Invitation to the 2019 ICTP Prize Ceremony on Wednesday, 2 June 2021

[ICTP Director]

*On behalf of Prof. Dabholkar, we are pleased to invite you to the 2019 
ICTP Prize Ceremony which will take place at ICTP,  via remote, on 
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, starting at 11:30 hrs CET.*

The 2019 ICTP Prize in honour of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar has been 
awarded to Dr. Basudeb Dasgupta, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 
Mumbai, India and Dr. Suvrat Raju, International Centre for Theoretical 
Sciences, TIFR, Shivakote, Bengaluru, India.

The prize recognises Professor Basudeb Dasgupta (India) for innovative 
theoretical contributions to neutrino and dark-matter physics, 
especially to the understanding of collective neutrino oscillations. 
Dasgupta pioneered the field of collective neutrino flavor evolution in 
extreme astrophysical environments, such as those in supernovae, which 
helped the understanding of these spectacular and phenomenologically 
rich events. His works on dark matter, the dominant but yet unidentified 
component of matter in the Universe, produced crucial input for the 
interpretation of ongoing direct search experiments. His new ideas on 
the subject improved our understanding of the possible nature and 
properties of this obscure form of matter.

The prize recognises Professor Suvrat Raju (India) for new insights into 
the holographic description of black-hole interiors, for clarifying the 
nature of subtle non-local effects in quantum gravity, and for 
contributions to the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence. His works on 
black holes provided a deeper and more detailed description of how the 
intrinsic non-locality of gravity could preserve unitarity during the 
black-hole evaporation process, shedding new light on the long-standing 
black-hole information paradox. He also helped to develop a new set of 
tools and concepts that extend to conformal field theories, holographic 
correspondence, quantum error corrections, and algebraic quantum field 
theory.

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G_yVin8iRBOst04uXcIQGw 
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G_yVin8iRBOst04uXcIQGw>
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar.


Livestreaming is available at: https://youtu.be/HLv3qCzNZeg 
<https://youtu.be/HLv3qCzNZeg>
More information is available at the following link: 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/9660/


We**very much look forward to seeing you on this special occasion!


With best regards,

Office of the Director,  ICTP