Kurse und Veranstaltungen für Physikstudenten

Institute of Physics – IOP

Lecture starts at 19:00, FREE tea & coffee available

These talks are open to everyone and are sponsored by the West Midlands Branch of the IoP

Angewandte Physik (allgemein),    Kernenergie

Nanostructured Magnetic Materials group, nM2-Lab (Istituto di Struttura della Materia - CNR and DCCI - University of Genova)

Following the tradition of the School, the 5th edition will provide training in the basic principles of magnetism and magnetics thorough a broad series of fundamental lectures, while offering the latest insights into up-to-date aspects of magnetism and applications of magnetic materials with lectures focusing on specific topics. To promote the dissemination of science, the School also includes an evening event of divulgation character. The School is addressed to Italian and foreigner graduate and PhD students, as well as to post-doc and young researchers.

Western University, Canada & BM Birla Science Centre, India

This is one of the largest astronomy winter schools in the region, and it seeks to promote the development of professional astronomers through this event, as well as broaden the appeal of science to local school students and the general public in the host city by organizing public lectures and discussions.

The organizers seek out up to a few select scientists to be primary lecturers at the school and also participate in content development. A series of secondary lecturers will also be invited, and the diversity of speakers are emphasized. Hands-on sessions will include theory, computation, and data analysis. Students will leave the school having replicated some of the analysis that went into recent discoveries of gravitational waves, interpreted observational data from stellar clusters, and ran a simple computer simulation of star formation. A visit and half-day mini-workshop at the TIFR National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad, where we will do some demonstration of scientific ballooning for astronomical observations along with two day exhaustive workshop on computational astrophysics and data mining.

Organizing Committee;     Email: astrowin19@gmail.com

astronomy, science, workshop, India, Canada, US, UK, Europe, Russia, UAE, Iran, Winter, astrophysics, computation, data, observation, cosmic rays, neutrino

Astronomie, Astrophysik und Kosmologie,    Teilchenphysik und Felder

The school is devoted to braids and their different applications and aspects. This tenth edition of Winter Braids is supported by the Centro De Giorgi, GDR Tresses, GDR Singularités, and ANR LISA. Besides the main lectures, there will be short talks and a poster session devoted to student presentations (not necessarily focused on braids or their generalizations).

Taught by leading European particle accelerators specialists, JUAS delivers a regularly updated, academically accredited programme in partnership with CERN and a cluster of 16 European universities.

The winter school will present two incarnations of the implicit function theorem to master and PhD students: the implicit function theorem of Nash and Moser, and the implicit function theorem in scale calculus and polyfold-theory as developed by Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder. There will be two mini-courses on the theoretical framework of each incarnation which will be complemented by talks on classical and current applications to analysis and geometry.

Algebra,    Geometrie und Topologie

Institute of Physics – IOP

Lecture starts at 19:00, FREE tea & coffee available

These talks are open to everyone and are sponsored by the West Midlands Branch of the IoP

Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics

The school is primarily addressed to Ph.D. students in Theoretical Nuclear and Hadron Physics. Participation of experimentalists and post-docs is also encouraged. The 2020 edition will be devoted to the strong interaction at finite temperature and density and it will provide a pedagogical introduction to the basic concepts and tools needed for carrying cutting edge research in Hot QCD matter, high energy QCD, Quark-Gluon Plasma probes and properties, ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions (pA, AA), Relativistic hydrodynamics, QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and chemical potential with applications to Neutron Stars physics and multi-messenger astrophysics.

Teilchenphysik und Felder,    Kernphysik

Teilchenphysik und Felder,    Kernphysik

This 1-month school, established in 1991, provides training for students, postdoctoral and senior scientists from European and non-European universities and laboratories, in the field of Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation for condensed matter studies (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Geosciences, Industrial applications).

Neutrons & Synchrotron Radiation for Science

Angewandte Physik: Röntgen- und Synchrotronstrahlung, Kristallographie ,    Angewandte Physik: Neutronenstreuung

The event is organised by UKSEDS, the UK's national student space society, and is this year hosted by the Poynting Physical Society at the University of Birmingham.

The UKSEDS National Student Space Conference, now in its 32nd year, is the premier event for students interested in space, uniting them with academics and professionals from across the country to network, share knowledge, and discuss the challenges facing the sector.

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)

Welcome to the HZB Photon School 2020, to be held in the Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Campus (Berlin-Adlershof) from 9th to 20th March, 2020. This school is primarily aimed at master students and early stage researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, life or environmental sciences. Students will be introduced to synchrotron and laboratory-based methods that probe the molecular structure, function and dynamics of complex material systems.

STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

The annual ISIS Practical Neutron Training Course is aimed at PhD and post-doctoral researchers who have little or no experience of neutron scattering, but whose future research program aims to make use of neutron scattering techniques at ISIS. The course runs annually for 10 days at ISIS and takes around 35 participants.

Institute of Physics – IOP

These talks are open to everyone and are sponsored by the West Midlands Branch of the IoP. Lecture starts at 19:00, FREE tea & coffee available

European Network of Nuclear Astrophysics Schools (ENNAS)

In keeping with its tradition, the school will bring together specialists from the various sub-fields of astrophysics, astronomy, cosmochemistry and nuclear physics with the aim to raise mutual interest and to teach under- and postgraduate students, young post-docs as well as senior scientists interested to be introduced to nuclear astrophysics. The school will be organized in major topical sessions, with dedicated lecture time for basic introduction, presentations of the various aspects of the topic, and ample time for discussions and out-door activities in the Dachstein West mountain region.

Physics school of Les Houches

The Interstellar Shocks School is a one-week session in the Physics school of Les Houches. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive view of the physics and chemistry of interstellar shocks and detailed presentation of the multiple impacts they have on their close environments (i.e. energetics, star formation, cosmic ray acceleration). The session will include lectures dedicated to the physical, thermal, and chemical processes at play in shocks, observations of shocks in galactic and extragalactic sources, as well as state-of-the-art models, and lab experiments. Those lectures will be completed with tutorial and hands-on sessions so that all participants can get familiar with publicly available codes simulating the propagation of interstellar shock waves.

The Czech Academy of Sciences

Antimatter experiments give insight into some of the most fundamental questions in science. They allow probing symmetries and interactions in unprecedented detail. This international school will take place in the 'City of a Hundred Spires' Prague in the Czech Republic from 23-27 March 2020. Lectures and topical talks will be presented by world-leading physicists. They will present the latest results in theoretical and experimental antimatter studies along with wider research in accelerator science and particle physics. All school participants will get the opportunity to present their own work in the form of posters. Social events, an excursion to ELI Beamlines, and a public talk on antimatter research will complement the programme.

Scattering! Soft, Functional and Quantum Materials

University of Durham

The 2020 Powder Diffraction and Rietveld Refinement School wil be held at the University of Durham from Sunday 29th March to Thursday 2nd of April. Lectures will be given by Jeremy Cockcroft, Andy Fitch, John Evans and Ivana Evans. There will also be small group tutorials and a large number of hands-on practical computer sessions.

Angewandte Physik: Neutronenstreuung,    Angewandte Physik: Röntgen- und Synchrotronstrahlung, Kristallographie

University of Cape Town, South Africa

We are excited to announce the first CCP4 Crystallographic School in South Africa – Data Collection to Structure Refinement and Beyond, to be held from 31 March to 8 April 2020 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The workshop will cover all aspects of protein structure solution by X-ray crystallography, including the fundamental concepts of protein crystallography, crystallographic data collection, processing of diffraction data, phasing, structure refinement, validation and deposition in the PDB, as well as an introduction to CryoEM and Electron Diffraction. Participants will have the opportunity to collect data from their own crystals at Diamond Light Source via remote access, in a data collection session facilitated by Diamond beamline staff. Software covered includes iMosflm, XDS, DIALS, BLEND, PHASER, SHELX, MrBUMP, SIMBAD, ARP/wARP, Coot, REFMAC, Isolde, Crank2, PISA and more. This workshop is most suitable for postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early career scientists working in structural biology.

Angewandte Physik: Röntgen- und Synchrotronstrahlung, Kristallographie ,    Biophysik

The 17th Synthesis Imaging Workshop will be held on 13 - 20 May 2020 at NRAO and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) in Socorro, New Mexico. The workshop will comprise of a week of lectures on aperture synthesis theory and techniques, and practical tutorials demonstrating data collection, calibration, and imaging of various types of data, including new data from the Jansky VLA, ALMA and the VLBA. The workshop will be delivered at a level appropriate for graduate students in astrophysics.

Astronomie, Astrophysik und Kosmologie,    Mustererkennung und Bildverarbeitung, Maschinelles Sehen

Complex Systems Society and Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity

The school “Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications” offers a succinct education in network science. It is open to all aspiring scholars in any area of science or engineering who wish to study networks of any kind (whether theoretical or applied), and it is especially addressed to doctoral students and young postdoctoral scholars. The aim of the school is to deepen into both theoretical developments and applications in targeted fields.

Kurse und Veranstaltungen für Studenten der Mathematik,    Komplexe Netzwerke

Nordita - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

The question of how particles and droplets can grow in a turbulent environment is of great current interest in many fields, in astrophysics, cloud microphysics, in biology, and in the engineering sciences. For example, coagulation and condensation in turbulent clouds turn microscopic cloud droplets into rain drops. In astrophysics, planetesimals are thought to form by aggregation of microscopic dust grains in the turbulent environment surrounding a forming star. In both cases, turbulence is believed to be a crucial factor for particle growth. Yet the microscopic mechanisms determining this growth are far from understood. In the past few years there has been substantial progress in understanding the mechanisms that determine how particles move in turbulence, albeit mostly for simplified model systems. The challenge is now to understand how these mechanisms lead to rapid particle growth.

The main goal of the 17th annual Conference is to discuss issues and perspectives of energy sector worldwide; as well allow young scientists to develop their skills. Ph. D. students, postdocs, master students and all other young scientists doing research on energy issues are welcome to the Conference as speakers and participants. Participation in the conference is free of charge!

University of Michigan

The week-long school will focus on computational and theoretical large-scale structure, while allowing in-depth exploration of how current research tests theory with data. The school will be hands-on and partly computational, so that the participants acquire concrete practical skills in modeling data (and theory). Each lecturer will deliver ~4-5 hrs of lectures; some of that time may be devoted to numerical exercises/calculations. Confirmed lecturers include Ami Choi (Ohio State), Tim Eifler (Arizona), Tesla Jeltema (Santa Cruz), Adrian Liu (McGill), Will Percival (Waterloo), Mark Vogelsberger (MIT), and Joe Zuntz (Edinburgh).

Email: huterer@umich.edu

cosmology, school, summer school

Institute of Physics – IOP

Vacuum technology is a key for many research and industries. This IOP Vacuum Group training course is intended to provide a grounding in practical vacuum usage for people who use and have some experience in vacuum. It will be presented by experienced vacuum personnel and will cover the topics listed below, where possible personal experiences will be used to highlight how various technical challenges were overcome. This course will be beneficial for both graduates and vacuum technicians looking to develop their knowledge and technical skills.

Angewandte Physik (allgemein),    Berufliche Weiterbildung, Kurse (allgemein)

University of Sofia

Young Astronomers on Galactic Nuclei (YAGN) is an annual series of informal meetings of Ph.D. students and postdocs working on supermassive black holes and active galactic nuclei in general, with the aim of promoting exchanges of ideas and new collaborations amongst young scientists.

One of the fascinating bridges between classical mechanics and quantum physics is expressed in the fact that the length spectrum and the Laplace spectrum of a closed Riemannian manifold determine each other (at least generically). Similarly, the set of lengths of the closed orbits of a billiard table and the Laplace spectrum of that table determine each other, at least for certain billiard tables. The main goal of this school is to introduce graduate students and young researchers to basic facts on these two spectra, and to the above correspondence. The length spectrum generalizes to the action spectrum of an autonomous Hamiltonian function. Floer homology filtered by the action spectrum can be used to construct so-called action selectors, that are a principal tool in modern symplectic geometry and dynamics, yielding simple proofs of Gromov's nonsqueezing theorem, the Weinstein conjecture in R^{2n}, the existence of closed orbits in a magnetic fields, etc. The second goal is to understand this relevance of the action spectrum in symplectic geometry. A third, more hypothetical, goal is to see which parts of the two sides can be related.

Prerequisites: We expect that students have had courses in real analysis of several variables, know what an ordinary differential equation is, and have followed a course on curves and surfaces. More knowledge is useful, but not necessary to follow the lectures.

Algebra,    Geometrie und Topologie

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The two topics, combinatorial theory of free resolutions and differential graded algebra techniques in homological algebra, each have a long and rich history in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. Free resolutions are at the center of much of the study in the field and these two approaches give powerful tools for their study and their application to other problems. Neither of these topics is generally covered in graduate courses. Furthermore, recent developments have exhibited exciting interplay between the two subjects. The purpose of the school is to introduce the graduate students to these subjects and these new developments. The school will consist of two lectures each day and carefully planned problem sessions designed to reinforce the foundational material and to give them a chance to experiment with problems involving the interplay between the two subjects.

Algebra,    Graphentheorie und Kombinatorik

Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita)

This school, intended for PhD students and junior researchers in quantum phenomena and condensed matter physics, will consist of short courses on topics from Short courses from Quantum Matter, Quantum Information and Quantum Sensing, from theory to computations and experimental results.

Quantenmechanik und Quanteninformation,    Festkörperphysik

Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland

The course runs for one week in June (15th to 19th). It takes place at the campus of the Paul Scherrer Institute. The morning consists of introductory lectures on the use of photons, neutrons and muons for materials characterization. The afternoon consists of tours of the large scale facilities as well as in-depth visit to selected instruments. he aim of the course is that the students acquire a basic understanding on the interaction of photons, neutrons and muons with matter and how one can use these as tools to solve specific problems on condensed matter and materials research.

Interaction of photons, neutrons and muons with matter, Production of photons, neutrons and muons, Experimental setups: optics and detectors, Crystal symmetry, Bragg’s law, reciprocal lattice, structure factors, Elastic and inelastic scattering with neutrons and photons X-ray absorption spectroscopy, x-ray magnetic circular dichroism, Polarized neutron scattering for the study of magnetic materials, Imaging techniques using x-rays and neutrons, Introduction to muon spin rotation, Applications of muon spin rotation

Angewandte Physik: Röntgen- und Synchrotronstrahlung, Kristallographie ,    Angewandte Physik: Neutronenstreuung

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

This summer graduate school is a collabroation between MSRI and the FORTH-IACM Institute in Crete. The purpose of the school is to introduce graduate students to some of the most important geometric evolution equations. This is an area of geometric analysis that lies at the interface of differential geometry and partial differential equations. The lectures will begin with an introduction to nonlinear diffusion equations and continue with classical results on the Ricci Flow, the Mean curvature flow and other fully non-linear extrinsic flows such as the Gauss curvature flow. The lectures will also include geometric applications such as isoperimetric inequalities, topological applications such as the Poincar? onjecture, as well as recent important developments related to the study of singularities and ancient solutions.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The purpose of the summer school will be to introduce graduate students to effective methods in algebraic theories of differential and difference equations with emphasis on their model-theoretic foundations and to demonstrate recent applications of these techniques to studying dynamic models arising in sciences. While these topics comprise a coherent and rich subject, they appear in graduate coursework in at best a piecemeal way, and then only as components of classes for other aims. With this Summer Graduate School, students will learn both the theoretical basis of differential and difference algebra and how to use these methods to solve practical problems. Beyond the lectures, the graduate students will meet daily in problem sessions and will participate in one-on-one mentoring sessions with the lecturers and organizers.

The Bombannes summer school is devoted to the practical «state-of-art» approach to scattering methods, using neutrons, as well as X-ray and light sources - today’s key techniques to study structure and dynamics in systems containing colloids, polymers, surfactants and biological macromolecules. Since 1990 the Bombannes school series introduces, on a fundamental level, the current methodology of static and dynamic scattering techniques and their application to soft matter systems. It provides with a period of 2 years advanced training for young researchers with a working place in European laboratories at post-graduate and post-doctoral level.

Angewandte Physik: Neutronenstreuung,    Festkörperphysik

The application of topology to physics has become an integral part of a second quantum revolution in the sciences. The discovery of topological insulators and progress towards topological superconductors realizing non-abelian statistics has moved topological phases of matter onto the center stage in the interaction of topology and physics beyond the quantum Hall effect. While topological physics has been intensively investigated by physicists for the last few decades, the mathematical theory lags far behind. One challenge is formulating the right definition of topological phases of matter, which is closely related to the notoriously difficult problem of finding a rigorous mathematical formulation of quantum field theory. In this summer school, we will focus on two relatively mature foundational topics, and two new directions in the mathematics of topological phases of matter.

Kurse und Veranstaltungen für Studenten der Mathematik,    Mathematische Physik

Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion

The school aims to provide young scientists from different countries with courses on various aspects of plasma physics, fusion energy, plasma experiments and technology, as well as plasma diagnostics. Special emphasis is laid on magnetical confinement concepts like tokamaks and stellarators but inertial confinement research as well as plasma focus studies and plasma thrusters are also presented and discussed. The Kudowa Summer School is primarily intended for PhD students, for undergraduate students but experienced scientists who, coming from other disciplines are also welcome to participate. The school will provide an overview of the various fusion and plasma aspects, participants will have an opportunity to learn more about scientific progress on main fusion devices, meet and discuss these issues with the famous scientists.

Email: kudowaschool@ifpilm.pl

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

Representation Theory has undergone a revolution in recent years, with the development of what is now known as higher representation theory. In particular, the notion of categorification has led to the resolution of many problems previously considered to be intractable. The school will begin by providing students with a brief but thorough introduction to what could be termed the "bread and butter of modern representation theory", i.e., compact Lie groups and their representation theory; character theory; structure theory of algebraic groups.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

Probability theory, statistics as well as mathematical physics have increasingly been used in computer science. The goal of this school is to provide a unique opportunity for graduate students and young researchers to developed multi-disciplinary skills in a rapidly evolving area of mathematics.

Angewandte Mathematik (allgem.),    Algorithmen

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

In recent years, such probabilistic proofs received much attention due to a new motivation, delegation of computation, which is the emphasis of this summer school. This paradigm admits ultra-fast protocols that allow one party to check the correctness of the computation performed by another, untrusted, party. These protocols have even been realized within recently-deployed technology, for example, as part of cryptographic constructions known as succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (SNARKs). This summer school will provide an introduction to the field of probabilistic proofs and the beautiful mathematics behind it, as well as prepare students for conducting cutting-edge research in this area.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The theory of algebraic curves, arguably the oldest branch of algebraic geometry, has seen major developments in recent years, for example in the study of syzygies, and around questions about moduli spaces and Hilbert schemes of curves. The theory is rich in research activity and unsolved problems. There is an encyclopedic work by Arbarello, Cornalba, Griffiths and Harris, but there is no modern text that could be used as a textbook and that goes beyond the basics of the theory. We have embarked on a project to write a book at roughly the level of the wonderful book on complex algebraic surfaces by Arnaud Beauville.

Geometrie und Topologie,    Algebra

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The topic of random graphs is at the forefront of applied probability, and it is one of the central topics in multidisciplinary science where mathematical ideas are used to model and understand the real world. At the same time, random graphs pose challenging mathematical problems that have attracted the attention from probabilists and combinatorialists since the 1960, with the pioneering work of Erd\"{o}s and R?nyi. Around the turn of the millennium, very large data sets started to become available, and several applied disciplines started to realize that many real-world networks, even though they are from various different origins, share many fascinating features.

IEEE Magnetics

The IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School is held annually during (northern hemisphere) summer holidays. The school is designed for graduate students studying magnetism and related areas. It consists of lectures by international experts and includes poster presentations by participating graduate students. The program covers fundamentals and advanced topics in magnetism. Support will be provided for approximately 85 students based on a competitive application. Awardees are provided with free room and board and are reimbursed for most of the cost of transportation to/from the school. Students from all parts of the world are accepted.

European Crystallographic Association and International Union of Crystallography

We are pleased to invite you and your students to attend the 6th European Crystallographic School to be held in Budapest, Hungary 5-11 July 2020 under the auspices of the European Crystallographic Association and International Union of Crystallography.

Symmetries, point groups, space groups, periodicity, unit cell, Diffraction physics, Sources, detectors, future possibilities, Instrumentation, Crystallization small molecule, Protein production, purification, crystallization, Data collection, reduction, analysis, Structure solutions, refinement, Crystallographic databases (CSD, PDB), Phasing and model building, disorder, twinning, Polymorphism, crystal engineering, supramolecular chemistry, Powder diffraction, Rietveld, Structure analysis and quality control, Data validation, cif and data handling, Non-ambient conditions, Small angle scattering, Electron microscopy, NMR and crystallography, NMR-crystallography, Structure-property relationship

Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University

The ASP has evolved to be much more than a school. It is a program of actions with directed ethos toward physics as an engine for development in Africa.

Nuclear and Particle Physics; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Accelerators, Radiation and Medical Physics; Materials Physics; High Performance Computing; Physics Education; Physics Communication; Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency; Quantum Information.

Teilchenphysik und Felder,    Fachübergreifende Veranstaltungen für Physiker

College of Liberal and Professional Studies | University of Pennsylvania

The Experimental Physics Academy focuses on modern physics, specifically mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum dynamics and astrophysics, with an aim to provide hands-on experience and laboratory work within Penn’s vast research facilities. With time to experiment with advanced hardware and settings, students move past memorized equations to gain an understanding of cause and effect, and ultimately an appreciation of physics on a higher level.

Department of Physics and Engineering of ITMO University

Fast internet, telecommunications, precise medical diagnostics, ultrasensitive sensors, and solar energy become possible largely due to the development of optical technology and photonics giving us a deep understanding of the interaction between light and matter. Among others scattering phenomena often play a key role in different physical processes. In the scopes of the Summer School, the world's best experts will give lectures grouped into a 5-day course on modern theoretical and experimental aspects of scattering in photonics. The course will start with the fundamentals and will cover the latest achievements as well. The practical classes will help you to get the skills necessary for conducting own scientific research in this new exciting area of physics.

Tel.: [+79523939501];     Email: anna.dyma@metalab.ifmo.ru

Scattering Problems in Photonics

Optik und Laser,    Optoelektronik und Anzeigetechnik

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The purpose of the summer school is to introduce graduate students to key mainstream directions in the recent development of geometry, which sprang from Riemannian Geometry in an attempt to use its methods in various contexts of non-smooth geometry. This concerns recent developments in metric generalizations of the theory of nonpositively curved spaces and discretizations of methods in geometry, geometric measure theory and global analysis. The metric geometry perspective gave rise to new results and problems in Riemannian Geometry as well.

Geometrie und Topologie,    Analysis

Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (mtp)

The Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics will host a 2020 summer school for Ph.D. students in theoretical physics, the fifth of an annual series. The main theme of the school is "Scattering Amplitudes", ranging from recent new formal developments to precision calculations. Topics include lectures on the geometry of scattering amplitudes, on mathematical functions associated to loop amplitudes, on phenomenological applications in jet physics and on applications in perturbative gravity. The aim of the school is thus to provide a concise overview of the most important theory tools to carry out innovative research in the field of scattering amplitudes.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The study of nonnegative polynomials and sums of squares is a classical area of real algebraic geometry dating back to Hilbert's 17th problem. It also has rich connections to real analysis via duality and moment problems. In the last 15 years, sums of squares relaxations have found a wide array of applications from very applied areas (e.g., robotics, computer vision, and machine learning) to theoretical applications (e.g., extremal combinatorics, theoretical computer science).

Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence at the Institut de Management Public Et Gouvernance Territoriale (IMPGT)

The subject of this year’s school is “The Impact and Consequences of Energetic Particles on Fusion Plasmas”. As the start of ITER operations approaches, it is timely to address this multidisciplinary topic that includes plasma self-heating by fusion-born alpha-particles, the influence of energetic particles on stability, diagnosing energetic particle transport and loss, and understanding runaway electrons. The ITER International School aims to prepare young scientists and engineers for working in the field of nuclear fusion and in research applications associated with the ITER Project. The adoption of a “school format” was a consequence of the need to prepare future scientists and engineers on a range of different subjects and to provide them with a wide overview of the interdisciplinary skills required by the ITER project.

NASA

The Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshops are held annually and provide opportunities for students, postdocs, and researchers to learn about the engineering and scientific application of exoplanet-related techniques used in NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program.

The Summer School is intended to give the students an introduction to the fundamentals of plasma physics together with an appreciation of how these are related to applications such as Magnetic Confinement Fusion, Laser Plasma and Inertial Confinement Fusion, Low Temperature Plasma and Astrophysical Plasmas. Specific topics in these fields are also treated in depth.

Nuclear Engineering, Turbomachinery, Electrical Engineering, Oil and Gas in energy industry, Digitalization in energy industry

Ingenieurwesen,    Maschinenbau

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

The goal of this summer school is to introduce participants to tools and ideas from algebraic topology and homotopy theory that are used in the study of fixed point theory. The workshop will be centered around mini-courses, both on classical fixed-point theory and on modern techniques such as duality theory, spectra, and trace methods in algebraic K-theory.

The intended audience for this summer school should be familiar with the material in Hatcher (except the appendices). This reflects our goal that the school be accessible to second and third year students with an interest in algebraic topology from any PhD granting institution. The school will be structured around a few mini-courses, which will run in an active-learning style.

Geometrie und Topologie,    Algebra

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The purpose of this two weeks school is to introduce graduate students to the state of the art methods and results in the study of incompressible Euler's equations in general, and water waves in particular. This is a research area which is highly relevant to many real life problems, and in which substantial progress has been made in the last decade.

Angewandte Mathematik (allgem.),    Infinitesimalrechnung, Differentialgleichungen, Integralrechnung

Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland

Supported by several large research facilities and funding agencies in Europe

The school is intended for PhD students and young post-docs working in areas related to radioactive-ion beams. The production and use of energetic radioactive beams is a rapidly developing new field in nuclear physics, especially in Europe. Pioneering experiments are taking place, dedicated facilities are in successful operation and new facilities are under construction Many workshops and conferences have been devoted to this new field and senior scientists have ample opportunities to be informed on the latest developments. Complementary to that and being an educative effort, the European summer schools on exotic beams have been devised so that Ph.D. students and young post-docs are introduced to this new area and receive fore-front and detailed information.

Teilchenphysik und Felder,    Teilchenbeschleuniger

Faculty of Mathematics (Department of Astronomy), Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade and Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade

The SPIG 2020 follows a longtime tradition initiated almost 60 years ago. The Conference covers a wide range of topics from fundamental studies to applications of ionized gases. The 4th workshop on X-ray and VUV Interaction with Biomolecules in Gas Phase (4th XiBiGP), organized in collaboration with the SOLEIL synchrotron (France) will be associated to the conference. The program of the SPIG2020 will consist of Plenary Invited Lectures, Topical Invited Lectures, Progress Reports and Contributed Papers (poster presentations), as well as XiBiGP workshop lectures . A number of parallel and poster sessions will provide an opportunity for junior scientists to present their work.

Email: spig2020@ipb.ac.rs

Atomic collision processes, Particle and laser beam interaction with solids, Low temperature plasmas, General plasmas

Plasmaphysik, Kernfusion,    Atomphysik

Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC)

Association for Constraint Programming

This is the 26th edition of the annual conference on all aspects of computing with constraints, including: theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning.

Paul Scherrer Institut

Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland

Powder-diffraction methods have demonstrated an ever increasing range of applications in materials science, chemistry, physics, life sciences and engineering. Modern synchrotron-radiation methods not only provide data of exceptional quality, but have allowed researchers to perform previously inaccessible experiments. Along with determining the atomic structure and the relative abundance of crystalline phases in bulk samples, information on disordered materials, microstructural features, defects and their evolution in response to external stimuli over a wide range of timescales is now possible. The school, to be held at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, will give a broad overview of all the modern possibilities using synchrotron radiation, starting with a general theoretical introduction to the various methods and applications.

Like previous editions of ESM, the 2020 School aims at providing a thorough understanding of magnetism based on a broad series of fundamental lectures, while offering the latest insights into up-to-date aspects of magnetism with lectures focusing on a special topic. The topic covered in 2020 is Magnetism and Societal Challenges. The objective is to cover a wide range of fundamental to functional phenomena, to serve as a critical evaluation of the use of Magnetism to address societal challenges. The 2020 School will have a special format to achieve this objective, sharing time between academic lectures and project work in small teams. The School will be an opportunity for young scientists and lecturers from various fields to meet, share their expertise and build a network.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

The Karlsruhe International School on Fusion Technologies is held since 2007 at KIT Campus Nord (former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe). It started as 'Fusion Summer School' trying to enlarge the knowledge of international young scientists on the process of nuclear fusion. For the lectures leading scientists from KIT as well as international Partners will present their scientific topics. Additionally there are some insights to the labs and facilities situated at the KIT.

This international school will offer an overview of the observational constraints, the interpretative tools and the theoretical frameworks used for studying the interstellar medium in galaxies from the epoch of reionization to the Milky Way. Furthermore, it aims to build a synergy between the Galactic ISM and extragalactic communities. Time will be devoted to discussion between participants and lecturers, with the hope of kick-starting original projects.