In this year's SESAPS annual meeting at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, the winners of the Beams, Pegram, and Slack Awards were celebrated during the Friday, Oct. 25th banquet. The awardees and their citations are listed below. Heartfelt Congratulations to all the awardees :)!
Many thanks to the three evaluation and selection committees for thoroughly reviewing all outstanding nomination packages received this year or rolled over from previous years. This outcome could not have been achieved without your great help!
Jesse W. Beams Award (to recognize especially significant or meritorious research in physics conducted in the Southeast; details in the Beams Award link)
Laura Reina, Professor of Physics, Florida State University
"For innovations that yielded precise theoretical predictions used in tests of the Standard Model at hadron colliders."
George B. Pegram Award (to honor excellence in teaching physics in the Southeast; details in the Pegram Award link)
Robert DeSerio, Director of Undergraduate Laboratories, University of Florida
“For his decades of work designing, building, and teaching high-quality undergraduate labs that are used in physics departments all over the US and for developing outstanding advanced laboratory courses that have inspired and influenced the career choices of many students.”
Thomas Curtright, Professor of Physics, University of Miami
"For expanding and upgrading two major physics departments within SESAPS, at the University of Florida (1980 -1988) and the University of Miami (1988 - present); and for more than 20 years of organizing, fundraising, and championing the Miami Conferences (Coral Gables Conferences), bringing illustrious scientists from around the world in addition to those in the southeast, including general audience talks and opportunities for students, and nimbly adjusting to hybrid versions as needed during Covid."