In this school organized jointly with NCC-UNESP from Dec. 16-20, participants learned the formalism of machine learning starting with introductory lectures and progressing to advanced topics such as computer vision, sequential and recursive learning, anomaly and outlier detectors, and generative models. The theoretical lectures were mixed with a set of hands-on sessions where participants were able to apply the concepts to solving real-world problems.

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.

This workshop was held at ICTP-SAIFR on November 15 and organized by George Matsas (IFT-UNESP). Seminars were presented by John Friedman (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), André Landulfo (UFABC), Maurício Richartz (UFABC) and Robert Wald (Univ. of Chicago) on the subject of classical and quantum-mechanical properties of black holes.

Pedro Vieira, joint faculty member of ICTP-SAIFR and Perimeter Institute, was awarded as co-winner the 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize “for profound contributions to the understanding of quantum field theory”. The ceremony was held on November 4 and took place at San Francisco University.

The 2nd Latin American School on Parallel Programming for High Performance Computing was jointly organized with NCC-UNESP and ICTP-Trieste and was held from Dec. 2-13. The goal of the school was to teach scientists modern computer hardware and programming to provide a foundation for future computational research using High Performance Computing (HPC). Lecturers included Ivan Girotto (ICTP-Trieste), Axel Kohlmeyer (Temple Univ.), Gavin Pringle (EPCC) and Silvio L. Stanzani (NCC-UNESP/AI2).