Announcing the winners
of the Young Scientists Awards

The winners of the young scientist awards were recently announced at the Quark Matter 2008 conference. The following four young scientists received these prestigious awards that were sponsored by Nuclear Physics A.

We would like to congratulate the winners of the poster presentation:

Monika Sharma, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
“Beam energy and system size dependence of dynamical net charge fluctuations”

Pandiat Sankar Saumia, Institute of Physics, Bubhaneswar, India
“Superhorizon fluctuations and acustic oscillations in relativistic heavy ion coll.”

and the oral presentations:

Torsten Dahms, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook University, USA
“Measurement of thermal photons in heavy ion collisions with PHENIX”

Dr. Andre Mischke, Institute Subatomaire Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
“Heavyflavor particle correlations in STAR via electron azimuthal correlations with open charm mesons”

We would also like to thank the selection committee:
F. Antinori
J.P. Blaizot
G. Baym
B. Johnson
M. van Leeuwen
L. McLerran (chair)
J. Schukraft
E. Shuryak and
B. Sinha

To view winners of previous awards and other sponsorships from Elsevier Physics journals please visit www.elsevier.com/physics. 

Kind regards

José Stoop
Publishing Editor
Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Astronomy

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