News: The ICTP announced the 2025 ICTP Prize to Indian Assistant Professor Titas Chanda of IIT-Madras and Sthitadhi Roy of ICTS Bengaluru.
About ICTP Prize 2025
- The ICTP Prize 2025 has been awarded for outstanding theoretical research in quantum many-body systems.
- Winners: The ICTP Prize 2025 was awarded to
- Titas Chanda, Assistant Professor at IIT-Madras.
- Sthitadhi Roy, Assistant Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, under the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
- Awarding body: The prize is awarded by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), which was founded in 1964 by Nobel laureate Abdus Salam.
- Prize is dedicated to: The 2025 ICTP Prize was dedicated to the memory of Italian physicist Giancarlo Ghirardi.
- Awarded for: The ICTP Prize 2025 recognizes exceptional and original contributions to the theory of quantum many-body systems at the interface of condensed matter physics and quantum information science.
- Their work is relevant to real problems in keeping quantum devices, such as quantum computers and sensors, under control and understanding their behaviour when they are not in equilibrium.
About ICTP Prize
- Established: The ICTP Prize was created in 1982 by the ICTP Scientific Council.
- It is awarded annually to young scientists from developing countries for outstanding and original contributions in physics.
- Prize components: The prize includes a sculpture, a certificate, and a cash award.
- Each year, the prize is given in honour of a scientist who made outstanding contributions to the relevant field.
Note: Quantum many-body systems are complex assemblies of interacting particles where quantum mechanical effects play a crucial role, making them essential for understanding materials and fundamental physics phenomena.
