STARTING SHORTLY: Dirac Medal Award Ceremony at the ICTP at 14:00

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Dear All,

ICTP will celebrate the three winners of its 2018 Dirac Medal during an
awards ceremony to be held in the Budinich
Lecture Hall starting at 14:00 hrs.

ICTP has awarded its 2018 Dirac Medal and Prize to three distinguished
physicists - Subir Sachdev of Harvard University, Dam Thanh Son of the
University of Chicago, and Xiao-Gang Wen of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology - for their independent contributions toward understanding
novel phases in strongly interacting many-body systems, introducing
original cross-disciplinary techniques.

Three talks are scheduled, with an introduction by Prof. David Tong from
the University of Cambridge, UK.

Prof. Dam Thanh Son:  "From fractional quantum Hall effect to
field-theoretic dualities"

Prof. Subir Sachdev: "Strange metals and black holes"

Prof. Xiao-Gang Wen:  "Topological order and non-Abelian statistics"

ICTP's Dirac Medal, first awarded in 1985, is given in honor of P.A.M.
Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a staunch
friend of ICTP. It is awarded annually on Dirac's birthday, 8 August, to
scientists who have made significant contributions to theoretical physics.

More information on the 2018 awardees is available at:
https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/8/dirac-medal-2018.aspx

More detailed information, programme and poster are available at:
http://indico.ictp.it/event/8740/

The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the ICTP website.

Light refreshments will be served after the event.

You are all warmly invited to attend and we look forward to seeing you
on this special occasion.
Director's Office, ICTP