ICTP in Brief July August 2007

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    ICTP IN BRIEF

Bi-monthly unabridged listing of news published on http://news.ictp.it/ 
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*17/7/2007*


      New Head Librarian <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=249>

In a message circulated today to the ICTP community, ICTP Director K.R. 
Sreenivasan announced officially that Lucio Visintin has been appointed 
Acting Head of Library. He will replace Maria Fasanella who will be 
retiring at the end of July. In his message, Sreenivasan wrote that "it 
will be difficult to replace Mariuccia whose cumulative services to ICTP 
have been nothing short of monumental. ...We will not lose her 
experience and enthusiastic spirit: she will remain in some capacity 
within ICTP." Visintin has a 25-year-long work experience at the ICTP 
Library. Sreenivasan is certain that under Visintin's management, "the 
library will continue to remain a special place while reaching higher 
levels of usefulness to our community."


*24/7/2007*


      Laurea Magistralis <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=250>

On 17 July 2007, the first degree of the Laurea Magistralis in Fisica 
<http://www.ictp.trieste.it/www_users/ItaLab/joint-programme.html> was 
awarded at the University of Trieste. Benjamin Obi Tayo from Cameroon 
defended his thesis on "One-Dimensional Electronic Systems by Jastrow 
Correlated Wavefunction." His supervisors were Sandro Sorella and 
Gaetano Senatore from SISSA. The Vice-Rector of the University of 
Trieste Fabio Ruzzier, ICTP Director K.R. Sreenivasan, were in 
attendance, as well as Giuseppe Furlan, the in-charge at ICTP of the 
joint programme with the University of Trieste.


      Gallieno Denardo <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=251>

Gallieno Denardo, who has been associated with ICTP since the 1980s, 
died suddenly yesterday. With him, ICTP loses one of its most loyal and 
active friends. Denardo was instrumental in establishing and running all 
ICTP activities on optics, including the Laboratory, the schools and 
workshops, and the ICO/ICTP Award. He headed the Office of External 
Activities for 10 years, and was Acting Administrative Director for more 
than a year in 2002-2003. With his great creativity and dedication to 
work, he helped establish and run other numerous programmes---among 
them, the Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP) in 
collaboration with the IAEA. Ever amiable and cheerful, he will be 
sorely missed.


*26/7/2007*


      ICTP Prize <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=252>

Rajesh Gopakumar, string theorist at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, 
Allahabad, India, will be officially awarded the 2006 ICTP Prize in the 
Main Lecture Hall on Monday, 13 August, at 11.30 a.m. The title of his 
lecture is "From Fields to Strings". Everybody is welcome to attend. The 
2006 ICTP Prize is being given in honour of Gian-Carlo Wick (1909-1992), 
a student of Enrico Fermi, who is well-known among theoretical 
physicists for "Wick's theorem" and "Wick rotation".


*8/8/2007*


      2007 Dirac Medal <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=254>

On the occasion of the birthday of P.A.M. Dirac, the ICTP Dirac Medal 
Committee takes pleasure in announcing that the 2007 Dirac Medal and 
Prize will be awarded to

Jean Iliopoulos, /Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale 
Supérieure/, Paris, France
and
Luciano Maiani, /Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"/, Italy

"For their work on the physics of the charm quark, a major contribution 
to the birth of the Standard Model, the modern theory of Elementary 
Particles."

The awards ceremony will be held at a later date.

Greek-born Jean Iliopoulos is one of the founding members of the 
/Laboratoire de Physique Théorique/ which he has directed from 1991 to 
1995 and from 1998 to 2002. He first visited ICTP in 1969 on the 
occasion of the Topical Conference on Renormalization Theory. He came 
back several times to attend activities in high energy physics, as well 
as the Symposium on Future Challenges in Science Dedicated to Daniele 
Amati, in 2001.
Luciano Maiani has been President of Italy's National Institute of 
Nuclear Physics (INFN) from 1993 to 1997, and Director General of CERN 
from 1999 through 2003. Maiani has visited ICTP on several occasions, 
beginning in the academic year 1968-1969 as a High Energy Physics Guest 
Lecturer, and more recently as one of the organizers of the Abdus Salam 
Memorial Meeting in 1997.

The Dirac Medal selection committee is currently composed of Philip W. 
Anderson, Princeton University, USA; Nicola Cabibbo, University of Rome 
"La Sapienza", Italy; David Gross, University of California at Santa 
Barbara, USA; Leo P. Kadanoff, University of Chicago, USA; Lord Martin 
Rees, University of Cambridge, UK; and Carl Wieman, University of 
Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Established in 1985 by the Abdus Salam International Centre for 
Theoretical Physics, the Dirac Medal, which is now recognized as one of 
the world's most prestigious prizes in physics, is given to scientists 
who have made significant contributions to theoretical physics and 
mathematics. Each recipient receives a cash award and a medal, and will 
also present a Dirac Medal lecture at ICTP at a later date. Recipients 
of the Nobel Prize, Fields Medal and Wolf Foundation Prize are not 
eligible for the Dirac Medal.
The announcement of the Dirac Medal is made each year on 8 August, the 
birth date of the great 20th century physicist Paul A.M. Dirac, who won 
the Nobel Prize in 1933. Dirac was a close associate and friend of ICTP 
from the Centre's first days in the early 1960s until his death in 1984.
For additional information about the Dirac Medal and the list of 
previous winners, see 
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~sci_info/awards/Dirac/DiracMedal.html.


*17/8/2007*


      New Journal <http://news.ictp.it/index.php?p=255>

*Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics*

To see the first issue and other accepted papers please go to the 
following website:
http://www.jafmonline.net

The Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics (*JAFM*) is an international, 
peer-reviewed journal which covers a wide range of theoretical, 
numerical and experimental aspects in fluid mechanics. The emphasis is 
on the applications in different engineering fields rather than on pure 
mathematical or physical aspects in fluid mechanics. Although many high 
quality journals pertaining to different aspects of fluid mechanics 
presently exist, research in the field is rapidly escalating.

*JAFM* is available online through this Electronic Journal service.

*ASSOCIATE EDITORS*
Professor Nasser Ashgriz, Professor Morteza Gharib, Professor Pyman 
Givi, Professor Fazle Hussain, Professor T. T. Lim, Professor Dennis K. 
McLaughlin, Professor Masura Kiya, Professor Hui Meng, Professor Roddam 
Narassimha, Professor Ebrahim Shirani, Professor Katepalli Sreenivasan, 
Professor Stavros Tavoularis, Professor Gretar Tryggvason, Professor 
Patrick Weidman, Professor Heng Zhou

*TOPICS*
The *JAFM* topics include: turbulence, instabilities and transition, 
computation fluid dynamics, aerospace fluid, geophysical fluid dynamics, 
astrophysical fluid dynamics, gas dynamics, boundary layer flows, 
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multi-phase flows, industrial fluid mechanics, bio fluid mechanics, 
fluid visualization, fluid measurement, flow control, fluid induced 
vibration, heat and mass transfer, magneto hydrodynamics, aero acoustics 
and aero elasticity, porous media flows, swirling flows, micro-and nano- 
fluid dynamics
*
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS*
Authors should write their original papers in English and submit it 
using *online submission* and refereeing system via 
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by *JAFM* are given on the instructions page. Submission of a paper 
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*
CONTACT DETAILS*
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Email: secretary at jafmonline.net



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