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ICTP: 50 Years of Science for the Future - Anniversary Celebration | (smr 2607)
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  • Sunday, 5 October 2014
    • 18:00 - 21:00 Registration
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Main entrance) )
      • 18:00 Registration 3h0'
  • Monday, 6 October 2014
    • 09:00 - 11:00 Inauguration
      • 09:00 Welcome remarks 10'
        Speaker: Fernando Quevedo (Director, ICTP)
        Material: Video
      • 09:10 Welcome remarks by ICTP's Governing Bodies 10'
        Speaker: Mario Giro (Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Italy)
      • 09:20 Welcome remarks by ICTP's Governing Bodies 10'
        Speaker: Irina Bokova (Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO))
      • 09:30 Welcome remarks by ICTP's Governing Bodies 10'
        Speaker: Yukiya Amano (Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))
      • 09:40 Welcome remarks 10'
        Speaker: Hamadoun Touré (Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU))
      • 09:50 Welcome remarks 10'
        Speaker: Michel Jarraud (Secretary General, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO))
      • 10:00 Welcome remarks 10'
        Speaker: Rolf-Dieter Heuer (Director-General, European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN))
      • 10:10 Welcome remarks local authorities 10'
        Speaker: Francesca Garufi (Prefect of Trieste)
      • 10:20 Welcome remarks local authorities 10'
        Speaker: Debora Serracchiani (President of the Region)
      • 10:30 Welcome remarks local authorities 10'
        Speaker: Roberto Cosolini (Mayor of Trieste)
      • 10:40 Welcome remarks local authorities 10'
        Speaker: Maria Teresa Bassa Poropat (President of the Province)
        Material: Video
      • 10:50 Award of the 2013 ICTP Prize to Yasaman Farzan (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences Tehran, Iran) and Patchanita Thamyongkit (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand) 10'
        Speaker: Irina Bokova (Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO))
        Material: Video
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Dedication of Main Lecture Hall
      Convener: Luciano Maiani (Chairman, ICTP Scientific Council)
      • 11:00 Dedication of Main Lecture Hall to ICTP co-founder Paolo Budinich 15'
      • 11:15 coffee break 15' ( Ictp ( LB (Main entrance) ) )
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Keynote Lectures
      Convener: Aldo Malavasi (Deputy Director General, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 11:30 Keynote Lectures 20'
        Speaker: H.E. Paul Kagame (President of Rwanda)
        Material: Video
      • 11:50 Keynote Lectures 20'
        Speaker: H.R.H. El Hassan bin Talal (Prince of Jordan)
      • 12:10 Keynote Lectures 20'
        Speaker: Ansar Parvez (Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission)
        Material: Slides
    • 12:30 - 14:45 afternoon session
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Cafeteria) )
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
      • 14:00 Presentation of ICTP Strategic Plan 45'
        Speaker: Fernando Quevedo (Director of ICTP)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 14:45 - 15:15 Keynote Lecture
      Convener: Martin Rees (University of Cambridge)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 14:45 The importance of centres of excellence worldwide 30'
        Speaker: David Gross (Nobel Laureate)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 15:15 - 15:45 Keynote Lecture
      Convener: Fernando Ferroni (President, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 15:15 Abdus Salam's scientific contributions 30'
        Speaker: Carlo Rubbia (Nobel Laureate)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 15:45 - 16:15 coffee break ( Ictp ( LB (Main entrance) ) )
    • 16:15 - 16:45 Abdus Salam's Legacy
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 16:15 Keynote Lecture 30'
        Speaker: C.N.R. Rao (Honorary President and Linus Pauling Research Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore)
        Material: Video
    • 16:45 - 17:45 Friends and Collaborators of Abdus Salam
      Convener: Peter Goddard (Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 16:45 Video Message 6'
        Speaker: Federico Mayor (former Director-General, UNESCO)
        Material: Video
      • 16:51 Video Message 6'
        Speaker: Steven Weinberg (Nobel Laureate)
      • 16:57 With Abdus at Imperial College 6'
        Speaker: Antonino Zichichi (President, World Laboratory)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:03 Message 6'
        Speaker: Adnan Badran (President, Petra University, former Prime Minister of Jordan)
      • 17:09 Message 6'
        Speaker: Robert Delbourgo (University of Tasmania)
      • 17:15 Message 6'
        Speaker: Michael Duff (Abdus Salam Chair, Imperial College London)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:21 Message 6'
        Speaker: Mohamed H.A. Hassan (Co-chair, InterAcademy Panel and Chairman, United Nations University (UNU) Council)
      • 17:27 Message 6'
        Speaker: Thomas W.B. Kibble (Imperial College London)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:33 Message 6'
        Speaker: Rexhep Meidani (former President of Albania)
      • 17:39 Message 6'
        Speaker: Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi (Deputy Director, ICTP)
    • 17:45 - 18:15 Presentation of the Spirit of Abdus Salam Award
      Convener: Daniele Amati (SISSA)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 17:45 Representatives of Salam's family present the Award to Pierre Agbedjro, Anne Gatti and André Hamende 30'
        Material: Video
    • 18:15 - 19:00 Transfer to Duino Castle ( Duino ( Duino Castle ) )
    • 19:00 - 00:00 Dinner, Duino Castle, the home of HRH Prince Carlo Alessandro della Torre e Tasso 5h0' ( Duino ( Duino Castle ) ) 
      Pre-dinner speech: Luciano Bertocchi, former Deputy Director, ICTP
      Speaker: Luciano Bertocchi (former Deputy Director, ICTP)
  • Tuesday, 7 October 2014
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Session on Future Earth
      Convener: Filippo Giorgi (Head, Earth Systems Physics Section, ICTP)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 09:00 Climate science and the global framework for climate services 15'
        Speaker: Michel Jarraud (Secretary General, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO))
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:15 Climate Change, Challenges for Science and Society, and the IPCC 15'
        Speaker: Jean Pascal van Ypersele (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC))
        Material: Slides Video
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Presentation of ICTP's Partner Institutes
      Convener: Carlos Alberto Aragão de Carvalho Filho (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      Material: Video
      • 09:30 Message 12'
        Speaker: Nathan Berkovits (SAIFR, Brazil)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:42 Message 12'
        Speaker: Tuğrul Senger (ICTP-ECAR, Turkey)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:54 Message 12'
        Speaker: Yue-Liang Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:06 Message 12'
        Speaker: Arnulfo Zepeda (ICTP-MAIS Mexico)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:18 Message 12'
        Speaker: Silas Lwakabamba (Minister of Education, Rwanda, ICTP-EA, Rwanda)
        Material: Slides
    • 10:30 - 11:00 coffee break ( Ictp ( LB (Main entrance) ) )
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Focus on Africa
      Convener: Mohamed H.A. Hassan (Co-chair, InterAcademy Panel and Chairman, United Nations University (UNU) Council)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 11:00 Message 15'
        Speaker: Romain Murenzi (Executive Director, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS))
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:15 New frontiers for science in Africa 15'
        Speaker: Wole Soboyejo (Immediate Past President, African University of Science and Technology)
        Material: Video
    • 11:30 - 12:20 Funding Basic Sciences and Development: Part 1
      Convener: Ian Solomon (Vice President for Global Engagement, The University of Chicago)
      Location: LB (Budinich Lecture Hall)
      • 11:30 Introductory Remarks 10'
        Speaker: Fernando Quevedo (Director, ICTP)
        Material: Video
      • 11:40 Science and its impact on development: Trends, opportunities and challenges 40'
        Speakers: Adnan A. Shihab-Eldin (Director General, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS)), Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (President, European Research Council (ERC)), Andrew Briggs (University of Oxford), Andrew Millis (Associate Director for Physical Sciences, Simons Foundation), Almut Steinbach (Head of International Team, Volkswagen Foundation)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 12:20 - 13:10 Funding Basic Sciences and Development: Part 2
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 12:20 Building research capacity: Ideas, institutions and investments 50'
        Speakers: Suleiman J. Al-Herbish (Director-General, Opec Fund for International Development (OFID)), Ayako Fukui (Assistant Director, Strategic Program Initiatives, Director, Genius Portfolio, John Templeton Foundation (USA)), Antonino Zichichi (President, World Laboratory), Thomas Auf Der Heyde (Deputy Director-General, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa), Alejandro Ceccatto (Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Argentina), Zahid Hamid (Minister for Science and Technology, Pakistan)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 13:10 - 14:15 lunch ( Ictp ( LB (Caffetteria) ) )
    • 14:15 - 14:45 Panel Discussion
      Convener: Spenta Wadia (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR))
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 14:15 International Collaborations with Other Centres 30'
        Speakers: Thierry Zomahoun (Executive Director, The Next Einstein Initiative (NEI)), Kim Seunghwan (Swan) (President, The Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP)), Wole Soboyejo (Immediate Past President, African University of Science and Technology (AUST)), Chris Llewellyn Smith (President of the Council of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME))
        Material: Slides Video
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Women in Science, Part 1
      Convener: Rohini Godbole (Indian Institute of Science)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      Material: Video
      • 14:45 Status and Way Forward 45'
        Speakers: Chiara Nappi (Princeton University), Mariana Weissmann (Comisión Nacional de Energia Atómica), Martin Rees (University of Cambridge), Shirley Malcom (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Ingrid Daubechies (International Mathematical Union), Marcia Barbosa (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Luciano Maiani (Chairman, ICTP Scientific Council)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 15:30 - 16:00 coffee break ( LB (Main entrance) )
    • 16:00 - 16:45 Women in Science, Part 2
      Convener: Shobhana Narasimhan (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      Material: Video
      • 16:00 Challenges and Solutions for the Developing World 45'
        Speakers: Romain Murenzi (The World Academy of Sciences), Sujatha Ramdorai (University of British Columbia), Zohra ben Lakhdar (University of Tunis), Francisca Nneka Okeke (University of Nigeria), Ayse Erzan (Istanbul Technical University), Belita Koiller (Brazilian Physical Society), Patchanita Thamyongkit (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
        Material: Video
    • 17:30 - 18:30 Transportation to the city centre ( Trieste ( Politeama Rossetti ) )
    • 18:30 - 20:00 Public Talk, Politeama Rossetti
      Convener: Erio Tosatti (former Acting Director, ICTP)
      Location: Trieste ( Politeama Rossetti )
      • 18:30 Quale futuro per l'energia? 1h30'
        Speaker: Carlo Rubbia (Nobel Laureate)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 20:00 - 23:59 Dinner Prefettura
      Location: Trieste ( Prefettura )
      • 20:00 Dinner 3h59' 
        After-dinner speech: Antonino Zichichi, President, World Laboratory, 	"The lesson from ICTP on the future of science"
  • Wednesday, 8 October 2014
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Extreme Events and Natural Disasters
      Convener: Jagadish Shukla (Centre for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA))
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 09:00 Climate change, chaos and inexact computing 15'
        Speaker: Tim Palmer (University of Oxford)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:15 Seismic future of cities 15'
        Speaker: Roger Bilham (University of Boulder, Colorado)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Renewable Energies
      Convener: Alfonso Franciosi (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 09:30 Solar energy for world peace 15'
        Speaker: Serdar Sariciftci (University of Linz)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:45 Porphyrin-based Solar Cells 15'
        Speaker: Patchanita Thamyongkit (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2013 ICTP Prize winner)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Roundtable: Optics and the Next 50 years
      Convener: Massimo Inguscio (President, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRM))
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      Material: Video
      • 10:00 Speech 12'
        Speaker: Eugene Arthurs (International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE))
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:12 Speech 12'
        Speaker: Alain Aspect (Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique)
      • 10:24 Speech 12'
        Speaker: John Dudley (President of the European Physical Society and the Chair of the IYL2015 Steering Committee)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:36 Speech 12'
        Speaker: Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck)
      • 10:48 Speech 12'
        Speaker: Roy J. Glauber (Harvard University, Nobel Laureate)
        Material: Slides
    • 11:00 - 11:30 coffee break ( Ictp ( LB (Main entrance) ) )
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Quantitative Life Sciences
      Convener: Edouard Brézin (École Normale Supérieure)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 11:30 Biotechnologies for global development: the old and the new 15'
        Speaker: Mauro Giacca (ICGEB, Trieste)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:45 On the relevance of theoretical physics approaches for quantitative life sciences 15'
        Speaker: Giorgio Parisi (Università la Sapienza, Rome)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Keynote Lecture
      Convener: Claudio Tuniz (ICTP)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 12:00 Our African origins 30'
        Speaker: Christopher Stringer (Natural History Museum, UK)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 12:30 - 14:00 lunch ( Ictp ( LB (Caffetteria) ) )
    • 14:00 - 15:45 Theoretical Physics 1
      Convener: Luis Álvarez-Gaumé (European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN))
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 14:00 Luminous matter shedding light on dark matter 18'
        Speaker: Yasaman Farzan (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences Tehran, Iran, 2013 ICTP Prize winner)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:18 Some arithmetic features of String Theory 18'
        Speaker: Michael Green (University of Cambridge)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:36 Grand unification and proton decay: Prospects for major discoveries at next generation detectors 18'
        Speaker: Jogesh Pati (Stanford University)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:54 Optical amplifiers, attenuators, and Schroedinger's cat 18'
        Speaker: Roy J. Glauber (Nobel Laureate)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 15:45 - 16:15 coffee break ( Ictp ( LB (Main entrance) ) )
    • 16:15 - 18:15 Theoretical Physics 2
      Convener: Guido Martinelli (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA))
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 16:15 N=2 Born-Infeld attractors 30'
        Speaker: Sergio Ferrara (CERN)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:45 Genesis of electroweak unification 30'
        Speaker: Thomas W.B. Kibble (Imperial College London)
        Material: Video
      • 17:15 Divergent series: From Thomas Bayes to resurgence via the rainbow 30'
        Speaker: Michael Berry (University of Bristol)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 17:45 Highly effective actions 30'
        Speaker: John Schwarz (CALTECH)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Thursday, 9 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 08:50 Keynote Lecture
      • 08:30 Sparsity in Signal Analysis and in Computation 20'
        Speaker: Ingrid Daubechies (President, International Mathematical Union (IMU))
        Material: Video
    • 08:50 - 09:00 Ramanujan Prize Award Ceremony
      • 08:50 Presentation of the 2014 Ramanujan Prize to Miguel Walsh, University of Oxford 10'
        Material: Video
    • 09:00 - 10:50 Mathematics 1
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 09:00 The importance of mathematics 26'
        Speaker: Cédric Villani (Director, l'Institut Henri Poincaré)
        Material: Video
      • 09:26 The algebraicity of ill-distributed sets and rational points on curves 26'
        Speaker: Miguel Walsh (University of Oxford)
        Material: Video
      • 09:52 Soap films in mathematics 26'
        Speaker: Fernando Codá Marques (Princeton University)
        Material: Video
      • 10:20 coffee break 30' ( LB (Main entrance) )
    • 10:50 - 11:40 Mathematics 2
      Convener: M.S. Narasimhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 10:50 Physical measures 25'
        Speaker: Marcelo Viana (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA))
        Material: Video
      • 11:15 Arithmetic, Quantum Theory and knots 25'
        Speaker: Don Zagier (Director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn)
        Material: Video
    • 11:40 - 14:00 Theoretical Physics 3
      Convener: M.A. Virasoro (former Director, ICTP)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 11:40 Knots and Quantum Theory 30'
        Speaker: Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
        Material: Video
      • 12:10 On the geometry of scattering amplitudes 30'
        Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
        Material: Video
      • 12:40 Lunch 1h20' ( LB (caffetteria) )
    • 14:00 - 16:00 Theoretical Physics 4
      Convener: M.A. Virasoro (former Director, ICTP)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 14:00 Quantum matter without quasiparticles 30'
        Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)
        Material: Video
      • 14:30 Topology and geometry in condensed matter 30'
        Speaker: Duncan Haldane (Princeton University)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Gaussian integrals 30'
        Speaker: Edouard Brézin (École Normale Supérieure)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 coffee break 30' ( LB (Main entrance) )
    • 16:00 - 17:30 2014 Dirac Medal Award Ceremony: The Medals will be awarded to Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute), Andrew Strominger (Harvard University) and Gabriele Veneziano (CERN, Collège de France) by Edward Witten, ICTP's first Dirac Medallist
      Convener: Edward Witten (ICTP's first Dirac Medallist)
      Location: Ictp ( LB (Budinich Lecture Hall) )
      • 16:00 Black holes in string theory 30'
        Speaker: Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
        Material: Video
      • 16:30 Conformal symmetry in the sky 30'
        Speaker: Andrew Strominger (Harvard University)
      • 17:00 From the cheapest bootstrap to the richest theory 30'
        Speaker: Gabriele Veneziano (CERN, Collège de France)
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