<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:929px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:c26" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt gmail-adO" style="font-size:12.8px;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:c25" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div><div>ICTP-SAIFR Preparatory School for StatPhys 2019</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:rgb(255,102,0)">Start time: </span><span style="color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">July 1, 2019</span><br></div><div><p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Ends on: </span><font color="#000000">July 5, 2019</font></p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Location:</span> São Paulo, Brazil</p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Venue:</span> IFT-UNESP</p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#38761d"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">D</span><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">escription:</font></font></b>  <br></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#323232"><span style="font-size:12px">This school will introduce graduate students and </span></font><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">young researchers to a set of tools and concepts </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that underlie many of the works being performed </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">in modern Statistical Physics. The school will </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">consist of a set of courses and discussion sessions </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and serve as a preparation for Stat. Phys. 2019.  </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is no registration fee and limited funds are </span><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">available for travel and local expenses.</span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;line-height:18px"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#38761d"><b>Courses: </b></font></span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;line-height:18px"> I. <em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle0">Introduction to nonlinear dynamics</span></span></em> – <strong><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2">Gabriel B. Mindlin</span></strong><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2"> (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)</span>  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#38761d"><b><br></b></font></span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;line-height:18px"> II. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><em><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle0">Multi-agent models in complex networks</span></em></span> – <strong><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2">Pablo Balenzuela</span></strong> <span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2">(University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)</span>  <br></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;line-height:18px"> III. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><em><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle0">Criticality, with applications to neuroscience</span></em></span> – <strong><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2">Mauro Copelli</span></strong> (UFPE, Brazil)  <br></p><p style="margin:10px 0px 15px;padding:0px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle0">Special Lectures </span></strong></span><br></p><p><em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle0">To be announced </span></span></em>– <strong><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2">William Bialek</span></strong> (<span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2">Princeton, USA</span>)</p><p><em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle0">Statistical physics: state of the art (I and II)</span></span></em> – <strong><span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2">Maxi San Miguel</span></strong> (<span class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-fontstyle2">IFISC, Spain</span>)</p><p><strong><span style="color:rgb(0,128,0)">Organizers:</span></strong></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Pablo Balenzuela (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Mauro Copelli (UFPE, Brazil)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Gabriel Mindlin (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)</li></ul><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#38761d"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Application deadline : May 5, 2019</span><br></b></font></div></div><div><font color="#38761d"><b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></b></font></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">More information: </span><a class="gmail-m_-1823036579038885205gmail-m_-9218995397966736861gmail-in-cell-link" href="http://www.ictp-saifr.org/StatPhys2019" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">www.ictp-saifr.org/StatPhys2019</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><div>====================================================================</div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><div id="gmail-:c2l" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;border-radius:5.5px"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="background: url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/1x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") 50% 50% / 20px no-repeat; height: 11px; opacity: 0.7; width: 24px;"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi" style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>