Invitation to the Walter Kohn Prize Award Ceremony,TODAY - 10 January 2019, at 9:00 am,  Budinich Lecture Hall

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce that the Walter Kohn Prize for quantum-mechanical materials and molecular modeling has been awarded to Professor Gabriel Merino, a researcher from Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav), Unidad Mérida, Mexico. The prize recognizes his pioneering work on predicting and understanding novel systems that violate standard chemical paradigms, and for generalizing and broadening the scope of concepts such as aromaticity, coordination and the chemical bond.

The ceremony will take place in the Budinich Lecture Hall TODAY at 9:00 hrs during the 19th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Material Science: Total Energy and Force Methods (smr 3266)

The prize was established in March 2016 by ICTP and the Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation (QEF) in honor of Chemistry Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn, a leading condensed matter physicist who developed density functional theory (DFT), a method that drastically reduces the amount of computing power needed to model the properties of complex materials, without compromising the accuracy of a model’s simulations. DFT has already had a big impact on a wide variety of fields, including chemistry, molecular physics, medicine and engineering. It also has opened the door to contributions from scientists from disadvantaged countries who have no access to huge supercomputers, due to its low computing costs and the wide availability of open source modeling software.

More information on the ceremony is available at: https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/12/kohn-prize-2018.aspx

You are all most cordially invited to attend.

Best regards,

Director's Office, ICTP