Salam Lecture Series 2012

ICTP will launch a new science outreach activity--the Salam Lecture Series 2012--on 30 January with a week-long series of lectures by renowned theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed.

Arkani-Hamed, who is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, will speak on the "Past, Present and Future of Fundamental Physics". The lectures will take place daily from 30 January until 3 February in ICTP's Main Lecture Hall starting at 16:30.

Arkani-Hamed, earned a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997, and returned there as a faculty member in 1999 after doing postgraduate work at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. From 2002 until 2008 he was a professor of physics at Harvard University, before moving to his current position at IAS. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society in 2003 and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize awarded by Tel Aviv University in 2008.

The Salam Lectures are an annual series of talks by renowned, active scientists. Their aim is to provide a review of important research developments as well as a visionary forward view.