C19. THE IUPAP YOUNG SCIENTISTS PRIZE IN ASTROPHYSICS

THE IUPAP YOUNG SCIENTISTS PRIZE IN ASTROPHYSICS

Commission 19 (Astrophysics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics is pleased to announce that the decision had been made to present two young scientists' prizes in astrophysics for 2009 and 2010 at the 25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics in Heidelberg in December 2010.

The Committee received 13 nominations for the two awards, all of them for outstanding young researchers. After a long and complex considerations the following decisions were made:

* 2009 award - Dr. Thomas Schweizer of MPI Munich for his work
on the MAGIC project

* 2010 award - Dr. Poonam Chandra of Royal Military College, Canada,
for radio detections of distant gamma ray bursts and supernovae

PREVIOUS YOUNG ASTROPHYSICISTS' PRIZE LAUREATES:

2008

* Eiichiro Komatsu - Winner
* Marta Volonteri - Honorable mention
* Sarah Gallagher - Honorable mention

2006

* Marta Burgay

Chair: M. Victoria Fonseca
Dept. Fisica Atomica, Molecular y Nuclear Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Complutense de Madrid E-28040 Madrid SPAIN
Email: fonseca@gae.ucm.es

Commission Secretary: Bozena Czerny
Copernicus Astronomical Center
Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw
POLAND
Email: bcz@camk.edu.pl

Selection Committee Chair: Virginia Trimble
Physics Dept Univ of California Irvine CA 92697-4575 USA
Email: vtrimble@uci.edu