In May, Prof. Ricardo Martinez-Garcia (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP) was awarded a Serrapilheira Institute grant. In this call, the Serrapilheira Institute selected proposals which are “trying to find answers to ambitious questions, mainly seeking to understand critical science issues, which may even involve risk strategies”. Prof. Martinez- Garcia will receive R$ 100,000 to develop the project entitled “Understanding the ecology and evolution of microbial social behaviors in turbulent environments: cooperation as a case study”.

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.

Jointly organized by researchers from ICTP-Trieste (Joan Elias Miró and Giovanni Villadoro), ICTP-SAIFR (Rogerio Rosenfeld) and USP-São Paulo (Enrico Bertuzzo), this school is being held online from June 22 to July 3. With more than 350 registered participants from all over the world, the School features lecturers from the USA, Italy, Spain and Brazil, and aims at giving a detailed overview of particle physics as well as covering recent progress in the field.

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.

From June 8-12, this online workshop organized by ICTP-SAIFR brought together 35 renowned physicists from 13 countries to present seminars on recent advances in string field theory. This was the 12th version of an annual workshop held in previous years in Italy (2019), India (2018), Israel (2017), Brasil (2016), China (2015), Italy (2014), Israel (2012), Czechia (2011), Japan (2010), Russia (2009) and Germany (2008).