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News from ICTP 114 - Monitor
K.R. Sreenivasan, ICTP Director, and Claudio Tuniz,
Assistant Director, recently visited the JET (Joint European Torus)
facilities in Culham, UK, to speak with Jerome Pamela, associate
leader of JET, and Richard Kamendje, the associate leader's scientific
advisor, on possible avenues of future collaboration. Following
the discussions, JET announced that in 2006 it will join ICTP
and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in sponsoring
two Trieste-based workshops on 'new frontiers of plasma research'
and 'molecular data for fusion energy research.' In 2007, the
three organisations plan to collaborate on a workshop exploring
the current state of fusion energy research and to lay the groundwork
for 'remote participation' activities allowing students from developing
countries to collaborate on state-of-the-art experimental fusion
research. Both organisations believe that future opportunities
in this field will increase dramatically following the June 2005
decision to locate the US$12-billion ITER facility in Cadarache,
France. ITER, which will produce 500 megawatts (MW) of fusion
power, is scheduled for completion in 2016. For additional information
about JET, see www.jet.efda.org.
Portraits of
Istria
ICTP's cultural committee assisted in the organisation of a photography
festival held in Trieste. The festival highlighted the work of
the Croatian-born Virgilio Giuricin, an internationally
renowned photographer who has lived and worked in Italy for the
past half century. Following the festival, a collection of Giuricin's
photos portraying the people and scenic beauty of his native Istria
were placed on display in ICTP's lobby.
IN MEMORIAM
Kun Huang 1919-2005
ICTP Senior Associate (1986-1991) Kun Huang, an internationally
renowned physicist and professor emeritus at the Chinese Academy
of Sciences' Institute of Semiconductors, died on 6 July 2005.
He was 86. Educated at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Kun, while
living in the United Kingdom during the post World War II era,
worked closely with Nobel Laureate Max Born. In 1954, the two
coauthored a classic textbook on lattice dynamics in solids. Back
in China, Kun played an instrumental role in reestablishing links
between China's and the West's scientific communities in the aftermath
of the Cultural Revolution. In 1979, he headed a 12-person 'ice-breaking'
delegation of Chinese theoretical physicists to ICTP, a visit
that opened the way for wide-ranging exchanges between China and
the Centre in the years that followed. Kun returned to ICTP in
1989.
ICTP, 1979: The first group of Chinese visitors with Mario
P. Tosi and André-Marie Hamende. Kun Huang is second from
right.
John Bahcall 1935-2005
John Bahcall, one of the world's leading astrophysicists and a
professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA,
died this August. He was 70. Bahcall was a close collaborator
of ICTP staff scientist Alexei Smirnov. Together they coauthored
10 papers and the monograph, Neutrinos: The First Thirty Years.
In 1993, Bahcall lectured at
the ICTP conference on Highlights of Particle and Condensed Matter
Physics.
Adalberto González Debén 1965- 2005
ICTP Group Associate (2000-2005) Adalberto González Debén
passed away in July at the age of 40. As a professor of physics
of Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Instituto de Cibernética,
Matemática y Física in Havana, Cuba, visited ICTP
annually for the past three years and was scheduled to return
to Trieste in September. Applied mathematics was his primary field
of study.
Maria Zingarelli 1936-2005
Maria Zingarelli, ICTP's former head librarian who served in that
capacity for nearly three decades, died in July. She was 69. Born
in Italy and raised in Eritrea, where her family had moved when
she was three years old, Zingarelli returned to Italy in 1963.
She began her career with ICTP one year later, just three months
after the Centre's creation, and was appointed head librarian
in 1967. She remained with ICTP until her retirement in 1996.
In 1989, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) honoured
Zingarelli with a special service award. Zingarelli oversaw the
growth of the ICTP Library into one of the most important technical
libraries in Europe. She will be missed by both the Centre's staff
and visiting scientists, and remembered as a key figure in helping
ICTP earn an international reputation for outstanding service
to the international scientific community.
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