Post Graduate Programmes
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics offers the following post-graduate opportunities :
- Diploma:
There is a one year diploma course at the post graduate level in three separate fields, Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Physics and Mathematics to young outstanding students from developing countries since 1991. In 2006, a new Diploma Programme in Earth System Physics was added. In addition, since September 2007, the Abdus Salam ICTP offers a Diploma Programme in Basic Physics designed to provide young physicists and mathematicians from the Sub-Saharan Africa with a solid foundation in physics before they pursue further studies at the graduate level. The Academic programme consists of three terms: the first is dedicated to courses in basic subjects; the second comprises selected advanced topics in the field; and during the third, Diploma students carry out research under the guidance of a Faculty supervisor. During the first 9 months of the programme, students attend on the average around 10 hours of lectures per week, and do obligatory homework assignments. Final examinations are administered for each of the 8-10 courses. Those who successfully pass this stage go on to work on dissertations during the last 3 months of the programme, ending in an oral defense of the written dissertation.
- ICTP-IAEA Sandwich Training Educational Programme:
The ICTP Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP) aims at offering IAEA fellowship opportunities to Ph.D. candidates from developing countries in scientific fields covered by both the IAEA Technical Cooperation Programmes and falling in the scientific and technical competence of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and its associated institutions. A limited number of fellowships are offered by the ICTP in fields not covered by the ICTP-IAEA Programme. The goal of STEP is to strengthen the scientific capability of young scientists and researchers from developing IAEA member States in order to better contribute and serve the scientific and technical development of their home countries.
- ICTP-ELETTRA Users Programme:
The ICTP-ELETTRA Users Programme offers access to the synchrotron radiation facility ELETTRA in Trieste in the years 2007-2011 to scientists who are citizens of developing countries and work in those countries. The programme also offers a limited number of grants to cover travel and living expenses of individuals and small groups who are meant to participate in the beamtime at ELETTRA. The number of scientists who can receive support depends on the number of allocated shifts and available funds.
For further questions contact the ICTP-ELETTRA Users Programme Secretariat at the ICTP webpage .
- The SESAME Training Committee calls for applications from scientists from the Middle East to the following programmes:
Cooperative research: trainees join existing research groups in Synchrotron Laboratories.
Training of scientists in sectors relevant to the setting up and operation of the machine beamlines. The trainees join technical teams of laboratories to work together to acquire the expertise for preparing the projects and operating the beamlines.
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