springer thesis award 2022

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Springer Theses

Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research

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Aims and Scope  

The series “Springer Theses” brings together a selection of the very best Ph.D. theses from around the world and across the physical sciences. Nominated and endorsed by two recognized specialists, each published volume has been selected for its scientific excellence and the high impact of its contents for the pertinent field of research. For greater accessibility to non-specialists, the published versions include an extended introduction, as well as a foreword by the student’s supervisor explaining the special relevance of the work for the field. As a whole, the series will provide a valuable resource both for newcomers to the research fields described, and for other scientists seeking detailed background information on special questions. Finally, it provides an accredited documentation of the valuable contributions made by today’s younger generation of scientists.

Theses may be nominated for publication in this series by heads of department at internationally leading universities or institutes and should fulfill all of the following criteria  

• They must be written in good English.
• The topic should fall within the confines of Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences, Engineering and related interdisciplinary fields such as Materials, Nanoscience, Chemical Engineering, Complex Systems and Biophysics. 
• The work reported in the thesis must represent a significant scientific advance. 
• If the thesis includes previously published material, permission to reproduce this must be gained from the respective copyright holder (a maximum 30% of the thesis should be a verbatim reproduction from the author's previous publications).
• They must have been examined and passed during the 12 months prior to nomination. 
• Each thesis should include a foreword by the supervisor outlining the significance of its content.
• The theses should have a clearly defined structure including an introduction accessible to new PhD students and scientists not expert in the relevant field.

Book titles in this series

High energy efficiency neural network processor with combined digital and computing-in-memory architecture.

• Jinshan Yue
• Copyright: 2024

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Enhanced Microbial and Chemical Catalysis in Bio-electrochemical Systems

• Xian-Wei Liu

Micromachined Mixed-potential-type YSZ-based Sensors for Nitrogen Dioxide Monitoring in Automobile Exhaust

Dynamical Properties of Baryon Resonances in the Holographic QCD

• Daisuke Fujii

Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Driven Vortex Matter

The Reversible-Irreversible Transition, Dynamical Ordering, and Kibble-Zurek Mechanism

• Shun Maegochi

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Congrats to Reet Chaudhuri for winning the Springer Thesis Award!

Jun 9, 2022 | News

Reet’s thesis “Integrated Electronics on Aluminum Nitride: Materials and Devices” has received a Springer Thesis Award, and will appear soon under Springer Thesis .

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Sutton Wins Springer Thesis Award

Former graduate student Andrew Sutton won a Springer Thesis award in 2023.  Sutton worked with Ph.D. advisor Craig Group on the NOvA experiment at Fermilab.  

As part of this award, his thesis was published in book form: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-43583-6

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• Ph.D., Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2017 (PhD advisors: Jun Ye and Deborah Jin. Thesis title: "Enhanced optical and electric manipulation of a quantum gas of KRb molecules")
• M.S., Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2013
• B.S., Engineering Physics (Physics and Mathematics as additional majors), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics, August 2020 - Present
• Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Physics, August 2017 - June 2020 (Postdoctoral advisor: Manuel Endres)

Research Interests

• Quantum Optics
• Atomic Physics
• Quantum Information Science

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• J. P. Covey, Enhanced optical and electric manipulation of a quantum gas of KRb molecules, Springer Thesis, ISBN: 978-3-319-98107-9 (2018)

Chapters in Books

• J. P. Covey, S. A. Moses, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, "Controlling Ultracold Chemical Reactions using Optical Lattices", chapter in Cold Chemistry: Molecular Scattering and Reactivity Near Absolute Zero, Royal Society of Chemistry, ISBN: 978-1-78262-597-1 (2017)

Selected Articles in Journals

• J. P. Covey, H. Weinfurter, and H. Bernien, "Quantum networks with neutral atom processing nodes", npj Quantum Information 9, 90 (2023)
• W. Huie (W), L. Li (D), N. Chen (W), X. Hu (W), Z. Jia (D), W. K. C. Sun (D), and J. P. Covey, "Repetitive readout and real-time control of nuclear spin qubits in Yb-171 atoms", PRX Quantum 4, 030337 (2023)
• J. Choi, A. L. Shaw, I. S. Madjarov, X. Xie, J. P. Covey, J. S. Cotler, D. K. Mark, H.-Y. Huang, A. Kale, H. Pichler, F. G.S.L. Brandao, S. Choi, and M. Endres, “Preparing random states and benchmarking with many-body quantum chaos”, Nature 613, 468-473 (2023)
• L. Li (D), W. Huie (W), N. Chen (W), B. DeMarco, and J. P. Covey, “Active cancellation of servo-induced noise on stabilized lasers via feedforward”, Phys. Rev. Appl. 18, 064005 (2022)
• A. J. Sigillito, J. P. Covey, J. M. Fink, K. Petersson, and S. Preble, "Emerging qubit systems: Guest editorial", Appl. Phys. Lett. 120, 190401 (2022)
• J. P. Covey, "Microwave-optical transducer efficiency boost", Nature Photonics 16, 262-264 (2022)
• J. P. Covey, "Atom arrays for superresolution imaging", Physics 15, 23 (2022)
• N. Chen (W), L. Li (P), W. Huie (W), M. Zhao (W, ugrad), I. Vetter (W, ugrad), C. H. Greene, and J. P. Covey, "Analyzing the Rydberg-based optical-metastable-ground architecture for 171 Yb nuclear spins", Phys. Rev. A 105, 052438 (2022)
• J. Ang'ong'a (W), C. Huang (W), J. P. Covey, and B. Gadway, "Gray molasses cooling of 39 K atoms in optical tweezers", Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013240 (2022)
• W. Huie (W), S. G. Menon, H. Bernien, and J. P. Covey, "Multiplexed telecommunication-band quantum networking with atom arrays in optical cavities", Phys. Rev. Research 3, 043154 (2021)
• V. V. Albert, J. P. Covey, and J. Preskill, "Robust Encoding of a Qubit in a Molecule", Phys. Rev. X 10, 031050 (2020)
• I. S. Madjarov*, J. P. Covey*, A. L. Shaw, J. Choi, A. Kale, A. Cooper, H. Pichler, V. Schkolnik, J. R. Williams, and M. Endres, (*equal contribution), "High-fidelity entanglement and detection of alkaline-earth Rydberg atoms", Nature Phys. 16, 857-861 (2020)
• N. Lauk, N. Sinclair, S. Barzanjeh, J. P. Covey, M. Saffman, M. Spiropulu, C. Simon, "Perspectives on quantum transduction", Quantum Sci. & Tech. 5, 020501 (2020)
• I. S. Madjarov, A. Cooper, A. L. Shaw, J. P. Covey, V. Schkolnik, T. H. Yoon, J. R. Williams, and M. Endres, "An Atomic-Array Optical Clock with Single-Atom Readout", Phys. Rev. X 9, 041052 (2019)
• J. P. Covey, A. Sipahigil, and M. Saffman, "Microwave-to-optical conversion via four-wave-mixing in a cold ytterbium ensemble", Phys. Rev. A 100, 012307 (2019)
• J. P. Covey, I. Madjarov, A. Cooper, and M. Endres, "2000-times repeated imaging of strontium atoms in clock-magic tweezer arrays", Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173201 (2019)
• J. P. Covey, A. Sipahigil, S. Szoke, N. Sinclair, M. Endres, and O. Painter, "Telecom-Band Quantum Optics with Ytterbium Atoms and Silicon Nanophotonics", Phys. Rev. Appl. 11, 034044 (2019)
• L. De Marco, G. Valtolina, K. Matsuda, W. Tobias, J. P. Covey, and J. Ye, "A Degenerate Fermi Gas of Polar Molecules", Science 363, 6429 853-856 (2019)
• A. Cooper, J. P. Covey, I. Madjarov, S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, and M. Endres, "Alkaline-Earth Atoms in Optical Tweezers", Phys. Rev. X 8, 041055 (2018)
• J. P. Covey, L. De Marco, O. L. Acevedo, A. M. Rey, and J. Ye, "An approach to spin-resolved molecular gas microscopy", New J. Physics 20, 043031 (2018)
• S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, M. T. Miecnikowski, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, "New frontiers for quantum gases of polar molecules", Nature Phys. 13, 1 13-20 (2017)
• J. P. Covey, S. A. Moses, M. Garttner, A. Safavi-Naini, M. T. Miecnikowski, Z. Fu, J. Schachenmayer, P. S. Julienne, A. M. Rey, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, "Doublon dynamics and polar molecule production in an optical lattice", Nature Commun. 7, 11279 (2016)
• S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, M. T. Miecnikowski, B. Yan, B. Gadway, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin, "Creation of a low entropy quantum gas of polar molecules in an optical lattice", Science 350, 6261 (2015)
• K. R. A. Hazzard, B. Gadway, M. Foss-Feig, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, N. Yao, M. D. Lukin, J. Ye, D. S. Jin, and A. M. Rey, "Many-body dynamics of dipolar molecules in an optical lattice", Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 195302 (2014)
• B. Zhu, B. Gadway, M. Foss-Feig, J. Schachenmayer, M. L. Wall, K. R. A. Hazzard, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, D. S. Jin, J. Ye, M. Holland, and A. M. Rey, "Suppressing the Loss of Ultracold Molecules Via the Continuous Quantum Zeno Effect", Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070404 (2014)
• B. Yan, S. A. Moses, B. Gadway, J. P. Covey, K. R. A. Hazzard, A. M. Rey, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, "Observation of dipolar spin-exchange interactions with lattice-confined polar molecules", Nature 501, 521-525 (2013)
• B. Neyenhuis, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, A. Chotia, A. Petrov, S. Kotochigova, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin, "Anisotropic Polarizability of Ultracold Polar 40K87Rb Molecules", Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230403 (2012)
• A. Chotia, B. Neyenhuis, S. A. Moses, B. Yan, J. P. Covey, M. Foss-Feig, A. M. Rey, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, "Long-lived dipolar molecules and Feshbach molecules in a 3D optical lattice", Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080405 (2012)
• J. P. Covey, W. Huie, N. Chen, L. Li, H. Bernien, and S. G. Menon, "Multiplexed telecommunication-band quantum networking with atom arrays in optical cavities", US Provisional Patent No. 63/359,699 (2022)
• M. Endres, A. Cooper, J. P. Covey, I. S. Madjarov, A. L. Shaw, T. H. Yoon, V. schkolnik, and J. R. Williams, "Controlling Alkaline Earth Atoms For Quantum Computing And Metrology Applications", US Patent No. 10,809,177 B2 (2020)

Research Honors

• Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (2023)
• Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (2022)
• Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) (2022 )
• Springer PhD Thesis Award (2018)

Other Honors

• Richard Chace Tolman Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, Caltech (2017)
• DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2013)
• Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UW-Madison (2010)

Recent Courses Taught

• PHYS 211 - University Physics: Mechanics
• PHYS 212 - University Physics: Elec & Mag
• PHYS 213 - Univ Physics: Thermal Physics
• PHYS 214 - Univ Physics: Quantum Physics
• PHYS 370 - Intro to Quant Info and Comp

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ISGS PhD Thesis Award 2022 – Call for Nominations

December 23, 2022

Call for best thesis

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The ISGS will award annually a prize to the student who has produced the best PhD thesis and made the most outstanding contribution to scientific and/or technological knowledge in the field of sol-gel science and technology. The winner will receive a diploma, and a 2-year ISGS membership, and selection of books from Springer. In addition, he/she will be invited to contribute with a review paper to the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, the official journal of ISGS.

Eligibility Open to all candidates that have obtained a PhD degree from any recognised university in 2022. Their PhD theses should be original work predominantly in the field of sol-gel science and technology.

Adjudication The ISGS decides the prize winner based on the recommendation by a PhD Award Committee designed by the Board of Directors of ISGS. The purpose of the award is to highlight excellent PhD research in the field of sol-gel science and technology. The PhD Award Committee, composed of experts, will assess the merit of the applications and recommend the winner to the ISGS Board of Directors. The assessment of the PhD Award Committee, based on the Executive Summary provided in the candidate’s proposal and on the supporting evidence from the PhD thesis document itself, will rely on the following criteria:

• The level to which the thesis work adds significant new contribution to advances in the scientific knowledge in the field of sol-gel science and technology.
• The content and quality of the Executive Summary submitted by the candidate. The impact and relevance of the PhD thesis measured in terms of dissemination of the PhD outputs into the scientific community by the candidate (articles published and oral communications presented at scientific events).
•  Candidates must have defended the PhD thesis in public and received the PhD degree from a recognised university in 2022.
• The candidate’s PhD thesis should be original work in the field of sol-gel science and technology. Candidates must submit an online application by February 28, 2023 .
• The ISGS Board of Directors decides the prize winner based on the recommendation by the PhD Award Committee and this decision cannot be challenged.
• A proforma application.
• An Executive Summary of the PhD thesis, of not more than 15 pages, highlighting the relevance and contribution of the work to the field of sol-gel science and technology. Candidates should note that the content of their Executive Summary will be the primary source of the PhD Award Committee’s consideration.
• An electronic copy of the PhD thesis.
• A letter from their main PhD supervisor and from the PhD co-supervisor (if applicable) recommending the candidate for consideration for this prize and confirming that the candidate meets all the criteria for eligibility for the competition.

Deadline February 28, 2023

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The IAU PhD Prize recognises the outstanding scientific achievements of astronomy PhD students around the world. Each of the IAU’s nine divisions awards a prize to the candidate it feels has carried out the most remarkable work in the previous year, and the nine divisions together also agree on jointly awarding an extra prize, the PhD at-large Prize. This time 120 PhD theses, defended between 16 December 2020 and 15 December 2021, were submitted.

The IAU Executive Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 IAU PhD Prizes as follows:

• Division A Fundamental Astronomy : Chris Hamilton , UK, “Secular Dynamics of Binaries in Stellar Clusters”
• Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science : Francisco Javier Bailen Martinez , Spain, “Spectropolarimetric and Imaging Properties of Fabry-Pérot Etalons. Applications to Solar Instrumentation”
• Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage : David Barrado Navascués , Spain, “Cosmography: the science of the two Orbs”
• Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics : Riccardo Arcodia , Germany, “Accretion onto Black Holes Across the Mass Scale”
• Division E Sun and Heliosphere : Souvik Bose , Norway, “On the Dynamics of Spicules and Mass-Flows in the Solar Atmosphere”
• Division F Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy : Megane Mansfield , USA, “Revealing the Atmospheres of Highly Irradiated Exoplanets: From Ultra-Hot Jupiters to Venus Analogues”
• Division G Stars and Stellar Physics : Kareem El-Badry , USA, “Binary Stars Across the Milky Way: Probes of Star Formation and Evolution”
• Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe : Anirudh Chiti , USA, “Mapping the Ancient Milky Way & its Relic Dwarf Galaxies”
• Division J Galaxies and Cosmology : Zhijie Qu , USA, “The Warm-Hot Circumgalactic Medium and its Co-Evolution with the Galaxy Disk”
• PhD at-large Prize: Reetika Joshi , India, “Study of Solar Jets and Related Flares”

The recipient of each award receives a range of prizes, tailored by each Division at their own discretion. All recipients will receive airfare, registration fee and accommodation to attend the IAU XXXI General Assembly , to be held in August this year in Busan, South Korea, where certificates will be awarded. Other prizes may include the opportunity to present their thesis work at Division Days, as well as special treatment at the General Assembly such as an invitation to attend presentations to the IAU Executive Committee, dinner, and the possibility of presenting a talk at either a plenary or special session.

Several divisions also gave honourable mentions to the following candidates:

• Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science: Divita Gupta , France, “Rate Coefficients and Branching Ratio Measurements for Reactions of Astrochemical Relevance Involving CN Radicals”
• Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage: Saeed Salimpour , Australia, “Visualising the Cosmos: Teaching Cosmology in High School in the era of Big Data”
• Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics: Benjamin Crinquand , France, “Particle Acceleration in Kerr Black-Hole Magnetospheres”
• Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics: Kishalay De , USA, “The Whisper and the Bang: Cosmic Fireworks in the Lives of Compact Binaries”
• Division E Sun and Heliosphere: Wenzhi Ruan , Belgium, “Solar Flares and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities: Particle Acceleration and High Energy Radiation”
• Division F Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy: Chloe Fisher , Switzerland, “Characterising Exoplanet Atmospheres using Traditional Methods and Supervised Machine Learning”
• Division F Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy: Rafael Luque Ramirez , Spain, “Planetary Systems Around Red Dwarfs and Activity of their Host Stars”
• Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe: Rebecca Levy , USA, “Investigating Star Formation Feedback through Gas Kinematics in Nearby Galaxies”
• Division J Galaxies and Cosmology: Martyna Chruslinska , Germany, “Galaxies, Binaries and Gravitational Waves”

Those who received honourable mentions will be offered registration fee waivers to attend the IAU XXXI General Assembly.

Also this year Springer has offered to nominate all IAU PhD Prize Winners 2021 for a Springer Thesis Award. This opportunity is extended annually to a limited number of high-ranking university research departments and societies in the physical sciences and engineering. The award itself comprises a monetary prize of €500 and publication of the work in the collection of outstanding dissertations Springer Theses. Over the past 12 years, this program has helped to disseminate the PhD research of more than 1000 young scientists.

The IAU congratulates all prizewinners and recipients of honourable mentions, wishes them every success in their future careers, and looks forward to another set of high-quality applications for next year’s award.

The round of applications for the 2022 IAU PhD Prize is open for submissions until 15 December 2022; the next set of winners will be announced in June 2023. Candidates are required to submit, amongst other items, an abstract of their thesis that is suitable for public dissemination, a 1500-word thesis summary, three letters of recommendation (including one from the PhD advisor) and a CV. The winner of each Division will be decided by the Division’s own standards and methods and guided by the Division Steering Committee. Theses must have been both submitted and defended by the prize deadline in order to be considered.

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Harvey Lederman, “ What Is the ‘Unity’ in the ‘Unity of Knowledge and Action’ (this opens in a new tab) ? (this opens in a new tab) ”  Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy  21: 569-603  

The “unity of knowledge and action” is a trademark doctrine of Wang Yangming, one of the most important philosophers in the neo-Confucian tradition. Precisely what Wang means by “unity”, however, has more been taken for granted than explained. In this carefully crafted essay, Harvey Lederman undertakes to explain the meaning of this “unity”, painstakingly examining the relevant passages, on the way to developing a  unique, stimulating, and thought-provoking interpretation. Accepting the common view that the unity of knowledge and action has two aspects, one regarding ethical training ( gongfu ) and the other regarding the original natural condition ( benti ), Lederman argues that, in the former case, knowledge and action are taken to be the same thing (identity), while in the latter, knowledge and action are just taken to be necessarily coextensive (unity without identity).   The clarity, carefulness, and subtleness of the arguments this essay displays, along with the novelty of its thesis, represent the type of scholarship this journal aims to promote in the study of Chinese and comparative philosophy. 

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