Dirac Medal Ceremony 2 April  

ICTP will honor the four recipients of its 2024 Dirac Medal in a ceremony taking place Wednesday 2 April at 14:00 CET in the Centre's Budinich Lecture Hall. The event will be livestreamed  at http://www.ictp.it/livestream. The event will take place during the Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics (smr 4062 - 31 March- 4 April 2026).
 
All four 2024 medallists have made pioneering contributions to the understanding of quantum entropy in gravity and quantum field theory. The awardees are:

• Horacio Casini, CONICET and Bariloche Atomic Centre, Argentina
• Marina Huerta, CONICET and Bariloche Atomic Centre, Argentina
• Shinsei Ryu, Princeton University, United States
• Tadashi Takayanagi, Kyoto University, Japan

Established in 1985, the ICTP Dirac Medal recognises important contributions to the field of theoretical physics. Medallists include leading figures in the discipline, many of whom went on to receive even more important awards, such as the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal. It is given in honour of P.A.M. Dirac, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and a staunch friend of the Centre, on Dirac's birthday, 8 August. An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the winners from a list of nominated candidates. The members of the 2024 selection committee were: Alessandra Buonanno, Atish Dabholkar (chair), Michael Green, David Gross, Juan Maldacena, Giorgio Parisi, Subir Sachdev.