Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics

The purpose of the award is to recognize doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in computational physics and to encourage effective written and oral presentation of research results. The award consists of $1,500 and a certificate to be presented at an awards ceremony at the Division of Computational Physics annual meeting and an additional allowance of up to $500 to travel to the meeting. The recipient will be invited to present his or her work in an appropriate session of the meeting. The award will be presented annually.

Establishment & Support

The award is supported by the Journal of Computational Physics, Academic Press, an Elsevier Company.

Rules & Eligibility

Nominations will be accepted for any doctoral student (present or past) in any country for work performed as part of the requirements for a doctoral degree. Nominees must pass their thesis defense not more than 18 months before the nomination deadline. An individual can be nominated only once; however, an unsuccessful candidate will be carried over for one year. The nomination package should include:

1. A letter of nomination reviewing the merits of the nominee's work and accompanied by the thesis manuscript, publications and/or reports describing the work, curriculum vitae and graduate course records;
2. A letter from the nominee's thesis advisor certifying the eligibility of the student and delineating in detail the contributions of the nominee, making comparisons with others;
3. Three independant letters of reference, at least one of which should be from outside the nominee's institution;
4. Submit electronically one unified pdf file, or one directory, to the chair of the reviewing committee. The file or directory should contain all nomination materials and a copy of all reference letters. Additionally, the originals of the letters and transcript should be mailed together to the chair of the reviewing committee.

Nomination & Selection Process

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2008 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics Recipient:
Soon Yong Chang
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Past Recipients:

2007:	Chengkun Huang
2006:	Joseph A. Barranco
2005:	Harald P. Pfeiffer
2004:	Joerg Rottler
2003:	Frans Pretorius
2002:	Nadia Lapusta
2001:	John Ernest Pask
2000:	Michael L. Falk
1999:	Luis Lehner