ICTP COLLOQUIUM
16:30,
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Main Lecture
Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP
Professor
Chris Llewellyn-Smith
Director of
Energy Research, Oxford
University
President
SESAME Council
International Scientific
Collaboration
-
benefits,
challenges and opportunities
The global
scientific is landscape is changing rapidly. New scientific powers are
emerging, and international collaboration is growing dramatically. In
the first
part of this talk I will review these changes as a prelude to
discussing
attempts to harness global science to address global problems (such as
climate
change, the spread of diseases, and the loss of bio-diversity). In the
second
half of the talk I will review the status of SESAME (Synchrotron-light
for
Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) as an example
of a
project with the dual aims of building scientific capacity and building
bridges
between people in diverse countries through scientific collaboration.
SESAME,
which is modelled on CERN, is a third generation light source under
construction in Jordan: the members are currently Bahrain, Cyprus,
Egypt, Iran,
Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, and Turkey.
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