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• scientifically active men and women must
  be kept in their own countries to build for the
  future, but their scientific integrity must also
  be preserved.
• Abdus Salam
• Founding Director

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Major Scientific Institutions in Trieste

• ICTP
• TWAS
• Dept. Theo. Phys.
• SISSA
• Immaginario Scientifico
• Marina, Parco

• ICGEB
• ICS
• INFN INFM

U. Trieste
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• Organization
• ICTP operates under a tripartite agreement
  between two United Nations AgenciesUNESCO and
  IAEAand the Government of Italy. The Centre
  enjoys a great deal of autonomy.
• A distinguished Scientific Council sets
  scientific policies and a Steering Committee in
  setting fiscal policies.

Some funding is provided by IAEA and UNESCO,
specific programmatic funding by other sources,
and ? 82 of the Centres budget comes from Italy.
The Centre started under the umbrella of IAEA in
1964 but was administratively moved under UNESCO
in 1996.
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ICTP is an institution run by a few scientists
for the benefit of many
permanent scientists
research and training coordination
30
temporary scientific staff post-docs, staff
associates, long-term visitors
mostly research
100
short-term visitors associates, guest
scientists
do own or collaborative research, or receive
training through participation
400
receive training through schools, conferences,
and exchange of information
participation in conferences, schools and
workshops diploma students
4000-6000 per year 6441 in 2004
ICTP Scientists, Visitors and their Functions
about 130 general staff
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Research at ICTP(not merely theoretical
physics)

• 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, Nuclear Physics, Biophysics, Energy)
• Earth Sciences (Weather, Climate Changes,
  Oceanography, Earthquake Prediction, Soil and
  Coastal Erosion, Desertification,)
• Laboratory activities (Instrumentation,
  Information Technology, )

Nobel Laureates and Fields Medalists visiting the
center gt 100 (15 in the last five years)
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• Programs at ICTP
• Diploma programs Masters degree Ph.D. degree
  (both local and SANDWICH) post-doc appointments
• Associateships TRIL fellowships
• ---------------------------
• conducted often in close collaboration with and
  support of Italian institutions in Trieste and
  elsewhere, and many other international
  institutions

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• Schools Colleges Workshops Conferences
• For 2008
• Supported by and held at ICTP 60
• Held elsewhere 12
• Hosted programs 18
• Typical duration 3 weeks
• Typical participation 50 scientists
• Typical distribution 50 from DC

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Affiliate Centres Since 1990

29 Projects Africa 16 Asia 8 Europe 1 Latin
America 4
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ICTP VISITORS STATISTICS, 1970-2006
DC 50 (v), 70 (p-m)
ICTP Public Information Office, February 2007
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ICTP AND AFRICA
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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JAMAICA
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HONDURAS
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ICTP AND LATIN AMERICA
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IMPACT OF ICTP
ICTP has had a longstanding impact on the science
in Iran the most important one is the concept of
excellenceand I dare say ICTP has been the most
influential institution in the world to bring
that into existence. It also has had direct
impact on the establishment of the various
institutions many graduate students in Iran have
been exposed to international scientific
community through different activities of ICTP.
Professor Reza Mansouri, Iran ICTP was very
useful to me personally and it opened up a new
world to me. Almost all of my colleagues at the
Centre for Theoretical Physics in Hanoi get the
same help from the ICTP. In addition, we also get
book donations, computers, etc. For young
physicists, the ICTP Diploma program is very
attractive. Professor Hoang Ngoc Long, Vietnam
One particular international institution that
has played an important role in providing
resources and opportunities for physicists in
Africa is the Abdus Salam International Centre
for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
ICTP's affiliated centers and visiting scholars
programs are well known in African universities
nearly every PhD physicist in Africa has had an
association with ICTP. Professor Edmund Zingu,
South Africa, in Physics Today, January
2004 Many Latin American scientists not only
found a great fountain of scientific truth in
ICTP, but also a vision that guided them steadily
in discovering new truths. Professor V. Lattore,
Multiciencias, Peru ICTPs help was
extraordinarily useful to both older scientists
whose research was interrupted by the cultural
revolution and the younger generation which
entered the university after 1976. Professor Yu
Lu, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing ICTP has played an important
role on assisting Indian science in the last few
decades. Several scientists have been associated
with ICTP and our students and post-docs greatly
benefitted from participation in ICTP
activities. Professor Spenta Wadia, TIFR,
Mumbai, India
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• Thank you

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• The fund for startup initiatives aims to
• stimulate academic programs at the NYUAD
  Institute, including conferences, colloquia with
  international scholars, research workshops,
  seminars with students from the region as well as
  NYU, and lecture series
• support individual and collaborative research
  projects that would benefit from an institutional
  anchor at the NYUAD Institute
• promote collaboration of NYU faculty and students
  with counterparts from the broad Middle East
• support faculty interested in experimenting with
  interactive instruction and classroom technology
  that connects NYU Washington Square with NYUAD

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Example of ESP Networking The Regional Climate
research NETwork, RegCNET
Collaborative research projects
E-mail list (over 300 p.)
Use of ICTP model tools and datasets
Interactions with other international programs
Visitor program
Workshops at ICTP and off-site
Regional Modeling
Climate Change
Weather Prediction
Seasonal Prediction
Flood
Water Resources
Agriculture
Landuse Change
Pollution
Health
Ecosystems
Fisheries
Drought
Energy
Storms