Nuclear Physics A: Young Scientist Awards

2009:

	Best Poster Presentation: Sarah LaPointe Sarah LaPointe is currently a Wayne State University, Ph.D. Candidate (anticipated graduation in December 2009). Her work in preparation for her Ph.D. thesis concerns the reconstruction of D-mesons in STAR using the Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT), by means of their two-body decay, D0 -> K+π. This study is performed in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at √s = 200 GeV. The reconstruction is done using the secondary vertexing method, along with the search for optimization of variables for the best signal to background selection. A successful measurement of D-mesons using this method would be the first of its kind in relativistic heavy ion physics. After graduation her immediate goal is a post-doctoral position in heavy ion physics.
	Best Oral Presentation: Mateusz Ploskon Mateusz Ploskon received his master of science degree at Jagiellonian University(2001). During his Ph.D. studies he worked at GSI Darmstadt on KaoS experiment analyzing elliptic flow of kaons and antikaons at SIS energies. I received his Ph.D. at J.-W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany in 2005. His first postoc: Institute for Kernphysik at Frankfurt University (work within CERES and ALICE collaboration). Focus on a) high-pt correlations (CERES and ALICE) and b) High Level Trigger for ALICE. Mateusz is currently working as a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. Working within ALICE (EMCAL project, jet physics, High Level Trigger) and STAR Collaboration (full jet reconstruction with STAR at RHIC – on which his presentation at Quark Matter was based).

2008:

	Best Poster Presentation: Georgia Karagiorgi Georgia Karagiorgi is a graduate student at MIT. She has been working in the field of neutrino oscillations since the beginning of her graduate studies in 2005. Since June 2007 she has been located at Fermilab, where she has been conducting her thesis research on the electron antineutrino appearance analysis at MiniBooNE. This search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations at short baselines has been motivated by the LSND result, and first results will be presented this December
	Best Oral Presentation: Doron Gazit Doron Gazit is a research associate at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington. He has completed his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in October 2007 on the subject of "Electro-weak interactions in light nuclei", where he also did his MSc. in Physics and his BSc. in Physics and Mathematics. His research focuses on accurate modelling and calculation of few-body nuclei, which can be used to constrain the properties of the nucleon. In particular, he used muon capture on 3He to give stringent constraints on the pseudo-scalar form factor, and second class terms, including the tightest bound to date on the conservation of vector current (CVC) hypothesis.

  2007:

Best poster presentation:
Monika Sharma, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
“Beam energy and system size dependence of dynamical net charge fluctuations”

Pandiat Sankar Saumia, Institute of Physics, Bubhaneswar, India
“Superhorizon fluctuations and acustic oscillations in relativistic heavy ion coll.”

Best Oral presentations:
Torsten Dahms, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook University, USA
“Measurement of thermal photons in heavy ion collisions with PHENIX”

Dr. Andre Mischke, Institute Subatomaire Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
“Heavyflavor particle correlations in STAR via electron azimuthal correlations with open charm mesons”
   

Nuclear Physics A focuses on the domain of nuclear and hadronic physics and includes the following subsections: Nuclear Structure and Dynamics; Intermediate and High Energy Heavy Ion Phyiscs; Hadronic Physics; Electromagnetic and Weak Interactions; Nuclear Astrophysics.

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