2013 March Meeting of the APS
March 18 - March 22, 2013
Baltimore, Maryland

The GSNP Student Speaker Award is for best contributed talk at the March meeting by a graduate student in the area of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Students presenting their talks are nominated by their advisors. Five finalists will present their talk in a special session at the March meeting to a three-member committee, who will review the nomination material and select a winner. The winner will receive a $1,000 award and each of the other four finalists will receive $300 awards. In addition, March meeting expenses up to $500 will be covered for each finalist.

The due date for nominations is Monday, November 12, 5:00pm EST

2013 Finalists

Yongjoo Baek (KAIST)
Braden Brinkman (U. Illinois)
Lei Dai (MIT)
Somayeh Farhadi (Duke)
Dibyendu Mandal (U. Maryland)

2012 Finalists

Shiladitya Banerjee (Syracuse)
Bryan Chen (Penn)
Gary Hunter (Emory)
Benjamin Machta (Cornell)
Jie Ren (Duke)

The winner this year is Gary Hunter.

2011 Winner and Finalists

Five student finalists were selected to give their talk at the GSNP Student Award session.

Zhenyu Wang (U. of Illinois)
Anton Souslov (U. of Pennsylvania)
Tao Jia (Virginia Tech)
Nick Gravish (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Sahand Hormoz (Harvard U.)

The winner this year is Sahand Hormoz.

2010 Winner and Finalists:

Five student finalists were selected to give their talk at the GSNP Student Award session.

Elisabetta Matsumoto (UPenn)
Jessica Baker (Clark)
Lucy Jane Colwell (Harvard)
Oren Elrad (Brandeis)
Georgios Tsekenis (UIUC)

The winner this year is Elisabetta Matsumoto.

2009 Winner and Finalists:

Five student finalists were selected to give their talk at the GSNP Student Award session.

Natalie Arkus (Harvard U.)
Kipton Barros (Boston U.)
Tom Haxton (U. Pennsylvania)
Jordan Horowitz (U. Maryland)
Mya Warren (U. British Columbia).

The winner this year was Kipton Barros.

2008 Winner and Finalists:

Five student finalists were selected to give their talk at the GSNP Student Award session (Session H39 at the 2008 March APS meeting).

Sharon Gerbode, Cornell University
Luca Giomi, Syracuse University
Carl Modes, Univ. Pennsylvania
Andrew Missel, UIUC
Matthew Paoletti, Univ. Maryland

The winner was Matthew Paoletti, University of Maryland. Matthew will receive a $1000 cash award. The rest will receive $200 each.

2007 Winner and Finalists:

Five student finalists were selected to give their talk at the GSNP Student Award session.

Cesar Hidalgo, University of Notre Dame
Robert Hoy, Johns Hopkins University
Silke Henkes, Brandeis University
Santiago Andres Triana, University of Maryland
Kevin Wood, UC San Diego

The winner this year was Creighton Thomas, Syracuse University