Student Prizes
At every Annual Scientific Meeting, prizes are awarded for the best Student Talks and Posters. The number of these prizes has varied over the years. A list of recent prize winners is given below.
List of Past Winners
(based on year of the ASM meeting)
- 2019
- Talks
- 1st: Isobel Romero-Shaw [Monash] Eccentricity in Binary Black Hole Coalescences Observed with Gravitational Waves
- Posters
- 1st: Jeffrey Simpson [UNSW] The GALAH Survey: Chemical tagging globular clusters to stellar streams
- 2018
- Talks
- 1st: Sarah Hegarty [Swinburne] PerSieve: understanding the role for the astronomer in the data-intensive era
- 2nd: Nikhil Sarin [Monash] An X-ray guided search for gravitational waves
- Posters
- 1st: Wael Farah [Swinburne] FRB Microstructure revealed by the real-time detection of FRB170827
- 2nd: Julian Carlin [Melbourne] Clustering of rotational glitches in the Crab pulsar
- 2017
- Talks
- 1st: Jacob Seiler [Swinburne] Exploring Reionization With Semi-Analytics: The Escape Fraction Strikes Back
- 2nd: Anna Zovaro [ANU] Catching Feedback in the Act at the Sub-kpc Scale
- Posters
- 1st: James Lau [Adelaide] The ISM towards the unidentified TeVV gamma ray sources HESS J1614-518 and HESS J1616-508
- 2nd: Pikky Atri [ICRAR Curtin] Investigating black hole formation with VLBI
- 2016
- Talks
- 1st: Rebecca McElroy [Sydney] The Close AGN Reference Survey: Mrk 1018 returns to the shadows after 30 years as a Seyfert
- 2nd (equal): Katharina Lutz [Swinburne] The HIX galaxy survey: The most HI rich galaxies in the southern hemisphere
- 2nd (equal): Ross Turner [Tasmania] Spectral estimation of energetics and composition of radio AGN
- Posters
- (equal): David Liptai [Monash] Does the PDF lead to the IMF?
- (equal): Zac Johnston [Monash] Simulations of X-ray bursts on accreting neutron stars
- 2015
- Talks
- 1st: Sarah Hegarty [Swinburne]
- 2nd: Jack Line [Melbourne]
- Posters
- 1st: Vlad Tudor [Curtin]
- 2nd: Stuart Weston [Auckland University of Technology]
- 2014
- Talks
- 1st: Emily Petroff [Swinburne/CAASTRO/CSIRO], The first real-time FRB: multi-wavelength follow-up of a fast radio burst
- 2nd : Ben McKinley [ANU/CAASTRO], Modelling of the Spectral Energy Distribution of Fornax A: Leptonic and Hadronic Production of High Energy Emission from the Radio Lobes
- Posters
- 1st: Anthea King [UQ/CAASTRO], AGN as high-redshift standard candle candidates and the role of OzDES
- 2nd (equal): Claire-Elise Green [UNSW], New detections of HC5N toward hot cores
- 2nd (equal): Daniela Opitz [UNSW], Searching for Binary Y dwarfs with the Gemini GeMS Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics system
- 2nd (equal): George Zhou [RSAA], Characterising exoplanets by their Kepler light curves
- 2013
- Talks
- 1st: Vanessa Moss [Sydney] High velocity clouds in the Galactic All Sky Survey: Catalogue
- 2nd: Andrew Casey [ANU] Adopting the Aquarius Stream: Is the Aquarius Stream the result of a disrupted classical Globular Cluster?
- Posters
- 1st: Louise Howes [ANU] Discovery of the oldest stars in the Galactic bulge
- 2nd: Bernard Meade [Swinburne] Do tiled display walls improve feature recognition in large astronomical images?
- 3rd: Scott Meyer [UWA]
- 2012
- Talks
- 1st: Christina Blom [Swinburne] NGC 4365: A key to Galaxy Formation
- 2nd: Terrence Tricco [Monash] Improved simulations of magnetic fields in star formation
- Posters
- 1st: Genevieve Shattow [Swinburne] Measuring the environments of galaxies in the high redshift Universe
- 2nd: Kitty Lo [Sydney] Automatic classification of variable 2XMM sources
- 3rd: Hauke Worpel [Monash] Does the accretion rate change during a thermonuclear bust?
- 2011
- Talks
- 1st: Simon Murphy [RSAA]
- 2nd: Morag Scrimgeour [ICRAR]
- Highly Commended: Jacinta Delhaize [ICRAR]
- Posters
- 1st: Florian Beutler [ICRAR]
- 2nd: Sarah Reeves [Sydney]
- 3rd: Holly Trowland [Sydney]
- 2010
- Talks
- 1st: Emily McNeil [RSAA]
- 2nd: Toby Potter [UWA]
- Posters
- 1st: Vanessa Moss [Sydney]
- 2nd: Holly Trowland [Sydney]
- 2009
- Talks
- 1st: Lila Wil
- 2nd: Simon Murphy [RSAA]
- Posters
- 1st: Christine Nicholls [RSAA] New Results on Long Secondary Periods in Red Giants
- 2nd: Elizabeth Maunder [RSAA] The Kinematics of Substructures in The Milky Way’s Outer Halo
- 3rd: Jacinta Delhaize [UWA] Constraining Omega_HI Through Spectral Stacking
- (all highly commended): Keith Bannister [Sydney]
- (all highly commended): Caroline Foster [Swinburne]
- (all highly commended): Chris Hales [Sydney]
- (all highly commended): Devika Kamath Kotachery [RSAA]
- (all highly commended): Stephen Parker [UNSW]
- 2008
- Talks
- 1st: Rebecca McFadden [Melbourne]
- 2nd: Kate Randall [Sydney]
- Posters
- 1st: Shane Higgs [UNSW]
- 2nd (equal): Christine Nicholls [RSAA]
- 2nd (equal): Brendan Griffen [UQ]
- 2007
- Talks
- 1st: ?
- Posters
- 1st: ?
- 2006
- Talks
- 1st: Annie Hughes [Swinburne]
- 2nd: Julian North [Sydney]
- (highly commended): Russell Jurek [UQ]
- (highly commended): Suzanne Kenyon [UNSW]
- (highly commended): Judy Mohr [Canterbury NZ]
- (highly commended): Liz Wylie [Canterbury NZ]
- Posters
- 1st: Jessie Christiansen [UNSW]
- 2nd: Daniel Bayliss [RSAA]
- (highly commended): Grant Kennedy [RSAA]
- (highly commended): Suzanne Kenyon [UNSW]
- (highly commended): Matt Owers [UNSW]
- (highly commended): Andrew Smith [Macquarie]