[Todos] Fwd: October Celebrations & Publications at ICTP

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En 30 oct. 2021 3:15, en 3:15, ICTP News <e-applications+news en emm.ictp.it> escribió:
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>Giorgio Parisi Awarded the Physics Nobel
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>ICTP Dirac Medallist Giorgio Parisi has received one-half of this
>year's Nobel Prize in Physics sharing the award with two other
>laureates for their studies of chaotic and apparently random phenomena.
>Parisi's Nobel Prize honours his "discovery of the interplay of
>disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary
>scales." A professor of theoretical physics at the University of Rome
>"La Sapienza," he has strong connections with ICTP. In 1999, he won the
>Centre's Dirac Medal and currently serves as a member of the selection
>committee for that Medal.
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>Physics Nobel for Climate Science
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>Climate scientists around the world applauded the decision by this
>year's Physics Nobel committee to award one half of the 2021 prize to
>Syukoro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their pioneering work on
>developing climate models. The two Laureates shared this year's prize
>with theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi under the common theme of
>"groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical
>systems." Researchers in ICTP's Earth System Physics (ESP) section were
>among the scientists welcoming the news about the prize and its focus
>on climate. Read more ...
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>The Value of Science: Giorgio Parisi Colloquium
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>2021 Physics Nobel Laureate Giorgio Parisi gave a Joint ICTP - Scuola
>Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) Colloquium on
>October 22, his first public talk since the announcement of his Nobel
>Prize on 5 October. Titled "The Value of Science", Parisi spoke about
>the primary drive that pushes scientists to do their job. It is known,
>in fact, that an advancement in pure science brings with it many
>practical applications potentially beneficial for society: “It is not
>possible to think of technological development without advancement in
>pure sciences” claims Parisi "but, often, that is not what leads
>scientists towards these achievements. Their effort is primarily driven
>by the pleasure to pursue knowledge."
>A recording of the Colloquium can be watched now or read more ...
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>Celebrating the 2020 Dirac Medallists
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>ICTP celebrated the 2020 Dirac Medal and Prize winners this week,
>honoring André Neveu of University of Montpellier, Pierre Ramond of
>University of Florida, and the late Miguel Virasoro of Universidad
>Nacional de General Sarmiento – "for their pioneering contributions to
>the inception and formulation of string theory which introduced new
>Bosonic and Fermionic symmetries into physics." The full announcement
>and the full citation of their win describes their work. The ceremony
>included an In Memoriam event honoring the late Dirac Medal Winner
>Miguel Virasoro, with invited speakers Giorgio Parisi, Gabriele
>Veneziano, Daniele Amati, and Atish Dabholkar highlighting Virasoro's
>scientific work. A recording of the Dirac ceremony and Virasoro
>memoriam can be viewed on ICTP's YouTube page.
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>Open Science Colloquium
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>Continuing its focus on open access and open science, ICTP hosted arXiv
>founder Paul Ginsparg, Professor of Physics and Information Science at
>Cornell University, for an online colloquium 6 October. In his talk,
>titled "Lessons from arXiv's 30 Years of Information Sharing", Ginsparg
>reviewed the history of the popular open-access repository of
>scientific e-prints, with a look at the impact of open access on
>scholarly research and access.
>Watch it here
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>New Tunisian Prime Minister has Links to ICTP
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>Seismologist and ICTP collaborator Najla Bouden Romdhane has been named
>the new Prime Minister of Tunisia, the first woman to hold that role in
>the country and in the Arab world. She is a professor of earthquake
>engineering at the Tunis National School of Engineering, University of
>Tunis El Manar, and previously worked within the Tunisian Ministry of
>Higher Education and Scientific Research. Romdhane has visited Trieste
>and ICTP several times over the years, collaborating with ICTP
>scientists on research projects related to the study of earthquake
>hazards.
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>ICTP Postdoc Honoured with SKM Prize
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>The German Physical Society (DPG) recently honoured ICTP postdoctoral
>fellow Sarah Loos with the Doctoral Thesis Award of the Sektion
>kondensierte Materie (SKM). The award recognises outstanding scientific
>work and its excellent presentation in a lecture, with the citation
>“for her dissertation and the lecture entitled 'The thermodynamics of
>stochastic systems with time delay." She completed her doctoral work at
>Technische Universität Berlin, where she achieved her doctorate with
>highest honours.
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>Fudan-Zhongzhi Award to Don Zagier
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>Mathematician Don Zagier has been awarded the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science
>Award 2021. An Emeritus Scientific Member and Director of the Max
>Planck Institute for Mathematics and holder of ICTP's Ramanujan
>International Chair, Zagier shares the prize with Benedict Gross,
>Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and the
>University of California, San Diego, for their formulation and proof of
>the Gross-Zagier formula.
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>FallingWalls Prize to ICTP Alumni Project
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>"We are living in a society where not only Africans but also all over
>the world, scientists are disconnected from society, from decision
>makers," says ICTP alumni Stefane Kenmoe. The need to make connections
>inspired Kenmoe to start the Making Science the Star project, which was
>recently selected as one of the twenty winners of the 2021 Falling
>Walls Engage competition.
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>In Memoriam: Charles Chidume
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>ICTP is mourning the passing of Nigerian mathematician Charles Chidume.
>Professor Chidume was an ICTP staff member from 1992 to 2009 in the
>Mathematics section, and coordinated the section's Diploma courses from
>1992 to 2007. He was a founding member of the African University of
>Science and Technology (AUST) and, at the time of his death, had been
>AUST's acting president. He was the recipient of the 2019 AMMSI-Phillip
>Griffiths Prize and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences. ICTP
>mathematician Lothar Göttsche remembers Chidume: "He built the Diploma
>Programme in mathematics and was for many years its coordinator,
>building it into a strong programme. He cared very much about the
>students and was very generous with his help for them, and helped many
>to start a career in mathematics".
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>ICTP Hires New Library Director, Advancement Officer
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>ICTP is pleased to welcome two new hires who are filling key positions
>at the Centre: Eva Babonich (above left) has been appointed as the new
>head of the Marie Curie Library. She comes with years of experience in
>library management, most recently as leader of the Service and
>Information Unit at Graz University of Technology - Library and
>Archives. In Graz she developed and implemented Publication Services
>that supported researchers with publishing Open Access. She was trained
>at the Austrian National Library and holds a Master's Degree in Library
>and Information Studies from the University of Vienna. ICTP has also
>appointed Corinne Degoutte as its new Fundraising and Advancement
>Officer. A graduate of ESSEC Business School, she has years of
>experience in fundraising for higher education and research
>institutions, including ParisTech, École des Ponts, ESSEC Business
>School, and ESPCI Paris, where she has set up and support resource
>development strategies. Her management experience includes leading the
>MBA International Luxury Brand Management at ESSEC.
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>Opportunities 
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>Mathematics Postdoc Fellowships
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>ICTP's Mathematics section is now accepting applications for
>postdoctoral fellowships that would start in September 2022. The
>application deadline is 9 January 2022. The fellowships have a 24-month
>duration with a possible extension for a further period of 12 months.
>Successful candidates might be offered a Shiing-Shen Chern Senior
>Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship, named after Shiing-Shen Chern,
>has especially attractive terms with a total possible tenure of 3+2
>years.
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>Mathematics Fellowships Openings
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>ICTP and the International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics
>(CIMPA) have opened a call for applications for the CIMPA-ICTP
>Fellowships 2022 "Research in Pairs." The fellowships programme makes
>it possible for researchers in mathematics based in a developing
>country to come to Europe to collaborate with a colleague for a period
>of at least 6 weeks. Applications for a visit between March and the end
>of December 2022 are open until 31 December 2021.
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>High Energy, Cosmology and Astrophysics Postdoc Fellowships
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>Come work with ICTP's high energy physicists: Several postdoctoral
>positions are open in ICTP's High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle
>Physics (HECAP) section with an expected starting date in October 2022.
>Appointments will be for 2+1 years. From string theory to particle
>physics and cosmology to topological field theories, scientists from a
>variety fields will find the section a fertile research ground.
>Applications should be sent by 28 November 2021.
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>Quantitative Life Sciences Postdoc Fellowships
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>ICTP's Quantitative Life Sciences (QLS) section seeks applications for
>a postdoctoral position starting spring or summer 2022 from outstanding
>young scientists of any nationality with a strong research record. The
>QLS section provides a unique international research environment for
>postdoctoral fellows, with about 15 group members (faculty, postdocs,
>graduate students, and visitors), an intense programme of workshops and
>conferences, with a dense network of international research
>collaborations. The application deadline is 15 December 2021.
>Find out more ....
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>Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Postdoc Fellowships
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>ICTP seeks applications for postdoctoral positions in its Condensed
>Matter and Statistical Physics section starting Fall 2022 from
>outstanding young scientists of any nationality with a strong research
>record. Appointments will be made for two years, with the possibility
>of renewal for a further year. The application deadline is 20 December
>2021.
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>ICTP welcomed the new class of Diploma students: congratulations and
>good luck to the Diploma Class of 2022!
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>ICTP Research Digest 
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>Keeping Healthcare Workers Healthy with Modelling
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>During a global pandemic, as we all have learned, keeping the medical
>workforce healthy is crucial for avoiding preventable deaths. ICTP
>Quantitative Life Sciences researcher Edgar Roldan and colleagues
>wanted to know how different work schedules for a hospital's staff
>might affect their overall health, as they work in a situation where
>social distancing is impossible. What would be the best organisational
>strategy for a large hospital, based on a complicated set of factors,
>including infection levels, symptom levels, temporary immunity, and
>susceptibility to infection? Modifying mathematical models commonly
>used in epidemiology to simulate the health and productivity of the
>workforce, the research group found that alternating completely
>separate teams of workers every seven days decreases the number of
>staff infections. Given the urgent need to protect caretakers as well
>as help them be as productive as possible during an emerging pandemic,
>where knowledge is rapidly developing and different infection rates are
>possible, the team believes that the "model is a starting point to
>study how to protect healthcare workers while determining economic
>impact during a pandemic outbreak."
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>Convection's Role in Climate
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>Understanding the thunderstorms that generate all tropical rainfall
>could turn out to be key to understanding overall climate sensitivity.
>If these convective thunderstorms become more clustered together as the
>climate warms, they could act to regulate the heat that escapes to
>space in much the same way as the opening and closing of the iris
>regulates the light entering our eyes. But if instead convection
>becomes more spatially random, it would act as an "inverse iris" that
>amplifies global warming. ESP scientist Adrian Tompkins has co-authored
>a paper with Ethiopian scientist Addisu Semie from the University of
>Addis Ababa which uses a convection-resolving model coupled to a simple
>ocean to explore how ocean feedbacks can impact clustering of these
>thunderstorms. "When surface winds are light, mixing in the upper ocean
>is reduced and the ocean becomes very sensitive to changes in heat
>fluxes," explains Tompkins. "In these circumstances, we found that
>ocean feedbacks could prevent clustering from happening at all, leading
>to a much moister atmosphere and drastically reducing the tropic's
>ability to lose heat to space." The work has implications for global
>climate models, our main tools for assessing climate sensitivity.
>"Climate models use coarse grids that cannot represent these storms
>explicitly, and therefore representation of clustering at scales below
>200km is completely lacking," explains Tompkins. "Even in
>cloud-resolving models, clustering differs drastically from model to
>model, and thus understanding how it works is key to improving our
>assessment of potential future climate change in the tropics."
>Dive into the paper
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>Expanding the Potential of a System-on-a-Chip
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>Most computers are full of components, from a central processing unit
>(CPU) to graphics and memory components. Sometimes, however, a fully
>functioning microcomputer that integrates all of these components on a
>single chip can be quite useful: a System-on-a-Chip. A team of
>researchers in the ICTP Science, Technology, and Innovation section
>(STI) took up the challenge of exploring the many applications of a
>fully programmable System-on-a-Chip (SoC). The team set up a remote
>access laboratory for an advanced online school, co-organised with the
>International Atomic Energy Agency, to look at SoC and its applications
>to scientific instrumentation; attendees mainly included physicists,
>computer scientists and engineers from developing countries. The use of
>e-learning tools, which some of them adopted and others developed,
>allowed the school participants to directly access both integrated
>development environment software and programmable SoC platforms.
>Projects undertaken during the activity included X-ray and Nuclear
>Spectroscopy and Radiotracer Techniques in Environmental Monitoring.
>The results from the school and the exploration of the many
>applications of SoC is explored in a new paper by the STI team.
>Dive into the paper
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>Important links 
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>Remote Learning Resources at ICTP:
>https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/3/ictp-videos.aspx
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>Virtual Seminars:
>https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/virtual-seminars.aspx
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>ICTP Scientific Calendar:
>https://www.ictp.it/scientific-calendar.aspx
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>Marie Curie Library:
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