Research
Research at ICTP is carried out by six scientific sections:
- High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
- Mathematics
- Earth System Physics
- Applied Physics
- New Research Areas
Research at the centre is carried out by the staff of these sections, postdoctoral fellows and long-term and short-term visitors engaged in independent or collaborative research. Visitor programmes include junior and senior associate fellowships, which enables selected scientists from developing countries to visit the ICTP for limited periods. The scientific sections are also responsible for organizing high-level training courses, workshops, conferences and topical meetings throughout the year.
ICTP staff scientists are international experts who do research at the cutting edge of their fields. Constant interactions with a large number of visiting scientists enable many of the centre's research activities to remain at the cutting-edge. Scientists from developed and developing countries attending ICTP activities learn from one another in a stimulating environment that remains responsive to the needs of world-class scientists without neglecting the needs of researchers, particularly young researchers from the developing world, to remain at the forefront of their fields.
The ICTP is also implementing an Italian Grid infrastructure for financial and economic research in the framework of the EGRID Project, funded by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy). The EGRID Grid portal, based on P-GRADE Portal technology, allows scientists to submit jobs and perform data management tasks by a web interface. (See also: Grid computing)
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