ICTP Colloquium 6 October

Continuing its focus on open access and open science, ICTP will hold an online colloquium on Wednesday 6 October by arXiv founder Paul Ginsparg, Professor of Physics and Information Science at Cornell University. In his talk, titled "Lessons from arXiv's 30 years of information sharing", Ginsparg will review the history of the popular open-access repository of scientific e-prints, with a look at the impact of open access on scholarly research.

Preregistration for the talk is required at the following link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HQvQ6zwyQfuWiooME68sWA

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Paul Ginsparg received a B.A. in Physics from Harvard University (1977), and a doctorate in theoretical particle physics from Cornell University (1981). He was in the Society of Fellows at Harvard (1981-1984), then faculty member in the physics department at Harvard University until 1990 and a staff member in the theoretical division of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1990-2001. He has received wide recognition for his work, including the 1998 P.A.M. (physics astronomy math) award from the Special Libraries Association, the  2005 Council of Science Editors (CSE) Award for Meritorious Achievement, and the 2006 Paul Evans Peters Award from Educause, ARL, and CNI.