Dirac Programme

Dirac Medal 25th Anniversary, 10 November 2010

Chair: Professor Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)

• Opening remarks by ICTP Director Fernando Quevedo
• 2010 Dirac Medal Lecture: Half a Century of Physics: Problems and Solutions
  E.C.G. Sudarshan (University of Texas at Auston, USA)

Lectures by past Dirac medallists

• Roman Jackiw (MIT, USA)
  Fractional charge, Majorana fermions: the physics of isolated zero modes
• Helen Quinn (SLAC, USA)
  Scale hierarchies in gauge theories and beyond
• John Iliopoulos (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
  New physics at the LHC
• Giorgio Parisi (Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
  Theoretical progresses in off-equilibrium behavious

• John H. Schwarz (Caltech, USA)
  Superconformal field theories
• Michael B. Green (Lucasian Professor, University of Cambridge, UK)
  Connections between string theory and perturbative supersymmetric quantum field theory
• Sergio Ferrara (CERN, Switzerland and UCLA, USA)
  Black holes and supergravity
• Joseph Polchinski (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
  Holography and unification
• Cumrun Vafa (Harvard, USA)
  Strings and geometry

• Stephen L. Adler (IAS, Princeton, USA)
  Localising numerical integration by 2p subdivisions in p dimensions
• Vladimir E. Zakharov (University of Arizona, USA)
  Some physical applications of weak turbulent theory
• Roberto Car (Princeton, USA)
  Quantum mechanics in a glass of water
• Michele Parrinello (ETH, Zurich)
  The phase diagram of Sodium or using a sledgehammer to crack a nut

Closing session

• Giuseppe Pizza (Vice Minister for Education, University and Scientific Research, Italy)
• Fernando Quevedo (ICTP Director)