The International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP) 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 three major awards presented at the conference: the Wigner Medal (19782018), the Hermann Weyl Prize (since 2002) and the Weyl–Wigner Award (since 2022).
Wigner Medal
The Wigner Medal was an award designed "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through Group Theory". It was administered by The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, a publicly supported organization. The first award was given in 1978 to Eugene Wigner at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics.
The collaboration between the Standing Committee of the ICGTMP and the Foundation ended in 2020.
The Standing Committee does not recognize the post-2018 Wigner Medals awarded by the Foundation as the continuation of the prize from 1978 through 2018.
Weyl–Wigner Award In 202021, the ICGTMP Standing Committee created a new prize to replace the Wigner Medal, called the Weyl–Wigner Award. The purpose of the Weyl–Wigner Award is "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through group theory, continuing the tradition of The Wigner Medal that was awarded at the International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics from 1978 to 2018." The recipients of this prize are chosen by an international selection committee elected by the Standing Committee.
The first Weyl–Wigner Award was awarded in Strasbourg in July 2022 during the ICGTMP Group34 Colloquium to Nicolai Reshetikhin.
Hermann Weyl Prize The Hermann Weyl Prize was established to award young scientists "who have performed original work of significant scientific quality in the area of understanding physics through symmetries".
Heinz-Dietrich Doebner convinced the Standing Committee that it would be necessary for the future development of the field to acknowledge young researchers who presented outstanding work and to motivate them, to continue and to diversify their activity. He proposed to award in each Colloquium a Prize. Ivan Todorov suggested to name this Prize after the mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl. The first Weyl Prize was awarded in 2002 to Edward Frenkel.
List of conferences NumberYearLocationWigner Medal awardeesProceedings1st1972Marseille -2nd1973Nijmegen -University of Nijmegen3rd1974Marseille -University of Nijmegen4th1975Nijmegen -Springer5th1976Montreal -Academic Press6th1977Tübingen -Springer7th1978Austin, TexasEugene Wigner and Valentine BargmannSpringer8th1979Kiryat Anavim -Adam Hilger (Bristol, UK)9th1980CocoyocIsrael Gel'fandSpringer10th1981Canterbury -11th1982IstanbulLouis MichelSpringer12th1983Trieste -Springer13th1984MarylandYuval Ne'emanWorld Scientific (Singapore)14th1985Seoul -15th1986PhiladelphiaFeza Gürsey16th1987Varna -Springer17th1988MontrealIsadore Singer18th1990MoscowFrancesco IachelloSpringer19th1992SalamancaJulius Wess and Bruno Zumino20th1994Toyonaka -World Scientific21st1996GoslarVictor Kac and Robert Moody22nd1998HobartMarcos Moshinsky23rd2000DubnaLochlainn O'Raifeartaigh24th2002ParisHarry Jeannot LipkinCRC Press25th2004CocoyocErdal İnönüCRC Press26th2006New YorkSusumu Okubo27th2008Yerevan -28th2010Newcastle upon TyneMichio JimboIOP29th2012TianjinWorld Scientific30th2014GhentJoshua ZakIOP31st2016Rio de JaneiroBertram KostantSpringer32nd2018PraguePavel WinternitzIOP33rd2020Cotonou, cancelled by COVID-19Weyl–Wigner Award awardees34th2022StrasbourgNicolai Reshetikhin SciPost33rd/35th2024Cotonou Igor Frenkel and Mich%C3%A8le Vergne36th2026Valladolid (forthcoming)
See also List of physics awards List of prizes named after people
References
External links ICGTMP Homepage Wigner Medal Homepage 2018 Wigner Medal reform