Physics Prizes for ICTP Council Chair, Scientist

The European Physical Society (EPS) High Energy Physics Division has awarded two of its 2011 prizes to ICTP Scientific Council Chair Luciano Maiani and ICTP scientist Paolo Creminelli.

The 2011 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize for an outstanding contribution to high energy physics in experimental, theoretical or technological area was awarded to Maiani, along with Sheldon Lee Glashow of Boston University, USA, and John Iliopoulos of Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, "For their crucial contribution to the theory of flavour, presently embedded in the Standard Theory of strong and electroweak interactions." Maiani and Iliopoulos shared ICTP's Dirac Medal in 2007.

Creminelli, of ICTP's High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics section, received the 2011 Young Physicist Prize for outstanding work by one or more early career physicists in the field of particle physics and/or particle astrophysics "For his contributions to the development of a solid field-theoretical approach to early-universe cosmology and for his studies of non-gaussianities in the cosmic microwave background". Creminelli shares the prize with Andrea Rizzi of the ETH Institute for Particle Physics, who was cited "For his contributions to the reconstruction software and physics program of the CMS experiment at the LHC".

The prizes will be awarded at the Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2011), Grenoble, France in July 2011.