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Approved by Ramona Vogt, GHP Secretary/Treasurer</td>
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<td style="color:#3e2e08;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;line-height:125%;text-align:left;padding-bottom:10px;padding-top:10px" valign="top" class=""><b class="">The
Topical Group
on Hadronic
Physics
solicits
nominations
for the
Dissertation
Award in
Hadronic
Physics</b><br class="">
Nomination
Deadline:
September 6,
2016<br class="">
<br class="">
This award is
intended to
recognize a
Ph.D. in
hadronic
physics
obtained in
the last two
years. The
award consists
of $1,000 plus
an allowance
for travel to
the biennial
GHP Meeting
where the
award will be
presented. The
2017 award
will be
presented at
the 2017 GHP
Meeting, held
February 1 -
3, 2017 in
Washington,
D.C., directly
following the
APS April
Meeting and in
the same
hotel.<br class="">
<br class="">
Nominations
are open to
any student
member of GHP
who has
received a
Ph.D. degree
in
experimental
or theoretical
hadronic
physics within
the two-year
period
preceding
September 6,
2016.
Nominations of
women and
members of
other
under-represented
groups are
encouraged.<br class="">
<br class="">
The nomination
package should
include:
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<li class="">The name
and address of
the candidate</li>
<li class="">A
statement of
the
candidate's
contribution
to the
research</li>
<li class="">A letter
of support
from the
candidate's
Ph.D.
dissertation
advisor</li>
<li class="">Two
additional
letters of
support from
physicists
familiar with
the candidate
and the
research</li>
<li class="">A copy of
the
candidate's
dissertation</li>
</ul>
The
nominations
will be
evaluated
based on the
quality of the
written
dissertation
(40%), the
contribution
of the student
to the
research
(30%), the
impact of the
work (15%),
and the
broader
involvement of
the student in
the community
(15%).<br class="">
<br class="">
The
nominations
should be
sent,
preferably by
email, to the
Chair of the
Dissertation
Award
Committee:<br class="">
Raju
Venugopalan<br class="">
Physics
Department,
Brookhaven
National
Laboratory<br class="">
Upton, NY
11973<br class="">
Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:raju@bnl.gov" style="color:#004f74;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" class="">raju@bnl.gov</a><br class="">
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The other
committee
members are
Silas Beane,
Volker Crede,
Anna Stasto,
and Xioachao
Zheng.</td>
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