Invitation to the 2021 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony on Thursday 14 July 2022 in presence at the ICTP in Budinich Lecture Hall and online

[ICTP/director]

*Invitation to the 2021 Dirac Medal and Prize Ceremony *

You are cordially invited to participate in the 2021 DIRAC Medal Award 
Ceremony which will take place in person on Thursday 14 July 2022 at the 
ICTP in the Budinich Lecture Hall at 15:00 hrs.

ICTP awarded its 2021 Dirac Medal and Prize to four distinguished 
physicists whose theoretical work underpinned the 2015 detection of 
gravitational waves generated by black holes. The 2021 Dirac Medallists 
are: Alessandra Buonanno, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational 
Physics, Germany Thibault Damour, Institut des Hautes Études 
Scientifiques (IHÉS), France Frans Pretorius, Princeton University, USA, 
Saul Teukolsky, Caltech and Cornell University, USA. The four physicists 
have received the medal for establishing the predicted properties of 
gravitational waves in the curvature of spacetime produced when stars or 
black holes spiral together and merge. Their work was essential for the 
detection of gravitational waves from these energetic astronomical 
events by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory 
(LIGO). Alessandra Buonanno is the second woman to receive the Dirac 
Medal in its nearly 40-year history.

An introduction to the work of the four Medallists will be given by 
Prof. Kip Thorne (online).

For those who wish to attend online, please register in advance at the 
following link:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m7RU9V2MSaC48W_KtNbObw

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

For more information, please check the following link: 
https://indico.ictp.it/event/9902/

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

Light refreshments will follow on the Leonardo Building Terrace after 
the ceremony.

We look forward to seeing you on this special occasion!

Best regards,

Office of the Director, ICTP