There is the opportunity for non-Estonian PhD students to visit the University of Tartu for a period of 1 to 10 months to work on a research project and to attend lectures. For example, next year from February to April Dr. Tomi Koivisto will give a lecture on Geometric Foundations of Gravity.

The Republic of Estonia and the European Regional Development Fund offer the Dora Plus Visiting PhD students grants four times a year and the next deadline is on 10 November.

If you know a PhD student who is interested in visiting the University of Tartu and working together with us, the Laboratory for Theoretical Physics of the University of Tartu, please contact us. We set up the application for the Dora Plus grant together. Our research focus lies on the mathematical geometric foundations of theories of gravity and in the derivation of observables to discriminate different theories.

Further details about the Dora Plus program can be found below, and information for visiting students in Tartu here.

In the frame of the SEENET-MTP – ICTP project NT-03 „Cosmology – Classical and Quantum Challenees“ the Network members: Lilia Anguelova (INRNE Sofia), Eugen Cioroianu (University of Craiova), Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić and Nikola Konjik (University of Belgrade) will be visiting the Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering and the Mathematics Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania from 1st to 7th September.

During the exchange visit, they will give talks at the Bucharest Conference on Geometry and Physics.

Visits of Dragoljub Dimitrijević (University of Niš), Borislav Gajić and Božidar Jovanović (Mathematical Institute Belgrade) have to be postponed.

Network meetings

XI Bolyai-Gauss-Lobachevsky (BGL-2019) Conference: Non-Euclidean, Non-Commutative Geometry and Quantum Physics
19 – 24 May 2019, Kiev, Ukraine

More information: https://indico.bitp.kiev.ua/event/3/

BS2019: SEENET-MTP Balkan School on High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology
3 -9 June 2019, Ioannina, Greece

More information: http://bs2019.physics.uoi.gr/

Bucharest Conference on Geometry and Physics
2 – 6 September 2019, Bucharest, Romania

More information: http://events.theory.nipne.ro/gap/index.php/conference

Events in the Region

7th International Conference on Physics Education in Secondary Schools
15 – 17 March 2019, Aleksinac, Serbia

More information: http://konferencija.alexgim.rs/

TIM 19 Physics Conference
29 – 31 May 2019, Timisoara, Romania

More information: https://timconference.uvt.ro/

10th MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS MEETING:
School and Conference on Modern Mathematical Physics
9 – 14 September 2019, Belgrade, Serbia

More information: http://www.mphys10.ipb.ac.rs/

Conference on Nonlinearity
11-12 October 2019, Belgrade, Serbia

More information: http://imqf.ekof.bg.ac.rs/ConfNonlin/

Other Events

IFJ PAN Particle Physics Summer Student Programme
8 July – 2 August 2019, Cracow, Poland

More information: http://ppss.ifj.edu.pl/

p-adics.2019
Seventh International Conference on
p-Adic Mathematical Physics and its Applications
30 September – 4 October 2019, CMA-UBI,Covilhã, Portugal

More information at http://padics2019.inpcs.net/

The next Meeting of the SEENET-MTP Scientific – Advisory Committee (SAC) is confirmed to be held at ICTP Trieste, October 21-22, 2019.

The previous SAC meetings in the composition established in 2014 was held in Trieste (2017) and Nis (2018).

It is expected that the First Assessment meeting of the SEENET-MTP Network and ICTP-SEENET Project NT-03 “Cosmology – Classical and Quantum Challenges” will also take place at ICTP, October 20-23, 2019, with a joint Workshop and meetings of the SEENET SAC and Council.

XI International Bolyai-Gauss-Lobachevsky Conference:

Non-Euclidean, Non-Commutative geometry and Quantum Physics (BGL-2019),

organized by the SEENET-MTP node the Bogolyubov Institute for theoretical Physics (BITP) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was held on 19-24 May, 2019 in Kyiv.

Due to Prof. Y. Sitenko you can find a summary of the conference here.

Following the BS2019: SEENET-MTP Balkan School on High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology, a workshop entitled

“Advances in Fields, Particles and Cosmology”

will be held in Ioannina (Greece) from 7 June (arrival) to 10 June (departure) 2019.

For more information and registration contact the Local organizers

We are pleased to announce the First School in the second cycle of the running CERN – SEENET-MTP PhD Training Program for students and young researchers. The SEENET-MTP School “High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology” – BS2019 will be held at the University of Ioannina, Greece, from June 3rd to June 9th, 2019.

The aim of the school is to provide an overview of particle physics and cosmology from the basics of the Standard Model phenomenology to more advanced topics which are currently under theoretical study. The event is designed primarily for PhD students and young postdocs with research interests in these areas.

The confirmed lecturers are:

• Andrea Romanino (SISSA & ICTP)
• Kfir Blum (CERN)
• Stefan Pokorski (Warsaw)
• Gia Dvali (Munich)
• Goran Senjanovic (ICTP)
• Ignatios Antoniadis (LPTHE Paris & Bern)
• Kyriakos Papadodimas (ICTP)
• Kyriakos Tamvakis (Ioannina)

The program is available here. More information at the website of the school.

We are in position to inform you that CERN approved report of the 1st Cycle of the joint SEENET-MTP PhD program (2015 – 2018) and CERN Director for Research and Computing, Mr. Eckhard Elsen informed SEENET-MTP that CERN will continue to support this program with the same amount, as in the second half of the previous cycle (i.e. in 2017 and 2018).

It was announced that ICTP will continue to support the PhD program with the same amount as CERN

The current SEENET-MTP budget, slightly supported by the European Physical Society in 2019, and local support from Ioannina – Greece will make possible to start the program with the School BS2019 to be held in Ioannina, June 3-9 2019.

• BS2019: SEENET-MTP Balkan School on High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology (3-10 June 2019, Ioannina, Greece)

• SEENET-MTP PhD program (2015 – 2018), presentation

We are pleased to announce that the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), and its Office of External Activities (OAE) has approved continuation of the NT-03 “Cosmology – Classical and Quantum Challenges” program to support research and training program of the SEENET-MTP Network. The grant will be used for the exchange visits of the Network members in 2019.

The OEA provides support to cover the travel expenses of scientists who belong to the Network to visit other member Institutions and contributes towards their living expenses.

The project NT-03 is the continuation of the ICTP – SEENET-MTP project PRJ-09 “Cosmology and Strings” (2009-2016).

For information about the new Terms & Conditions, please, see here.

For proposals towards using individual grants contact the representatives of your Institutions in the Network Committees and the SEENET-MTP office () at your earliest convenience.

The special issue titled “Field Theory and the Early Universe” devoted to the SEENET-MTP Balkan School and Workshop BSW2018 was published as the special issue of the International Journal of Modern Physics A (Volume 33, Issue 34), guest editors are Ignatios Antoniadis and Goran S. Djordjević.

The issue is available here.

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste (Italy) announces 5 PhD scholarships in Statistical Physics.

The PhD will start in October 2019. Applications can be presented from 15 February onwards and candidates will be selected shortly after the deadline of 15 March. In case of vacancies, 31 August is the deadline for a second independent selection.

More information can be found of the web-page of the group.

The Advancing Theoretical Astrophysics Summer School is a two week long, international summer school intended to build and strengthen essential skills in physics and computation for a career in theoretical astrophysics.

The school will be held at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) from 15 to 26 July 2019.

The target groups for this school are graduate students pursuing a
degree in astrophysics, with a BSc degree in physics or astrophysics. The school will be a mix of short topical lectures and interactive problem solving, using methods that can be applied to a wide range of topics. Students will work collaboratively on several types of canonical problems (with guidance from teachers and more advanced students), gaining hands-on experience with cutting-edge techniques employed in modern theoretical astrophysics.

Deadline for the application is 15 January 2019. More information about the school is available here.

Best wishes for a joyous holiday season with peace and cheer in the New Year 2019!

Ioannis Rizos, Goran Gordjevic 
and the crew at SEENET-MTP Office Nis