[ASA] ASA 2020 Prizes announcement

[Cathryn Trott]

Dear ASA members,
 
The ASA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 ASA Awards. The prize winners will be presenting their research at the ASA Scientific Meeting, which this year will be conducted online.

 
Bok Prize for outstanding research in astronomy by an Honours or eligible Masters student
Awarded to James Beattie. James completed his honours research at Australian National University supervised by Christoph Federrath. His Honours project was related to magnetohydrodynamical simulations of molecular clouds. Apart from the main Prize, two Honorary Mentions were given to Sarah Caddy from Macquarie University and to Kirsten Banks from the University of New South Wales.



Charlene Heisler Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in astronomy

Awarded to Hayley Macpherson for her Thesis “Inhomogeneous cosmology in an anisotropic Universe” completed at Monash University and supervised by Daniel Price and Paul Lasky. The Honorary Mention was given to Colin Jacobs from Swinburne University of Technology.



Louise Webster Prize for outstanding research by a scientist early in their post-doctoral career
Awarded to Katie Auchettl from the University of Melbourne for her paper “New Physical Insights about Tidal Disruption Events from a Comprehensive Observational Inventory at X-Ray Wavelengths” (2017, ApJ, 838:149).

Anne Green Prize for a significant advance or accomplishment by a mid-career scientist
Awarded to JJ Eldridge from University of Auckland for work on Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis, BPASS code, which has been important, high-impact code applicable in diverse fields of research from high-redshift galaxies and reionisation to nearby galaxies and stellar evolution.


Congratulations to all our prize winners and nominees. The entries received for the prizes continue to be of a very high standard and a credit to their institutions. Many thanks to all our judges for devoting a considerable amount of their time to evaluate all nominations.
 

Kind regards,

Cathryn

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Cathryn Trott

Associate Professor
ARC Future Fellow

President, Astronomical Society of Australia

ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D)

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
Curtin University
Bentley WA, Australia

cathryn.trott at curtin.edu.au
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