Invitation to the 2021-23 ICO/Gallieno Denardo Award Ceremony, Tuesday 14 February, Budinich Lecture Hall, at 15:30 hrs CET

[ICTP/director]

*Invitation to the 2021-23  ICO/Gallieno Denardo Award Ceremony on 
Tuesday 14 February 2023 in the Budinich Lecture Hall at 15:30 hrs CET. 
The Ceremony will take place in conjunction**with ICTP's Winter College 
on Optics: Terahertz Optics and Photonics.*

The ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award is given to researchers from 
developing countries who are under 40 years of age on 31 December of the 
year for which the Award is given, and who are active in optics and 
photonics research and have contributed to the promotion of research 
activities in their own or another developing country.

We are pleased to inform you that the ICO/ICTP G. Denardo Prizes for 
2021, 2022 and 2023 will be awarded on 14 February 2023 to:

*David Hayrapetyan* from the Russian-Armenian University at Yerevan, 
Armenia, has been awarded the 2021 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award "for 
his breakthrough contributions to the theory of semiconductor 
nanosystems, as well as his promotion of optics and photonics in Armenia 
under difficult circumstances."

*VR Supradeepa* from the Center for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc 
Bangalore, India, has been awarded the 2022 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo 
Award "for his significant contributions to the field of high power 
fiber lasers and integrated non linear optics, including cascaded Raman 
fiber lasers, high power supercontinuum laser sources, and on-chip 
frequency combs. He has contributed to the promotion of research 
activities in Optics in India, through the supervision of many PhD 
students including women and members of unprivileged communities as well 
as outreach activities for undergraduate students.”

*Muhammad Qasim Mehmood* from the Information Technology Institute of 
the Punjab at Lahore, Pakistan, has been awarded the 2023 ICO/ICTP 
Gallieno Denardo Award "for his remarkable contribution to the field of 
nanophotonics, in particular plasmonics and materials, and for 
supervising and inspiring many young researchers in Pakistan."

/More information about the ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award can be found 
here: /

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/https://www.ictp.it/prize/icoictp-gallieno-denardo-award/

/https://www.e-ico.org/blog/awards/ictp-award/ 
<https://www.ictp.it/prize/icoictp-gallieno-denardo-award and here: 
https://www.e-ico.org/blog/awards/ictp-award/>/

We look forward to you participation on this special occasion.

Director's Office, ICTP