Invitation to the Dirac Medal Award Ceremony at the ICTP on Thursday 28 March 2019, Budinich Lecture Hall starting at 14:00

[ICTP Director]

Dear All,

ICTP will celebrate the three winners of its 2018 Dirac Medal during an 
awards ceremony to be held on Thursday 28 March 2019, in the Budinich 
Lecture Hall starting at 14:00 hrs.

ICTP has awarded its 2018 Dirac Medal and Prize to three distinguished 
physicists - Subir Sachdev of Harvard University, Dam Thanh Son of the 
University of Chicago, and Xiao-Gang Wen of the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology - for their independent contributions toward understanding 
novel phases in strongly interacting many-body systems, introducing 
original cross-disciplinary techniques.

Three talks are scheduled, with an introduction by Prof. David Tong from 
the University of Cambridge, UK.

Prof. Dam Thanh Son:  "From fractional quantum Hall effect to 
field-theoretic dualities"

Prof. Subir Sachdev: "Strange metals and black holes"

Prof. Xiao-Gang Wen:  "Topological order and non-Abelian statistics"

ICTP's Dirac Medal, first awarded in 1985, is given in honor of P.A.M. 
Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a staunch 
friend of ICTP. It is awarded annually on Dirac's birthday, 8 August, to 
scientists who have made significant contributions to theoretical physics.

More information on the 2018 awardees is available at: 
https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2018/8/dirac-medal-2018.aspx

More detailed information, programme and poster are available at: 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/8740/

The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the ICTP website.

Light refreshments will be served after the event.

You are all warmly invited to attend and we look forward to seeing you 
on this special occasion.
Director's Office, ICTP