Atish Dabholkar

theoretical physicist and ICTP director

Atish Dabholkar received his PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University after a master's in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has been Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Directeur de Recherche of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Sorbonne Université and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and CERN. He was a post-doctoral associate at Rutgers University and Harvard University, and a senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to taking up the ICTP directorship he was the Head of ICTP's High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics section. His research interests are in string theory, black holes, and holography. Dabholkar received the 2006 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian science prize, conferred by the Prime Minister of India, and in 2007 he was awarded the Chaire d'Excellence of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France.

Fri. 25 September

at 21:00 - 22:15

21:00 - 22:15

Friday 25 September

Area Talk 1
Piazza Unità d'Italia, 34121, Trieste, TS

A century after Abdus Salam’s birth, his vision of science as a shared human endeavour remains crucial. Together with Paolo Budinich, Salam imagined a place where scientists from across the world could meet, learn and collaborate. Since its founding in 1964, ICTP has changed the lives of thousands of researchers in the Global South. Through the testimonies of ICTP scientists and stories from the documentary “Budinich, il pirata della scienza”, the panel will explore the enduring value of global scientific cooperation and the role of ICTP in ensuring that science remains a uniting force.