In this minicourse for high-school students, Pedro Vieira (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP/Perimeter I.) lectured Saturday mornings from March 16 to April 6 on eletromagnetism and relativity. The lectures were followed by exercise sessions and an exam administered by ICTP-SAIFR outreach coordinator Lucas David.
These workshops on March 30-31 and April 13-14 presented classroom methods developed by Perimeter Institute for teaching modern physics concepts to two groups of 40 Brazilian high-school teachers. Sponsored by Serrapilheira Institute, the workshops used material translated by ICTP-SAIFR.
The Latin American Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure was held at ICTP-SAIFR from April 30 - May 1 and brought together scientists from all of Latin America to discuss large-scale long-term science collaborations. Speakers included directors of funding agencies, major science policy makers, and directors of large scientific collaborations siuch as Fermilab, CERN, ICTP and Sirius.
This minicourse on Quantum Gravity from the QFT perspective was held at ICTP-SAIFR from April 1-5. Lectures presented by Prof. Ilya Shapiro (UFJF) discussed features of perturbative Quantum Gravity such as renormalizability, higher-derivative terms, and applications to cosmology.
On March 11, fellowships were awarded to 8 undergraduate students based on their outstanding performance at the 2018 Journeys school including the SAIFR-Princeton fellowship to O. Canton, the SAIFR-Perimeter fellowship to B. Torres, T. Perche and I. Burbano, and the Young Physicist fellowship to L. Lessa, G. Golfetti, M. Costa and M. Ansanelli.
