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08. Dec 2021

Applications are now open for Proposals of 2023 Activities organized by ICTP-SAIFR on the IFT-UNESP campus in São Paulo. These 2023 activities will include two-week schools for PhD students as well as minicourses and programs/workshops, and can also be organized partially or completely by videoconference.

Latest results from the Dark Energy Survey were recently announced by the DES Collaboration which includes ICTP-SAIFR vice-director Rogerio Rosenfeld. More than 30 scientific papers were released, including the most precise Baryon Acoustic Oscillation distance measurement from imaging data leading to improvements in H0 and Ωm constraints by ~20%.

On Sept. 9 and Sept. 23, the ICTP-SAIFR Steering Committee which includes Atish Dabholkar, Pasqual Barretti, Luiz Eugênio Mello, Hugo Aguilaniu, Luiz Davidovich and Juan Maldacena, and the ICTP-SAIFR Scientific Council of ten distinguished physicists chaired by Michael Green met online to discuss future directions for the center.

Francesco Aprile, Kallol Sen and Jesus Maurício Riveros recently joined ICTP-SAIFR as postdoctoral fellows with funding by FAPESP and Serrapilheira. Francesco will compute graviton scattering amplitudes, Kallol will develop a string theory framework based on hexagonal patches, and Jesus will use mathematical models to study the ecology of microbial social behaviors.

The online School on Critical Stability of Few-Body Quantum Systems from Oct. 4-8 was organized locally by Tobais Frederico (ITA) and Marcelo Yamashita (IFT-UNESP) and included lectures and seminars on few-body techniques and one- and two-dimensional systems as well as short talks by several students.

The project Physics Pioneers in Brazil consists of biographies written on the inspiring careers of the scientists who shaped the current Brazilian physics landscape. The second biography describes the life of Gleb Wataghin, a Russian-born theoretical physicist who created in 1934 the first Brazilian physics department at the University of São Paulo.

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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.