Celebrating the 60th anniversary of ICTP at UNESCO HQ today at 14:00

[ICTP Director]

Dear All,



ICTP is celebrating its 60th anniversary with an information session 
entitled Empowering Global Collaboration: Exploring the Significance of 
ICTP in Advancing Scientific Excellence, that will take place on 
*Wednesday 10 April at 2pm* at the UNESCO HQ, in Paris.

The event was promoted by the Permanent Representation of Italy to 
UNESCO through a resolution on the Centre's 60th anniversary 
celebrations approved in March by UNESCO's Executive Council.



The program and full list of speakers are below.

You are all invited to 
join the event online, by registering at this link: 
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/information-session-abdus-salam-international-centre-theoretical-physics-ictp



We hope to see you connected!



Best regards,

ICTP Public Information Unit


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*Event Programme*

Nobel Prize Laureate *Serge Haroche* will reflect on the importance of 
fundamental research at ICTP in his keynote speech entitled “Reflections 
about Basic Science on the occasion of ICTP’s 60th anniversary”. Haroche 
has visited ICTP many times over the years, lecturing at several schools 
and workshops.

ICTP students and alumni will also give their testimonials at the event. 
Among them will be:

· *Nana Ama Klutse Browne* (Ghana), climatologist, Head of the 
Department of Physics at the University of Ghana, Vice Chair of the 
Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 
She also serves as a board member of the UNESCO Basic Sciences 
Programme, and is a Researcher at the African Institute of Mathematical 
Sciences (AIMS).
· *Maha Hsouna* (Tunisia), PhD student in the Joint International 
ICTP/SISSA PhD programme, and 2021 graduate of ICTP's Postgraduate 
Diploma Programme.
· *Raji Mamade* (Ethiopia), PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology (MIT) and 2023 graduate of ICTP's Postgraduate Diploma 
Programme.
· *Lucía Mariel Arana Peña* (Guatemala), medical physicist at the 
Radiology Department of Tartu University Hospital in Estonia. She is a 
2018 graduate of ICTP's Master of Advanced Studies in Medical Physics.
· *Nana Geraldine Cabo Bizet* (Cuba), professor at the University of 
Guanajuato, Mexico; ICTP alumna and current Regular Associate.

A panel discussion led by ICTP Director Dabholkar will explore the 
impact of ICTP in promoting the advancement of science and research 
through global scientific collaboration. The panel will include:

· *Marcia Barbosa*, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, director, 
the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and Secretary for Strategic Policies 
and Programs at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI)
· *Ali Hassanali*, ICTP Senior Research Scientist, representing the 
ICTP-East African Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-EAIFR)
· *Moustapha Mouhamed Fall*, President of AIMS, Senegal, and ICTP 
Ramanujan Prize winner