ICTP COLLOQUIUM ON 10/01/2012

[Info Point]

*ICTP COLLOQUIUM*

*16:30, Tuesday, 10 January 2012*

*Main Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP*

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*Professor Chris Llewellyn-Smith*

*Director of Energy Research, Oxford University***

*President SESAME Council*

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*International Scientific Collaboration*

* - benefits, challenges and opportunities*

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The global scientific is landscape is changing rapidly. New scientific 
powers are emerging, and international collaboration is growing 
dramatically. In the first part of this talk I will review these changes 
as a prelude to discussing attempts to harness global science to address 
global problems (such as climate change, the spread of diseases, and the 
loss of bio-diversity). In the second half of the talk I will review the 
status of SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and 
Applications in the Middle East) as an example of a project with the 
dual aims of building scientific capacity and building bridges between 
people in diverse countries through scientific collaboration. SESAME, 
which is modelled on CERN, is a third generation light source under 
construction in Jordan: the members are currently Bahrain, Cyprus, 
Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, and 
Turkey.

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