Awards and Poster Prizes
GEC Student Award for Excellence
To encourage and recognize the important contributions students make to the Gaseous Electronics Conference, specifically, and to the plasma/atomic-molecular optical science fields, in general, the GEC Executive Committee will recognize one (1) student presenter with the GEC Student Award for Excellence. Finalists will be announced on the meeting website before the meeting and will present their work at the conference. The student award recipient will be announced during the banquet. The award consists of cash ($1,000 USD) and a certificate.
To be eligible for the award, the student must present a contributed talk (not a poster), provide a recommendation letter from the student's research supervisor, a supporting letter from the student, a copy of the student's abstract, and a curriculum vitae of the student and submit the application materials as a single PDF file before the application deadline. No more than one student may be nominated per supervisor.
The student application should contain:
- a copy of the student's abstract
- a one-page supporting letter from the student including, among other aspects, a description of the motivation for doing the research, the relevance of the work to plasma/atomic-molecular optical science, a list of all collaborators on the project, and the scope of the student's contribution to the project
- a two-page-maximum curriculum vitae of the student (including educational background, research experience, professional affiliations, publications, patents, presentations, and awards)
- a one-page recommendation letter from the supervisor including, among other aspects, the student's creative contribution to the project, the duration of the student's participation in the project, and unique project-related qualifications of the student
The application materials must be emailed as a single PDF file to Stephan Reuter (stephan.reuter@polymtl.ca) by noon US Central Time (5 pm GMT) on June 15th, 2022 (Extended).
Please contact Stephan Reuter if you have any questions.
The GEC Student Awards Committee will review the nominations and select the finalists for the Student Award for Excellence. Members of the GEC Student Awards Committee will also serve as judges. Judges will attend the finalists' oral presentations and select the award recipient.
Application Deadline: June 15, 2022 (Extended)
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GEC Student-Poster Prizes
Three student posters will be selected by the GEC Executive Committee and recognized during the banquet. The GEC gratefully acknowledges the important contributions students make to GEC. The GEC gratefully acknowledges support by Springer Publishing (springer.com) toward the recognition of important contributions students make to the Gaseous Electronics Conference.
Undergraduate students are also encouraged to participate.
To be eligible for the award:
- the student must present a poster as first author
- register for the poster judging before the application deadline
More than one student from the same advisor may apply. At most one student per advisor will be awarded this Poster Prize.
The student application should contain:
- Name and email address of student
- Title of the poster presentation
- The name of the advisor
Student applications are to be submitted to this Google drive application form (Google account is needed) by September 26, 2022, noon US Central Time (5 pm GMT).
This form is managed by the chair of the GEC 2022 Student Poster Prize Committee, Masaya Shigeta (shigeta@tohoku.ac.jp).
Please contact Dr. Shigeta with any questions.
Application Deadline: September 26, 2022
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