2024 Winners

1st Place

Yanpei Deng (graduate student): “Tuning Electron Correlations in KTaO3”

2nd Place

Nabeel Rehemtulla (graduate student): “Finding Supernovae with Artificial Intelligence”

Honorable Mention

Nico Bers (undergraduate student): “A Symphony of Binary Black Hole Collisions: Studying Cosmic Noon with Gravitational Wave Backgrounds”

2023 Winners

1st Place

Yian Xu (graduate student): “Diversity at Neuron Level”

2nd Place

Carin Gavin (graduate student): “One Photon at a Time”

Honorable Mention

Jay Zou (undergraduate student): “Gaussian Interaction Frame”

2022 Winners

1st Place

Imran Sultan (graduate student): “Simulating Everything Everywhere All At Once”

2nd Place

Nic Pavao (graduate student): “Observables in B-Mode supressed inflation”

2020 Winners

1st Place

Peter Lim (undergraduate student): “Preserving magneto-optical properties in ALD-passivated CrI3”

2nd Place

Dylan Temples (graduate student): “Hydrogen Doping in LXe-TPCs for Dark Matter Searches”

2019 Winners

1st Place

James Dragan (graduate student): “Nondestructive State Readout of Molecular Quantum States”

2nd Place

Keenan Avers (graduate student): “Single Crystal Growth of Uranium Based Superconductors”

2018 Winners

1st Place

Cody Dirks (graduate student): “Carbon in the Interstellar Medium”

Runners Up

Kyle Kremer (graduate student): “LISA Sources in Milky Way Globular Clusters”

Dylan Cornish (undergraduate student): “The Host Galaxies of Short Gamma-ray Bursts”

2017 Winners

1st Place Graduate Student

Zach Hafen: “Interpreting the Massive Gas Flows Around Galaxies”

2nd Place Graduate Student

Katie Breivik: “Distinguishing Between Formation Channels for Binary Black Holes with LISA”

1st Place Undergraduate Student

Trent Cwiok: “Acoustic Signaling in a Xenon Scintillating Bubble Chamber”

2nd Place Undergraduate Student

Benjamin Moy: “Microstructure of Aerogel”