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.

Please register in advance for the three webinars (one registration for all 3 events)

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vIU8QZWLRb2Nh1gB-oXD5w

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

The lecture series will also be livestreamed from the ICTP website at:  http://video.ictp.it/livestream

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