Honors

Kennedy Reed Award for Best Theoretical Research by a Graduate Student

• 1st place:
  Siva Mythili Gouguntla (California State University, Fresno) for “Field Momentum and the Dirac String” Field momentum and the reality of the Dirac string
• 2nd place:
  Rebekah Hermsmeier (University of Nevada, Reno) for “Magnetic tuning of electric dipole moments and dipolar interactions of alkali-dimer molecules”

Margaret Burbidge Award for Best Experimental Research by a Graduate Student

• 1st place: (shared): Mayia Vranas (University of California San Diego) for “Magnetic Order in EuIn2As2 Investigated with Resonant Soft X-ray Scanning
  
  Travis Griffin (University of Nevada, Reno) for “Model Independent Measurement of Electron- Ion Equilibration Rates Across the Solid Liquid Phase Boundary in Warm Dense Gold” 
• 2nd place: (shared):
  Maximilian Huber (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) “Ultrafast control of the electronic properties of TiSe2 with light”
  
  Jake Spisak (University of California San Diego), “Constraints on axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background with POLARBEAR”

Steven Chu Award for Best Research by an Undergraduate Student

• 1st place:
  Mireya Gonzales-Rivera (California State University San Marcos) for “Reflectometry: A New Probe of Quantum Device”
• 2nd place (shared):
  Faith Poutoa (San Diego State University) for “Developing a Long-Range Optical Oil Spill Detector Using Fluorescence”
  
  Chaitanya Basyham (University of California, Los Angeles) for “Quality Control Testing & Data Analysis: Preparing for Run 4 of ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider”
  
  Riley J. Carpenter (Santa Clara University) for “Low-temperature circuit component characterization and nanofabrication process tuning for cryogenic dark matter detectors”

Helen Quinn Award for Education or Undergraduate Research Theory

• 1st place:
  Cheyanne E. Shariat (University of California Los Angeles) for “Dynamical Evolution of White Dwarf Triples in the Era of Gaia”
  
  Isabela E. Camacho (Santa Clara University) for “Testing Fluorescent Protein Sequence Entropy for Correlation with Protein Properties”
• 2nd place
  Dilon E. Suliman (San Diego State University) for ”Simulating the Quantum Ising Model with Cloud Quantum Computers”

SPS Poster Prize

Graduate: 
Jyotsna Gidugu (University of California, San Diego) for “A study of dissipative models based on Dirac matrices”

Jared E. Pagett (Inviersity of California, Santa Barbara) for “Potassium condensates in optical tweezers”

Undergraduate: 
Isabella R. Martinez (University of California, San Diego) for “Mitigation techniques used in Magneto Inertial Fusion”

Antonia C. Hekster (Harvey Mudd College) for “UV Freeze-in Leptogenesis via DM Oscillations”

Brooke Olsson (Colorado School of Mines) for “Oscillatory Mechanical Perturbations in Active Fluids: Probing Dynamic Properties and Resonant Behavior”

Kennedy Reed Award for Best Theoretical Research by a Graduate Student

• Thomas Hong Tsun Wong (University of California San Diego) for “Bridging the Gap of
  Demographic Tension in Tidal Disruption Events”

Margaret Burbidge Award for Best Experimental Research by a Graduate Student

• 1st place: Ryan Childers (University of Nevada, Reno) for “Inner-shell Radiation Properties of Z-pinch Plasmas with Astrophysically Relevant Conditions”
• 2nd place: (shared):
  Pedram Abbasi (UC San Diego) for “Ferroelectric Perovskites Investigated by Synchrotron X-ray Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and First-principles Simulations”
  and
  Victor Goicoechea Casanueva (University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa) for “Calibration strategies for the
  DarkSide-20k experiment”

Steven Chu Award for Best Research by an Undergraduate Student

• Ashley N. Corey (California State University San Marcos) for “Characterizing Gate Defined
  Quantum Dots In A Mesa-Etched Silicon Nanowire“

Helen Quinn Award for Education or Undergraduate Research Theory

• Sobhan Sayadpour (California State University Fresno) for “Geometrical Probes for
  Conductivity in the Hubbard Model”

SPS Poster Prize

Graduate: Martin Lindsey (Stanford University) for “Laser-enhanced nuclear fusion in the
multiphoton regime”

Undergraduate: Trevor Loe (California Polytechnic State University), “Crab Cavity Low-Level
RF Design Simulation Tools for the Electron-Ion Collider”

Award for best presentation by a high school teacher:

Tiffany Coke and Jamey Clarke (Punahou School) for “Don't Lecture Me: A brief sample of
tutorial-based learning for High School Physics”

Kennedy Reed Award for Best Theoretical Research by a Graduate Student

• Vinh Tran (California State University, Long Beach)

Margaret Burbidge Award for Best Experimental Research by a Graduate Student

• Sydney Ostrom (University of California, Davis)

Steven Chu Award for Best Research by an Undergraduate Student

• Tanner Melody (San Jose State University)

Helen Quinn Award for Education or Undergraduate Research Theory

• Ian Sysyn (University of San Diego)

SPS Poster Prize

High School: Daniel Banin (Piedmont High School)

Undergraduate: Emily Ord (Cal Poly Humboldt)

Charles Kittel Award for Best Theoretical Research

• First place: Arnold JTM Mathijssen (Stanford University)

Luis Alvarez Award for Best Experimental Research

• First place: Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Kennedy Reed Award for Best Theoretical Research by a Graduate Student

• First place: Megan Barry (California State University Long Beach)
• Second place: Amandeep Gill (University of Nevada, Reno) and Jaeyeong Lee (California State University, Fresno)

Margaret Burbidge Award for Best Experimental Research by a Graduate Student

• First place: Nicholas Dale (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Second place: Maria Simanovskaia (University of California, Berkeley) and Samantha Lewis (University of California, Berkeley)

Steven Chu Award for Best Research by an Undergraduate Student

• First place: Kelly Fradet (Santa Clara University)
• Heather Jackson (University of California, Berkeley)

Helen Quinn Award for Education or Undergraduate Research Theory

• First place: Matthew Fox (Harvey Mudd College)
• Spenser Talkington (University of California, Los Angeles)

SPS Poster Prize

• Shradda Anand (Stanford University)
• Yoana Guzman (California State University, Chico)

Prize for Best Poster Presentation by a High School Student

• Emily Zhou, The Harker School San Jose
• Arjun Padiyar, Irvington High School Fremont
• William Huang, Lynbrook High School San Jose

Steven Chu Award for Undergraduate Research

• First prize: Noraim Nunez (Cal State Dominguez Hills) ($200)
• Second prize: Kassandra A. Weber (Humboldt State University) ($100)

Margaret Burbidge Award for Best Experimental Research

• First prize: Kevin Robles (Cal Poly Pomona) ($400)
• Second prize: Edgard L Bonilla Carrasquel (Stanford University) ($200)

Kennedy Reed Award for Best Theoretical Research ($300 each)

• Mikhael Semaan (UC Davis)
• Eric Flynn (Cal State Fullerton)

Graduate Students ($125 each)

• Gail A Vinnacombe (UC Los Angeles)
• Kristopher K Barr (UC Los Angeles)

Undergraduate ($125 each)

• Michael Doris (Cal State Chico)
• Monika Tadrous (Cal State Fullerton) 

Luis Alvarez Award for Best Experimental Research
First prize: Tie for Yu Zeng (UC Merced) and Natalie Hell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Margaret Burbidge Award for Best Experimental Research
First prize: Tie for Shaowei Li (UC Irvine) and Benaz Mendewala (UC Merced)

Steven Chu Award for Best Research

• First prize: Sean Haas (Humboldt State University)
• Second prize: Tie for Shoji Hishida (CSU Fresno), Ethan Rinck (CSU East Bay)

Helen Quinn Award for Education or Undergraduate Research

• Tessie Lumabao (Waipahu High School, HI Dept. of Education)

Kennedy Reed ($250) award Best Theoretical Research by a graduate student - 1st place

• Justin Smith (University of California, Irvine)
  Title: Systematic method for improving first principle calculations of materials under extreme

Kennedy Reed award ($125) Best Theoretical Research by a graduate student - 2nd place

• Patrick McDougall (Fresno State)
  Title: Particle Production in a Gravitational Wave Background
• Nader Inan (University of California, Merced)
  Title: Interaction of Gravitational Waves with Superconductors

Margaret Burbidge award ($250) Best Experimental Research by a graduate student - 1st place

• Julius De Rojas (University of California, Davis)
  Title: Synthesis of L10 FeNi thin films via High Speed Rapid Thermal Annealing

Margaret Burbidge award ($125) Best Experimental Research by a graduate student - 2nd place

• Kimberly Schultz (University of Nevada, Reno)
  Title: X-ray Characteristics of Mixed Noble Gas Puff Irradiated with the Titan Laser at LLNL

Helen Quinn award ($250) Undergraduate Research Theory - 1st place

• Alex Kemnitz (California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo)
  Title: Search for Ternary Fission Events and Analysis With the NIFFTE Time Projection

Helen Quinn award ($125) Undergraduate Research Theory - 2nd place

• Nicholas Sherman (University of California, Davis)
  Title: Calculating Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation (NMR) Rates with Numerical Linked Cluster

Steven Chu award ($250) Undergraduate Research Experiment - 1st place

• Noah Miller (California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo)
  Title: The Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) Upgrade to the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

Steven Chu award ($125) Undergraduate Research Experiment - 2nd place

• Omar Cervantes (Hartnell Community College)
  Title: Using Block Co-Polymers to Create a Metal Oxide Hard Mask for Etching Silicon and Silicon Dioxide

SPS Poster Award ($125 each)

Best Undergraduate Poster

• Apryl Witherspoon (UNR)
  Title: Experimental Apparatus for Coupling Dielectric Nanospheres to Cold Atoms
• Chris Wong (Cal Polytech)
  Title: The First-Ever High Speed Video Capturing the "Snap" Transition of a Bimetallic Disc

Best Graduate Poster

• Rachel Baarda (UC Davis)
  Title: Reliability Study of Normal Mode Analysis on the BPTI Protein