Reminder: 2022 Salam Distinguished Lectures Series Webinar by Alessandra Buonanno: Tomorrow 27 January and, 28 and 31 January 2022

[ICTP/director]

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 
tomorrow 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:*

  * Thursday 27 January 2022: Lecture 1 - "What Gravitational Waves tell
    us about the Universe" <http://indico.ictp.it/event/9755/> /
    http://indico.ictp.it/event/9755/
  * Friday 28 January 2022: Lecture 2 - "The Making of High-Precision
    Gravitational Waves" <http://indico.ictp.it/event/9756/> /
    http://indico.ictp.it/event/9756/
  * Monday 31 January 2022: Lecture 3 - "Gravitational Waves as Probes
    of Gravity and Fundamental Physics"
    <http://indico.ictp.it/event/9757/> / http://indico.ictp.it/event/9757/

*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).*
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We look forward to seeing you at these events.

Best regards,

Office of the Director, ICTP