Invitation to ICTP Prize Ceremony on Thursday 16 March 2017

[ICTP Director]

*Dear All,
*

*ICTP is pleased to announce that the ICTP Prize Ceremony will take **
**place on Thursday 16 March at 15.45 hrs in the Budinich Lecture Hall. *

ICTP has awarded its 2016 ICTP Prize to Aninda Sinha of the Center for 
High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Sinha is a string theorist whose work crosses multiple disciplines, from 
quantum field theory to condensed matter physics. He is particularly 
known for a number of inventive contributions to the application of the 
holographic connection between theories of gravity and strongly coupled 
condensed matter physics. In recent years his publications have covered 
aspects of the holographic correspondence between gauge theory and 
gravity, its applications to aspects of fluid dynamics and connections 
with black hole dynamics and entanglement entropy.

Sinha’s ICTP Prize cites his "key contributions to aspects of quantum 
field theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, the 
development of holographic c-theorems for strongly coupled theories 
which led to the first c-theorem in odd-dimensions, an important 
breakthrough in the study of hydrodynamic properties of strongly coupled 
systems with holographic duals, of the holographic entanglement entropy 
and in the conformal bootstrap program."

For more information, see: 
http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2016/11/ictp-prize-winner-2016.aspx

Light refreshments will be served after the Ceremony.

The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the following link:
http://video.ictp.it/livestream

The poster is attached.

Light refreshments will be served after the Ceremony.

You are all warmly invited to attend and I look forward to seeing you on
this occasion.

Best regards,

Fernando Quevedo



-- 
Zina Makkawi
Office of the Director, ICTP