Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics Award

To recognize doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in beam physics and engineering. The annual award consists of $2,500 and a certificate to be presented at an awards ceremony at the Division of Physics of Beams Annual Meeting, and an additional allowance of up to $500 for travel to the meeting. The recipient will be invited to present the work as an invited talk in an appropriate session of the meeting.

Establishment & Support

The award was established in 1990 by the Division of Physics of Beams and is supported by Brookhaven Science Associates and Universities Research Association and Southeastern Universities Research Association.

Rules & Eligibility

A nomination will be accepted for any doctoral student of a university world-wide for work performed as part of the requirements for a doctoral degree. Nominees must pass their thesis defense not more than 18 months before the nomination deadline. An individual can only be nominated once; however, an unsuccessful candidate will be carried over for 1 year.

Nomination & Selection Process

The deadline for submission of nominations for the 2009 prize is September 30, 2008.

Nominations should be submitted to the Chair of the 2009 Selection Committee:

Gennady Shvets
University of Texas at Austin
Physics Department RLM 11.216
One University Station C1500
Austin, TX 78712
Phone (512) 471-7371
Fax (512) 471-6715
Email  gena@physics.utexas.edu

Nomination Guidelines

In addition to the general requirements for award nominations see (http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/nomination.cfm), the documentation should include copies of the thesis, biographical sketch, nominating letter, additional letters of support, and a list of publications.

Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Large documents, such as the thesis may be more easily submitted by placing them on a web site and providing the link. If this is not possible, five hard copies of the nomination documents should be provided.

2007 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics Award Recipient:
Jeroen van Tilborg
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Past Recipients:

2006:	Evgenya I. Smirnova
2005:	Eduard Pozdeyev
2004:	Dmitry Teytelman
2003:	David Peace Pritzkau
2002:	Boris Podobedov
2001:	Shyam Prabhakar
2000:	Mei Bai
1999:	Zhirong Huang
1998:	Bita Ghaffari
1997:	Linda Klamp Spentzouris
1996:	Dan Tyler Abell
1995:	Dun Xiong Wang
1994:	Tor Raubenheimer
1993:	John A. Palkovic
1992:	David H. Whittum
1991:	Jeffrey P. Calame