Dear All,

ICTP is pleased to announce that the ICTP Prize Ceremony will take
place at 15.45 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall.

ICTP has awarded its 2016 ICTP Prize to Aninda Sinha of the Center for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Sinha is a string theorist whose work crosses multiple disciplines, from quantum field theory to condensed matter physics. He is particularly known for a number of inventive contributions to the application of the holographic connection between theories of gravity and strongly coupled condensed matter physics. In recent years his publications have covered aspects of the holographic correspondence between gauge theory and gravity, its applications to aspects of fluid dynamics and connections with black hole dynamics and entanglement entropy.

Sinha’s ICTP Prize cites his "key contributions to aspects of quantum field theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, the development of holographic c-theorems for strongly coupled theories which led to the first c-theorem in odd-dimensions, an important breakthrough in the study of hydrodynamic properties of strongly coupled systems with holographic duals, of the holographic entanglement entropy and in the conformal bootstrap program."

For more information, see: http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2016/11/ictp-prize-winner-2016.aspx

Light refreshments will be served after the Ceremony.

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

The poster is attached.

Light refreshments will be served after the Ceremony.

You are all warmly invited to attend and I look forward to seeing you on
this occasion.

Best regards,

Fernando Quevedo