STARTING NOW
TODAY - Tuesday 2 April 2019 at 16:30:
ICTP Colloquium on SESAME: a Source of Light in the Middle
East, by Eliezer Rabinovici.
The talk is aimed at a general audience and will illustrate from a personal point of view how the Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) project came into being starting in 1995. The story will move from the CERN cafeteria through the ICTP, SISSA and Sistiana, crossing the Sinai desert to the completion of a high quality scientific electron accelerator in Jordan.
Biosketch: Eliezer Rabinovici was born in Jerusalem in 1946. He holds a PhD in High Energy Physics from Weizman Institute of Science. Among his many affiliations, he is member of the international advisory and scientific committee of the Galileo Galilei (GGI) - Florence, member of the European Physical Society Executive Board and holds the Louis Michel Chair at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques IHES, University Paris-Saclay since 2015. He is one of the founders of SESAME and Vice President elect of the SESAME Council and Chairman of the Israeli Committee for Sesame. Rabinovici was awarded the 2019 AAAS Prize for Science Diplomacy together with other internationally regarded colleagues for his considerable contribution in the creation and development of the international scientific centre SESAME in Allan, Jordan.
More information is available at: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8865/The talk will be livestreamed from the ICTP website.
Light refreshment will be served after the talk.
Looking forward to seeing you there.