Award Winners

Congratulations to all of the APS 4CS 2024 Award Winners!

Harry Lustig Award

Harry Lustig Award Winner

Matthew Chow
University of New Mexico
‘Non-Destructive Atom Loss Detection and Other Methods for Low-Overhead Control of Hyperfine Qubits”

Harry Lustig Award Finalist

Noah Zipper
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Precision Flavor Measurements and Real-Time Anomaly Detection at the CMS Detector”

Outstanding Poster Student Presentations

Olivia R. Cantrell
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
“Prediction of Neutron Flux Distribution inside a Pure Carbon Moderator”

Alondra Hernandez Cedillo
Northern Arizona University
“How can Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Nanotechnology Revolutionize Early Cancer Detection?”(alphabetical ordering)

Adrienne Weaver
United States Air Force Academy
“Optically Coherent Imaging using Four-Agent Plug-and-Play”

Outstanding Oral Student Presentations
– Undergraduate Students –

Miriam Biehle
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott
“Improving the Detection and Characterization of Standing Accretion Shock Instability Using Gravitational Waves”

Logan Caudle
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott
“Energy Calibration in the CCM Detector using Michel Electrons from Stopping Cosmic Muons”

Mikaela A. Cowles
Utah Valley University
“Creating a New Distance Ladder with Surface Brightness Fluctuations”

Kai Ebira
University of Utah
“Continuum-Limit Extrapolation of the Pure SU(3) Deconfinement Temperature using Bayesian Model Averaging”

Saul A. Hernandez
New Mexico State University
“Molecular Dynamics Simulation of KIF14 Kinesin Motor Protein Structural Subdomains”

Clemens Jakubec
University of Arizona
“Quantum Fluctuation Forces between Optically Trapped Nanospheres”

Catherine Lei
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Studying Chaos in a Non-Chaotic System: Out-of-Time-Order-Correlators for the Classical Model of the Hydrogen Atom”

Gabriel Schebel
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Current and Voltage Relationship in Chiral Orbital Current Material Mn₃Si₂Te₆“

Ethan J. Sloan
University of New Mexico
“Resolving the Entropy Minimum Paradox of the Chapman-Jouguet Theory of Detonation”

Jake Summers
Arizona State University
“Using the Binary Black Hole Population to Study Cosmology and the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background”

Dario T. Walter-Cardona
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott
“Lorentz Symmetry Breaking as a Nonlinear ODE”

– Graduate Students –

John Angel Castañeda
Northern Arizona University
“Wavelength-Dependent Motion in Light-Activated TiO2 Microswimmers Enhanced by AuSG Nanclusters”

Katie Dalton
University of New Mexico
“Analyzing Atmospheric Conditions for CMB Survey Planning”

Lincoln Draper
University of Utah
“Development of a Two-Component Lateral Distribution Function to Reconstruct the Muon Content in Air Showers Measured with IceTop”

Joshua Forsyth
Brigham Young University
“Electrically Charged Squirk Signals at Colliders”

Heather B. Hewitt
Arizona State University
“CUREing the Lack of Research Experiences for Online Astronomy Majors”

Anastasia Noelle King-Brown
Utah State University
“Identify Clear Sky Pixels using Global Cloud Mask”

Ashley M. Martinez
Northern Arizona University
“Investigating the Correlation of PLGA Polymer Nanocomposites Mechanical Properties to Stability and Time-dependent Cargo Release for One-dose Vaccine Development”

Jake Navas
Northern Arizona University
“Analyzing Quantum Capacity Regions to Assist in the Development of Quantum Network Tomography Protocols”

Jennifer P. Parra-Contreras
University of Arizona
“Generation of Many-body Entangled Atomic States in Waveguide-Coupled Atomic Arrays”

Yogesh Mehta
Arizona State University
“Extragalactic CO in the CMB”

Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr
University of California, Riverside
“Constraining Non-Annihilating Ultra-Heavy Dark Matter Models using Exoplanets”

Austin Drew Shipley
New Mexico State University
“Radiation Damage and Point Defects in GaSb and InAs”

The Spherical Cow Award

Christopher Verhaaren
Brigham Young University
“Magnetic Monopoles and Quantum Field Theory”