The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences on Monday said that its professor Deepak Dhar has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Dirac Medal, recognising his contributions to statistical mechanics and complex systems.
Prof Dhar, who is an Indian National Science Academy (INSA) distinguished professor at ICTS, shares the honour with three other stalwarts of statistical mechanics — Bernard Derrida, Marc Mezard and Haim Sompolinsky –, the Institute said in a post on its website.
According to the ICTS, the award recognises the four scientists “for their pioneering contributions to equilibrium statistical mechanics and for extending its concepts and methods into non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, optimization problems, theoretical neuroscience, and, finally, artificial intelligence.
The Dirac Medal is awarded annually by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist Paul Dirac.
ICTP Director Atish Dabholkar commented, “The work of the 2026 Dir
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