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The Ceremony of the Abdus-Salam ICTP prize in 2007 was held in
March 31st
2008 in ICTP, Trieste Italy. The ceremony was started by giving
an introduction to
the prize winner of this year, M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari of IPM, by
the ICTP director
Prof. K. Sreenivasan. Then, Sheikh-Jabbari accepted the prize
which composed a
plaque with with ICTP logo and the name of the winner scripted
on it, a certificate
and a cash prize of 3000$. The ceremony followed by a 30 min.
seminar of the
winner on the works mentioned in the citation of the prize (see
below). Later in the
same day Sheikh-Jabbari gave a more technical talk on his recent
research work. It
is noteable that M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari has also received the
COMSTECH prize in
physics 2007, the ceremony of which was in April 1st in
Islamabad Pakistan and has
been chosen the "national distinguished professor" in April 2008
in a ceremony on
May 1st in the Iranian presedential complex.
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A Short History of ICTP Prize
The ICTP Prize was created in 1982 by the ICTP Scientific Council
in recognition
of outstanding and original contributions in physics and
mathematics, to scientists
not more than forty years of age.
The ICTP prize which is awarded annually in honour of an eminent
scientist,
includes a sculpture (previously a medal), certificate and a cash
award of 3,000$.
After the Dirac medal, it is the most prestigious prize awarded
by ICTP.
The ICTP prize is by nomination only. That is, one or more of
prominent
scientists nominate their candidate to the ICTP Scientific
Council. The nomination
letter should include an essay which highlights the main
contribution of the nominee
to the main stream research, the nominee's CV and also name of
three referees out
of the ICTP prize scientific committee. After contacting the
referees and reviewing
the files of nominees the council selects one person for the ICTP
prize. (In this sense
the procedure is basically the same as the Dirac medal or the
Nobel prize.)
This is for the first time that the ICTP prize have been awarded
to somebody
from Iran and the second to a person from Moslem country (the
first was given to
Prof. Abdullah Sadiq from Pakistan in 1987). As a summary of the
first 25 years:
Subject distribution: 7 prizes has
been awarded to High Energy Physics, 9 to Con-
densed Matter, Atomic and Molecular Physics, 6 to Mathematics
and 3 to Plasma
and Nuclear Physics.
Country distribution: 10 to India,
4 to China (one jointly with India), 3 to Brazil, 2
to Argentina, 2 Mexico (one jointly with a Venezuelan),
Pakistan, Nigeria, (South) Korea, Vietnam and Iran
each one prize.
For further information please see:
http://www.ictp.it/pages/mission/prizes.html
2007 ICTP Prize Citation
The 2007 ICTP Prize in honour of Lev Davidovich Landau is
awarded to Mo-
hammad Mahdi Sheikh-Jabbari for his important contributions to
non-commutative
field theories in the context of D-branes and superstring
theories, leading to inter-
esting formal and phenomenological developments in theoretical
and mathematical
physics.
The 2007 ICTP Prize is named after the great Soviet physicist
L.D. Landau.
Landau's work is unique for its breadth and depth of
understanding. He made
fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum
electrodynamics,
theories of superfluidity and superconductivity, the theory of
second order phase
transitions, plasma physics, fluid dynamics and combustion, among
others. He was
also instrumental in building a well-known school in theoretical
physics. Landau
received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of
a mathematical
theory of superfluidity of helium II. The year 2008 is the
centenary of his birth.
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