International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics

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International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics
AbbreviationICGTMP
Discipline Mathematical physics
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PublisherVarious
History1972–present
FrequencyAnnual (1972–1988), Biennial (since 1988)


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).

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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. [1] The first award was given in 1978 to Eugene Wigner at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics. [2]

The collaboration between the Standing Committee of the ICGTMP and the Foundation ended in 2020. In 2023 a new process for awarding the Wigner Medal was created by the Foundation. The new Wigner Medal can be granted in any field of theoretical physics. The new Wigner Medals for 2020 and 2022 were granted retrospectively in 2023. The first winners of the new prize were Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, [3] Iwo Białynicki-Birula  [ pl ] [4] and Daniel Greenberger. [5]

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. [6] [7]

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". [8]

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.[ citation needed ]

List of conferences

NumberYearLocationWigner Medal awardees [9] Proceedings
1st1972 Marseille -
2nd1973 Nijmegen - University of Nijmegen
3rd1974 Marseille - University of Nijmegen
4th1975 Nijmegen - Springer
5th1976 Montreal - Academic Press
6th1977 Tübingen - Springer
7th1978 Austin, Texas Eugene Wigner and Valentine Bargmann Springer
8th1979 Kiryat Anavim - Adam Hilger (Bristol, UK)
9th1980 Cocoyoc Israel Gel'fand Springer
10th1981 Canterbury -
11th1982 Istanbul Louis Michel Springer
12th1983 Trieste - Springer
13th1984 Maryland Yuval Ne'eman World Scientific (Singapore)
14th1985 Seoul -
15th1986 Philadelphia Feza Gürsey
16th1987 Varna - Springer
17th1988 Montreal Isadore Singer
18th1990 Moscow Francesco Iachello Springer
19th1992 Salamanca Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino
20th1994 Toyonaka - World Scientific
21st1996 Goslar Victor Kac and Robert Moody
22nd1998 Hobart Marcos Moshinsky
23rd2000 Dubna Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh
24th2002 Paris Harry Jeannot Lipkin CRC Press
25th2004 Cocoyoc Erdal İnönü CRC Press
26th2006 New York Susumu Okubo
27th2008 Yerevan -
28th2010 Newcastle upon Tyne Michio Jimbo IOP
29th2012 Tianjin C. Alden Mead  [ de ] [10] [11] World Scientific
30th2014 Ghent Joshua Zak [12] IOP
31st2016 Rio de Janeiro Bertram Kostant Springer
32nd2018 Prague Pavel Winternitz IOP
33rd2020 Cotonou, cancelled by COVID-19
Weyl-Wigner Award awardees
34th2022 Strasbourg Nicolai Reshetikhin
33rd/35th2024 Cotonou, Forthcoming

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