The SEENET-MTP Balkan Workshop BW2018 – Field Theory and the Early Universe, was held from 10-14 of June 2018, in Niš, Serbia.

The Workshop represents a resumption of a series of schools and workshops initiated by the BW2003 Workshop. A total of 50 participants attended the BW2018, with around 30 lectures being held.

The scientific part of the Workshop included recent developments in Beyond the Standard Cosmological Model(s) and related fields. This presented an excellent opportunity to gather the leading experts from South-East, Central and Eastern Europe, EU, USA, to discuss open problems and perspectives in the main scientific areas of the Workshop.

The educational and organizational part included discussions related to regional and inter-regional cooperation in Science and Education. A series of round tables were organized, with a few invited lecturers and moderators from CEI, UNESCO, European Physical Society (EPS), Balkan Physical Union (BPU), CERN and ICTP. The round-table discussions were focused on actions promoting and strengthening research, education and capacity-building in physics in natural sciences with an emphasis on South Eastern Europe, in a European and worldwide framework.

A meeting of the Scientific-Advisory Committee of the SEENET-MTP Network was held during the Workshop. It was announced that the ICTP will join the current bilateral agreement between CERN and the SEENET-MTP, and financially support the next three-year cycle of the PhD Training Program, for the period 2019-2022.

A part of the Workshop was dedicated to the regional celebration of the 50 years of the EPS, as well as to the marking of the 15 years of the SEENET-MTP Network’s existence. For their great contribution to the development of the Network, Awards of Merit have been presented to Prof. Loriano Bonora and the EPS.

The Workshop was coorganized by the SEENET-MTP Office and the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Serbia, as well as the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Craiova, Romania. The event was organized in collaboration and with support by the University of Niš, CEI, EPS and the national ministry of science.

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The fifth School in the joint CERN – SEENET-MTP PhD Training Program, entitled Balkan School BS2018 – High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology, was held from 3-10 of June 2018, in Niš, Serbia.

The School marked the completion of the first cycle of the CERN – SEENET-MTP Program for PhD students and young scientists.

This final School of the Program was devoted primarily to PhD students in the fields of Cosmology and High Energy Physics. A total of 40 participants from 10 countries attended the School.

The lectures were held by Ignatios Antoniadis (String Phenomenology), Lasha Berezhiani (Introduction to Supersymmetry), Paolo Creminelli (Cosmology and Inflation), Emilian Dudas (Standard Model and String Phenomenology), Kyriakos Papadodimas (AdS/CFT correspondence and Black Holes) and Sergey Sibiryakov (Introduction into Cosmic Structure Formation). A guest lecture was held by Alexei Starobinsky (Inflation: The Present Status).

The School was organized by the SEENET-MTP Centre, the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Serbia and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Craiova, Romania, in cooperation with CERN TH, the ICTP and supported by the European Physical Society and the Central European Initiative. The event was organized in collaboration and with support by the University of Niš.

More information and photos are available at the website of the BS2018.

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Participants of the SEENET-MTP Balkan School BS2018 (3 – 10 June 2018, Niš, Serbia)

During the SEENET-MTP BW2018 Workshop, held in Nis, Serbia, 10-14 of June 2018, the SEENET-MTP Representative Committee/Council and the Executive Committee each held their meetings and made several decisions.

The Council elected Prof. Ioannis Rizos (University of Ioannina, Greece), as its new President and the President of the Network. The Council expressed its sincere gratitude to Prof. Dumitru Vulcanov, for his service and contribution to the RC and to the Network during his term as the President (2013-2018).

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Prof. Dr. Vladimir Dobrev (INRNE, Sofia Network Node, Bulgaria) visited Bucharest Network node, IFIN HH, from Sunday, 13rd May to Friday, 18th May.

During his stay Prof. Dobrev gave a talk:

Canonical construction of invariant differential operators
for Lie algebras and quantum groups

at the Department of Theoretical Physics, the Geometry and Physics seminar.

This visit is organized in the framework of the SEENET-MTP – ICTP Program NT-03 “Cosmology – Classical and Quantum Challenges”.

In the latest issue of e-EPS news (June 2018) an article about the 15 Years of the SEENET-MTP, cooperation between the EPS and SEENET-MTP and announcement for the Balkan School and Workshop BSW2018 was published.

The cooperation between the EPS and SEENET-MTP dates back to a decade ago and had a further reinforcement at the Kick-off Meeting of the EPS Committee of European Integration (EPS-CEI) during the Balkan Workshop BW2013 (Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia). The EPS-CEI and SEENET-MTP have ever since collaborated in domains of mutual interest and activities, such as supporting exchanges of physicists across South-Eastern and Central-Eastern Europe and training of the new generation of physicists, supported at a pan-European level. In 2017 the two parties initiated a process of signing the Memorandum of Agreement.

The full article is available here.

It is our great honor and pleasure to inform you that Prof. Alexei Starobinsky, one of the world’s leading experts in cosmology and one of the founders of the theory of cosmological inflation, will be giving a lecture entitled:

Inflation: the present status

The lecture will be held at the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Serbia, on June 9th, starting at 10:30. The lecture is a part of the program of the fifth school in the CERN – SEENET-MTP PhD Training Program, the BS2018 – High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology.

One of the SEENET-MTP institutional founders – Faculty of Physics, University of Timisoara traditionally organizes a series of annual physics conferences – TIM.

During the TIM18 Physics Conference, which was held in Timisoara (Romania) from 24th to 26th of May, the 15th anniversary of cooperation within the SEENET-MTP Network was presented.

The presentation was given on Friday, 25th of May 2018 by Dr. Dragoljub Dimitrijevic (Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Serbia), SEENET-MTP scientific secretary.

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of cooperation within SEENET-MTP scientific network, the Department of Theoretical Physics from IFIN-HH and Department of Theoretical Physics from the Faculty of Phyics, University of Bucharest organize a special dedicated seminar with the following program:

• 09:30 – 10:20 Cosmology of Nonlocal Gravity, Branko Dragovich, University of Belgrade, Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia – Abstract
• 10:20 – 10:40 15 Years of the SEENET-MTP Network in 15 minutes, Goran Djordjevic, University of Nis, executive director of SEENET
• 10:45 – 11:00 Nonstandard Lagrangian in Cosmology – Constrained System – part I, Dragoljub Dimitrijevic, University of Nis – Abstract
• 11:00 – 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 – 13:50 Nonstandard Lagrangian in Cosmology – Constrained System – part II, Dragoljub Dimitrijevic, University of Nis
• 13:50 – 14:30 Tachyons and reheating in a braneworld inflationary scenario, Goran Djordjevic, University of Nis – Abstract

The seminar will take place at National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering – Horia Hulubei (Sala de seminar DFT) on Monday, 23 April 2018.

Department of Physics, University of Craiova organizes a seminar

15 Years of the  SEENET-MTP Cooperation

on April 17th, 2018, from 10:00 to 13:00. The agenda of the seminar:

• Vladimir Gerdjikov
  Contemporary aspects of soliton theory
• Goran Djordjevic
  15 Years of the SEENET-MTP in 15 minutes
• Radu Constantinescu
  University of Craiova in the SEENET-MTP Network
• Goran Djordjevic
  Tahyon fields. inflation and DBI lagrangians – Is that so complicated!?
• Dragoljub Dimitrijevic
  Classes of Constraints of the Tachyon Field in Flat and Curved Spacetime

The second Meeting of the Scientific-Advisory Committee (SAC) will be held during The Joint Meeting on Quantum Fields and Nonlinear Phenomena (18-22 April 2018, Sinaia, Romania).

The meeting will start on 19 April 2018 at 15h. The proposed agenda

• Short presentations from SEENET-MTP representatives: 15 years of the SEENET-MTP,
• Status of SEENET-MTP/CERN school and workshop 3-14 June,
• Training program and school 2019-22 (format, content, financing, ICTP status in the MoU with CERN),
• Funding applications and information from ICTP,
• Renewal of present funding after 2019.

Prof. Dr. Lilia Anguelova (INRNE, Sofia Network Node, Bulgaria) is visiting Bucharest Network node, IFIN HH, from Sunday, 13rd May to Monday, 21st May.

During her stay Prof. Anguelova will give a talk:

Systematics of Constant Roll Inflation

at the Department of Theoretical Physics, the Geometry and Physics seminar.

This visit is organized in the framework of the SEENET-MTP – ICTP Program NT-03 “Cosmology – Classical and Quantum Challenges”.

In the framework of the ICTP – SEENET-MTP – ICTP project NT-03 “Cosmology – Classical and Quantum Challenges” and the program of marking 15th years of the SEENET-MTP Network Prof. Dr. Vladimir Gerdjikov (INRNE, Sofia Network Node, Bulgaria) is visiting Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Craiova from Monday 16th April to Sunday, 29th April.

During his stay Prof. Gerdjikov will continue activities already started with PhD students and colleagues from the host institution, and discuss about Lax representation and integrability methods for nonlinear differential equations arising from Gravity and will give a talk:

On the soliton solutions of Tzitzeica equation

and seminar

Contemporary aspects of soliton theory.

This visit is also supported in a part by the host institution and other partners in Romania.

In the framework of the program of celebration of the 15th year of the SEENET-MTP Network, Dr. Dragoljub Dimitrijevic (Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Nis; scientific secretary of the SEENET-MTP) is visiting Craiova Network node, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Craiova and Bucharets Network node, IFIN HH, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania from Monday, 16th April to Wednesday, 25th April.

During his stay in Craiova and Bucharest Dr. Dimitrijevic will give talks on:

Classes of Constraints of the Tachyon Field in Flat and Curved Spacetime

The talks will be given on Tuesday, 17th April, at 11:30 the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Craiova and on Monday, 24th April 2018, at 12:00 at IFIN HH, Magurele-Bucharest.

This visit is organized in the framework of the SEENET-MTP – ICTP Program NT-03 “Cosmology – Classical and Quantum Challenges”.