SAVE THE DATE: Invitation to the 2025 Dirac Medal and Award Ceremony

Infopoint infopoint at ictp.it
Fri Feb 27 09:02:17 CET 2026


Dear All,

You are most cordially invited to the *2025 Dirac Medal and Award 
Ceremony* that will take place in the Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP 
Leonardo Building, on *Wednesday 25 March*, starting at *14:00* hrs 
CEST. The event will take place during the Spring School on Superstring 
Theory and Related Topics <https://indico.ictp.it/event/11135>(smr 4209, 
23 - 31 March 2026).

ICTP awarded its 2025 Dirac Medal to four distinguished physicists "/for 
their landmark contributions which have significantly shaped the study 
of general relativity across many generations. Their work collectively 
has laid the conceptual and technical foundations of our understanding 
of gravity, at both the classical and quantum levels"./

//

The 2025 Dirac Medallists are:

·*Gary Gibbons*, Cambridge University, UK

·*Gary Horowitz*, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

·*Roy Kerr*, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

·*Robert Wald*, University of Chicago, USA

Further information about the awardees is available at:

https://www.ictp.it/news/2025/8/2025-ictp-dirac-medal-goes-gravity-explorers

Additional information about the Ceremony can be found here:

https://indico.ictp.it/event/11282/

The event will be livestreamed from the ICTP website: 
www.ictp.it/livestream <http://www.ictp.it/livestream>

Light refreshments will be served afterwards.

We look forward to seeing you on this special occasion, marking the 40th 
edition of the Ceremony!

Regards,

Margherita Di Giovannantonio - HECAP Secretariat

for the Director's Office




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