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2025 Spirit of Salam Award Ceremony
ICTP
Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
Strada Costiera 11
34151 Trieste
Italy
The family of Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam set up the Spirit of Abdus Salam Award ten years ago, in 2014. The award is announced annually on the occasion of the ICTP Salam Distinguished Lectures, held at ICTP during the last week of January to coincide with Abdus Salam's birthday on 29 January.
The Ceremony to honour the recipients of the 2025 Spirit of Abdus Salam Award will take place on Wednesday 17 December 2025 starting at 14:30 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall on the ICTP Campus.
The 2025 Award recipients who will be present on this occasion together with Members of the Salam Family are:
Qaisar Shafi: For his longstanding commitment to Abdus Salam's vision as his colleague and doctoral student, and more recently as a supporter of the Qaiser and Monika Shafi Prize for Diploma students. Together with Salam, Shafi created the BCVSPIN (an acronym denoting Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Nepal) initiative to nurture high-energy physics in Asia, a platform for scientists in the South/Southeast Asia region to learn about exciting developments in particle and astroparticle physics and cosmology from leading experts. From the early 1980s until 1997, Shafi organized/co-organized several weeks-long summer schools on particle physics and cosmology at ICTP.
Renato Padovani: For his efforts in setting up, organizing and managing the Advanced Master in Medical Physics (together with 2015 Spirit of Salam award winner Luciano Bertocchi). The MMP is one of ICTP's most successful programmes. About 10% of all medical physicists in developing countries have been trained through this programme. It is making a direct impact in the improvement of people's lives in developing countries, by given training opportunities to young scientists that do not exist in their home countries.
A detailed feature article on the 2025 Awardees is available here:
https://www.ictp.it/news/2025/2/spirit-salam-2025-awardees-announced
The event will be livestreamed www.ictp.it/livestream
After the event, all are invited to an end of the year toast which will take place in the lobby outside the Budinich Lecture Hall to exchange festive greetings together.
All are welcome to attend!
The Ceremony to honour the recipients of the 2025 Spirit of Abdus Salam Award will take place on Wednesday 17 December 2025 starting at 14:30 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall on the ICTP Campus.
The 2025 Award recipients who will be present on this occasion together with Members of the Salam Family are:
Qaisar Shafi: For his longstanding commitment to Abdus Salam's vision as his colleague and doctoral student, and more recently as a supporter of the Qaiser and Monika Shafi Prize for Diploma students. Together with Salam, Shafi created the BCVSPIN (an acronym denoting Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Nepal) initiative to nurture high-energy physics in Asia, a platform for scientists in the South/Southeast Asia region to learn about exciting developments in particle and astroparticle physics and cosmology from leading experts. From the early 1980s until 1997, Shafi organized/co-organized several weeks-long summer schools on particle physics and cosmology at ICTP.
Renato Padovani: For his efforts in setting up, organizing and managing the Advanced Master in Medical Physics (together with 2015 Spirit of Salam award winner Luciano Bertocchi). The MMP is one of ICTP's most successful programmes. About 10% of all medical physicists in developing countries have been trained through this programme. It is making a direct impact in the improvement of people's lives in developing countries, by given training opportunities to young scientists that do not exist in their home countries.
A detailed feature article on the 2025 Awardees is available here:
https://www.ictp.it/news/2025/2/spirit-salam-2025-awardees-announced
The event will be livestreamed www.ictp.it/livestream
After the event, all are invited to an end of the year toast which will take place in the lobby outside the Budinich Lecture Hall to exchange festive greetings together.
All are welcome to attend!