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ICTP, Lund Institute of Technology, IPPS and LAM : a successful story |
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In 1988 during the opening ceremony of the Winter College on Laser Physics : Semiconductor Lasers and Integrated Optics, held at the ICTP, Professor Abdus Salam made a strong and stimulating call to the participants from Developing Countries about the importance of their role in organizing scientific meetings and in creating scientific networks for the development of science in their home countries. It was after this call, that the idea of organizing a workshop on the physics of lasers and their applications somewhere in Africa was born together with the idea of establishing a corresponding Network, in close cooperation with the ICTP. Three years later, in 1991, with support and encouragement of the ICTP Office of External Activities (OEA), and the personal involvement and continuous efforts of the OEA Head, Prof. G. Denardo, the organization of the first International Workshop on the Physics and Modern Application of Lasers in Dakar became a reality thanks to a generous contribution from Senegalese governmental and university authorities. The LAM Network was launched on that occasion.Presently, the OEA and the LAM Network are involved in many common actions in the organization of LAM Network activities and in the framework of the ICTP Affiliated Centres in Africa. On the other size, the LAM Network - trough the ICTP - is forestalling its co-operation and relations with the International Commission of Optics (ICO), and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).
Through the contribution of SIDA, International Program in Physical Sciences (IPPS) at Uppsula University, SWEDEN, and ICTP, the LAM Network since 1996 is involved in a new program in diode laser spectroscopy with the Atomic Physics division at Lund Institute of Technology. LAM has also initiated a partner relationship with the European Physical Society, the American Physical Society, the International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics (IITAP), the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUAP) and, the Optical Society of America in organizing workshops and visits programs.
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