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{{Infobox Academic Conference
 | history = 1972–present
 | discipline = [[Mathematical physics]]
 | abbreviation = ICGTMP
 | publisher = Various
 | country = International
 | frequency = Annual (1972{{ndash}}1988), Biennial (since 1988)}}


The '''International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics''' (ICGTMP)<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics {{!}} ICGTMP |url=https://icgtmp.blogs.uva.es/ |access-date=2023-10-08 |language=en-US}}</ref> 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 (1978{{ndash}}2018), 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/wigner_bylaws.pdf|title=The Wigner Medal Bylaws|publisher=The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation|accessdate=2007-08-07|archive-date=2014-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817051606/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/wigner_bylaws.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The first award was given in 1978 to [[Eugene Wigner]] at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/|title=The Wigner Medal|publisher=The Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation|accessdate=2007-08-07|archive-date=2007-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102071620/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Weyl–Wigner Award {{!}} International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics |url=https://icgtmp.blogs.uva.es/the-weyl-wigner-award/ |access-date=2023-10-08 |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Weyl–Wigner Award ==
In 2020{{ndash}}21, 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".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hermann Weyl Prize |url=https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/23498/page/2667-hermann-weyl-prize |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=The 34th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics}}</ref>

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]].{{cn|date=October 2023}}

== List of conferences ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Number
!Year
!Location
!Wigner Medal awardees<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/ |title=Wigner Medal Homepage |access-date=2005-12-18 |archive-date=2007-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102071620/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!Proceedings
|-
|1st
|1972
|[[Marseille]]
| -
|
|-
|2nd
|1973
|[[Nijmegen]]
| -
|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1528543 University of Nijmegen]
|-
|3rd
|1974
|[[Marseille]]
| -
|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67611630 University of Nijmegen]
|-
|4th
|1975
|[[Nijmegen]]
| -
|[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-07789-8 Springer]
|-
|5th
|1976
|[[Montreal]]
| -
|[https://www.elsevier.com/books/group-theoretical-methods-in-physics/shar/978-0-12-637650-0 Academic Press]
|-
|6th
|1977
|[[Tübingen]]
| -
|[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540088486 Springer]
|-
|7th
|1978
|[[Austin, Texas]]
|[[Eugene Wigner]] and [[Valentine Bargmann]]
|[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540092384 Springer]
|-
|8th
|1979
|[[Kiryat Anavim]]
| -
|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422120045 Adam Hilger (Bristol, UK)]
|-
|9th
|1980
|[[Cocoyoc]]
|[[Israel Gel'fand]]
|[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-10271-X Springer]
|-
|10th
|1981
|[[Canterbury]]
| -
|
|-
|11th
|1982
|[[Istanbul]]
|[[Louis Michel (physicist)|Louis Michel]]
|[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540122913 Springer]
|-
|12th
|1983
|[[Trieste]]
| -
|[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540133353 Springer]
|-
|13th
|1984
|[[Maryland]]
|[[Yuval Ne'eman]]
|[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424297123 World Scientific (Singapore)]
|-
|14th
|1985
|[[Seoul]]
| -
|
|-
|15th
|1986
|[[Philadelphia]]
|[[Feza Gürsey]]
|
|-
|16th
|1987
|[[Varna, Bulgaria|Varna]]
| -
|[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/BFb0012254 Springer]
|-
|17th
|1988
|[[Montreal]]
|[[Isadore Singer]]
|
|-
|18th
|1990
|[[Moscow]]
|[[Francesco Iachello]]
|[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540473633 Springer]
|-
|19th
|1992
|[[Salamanca]]
|[[Julius Wess]] and [[Bruno Zumino]]
|
|-
|20th
|1994
|[[Toyonaka]]
| -
|[https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/2591 World Scientific]
|-
|21st
|1996
|[[Goslar]]
|[[Victor Kac]] and [[Robert Moody]]
|
|-
|22nd
|1998
|[[Hobart]]
|[[Marcos Moshinsky]]
|
|-
|23rd
|2000
|[[Dubna]]
|[[Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh]]
|
|-
|24th
|2002
|[[Paris]]
|[[Harry Jeannot Lipkin]]
|[https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429181290 CRC Press]
|-
|25th
|2004
|[[Cocoyoc]]
|[[Erdal İnönü]]
|[https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429076619 CRC Press]
|-
|26th
|2006
|[[New York (state)|New York]]
|[[Susumu Okubo]]
|
|-
|27th
|2008
|[[Yerevan]]
| -
|
|-
|28th
|2010
|[[Newcastle upon Tyne]]
|[[Michio Jimbo]]
|[https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/284/1 IOP]
|-
|29th
|2012
|[[Tianjin]]
|{{ill|Alden Mead|de|lt=C. Alden Mead}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chem.umn.edu/news/news.lasso?serial=343|title=Professor Emeritus Alden Mead receives Wigner Medal|publisher=University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry|accessdate=2012-07-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cim.nankai.edu.cn/activites/conferences/hy20120820/Participant/Wigner.htm|title=The XXIX International Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics|publisher=Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University|accessdate=2012-07-16}}</ref>
|[https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8857 World Scientific]
|-
|30th
|2014
|[[Ghent]]
|[[Joshua Zak]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phys.technion.ac.il/en/about/news/wigner-medal-awarded-to-professor-joshua-zak|title=Wigner Medal awarded to Professor Joshua Zak|publisher=Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – Physics Department|accessdate=2014-03-18}}</ref>
|[https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/597/1 IOP]
|-
|31st
|2016
|[[Rio de Janeiro]]
|[[Bertram Kostant]]
|[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-69164-0 Springer]
|-
|32nd
|2018
|[[Prague]]
|[[Pavel Winternitz]]
|[http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/1194/1 IOP]
|-
|33rd
|2020
|[[Cotonou]], cancelled by [[COVID-19]]
|
|
|-
!
!
!
!Weyl–Wigner Award awardees
!
|-
|34th
|2022
|[[Strasbourg]]
|[[Nicolai Reshetikhin]]
|[https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.14.001  SciPost]
|-
|33rd/35th
|2024
|[[Cotonou]] 
|[[Igor Frenkel]] and [[Mich%C3%A8le_Vergne]]
|
|-
|36th
|2026
|[[Valladolid]] (forthcoming)
|
|
|-

|}

== See also ==
* [[List of physics awards]]
* [[List of prizes named after people]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://icgtmp.blogs.uva.es/ ICGTMP Homepage]
* [http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/ Wigner Medal Homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102071620/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~bohmwww/wigner/ |date=2007-11-02 }}
* [https://icgtmp.blogs.uva.es/the-weyl-wigner-award/ 2018 Wigner Medal reform]

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