Prizes will be awarded for up to two posters presented in the student poster session and up to two oral presentations by early-career speakers. Speakers who completed their PhD no longer than three years ago will be eligible for a prize. The prizes will be selected by the International Program Committee (IPC) based on the following criteria:
- Relevance and impact of the scientific work
- Novelty and quality of the scientific work
- Quality of the poster and oral presentation
- Interaction and professionalism towards the IPC
Prizes will be awarded in the closing ceremony on the last day of the conference.
Student poster prize recipients will be offered the opportunity to make a 10-minute oral presentation on the last day of the conference to highlight the work presented in their poster. Awardees will be queried on Monday or Tuesday as to their availability to do an oral presentation.
SRF 2023 Award Winners
Best Student Poster
First Prize
Mattias McMullin
TRIUMF
for a poster presentation entitled
"Thermal Feedback in Coaxial SRF Cavities"
Second Prize
Yue Zong
Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics
for a poster presentation entitled
"Realization of Accelerating Gradient Larger than 25 MV/m on High-Q 1.3 GHz 9-Cell Cavities for SHINE"
Third Prize
Daniel Seal
Cockcroft Institute
for a poster presentation entitled
"Optimisation Of Niobium Thin Film Deposition Parameters For SRF Cavities"
Early Career Investigator Award Winners
Liana Shpani
Cornell University
for an oral presentation entitled
"Development of High-performance Niobium-3 Tin Cavities at Cornell"
Yasmine Kalboussi
CEA Saclay
for an oral presentation entitled
"Surface Engineering by ALD for Superconducting RF Cavities"
Edward Thoeng
University of British Columbia/TRIUMF
for an oral presentation entitled
"First Results from beta-SRF-Testing SRF Samples at High Parallel Field"