ICTP in Brief November December 2006

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    ICTP IN BRIEF

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


*3/11/2006*


      Carlo Rubbia To Open Workshop <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=197>

ICTP is hosting a three-day Advanced Research Workshop entitled Sharing 
Knowledge Across the Mediterranean. The workshop, which will begin on 
Monday 6 November at 9.00 in the Main Lecture Hall, is the third in a 
series organized by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). 
Previously events were held in Geneva (2004) and Casablanca (2005). This 
year's workshop, which is dedicated to the memory of ICTP's founding 
director Abdus Salam on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his 
death, will feature an opening talk by Carlo Rubbia (Nobel Laureate in 
Physics 1984). Abdulsalam El-Qallali, the Libyan Ambassador to the 
United National Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 
(UNESCO) and a former ICTP Associate, will also speak at the opening 
session. Other presenters include Adnan Shihab El-Din, former secretary 
general of OPEC, who will examine the prospects for fossil fuel 
supplies, and Herwig Schopper, former director of CERN, the European 
particle physics laboratory, who will describe the current state of 
SESAME project, which has brought the first-ever synchrotron light 
facility to the Middle East. For additional information, see 
http://events.ictp.it/nov.html


*14/11/2006*


      Nature on Science in Trieste <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=198>

/Nature Materials/ (November 2006) has published an article, "Nurturing 
Science in Developing Countries," that examines the state of research 
and training in physics in Trieste. The article is based on interviews 
with ICTP director K.R. Sreenivasan, former ICTP acting director Erio 
Tosatti, and Mohamed H.A. Hassan, executive director of the Academy of 
Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).


      Furlan, Sreenivasan to be Honoured
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=199>

The Science Academy of Turin, Italy, is awarding Giuseppe Furlan, head 
of ICTP's Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL), the 
Ravani-Pellati Prize for his outstanding contributions to scientific 
research and international cooperation. On the same occasion, ICTP 
director K.R. Sreenivasan will receive the Panetti-Ferrari Prize for 
Applied Mechanics for his important contributions to both experimental 
and theoretical studies of turbulence. The awards ceremony will take 
place on on 20 November. For further information, see the page of 
cultural institutions 
<http://www.istituticulturali.it/generaNews.jsp?id=57#> of the Italian 
Ministry of Cultural Heritage.


*20/11/2006*


      Mori Fellow Article Draws Attention
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=201>

An article co-authored by Mori Fellow Ali Bashir and ICTP staff 
scientist Charles Chidume is one of the 25 top articles in the /Journal 
of Mathematical Analysis and Applications/ for April-June. The 
announcement was made by /Science Direct/, which provides lists of the 
most popular science articles based on downloads on the internet. 
"Approximation of common fixed points for finite families on nonself 
asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces", which has been 
published online, will appear in print in the February 2007 edition of 
the journal. Mori Fellowships 
<http://users.ictp.it/%7Esci_info/News_from_ICTP/News_115/features_Mori.html>---a 
programme sponsored by the Japanese government and administered by 
ICTP---are granted to doctoral and post-doctoral students from 
sub-Saharan Africa.


      Elettra Users' Meeting <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=200>

The Fourteenth Elettra Users' Convention 
<http://www.elettra.trieste.it/UM14/> is taking place at the ICTP Main 
Lecture Hall from 20-22 November. The meeting will be accompanied by two 
Satellite Workshops on "New Frontiers in Insertion Devices" and "Science 
at High Pressures" and the announcement of a prize in memory of Luciano 
Fonda and Paolo Maria Fasella to be awarded to a young researcher.


*21/11/2006*


      In Memory of Abdus Salam <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=202>

Abdus Salam, founding director of ICTP and Nobel Laureate for Physics 
1979, died 10 years ago today. Salam led the Centre from its inception 
in 1964 until 1994. An article 
<http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Esci_info/Clippings/C2006/C2006Quarter4/C211106IP2_72.pdf> 
recalling the illustrious life of Abdus Salam and featuring 
reminiscences from his student and long-time collaborator, Seifallah 
Randjbar-Daemi, currently ICTP Assistant Director, was published today 
in /Il Piccolo/.


*23/11/2006*


      Cuban Ambassador and Cousellor Visit ICTP
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=203>

On 22 November, the Cuban Ambassador to Italy, Rodney Lopez Clemente, 
and Lourdes Alicia Diaz, Science and Technology Counsellor, visited ICTP 
Director, K.R. Sreenivasan, to discuss areas of potential cooperation 
between Cuba's scientific community and the ICTP.
Counsellor Lourdes Alicia Diaz, Ambassador Rodney Lopez Clemente , and 
ICTPDirector K.R. Sreenivasan
/ Counsellor Lourdes Alicia Diaz, Ambassador Rodney Lopez Clemente, and 
ICTP Director K.R. Sreenivasan./


*30/11/2006*


      P.K. Shukla Elected to Swedish Academy
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=204>

Padma Kant Shukla <http://www.tp4.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/%7Eps/>, professor 
of physics at /Ruhr-Universität Bochum/, Germany, and a frequent visitor 
to ICTP, has been appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of 
Sciences in the field of physics. He is being recognized for his 
world-class research in the areas of collective interactions in complex 
plasmas and fluids as well as in neutrino plasmas and quantum systems.
As a member of the Swedish Academy, he will be among 18 eminent 
scientists advising the Nobel Committee on potential Nobel Prize 
candidates in physics. Shukla, who is native of India, is the first 
German physicist to be elected a foreign member of the Swedish Academy 
in physics. He has participated in ICTP training activities in plasma 
physics for more than two decades, serving as a course director for 
workshops and colleges on plasma physics since 1995.


*7/12/2006*


      New ICTP Diploma in Basic Physics
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=205>

ICTP has announced a new one-year ICTP Diploma Programme in Basic 
Physics (DBP) <https://portal.ictp.it/diploma/dbp>. The programme is 
designed to assist young physicists and mathematicians from sub-Saharan 
Africa who have recently received undergraduate degrees and are 
interested in pursuing their studies at the graduate level. Applications 
are now being accepted. The programme will be launched in September 2007.


*12/12/2006*


      Public Lecture <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=206>

"The arithmetic of the electoral reforms" served as the subject of the 
third public lecture in the series /Frontiere/ jointly organized this 
year by ICTP, /Immaginario Scientifico/ and the Department of 
Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Trieste. Marco Li 
Calzi, professor of mathematics at the University Ca' Foscari in Venice, 
spoke on the crucial role played by mathematics in determining the 
number of seats that would likely be available for representatives of 
congress and parliament based on a nation's population and the way in 
which a government chooses to divide its political districts. He focused 
on the situation in both the United States and in Italy. The lecture 
took place at the University of Trieste.


      Italian Undersecretary Visits Centre
      <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=207>

On 11 December, Senator Milos Budin, Undersecretary, Italian Ministry of 
International Commerce, visited ICTP. He spoke with ICTP Director, K.R. 
Sreenivasan, and several other Centre scientists and staff, about 
potential avenues of cooperation.
Meeting with Senator Milos Budin
/Meeting with Senator Milos Budin/


      Telemedicine in Malawi <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=208>

In collaboration with ICTP's Aeronomy and Radiopropagation Laboratory 
(ARPL), the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Malawi 
Polytechnic is developing a pilot project to establish a wireless 
network for telemedicine. The project will involve four institutions in 
Malawi: the Malawi Polytechnic, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, and 
the Ndirande and Limbe health dispensaries. /Regione Friuli Venezia 
Giulia/ has donated the equipment. Technical experts from Malawi were 
trained at ICTP's Project-oriented Advanced Training on Wireless 
Networking in June 2006.


*14/12/2006*


      Ramanujan Prize Ceremony <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=209>

The awards ceremony for the Ramanujan Prize will take place on Monday, 
18 December, in ICTP's Main Lecture Hall. The ceremony will begin at 
11.00 a.m. with welcoming remarks by ICTP Director K.R. Sreenivasan. 
Ragnar Winther, Chairman of the Abel Board, will speak at 11.10. 
Ramdorai Sujatha, professor of mathematics at the Tata Institute of 
Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, and winner of the 2006 Ramanujan 
Prize, will receive the prize at 11:20 and giver her acceptance speech 
at 11:25. The ceremony will conclude with a talk by Lennart Carleson, 
2006 Abel Laureate. Sujatha is being honoured for her work on arithmetic 
of algebraic varieties and her contributions to non-commutative Iwasawa 
theory.
The Ramanujan Prize 
<http://news.ictp.it/php/linkout/o.php?out=http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Esci_info/awards/Ramanujan/Ramanujan.html>, 
funded by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters through the Abel 
Fund, in cooperation with the International Mathematical Union (IMU), is 
given annually to a mathematician under 45 from a developing country. It 
is named after the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.


*20/12/2006*


      Winter Break <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=210>

ICTP will be closed for winter break from Saturday, 23 December until 
Sunday 7 January. The Centre's first activity in 2007 will be the 13th 
International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: 
Total Energy and Force Methods 
<http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?smr=0&ida=a06178>, 
which will be held from 11 to 13 January. On behalf of the Centre's 
staff and scientists, we wish all of our colleagues and friends a happy 
and healthy holiday season.



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