CODATA
2004 Proceedings Index
Keynotes
Plenaries
Data Archiving
Data Quality
Data Visualization
E-Learning
Environmental
Informatics
Gas Hydrates
Infoscience
Today
Interoperability
Knowledge
Discovery
Multi-disciplinary
Data Projects
Open Scientific Communications
Publication and
Citation of Scientific Data
Scientific
Data for Economic Development
Scientific Informatics
in EurAsia
World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS)
Posters
Submission/Publication
Guidelines
Organization Committees
The
International Scientific Program Committee
The Scientific Advisory Committee
The Local Organization Committee
Scientific Program
Program at a Glance
Final Detailed
Program Book [large pdf file - you may want to right-click and save
to your computer]
General Information About the
Program
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Born in Mexico City,
Mexico, in 1946; married, with one daughter.
M.A. in Biophysics from Harvard University, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics
from UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), with
honours. Area of research: theoretical physics, with emphasis on the foundations
of quantum mechanics and matter-light interactions, and a substantial
contribution to the theory of stochastic electrodynamics.
Author of 70 research articles in physics, 100 articles and essays on
science education, popularization and policy, and a dozen textbooks, research
monographs and science popularization books. 35 years experience as a
lecturer in theoretical physics and electron microscopy.
Former head of the Department of Physics and Dean of the Faculty of Sciences,
and of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Institute of Physics,
UNAM. Coordinator of the project for the Museum on Light (UNAM, inaugurated
in 1996). Former editor-in-chief of Revista Mexicana de Física,
member of the ICSU Press Committee, of the Board of INASP (International
Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications), and of the editorial
boards of various scholarly journals. Founding president of LATINDEX,
comprehensive online information system for Iberoamerican and Caribbean
scientific periodicals.
Former Vice-President of the Commission on Physics for Development of
IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), Vice-President
of COSTED (Committee on Science for Developing Countries), Vice-President
of Interciencia Association and TWOWS (Third World Organization for Women
in Science). Elected fellow of TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences),
the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Council on Ideas (1998-2000),
and fellow of the Mexican Physical Society and the American Physical Society.
Member of the External Evaluation Team of IFS (International Foundation
for Science). Member of Council of UNU (United Nations University) and
the Board of IFS, and Secretary-General of ICSU (International Council
for Science). Former member of Council and President of the Executive
Committee of the Pugwash Conferences (Nobel Peace Prize 1995).
Received the Golden Award of the International League of Humanists in
1998, and the Prize for the Development of Physics in Mexico of the Mexican
Physical Society in 2000. Was appointed Woman of the Year in Mexico in
2003.
At present, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, (IAEA) and Head of the Department of Technical Co-operation, Vienna,
Austria.
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