Congratulations to all the winners of the inaugural Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) March Meeting Mini Grants!

To support early career scientists in attending the March (and April) meetings, FECS offered mini "travel" grants to cover the cost of registering for the 2021 virtual March Meeting. Take a look at the remarkable work they are presenting at this week's APS March Meeting!

The winners*:

• Olga Shishkov  -- University of Colorado Boulder
  A14.00011 : Analysis of the internal structure of honeybee swarms with x-ray CT
  Mon. 3/15, 10:48 AM–11:00 AM CDT
• Bhaskarjyoti Sarma -- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  C24.00003 : Capillary flow mediated dynamics of liquid droplet generation from a yarn
  Mon. 3/15, 3:24 PM–3:36 PM CDT
• Duyu Chen -- University of California, Santa Barbara
  C57.00005 : Disordered hyperuniform networks and their application in atomic-scale low-dimensional materials
  Mon. 3/15, 3:48 PM–4:00 PM CDT
• Whitney Loo -- University of Chicago
  E02.00007 : Determining Lamellar Structure with Soft X-ray Reflectivity
  Tues, 3/16, 10:00 AM–10:12 AM CDT
• Eoin McEvoy -- National University of Ireland Galway
  F12.00007 : Spatial variation in cell volume within proliferating tumorigenic cell clusters is amplified by gap-junction-mediated ion flow
  Tues, 3/16, 12:42 PM–12:54 PM CDT
• Chao Chen -- Syracuse University
  J04.00007 : Instant-healing double-network polydimethylsiloxane with low stiffness and high toughness
  Tues, 3/16, 4:12 PM–4:24 PM CDT
• Sam Holt -- University of Warwick
  L40.00004 : Structural and magnetic studies of the skyrmionic materials GaV4S8-ySey
  Wed. 3/18, 8:36 AM–8:48 AM CDT
• Kevser Sahin Tiras -- Nigde Omer Halisdemir University
  M61.00010 : Comparison of deposition techniques for hybrid perovskite solar cells
  Wed. 3/17 1:18 PM–1:30 PM CDT
• Qiongge Li -- Johns Hopkins University Hospital
  M15.00010 : Monolingual and bilingual language networks in healthy subjects using functional MRI and graph theory
  Wed. 3/17, 1:18 PM–1:30 PM CDT
• Jonas Denk -- University of California, Berkeley
  M14.00011 : Self-organization and criticality in species-rich metacommunities
  Wed. 3/17, 1:30 PM–1:42 PM CDT
• Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan -- University of Toronto
  P11.00006 : Role of cellular rearrangement time delays on the rheology of vertex models for confluent tissues
  Wed. 3/17, 4:24 PM–4:36 PM CDT
• Gabi Steinbach -- Georgia Institute of Technology
  R13.00005 : Accumulation of dead cells from contact killing facilitates coexistence in bacterial biofilms
  Thurs. 3/18, 9:12 AM–9:24 AM CDT
• Ryan J. McCarty
  R19.00008 : Density sensitive analysis for evaluating density functional theory approximations to exchange-correlation energies
  Thursday 3/18, 9:24 AM–9:36 AM CDT
• Halima Giovanna Ahmad -- Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
  S47.00007 : Electrodynamics of tunnel ferromagnetic Josephson junctions: dissipation mechanisms and study of noise fluctuations
  Thurs. 3/18, 12:42 PM–12:54 PM
• Dilek Yildiz -- Harvard University
  S45.00013 : Mechanical dissipation via image potential states on Bi2Te3 surface
  Thurs. 3/16, 1:54 PM–2:06 PM CDT
• Anna Lappala -- Harvard University
  S04.00010 : Disentangling the Dynamics of Prime Knots
  Thurs. 3/18, 2:06 PM–2:18 PM CDT
• Cynthia Paola Contreras Medrano -- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
  Poster: U71.00174 : Low dimensionality and magnetic frustration of Ni5.15Sn0.85(O2BO3)2 hulsite
  Thursday 3/18 2:00pm CDT
• Nitica Sakharwade -- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  V33.00003 : Hierarchy of Theories with Indefinite Causal Structures: A Second Look at the Causaloid Framework
  Thur. 3/18 3:36 PM–3:48 PM CDT
• Ernesto Cortes -- University of Notre Dame
  V22.00012 : Calculating Transport Coefficients from Biased Molecular Dynamics
  Thur. 3/18, 5:36 PM–5:48 PM CDT
• Krissia de Zawadzki -- ICTP - South American Institute for Fundamental Research
  Y22.00007 : Time-dependent scattering approach to compute RIXS spectra
  Friday, 3/19 1:06 PM–1:18 PM CDT

And the runners-up*:

• Wei-Lin Tu -- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
  B28.00002 : Competing scenarios for dipolar hard-core bosons within square and triangular lattices
  Mon. 3/15 11:42 AM–11:54 AM CDT
• Yang Liu -- Pennsylvania State University
  M71.00083 : Structural insight into the interface effect in ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites
  Wed. 3/17: Poster Session II 11:15am - 1:15pm CDT
• Gabriel J. Man -- Uppsala University, Sweden
  M61.00001 : Electronic Coupling between the Organic and Inorganic Sub-Lattices of a Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Single Crystal
  Wed. 3/17, 11:30 AM–11:42 AM CDT
• Thomas E. Baker -- University of York
  P34.00009 : Lanczos recursion on a quantum computer for the Green's function
  Wed. 3/17, 5:00 PM–5:12 PM CDT
• Danfeng Li -- City University of Hong Kong
  R47.00003 : Superconducting Dome and Electronic Structure of the Nickelate Superconductors
  Thur. 3/18, 8:24 AM–8:36 AM CDT
• Young Jay Ryu -- University of Chicago
  V23.00012 : Insight into Structural Variations in CaSiO3 Glass under High-Pressure
  Thur. 3/18, 5:36 PM–5:48 PM CDT

*In chronological order