Invitation to the ICTP Prize ceremony, Friday 29 June 2018 in Budinich Lecture Hall

[ICTP Director]

Dear All,

*ICTP is pleased to announce that the 2017 ICTP Prize Ceremony will take 
**place in the Budinich Lecture hall, Leonardo Building, on Friday 29 
June 2018 at 14:30 hrs**.*

Each year, the ICTP Prize is given in honor of a scientist who has made 
outstanding contributions to the field in which the prize is given. The 
2017 ICTP Prize honors Daniel J. Amit, a theoretical physicist who 
pioneered statistical mechanics approaches to neural networks and was 
one of the founding fathers of modern theoretical and computational 
neuroscience.

*ICTP has awarded its 2017 ICTP Prize to Emilio Kropff, a neuroscientist 
from Argentina affiliated with that country’s National Scientific and 
Technical Research Council’s (CONICET) Instituto de Investigeciones 
Bioquimicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA), Leloir Institute. The title of the 
talk is:**"Space, time, speed and acceleration in the brain's GPS".*

For more information, see:http://indico.ictp.it/event/8494/

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

Light refreshments will be served after the Ceremony on the Terrace.

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