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SUMMARY:CSER Public Lecture: Zia Mian - Zia Mian (Program on Science and G
 lobal Security\, Princeton University)
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CONTACT:Clare Arnstein
DESCRIPTION:Zia Mian is a physicist and co-director of Princeton Universit
 y's Program on Science and Global Security\, part of the Woodrow Wilson Sc
 hool of Public and International Affairs\, where he has worked since 1997.
  He also directs the Program's Project on Peace and Security in South Asia
 . His research interests include issues of nuclear arms control\, nonproli
 feration and disarmament and international peace and security. He is co-ed
 itor of Science & Global Security\, the international technical journal of
  arms control\, nonproliferation and disarmament and also co-chair of the 
 International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM)\, an eighteen-country inde
 pendent group of experts working to strengthen policy initiatives to end p
 roduction and eliminate stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uraniu
 m\, the key ingredients for nuclear weapons. In addition to his scholarly 
 articles\, he is the co-author of Unmaking the Bomb (MIT Press\, 2014) and
  editor of several books and has made two documentary films on peace and s
 ecurity in South Asia. He received the 2014 Linus Pauling Legacy Award for
  “his accomplishments as a scientist and as a peace activist in contribu
 ting to the global effort for nuclear disarmament and for a more peaceful 
 world.” He received the American Physical Society’s 2019 Leo Szilard A
 ward “For promoting global peace and nuclear disarmament particularly in
  South Asia\, through academic research\, public speaking\, technical and 
 popular writing and organizing efforts to ban nuclear weapons."
LOCATION:Faculty of Law\, LG18\, 10 West Road\, CB3 9DZ 
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