Best Student Paper Award
DQI will award a "Best Student Paper" award, consisting of a $500 cash prize, at the APS March Meeting.
To be registered for the competition, a brief nomination letter from the student's supervisor stating that the results described in the presentation are substantially the student's own work and that the student is currently enrolled at a degree-granting institute, must be sent via email to the DQI Secretary/Treasurer Luke Govia before the March meeting commences. The two equally weighted criteria for the award are i) quality of scientific results, and ii) quality of the presentation. Judging will be undertaken by an ad hoc committee consisting of senior members of DQI.
Eligibility:
Submitted (or invited) oral or poster presentation in the physics of quantum information, computing, fundamental concepts, or foundations. A submission is eligible for the student prize if and only if the main author(s) is/are a student(s) at the time of the submission and will present the work at the APS March meeting, and further that a significant portion of the work (more than half) must have been done by said student(s), including the majority of the key ideas. Eligibility can only be indicated at the time of submission. To prove eligibility, the student will be required to provide a brief nomination letter from his/her research supervisor, stating that the results described in the presentation are substantially the student's own work and that the student is currently enrolled at a degree-granting higher education institute.
Judging:
Judging will be undertaken by an ad hoc committee comprising senior members of DQI, appointed by the DQI executive solely for the purpose of judging DQI student presentations at the March meeting and presenting its recommendations to the DQI Executive Committee. The committee of judges reports to the DQI Executive Committee, and the DQI Executive is responsible for administering and presenting the awards at the same APS March meeting.
Past Winners
2008
Best Student-Paper Award in Theoretical Quantum Information at the American Physical Society March Meeting
Bilal Shaw, University of Southern California, With talk titled, "Encoding One Logical Qubit Into Six Physical Qubits".
This award is sponsored by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. It consists of a cash prize of $500.
Best Student-Paper Award in Experimental Quantum Information at the American Physical Society March Meeting
David B. Hume, University of Colorado, Boulder, With talk titled, "Phonon-mediated Detection of Trapped Atomic Ions".
This prize is sponsored by the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. It consists of a cash prize of $500.
The judging panel for both awards consisted of John Sipe chair (U. Toronto), Howard Barnum (LANL), Dagmar Bruss (U. Duesseldorf), Barry Sanders (U. Calgary), Lorenza Viola (Dartmouth), and Harald Weinfurter (Ludwig Maximilians, U. Munich).
2007
Best Student-Paper Award in Theoretical Quantum Information, Concepts, and Computation at the American Physical Society March Meeting
Gleb Akselrod, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This award is sponsored by the Perimeter Institute. It consists of a cash prize of $500.
Best Student-Paper Award in Experimental Quantum Information, Concepts, and Computation at the American Physical Society March Meeting
Frank Koppens, Department of Applied Physics, University of Technology, Delft, Niederlande.
This prize is sponsored by the Institute for Quantum Computing. It consists of a cash prize of $500.
The judging panel comprised Chris Fuchs, Carlton Caves, Steven Girvin, Matthew Leifer, Barry Sanders, John Sipe, Rob Spekkens and William Wootters.
2006
Best Student-Paper Award in Theoretical Quantum Information, Concepts, and Computation at the American Physical Society March Meeting
Michael Garrett, Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary.
This award is sponsored by the Perimeter Institute. It consists of a cash prize of $500.
Best Student-Paper Award in Experimental Quantum Information, Concepts, and Computation at the American Physical Society March Meeting
Chris Langer, Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
This prize is sponsored by the Institute for Quantum Computing. It also consists of a cash prize of $500.
The judging panel comprised Charles Bennett, Jon Dowling, Hideo Mabuchi, Terry Rudolph, Barry Sanders and Rob Spekkens.