Dear All,
You are most cordially invited to
the 2022 Salam Distinguished Lectures Series by Professor
Alessandra Buonanno, from the Max Planck Institute for
Gravitational Physics, Germany, and one of ICTP's 2021 Dirac
Medallists. Professor Buonanno will deliver three lectures
starting today Thursday 27 January and on 28 and 31 January on
gravitational waves and the fundamental observations carried
out with the LIGO and Virgo detectors, @ 16.00 hrs CET (Rome,
Italy time) each day, as follows:
Alessandra Buonanno studied theoretical physics in Pisa,
and held faculty positions in Paris and at the University of
Maryland, where she became full professor in 2010. She is a
Principal Investigator of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. For
her contributions to LIGO and Virgo discoveries, she was awarded
several prizes, including the 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize
– the most prestigious research prize in Germany –, the 2021
Galileo Galilei Medal, 2021 Dirac Medal and the 2021 Balzan Prize.
In 2021, she has been elected member of the German National
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, of the US National Academy of
Sciences, and of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities. Buonanno is a Fellow of the International Society on
General Relativity and Gravitation, and of the American Physical
Society. She holds a research professorship at the University of
Maryland, and honorary professorships at the Humboldt University
in Berlin, and at the University of Potsdam.
The Abdus Salam Distinguished Lecture
Series receives generous support from the Kuwait Foundation for
the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS).
We look forward to seeing you at these events.
Best regards,
Office of the Director, ICTP