ICTP - Colloquia

ICTP's colloquia series aims to increase interaction between its research groups as well as expose doctoral students to the Centre's rich array of physics and mathematics activities.

Past colloquia can viewed on ICTP's YouTube page.

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4 Jun 2020

ICTP Colloquium Online

Dr. Paolo Carloni speaks June 10

1 Jun 2020

Colloquium 3 June

Featured speaker: David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute

6 May 2020

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquium: Alessandro Vespignani

Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19

24 Apr 2020

The Epidemiological Case for Contact Tracing

Dr. Luca Ferretti gives ICTP-SISSA Colloquium 24 April

15 Nov 2019

Peskin Colloquium Upcoming

"The Quest for 30 TeV" Wednesday 20 November

1 Nov 2019

Professor Petra Rudolf on Molecular Motors

Colloquium 4 November at 16:30

20 Sep 2019

Bo Persson to Give ICTP Colloquium

25 September at 17:00

3 Sep 2019

ICTP Colloquium

4 September event features physicist Timothy Beers

26 Aug 2019

Colloquium 28 August

Speaker: Liliana Arrachea, University of San Martín, Argentina

8 Jul 2019

Extreme Climate: What Will the Future Bring?

Public event 8 July to highlight the science behind climate change

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Europe/Rome Andrea M. Ghez, professor of Physics & Astronomy and Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, is one of the world’s leading experts in observational astrophysics and heads UCLA’s Galactic Center Group. Best known for her ground-breaking work on the center of our Galaxy, which has led to the best evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes, she has received numerous honors and awards including the Nobel Prize in 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing one half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel (the other half of the prize being awarded to Roger Penrose). The Nobel Prize was awarded to Ghez and Genzel for their Independent discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky Way's galactic center, the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (she is the first woman to receive a Crafoord prize in any field), Bakerian Medal from the Royal Society of London, a MacArthur Fellowship, election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.   Her work on the orbits of stars at the center of the Milky Way has opened a new approach to studying black holes and her group is currently focused on using this approach to understand the physics of gravity near a black hole and the role that black holes plays in the formation and evolution of galaxies. Advances in high resolution imaging technology enabled Ghez’s work and her group continues to work on pushing the frontiers of these technologies forward. She serves on several leadership committees for the W. M. Keck Observatory, which hosts the largest telescopes in the world, and the future Thirty Meter Telescope. Ghez is also very committed to the communication of science to the general public and inspiring young girls into science. Her work can be found in many public outlets including TED, NOVA’s Monster of the Milky Way, Discovery’s Swallowed by a Black Hole, TED, and Griffith Observatory. Ghez earned her B.S from MIT in 1987, and her PhD from Caltech in 1992 and has been on the faculty at UCLA since 1994. More information and a detailed programme for the 30th Anniversary events (23-25 August 2021) will be available in due course. ICTP pio@ictp.it

Colloquium

25 Aug 2021

Commencement Keynote Speech by Prof. Andrea Ghez, in conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of the Postgraduate Diploma Programme

Room: Online

Speaker(s): Prof. Andrea Ghez, UCLA Galactic Center Group, UCLA, USA

Colloquium Start Time: 17:00

ICTP - Strada Costiera, 11
I - 34151 Trieste Italy
(+39) 040 2240 111
pio@ictp.it

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Professor Petra Rudolf on Molecular Motors

Bo Persson to Give ICTP Colloquium

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Extreme Climate: What Will the Future Bring?

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Commencement Keynote Speech by Prof. Andrea Ghez, in conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of the Postgraduate Diploma Programme

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CMSP

MATH

ESP

STI

QLS

New Research Areas

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News

ICTP Colloquium Online

Colloquium 3 June

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquium: Alessandro Vespignani

The Epidemiological Case for Contact Tracing

Peskin Colloquium Upcoming

Professor Petra Rudolf on Molecular Motors

Bo Persson to Give ICTP Colloquium

ICTP Colloquium

Colloquium 28 August

Extreme Climate: What Will the Future Bring?

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Commencement Keynote Speech by Prof. Andrea Ghez, in conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of the Postgraduate Diploma Programme

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