In the August online editions of this new outreach program, Angela Olinto (Chicago U.) presented the seminar “POEMMA - an ultra-energetic cosmic particle detector” and Marcos Pimenta (UFMG) discussed the topic “Graphene: physics at the tip of a pencil”. After 45-minute presentations on these subjects, the scientists answered questions from the audience.

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This annual international workshop was organized online by ICTP-SAIFR from August 24-28 and included 30 speakers from 11 countries with over 150 participants. The main focus of this conference is the use of Integrability to provide full solutions to strongly interacting gauge and string theories, and previous editions were held in Stockholm (2019), Copenhagen (2018), Paris (2017), Berlin (2016), London (2015), Hamburg (2014), Utrecht (2013) and Zurich (2012).

From July 6-10, the second edition of this symposium took place online and brought together researchers from the High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (HECAP) community of Latin American countries. The goal of this activity is to work towards establishing a regional consensus on the scientific objectives for each of the main topics. White papers submitted by the community were discussed and summarized in plenary sessions and a Physics Briefing Book is being produced as an input for a future Strategy Document.

In June, ICTP-SAIFR received an award of US$ 31,500 (R$ 170,000) from the American Physical Society Innovation Fund to translate pedagogical material for high-school teachers into Spanish. This material introduces modern physics topics into the classroom and was developed by Perimeter Institute and previously translated into Portuguese by ICTP-SAIFR. In 2020, only two APS Innovation Awards were granted out of 67 proposals.