The Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics is awarded by UNSW in association with the Australian Institute of Physics NSW branch and the Royal Society of New South Wales.

This years lecture will be given by Professor Boris Altshuler from Columbia University in the City of New York. He will discuss the physics behind semiconductors and superconductors, materials which enable all modern technology.

The Lecture and the Medal commemorate the visit to UNSW in 1975 of the British Nobel laureate, Professor Paul Dirac, who was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th Century.

Professor Dirac gave five lectures which were published as a book Directions of Physics. He donated the royalties to UNSW for the establishment of the Dirac Lecture and Prize, which includes a silver medal and honorarium. It was first awarded in 1979.

Please register via this link - https://www.science.unsw.edu.au/events/dirac-lecture