Through an award from the American Physical Society Innovation Fund, ICTP-SAIFR is translating pedagogical material for high-school teachers into Spanish which is available for free download. This material introduces modern physics topics into the classroom and was developed by Perimeter Institute and previously translated into Portuguese by ICTP-SAIFR with support from the Serrapilheira Institute.

Join forces with us: ICTP-SAIFR recently created a website for receiving donations from both private individuals and companies. These donations allow us to attract the top researchers and graduate students to our center, to expand our schools and workshops that train the next generation of physicists, and to engage the general public and high-school students and teachers through our diverse outreach activities.

Online application is OPEN until November 30 for Masters and PhD students who would like to submit projects to the ICTP-SAIFR Summer School for Young Physicists. Jointly organized by ICTP-SAIFR and the University of Porto, this one-week activity will be held online from January 17-23, 2021 and involves small groups of talented high-school students working on projects created and supervised by graduate students.

Nathan Berkovits, director of ICTP-SAIFR and professor at IFT-UNESP, was announced in October as co-winner of the 2021 John Wheatley Award “for exceptional leadership in fundamental physics research in South America.”. The prize will be shared with Fernando Quevedo (U. Cambridge, UK), former chair of the ICTP-SAIFR Steering Committee and former director of ICTP-Trieste.

Applications are open HERE for up to 3 FAPESP postdoctoral positions to begin in 2021 in the area of quantum field theory/string theory. The fellowships are part of the “São Paulo Excellence Chair” FAPESP Program and physicist Pedro Vieira is the main researcher of this project. Although applications will be accepted until the positions are filled, candidates are strongly encouraged to apply before December 1, 2020.