2008 ICTP Prize

[Katrina Danforth]

2008 ICTP Prize
in honour of Pierre Gilles De Gennes

We take pleasure in announcing that the 2008 ICTP Prize
will be awarded jointly to

Professor Abhishek Dhar
Theoretical Physics Group
Raman Research Institute
Bangalore, India

and

Professor Zhong Fang
Center for Quantum Simulation Sciences
Institute of Physics
Beijing, China


Abhishek Dhar is Associate Professor at the Raman Research Institute, 
Bangalore. He has made outstanding contributions to non-equilibrium 
statistical mechanics of transport and fluctuation phenomena, classical 
as well as quantum mechanical. His exact and insightful results have 
clarified subtle issues, and about heat conduction.

Zhong Fang is Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum 
Simulation Sciences, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 
He is is being recognized for his theoretical and computational work on 
the origin of anomalous understanding of spin and orbital physics in 
transition metal oxides.

Pierre Gilles De Gennes (1932-2007) was one of the most influential 
theoretical physicists of his time. His work spanned a wide variety of 
subjects in condensed matter theory and statistical physics, and has 
pushed forward the frontiers of phenomena such as liquid crystals and 
polymer physics. He was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics "for 
discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in 
simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in 
particular to liquid crystals and polymer".

2008 ICTP Prize Committee
P.Creminelli
L.Göttsche
F.Kucharski
M.Marsili (Chairman) 								

11 June 2008