Farewell Event for Achim Richter Leaving ECT*

Abstract

Last October Achim Richter ended his term as Director of ECT*. A farewell ceremony took place in Trento at the Aula Grande of the “Fondazione Bruno Kessler” (FBK), the Trentino institution that hosts, and concurs in funding, ECT*. Many colleagues and friends attended the event, livened up by a concert played by the “guest of honor” as violist and two colleagues of the Edmund Mach Foundation on the clarinet and piano. The Kegelstatt Trio by Mozart and two pieces for Clarinetto, Viola and Piano by Max Bruch gave Achim Richter the opportunity to show publicly one of his many talents. His main talent as an outstanding experimental physicist has become well known to the physics community during his long and successful career, and his ability as a competent and capable manager and Director of a theory center was celebrated on October 19 by the speeches of Wolfram Weise, the next Director of ECT*, Angela Bracco, Chair of NuPECC, and Sandro Stringari of the Physics Department.