ICG-SIOF Student Awards

To encourage students to present their research to other peers and professionals and recognize students’ contributions to the PRE’22 Workshops, the PRE Steering Committee was awarding a number of prizes for the best presentations by the students participants in either event.

The money prizes were made possible by the generous financial support of the International Commission of Glass (ICG), through the Technical Committee TC20, and the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (SIOF).

The available prizes, at both PRE’22-Mexico and PRE’22-Poland, were:

Awards for the best oral presentation (no more than 3 prizes)
[1st 600 €, 2nd 300 € and 3rd 200 €]
Awards for the best poster presentation (no more than 3 prizes)
[1st 600 €, 2nd 300 € and 3rd 200 €]
Moreover, three honorable mentions [100 € each] could be awarded.

Competitors should be fully registered for the Workshop as ‘student’ (in agreement with the rules of either event) and attend the respective event. Moreover, each competitor should send in advance an additional graphical abstract, that should summarize the contents of the work in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of readers. A student could compete only once (for one of the events and for one of the categories, oral or poster).

At the end of PRE’22-Mexico, four prizes were awarded for the best oral presentations. The winners were:

First Prize: Luis Alberto Becerril Landeros
Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav), Mexico City, MEX

Second Prize: Cristian Osvaldo Carreño Vega
Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada, UNAM, Santiago de Querétaro, MEX

Third Prize: Rafael Benjamín Casanova Sánchez
Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlán, UNAM, Cuautitlán Izcalli, MEX

Honorable Mention: Jessica De Anda Gil
CINVESTAV, Mexico City, MEX

The awardees (with a red star) appear in the photo together with some members of the jury.

From left to right: Anastasiya Sedova, Lena Yadgorov, Luis Alberto Becerril Landeros, Jessica de Anda Gil, Ciro Falcony (PRE-Mexico co-chair), Rafael B. Casanova Sánchez, Osvaldo Carreño Vega y Salvador Carmona.

The respective graphical abstracts are shown here:

At the end of PRE’22-Poland, two prizes were awarded for the best oral presentations:

Oral presentations:

First Prize: Karolina Sadowska
Bialystok University of Technology, Poland

Honorable Mention: Adam Kabanski
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

and three prizes for the best poster presentations:

First Prize: Thi Hong Quan Vu
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

Second Prize: Evellyn Santos Magalhaes
Tampere University, Finland

Third Prize: Iuliia Shestopalova
Tampere University, Finland

Four Award winners (from left to right: Evellyn Santos Magalhaes, Thi Hong Quan Vu, Iuliia Shestopalova, Karolina Sadowska) appear in the photo together with PRE22-Poland co-chairs Dominik Dorosz and Anna Lukowiak.

The respective graphical abstracts are shown here: