Two of the most energetic and dynamic sessions during the 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress were the joint poster and art sessions. Over 200 student presenters engaged with peers, science faculty, and practicing physicists, while discussing research, outreach, and service projects in more than two dozen categories. Concurrently, twenty pieces of art were displayed in five categories for the art contest (see the winning pieces on pages 24-25). A small army of volunteer judges did a superb job critiquing and ranking those who participated in the poster and art competition, and several sponsors contributed cash awards and other prizes for the most outstanding presenters.

Congratulations to All the Winners:

Outstanding Student Poster Awards

sponsored by the OSA Foundation

Outstanding Posters 

Adam Simpson, Abilene Christian University, Using phonon 
imaging to determine the thermal contact between AlN and Si

Michael Alemayehu, Morehouse College (Andrew Peterson is pictured
accepting award on his behalf), Synthetic Creation of a Chemotactic
System via Utilization of Magnetically Actuated Microrobotic Walkers

Kelsey Schafer, Ohio State University, What would it take
to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease? A predictive study using
pharmacokinetic modeling of PET imaging agents

Morgan Smathers, Rhodes College, Optimizing an ultrasonic
backscatter technique for measuring bone density

Christopher Trennepohl, Davidson College, Time dependent
upconversion in Er-Yb doped sol-gel silicate glass

Honorable Mention

Adeyemo Adetogun, North Carolina Central University, Growth of
Semiconductor Nanowires using the Vapor-Liquid-Solid Approach at NCCU

Valerie Jacobson, Colorado State University, Effectively Using
Electroluminescence in Photovoltaic Analysis

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Outstanding Student Poster Awards

sponsored by the American Astronomical Society

First Prize

Mary McDaniel, University of North Alabama, A Spectroscopic Investigation of Delta Scorpius with its Companion

Second Prize

Rachel Smullen, University of Wyoming, Imaging the Spatial Density Within Starburst Galaxies

Third Prize

Jennifer Kadowaki, University of California, Los Angeles, Analysis of Multiband Photometry of Violently Variable Gamma-Ray Sources

Honorable Mention

Andrew Miller, Abilene Christian University, PYCBC: A toolkit for Advanced-Detector Era Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis
Macarena Sagredo, Florida International University, Angle Dependency on INTEGRAL: A study of the Satellite through Cygnus X-1 and GRS 1915+105

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Outstanding Student Poster Awards

sponsored by the American Physical Society Forum on Physics & Society

First Prize

Allen Scheie, Grove City College, The Science Committee: Science Policy on Capitol Hill

Second Prize

Kofi Christie, Morehouse College,
Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Gold Nanorods

Matthew Goszewski, Grove City College,
PhysicsQuest: Bringing Super Powers to life

Honorable Mention

Jeremy Johnson, Angelo State University, Peer Pressure at Angelo State University
Yulu Liu, Southeast University, China, Controlled Growth of Graphene by CVD

More Information

To see titles and abstracts for all posters and art, visit the PhysCon website at: www.spscongress.org/physconprogram