Invitation to the 2020 ICTP Prize Ceremony on Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 16:00 hrs CET (online)

[ICTP Director]

*On behalf of Prof. Atish Dabholkar, we are pleased to invite you to the 
2020 ICTP Prize Ceremony, which will take place at ICTP, via remote, on 
Wednesday, 15 September 2021, starting at 16:00 hrs CET*

The 2020 ICTP Prize dedicated to the memory of David J. Thouless has 
been awarded to Dr. Dibyendu Roy, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, 
India and to Dr. Mehdi Kargarian, Sharif University of Technology, 
Tehran, Iran.

Dr. Dibyendu Roy’s contributions in the field of non-equilibrium 
properties of mesoscopic systems have led to a deeper understanding of 
particle, heat and energy transport in open quantum systems. Of 
particular importance are his seminal works on topological 
superconductors as well as the interaction of light with matter, 
including strong photon-photon interactions in waveguide quantum 
electrodynamic systems. His theoretical predictions have since been 
verified in spin noise spectroscopy experiments.

A brief introduction to Roy's research will be given by Prof. Roderich 
Moessner, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for 
the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.

Topological phases and strongly correlated electrons are at the core of 
Dr. Mehdi Kargarian’s research. He has discovered two of the first 
examples of fractionalized topological phases where both 
electron-electron interactions and spin-orbit coupling are important. He 
also predicted new phases of matter which are known as “weak topological 
Mott insulator” and the “topological crystalline Mott insulator”. Within 
Iran, Mehdi has served as mentor to a new generation of scientist and 
provides a key bridge to global scientific developments in the theory of 
interacting topological phases of matter.

A brief introduction to Mehdi's work will be given by Prof. Allan 
MacDonald, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, The 
University of Texas at Austin, USA.


Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t36xZNrvR0iF1PkG0Y6IMA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar.


Livestreaming is available at: ictp.it/livestream 
<https://youtu.be/HLv3qCzNZeg>
More information is available at the following link: 
http://indico.ictp.it/event/9686/


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

With best regards,

Office of the Director,  ICTP