Announcing the winners of two of the Young Scientists Awards at PANIC08

ThTwo Young Scientist Awards were awarded at the recent PANIC08 conference in Eilat, Israel. Both awards were sponsored by Elsevier journal Nuclear Physics A.

The two awards were granted to Georgia Karagiorgi for the best poster presentation and to Doron Gazit for the best oral presentation at PANIC08. For eligibility, presenters had to be younger than 35 years old at the close of December 31, 2008. Below you will find some more information regarding both winners.

Winner of best Poster Presentation: Georgia Karagiorgi
Georgia Karagiorgi is a graduate student at MIT. She has been working in the field of neutrino oscillations since the beginning of her graduate studies in 2005.

Since June 2007 she has been located at Fermilab, where she has been conducting her thesis research on the electron antineutrino appearance analysis at MiniBooNE. This search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations at short baselines has been motivated by the LSND result, and first results will be presented this December.

Winner of the best Oral Presentation: Doron Gazit
Doron Gazit is a research associate at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington. He has completed his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in October 2007 on the subject of "Electro-weak interactions in light nuclei", where he also did his MSc. in Physics and his BSc. in Physics and Mathematics.

His research focuses on accurate modelling and calculation of few-body nuclei, which can be used to constrain the properties of the nucleon. In particular, he used muon capture on 3He to give stringent constraints on the pseudo-scalar form factor, and second class terms, including the tightest bound to date on the conservation of vector current (CVC) hypothesis.

Elsevier would like to congratulate both winners with their achievement.

Kind regards

José Stoop
Publishing Editor
Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Astronomy