GMAG Student Travel Award

To increase student participation and involvement in activities essential to GMAG and the APS as a whole, GMAG usually sponsors up to ten Student Travel Awards for the March Meeting. Because the 2021 March Meeting will be held entirely online this year’s awards will be limited to the reimbursement of the student registration fee. To be eligible, students must register for and participate in the APS March Meeting, and should submit an application, which can be downloaded below. Applications should be submitted by email to Marcelo Jaime (mjaime@lanl.gov) by November 25, 2020. Please write “GMAG Student Travel Award” in the subject line of the email.

Download Application Here

Evaluation of the applications will be conducted by the GMAG Executive Committee. Conflict of interest situations will be handled in accordance with APS guidelines

GMAG Student Dissertation Awards

In order to encourage students working in magnetism, every year GMAG sponsors Outstanding Dissertation in Magnetism Awards. GMAG will present up to three dissertation awards at the next APS March Meeting. These awards will recognize students who have conducted outstanding research leading to their dissertation and will consist of an invited talk in an appropriate session at the APS March Meeting, a $500 prize to the student, and up to $250 towards his/her travel expenses to the APS March Meeting. The student must be in the final year before graduating with a Ph.D., and both the student and the advisor must be current members of GMAG. Nominations should consist of: (i) A nominating letter, (ii) an extended abstract on the research (maximum of 3 pages, including figures and references), (iii) the student’s CV and publication list, and (iv) contact information for the student. These nomination documents must be submitted by the student’s advisor or another senior researcher who knows the student’s work well. The nominating letter must address the following issues:

• Quality and independence of the student’s work.
• Student’s speaking ability.
• Year the student began graduate school.
• Student’s expected completion date (must be after September 1, 2020, but before September 1, 2021 to be eligible for the 2021 APS March Meeting award).
• Assessment of the student’s future potential as a research scientist.

Nominations should be sent by email as a single PDF file to Geoffrey Beach (gbeach@mit.edu) by September 4, 2020. The subject line for the email should be “GMAG Student Dissertation Award.” Evaluation of the nominations will be conducted by the GMAG Executive Committee. Conflict of interest situations will be handled in accordance with APS guidelines.