Kudos to all speakers, presenters, and organisers for the awesome work! Understanding the structure and dynamics at lithospheric depths is essential for studying how energy and stresses accumulate and release within the Earth's crust, impacting earthquakes, tectonic motions, and influencing the various surface features and hazards, particularly relevant to my recent work studying the ground motion in Papua New Guinea at Geoscience Australia :) Another coincidence is that last weekend I was also able to experience the Barcolana here in Trieste, with many international boats lining the shore and getting ready for the competition ⛵ I am grateful to the Abdus Salam ICTP for their invitation and generous travel grant to bring me here 😊 The workshop is wrapping up this Friday and I’m preparing to take a few days of holiday before my long journey back to Australia 🇦🇺 🦘

It was amazing to experience #TinyML4D initiatives at #TriesteNext event. I asked Imperial College London Prof. Eiman Kanjo, and Teresa Scantamburlo from Università Ca' Foscari Venezia how AI can be cautiously used in school? The answers were thought provoking. Can’t thank enough Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) for taking this initiative. As an informatics teacher, I frequently see students using various types of AI. I'll be speaking about how Gen AI will impact the future of education at the #CambridgeGenAI conference soon. If you are a teacher or educator, I’ll be happy to hear your inputs.

The newly awarded Nobel laureate James A. Robinson presented some of the work he did in collaboration with Daron Acemoglu at the workshop on Inequality across scales, space, time and domains that took place last year at ICTP as part of the Trieste Laboratory on Quantitative Sustainability. His talk can be found at this link: https://lnkd.in/dQV4u_dn Warm congratulations from ICTP to Robinson, Acemoglu, and Simon Johnson on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences! Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Chicago The Nobel Prize

Dirac Medallist Michele Parrinello in conversation with Director Atish Dabholkar and Sandro Scandolo, Senior Coordinator of the ICTP Research Division and member of the CMSP section. Video in the article 👇 👇 👇 https://lnkd.in/dnumP8DW #ictp60 #physics #Parrinello #conversations #dirac #science #series #mathematics #research #theoreticalphysics

With today's Nobel in Physics announcement, the number of Dirac Medallists who have gone on to earn Nobels has climbed to 8! See our news article about John Hopfield, one of the 2024 Physics Nobel laureates. 👇👇👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d5rQxVia