Awards
2006
The 2006 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize has been awarded to Antoine Georges, Gabriel Kotliar, Walter Metzner and Dieter Vollhardt for their development of the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory.
2005
Two young people (emerging leaders) of our community got the prestigeous EURYI award. About to enter its third year, EURYI - the European Young Investigator Awards scheme - is designed to attract outstanding young scientists from any country in the world to create their own research teams at European research centres. Most awards are between 1,000,000 and 1,250,000 EUR, and comparable in size to the Nobel Prize. These young people are Angelos Michaelides (FHI Berlin) and Dario Alfe (London).
Mike Finnis recieved the IoP Max Born Prize 2005 for his work in the field of interatomic forces and interface physics
2004
Matthias Scheffler - IoP Max Born Prize 2004 - For his excellent contributions to theoretical surface physics, in particular the combination of density functional theyor and statistical mechanics to model adsorbates and catalytic processes.
2001
Alex
Zunger receives the John
Bardeen Award For his seminal contributions to the theoretical understanding and
prediction of "spontaneous ordering", phase-stability, and electronic
properties of semiconductor alloys; for the impact that this work has had on experimental studies of
electronic materials, and for his continued leadership in the field.
Balazs
Gyorffy receives the Hume-Rothery
Award For the invention [1] and, with his collaborators, the
pioneering use [2,3] of the KKR-CPA
Volker Heine, Cambridge University, received the IoP Max Born Prize 2001 for his pioneering theoretical and computational studies of the electronic structure of solids and their application to physical properties.