ICTP in Brief January-February 2006

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    ICTP IN BRIEF

Bi-monthly unabridged listing of news published on http://news.ictp.it/ 
<http://news.ictp.it>


    January-February 2006


*10/1/2006*


      M.S. Narasimhan Wins King Faisal Award
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=131>

M.S. Narasimhan, long-time head of ICTP's mathematics group who retired 
in January 1999, was recently named the co-winner of the 'King Faisal 
International Prize for 2006? 
<http://www.kff.com/english/homepage/Index.html>. The award was given in 
recognition of his path-breaking research in strengthening the links 
between mathematics and physics.
Narasimhan will share the prize with Britain's Simon Kirwan Donaldson, 
president of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and professor of 
mathematics at Imperial College, London. Donaldson is being honoured for 
his seminal contributions to mathematics in helping to provide a 
foundation for physical theories.
The prize, named after King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906-1975), carries 
a US$200,000 cash award. The awards ceremony will take place in February 
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.


*11/1/2006*


      Ten Years Ago <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=132>

On this date, 10 years ago, IAEA Director General Hans Blix and UNESCO 
Director General Federico Mayor-Zaragoza presided at a meeting in ICTP's 
Main Lecture Hall marking the official transfer of administrative 
responsibility from IAEA <http://www.iaea.org> to UNESCO 
<http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29008&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>. 
IAEA has remained active in ICTP activities---indeed in 2006, it will 
cosponsor 10 workshops with the Centre in Trieste. UNESCO, however, has 
become the lead administrative agency under a tripartite agreement 
between ICTP, UNESCO and the Italian Government.
Hans Blix, Miguel Virasoro and Federico Mayor-Zaragoza cutting the cake 
at the party following the official transfer ceremony.
/Hans Blix, Miguel Virasoro and Federico Mayor-Zaragoza cutting the cake 
at the party following the official transfer ceremony/


*13/1/2006*


      ICTP, CNPq Cosponsor Training Activities
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=133>

The first ICTP-CNPq <http://www.cnpq.br> (/Conselho Nacional de 
Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico/) joint meeting School-Workshop 
on Dynamical Systems 
<http://www.impa.br/eventos/2006_school_and_workshop_on_dynamical_systems.html> 
will take place at IMPA <http://www.impa.br> (/Instituto Nacional de 
Matemática Pure e Aplicada/), in Rio de Janeiro, on 16-27 January. Jacob 
Palis, chairperson of the ICTP Scientific Council, and Marcelo Viana, 
winner of the Ramanujan Prize 
<http://news.ictp.it/php/linkout/o.php?out=http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Esci_info/awards/Ramanujan/Ramanujan.html>, 
are co-organizing the event. Under a joint agreement, subsequent 
ICTP-CNPq cosponsored research and training activities wiil also take 
place within the region.


*27/1/2006*


      Abdus Salam Remembered <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=134>

29 January would have marked the 80th birthday of Abdus Salam, the 
founder of ICTP. For more information about his life and career, click 
here <http://www.ictp.it/pages/mission/salam.html>.


*2/2/2006*


      ICO/ICTP Award 2006 <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=135>

Hector Manuel Moya-Cessa, a professor at /Instituto Nacional de 
Astroíisica, Óptica y Electrónica/ (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico, has won the 
2006 ICO/ICTP Award 
<http://news.ictp.it/php/linkout/o.php?out=http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Esci_info/awards/ICO/ICO.html>. 
The cermony took place in the ICTP Main Lecture Hall during the Winter 
College on Quantum and Classical Aspects of Information Optics 
<http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?smr=0&ida=a05190>, 
30 January - 10 February. Ari Friberg, president of ICO, presided. 
Moya-Cessa is being honoured for the high level quality of his research 
activities on the foundation of quantum optics and for his active 
involvement in organizing research and training activities in this field 
throughout Latin America.


*3/2/2006*


      ICTP in the GRID <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=136>

ICTP is among the organizers of the workshop, "Grid in Finance in 2006? 
<http://www.gridinfinance.org>, that is taking place in Palermo, Italy, 
on 3-4 February. Grid is an emerging computing model that provides the 
ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of 
many networked computers. It could provide wide-ranging applications in 
many fields, including finance. The meeting in Palermo is the first 
world forum for 'grid' researchers and practitioners, both in academia 
and industry. Institutions from Australia, Germany, Spain, the United 
Kingdom and the United States will also be in attendance. Alvise Nobile, 
past ICTP Scientific Computer Section head and a member of the 
workshop's organizing committee, will represent the Centre.


      UN Under-Secretary General Visits ICTP
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=137>

Adama Dieng, UN Under-Secretary General, visited ICTP on 2 February to 
meet with the ICTP Director, K.R. Sreenivasan. Following the meeting, 
Dieng and and Sreenivasan participated in a conference on human rights 
organized by the University of Trieste.
K.R. Sreenivasan and Adama Dieng at ICTP
/K.R. Sreenivasan and Adama Dieng at ICTP/


*7/2/2006*


      Wireless Networking in Print <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=138>

Co-written by ICTP's Carlo Fonda and Marco Zennaro, (ARPL 
<http://arpl.ictp.it/> and SDU <http://sdu.ictp.it/index.html>), 
/Wireless Networking in the Developing World/ <http://www.wndw.net> is a 
how-to guide for building, deploying and maintaining wireless 
information networks in rural parts of the developing world. The book is 
now available as a download under a Creative Commons "share alike" 
license. It is also be available in a print-on-demand format 
<http://www.lulu.com/content/223168>.


*17/2/2006*


      ICTP Associate Wins Award <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=139>

Raphael Mukaro, ICTP Junior Associate 2002-2007 and head of the Physics 
Department at Bindura University of Science in Bindura, Zimbabwe, has 
been awarded the 2005 TWAS <http://www.twas.org> (The Academy of 
Sciences for the Developing World) Young Scientist of the Year Award. 
The award was given to Mukaro by the Research Council of Zimbabwe. He is 
being honoured for the development of powerful but inexpensive 
electronic equipment such as sensors, data acquisition and control 
systems, and computer software, used for research and teaching.


*22/2/2006*


      Article on Abdus Salam <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=140>

Alexis De Greiff, vice-rector of the /Universidad Nacional de Colombia/, 
and a science historian who received his doctorate degree from London 
University, has published a brief account of the ideas that led Abdus 
Salam to lead the effort for the creation of ICTP. Titled "Abdus Salam: 
A Migrant Scientist in Post-Imperial Times," 
<http://news.ictp.it/php/linkout/o.php?out=http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Esci_info/Salam-epw.pdf> 
the article was published in the 21 January 2006 edition of /Economic 
and Political Weekly/.


*28/2/2006*


      ICTP in International Herald Tribune
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=141>

The /International Herald Tribune/ has published an article (Tuesday, 28 
February) describing the efforts of ICTP's Aeronomy and Radiopropagation 
Laboratory <http://arpl.ictp.it/> (ARPL) to provide developing countries 
with low-cost, effective electronic communications through the use of 
tin can antennas. For the full text, click here 
<http://news.ictp.it/php/linkout/o.php?out=http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Esci_info/C280206IHT.pdf>.

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