ICTP in Brief May June 2007

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    ICTP IN BRIEF

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


*4/5/2007*


      ICTP Director elected to NAS <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=242>

ICTP Director K.R. Sreenivasan is among 72 new members 
<http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=MEMBERS_Main> of the 
US National Academy of Sciences 
<http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer>. The announcement was given 
at the NAS annual meeting on 1 May.


*24/5/2007*


      Fellowship Opportunities <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=243>

Applications are now available for fellowships to earn a /Laurea 
Magistralis in Fisica/ and /Laurea Magistralis in Astrofisica e Fisica 
Spaziale/, under a joint programme sponsored by ICTP and the University 
of Trieste. A limited number of fellowships are being offered to 
students from the developing world. For additional information and 
application forms, please see this page 
<http://www.ictp.trieste.it/www_users/ItaLab/joint-programme.html>.


*25/5/2007*


      Pierre-Gilles de Gennes <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=244>

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1991, died on 18 May 
at Orsay, France. He was 74. De Gennes visited ICTP as lecturer seven 
times between 1968 and 2006. He first came to the Centre to participate 
in the International Symposium on Contemporary Physics, which marked the 
official opening of the ICTP Main Building. He last came in 2006 to 
deliver a special seminar on "Some Thoughts on Friction."


*29/5/2007*


      Stanley Miller 1930-2007 <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=245>

Stanley L. Miller, an emeritus professor of chemistry and biochemistry 
at the University of California, San Diego, whose laboratory experiments 
in 1952 demonstrated how simple organic compounds considered necessary 
for the origin of life could have been synthesized on the Earth, died on 
20 May. He was 77. Miller came to ICTP twice, in 2000 and 2003, as a 
guest speaker in the conferences on the origin of life. The conference 
in 2003 included a celebration on the 50th anniversary of Miller's 
experiment at the University of Chicago that confirmed life could indeed 
be created by chemical synthesis.


      Africa Day <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=246>

ICTP has organized the Africa Day 
<http://www.ictp.it/pages/events/africaday07.html>, a one-day symposium 
to discuss the role that the international institutions in Trieste can 
play in addressing Africa's issues. The proceedings will be held in the 
ICTP Main Lecture Hall on Thursday 31 May, beginning at 9 a.m.


*4/6/2007*


      2007 ICTP Prize <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=247>

The 2007 ICTP Prize in honour of Lev Davidovich Landau has been awarded 
to Mohammad Mahdi Sheikh-Jabbari, Institute for Studies in Theoretical 
Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran. Sheikh-Jabbari is being honoured 
"for his important contributions to non-commutative field theories in 
the context of D-branes and superstring theories, leading to interesting 
formal and phenomenological developments in theoretical and mathematical 
physics." The 2007 ICTP Prize is named after the great Russian physicist 
L.D. Landau, Nobel Laureate 1962. The 100th year of his birth will be 
celebrated in 2008. The awards ceremony shall be held at a later date.


      Jagadish Shukla Honoured <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=248>

Jagadish Shukla, who was instrumental in the creation of ICTP's weather 
and climate research activities and then led the activities from their 
inception in 1988 until 1997, has been awarded the International 
Meteorological Organization (IMO) Prize 
<http://www.wmo.int/pages/about/awards/awards_imo_new.html> by the 59th 
session of the Executive Council of the World Meteorological 
Organization (WMO), held in Geneva, Switzerland, last week. Shukla is 
currently president, Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES), 
Maryland, and distinguished professor of climate dynamics at George 
Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.



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