2012 DIRAC MEDAL AWARD CEREMONY

4 July 2013

Main Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building

Programme

14:00  Remarks by Fernando Quevedo, Director, ICTP

14:15  Presentation of the Medallists, Paul Wiegmann (University of Chicago)

14:30  Award of the Medals

14:45  Talks by the Medallists:

F. Duncan M. Haldane

Topologically-non-trivial Quantum States in Condensed Matter Physics: From 1D Spin Chains, to 2D Chern Insulators, to Today

Charles L. Kane

Topological Insulators

Shoucheng Zhang