Invitation to the ICTP Prize Ceremony 
         
Dear All,
The 2018 ICTP Prize Ceremony will take place TODAY 9 January at
        16.30 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall, during the 19th
        International Workshop on Computational Physics and Material
        Science: Total Energy and Force Methods (smr 3266). 
      
 ICTP has awarded its 2018 ICTP Prize to Luis E.F. FoĆ  Torres
        of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, and to Hongjun
        Xiang of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. The Prize recognizes
        their independent contributions to the theoretical advancement
        of condensed matter physics of modern solid-state materials,
        including low dimensional and nanoscale systems. Each year, the
        ICTP Prize is given in honor of a scientist who has made
        outstanding contributions to the field in which the prize is
        given. The 2018 ICTP Prize is given in honour of Kun Huang
        (1919-2005), the renowned theoretical physicist who is a father
        of condensed matter and semiconductor physics in China. Huang
        had been a student of Nevill Mott at Bristol University and a
        postdoc of Nobel Laureate Max Born at Liverpool University
        before returning to China in 1951. 
      
The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the ICTP website.
      
More information is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8818/
      
You are all very warmly invited to attend.
Best regards,
Office of the Director, ICTP