2006 ICTP Prize

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2006 ICTP Prize
in honour of Gian-Carlo Wick

We take pleasure in announcing that
the 2006 ICTP Prize
will be awarded to

Professor Rajesh Gopakumar
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Allahabad, India

Professor Rajesh Gopakumar is a highly accomplished string theorist 
whose research is very influential and encompasses many different areas 
of string theory and field theory.

His important contributions include papers on large N gauge theories, 
solitons in noncommutative field theories and topological string 
theory. His work on the latter topic with Vafa inspired the theory of 
Gopakumar-Vafa invariants in mathematics. More recently he has 
pioneered a program to understand the free field theory limit of the 
correspondence between quantum field theories and gravitational systems 
in one higher dimension.


ICTP Prize Committee
Bobby Acharya
Silvio Franz
Ramadas Ramakrishnan
Bi Xunqiang
4 August 2006