Invitation to the 2020 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony on Friday 22 October 2021 at 14:00 CET

[ICTP/director]

*Invitation to the 2020 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony *

You are cordially invited to participate in the 2020 DIRAC Medal Award 
Ceremony which will take place on Friday 22 October 2021.

The 2020 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony will take place as a mixed 
online and in presence event on Friday 22 October 2021 at 14.00 hrs. The 
Ceremony is an integral part of the ICTP School on Superstring Theory 
and Related Topics (smr 3629) which runs from 18-22 October 2021.

ICTP awarded its 2020 Dirac Medal and Prize to three distinguished 
physicists – André Neveu of University of Montpellier, Pierre Ramond of 
University of Florida, and Miguel Virasoro of Universidad Nacional de 
General Sarmiento – "for their pioneering contributions to the inception 
and formulation of string theory which introduced new Bosonic and 
Fermionic symmetries into physics". The full feature article is 
available at the following link: 
https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/8/ictp-dirac-medal-2020-announced.aspx

After the talks, an In Memoriam event will take place, with invited 
speakers Giorgio Parisi, Gabriele Veneziano, Daniele Amati, highlighting 
the scientific work of Miguel Virasoro.

For more information, please check the following link: 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/9679/

*Register in advance for this webinar:*

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fO4-BPHwSHWG3On4l5OsaA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar.

The link is the same for both events.

The events will be livestreamed from the ICTP website at: 
http://video.ictp.it/livestream

We look forward to seeing you!

Best regards,

Office of the Director, ICTP