CPS Summer Meeting 2024 Presentation Prize Winners!

We are delighted to announce the Student Presentation Prize winners from the CPS Summer Meeting held on Thursday 4th July at UCL. The review panel had a difficult task as there was a particularly high standard of talks and posters this year, so congratulations to all those who took part! The receipients are each awarded a certificate in addition to the gift voucher prizes mentioned below.

Talks 

There were no eligible ECR presentations this year, so prizes for talks have been awarded in two categories:

Undergrad/Masters students

In first prize, a 50 GBP Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Leyla Iskandarli (BSc Physics, UCL P&A): Investigating Companions to the Helix Nebula Central Star

 A runner-up prize of 25 GBP Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Brahma Gopalchetty (MSc Space Science & Engineering, UCL MSSL): Titan Atmospheric Research Ascendant (TARA) Mission: Analyzing Titan's Atmospheric Dynamics and Evolution of Pre-Biotic Environment

 
PhD students

In first prize, a 50 GBP Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Jack Davey (UCL P&A): The Effect of Spectroscopic Binning on Atmospheric Retrievals

 4 runner-up prizes of 25 GBP Love2Shop Voucher are awarded to each of the following:

• Hiba Noor (UCL P&A):  White Dwarf Pollution: One Star or Two?
• Catherine Regan (UCL MSSL): Eyes on Mars - Final Evaluation
• Angharad Weeks (UCL MSSL): Younger Stars Host Denser Rocky Planets
• Jake Hanlon (UCL MSSL): Quantifying Solar Radiation Pressure Effects on Dust at Small Heliocentric Distances

Posters

A first prize of a £50 Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Jess Caughtry (UCL MSSL): From Earth to Europa: An Exploration into Sulphur-Ice Environments

A runner-up prize of 25 GBP Love2Shop Voucher is awarded to:

• Ross Dobson (UCL MSSL, CDT-DIS): How many radial velocity observations are required to mass-characterise exoplanets?

Many congratulations to all the winners and for the excellent standard of work and presentations from all our student entries! 

Thank you to the presentation prize panel: Andrew Coates, Andrew Rushby, Karen Anne Devoil, Nick Achilleos and Jo Fabbri. 

There were a total of 16 talks and 9 posters with almost 40 attendees at the meeting, and it was great to see colleagues from all four CPS departments: UCL Physics and Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Space and Climate Physics (MSSL) and Birkbeck Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Many thanks again to all those who presented and attended for making the CPS Summer Meeting 2024 such a successful and enjoyable day!