Kigali (Rwanda), 2026, 1-15 August The call for the 3rd Cohort 2026-2028 of the APhRICA training programme is open. The call is open to graduate students as well as faculty in Physics,…
The APhRICA students grow

Kigali (Rwanda), 2025, 1-19 December The second cycle of the APhRICA Program started. The lessons were held at the ICTP-EAIFR of the UR in Kigali. The students and lectures answering…
Physics education in Kenya leaps forward a century with APhRICA

Nairobi (Kenya), 2025, August Teaching Quantum Physics using international methods has made its debut at MMUST Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology of Kakamega (Kenya). There, David Machiri and Wycliffe…
APhRICA Call for the 2nd Cohort 2025-2027

Kigali (Rwanda), 2025, 1-31 August The call for the 2nd Cohort 2025-2027 of the APhRICA training programme is open. The call is open to graduate students as well as faculty…
Many-Body Perturbation Theory and Excited-State Simulations

Modena (Italy), 2025, 19-23 May This school was designed for researchers interested in advanced computational methods for studying light- matter interactions, crucial for optoelectronic devices, quantum computing, and energy applications.Participants…
QMII course at ICTP-EAIFR

Kigali (Rwanda), 2025, 7-18 April The advanced topics course of Quantum Mechanics was held at the ICTP-EAIFR in Kigali. The 16 students admitted to the course came from UR (University…
From semi–classical swings to tad–poles: the Electron–Phononproblem as the devil in the details of Many–Body Theory

Munich (Germany), 2025, 30 January Electrons and phonons are basic concepts, considered as the most elemental and well defined example of fermions and bosons. So it may appear that their…
Advanced Physics tRainIng in afriCA

The first advanced physics course held by the international group of researchers participating in the APhRICA initiative has started on 2024, December 9th. The QM1 (Quantum Mechanics 1) course…
Yambo developers meeting 2024

Modena (Italia), 2024, 26-28 November The 2024 intensive two-day Yambo developers’ meeting was hosted at Università di Modena, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche, and online: main developers met young ones…
SLAFES XXV

Barranquilla (Colombia), 2024, 21-26 October The ICTP meeting included a two-and-a-half-day hands-on workshop along with participation in the XXV Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics (SLAFES). The event aimed…
ETSF Electron-phonon collaboration team workshop

UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 2024, 23-25 September Collaboration Teams (CT) are small groups of researchers sharing their understanding of challenging topics, more particularly discussing the problems they are working on. This…
APhRICA “Advanced Physics in Rwanda Ism-cnr Cooperation Agreement”

Located on the UR-CST Campus of the University of Rwanda, Kigali, ICTP-EAIFR is an international hub of research excellence, poised to become one of the most important physics institutes in…
ETSF 2024

27th ETSF Workshop on Electronic Excitations Marseille (France), 2024, 3-7 June With the goal of exchanging experiences and ideas around the development and application of advanced electronic structure methods, the European…
EUSpecLab

Introductory training school San Benedetto del Tronto (Italy), 2023, 19-30 June The scientific objectives of EUSpecLab are twofold: to apply machine learning techniques to spectroscopy (so far, they have mainly…
