Dirac Medal Ceremony on 21 May

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2009 DIRAC MEDAL AWARD CEREMONY


Professor Fernando Quevedo
Director of the ICTP
has the pleasure of inviting you to the
2009 Dirac Medal Award Ceremony on

Friday,  21 May 2010
at 14.00 hrs.
in the Main Lecture Hall of the Leonardo Building

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Programme

Welcome address by Professor Fernando Quevedo
Remarks by Professor Erio Tosatti

Dirac Lecture by Professor Roberto Car
Quantum Mechanics in a Glass of Water

Dirac Lecture by Professor Michele Parrinello
Coloring the Noise or Cheating One's Way to Quantum Effects



THE 2009 DIRAC MEDAL AND PRIZE

The 2009 Dirac Medal recognizes the joint contributions of

Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello in developing the ab initio
simulation method in which they combined, elegantly and imaginatively,
the quantum mechanical density functional method for the calculation of
the electronic properties of matter with molecular dynamics methods for
the Newtonian simulation of atomic motions. The Car-Parrinello method
has had an enormous impact, joining together the fields of simulation
and of electronic structure theory, and has given rise to a variety of
applications well beyond condensed matter physics.