The International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics is an academic conference devoted to applications of group theory to physics. It was founded in 1972 by Henri Bacry and Aloysio Janner. It hosts a colloquium every two years. The ICGTMP is led by a standing committee, which helps select winners for the two major awards presented at the conference: the Wigner Medal and the Weyl Prize.
Wigner Medal
The Wigner Medal is an award designed "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through Group Theory".[1] The Wigner Medal is administered by The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, a publicly supported organization. Donations are tax-deductible as provided pursuant to the provisions of Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code, a federal code of the United States.
The award was first presented in 1978 to Eugene Wigner, and was first awarded at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics.[2]
List of conferences
| Number | Year | Location | Wigner Medal awardees[3] | Proceedings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1972 | Marseille | - | |
| 2nd | 1973 | Nijmegen | - | University of Nijmegen |
| 3rd | 1974 | Marseille | - | University of Nijmegen |
| 4th | 1975 | Nijmegen | - | Springer |
| 5th | 1976 | Montreal | - | Academic Press |
| 6th | 1977 | Tübingen | - | Springer |
| 7th | 1978 | Austin, Texas | Eugene Wigner and Valentine Bargmann | Springer |
| 8th | 1979 | Kiryat Anavim | - | Adam Hilger (Bristol, UK) |
| 9th | 1980 | Cocoyoc | Israel Gel'fand | Springer |
| 10th | 1981 | Canterbury | - | |
| 11th | 1982 | Istanbul | Louis Michel | Springer |
| 12th | 1983 | Trieste | - | Springer |
| 13th | 1984 | Maryland | Yuval Ne'eman | World Scientific (Singapore) |
| 14th | 1985 | Seoul | - | |
| 15th | 1986 | Philadelphia | Feza Gürsey | |
| 16th | 1987 | Varna | - | Springer |
| 17th | 1988 | Montreal | Isadore Singer | |
| 18th | 1990 | Moscow | Francesco Iachello | Springer |
| 19th | 1992 | Salamanca | Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino | |
| 20th | 1994 | Toyonaka | - | World Scientific |
| 21st | 1996 | Goslar | Victor Kac and Robert Moody | |
| 22nd | 1998 | Hobart | Marcos Moshinsky | |
| 23rd | 2000 | Dubna | Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh | |
| 24th | 2002 | Paris | Harry Jeannot Lipkin | CRC Press |
| 25th | 2004 | Cocoyoc | Erdal İnönü | CRC Press |
| 26th | 2006 | New York | Susumu Okubo | |
| 27th | 2008 | Yerevan | - | |
| 28th | 2010 | Newcastle upon Tyne | Michio Jimbo | IOP |
| 29th | 2012 | Tianjin | C. Alden Mead[4][5] | World Scientific |
| 30th | 2014 | Ghent | Joshua Zak[6] | IOP |
| 31st | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro | Bertram Kostant | Springer |
| 32nd | 2018 | Prague | Pavel Winternitz | IOP |
See also
List of physics awards
List of prizes named after people
References
"The Wigner Medal Bylaws" (PDF). The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
"The Wigner Medal". The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
Wigner Medal Homepage
"Professor Emeritus Alden Mead receives Wigner Medal". University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
"The XXIX International Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics". Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
"Wigner Medal awarded to Professor Joshua Zak". Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – Physics Department. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
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