The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) …plans to organize and host small-size advanced workshops in theoretical particle physics in its broadest sense. Each workshop will be devoted to a specific topic at the forefront of current research. …The purpose of each workshop will be to foster discussions, confrontation of ideas, and collaborations among participants. …It is expected that the Institute will have also an important role in training young researchers. ….
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) was created in 1964. The goals of ICTP are to foster the growth of advanced studies and research in physics and mathematics, especially among researchers from developing countries; provide international forum for the exchange of information and ideas among scientists from the North and South; maintain excellent research environment for visitors, fellows and associates, principally from developing countries, who participate in the Centre's research and training activities.
Main message ICTP and GGI have several points of intersection, especially because of our common interest in particle physics, field theory and string theory. As an older institution, ICTP has a great deal of experience in running meetings and so forth, and has built up a large body of scientific community in all parts of the world. On this occasion marking the inauguration of GGI, I wish to place on record ICTP’s congratulations and support to GGI in all its intellectual pursuits, and assist GGI in any manner possible.
ICTP is an institution run by a few scientists for the benefit of many research and training permanent 28 coordination scientists temporary scientific staff: post-docs, mostly research 110 staff associates, long-term visitors do own or collaborative research, or short-term visitors: 420 associates, guest-scientists receive training through participation receive training through participation in conferences, 4000-6000 per year schools, conferences, and schools and workshops; 6191 in 2003 exchange of information diploma students + about 125 general staff
Research at ICTP Scientific work is done by 28 permanent scientists, about 50 post- docs, short-term and long-term visitors, consultants and collaborators from other Trieste institutions, in areas such as: – High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics – Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics – Pure and Applied Mathematics – Applied Physics (Medical Physics, Optics and Lasers, Fluid Dynamics, Plasma Physics, Soft Matter and Biophysics, Accelerator Physics, Information Science and Technology, …) – Earth Sciences (Weather, Climate Changes, Oceanography, Earthquake Prediction, Soil and Coastal Erosion, Desertification,…) – Ecological and Environmental Economics ICTP provides a much needed window for several world-class scientific communities that have sprung up in other countries. IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A STRONG CORE OF SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE: WHAT WE DON’T HAVE, WE CANNOT IMPART TO OTHERS.
ICTP visitors statistics,1970-2003 13740 v 14488 p-m 7851 v 30010 v 7000 v 4483 p-m 17526 p-m 13576 p-m 11760 v 18404 P-m 9190 v 14596 p-m 1420 v 8013 v 1857 p-m 12021 p-m DC: 50% visitors, 75% p-m area visitors p-m area visitors p-m North America 7851 4483 Africa 9190 14596 Latin America 8013 12021 Middle East and South Asia 11760 18404 Western America 30010 17526 South East Asia and the Pacific 1420 1857 Eastern Europe 13740 14488 Far East 7000 13576 v=visitors p-m=person-months Quality and diversity are NOT incompatible
331 ICTP AND AFRICA TUNISIA MOROCCO 3 785 1 ALGERIA LIBYA 5 811 212 EGYPT 3 5 3 1812 MAURITANIA MALI NIGER 58 8 245 2 ERITREA 6 1 26 CHAD 500 2 SENEGAL 1 9 1 5 THE 8 1 BURKINA GAMBIA DJIBOUTI 12 80 2 14 4 GUINEA SUDAN GUINEA 2 2 1 BISSAU 2 BENIN NIGERIA 2 45 7 0 2 2 1625 346 IVORY TOGO 7 4 COAST CENTRAL SIERRA GHANA 79 3 ETHIOPIA AFRICAN LEONE 522 2 7 37 102 4 REPUBLIC CAMEROON 53 1 LIBERIA 199 1 SOMALIA 2 2 7 3 1 1 UGANDA KENYA EQUATORIAL 2 124 120 GUINEA 265 CONGO ZAIRE DEM. REP. 4 33 2 1 GABON CAMEROON OF THE 1 RWANDA 2 CONGO Brazzaville BURUNDI 75 1 Kinshasa 2 1 52 ICTP visitors from 1970-2004 ANGOLA TANZANIA (including associates, TRIL fellows, course participants and researchers). 187 Institutes collaborating with OEA MALAWI ANGOLA 45 Institutes collaborating with ARPL 14 1 ZAMBIA 81 Institutes collaborating with SCS 2 3 8 MOZAMBIQUE MADAGASCAR ICTP regional activities in 2005 ZAMBABWE NAMIBIA 1 5 2 89 7 BOTSWANA 2 3 1 7 SWAZILAND 1 12 LESOTHO SOUTH AFRICA 110 33
Where is ICTP? •ICTP •TWAS + •ICGEB •Dept. Theo. Phys. •ICS •INFN INFM •SISSA •Immaginario U. Trieste •Marina, Parco
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