International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics
| Type | International organization |
|---|---|
| Established | 1985 |
| President | Remo Ruffini |
| Location | Rome, Italy |
| Website | http://www.icra.it |
ICRA, the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics is an international research institute for relativistic astrophysics and related areas. Its members are seven Universities and four organizations. The center is located in Rome, Italy.
The International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA) was founded in 1985 by Remo Ruffini (University of Rome "La Sapienza") together with Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Prize for Physics 2002), Abdus Salam (Nobel Prize for Physics 1979), Paul Boynton (University of Washington), George Coyne (former director of the Vatican observatory), Francis Everitt (Stanford University), Fang Li-Zhi (University of Science and Technology of China). It became a legal entity in 1991 with the Ministerial Decree 22/11/1991 from the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
The International Center of Relativistic Astrophysics is located in the Department of Physics building at the main Campus of the University of Rome "Sapienza".
In 2005 ICRA has been among the founders of ICRANet, the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network. The national activities of research and teaching in Italy remained operative at ICRA in Rome, while international activities and coordination are now based in ICRANet in Pescara.
President: Remo Ruffini
ICRA Council:
Paolo De Bernardis,University of Rome Sapienza
Francis Everitt, Stanford University
Josè Gabriel Funes, Vatican Observatory
Remo Ruffini, ICRANet
Robert Williams, Space Telescope Science Institute
University of Rome "Sapienza" (Italy)
Space Telescope Institute - Baltimore - Maryland - (USA)
International Centre For Theoretical Physics (ICTP) - Trieste (Italy)
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) - Trieste (Italy)
Specola Vaticana - Castelgandolfo (Vatican City)
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