GEC 2018

Student's Awards and Travel Grant

GEC Student Award for Excellence

To encourage and recognize the important contributions students make to the Gaseous Electronics Conference, specifically, and to the plasma/atomic-molecular optical science fields, in general, the GEC Executive Committee will recognize one (1) student presenter with the GEC Student Award for Excellence.  Finalists will be announced on the meeting website before the meeting and will present their work between Tuesday, November 6th 2018, and Thursday, November 8th 2018. The student award winner will be announced at the conference dinner Thursday evening. The award consists of cash (US$1,000) and a certificate.

To be eligible for the award, the student must present a contributed talk (not a poster), provide a recommendation letter from the student’s research supervisor, a supporting letter from the student, the abstract and submit the application materials as a single PDF-file before the abstract-submission deadline.  No more than one student may be nominated per supervisor.

The one-page recommendation letter from the supervisor should describe the student’s creative contribution to the project, the duration of the student's participation in the project, and unique project-related qualifications of the student.

The student application should also contain:

• a copy of the student's abstract (plain text or .pdf when submitting via email, please do NOT send raw LaTeX files)
• a one-page supporting letter from the student including, among other aspects, a description of the motivation for doing the research, the relevance of the work to plasma/atomic-molecular optical science, a list of all collaborators on the project, and the scope of the student’s contribution to the project
• a two-page-maximum curriculum vitae of the student, (including educational background, research experience, professional affiliations, publications, patents, presentations, and awards)
• a one-page recommendation letter from the supervisor.

Student applications and supervisor recommendation letters are to be emailed as a single PDF-file to Prof. Dr. Julian Schulze (schulze@aept.ruhr-uni-bochum.de), Chair of GEC 2018 Student Awards Committee before 11:59pm (Pacific Daylight Time) 18 June 2018.

The GEC Student Awards Committee will review the nominations and select the finalists for the Student Award for Excellence. Members of the GEC Student Awards Committee will also serve as judges. Judges will attend the finalists' oral presentations and select the award recipient.

Application deadline is June 18, 2018.

GEC Student-Poster Prizes

Three student posters will be selected by the GEC Executive Committee and recognized at the conference dinner. The GEC gratefully acknowledges the important contributions students make to the Gaseous Electronics Conference.

To be eligible for the award:   

• The student must present a poster as first author.
• Register for the poster judging before the application deadline.

More than one student from the same advisor may apply. At most one student per advisor will be awarded this prize.

The student application should contain:

• The title of the student’s abstract
• The name of the supervisor

Student applications are to be emailed to Dr. Aranka Derzsi (derzsiaranka@gmail.com), chair of GEC 2018 Student-Poster Prize Committee before 12:00 noon, 5 November 2018.

Application deadline is 5 November, 2018.

Student Travel Grant

Student participation has long been a valued element of the GEC, and the Student Travel Grant program was established to enable a greater number of students to attend by defraying associated expenses.  Travel Grant nominations are encouraged for students attending the 2018 GEC to make an oral or poster presentation of their research.  Awards will include the full cost of conference registration and partial coverage for lodging at the conference hotel.  Recipients will be selected from the pool of nominated students by the GEC Student Award committee, and because funds are limited, we request that no more than one nomination be submitted per research group.

Complete nominations will include the following:

• A letter of support from the student’s advisor.  The nomination letter should address the following factors to be considered by the selection committee:  1) the advisor’s assessment of the student, including research progress and the benefits to be gained by GEC attendance, 2) statement of financial need (i.e., would this grant enable attendance for additional students beyond student travel included in research grant budgets), and 3) how the student’s participation will contribute to diversity at the GEC.
• A copy of the student's GEC 2018 submitted abstract (plain text or .pdf when submitting via email (please do NOT send raw LaTeX files)

Submit nominations to Prof. Dr. Katharina Stapelmann (kstapel@ncsu.edu) before 11:59pm (Pacific Daylight Time) June 18, 2018. 

Notes: 1) A nomination for a travel grant is separate from all other award nominations.  2) To attain the full benefit of the GEC conference experience, recipients of the travel grant are expected to attend the entire conference.

Recipients would be encouraged to consider volunteering for a couple of hours throughout the week (not a condition of acceptance). 

Application deadline is June 18, 2018.