We would like to announce the workshop

Quantum Fields and Nonlinear Phenomena
27 – 29 September 2020

organized by University of Craiova. As the condition do not allow travelling for a direct meeting, the whole event will be organised in an online format.

During the workshop the (online) meeting of the SEENET-MTP Council and Executive Committee will be organized. The meeting will be on 28 September at 16:30.

The workshop follows the CERN – SEENET-MTP – ICTP PhD Training school “Computational Methods in Theoretical Physics“ (24-27 September 2020).

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/

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 pleased to announce the annual TIM International Physics Conference, TIM18. The event is hosted by the Faculty of Physics of the West University of Timisoara (one of the SEENET-MTP nodes) and will take place between the 24th and the 26th of May 2018.

We invite you and your colleagues to submit an abstract for the conference in one of the following tracks: Condensed Matter Physics, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Applied Physics and Interdisciplinary.

More information about the conference can be found at the official web site. The deadline for abstract submission is the 15th of April 2018.

We are very pleased to announce

The Joint Meeting on Quantum Fields and Nonlinear Phenomena

18-22 April 2018, Sinaia, Romania

The meeting will consist of four events:

• The 11th Workshop on “Quantum Field and Nonlinear Phenomena” (QFNP)
• Workshop “Nonlinear Dynamics, Cosmology and Plasma Physics”
• “Research and Education in Physics”. Joint meeting of representatives from EPS – CEI, SEENET-MTP Scientific Advisory Committee, BPU Committee

The meeting will be organized by the University of Craiova, Romania and the SEENET-MTP Network, with main financial support of European Physical Society (EPS) and Romanian Space Agency (ROSA).

More information and registration at the website of the meeting.

We are pleased to announce the Fifth School in the first cycle of the running CERN – SEENET-MTP programme for PhD students and young researchers.

The SEENET-MTP School “High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology” – BS2018 will be held in Niš (Serbia) from June 3rd – 10th, 2018.

The event is designed primarily for PhD students in High Energy Physics and Cosmology.

The lecturers will give 3-4 lectures each, starting from an introductory level and then gradually approaching an advanced level.

The lectures will be followed by exercise sessions and discussions.

Lecturers and topics:

• Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)
  Topic: Cosmology and Inflation
• Emilian Dudas (CPHT Paris)
  Topic: String Phenomenology
• Gia Dvali (LMU-MPI Munich/NYU New York)
  Topic: Beyond the Standard Model
• Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN)
  Topic: Gravity / Astroparticle Physics
• Giovanni Villadoro (ICTP)
  Topic: TBA

More information are available at website of the BS2018.

The 2nd Edition of National Conference of “The Community for Science Education” – STEM – partnership for quality (CNCES 2017) will be held on November 3-4, 2017 at National Library of Romania in Bucharest.

The conference is organized by Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), one of founders of the SEENET-MTP, and University of Bucharest, National Institute for Earth Physics (INCDFP), Institute of Educational Sciences (ISE) and Romanian Society of Physics (SRF), Romanian Society of Mathematical Sciences (SSMR), Romanian Society of Chemistry (SChR).

The purpose of this conference is to bring together international and local education experts, representatives of research institutes, schools and universities, decision-makers at educational policy, industry, NGOs, companies that will present, discussing and experimenting with STEM’s (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) innovative approaches, as well as the development trends and challenges faced by various actors interested in developing the Education Community for Science. The conference proposes a collection of plenary presentation, over 30 hands-on activities and demonstrations for teachers, round table discussions, expositions etc. Most of the materials were developed during some European projects H2020 and Erasmus+.

More information and agenda are available on website of the conference.

We are pleased to announce the fourth PhD seminar “New Trends in High Energy Theory” in the framework of the CERN – SEENET-MTP PhD Training Program.

The seminar will be held at the Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, from October 15 (arrival day) to October 21 (departure day), 2017.

The event is intended for PhD students with interests in High Energy Physics and String Theory. The students will be given the opportunity to attend lectures from introductory to advanced level. The lectures will be followed by exercise classes.

Topics discussed will include:

• Introduction to string theory.
• Black holes and holographic correspondence.
• Gauge theories and holography.
• Supersymmetry and Supergravity – holographic perspectives.

Lecturers are Timo Weigand (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland), Atish Dabholkar (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), Anastasios Petkou (AU, Thessaloniki, Greece), Veselin Filev (DIAS, Dublin, Ireland), Nikolay Bobev (KU Leuven, Belgium), Kiril Hristov (INRNE, BAS, Bulgaria) and Radoslav Rashkov (Sofia University, Bulgaria).

The deadline for applications is September 10, 2017.

Members of the Local organizing committee are Hristo Dimov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University) – Chair, Radoslav Rashkov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University), Plamen Bozhilov (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS), Tsvetan Vetsov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University) and Stefan Mladenov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University).

Members of the Program committee are Gian Giudice (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland), Goran Djordjevic (Faculty of Science, Nis, Serbia), Wolfgang Lerche (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) and Radoslav Rashkov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University).

More information about the Seminar can be found here. Contact e-mail: or .

About origin of the CERN – SEENET-MTP PhD Training Program see here, and information about the previous Schools are available here (Belgrade, Bucharest and Timisoara).

We are pleased to announce that 10th jubilee conference of Balkan physical union – BPU 10 will be held in Sofia (Bulgaria) from August 26 to August 30, 2018.

More information are available in the poster (PDF).

We are pleased to announce that Split Summer School STSS2017 – Space and Time in Physics and Philosophy will be held from July 4th to July 7th, 2017 in Split (Croatia).

The main topic of the school are:

• Critical assessment of the concepts of space and time in classical and modern physics
• Epistemological and methodological problems of science

More information and the program are available here. Deadline for application is June 15th, 2017.

The SEENET-MTP Committee meeting will be held in Bucharest on 2nd and 3rd of February 2017.

There will be a number of joint meetings with: Executive Committee of European Physical Society (EPS), EPS-CEI (Committee of European Integration), Executive Committee of the Balkan Physical Union (BPU) and with presidents or representatives of selected EPS Member Societies. The whole will take place in Bucharest (Romania) from February 1st to 4th, 2017.

Presentations by invitation will be given by

• Igor ANISIMOV, Ukrainian Physical Society
• Viorel CIORNEA, SEENET-MTP Committee member, Moldovan Physical Society
• Radu CONSTANTINESCU, Romania, chairman EPS-CEI,
• Goran DJODJEVIC, Serbia, BPU vice-president, Executive Director of SEENET-MTP
• Paraskevi KLEIDERI, Greece, Hellenic Physical Society
• Denes Lajos NAGY, Hungary, member of EPS-CEI
• Alexander PETROV, Bulgarian Physical Society, president of Balkan Physical Union (BPU)
• Riste POPESKI-DIMOVSKI, Society of Physicists of Macedonia
• Gulfem SUSOY DOGAN, Turkish Physical Society
• Kayhan ULKER, Turkey, SEENET-MTP Committee member
• Balazs UJFALUSSY, Hungary, Eotvos Lorand Physical Society
• Mihai VISINESCU, Romania, SEENET-MTP Committee member
• Kostas VOURLIAS, Greece, executive secretary of BPUT

The president of EPS Christophe Rossel and president-elected Rüdiger Voss will give introductory talks.

The SEENET-MTP committee members will consider report on activities in 2016, plan of events in 2017, the new bilateral agreement with CERN on joint training PhD Program and cooperation with EPS on integration in European physics research area.

The XXV International Conference on Integrable Systems and Quantum symmetries (ISQS-25) to be held on June 6-10 Prague, Czech Republic.

Scientific program of ISQS-25 includes the following main topics:

• Quantum Integrable systems
• Quantum groups
• Nonncommutative geometryQuantum space-times and their quantum symmetries
• Discrete Integrable Systems and Painlevé Equations
• Supersymmetry and integrability
• Spectral asymptotics of Quantum integrable systems.
• Higher Spin Field Theory
• Modern mathematical methods

The XXV International Conference on Integrable Systems is one of a series of annual meetings held at the Czech Technical University since 1992 and is devoted to problems of mathematical physics related to the theory of integrable systems, quantum groups and quantum symmetries. During the last 3 years each of the conferences gathered each year around 100 scientists from all over the world.

The workshop is organized the Czech Technical University in Prague. More information are available at the website of the conference.