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SUMMARY:2025 ICTP Prize Award Ceremony
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261021T123000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261021T153000Z
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DESCRIPTION:\nSince 1982\, the ICTP Prize recognises young scientists from
  developing countries who have made outstanding and original contributions
  to physics.\n	Each year\, the ICTP Prize is given in honour of a scientis
 t who has made outstanding contributions to the field in which the prize i
 s given. The 2025 ICTP Prize is dedicated to the memory of Giancarlo Ghira
 rdi\, a theoretical physicist whose tireless work on the foundations of qu
 antum mechanics created approaches and indeed a whole  school that antici
 pated by far the entanglement-based modern quantum information methods. As
  a long-time collaborator with ICTP\, Ghirardi's strong presence at and de
 dication to the Centre was of immense value to its international community
 .\n	ICTP will celebrate the two winners of the 2025 ICTP Prize with a cere
 mony on Wednesday\, 21 October at 14:30 in the Budinich Lecture Hall.\n	Th
 e two recipients - Prof. Titas Chanda\, assistant professor at the Indian 
 Institute of Technology Madras\, and Prof. Sthitadhi Roy\, assistant profe
 ssor at the Tata institute of fundamental research\, Bengaluru\, (India) -
  share the award for their exceptional and original contributions to the t
 heory of quantum many-body systems\, at the interface of condensed matter 
 and quantum information science. Their work has opened new directions in t
 he understanding of non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum systems\, quantum 
 correlations\, and measurement-driven phase transitions\, including concep
 tual as well as methodological breakthroughs.\n	Prof. Titas Chanda receive
 s the 2025 ICTP Prize for his wide-ranging and impactful contributions to 
 quantum information science\, quantum many-body physics\, and quantum tech
 nologies. His research spans foundational aspects of quantum correlations 
 and open quantum systems to applications such as quantum batteries\, commu
 nication protocols\, and resource theories.\n	Prof. Chanda will present a 
 talk titled 'Deconfined criticality in classical and quantum systems: less
 ons from frustrated clock models and cluster Ising chains'. He will presen
 t a talk exploring two examples of deconfined criticality\, one 2D classic
 al and one 1+1D quantum. Through these examples\, he will discuss how tran
 sitions between phases with incompatible symmetries can be made possible b
 y an emergent symmetry that appears only at criticality. He will argue tha
 t this emergent symmetry\, rather than any exotic microscopic ingredient\,
  is the essential feature of deconfined criticality in these systems.\n	Pr
 of. Sthitadhi Roy has received the prize for his outstanding and influenti
 al contributions to the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body syst
 ems\, particularly his pioneering work on measurement-induced phenomena\, 
 many-body localisation\, and emergent phases of quantum matter. His resear
 ch has produced deep insights into the structure of highly excited eigenst
 ates\, the role of disorder correlations in stabilizing localisation\, and
  the mechanisms underlying entanglement growth and thermalisation.  \n	I
 n his presentation titled 'Information scrambling in disordered quantum ma
 ny-body systems: an eigenstate-correlations perspective' He will present 
 a unified microscopic framework for understanding quantum dynamics in both
  chaotic and strongly disordered systems. He will explore how correlations
  among eigenstates can provide insight into information scrambling\, entan
 glement growth\, and the different dynamical behaviours that emerge in the
 se systems.\n	\n		\n			\n			The ceremony is open to all and will be livest
 reamed on ICTP's YouTube channel.\n			Light refreshments will be served on
  the Leonardo Building Lobby at 16:30.\n	\n\n\n\n//indico.ictp.it/event/11
 548/
LOCATION: ICTP Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
URL://indico.ictp.it/event/11548/
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