2007 ICTP PRIZE

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2007 ICTP Prize
in honour of L.D. Landau

We take pleasure in announcing that the 2007 ICTP Prize
will be awarded to

Professor M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari
Institute for Studies in
Theoretical Physics and Mathematics
Tehran, Iran

The 2007 ICTP Prize in honour of Lev Davidovich Landau is awarded to
Mohammad Mahdi Sheikh-Jabbari for his important contributions to
non-commutative field theories in the context of D-branes and
superstring theories, leading to interesting formal and
phenomenological developments in theoretical and mathematical physics.

The 2007 ICTP Prize is named after the great Soviet physicist L.D.
Landau. Landau's work is unique for its breadth and depth of
understanding. He made fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics
and quantum electrodynamics, theories of superfluidity and
superconductivity, the theory of second order phase transitions, plasma
physics, fluid dynamics and combustion, among others. He was also
instrumental in building a well-known school in theoretical physics.
Landau received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of
a mathematical theory of superfluidity of helium II. The year 2008 is
the centenary of his birth.


ICTP Prize Committee
P.Creminelli
L.Göttsche
F.Kucharski
M.Marsili

30 May 2007