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.”

On 17 July 2007, the first degree of the Laurea Magistralis in Fisica 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, 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.

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".

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.

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, environmental fluid mechanics, combustion and reacting flows, hydrodynamics and hydraulics, fluid machinery, bluff-body aerodynamics, 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
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