The East African Institute for Fundamental Research, a UNESCO category 2, ICTP partner institute is an international hub of research excellence in Rwanda.
08/07/2020
Wole Soboyejo will give a virtual colloquium on 16 July 2020 titled New Frontiers for Physics in Africa: From Solar Cells and Light Emitting Devices to Medical Physics. The talk will take place starting at 16:00 GMT+2; preregistration is required at the following address:
https:/ /zoom.us/webinar/register/W N_y5Uch__SRw6vdZxoT1eSng
https://eaifr.ictp.it/about/news/wole-soboyejo-colloquium/
01/11/2019
Second year MSc students completed their first course on . Here with their lecturer Joan Elias Miró from ICTP: International Centre for Theoretical Physics
08/10/2019
And something to ponder " You should enter it for the love of the science. The awards and prizes, they are charming and very much appreciated, but that’s not part of your plans. You should enter science because you’re fascinated by it." Prof. Peebles on his advice to young people entering science
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos" with on...
08/10/2019
ICTP EAIFR extends Congratulations to the 2019 laureates James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology", and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star." https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/
09/08/2019
ICTP: International Centre for Theoretical Physics researcher Natasa Stojic was at ICTP EAIFR to give lectures on solid state physics. Here they are at the end of a successfully completed set of lessons!
09/08/2019
Two seminar events today at EAIFR: in geophysics, by prof Cindy Ebinger, from Tulane University, speaking about Recipe for Rifting at 11:00. And by prof Ravi Sheth, from University of Pennsylvania, speaking about Observational Probes for Cosmology, at 14:00.
ICTP-EAIFR conference hall, top floor.
25/06/2019
Starting today, a series of three lectures on by Paolo Creminelli, ICTP: International Centre for Theoretical Physics. ICTP EAIFR conference hall, top floor, 16:00.
24/05/2019
ICTP-EAIFR announces a call for applications for its new PhD programme in physics. The programme is offered jointly with the University of Rwanda in Kigali. It represents the first physics PhD degree programme to be established in Rwanda. The online application is available at https://e-applications.ictp.it/applicant/login/9009 Deadline: 30 June 2019
05/05/2019
ICTP - Seasonal Climatology in Kigali Variations in climate can have significant impacts in Africa, impacts in such diverging spheres as health, agriculture, and energy. An ICTP workshop going on this week in Kigali, Rwanda focuses on the latest techniques for predicting and modeling seasonal climate patterns for the weeks and months ah...
16/04/2019
Learn more about the Extended Higgs sectors at the Large
Hadron Collider . New ICTP EAIFR faculty member Shoaib Munir is giving a seminar about tomorrow April 17.
Venue: EAIFR building, top floor.
Time: 16:00
https://eaifr.org/events/extended-higgs-sectors-at-lhc/
11/04/2019
"Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole". Read all about it: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
10/04/2019
Join the world in watching the unveiled! Watch the live stream
Breakthrough discovery in astronomy: press conference On 10 April 2019 at 15:00 CEST (Brussels time) the European Commission will present a ground-breaking discovery by Event Horizon Telescope - an international...
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