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Day 1, 8 November 2010 |
| 09:00 |
Welcome remarks and keynote addresses by:
- Fernando Quevedo (Director, ICTP)
- Roberto Petronzio (President, INFN and Chairman, ICTP Steering
Committee)
- Gretchen Kalonji (Assistant Director-General, UNESCO,
representing the Director-General)
- Werner Burkart (Deputy Director General, IAEA, representing the
Director General). (Video)
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| 10:00 |
Remarks by local authorities:
- Roberto Molinaro (Regione Autonoma Friuli
Venezia-Giulia)
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video |
- Roberto Di Piazza (Mayor of Trieste)
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video |
- Adele Pino (Provincia di Trieste)
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video |
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| 10:20 |
ICTP Strategic Plan, Fernando Quevedo
(Director, ICTP)
Video: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3
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| 10:45 |
Coffee
break |
| 11:15 |
2010 Dirac Medal Award Ceremony
Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo (University La
Sapienza, Rome, Italy) and Indian-American physicist
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan (University of
Texas, Austin, Texas, USA) have been awarded ICTP's Dirac Medal for
2010.
Video: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3
Dirac Medal lecture: Luciano Maiani (President
CNR) Universality of the Weak Interactions: recalling Nicola
Cabibbo
Video: Part
1, Part
2
Brief remarks by Andrea Cabibbo and Ennackal Chandy George
Sudarshan
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 |
Keynote
speeches
Chair: Roberto Petronzio (INFN)
- The Future of Science
David Gross (Director, The Kavli Institute for
Theoretical Physics, USA,and Physics Nobel Laureate 2004)
- Speech videos: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3, Part
4
- The Importance of Science for Developing Countries
Jacob Palis (President, TWAS)
- Speech videos: Part
1, Part
2
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| 15:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00 |
Session on
supporting science in the developing world
Co-chairs: Werner Burkart (Deputy Director General, IAEA),
Gretchen Kalonji (Assistant Director-General, UNESCO)
An overview of international support
efforts, with contributions by
high-level representatives of governments,
agencies and institutions from developing, emerging,
and developed countries.
- Ali Al-Shamlan (Director General, Kuwait
Foundation for the Advancement of Science)
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video |
- Jean-Pierre Ezin (Commissioner for Human
Resources, Science and Technology, African Union)
|
video |
- Saroj Kumar Jha (World Bank)
|
video |
- Eduardo Sorribes Manzana (Policy Advisor, DG
Development, European Commission)
|
video |
- Franklin Moore (Senior Development Counsellor,
USAID)
|
video |
- Jacob Palis (President, TWAS)
|
- Atta-ur-Rahman (Coordinator General,
COMSTECH)
|
video |
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| 17:15 |
Session on the importance of education and training in
the
developing world
Chair: Walter Kohn (UC, Santa Barbara and Chemistry Nobel
Laureate, 1998)
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|
video |
- Mohamed H.A. Hassan (Executive Director,
TWAS)
|
video |
- Arlen Hastings (Executive Director, Science
Initiative Group)
|
video |
- Saroj Kumar Jha (World Bank)
|
video |
- Javier Moguerza (representing Young Scientist
Ambassador Programme)
|
video |
- Konrad Osterwalder (Rector, UNU)
|
video |
- Helen Quinn (Stanford University)
|
video |
- Herwig Schopper (Chairman, Scientific Board,
IBSP Programme, UNESCO)
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video |
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| 18:15 |
Signing Ceremony: ICTP
and South America |
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Day 2, 9 November 2010 |
| 09:00 |
Sessions on Science within a Changing Geopolitical
Framework
A series of presentations focusing on regional success stories and
challenges regarding science and mathematics education in
developing countries. Contributors will include ministers, policy
makers, and high-level scientists.
Science in Africa
Chair: Jean-Pierre Ezin (Commissioner for Human Resources, Science
and Technology, African Union)
- Francis K.A. Allotey (President, African
Physical Society)
|
video |
- Hafid Aourag (Director General, Algerian
Research Council)
|
- Thomas Auf der Heyde (Department of Science
and Technology, South Africa, representing the Minister)
|
video |
- Amadou Tidiane Ba (Minister of Higher
Education and Scientific Research, Senegal)
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- Abdelaziz Benjouad (Scientific Director,
National Centre for Scientific Research and Technology,
Morocco)
|
video |
- Jane Mubanga Chinkusu (Director, Department of
Science and Technology, Zambia, representing the Minister)
|
video |
- Hamed Ben Dhia (President, University of Sfax,
Tunisia, representing the Minister)
|
video |
- Henri Dzinotyiweyi (Minister for Science and
Technology Development, Zimbabwe)
|
video |
- Ladi Hamalai (National Assembly, Nigeria)
|
video |
- Zohra Ben Lakhdar (L'Oreal Prize Winner,
Tunisia)
|
video |
- Simon Lokodo (Minister of Tourism, Trade and
Industry, Uganda)
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- Grace Oladunni Olaniyan-Taylor (L'Oreal Prize
Winner, Nigeria)
|
video |
- Oumarou Bouba (Rector,
University I, Yaound, Cameroon, representing the Minister)
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video |
|
| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 |
Science in Asia
Chair: Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (former Director, ICTP)
- Shamsher Ali (President, Bangladesh Academy of
Sciences)
|
video |
- Ali Chamseddine (Founding Director of the
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, Lebanon)
|
video |
- Chen Jia-Er (National Natural Science
Foundation of China)
|
video |
- Rohini Godbole (Indian Institute of
Science)
|
video |
- M.S. Narasimhan (TIFR, India)
|
video |
- Hamid Saleem (Director, National Centre for
Physics, Pakistan)
|
video |
- Spenta Wadia (Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, India)
|
video |
- Yu Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
|
video |
- Khatijah Bt. Mohd. Yusoff (Deputy Secretary
General (Science), Ministry of Science, Technology &
Innovation, Malaysia)
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video |
|
| 12:00 |
Science in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Chair: Rexhep Meidani (former President of Albania and Member,
Club of Madrid)
- Goran Djordjevic (Executive Director,
SEENET-MTP, Serbia)
|
video |
- Maciej Kolwas (President, European Physical
Society)
|
video |
- Namik K. Pak (Middle East Technical
University, Turkey)
|
video |
- Giorgio Rosso Cicogna (Alternate Secretary
General, Central European Initiative (CEI))
|
video |
- Engelbert Ruoss (Director, UNESCO Venice
Office)
|
video |
- Nana Shatashvili (Andronikashvili Institute of
Physics, Georgia)
|
video |
- Nicolae Victor Zamfir (Director General, Horia
Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
(NIPNE), Romania)
|
video |
|
| 12:50 |
Lunch |
| 14:30 |
Science in Latin America and Caribbean
Chair: Miguel A. Virasoro (former Director, ICTP)
- Carlos Arago (President, Conselho Nacional de
Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil)
|
video |
- Alejandro Ceccatto (Deputy Minister, Ministry
of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina)
|
video |
- Rosa Maria Amaya Fabian de
Lopez (Secretary of Science, Guatemala)
|
video |
- Karen Hallberg (Argentinian Physics
Association)
|
video |
- Jean Vernet Henry (Rector, University of
Haiti)
|
video |
- Victor Latorre (Academy of Sciences,
Peru)
|
video |
- Celso Pinto de Melo (President, Brazilian
Physical Society)
|
video |
- Jose Luis Moran Lopez (Mexican Physical
Society)
|
video |
- Carlos Ordoez (Panama, University of
Houston)
|
video |
- Eduardo Posada (Centro Internacional de Fsica
and President of the Colombian Association for the Advancement of
Science)
|
video |
- Veronica Riquer (Mexico, University of Rome La
Sapienza)
|
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- Marta Rovira (President, CONICET,
Argentina)
|
video |
|
| 15:45 |
Coffee break |
| 16:15 |
Panel Discussion
A summary of key points made during the morning and afternoon
sessions
Chair: Peter Goddard (Director, IAS, Princeton)
Rapporteurs:
- Africa: Romain Murenzi (Director, AAAS-Center
for Science, Technology, and Sustainable Development, former
Minister of Science, Rwanda)
|
video |
- Asia: Tsou Sheung Tsun (Mathematical
Institute, University of Oxford)
|
video |
- Eastern Europe and the Balkans: Yanko Yanev
(IAEA)
|
video |
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Leticia
Cugliandolo (Director, Les Houches School of Physics)
|
video |
|
| 17:15 |
2010 ICTP Prize and lecture: Fluid Dynamics from
Gravity
Shiraz Minwalla, a string theorist at the Tata Institute of
Fundamental
Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India, has been named the recipient of
the
2010 ICTP Prize.
Prize ceremony and lecture videos: Part
1, Part
2, Part
3, Part
4, Part
5, Part
6
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Day 3, 10 November 2010 |
Dirac Medal 25th Anniversary
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to see separate programme |
