2007 ICTP Prize Ceremony March 31

[Katrina Danforth]

The 2007 ICTP Prize in honour of L.D. Landau
will be awarded to

M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics
and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran

on

Monday, March 31, 2008
in the Main Lecture Hall of the ICTP Main Building
at  11:30 hrs.

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Welcome address by Professor K.R. Sreenivasan
Director

Presentation of the 2007 ICTP Prize

2007 ICTP Prize Lecture by Professor M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari
"Noncommutative Spaces from Strings and Branes"	

Abstract:
This talk is a brief historic review of noncommutative space-times and 
recent developments of physics on noncommutative Moyal spaces which 
were mainly motivated by string and brane theory. It will be aimed at 
the
general physics audience.

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2007 ICTP Prize Citation

The 2007 ICTP Prize is awarded to M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari for his important 
contributions to non-commutative field theories in the context of 
D-branes and superstring theories, leading to interesting formal and 
phenomenological developments in theoretical and mathematical physics.

The 2007 ICTP Prize is named after the great Soviet physicist L.D. 
Landau. Landau's work is unique for its breadth and depth of 
understanding. He made fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics 
and quantum electrodynamics, theories of superfluidity and 
superconductivity, the theory of second order phase transitions, plasma 
physics, fluid dynamics and combustion, among others. He was also 
instrumental in building a well-known school in theoretical physics. 
Landau received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of 
a mathematical theory of superfluidity of helium II. The year 2008 is 
the centenary of his birth.

ICTP Prize Committee
P. Creminelli
L. Göttsche
F. Kucharski
M. Marsili