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16. Oct 2021

In August, new members Hugo Aguilaniu and Luiz Eugênio Mello joined the ICTP-SAIFR Steering Committee which governs all ICTP-SAIFR activities. Hugo Aguilaniu is President-Director of the privately funded Serrapilheira Institute and Luiz Eugênio Mello is Scientific Director of the São Paulo Research Funding Agency FAPESP.

In August, the editors of Physical Review Letters highlighted the paper ”Where is string theory in the space of scattering amplitudes" written by Pedro Vieira (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP/Perimeter), Andrea Guerrieri (ICTP-SAIFR/Tel-Aviv U.) and João Penedones (EPFL-Lausanne). The paper initiated an ambitious program to use S-matrix Bootstrap to carve out the space of possible theories of quantum gravity with string theory playing a special role.

In August, ICTP-SAIFR began a new project for the general public called Physics Pioneers in Brazil. Organized by ICTP-SAIFR journalist Ligia Pereira, the project consists of biographies on the inspiring careers of the scientists who shaped the current Brazilian physics landscape. The first biography describes the life of Sergio Mascarenhas who pioneered several research areas in Brazil including solid state physics, medical physics, molecular biophysics, neurophysics and soil physics.

Instituto Serrapilheira together with ICTP-SAIFR is launching a program to develop the skills of future scientists in transdisciplinary research in the life sciences: the Serrapilheira/ICTP-SAIFR Training Program in Quantitative Biology and Ecology. The first edition was held online from July 5-31, 2021 with 15 distinguished lecturers.

ICTP-SAIFR announces the opening of a SImons-FAPESP Research Group Leader Position in all areas related to theoretical physics. Applications are currently being evaluated by an International Search Committee.

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ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research

The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR) is a South American regional center in the city of São Paulo created in a collaboration of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the Instituto de Fisica Teorica (IFT) of São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Sao Paulo Research Funding Agency (FAPESP). Its activities include seminars, minicourses, schools and workshops for graduate students and researchers in all areas related to theoretical physics, as well as outreach activities for the general public and for high-school students and teachers. The center has funding for short-term and long-term visitors as well as for postdoctoral and permanent researchers.