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Winter School - Theoretical Aspects of Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation
Galileo Galilei Institute - Arcetri, Florence, 11-22 March, 2024. Deadline for registration: 20 January 2024.
The School aims to provide robust and detailed introductions to the basic theoretical concepts and main tools to work in the field of Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation. Gravitational waves of astrophysical and cosmological origin, neutrino physics and astronomy, early universe physics, dark matter and dark energy, galactic and extra-galactic cosmic rays and gamma-rays, will be some of the main topics and will be alternated over the years. The courses are organised as lectures and are integrated with hands-on and discussion sessions with an instructor.
Topics
Francesca Calore (LAPTH/ Annecy): Probing fundamental physics with multiwavelength observations
Alessandro Mirizzi (University of Bari & INFN Bari): Axions and ALPs: Theory and phenomenology
Angelo Ricciardone (University of Pisa & INFN Pisa): Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
Daan Meerburg (University of Groningen): Cosmological tests of fundamental Physics
The school details are available on the event website.
For further information and clarification, please contact apcg.school [at] gmail.com.
Deadline for registration: 20 January 2024
Symposium "Dining in space: food production, storage and preparation"
Italian Space Agency - Rome, 20-21 March, 2024. Deadline for registration: 10 March 2024.
The success of future human space exploration missions will depend on the development of innovative crew sustenance systems. These new technologies will have to provide safe, nutritious and enjoyable food, maximising the recycling of waste and, in the long term, the utilisation of in situ resources.
The symposium aims to explore existing heritage and new ideas in the field of food science and technology for space applications. The initiative will be an opportunity to promote dialogue between the world of research and industry, encouraging the participation of actors not yet engaged in the space sector.
The ultimate goal will be the creation of an interdisciplinary network for strengthening the sector and enhancing the national contribution to future scientific missions, in the context of global exploration goals.
The symposium poster, with detailed information about the event and how to submit an abstract and register, is available on the event website.
For further information and clarification, please contact spacefood2024 [at] asi.it.
Participation is free of charge, subject to registration
Deadline for registration: 10 March 2024. Deadline for those interested in contributing a paper:15 January 2024.
Complex systems, statistical mechanics and machine learning crossover - A five-day meeting on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, complex systems and machine learning
École de Physique, Les Houches (France), 25-29 March, 2024. Deadline for applications: 22 January 2024
The number of participants is limited to 70 persons. If the number of participants exceeds the capacity, the organizing committee will select the participants to have a proper thematic, geographic, and gender balance.
Participants are expected to attend the full week (5 days); partial attendance is not recommended.
The school fee of 540€ ( VAT included) covers all meals and accommodation. No extra fee for attendance is asked. Details on the payment will be given after the list of participants is definite.
All useful information on the School's programme can be found on its website.
Deadline for registration: 22 January 2024
ASI School on IXPE Data Analysis For General Observers
Rome, 19-23 February, 2024. Deadline for registration: 10 January 2024
This Seasonal School is initiated by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to enhance the use of data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission and contribute to expanding knowledge in aerospace sciences. It also seeks to support the integration of young talents into the productive and research sectors.
IXPE is a space mission resulting from a collaboration between the Italian Space Agency and the American Space Agency (NASA). The observatory consists of three telescopes designed for X-ray polarimetry measurements. The main mission objectives include active galactic nuclei, microquasars, pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae, magnetars, X-ray binaries, supernova remnants, and the galactic centre. In addition to the scientific instrumentation, ASI provides the Luigi Broglio Space Center for data reception.
The sessions will have a maximum of 20 participants and will be held in person at the ASI headquarters in Rome, at Via del Politecnico snc, for a total of 40 hours. The official language of the Seasonal School is English.
Upon completion of the course, participants will gain familiarity with X-ray polarimetry by working directly with experts in instrumentation, analysis, theory, and modelling. The course aims to provide tools for the analysis and interpretation of IXPE data, including practical sessions analyzing data from sources observed by IXPE during its first two years of operational life.
Full info is available at the event webpage.
Deadline for registration: 10 January 2024
EUSCOTHA: EUregio School on COntrol THeory and Applications
Trento, Italy, 12-16 February, 2024. Deadline for registration: 26 January 2024.
EUSCOTHA is a PhD students school organized by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Trento (Italy), the Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and the Department of Engineering Mathematics of the University of Innsbruck (Austria), within the Euregio Mobility Fund project.
The aim of EUSCOTHA is to bring together PhD and motivated master students in Mathematics, Engineering and any other discipline with strong interest in control theory and its applications. Post-doctoral fellows are also welcome.
EUSCOTHA will consist of four courses of about six academic hours each and some seminars delivered by recognized expert researchers of the field. Time for free discussion will be planned. The four courses, their lecturers and titles are
- Prof. Mauro Garavello (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy, webpage): Control Problems for Conservation Laws with Applications to Traffic Flow.
- Prof. Frédéric Jean (ENSTA Paris, France, webpage): Mathematical Methods for Motion Planning.
- Proff. Angelika Peer and Karl Dietrich von Ellenrieder (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, webpage): Robust Control with Applications to Planning and Robotics.
- Prof. Lucia Pallottino (University of Pisa, Italy, webpage): Optimal Control and Optimization: From Single to Multi-Robot Systems.
SCIENTIFIC and ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Fabio Bagagiolo (Trento), Marco Frego (Bozen-Bolzano), Heiko Gimperlein (Innsbruck), Angelika Peer (Bozen-Bolzano), Andrea Pinamonti (Trento).
Contacts: dept.math [at] unitn.it ( )(secretariat), fabio.bagagiolo [at] unitn.it ( )
The school details are available on the event website.
Deadline for registration: 26 January 2024.
Comparative Visions in Space Law
Rome, 9-10 February, 2024.
The "Comparative Visions in Space Law" conference, held at Roma Tre University's Law Department on February 9-10, 2024, is a two-day event exploring diverse facets of space law. The first day features panels on legal models, public and private space governance, transdisciplinary legal issues, and the intersection of law and geopolitics in space. Notable speakers include experts from international institutions and academia. Day two delves into peaceful exploration, space resource exploitation, the law of space technology, and information. This conference serves as a dynamic platform for experts to exchange insights on crucial legal aspects of space exploration and governance.
Full info is available at the event webpage.
19th National Congress of Planetary Sciences - CNSP Bormio 2024
Bormio (Sondrio, Italy), 5-9 February, 2024. Registration requested.
The Congress, organised by the 'Italian Society of Planetary Sciences - Angioletta Coradini' will be held in the Congress Hall of the Bormio Terme complex, via Stelvio 14.
The themes of the Congress are, as usual, as broad as possible to accommodate and represent the richness of our community's activities and objectives.
In this year's edition, to make the programme even more interesting, 11 mini-sessions proposed and coordinated by members (Focus) have been included. The Focuses are aimed either at delving into specific themes, at innovatively tackling transversal issues, or at highlighting scientific topics linked to new projects.
More details on the individual Focus and the full Programme is available on the event webpage.
Extended abstracts must be completed in English using the given template and sent by 1 December 2023 to the email address Planetologia2024 [at] scienzeplanetarie.it.
The registration fee is euro 250,00 + VAT (305euro)
The fee includes
- Participation in the proceedings
- Conference kit
- Welcome aperitif on Monday 5 February 2024
- Social dinner (at the Baita dei Pini) Wednesday 7 February 2024
To register, please complete the form on www.scienzeplanetarie.it at https://www.scienzeplanetarie.it/registrazione-cnsp2024/.
Support for young researchers, mainly undergraduates and PhD students, continues this year. Thanks to the sponsorships of organisations and companies, grants will be made available to young researchers that provide exemption from registration fees. Young people who would like to take advantage of this opportunity can apply for it by sending their CVs by 15 December 2023 to the congress email address: planetologia2024 [at] scienzeplanetarie.it.
International Winter School on Origins of Life - WISOL 24 “The future of chemistry and biology towards the origins of life”
Pavia, from 16 to 19 January 2024. Deadline for registration: 4 December 2023
How did Life begin on Earth? This intriguing question is of capital importance for modern science. From the most recent exploratory missions to ancient philosophy, this fascinating question has puzzled humankind from the beginning.
The University of Pavia, as a growing research institute, offers a unique platform to get in touch with top scientists in the field and learn the most advanced models with experimental techniques used in prebiotic investigations. With multidisciplinarity as a trademark, WISOL 24 is aimed at chemists, physicists, biologists, geologists, planetary scientists, astronomists and scholars for fruitfully building a knowledge exchange network and a cradle for future collaborations.
WISOL 24 is an intensive international school and it is the first school on origins of life studies. The school comprises laboratory activities on data treatment and computer simulations with the most advanced open-source software.
Attendees will have the opportunity to present their work in flash communications that will be held as part of the main events.
full info will be made available at the event webpage.
Deadline for registration: 4 December 2023.
ESC23 - Efficient Scientific Computing (14th International INFN School on "Architectures, tools and methodologies for the development of large-scale scientific computing applications")
Bertinoro (Forlì Cesena - Italy), from 4 to 12 October, 2023. Deadline for applications: August 4, 2023
The Programme offers introductory lectures on current trends in the evolution of processor architectures and parallel programming. This is followed by more in-depth lectures on advanced programming with C++, efficient use of memory, floating-point computation and programming in a heterogeneous environment, exploiting the potential of multi-threading computing, GPUs and cluster computing with MPI.
The School is mainly aimed at PhD students and young researchers who are actively involved in the development of scientific applications and software tools for research.
All useful information on the School's programme can be found on its website, where the registration form is also available: https://agenda.infn.it/event/ESC23/
Deadline for registration: 4 August 2023
Deadline with increased participation fee: 3 September 2023
Eighth training school on Convective and Volcanic Clouds (CVC) detecting, monitoring and modeling
Nicolosi, Sicily (Italy) from 2 to 8 October 2023. Deadline for applications: August 31, 2023
The training school is supported and organized by researchers of the Università di Padova, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), and the National Research Council (CNR), with the patronage of INGV, IAVCEI and AIV.
Attending the school you will get an overview of the state of the art techniques and methods for detecting and monitoring the volcanic and convective clouds, you will know the different instruments and platforms allowing us to get the best performance in detecting such kind of clouds, you will be projected to the future learning about new missions planned for solving the main issues on these fields, you will be involved in real applications as early warning systems and modeling, you will directly analyze the data.
The school topics will range from satellite instruments such as IR sensors or GNSS to aircraft measurements like lidar and radar, from study of ash and SO2 clouds to tropical cyclones, mediterranean hurricanes, land and maritime convection.
The purpose of the School is to train students with outstanding research interest in the techniques allowing to detect, monitor, and model convective and volcanic clouds, to gain knowledge of the instruments and satellite missions (present and future) and to be able to support such kind of studies. The double aim is to create a school managed by young scientists already well established and recognized in their respective fields for young scientists willing to reinforce or develop their knowledge on atmospheric extreme events detection and monitoring for supporting policy makers, early warning systems and aviation safety.
The extreme atmospheric event cloud detection is a high multidisciplinary and challenging topic since the same techniques and instruments can be used for meteorology, volcanic monitoring, atmospheric physics and climate purposes. Within all these fields there are still many unsolved issues making this school fundamental for creating a new generation of scientists able to use the synergy of several different instruments and techniques. The air transportation became fundamental in the last decades for the World economy and social life, and volcanic or convective events can affect the regular management and operation creating large economic losses. This training school will support creating a new generation of scientists specialized on monitoring and detection of atmospheric extreme events supporting the safety of the citizens. Most of the young researchers are usually focused in a single subject (e.g. convection or volcanic eruption) and they are not in touch with final users to get their feedback, this school will be the occasion for broadening their horizons and for creating useful connections. We expect scientists and final users (such as pilots or early warning system technicians) meet during this course for discussing common goals and for learning from each other how to improve their work toward a proficient collaboration.
The CVC school 2023 will take place in Nicolosi (Italy) on the slopes of Etna volcano. During the CVC 2023 all the topics will be deepened, and the participants will get an added value from:
- a field measurement campaign they will be part of;
- an excursion to the Etna craters;
- laboratoires using professional softwares applied to real data;
- presenting their research to the other participants and to the lecturers.
All the info: http://www.cvctrainingschool.org/school/
Registration: https://forms.gle/WFPJppxfsRctgCZw6
Applications: The School is open to everybody with priority for graduate students, PhD students and early career researchers. More info available at the website http://www.cvctrainingschool.org/
Registration deadline: August 31, 2023
Contacts:
Stefano Corradini, stefano.corradini [at] ingv.it
Riccardo Biondi, riccardo [at] biondiriccardo.it
Logistic info: info [at] islandofmeetings.com
Gran Sasso Hands-on 2023 - PhD autumn school on experimental astroparticle physics
L'Aquila (ITALY) from 25 September to 6 October, 2023. Deadline for applications: April 15, 2023
Gran Sasso Hands-on 2023 is an autumn school offering Ph.D. students the unique opportunity of being directly involved in the research project activities at the Laboratori Nazionali Gran Sasso of INFN (LNGS), the world-leading laboratory for underground physics, astroparticle physics, and nuclear astrophysics.
The hands-on program will focus on:
- General Relativity
- Cosmic-ray physics
- Dark matter searches
- Neutrino physics
- Nuclear astrophysics
- Space-based detectors
Students will be involved in a 10 day experimental project, in groups of 1-3 students per activity, under the supervision of the LNGS, GSSI and UnivAq scientists, with the goal of designing and performing a scientific experiment. A series of introductory lectures held by renowned field experts will provide the needed background for the proposed activities.
The selected students will benefit from an outstanding scientific context and will work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment. This represents an enriching personal experience and a good opportunity to establish contacts with other students and worldwide scientists.
Deadline for applications: April 15, 2023. full info available at the dedicated webpage.
ISRO - Space Science and Technology Awareness Training (START) programme
Online, July - August 2023. Deadline for applications: 15th July 2023
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) encourages greater participation from academia, for generating human resources in space science and technology, expanding the user base of the space exploration mission data, and fostering an ecosystem to facilitate active participation of the students in space science and technology research.
In view of this, ISRO has envisaged the Space science and Technology Awareness Training (START) programme. START is an introductory level awareness programme in space science and technology. The programme is envisaged to be organised in online mode in order to reach out to as many of the space enthusiasts as possible. Although primarily aimed at the under-graduate and post-graduate students of science and technology, the programme is designed to be suitable for any individual with a basic, systematic training in science, at least up to the high school level.
Date and Duration of online training: Online training is tentatively scheduled to be conducted during July-Aug 2023. The training programme is about 2-3 hrs / day for a duration of 2 – 3 weeks. The START programme will be conducted through ISRO E-CLASS platform
(https://eclass.iirs.gov.in).
Scope: The lecture modules are thematically arranged to address different facets of space science and technology like Earth and Near-Earth Space, Solar System Exploration, Space Mission Design and Observations, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, as well as technological aspects like accessing the space, space instrumentation, etc. In addition to these, there will be lectures on Indian space exploration programme and research opportunities in the fields of space science and technology.
Eligibility START is aimed to reach out to the maximum beneficiaries not only to students belonging to Indian Institutions but also to any interested individuals. The students of approved nodal centres as well as individuals can register and join the online training programme by choosing the appropriate category for registration as detailed below.
Category-1: Students from approved START host institutes/nodal centres: Post-graduate students and final year under graduate students of physical sciences (Physics and Chemistry) and technology (e.g. Electronics, Computer Science,
Mechanical, Applied Physics, Radiophysics, Optics & Opto-electronics, Instrumentation and other associated subjects) studying in START host institutes / nodal centres, are eligible to be considered for the training under this category.
Participation certificate / merit certificate will be provided to the eligible students.
Link for registering student participants of approved nodal center: https://elearning.iirs.gov.in/edusatregistration/student
Category-2: Individuals of any background: Interested individual participants (including students who are not eligible / could not join through the category-1) of any background can directly register and attend the live sessions through Youtube Channel of IIRS- https://www.youtube.com/@edusat2004. Participation certificate will be provided to the eligible participants.
Link for registering individual participant: https://elearning.iirs.gov.in/edusatregistration/student
Individuals while registering directly in ISRO website will automatically get the login credentials.
Category-3: Public for knowledge gain: Public can watch the live sessions of START for knowledge gain without registering in the website.
The link for watching START is - https://www.youtube.com/@edusat2004
Course Fee: START programme is offered by ISRO free of cost. There is no registration fee / admission fee.
Timeline for Participant Registration
Commencement of registration: 20th June 2023
Last date for registration: 15th July 2023
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Frontier Technologies for “Space 2.0” Communications - PhD Summer School - 3rd edition
Online, from 29 August to 1 September 2023. Deadline for applications: 21 August 2023, 12:00
The recent change of perspective known also as “Space 2.0” will revolutionize the paradigms of satellite and, more in general, aerospace communications. The old role of “sky repeaters” attributed to Space network nodes no longer copes with the emerging requirements of flexibility, global and ubiquitous connectivity already emerged in the 5G vision. In such a perspective, the role of satellites will be reconsidered in the framework of "softwarized", reconfigurable and sustainable network infrastructures.
The Ph.D. Summer School Frontier Technologies for “Space 2.0” Communications (third edition) organized by the University of Trento (Italy) in collaboration with the Università di Genova and the Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" under the patronage of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS), aims at offering an overview of the most advanced technologies concerning a renewed vision of Space connectivity for the next decades.
The School is mainly addressed to PhD students in the areas of Information and Communication Technologies, Physical Science, Earth and Space Exploration.
The event will be held in English.
Full details at the dedicate webpage.
ISAPP – International School on AstroParticle Physics on: “Quantum Fluids in the Universe"
Pisa (Italy) from 5 to 15 June 2023. Deadline for applications: March 15, 2023
The ISAPP – International School on AstroParticle Physics on: “Quantum Fluids in the Universe" (Pisa (Italy) from 5 to 15 June 2023) aims to provide a cross-disciplinary overview and the main tools to work on some of the main aspects of astroparticle physics where quantum collective properties of matter play a crucial role.
The initiative of this school springs also from the experience gained in the organization of the QFC (quantum fluids, fundamental interactions and cosmology conference series).
Deadline for applications: March 15, 2023.
Full info available at the dedicated webpage.
“Be In-Time on Mars” Summer School
Alghero (Sardinia) from 5 to 9 June, 2023.
The Department of Architecture Design and Urbanism (DADU) of the University of Sassari (UNISS) is organising the "Be In-Time on Mars" Summer School.
The event is related to the In-Time (Instrument for Mars and Earth Dating Applications) project, which envisages the development of a miniaturised instrument capable of dating geological deposits on Mars using the luminescence technique.
Talks at the Summer School will cover topics such as space missions, planetary exploration, planetary geology, possible future landing sites, Martian analogues on Earth, computing, luminescence dating and developments on the realisation of the miniaturised prototype.
The Summer School is free of charge and will take place in the Santa Chiara Complex in Alghero, but can also be followed on-line at the link https://teams.live.com/meet/9460708298614
For further information: beintimeonmars [at] gmail.com
First Training School of the Plasmasphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Integrated Research Environment and Access services
Rome, INGV headquarters, from May 29 to June 1st 2023. Deadline for Applications: 15 March 2023
The First Training School of the Plasmasphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Integrated Research Environment and Access services: a Network of Research Facilities (PITHIA-NRF) project will be held in Rome, INGV headquarters, between 29 May and 1 Jun 2023. The school offers:
- theoretical lectures on the physical mechanisms acting in the Earth’s Ionosphere, the Thermosphere and the Plasmasphere as parts of the coupled Sun-Earth system;
- courses on the main scientific models registered in PITHIA-NRF e-science centre;
- hands-on session on the use of the PITHIA-NRF e-science centre to learn how to use the system and its integration tools.
The school is addressed to research scientists of all levels and engineers, but the participation of PhD students and early career scientists is encouraged.
Funds will be available to support the travel of participants with an excellent CV accompanied by a motivation letter and a recommendation letter.
Deadline for application (including Funding request): 15 March 2023
All information, including how to register, can be found here.
Program Committee: Anna Belehaki (chair), Ivan Galkin, Tamas Kiss, Lucilla Alfonsi, Mamoru Ishii, Hanna Rothkael
Evaluation Committee: Ingemar Haggstrom (chair), David Altadill, Claudio Cesaroni, Jurgen Watermann
Local Organizing Committee: Luca Spogli (chair), Claudio Cesaroni, Sara Mainella, Emanuele Pica, Vincenzo Romano, Loredana Proto (secretary)
Spring School on Experts and Politicians on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics Diplomacy
Padua, from 22 to 23 May 2023, Florence, 24 May 2023, Rome, from 25 to 26 May 2023. Deadline for Applications: 21 April 2023
This Spring School is a research laboratory with the aim of create an experimental Master's degree. The unprecedented aspect of the Master's degree is to combine science and diplomacy.
In fact, it aims to provide participants with important tools to deepen issues related to science, diplomacy and decision-making processes, in a world of increasing technological density that requires precisely a techno-scientific diplomatic action. science. In a context in which the international community is increasingly called upon to respond the need to take rapid and conscious decisions and conscious decisions, this Spring School pursues the intention of giving full relevance to the role of science and technology in the international dimension.
In particular, Italy has developed in the European and global context techno-scientific competences that animate experiences of cooperation and competition in a dynamic diplomatic framework. The Spring School intends to offer its participants the opportunity to learn from past experiences in order to link up with future prospects and create a community of reference thanks to the involvement of scholars, diplomats and scientists interested in the international context. international context.
The training of course participants will follow an interdisciplinary approach with the following objectives in in relation to techno-scientific diplomacy:
a. to provide knowledge on the evolution of the international relations framework and its history from the Cold War to the current scenarios;
b. to provide an in-depth overview of diplomacy in bilateral negotiations and in multilateral arenas at European and international level;
c. to develop oral (public speaking) and writing skills (reporting techniques and (public speaking and copywriting techniques) aimed at deepening of negotiation techniques;
d. broaden techniques related to hard skills (level of of study and knowledge of the topics covered) and soft skills (crisis management, team building, problem solving skills, research skills, role playing);
e. enrich the curricular background of the participants through the development of knowledge and professional skills supported by deepening issues related to techno-scientific techno-scientific diplomacy in order to facilitate their insertion in the working environment related to international relations and diplomacy.
Info: olga.dubrovina [at] unipd.it
Deadline for Applications: 21 April 2023.
Galileo Festival della Scienza e dell'Innovazione (@GalileoFest)
11^ EDITION | PROGETTO ACADEMY, Padua, May 18-21, 2023. Deadline for Applications: 30th of April 2023
Applications are now open for scholarships to take part in the Academy Project of the Galileo Festival of Science and Innovation, a unique opportunity for meeting, exchange and training - to be held in Padua from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 May 2023 - open to students on bachelor, specialist, master, PhD and ITS degree courses from all Italian universities.
Interested students can choose to apply for two different options
option 1 | guided tours + participation in the Galileo Festival: the Academy will take place from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 May, for a total of 4 days / 3 nights
option 2 | participation in the Galileo Festival: the Academy will take place from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 May, for a total of 3 days / 2 nights
The first application deadline is Sunday 30 April 2023.
Information available on the dedicated page.
Instrumentation School (H2020 project Opticon Radionet Pilot - ORP)
Milan, from 17 to 26 May 2023. Deadline for Applications: February 24, 2023
The Instrumentation school focuses on Integral Field Spectroscopy and, during it, the students will carry out a 'Phase A' study of an instrument under supervision of an experienced tutor.
This school is meant for both astronomers and engineers at almost any level (from MSc students to young postdocs). The first half of the school comprises morning lectures and afternoon group sessions with hands-on instrument planning. The lectures include, among other topics, science cases, systems engineering, optical design, optomechanics, and detectors.
Second half of the school is dedicated to group work, and in the end of the school the students present their instrument ides.
The local costs (accommodation and lunches) are covered by ORP, and some travel support is also available (see application form).
More information on the school: https://www.sc.eso.org/~hkorhone/ORP_training/Instrumentation2023/
Application deadline is on Friday 24 February 2023, and the applicants will be notified on the selection in early March,
Summer School and Conference on the “Mathematics for Signal processing and Applications in Geophysics and other fields”
Rome, Italy, and online from 15 to 20 May 2023. Deadline for Applications: March 31, 2023
A Summer School and Conference on the “Mathematics for Signal processing and Applications in Geophysics and other fields”, will take place in Rome, Italy, and online on May 15-20, 2023.
The event will be hybrid, providing the opportunity for everyone to join either in-person or virtually.
During the Summer School young researchers and Ph.D. students will have a chance to learn and deepen their knowledge of Mathematics of Signal Processing, in particular on new data analysis tools/techniques for non-stationary time series and their theoretical foundation, as well as open problems in applications.
The summer school will take place during the first 3 days and it will consist of three courses of 8 hours each.
The event will conclude with a two days Conference during which several invited Speakers will present new tools for signal processing, their mathematical analysis, and applications to geophysics and other applied fields of research.
Some slots for contributed talks and posters are still available. Contributed talks will be 15 minutes long (12+3 for questions). The submission deadline is March 31, 2023.
Applications for prospective students of the Summer School, Capacity Building Day, as well as Speakers of the conference and poster session are now open. Financial support is available for a limited number of participants.
For more information and to apply please visit the dedicated webpage or email the organizers at masag2023 [at] spacearth.net.
Space Environment Monitoring Workshop (SPACEMON) 2023
ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands, from 15 to 17 May 2023. Deadline for Applications 23rd of March 2023 1700CET
The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the current research and developments of space environment monitors covering the following areas :
- space radiation
- plasma (particles and fields, TEC)
- micro-particles
- planetary dust
- magnetometers
- atomic oxygen sensors,
- including environment monitors for Cubesats applications . This includes also exploitation of in-flight data, including calibration to feed-back lessons learned into ongoing and future monitor developments.
Nominally, presentations will be limited to European submissions or European-led activities, the call for abstracts is now open and abstracts can be submitted via the website:
https://indico.esa.int/e/spacemon2023
The deadline for submission is: 23rd of March 2023 1700CET
In order to register and submit an abstract colleagues will need to first be registered on ESA’s Indico system.
This workshop is free and will be held in ESA ESTEC (location to be communicated later). While onsite participation is strongly encouraged, online participation might also be possible (see website updates). In that case the organising committee may limit the number of accepted registrants in order to keep a good balance between onsite and online
In order to keep updated with SPACEMON2023 and to be on the preliminary distribution list for the next SPACEMON event you must register on the website. If you are registered (and your registration is accepted) then you will gain access to material even if you cannot attend. If you do not register you will not be kept informed about SPACEMON!
For more information on Privacy and Data Protection Policy and how it affects SPACEMON see the link on the website.
Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies - Interoception and Brain Disorders
Advanced Neuroscience Courses - Venice, from 6 to 13 May, 2023
The study of interoception is a recent and rapidly expanding field of research with profound implications for the understanding and treatment of brain disorders. Our brains and bodies are intrinsically coupled; organs including the heart, stomach, and lungs, interact with central neural processes to influence cognitive and affective processing. Interoception is an ‘internal sense’ detailing the afferent signalling, central processing, and perception of internal bodily signals at conscious and unconscious levels. Brain disorders, encompassing both neurological and clinical conditions, have historically been studied by examining changes in behaviour and their underlying neural mechanisms. The role of the body, and body-brain integration, has been largely neglected, despite the prevalence of body-based symptoms and the high comorbidity been physical and mental conditions.
This Advanced Course will (1) detail contemporary models characterising interoception across neural, behavioural, and higher-order levels, incorporating both conscious and unconscious processing, (2) discuss the role of interoception in aspects of fundamental cognition, including consciousness, reward, and emotion, and (3) examine interoceptive mechanisms in relation to brain disorders, with a particular focus on an array of neurological and clinical conditions, including, but not limited to, functional neurological disorder, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Understanding the role of interoception in the aetiology of neurological and clinical brain disorders isolates novel mechanisms, with exciting possibilities for new treatment targets.
The Programme is offered in the framework of the Advanced Neuroscience Courses initiative of the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies. The Advanced Courses are carefully designed and orchestrated to maximize the potential for interactio between the Faculty and participants in a very friendly and unintimidating manner. This will allow the participants to develop insights that will create fresh perspectives in your own field of research or clinical activity.
Info available at the specific webpage of the initiative.
Spring School on Machine Learning for High Energy Physics 2023.
Erice, Italy, from 11 to 18 April 2023. Deadline for Applications: February 28, 2023
The Schools targets PhD students and early-stage career postdocs primarily. Advanced Master's students are also encouraged to apply. The school is organised by INFN and Practicum.
The primary goal of the MLHEP school is a focused introduction to applied modern machine learning techniques that could improve physics performance for various HEP-related problems. The school pays attention to the student experience, so along with "hands-on" seminars, a dedicated data science competition will be organised.
Additionally, the school will include a series of talks that show real examples of improvements for particular physics cases due to machine learning techniques. It is ideally suited for advanced graduate students and young postdocs willing to learn how to:
- formulate HEP-related problems in machine learning-friendly terms;
- select quality criteria for a given problem;
- understand and apply principles of widely-used classification models (e.g., boosting, bagging, BDT, neural networks, etc.) to practical cases;
- optimise features and parameters of the given model in an efficient way under given restrictions;
- select the best classifier implementation amongst a variety of ML libraries (scikit-learn, catboost, deep learning libraries, etc.);
- understand and apply principles of generative model design;
- define and conduct reproducible data-driven experiments.
For further information, including the registration procedure, please refer to the School website.
Registration is open until the 28th of Feb 2023.
For further questions feel free to contact mlhep2023 [at] gmail.com
Galileo Gailiei Institute PhD School on: "Theoretical Aspects of Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation".
Arcetri, Florence (Italy) from 20 to 31 March 2023. Deadline for Applications: February 5, 2023
The School aims at providing robust and detailed introductions on the basic theoretical concepts and main tools to work in the field of Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation. Gravitational waves of astrophysical and cosmological origin, neutrino physics and astronomy, dark matter and dark energy, galactic and extra-galactic cosmic rays and gamma-rays will be some among the main topics, and will be alternated along the years.
The courses are organised as lectures and are integrated with hands-on and discussion sessions with an instructor.
Details can be found at the dedicated page.
Applications can be submitted through the GGI web page within the deadline February 5, 2023.
Simposium “Biomedicina Spaziale per le Future Missioni di Esplorazione Umana dello Spazio: a Call to Action”
Rome, from 15 to 17 March 2023. Deadline for Applications: March 12, 2023
The Italian Space Agency is pleased to announce the Symposium "Space Biomedicine for Future Human Space Exploration Missions: a Call to Action" that will be held from 15 to 17 March 2023 at the ASI headquarters in Rome (Via del Politecnico snc).
The aim of the initiative is to explore ideas and proposals for technologies and lines of research in the field of space biomedicine with the aim of sharing existing heritage and identifying both strengths and possible criticalities for a strengthening of the research sector.
The symposium will be an opportunity to promote dialogue between research groups from different disciplines and industries already actively involved in the space sector, but also to encourage the participation of new players from the national scientific community and companies. The ultimate goal will be the creation of an interdisciplinary network and the promotion of related activities to contribute synergistically to future scientific missions with national participation, also in an international context.
Participation in the symposium is free of charge, subject to registration by 12 March 2023. Those interested in contributing a paper are invited to submit an abstract by 22 January 2023.
The Symposium poster, with directions for submitting the abstract and for registration, is available at this link.
PHOTONS-@3 Photonic Technologies for Sensing Applications
Pisa, from 23 to 27 January 2023. Deadline for Applications: December 19, 2022
Photonic technologies have played a key role in the last decades to address the high demand for data traffic by telecommunication networks and data centres.
The industrial development of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical communications systems and networks in the nineties and the more recent interest in photonic integration for data centres to overcome their well-known electronic bottleneck, have driven the technology to a high level of maturity, opening the way to many other industrial fields and applications.
In particular, photonic technologies are becoming extremely attractive for sensing applications in a wide range of industrial fields, including energy, oil & gas, transportation, automotive, aerospace, bio-chemical and medical applications, as well as for structural health and environmental monitoring.
Optical fiber sensors and photonic sensors, in general, offer many advantages compared to conventional electronic-based sensors; immunity to electromagnetic interference, small size and weight, high multiplexing capabilities, robustness to harsh environments, as well as the fact of being completely passive at the sensing points.
Deadline for Registration: December 19th, 2022
More info available at the dedicated website.