Rajesh Gopakumar, string theorist at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India, will be officially awarded the 2006 ICTP Prize in the Main Lecture Hall on Monday, 13 August, at 11.30 a.m. The title of his lecture is “From Fields to Strings". Everybody is welcome to attend. The 2006 ICTP Prize is being given in honour of Gian-Carlo Wick (1909-1992), a student of Enrico Fermi, who is well-known among theoretical physicists for “Wick's theorem” and “Wick rotation”.