The workshop will take place on October 3-5. A block of hotel rooms is available at a special conference rate for the nights of October 2-6.

William ("Bill") Gelbart is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was trained as a physical chemical theorist, obtaining his BS at Harvard University in 1967 and his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1970. Read more.

The Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics (MCTP) was created from the collaboration between ICTP and the Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH) to establish a regional headquarters of the ICTP in Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. Read more.