Full Technical Report 2019 ii This document is the full technical report of ICTP for the year 2019. For the non-technical description of 2019 highlights, please see the printed “ICTP: A Year in Review” publication. iii Contents Research ............................................................................................................................................................ 1 High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (HECAP) ........................................................................... 2 Phenomenology of Particle Physics ............................................................................................................ 2 Cosmology ................................................................................................................................................. 5 The ICTP ATLAS Experimental group at the CERN Large Hadron Collider ..................................................... 5 String and Quantum Field Theories ............................................................................................................ 6 Training Activities ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Interdisciplinary Activities .......................................................................................................................... 8 Outside Activities ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Staff and Long-Term Visitors ...................................................................................................................... 9 Funding .................................................................................................................................................... 10 Publications ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (CMSP) ........................................................................................ 23 Research Initiatives .................................................................................................................................. 23 Research Activities ................................................................................................................................... 23 Training Activities ..................................................................................................................................... 25 Activities .................................................................................................................................................. 26 Seminars and Special Events/Meetings .................................................................................................... 28 Other Events ............................................................................................................................................ 33 Participation in International Programmes ............................................................................................... 34 Services .................................................................................................................................................... 34 Grants and Awards ................................................................................................................................... 34 Staff, Postdoctoral Fellows and Long-term Visitors ................................................................................... 34 Funding .................................................................................................................................................... 41 CMSP: Sustainable Energy ........................................................................................................................ 41 CMSP: Synchrotron Radiation Related Theory .......................................................................................... 43 Publications ............................................................................................................................................. 44 Mathematics (MATH) ................................................................................................................................... 55 Staff ......................................................................................................................................................... 56 Activities .................................................................................................................................................. 57 Publications ............................................................................................................................................. 60 Earth System Physics (ESP) ........................................................................................................................... 62 iv Research Lines ......................................................................................................................................... 62 Specific Research Activities during 2019 ................................................................................................... 63 Training Activities ..................................................................................................................................... 75 International Projects and External Funding ............................................................................................. 78 Participation in International Programmes ............................................................................................... 78 Staff and Long-Term Visitors (3 months or more) ..................................................................................... 79 Publications ............................................................................................................................................. 80 Applied Physics (AP) ..................................................................................................................................... 89 Multidisciplinary Laboratory (MLAB) ........................................................................................................ 89 Telecommunications/ICT for Development Laboratory (T/ICT4D) ........................................................... 101 Medical Physics ...................................................................................................................................... 107 Fluid Dynamics ....................................................................................................................................... 109 Anchor Optics Research (AOR) ............................................................................................................... 110 Quantitative Life Sciences (QLS) ................................................................................................................. 111 Research Activities ................................................................................................................................. 112 Training Activities ................................................................................................................................... 114 Participation in International Programmes ............................................................................................. 115 Services .................................................................................................................................................. 115 Staff and Long-Term Visitors .................................................................................................................. 116 Funding .................................................................................................................................................. 118 Publications ........................................................................................................................................... 118 Training and Education Programmes .............................................................................................................. 122 Postgraduate Diploma Programme ............................................................................................................ 123 The 2018-2019 ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Brief ............................................................. 124 ICTP/IAEA Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP)..................................................................... 127 2019 Fellows Financially Supported by IAEA ........................................................................................... 127 2019 Fellows Financially Supported by ICTP ........................................................................................... 127 ICTP/UniTS Joint Master in Physics Programme (Laurea Magistralis in Physics) .......................................... 130 Master in the Physics of Complex Systems ................................................................................................. 131 Joint ICTP/SISSA Master in High Performance Computing (MHPC) .............................................................. 132 Joint ICTP/UniTS Master of Advanced Studies in Medical Physics (MMP) ................................................... 133 PhD 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