The following prizes are awarded each year to scientists and students from California & Nevada for the outstanding work performed by their recipients and the groups and institutions they work with.

2011 Graduate Student Awards

Kennedy Reed Award (Best Theoretical Research)

• 1st Prize (tie): Steve Wilburn (CSU Fresno), "A conflict of quantum predictions related to the equivalence principle"
  
• 1st Prize (tie): Thomas E. Baker (CSU Long Beach), "Jacobi Elliptic Functions and their Application in Classical Mechanics, Superconductivity and Magnetism"
  

Margaret Burbidge Award (Best Experimental Research)

• 1st Prize (tie): Erik Swanberg (UC Berkeley), "Searching for the Decay and Half Life of the 7.6 eV Excited State in the Thorium-229 Nucleus"
• 1st Prize (tie): Andrea Rodarte (UC Merced), "Spectral and polarization modulation of quantum dot emission in a one-dimensional liquid crystal photonic cavity"
• Second place: Amy Furniss (UC Santa Cruz), "The VERITAS Extragalactic Sky: Contemporaneous Modeling of Very High Energy Blazars with Constraints from Swift"
  

2011 Undergraduate Awards

Steven Chu Award (Best Research)

• First place (Theory): B. Busemeyer (UC Davis), "Exploring Half Metals in Li-based Half Heusler Alloys"
• First place (Experiment): Trinity Pradhananga (CSU East Bay), "Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy of Alkali Atoms"
• Second place (Experiment): Melinda Soares (UC Santa Cruz), "VERITAS Investigation of Very High Energy Emission from B2 1215+303"

 

Past Years (Archive)

APS Awards & Prizes