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1998 Scientific Calendar

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Updated on: 26 November 1998

12 - 30 JANUARY ICTP-URSI-ITU/BDT SCHOOL ON THE USE OF RADIO FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, INCLUDING SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT In cooperation with URSI and ITU/BDT Directors: S.M. Radicella, R. Struzak Local Organizer: S.M. Radicella Deadline for requesting participation: 10 October 1997 LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1057@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

9 - 27 FEBRUARY WINTER COLLEGE ON OPTICS In cooperation with and co-sponsored by: ICO (International Commission for Optics) Directors: T. Asakura, P. Chavel, A.T. Friberg, A. Sona Local Organizer: G. Denardo Deadline for requesting participation: 30 September 1997 E-mail: smr1058@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

23 FEBRUARY - 27 MARCH WORKSHOP ON NUCLEAR REACTION DATA AND NUCLEAR REACTORS: PHYSICS, DESIGN AND SAFETY Organized by IAEA, in cooperation with ENEA and ICTP Directors: A. Gandini, J. Kupitz, P. Oblozinsky, G. Reffo, A. Trkov Local Organizer: L. Fonda Deadline for requesting participation: 15 September 1997 LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1056@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

16 - 27 MARCH WORKSHOP ON THE STRUCTURE OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES Co-sponsors: ICGEB and SISSA Directors: P. Carloni, S. Pongor, V. Torre Local Organizer: J. Chela-Flores Deadline for requesting participation: 31 December 1997 E-mail: smr1098@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

23 - 31 MARCH SPRING SCHOOL ON NON-PERTURBATIVE ASPECTS OF STRING THEORY AND SUPERSYMMETRIC GAUGE THEORIES Co-sponsors: INFN, SISSA Directors: B. Greene, R. Iengo, J. Louis, K.S. Narain, S. Randjbar-Daemi Local Organizers: S. Randjbar-Daemi, K.S. Narain Deadline for requesting participation: 31 January 1998 E-mail: smr1090@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

1 - 3 APRIL TRIESTE CONFERENCE ON SUPERFIVEBRANES AND PHYSICS IN 5+1 DIMENSIONS Directors: M. Duff, C. Pope, E. Sezgin, G. Thompson Local Organizer: G. Thompson Deadline for requesting participation: 31 January 1998 E-mail: smr1104@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

14 - 30 APRIL COLLEGE ON SOIL PHYSICS Directors: D.M. Gabriels, D.R. Nielsen, I. Pla Sentis, E.L. Skidmore Local Organizer: G. Ghirardi Deadlines for requesting participation: 31 December 1997 (if funds req'd); 15 January 1998 (if no funds req'd) LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1065@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

27 - 29 APRIL MECO 23 (MIDDLE EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS) Organizing Committee: A. Maritan, C. Micheletti, A. Rigamonti, V. Tognetti Local Organizers: A Maritan, C. Micheletti Deadline for requesting participation: 31 January 1998 LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1080@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

4 MAY - 5 JUNE SPRING COLLEGE ON: STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND DYNAMICS OF SOFT CONDENSED MATTER Directors: S. Ramaswamy (Co-ordinator), M.E. Cates, N.V. Madhusudana Local Organizer: A. Vespignani Deadline for requesting participation: 31 January 1998 E-mail: smr1081@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

18 MAY - 5 JUNE SECOND ANTONIO BORSELLINO COLLEGE ON NEUROPHYSICS: "PLASTICITY OF SENSORY-MOTOR SYSTEMS", including: 25 - 26 May: MINI-SYMPOSIUM ON: NEW APPROACHES TO THE PLASTICITY OF SENSORY-MOTOR SYSTEMS Directors: M. Diamond, J.H. Kaas, W.C. Hall Local Organizer: J. Chela-Flores Deadlines for requesting participation: 31 January 1998 (if funds req'd), 28 February 1998 (if no funds req'd) E-mail: smr1082@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

8 - 19 JUNE INTRODUCTORY SCHOOL ON STRING THEORY Directors and Local Organizers: E. Gava, K.S. Narain, S. Randjbar-Daemi Deadline for requesting participation: 28 February 1998 E-mail: smr1105@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

8 - 26 JUNE 8 - 19 June: Summer Colloquium on the Physics of Weather and Climate "The Effect of Topography on the Atmospheric Circulation" AND 22 - 26 June: Conference on "The Role of Topography in Modeling Regional Weather and Climate" Co-sponsor: IRI Directors: F. Giorgi, I. Orlanski Local Organizer: G. Furlan Deadline for requesting participation: 28 February 1998 E-mail: smr1083@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

9 - 12 JUNE ADRIATICO RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON "COMPLEX FLUIDS FAR FROM EQUILIBRIUM" Directors: S. Ramaswamy (Co-ordinator), M.E. Cates, N.V. Madhusudana Local Organizer: A. Vespignani E-mail: smr1084@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

22 - 26 JUNE III TRIESTE CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL FIELD THEORY Directors: A. LeClair, A.A.W. Ludwig, G. Mussardo, YU Lu Local Organizers: G. Mussardo, YU Lu Deadline for requesting participation: 31 March 1998 E-mail: smr1091@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

22 JUNE - 4 JULY WORKSHOP ON "THE PHYSICS OF THE ELECTRONIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE CORE REGION: ALL-ELECTRON LAPW ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS" Directors: P. Blaha, J. Kohanoff, C.O. Rodriguez, K. Schwarz Local Organizer: J. Kohanoff Deadline for requesting participation: 28 February 1998 LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1085@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

29 JUNE - 10 JULY FIFTH SCHOOL ON "NON-ACCELERATOR PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS" Co-sponsor: INFN Directors: R. Carrigan, G. Giacomelli, N. Paver Local Organizer: N. Paver Deadline for requesting participation: 27 March 1998 see also: http://axoph1.cern.ch/ictp/98.html E-mail: smr1067@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

29 JUNE - 17 JULY SUMMER SCHOOL IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY Co-sponsors: INFN, SISSA Directors: E. Kolb, A. Masiero, S. Randjbar-Daemi, G. Senjanovic, A. Smirnov Local Organizers: G. Senjanovic, A. Smirnov Deadline for requesting participation: 28 February 1998 E-mail-smr1092@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

2 - 4 JULY CONFERENCE ON "HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS IN THE SOLID STATE: EXPERIMENTS AND FIRST-PRINCIPLES ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS" Organizers: P. Blaha, A. Lopez Garcia, R. Mercader, C.O. Rodriguez, W. Steiner Local Organizer: J. Kohanoff Deadlines for requesting participation: 28 February 1998 (if funds req'd) & 31 March 1998 (if no funds req'd) E-mail: smr1100@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

7 - 10 JULY ADRIATICO RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON "ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS" Directors: H. Bassler, R.H. Friend Local Organizer: P.N. Butcher Deadline for requesting participation: 15 April 1998 E-mail: smr1086@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

20 - 31 JULY X TRIESTE WORKSHOP ON OPEN PROBLEMS IN STRONGLY CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEMS Organizers: G. Baskaran, A. Georges, G. Kotliar (Co-ordinator), E. Tosatti, A. Tsvelik, YU Lu Local Organizer: YU Lu Deadline for requesting participation: 31 March 1998 E-mail: smr1068@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

27 JULY - 18 SEPTEMBER EXTENDED RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON DISORDER, CHAOS AND INTERACTION IN MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS Organizers: B.L. Altshuler, V.E. Kravtsov, C.M. Marcus, B.D. Simons Local Organizer: V.E. Kravtsov E-mail: smr1087@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

6 - 12 AUGUST WORKSHOP ON "OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MICROCAVITIES" Directors: F. Beltram, A. Quattropani Local Organizer: YU Lu Deadline for requesting participation: 15 May 1998 E-mail: smr1088@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

9 AUGUST - 9 SEPTEMBER 1998 NORDIC - TRIESTE WORKSHOP Astrophysical tests for strong gravity Co-sponsors: NORDITA, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, SISSA Organizers: M. Abramowicz and A. Lanza Participation: by invitation only Information from: marek@tfa.fy.chalmers.se, lanza@sissa.it

31 AUGUST - 18 SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP ON DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS Co-sponsor: European Commission Directors: J. Palis, Ya. Sinai, J.-C. Yoccoz Local Organizer: M.S. Narasimhan Deadline for requesting participation: 28 February 1998 E-mail: smr1069@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

31 AUGUST - 25 SEPTEMBER SCHOOL ON THE MATHEMATICS OF ECONOMICS: A PRIMER IN ECONOMICS FOR PHYSICISTS AND MATHEMATICIANS (31/8 - 18/9) AND CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC MODELS OF EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS AND INTERACTING AGENTS (21 - 25/9) Directors: M. Boldrin, A. Mas-Colell, J. Scheinkman Local Organizer: R. Zecchina Deadline for requesting participation: 30 April 1998 E-mail: smr1070@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

14 SEPTEMBER - 4 DECEMBER ICTP-UNU AUTUMN TRAINING ACTIVITY ON NETWORKING AND RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS Co-ordinator: G. Pau Local Organizer: A. Nobile LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: maggi@ictp.trieste.it

16 - 19 SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS OF RELIC NEUTRINOS Organizing Committee: A. Dolgov, M. Fukugita, E. Kolb, G. Raffelt, D. Sciama, G. Senjanovic, A. Smirnov Deadline for requesting participation: 31 May 1998 E-mail: smr1093@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

21 - 25 SEPTEMBER INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE "OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE ADRIATIC SEA" Co-sponsors: Office of Naval Research (USA and UK), Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale and Istituto Sperimentale Talassografico-CNR (Trieste, Italy) Directors: B. Cushman-Roisin, M. Gacic, P.-M. Poulain, R. Purini Local Organizer: G. Furlan Deadline for requesting participation: 30 April 1998 E-mail: smr1116@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

25 - 26 SEPTEMBER [Co-sponsored Activity] EUROCONFERENCE EMERALD ON MEDICAL RADIATION PHYSICS TRAINING Director: S.D. Tabakov Local Organizer: L. Bertocchi E-mail: smr1121@ictp.trieste.it

28 SEPTEMBER - 9 OCTOBER 4TH WORKSHOP ON 3-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF SEISMIC WAVES GENERATION, PROPAGATION AND THEIR INVERSION Co-sponsor: European Commission Directors: S. Das, A. Levshin, G.F. Panza Local Organizer: G.F. Panza Deadline for requesting participation: 31 May 1998 LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1059@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

7 - 9 OCTOBER [Co-sponsored Activity] WORKSHOP ON FUSION RELATED PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING IN SMALL DEVICES Directors: A. Wootton, Yuan Xi Wan Local Organizer: A. Vespignani Deadline for requesting participation: 1 August 1998 (if funds req'd) & 15 August 1998 (if no funds req'd) E-mail: smr1118@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

12 - 30 OCTOBER THIRD SCHOOL ON NONLINEAR FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS TO DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Co-sponsor: European Commission Directors: A. Ambrosetti, K.-C. Chang, I. Ekeland Local Organizer: G. Vidossich Deadline for requesting participation: 31 March 1998 E-mail: smr1071@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

12 OCTOBER - 6 NOVEMBER FIFTH COLLEGE ON MICROPROCESSOR-BASED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS IN PHYSICS Co-sponsor: UNU Directors: A.S. Induruwa, C. Verkerk Local Organizer: C. Verkerk Deadline for requesting participation: 15 May 1998 LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1072@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

2 - 20 NOVEMBER COURSE ON MEDITERRANEAN SEA(S) CIRCULATION AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING In joint collaboration with: MEDIAS, CNES, OGS Directors: J.-L. Fellous, T. Legovic, M. Gacic, R. Mosetti Local Organizer: G. Furlan Deadline for requesting participation: 30 June 1998 E-mail: smr1108@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

9 NOVEMBER - 4 DECEMBER ICTP-UNU-MICROPROCESSOR LABORATORY FIFTH COURSE ON BASIC VLSI DESIGN TECHNIQUES Co-sponsors: KFAS, UNU Director & Local Organizer: A. Colavita Deadline for requesting participation: 31 July 1998 LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1073@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

16 - 20 NOVEMBER [Co-sponsored Activity] WORKSHOP ON REACTOR SIMULATION TRAINING AND UTILIZATION Director: R. Lyon LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1169@ictp.trieste.it

30 NOVEMBER - 4 DECEMBER [Co-sponsored Activity] WIZARD INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION MEETING Organizer: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Trieste Via A. Valerio, 2 - 34127 Trieste

TO BE HELD OUTSIDE TRIESTE

9 - 27 FEBRUARY SECOND REGIONAL COURSE ON ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN TECHNIQUES (MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA) Sponsors: UNU, COLCIENCIAS, ICFES Directors: A.A. Colavita, M. Trujillo Deadline for requesting participation: Already over LIMITED PARTICIPATION - OPEN ONLY TO LATIN AMERICAN SCIENTISTS E-mail: smr1099@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

16 MARCH - 4 APRIL SOUTH-EAST ASIAN REGIONAL COLLEGE ON MICROPROCESSOR-BASED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS IN PHYSICS - THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (HANOI, VIETNAM) Sponsored by: UNU and National Centre for Science and Technology (NCST) Directors: Phan Hong Khoi, A.S. Induruwa and C. Verkerk Deadline for requesting participation: 15 October 1997 LIMITED PARTICIPATION - OPEN ONLY TO SOUTH-EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES E-mail: smr1055@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

31 AUGUST - 11 SEPTEMBER REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE USE OF RADIO FOR COMPUTER NETWORKING (co-sponsored activity) (CAPE COAST, GHANA) In co-operation with and co-sponsored by: UNU, UCC, CSIR and Ghana Atomic Energy Commission Organizing Committe: V.P.Y. Gadzekpo and A. Nobile LIMITED PARTICIPATION - OPEN ONLY TO WESTERN AFRICAN SCIENTISTS Deadline for requesting participation: 30 April 1998 E-mail: smr1110@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

19 OCTOBER - 6 NOVEMBER EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP ON HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS AND RELATED MATERIALS (ADVANCED ACTIVITIES) (BARILOCHE, ARGENTINA) Co-sponsors: Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Universidad de Cuyo Directors: F. de la Cruz, F.C. Matacotta Deadline for requesting participation: 30 April 1998 LIMITED PARTICIPATION E-mail: smr1074@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information


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