Winners of EPS High Energy Physics Division prizes
The winners of the EPS High Energy Physics Division prizes have been announced. The awards will be presented at the 2011 Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics, which is being held between 21-27 July in Grenoble, France.
The 2011 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to the field, is awarded to Sheldon Lee Glashow, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani, for their crucial contribution to the theory of flavour, presently embedded in the Standard Theory of strong and electroweak interactions.
The Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize, for an outstanding contribution to particle astrophysics and cosmology, goes to Paolo de Bernardis and Paul Richards for their studies of cosmic microwave background anisotropies with the balloon-borne experiments BOOMERanG and MAXIMA.
The 2011 Gribov Medal, for outstanding work by an early career physicist in theoretical particle physics or field theory, is awarded to Davide Gaiotto, for his uncovering of new facets of the dynamics of four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories – especially his discovery of a large class of four-dimensional superconformal theories – and for his part in finding intricate relations between two-dimensional theories of gravity and four-dimensional gauge theories.
The 2011 Young Physicist Prize, for outstanding work by one or more early career physicists in the field of particle physics or particle astrophysics, is to be presented to Paolo Creminelli, for his contributions to the development of a solid field-theoretical approach to early universe cosmology and for his studies of non-gaussianities in the cosmic microwave background; and to Andrea Rizzi, for his contributions to the reconstruction software and physics program of the CMS experiment at the LHC.
The 2011 Outreach Prize, for an outstanding outreach achievement connected with high energy physics or particle astrophysics, is awarded to Christine Kourkoumelis and Sofoklis Sotiriou, for their building of educational resources to bring the research process in particle physics to teachers and students across Europe.
For information on the prizes, please visit the EPS High Energy Physics Division website.
