Invitation to the 2019 ICO/Gallieno Denardo Award
              Ceremony, Today, Tuesday 19 February at 15:30 


The ICTP is pleased to announce that the  2019
            ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award Ceremony will take place
            TODAY at 15:30 hrs in the Budinch Lecture Hall.


 The ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award is given
            annually to researchers younger than 40 years of age from a
            developing country who have made significant contributions
            to the field of optics or photonics.


 This year the 2019 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award
            is shared by:
 
Muhammad Faryad,
                    LUMS Department of Physics Lahore, Pakistan
 “For his contributions to
                    the understanding of light 
interaction with
                    nanostructured materials, and applications in the
                    area of optical surface waves, solar cells, optical
                    metamaterials and the modelling of wave propa
gation in the
                    nanostructured mediums.” 


and 
Christian
                          Tomas Schmiegelow Universidad de Buenos Aires
                          Balboa, Argentina
, “For his
                          contributions to the field of quantum optics 
and light-matter
                          interaction, and in particular the 
demonstration of
                          transfer of optical orbital momentum to bound
                          electrons and studies on interaction of
                          twisted light with trapped ions.” 
 
During the ceremony, the prize winners will deliver the
            following lectures:


Muhammad Faryad: 
"Surface multiplasmonics: Fundamentals and applications
                      to optical sensing"  

 
Christian
                          Tomas Schmiegelow: "
Spectroscopy with
                          twisted light. Or: How ions learnt to stop
                          worrying and love the twist" 

                        
The ceremony
                          will be livestreamed at 
 
http://www.ictp.it/livestream
 
You are all
                          most welcome to attend.
 
Director's Office, ICTP