He has received many awards including the Lomonosov Award of the Soviet Academy of Science in 1978 the Oskar Klein Medal in Physics in 2001 and the Dirack Medal in Theoretical Physics in 2002.
Prof. Linde gave both a public lecture, entitled "Inflation, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe", and a technical talk entitled "Inflation, Dark Energy, and M-Theory" when he visited CITA in April of 2002.