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 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