Nobel Laureate Karl-Alex MÃ¼ller (Physics 1987) will speak at the opening session of ICTP’s International Symposium on the Jahn-Teller Effects: Novel Aspects in Orbital Physics and Vibronic Dynamics of Molecules and Crystals. His talk will take place in the Main Lecture Hall on 28 August at 10 a.m. MÃ¼ller shared the Nobel Prize with his colleague George Bednorz, who were both working at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in RÃ¼schlikon, Switzerland, at that time. They were honoured “for their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.” MÃ¼ller has visited the Centre on five previous occasions.