Invitation to Spirit of Abdus Salam Award Ceremony - 17 December 2024 at 15:30

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Dear All,

You are cordially invited to the 2024 Spirit of Abdus Salam Award 
Ceremony <https://indico.ictp.it/event/10920/> which will take place on 
Tuesday 17 December 2024 at 15:30 in the Budinich Lecture Hall after the 
Long Service Award Ceremony.

We look forward to see you all on this special occasion to celebrate 
together with the Salam family the 2024 Awardees:

*Rosanna Sain*: Rosanna Sain worked for 44 years for the Trieste science 
community, first as a secretary to ICTP co-founder Paolo Budinich at the 
Istituto di Fisica Teorica and then for ICTP. Between 2006 and 2023 she 
was the secretary of ICTP's High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle 
Physics (HECAP) section; she retired in November 2023. During this 
period she constantly went beyond her duties to welcome visitors from 
all over the world and to guarantee the smooth functioning of the HECAP 
section. Her warm and colourful personality progressively became a 
reference point at ICTP, a face of the Centre for all the visitors and a 
constant support for her colleagues in the HECAP section. In her long 
career she dealt literally with thousands of visitors, and for each one 
she had a personal touch, improving the quality of each visit to the 
Centre and the way ICTP is remembered as a home away from home.

*Luciano Maiani****and Fabio Zwirner*: Fabio Zwirner was the 
representative of the Italian Government on the ICTP Steering Committee, 
as well as its chair, from 2014 to 2022. Luciano Maiani was the 
chairperson of the ICTP Scientific Council from 2011 to 2022. In their 
capacity as the Chairs of ICTP's highest governing bodies, Maiani and 
Zwirner played a very important role at critical junctures. They managed 
to align, with extraordinary perseverance and skill, the sometimes 
divergent priorities of the ICTP stakeholders towards the ultimate goal 
of staying true to the original vision of the Centre as a global hub for 
advanced science. In his capacity as Vice-President of the European 
Research Council (ERC), Zwirner tirelessly supported the proposal to 
include ICTP among the institutions eligible for financial support by 
the European Union through the ERC programme. Thanks to his efforts the 
proposal was accepted and ratified by the European Parliament in 2020. 
Since then ICTP has received more than seven million Euros in 
competitive research grants from the ERC programme. Under Maiani's 
leadership, the ICTP Scientific Council has been instrumental in 
promoting and guiding the expansion of ICTP's research activities into 
new emerging scientific fields.

A detailed feature article on the 2024 Awardees is available here: 
https://www.ictp.it/news/2024/1/spirit-salam-awardees-2024-announced

After the event, all are invited to an end of the year toast which will 
take place in the lobby outside the Budinich Lecture Hall to exchange 
festive greetings together.

The event will be livestreamed www.ictp.it/livestream 
<http://www.ictp.it/livestream>

All are welcome to attend!

STI Secretariat
on behalf of Director's Office


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