Invitation to the Walter Kohn Prize Ceremony, Friday 13 January 2017 at 9.00am in the Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP

[ICTP Director]

On behalf of Prof. Quevedo, Director of ICTP, we wish to extend this 
invitation to your scientific community.
With thanks and best regards,
Sandro Scandolo
Head, Scientific Programmes and Outreach, ICTP

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ICTP will celebrate the first winner of the new ICTP Walter Kohn Prize 
during an award ceremony which will take place on Friday 13 January at 
9.00 am in the Budinich Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building. You are all 
most welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be held at the end of 
the ceremony.

The first Walter Kohn Prize has been awarded to Prof. Yanming Ma from 
Jilin University, Changchun, P.R. of China for his outstanding 
contributions in the field of quantum-mechanical materials and molecular 
modeling. Ma will give a talk on "Atomistic Structure Prediction via 
Swarm Intelligence Algorithms".

More information on the ceremony is available at: 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/8121/

Walter Kohn, who passed away last year, had a long and creative career 
included faculty appointments at Carnegie Mellon, UC San Diego, and UC 
Santa Barbara, where he was the founding director of the Kavli Institute 
for Theoretical Physics, and was a close supporter and friend of ICTP.

Kohn and John Pople were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 
for their contributions to our understanding of electronic properties of
materials, including the development of density functional theory.

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