The Belgian Physical Society awards three types of distinctions to promising young physicists: best thesis award, best young speaker award, and the poster prizes. The latter two are decided at the General Scientific Meeting of the BPS, and the applications for this award should be made together with registration for the conference. Applications for the best thesis award should be made in december of the year preceeding the award.
Winners of 2011:The
young speaker contest 2010 was won by Danny Vanpoucke (Universiteit Gent), for his presentation on "Pt Nanowires on Ge(001): Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing?" The three winners of the Best Thesis Award are, in alphabetical order: - Dennis Diederix, VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & Universiteit Utrecht: "Model Independent Search for Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts with the IceCube Detector".
- Nick Van den Broeck, UA (Universiteit Antwerpen): "Metallic nanoparticles on solar cells".
- Tom Vrancx, Universiteit Gent: "Consistent interactions in electromagnetic kaon production".
The winners of the EuroPhysics Journal Best Poster Contest 2011 are:
- First Prize: Pieterjan Claes (KULeuven) : "The geometric structure of metal doped silicon clusters".
- Second prizes (ex-aequo): Koen Lauwaet (KULeuven): "Tuning the NaCl/Au(111) interface state by the NaCl layer thickness";
Katrijn Putteneers (Universiteit Antwerpen): "Density Functional Monte Carlo for calculating properties of nanosystems"
In this year's edition there was no poster contest
Winners of 2010:The young speaker contest 2010 was an international contest, in the context of our joint general meeting with the Dutch Physical Society. The winners are - Stefan Witte (Shining light on the brain: high-resolution imaging
of brain tissue using nonlinear microscopy)
- Ventsi Valev (Novel
Ways to Observe the Handedness of Chiral Optical Metamaterials)
- Paul McFadden (The Holographic Universe)
Winners of the Best Thesis Award 2010, in alphabetical order: - Annick Bay, FUNDP (Universiteit van Namen): "Influence de
l'ultra-structure de la lanterne
abdominale des lucioles du genre Photuris sur le rendement externe de
leur émission de lumière".
- Nansheng Lin, UA (Universiteit Antwerpen): "Dynamics of Vortex
Shells in Mesoscopic Superconducting Corbino Disks"
- Yvan Paquot,
ULB (Universite Libre de Bruxelles): "Opto-electronic implementation of
an artificial
intelligence system based on the concept of reservoir computing"
In this year's edition there was no poster contest.
Winners of 2009: Winner of the Young Speaker Award 2009: Koen Schouteden, for the talk entitled "Electronic and magnetic properties of self-organised Co islands on a Au(111) surface".
Winners of the Poster Prize 2009: - First prize: J. Hendrix (KULeuven), "LEDGF/p75 switches from a dynamic to a tight chromatin interaction upon binding to HIV-1 integrase"
- Second prize: G. Gentile (UGent, ULB), "Is dark matter dead?"
- Third prize: J. Alenus (UHasselt) "Detection of nicotine and histamine with molecular-imprint based piezoelectric an impedimetric sensors"
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