ICTP: 2000 Scientific Calendar

ICTP - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

2000 Scientific Calendar

Updated on: 28 September 2000

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1 - 11 February JOINT INFM - the ABDUS SALAM ICTP SCHOOL ON: "MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF CONDENSED MATTER INVESTIGATED BY NEUTRON SCATTERING AND SYNCHROTRON RADIATION TECHNIQUES" Co-sponsor: GNSM Directors: O. Moze, F. Sacchetti, S. Nannarone and G. Rossi Local Organizer: M. Fabrizio Deadline for requesting participation: 15 November 1999 e-mail: smr1216@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

7 - 25 February SCHOOL ON DATA AND MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS USING TERRESTRIAL AND SATELLITE RADIO LINKS Organizers/Directors: S.M. Radicella and R.G. Struzak Local Organizer: S.M. Radicella Deadline for requesting participation: 15 November 1999 e-mail: smr1217@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

7 - 25 February WINTER COLLEGE ON OPTICS AND PHOTONICS Organizers/Directors: A. Friberg, A. Ghatak, F. Gori and G.T. Sincerbox Local Organizer: G. Denardo Deadline for requesting participation: 31 October 1999 e-mail: smr1218@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

28 February - 3 March [Co-sponsored] JOINT ICTP-ICS TRAINING COURSE ON "OPTICAL DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION" Local Organizer: G. Denardo (Limited Participation)

28 February - 24 March FIFTH COURSE ON MATHEMATICAL ECOLOGY, including an INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS Organizers/Directors: G. Canziani, P. Dasgupta, J.L. Gross, T.G. Hallam and S.A. Levin Deadlines for requesting participation: 25 October 1999 (if financial support req'd) & 10 January 2000 (if no financial support req'd) e-mail: smr1202@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

1 - 4 March RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON: "SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY AND PHASE TRANSITIONS IN DRIVEN SYSTEMS" Organizers: D. Dhar, A. Stella and A. Vespignani Local Organizer: A. Vespignani Deadline for requesting participation: 10 January 2000 (Limited Participation) e-mail: smr1254@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

13 March - 14 April WORKSHOP ON NUCLEAR REACTION DATA AND NUCLEAR REACTORS: PHYSICS, DESIGN AND SAFETY Organizers: A. Gandini, M. Herman, A. Koning, J. Kupitz, P. Oblozinsky and A. Trkov Local Organizer: N. Paver Deadline for requesting participation: 31 October 1999 e-mail: smr1220@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

27 March - 4 April SPRING WORKSHOP ON SUPERSTRINGS AND RELATED MATTERS Organizers: C. Bachas, R. Iengo, J. Maldacena, K.S. Narain and S. Randjbar-Daemi Deadline for requesting participation: 31 January 2000 e-mail: smr1221@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

25 April - 12 May SCHOOL ON VANISHING THEOREMS AND EFFECTIVE RESULTS IN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY Co-sponsor: European Commission Directors: J.-P. Demailly and R. Lazarsfeld Local Organizer: L. Göttsche Deadline for receipt of applications: 10 January 2000 e-mail: smr1222@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

15 May - 9 June SPRING COLLEGE ON ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE APPROACHES TO THE PHYSICS OF MATERIALS Directors: S. Louie, D. Vanderbilt and F. Mauri Local Organizers: S. Scandolo, E. Tosatti Deadline for requesting participation: 31 January 2000 e-mail: smr1223@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

22 - 25 May RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON GRAPH THEORY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS Organizers/Directors: D. Cassi, R. Burioni and R. Zecchina Local Organizer: R. Zecchina (Limited Participation) e-mail: smr1224@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

29 May - 14 June SUMMER COLLOQUIUM ON THE PHYSICS OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE: CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS Co-sponsor: KFAS Organizers/Directors: F. Giorgi and P. Kasibhatla Local Organizer: F. Giorgi Deadline for requesting participation: 3 March 2000 e-mail: smr1225@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

5 - 9 June CONFERENCE ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: A CHALLENGE TO THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS Co-sponsors: SISSA and INFN Director: V. Ferrari Local Organizers: J.C. Miller and L. Rezzolla Organizing Committee: M.A. Abramowicz, F. de Felice, F. Fucito, A. Lanza and S. Matarrese Deadline for requesting participation: 31 March 2000 e-mail: smr1226@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

12 - 23 June WORKSHOP ON CORRELATION EFFECTS IN ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS Organizers/Directors: V. Anisimov and G. Kotliar e-mail: smr1228@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

12 - 30 June SUMMER SCHOOL ON ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY Co-sponsor: INFN Organizers: G. Senjanovic, A. Smirnov and G. Thompson Deadline for requesting participation: 10 March 2000 e-mail: smr1227@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

3 - 5 July SYMPOSIUM ON SYNCHRONIZATION OF CHAOTIC SYSTEMS Organizers/Directors: T. Carroll, L. Pecora and J.L. Hudson Local Organizer: H. Cerdeira Deadline for requesting participation: 20 February 2000 e-mail: smr1229@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

3 - 6 July CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS BEYOND FOUR DIMENSIONS Co-sponsor: INFN Organizing Committee: I. Antoniadis, N. Arkani-Hamed, G. Dvali, G. Senjanovic, M. Shifman and A.Yu. Smirnov Deadline for requesting participation: 1 April 2000 e-mail: smr1231@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

3 - 7 July INTERNATIONAL TOPICAL CONFERENCE ON PLASMA PHYSICS: COLLOIDAL PLASMA SCIENCE Organizers/Directors: P.K. Shukla, R. Bingham and L. Stenflo (Limited Participation) Deadline for requesting participation: See Announcement e-mail: smr1230@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

17 - 28 July XII WORKSHOP ON STRONGLY CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEMS Organizers: G. Baskaran, P. Coleman (Co-ordinator), M. Fabrizio, A. Georges, G. Kotliar, E. Tosatti, A. Tsvelik and Yu Lu Local Organizers: M. Fabrizio, Yu Lu Deadline for requesting participation: 30 April 2000 e-mail: smr1232@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

31 July - 18 August SCHOOL ON AUTOMORPHIC FORMS ON GL(n) Co-sponsor: European Commission Directors: G. Harder and M.S. Raghunathan Local Organizer: L. Göttsche Deadline for receipt of applications: 31 March 2000 e-mail: smr1233@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

1 - 4 August MINISYMPOSIUM ON CORRELATION IN MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS Organizers/Directors: B. Altshuler and V. Kravtsov Deadline for requesting participation: 31 March 2000 e-mail: smr1234@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

15 August - 15 September NORDIC-TRIESTE WORKSHOP: BLACK HOLES AND OPTICAL GEOMETRY Organizers/Directors: M. Abramowicz and A. Lanza (Limited Participation)

21 August - 1 September SECOND SCHOOL ON THE MATHEMATICS OF ECONOMICS Co-sponsor: KFAS Directors: M. Boldrin, A. Rustichini and J. Scheinkman Local Organizer: M. Marsili Deadline for requesting participation: 15 May 2000 e-mail: smr1235@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

21 August - 15 September EU ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE Directors: E. DeSchutter, K. Obermayer, A. Treves and E. Vaadia Deadline for requesting participation: 31 March 2000 e-mail: smr1248@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

4 - 22 September SCHOOL ON MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN IMAGE PROCESSING Co-sponsors: SISSA, Trieste, and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy Directors: L. Ambrosio, G. Dal Maso and J.M. Morel Local Organizer: C. Chidume Deadline for receipt of applications: 15 April 2000 e-mail: smr1237@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

11 - 15 September ADRIATICO RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON LASERS IN SURFACE SCIENCE Organizers/Directors: H.-J. Freund, T.F. Heinz and H. Zacharias Deadline for requesting participation: 31 May 2000 e-mail: smr1238@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

18 - 22 September FIRST STEPS IN THE ORIGIN OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE A EUROCONFERENCE (TRIESTE CONFERENCE ON CHEMICAL EVOLUTION - VI) Co-sponsors: European Commission, SETI Institute and ICGEB Directors: J. Chela-Flores, T. Owen and F. Raulin Deadline for requesting participation: 30 April 2000 e-mail: smr1239@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

25 September - 6 October 5th WORKSHOP ON THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF SEISMIC WAVES GENERATION, PROPAGATION AND THEIR INVERSION Organizers/Directors: B. Bukchin, F.H. Cornet and G.F. Panza Local Organizer: G.F. Panza Deadline for requesting participation: 31 May 2000 e-mail: smr1241@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

26 - 29 September CONFERENCE ON NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN GLOBAL CLIMATE DYNAMICS Organizers/Directors: F. Molteni, T. Palmer and J. Tribbia Local Organizer: F. Molteni Deadline for requesting participation: 20 June 2000 e-mail: smr1240@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

2 - 13 October EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCES COURSE IN WATERSHEDS AND COASTAL ZONE SIMULATION Co-sponsor: KFAS Organizers/Directors: T.S. Hopkins and R. Pagnotta Deadline for requesting participation: 15 July 2000 e-mail: smr1242@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

6 - 10 October QED 2000 - 2nd WORKSHOP ON FRONTIER TESTS OF QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS AND PHYSICS OF THE VACUUM Directors: E. Zavattini, D. Amati Organizing Committee: G. Cantatore (Coordinator & Scientific Secretary), D. Bakalov, F. Della Valle and C. Rizzo For Int'l Advisory Board and Co-sponsors: pls. see Workshop announcement Deadline for requesting participation: 15 July 2000 e-mail: smr1243@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

9 October - 3 November 6th COLLEGE ON MICROPROCESSOR-BASED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS IN PHYSICS Organizer/Director: C. Verkerk Deadline for requesting participation: 15 May 2000 e-mail: smr1244@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

12 - 13 October WORKSHOP ON PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF PLASMAS In co-operation with: IAEA Directors: R. Amrollahi, V. Gribkov and A. Wootton Deadline for requesting participation: 15 July 2000 (Limited Participation) e-mail: smr1273@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

16 - 27 October WORKSHOP ON THE APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR REACTOR SIMULATORS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES In co-operation with: IAEA Directors: G. Bereznai, W.K. Lam and R.B. Lyon (Limited Participation) Deadline for requesting participation: 30 April 2000 e-mail: smr1245@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

4 - 5 November 15th ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF DIRAC MEDALLISTS Local Organizer: K.S. Narain e-mail: smr1341@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

6 November - 8 December SCHOOL ON SYNCHROTRON RADIATION Supported in part by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the SESAME project Co-sponsors: Sincrotrone Trieste and Societa' Italiana di Luce di Sincrotrone (SILS) Directors: M. Altarelli, A. Craievich, C.S. Fadley and H. Wiedemann (Limited participation) Deadline for requesting participation: 12 June 2000 e-mail: smr1270@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

13 - 24 November WORKSHOP ON PHYSICS OF MESOSPHERE-STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTIONS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON MST RADAR TECHNIQUES Directors: D. Narayana Rao and S.M. Radicella Local Organizer: S.M. Radicella Deadline for requesting participation: 15 June 2000 e-mail: smr1247@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

TO BE HELD OUTSIDE TRIESTE

Mexico: 9 - 27 October ICTP - LATIN AMERICAN SCHOOL ON STRINGS 2000 (ICTP-LASS 2000) Organizers: G. Aldazàbal, N. Berkovits, M. Blau, A. Cabo, A.M. Font, F. Quevedo, M. Ruiz-Altaba, S. Randjbar-Daemi, N. Vanegas and J. Zanelli (Limited to Students from Latin America) Deadline for requesting participation: 15 July 2000 e-mail: smr1263@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

Lima, Peru: 13 November - 1 December MICROPROCESSOR LABORATORY THIRD REGIONAL COURSE ON ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN TECHNIQUES Director: A.A. Colavita Local Organizer: J. Tisza (Limited to Students from Latin America) Deadline for requesting participation: 15 July 2000 e-mail: smr1246@ictp.trieste.it Activity Information

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

RESEARCH IN

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
PARTICLE AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
MATHEMATICS
PHYSICS OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE
STRUCTURE AND NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS OF THE EARTH
NETWORKING AND RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RELATED PHYSICS

RESEARCH PROGRAMME AT

MICROPROCESSOR LABORATORY
AERONOMY AND RADIOPROPAGATION LABORATORY

DIPLOMA COURSES IN

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
MATHEMATICS

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