[ASA] 2012 ASA Prizewinners Announcement

[John O'Byrne]

Dear ASA members,


The ASA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 ASA awards.

**Bok Prize for outstanding research in astronomy by an Honours student at an Australian university

The Bok Prize is awarded to Alison Hammond for her thesis "Cosmic Magnetism: Faraday Rotation as a Probe of Extragalactic Magnetic Fields". Alison completed her honours research in SIfA at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Bryan Gaensler & Tim Robishaw. She produced an outstanding thesis, which displayed an excellent combination of understanding, impact, effort involved and presentation.

**Charlene Heisler Prize for the best PhD thesis accepted by an Australian university

The Charlene Heisler Prize is awarded to Dr Anthony van Eysden, for his thesis “Superfluid spin up and pulsar glitch recovery” completed at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Andrew Melatos. Anthony produced an outstanding piece of work which attacked the research problem thoroughly and from many different angles. It resulted in four excellent publications, spread across different discipline journals.

In addition, Dr Simon Murphy receives an honourable mention for his thesis “Revealing the Chamaeleon: Young, low mass stars surrounding nu and eta Chamaeleontis” completed at ANU under the supervision of Mike Bessell. Simon made multiple contributions to a multi-faceted study and produced a brilliantly written thesis.

**Louise Webster Prize for outstanding research by a scientist early in their post-doctoral career

The Louise Webster Prize is awarded to Dr Sean Farrell (SIfA, University of Sydney), for his nominated paper "An Intermediate-mass black hole of over 500 solar masses in the galaxy ESO 243-49" (Nature, 2009, 460, 73). Sean's discovery has and will continue to have wide and long-lasting impact.

Congratulations to Alison, Anthony, Simon, Sean and all nominees on behalf of the ASA. The entries received for the prizes were all of a high standard and show that there is a fantastic generation of young Australian astronomers. It is a credit to the research training programs at their respective institutions.

A big thank you to all of our 2012 judges for devoting a considerable amount of their time to reading all of the entries and a special thank you to our ASA Prizes and Awards Coordinator, Tanya Hill, who does a wonderful job each year to make the whole process run smoothly. 

Cheers,
Kate







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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O’BYRNE
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Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. 

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