| Awards |
| 2005 IBM + THIOX Prizes / Patrycja Paruch awarded |
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 Ladies first : young Polish physicist Patrycja Paruch (29) is a double prize winner this month ! |
First, on Monday February 13, she received the 2005 IBM Prize for Condensed matter physics at the last SPS meeting (see MaNEP News) for her work Nanoscale ferroelectric writing and studies of the static and dynamic properties of ferroelectric domain walls achieved at the DPMC—University of Geneva (in the group of Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone - MaNEP deputy director) and that was published in the Physical Review Letters, in May 2005. | In March, she will also get an ESF-THIOX award for young researchers. She will receive it during the THIOX meeting that will take place in Trondheim (Norway) on March 19-12 (see Agenda—last page). Patrycja Paruch has now left the University of Geneva in order to take up a post doc position at the prestigious University of Cornell (USA). |
| 2005 ABB Prize / Christian Rüegg awarded | ||
| Well done, Christian ! A native of canton Argovie, this young researcher was awarded the other SPS MaNEP prize on Monday February 13. He got the 2005 ABB Prize for General Physics for his experimental work on the Investigation of the excitation spectrums and of the field-,pressure– and |
doping induced quantum phase transitions in quantum spin systems. He worked with Prof. Albert Furrer at the LNS/ETHZ and the PSI. Christian is now making a post doc at the London University College. References : Ch. Rüegg et al., Nature 423, 62 (2003); Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 037207 (2004); Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 257201 |
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| Appointment / APS honours Jean-Marc Triscone | ||
 Congratulations also to Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone ! |
MaNEP’s Deputy Director and renowned ferrolectrics specialist has been appointed « Fellow of the American Physical Society ». This honour is reserved each year to less than 1% of the members of the APS. The APS Fellowship Program was created to « recognize members who may have made advances |
in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to to science and technology. » The official ceremony will take place in Baltimore, on March 14, 2006. |
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