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Salam +50 Conference Programme
Saturday July 7th 2007
Sir Alexander Fleming Lecture Hall Imperial College London
| 9.30am-9.45am | Welcoming Address Sir Richard Sykes FRS, Rector, Imperial College |
 video in mp4: sykes.mp4 [9075 KBytes]
 audio in mp3: sykes.mp3 [673 KBytes]
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First Morning Session | |
| 9.45am-10.45am | Physics Department Centenary Salam Lecture: Salam and the Grand View of Physics Professor Gerard 't Hooft, Nobel Laureate, University of Utrecht |
| 10.45am-11.15am | COFFEE |
Second Morning Session | |
| 11.15am-11.30am | Abdus Salam and Pakistan Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan High Commissioner, UK |
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video in mp4: lodhi.mp4 [19652 KBytes]
audio in mp3: lodhi.mp3 [1458 KBytes]
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| 11.30am-11.35am | Greetings from K. R. Sreenivasan, Director of the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Read by Professor Michael Duff, Abdus Salam Professor of Theoretical Physics |
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video in mp4: duff.mp4 [4633 KBytes]
audio in mp3: duff.mp3 [345 KBytes]
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| 11.35am-12.35pm | The International Centre for Theoretical Physics Professor Faheem Hussain, formerly Head of External Relations, Abdus Salam ICTP Trieste, Lahore University of Management Sciences |
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video in mp4: hussain.mp4 [74083 KBytes]
audio in mp3: hussain.mp3 [5466 KBytes]
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| 12.30pm-1.30pm | LUNCH |
First Afternoon Session | |
| 1.30pm-2.30pm | Abdus Salam at Imperial Professor Tom Kibble FRS, Imperial College London |
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video in mp4: kibble.mp4 [75062 KBytes]
audio in mp3: kibble.mp3 [5788 KBytes]
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| 2.30pm-2.40pm | Obituary of Abdus Salam by Yuval Neeman, Read by Professor Kellogg Stelle, Imperial College |
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video in mp4: stelle.mp4 [15077 KBytes]
audio in mp3: stelle.mp3 [1121 KBytes]
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| 2.40pm-2.55pm | Presentation of Salam Graduate and Undergraduate Prizes Mirza Ahmad, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association UK |
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video in mp4: ahmad.mp4 [14163 KBytes]
audio in mp3: ahmad.mp3 [1052 KBytes]
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| 2.55pm-3.40pm | Recollections of the Salam family Dr. Aziza Rahman (daughter), Ahmad Salam (son), Umar Salam (son), Saif Rahman (grandson) |
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video in mp4: salamfamily.mp4 [68483 KBytes]
audio in mp3: salamfamily.mp3 [5087 KBytes]
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| 3.40pm-4.00pm | TEA |
Second Afternoon Session | |
| 4.00pm-5.00pm | Salam's Mantle of Britishness Dr. Gordon Fraser, Salam biographer |
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video in mp4: fraser.mp4 [88399 KBytes]
audio in mp3: fraser.mp3 [6813 KBytes]
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| 5.00pm-5.30pm | Salam Memorabilia DisplayIncluding BBC TV archive footage of Salam and audio extracts from his 1957 Inaugural Lecture at Imperial |
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video in mp4: memorabilia.mp4 [65605 KBytes]
audio in mp3: memorabilia.mp3 [5125 KBytes]
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