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News from ICTP 93 - Monitor
Mongolian President Visits Centre
Natsagyn Bagabandi, President of Mongolia (far right),
met with Miguel A. Virasoro, Director of the Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics, and several of the Centre's scientists,
at the ICTP's headquarters in Miramare on 3 June. Their talks
focussed on areas of expanded co-operation between the Centre
and Mongolia's scientific community. The launching of a joint
project on laser spectroscopy between ICTP and the National University
of Mongolia was among the major items discussed. The two institutions
hope to finalise the agreement within the next few months. The
President was visiting the Centre as part of a larger tour of
governmental, business and educational facilities in Trieste and
the surrounding area.
Indonesia's Minister Comes to ICTP
M.A.S. Hikam (second from left), Indonesia's Minister of
State for Research and Technology, visited ICTP on 31 May. He
was accompanied by a delegation of 10 scientific researchers and
administrators. Alessandro Merola, newly appointed Italian ambassador
to Indonesia, and Michele Miele, Italian advisor to the Minister
of State for Research and Technology, were also in attendance.
At the meeting, Minister M.A.S. Hikam and ICTP Director Miguel
Virasoro signed a letter of intent that called for enhancing existing
collaboration between ICTP and Indonesian scientific institutions
and for pursuing strategies that would lead to new programmes
of co-operation.
ICTP's "www4mail-Web Navigator & Database Search by E-Mail,"
which is part of the Centre's homepage, was a finalist in the
category "Equal Access" in the Stockholm Challenge Award.
More than 600 entries from 84 different countries participated
in the competition. Winners of The Stockholm Challenge Award 2000
were announced on 5 June. The Stockholm Challenge Award is given
every year for Information Technology (IT) projects that focus
on people and society. For further information, see http://www1.challenge.stockholm.se/challenge.html.
The Tenth Italian Scientific and Technological Culture Week was
held between 22 and 28 May under the sponsorship of the Italian
Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research.
ICTP, in co-operation with Laboratorio dell'Immaginario Scientifico,
helped organise a series of lectures for high school students
in Trieste and the surrounding area. Lectures took place in the
Kastler Lecture Hall of the Adriatico Guesthouse. On 26 May, Filippo
Giorgi and Franco Molteni (in the photo), of ICTP's
Physics of Weather and Climate Group, discussed the impact of
climate change on human activities.
To help celebrate the UN's International Year for the Culture
of Peace, the ICTP Cultural Committee organised a "Colours
of Peace" happening, which took place on 14 April in the
Adriatico Guesthouse. Sponsors included ICTP,
Laboratorio dell'Immaginario
Scientifico, UNESCO
and UNICEF. Speakers included
Miguel Virasoro, ICTP director; Roberto Damiani, deputy-mayor
of Trieste; Paolo Budinich, founder of Laboratorio dell'Immaginario
Scientifico; Nicola Lenoci, director of the Board of Education
in Trieste; Luigi Milazzi, representing the UNESCO Centre in Trieste;
and David Sutcliffe, director of the
United World College of the Adriatic. In addition to the unveiling
of a painting exhibition, the choir of the United World College
performed a brief concert. The highlight of the event was the
electronic signing of "Manifesto
2000," a UNESCO initiative for the collection of 100
million signatures for peace worldwide to be presented to the
UN General Assembly in September. Computer hook-ups gave all those
attending the event an opportunity to sign the manifesto. If you
wish to enter your signature, please click
here.
