STARTING NOW: Dirac Medal Award Ceremony and Public Event

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*INVITATION *

*ICTP will celebrate the three winners of its 2017 Dirac Medal today, 
Wednesday 14 March 2018, in the Budinich Lecture Hall starting at 14:30 
hrs.*

ICTP will honour the three recipients of the 2017 Dirac Medal Award  to 
Charles H. Bennett (IBM Watson Research Centre), David Deutsch (Oxford) 
and Peter W. Shor (MIT) for their pioneering work in applying the 
fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics to solving basic problems in 
computation and communication and therefore bringing together the fields 
of quantum mechanics, computer science and information theory.

The award ceremony will be preceded by two lectures by Peter Zoller, a 
professor at the University of Innsbruck working in quantum optics, and 
Artur Ekert, a professor of quantum physics and cryptography at 
University of Oxford. More details about the event can be found at 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/8519/. The programme for the event is attached.

The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the following link: 
http://video.ictp.it/livestream

*Following the ceremony, a Public Roundtable Event*, *"Quantum 
Technologies: Dawn of a New Industrial Revolution", will be held at 
18:30 at the Savoia Excelsior Palace, Trieste.*
The event will feature panellists representing three key players in 
quantum technology:
Hartmut Neven, Google's Director of Engineering,
Alessandro Curioni, IBM Fellow, Vice President of IBM Europe and 
Director of the IBM Research Lab in Zurich,
Tommaso Calarco, Director, Institute for Complex Quantum Systems, 
University of Ulm and member of the expert group for the European
Commission's Quantum Technology Flagship.

The event is co-sponsored by ICTP and SISSA and moderated by science 
journalist Simona Regina, the event will offer simultaneous translation. 
More details are here: 
https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/3/quantum-roundtable.aspx 


*You are all warmly invited to attend the events and we look forward to 
seeing you on this occasion. *

*Director's Office, ICTP*
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