Invitation to the ICTP Webinar Colloquium by Paul Ginsparg on "Lessons from arXiv's 30 years of information sharing", on Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 16:00 hrs CET

[ICTP/director]

Dear All,

You are most cordially invited to the ICTP Webinar Colloquium by Paul 
Ginsparg on "Lessons from arXiv's 30 years of information sharing" on 
Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 16:00 hrs CET.*
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*Pre-registration* is required at the following url:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HQvQ6zwyQfuWiooME68sWA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email.

*Biosketch: *Paul Ginsparg has been Professor of Physics and Information 
Science at Cornell University since 2001. He received a B.A. in Physics 
from Harvard University (1977), and a doctorate in theoretical particle 
physics from Cornell University (1981). He was in the Society of Fellows 
at Harvard (1981-1984), then faculty member in the physics department at 
Harvard University until 1990 and a staff member in the theoretical 
division of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1990-2001. Professor 
Ginsparg has authored papers in quantum field theory, string theory, 
conformal field theory, and quantum gravity. While visiting Aspen in the 
summer of 1991, he started the e-print archives (now arXiv.org). He has 
served on many committees including the U.S. National Committee for 
CODATA, other N.R.C., N.A.S., and AAAS committees, the NIH PubMedCentral 
national advisory board, the American Physical Society publications 
oversight committee, and the Public Library of Science advisory board. 
In 1998, he received the P.A.M. (physics astronomy math) award from the 
Special Libraries Association, in 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the 
American Physical Society, in 2002 was named a MacArthur Fellow, in 2005 
received the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Award for Meritorious 
Achievement, in 2006 received the Paul Evans Peters Award from Educause, 
ARL, and CNI, in 2008 was named a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, in June 
2013 was named a "White House Champion of Change", in 2017 received an 
honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and was the 2020 
recipient of the Karl T. Compton award for Leadership in Physics.

*Abstract: *arXiv began in the print-only era in 1991. Started at Los 
Alamos National Laboratory, and known as xxx.lanl.gov until 1998, it was 
intended to level the global research playing field by providing 
equal-time access to the latest research results. I will review some of 
the considerations in its inception and early development, give a very 
brief sociological overview of the current metastable state of scholarly 
research communication, and then a technical discussion of the practical 
implications of literature and usage data considered as computable 
objects, using arXiv as exemplar.

The talk will be followed by a question/answer session.

For info, please check the following link: http://indico.ictp.it/event/9714/

We look forward to seeing you online!

With best regards,

Office of the Director, ICTP