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