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Science Dissemination
Unit (SDU)
Part of the ICTP/TWAS Donation Programme has been turned into
the Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) to reflect the expanded need
for information via electronic communication. The new unit, which
will be coordinated by ICTP staff scientist Bobby Acharya
and include staff members Enrique Canessa, Carlo Fonda
and Marco Zennaro, will seek to make the broad range of
scientific information (for example, preprints, lectures and seminars)
produced at the Centre available on-line; devise strategies for
linking ICTP scientific information with electronic portals at
other institutions, especially universities and research centres
in the developing world; and strengthen ICTP's eJournal Delivery
Service. SDU also plans to prepare a comprehensively indexed web
archive of recorded lectures given by prominent scientists visiting
ICTP. The remaining part of the ICTP/TWAS Donation Programme will
now be operated by the Library.
Enrique Canessa (standing), Carlo Fonda (in foreground)
and Marco Zennaro
.
Dirac Medallists
2004
James D. Bjorken, professor emeritus at the Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and Curtis G. Callan,
professor of physics, Princeton University, presented their Dirac
Medal Lectures at ICTP on 16 March 2005. Bjorken spoke on "Scaling
the Heights" (see "Features",
p. 6-7) and Callan presented a lecture on "From Scaling to
Asymptotic Freedom and Beyond: Quantum Field Theory and the Struggle
to Understand the Strong Interaction."
The work of Bjorken and Callan was instrumental in the theoretical
developments that led to the use of deep scattering in shedding
light on the nature of strong interactions. For additional information,
see www.ictp.it.
K.R. Sreenivasan and Curtis G. Callan
ICO/ICTP Award
The ICO (International Commission for Optics) /ICTP Award for 2005 has been awarded to Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand, for his achievements in applying photonics and micromechanics to biomedical devices and telecommunications. He was also honoured for his efforts to promote optics and photonics in Thailand. The award ceremony took place on 9 February 2005.
Maria Calvo and Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn
IN MEMORIAM
Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe, one of the most prominent theoretical physicists of the past century, died at his home in Ithaca, New York. He was 98. Bethe, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1967 "for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars", was an ardent supporter of ICTP and close friend of the Centre's founding director Abdus Salam. He was a guest of honour at ICTP's Symposium on Contemporary Physics in 1968, celebrating the opening of the Main Building. Bethe's lecture was published in From a Life of Physics (Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 1969).
Hans Bethe at ICTP, June 1968
Sergio Fubini, Italy, an eminent theoretical physicist who taught at the universities of Padua and Turin, Italy, and who in his later years devoted his international standing in physics to promoting peace in the Middle East, died on 6 January 2005 after a prolonged illness. He was 77. Fubini contributed to several cutting-edge fields of theoretical physics, including S-matrix concepts that played an important role in dual resonance models. He also helped to devise the preliminary mathematical framework for the development of string theory. In 1995, Fubini organised the Sinai Physics Meeting in Dahab, Egypt, which brought together physicists from Arab countries, Israel, Europe and the United States to discuss strategies for promoting international cooperation in physics in the Middle East. The meeting led to the launch of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) project and the relocation of a synchrotron radiation light facility from Germany to Jordan. The facility will begin operation later this decade. Fubini taught at ICTP in the 1960s and returned in 1997 to attend the Abdus Salam Memorial Meting.
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