Prizes and Awards
Young Radio Scientist Keynote Presentation Award
WARS 2010 will introduce a special award for young scientists (defined by URSI as scientists who are under 35 years of age) – the Young Radio Scientist Keynote Award.
The award will be based on the abstract submitted by a young scientist deemed by the technical program committee to have the highest scientific merit, and the awardee will be invited to present the third keynote address at WARS 2010.
This distinction will ensure that the best young scientist in the year of a WARS meeting is appropriately recognized by the Australian URSI community. The award will include free registration and lodging for one night at WARS 2010.
Applicants for this award should indicate in their cover email their eligibility and interest in the award, and must also submit a full paper by the required deadline for publication in the WARS proceedings.
A panel from the WARS 2010 Technical Program Committee has awarded the Young Radio Scientist Keynote Presentation Award to Dr Jean-Michel Le Floch from the University of Western Australia. Jean-Michel will give the third keynote address at WARS 2010.
Best Student Poster Prize
A $500 cash prize will be awarded to the best poster presented by a student at WARS 2010.
The prize will be based on:
i) The scientific quality of the material presented in the poster
ii) The effectiveness of the poster in conveying the key research outcomes
iii) The engagement of the student in discussion at the WARS2010 poster session
Students wishing to be eligible for the prize should indicate their interest in the cover email when submitting their one page abstract.
Judges at WARS 2010 awarded the best student poster prize to King Yuk (Eric) Chan for his poster titled “The enabling technology for the next generation wireless communications: RF MEMS”. Eric is a student at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales.