The 2014 competition was open for paper submission from Oct 1, 2014 to Nov 1, 2014. We received about 100 high quality papers, and our jury then ranked these papers based on criteria of Novelty, Presentation and Expected Impact. The SICTP Gold, Silver and Bronze awards were given out during a prize distribution ceremony in the HiPC (www.hipc.org) conference held during Dec.18-21 at Goa.
The prize winning papers for the SICTP 2014 award are:
| Award | Author | Paper Title | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Ahin Roy | Wrinkling of Atomic Planes in Ultrathin Au Nanowires | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| Silver | Puneet Patra | A deterministic thermostat for controlling temperature using all degrees of freedom | Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur |
| Bronze | Vasimuddin MD | Parallel Bayesian Network Structure Learning forGenome-Scale Gene Networks | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai |
Competition Jury also nominated two papers for Honorable Mention:
| Name of Recipient | Title of Paper | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Nipun Arora | Lift-drag and flow structures associated with the "clap and fling" motion | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi |
| Saikishan Suryanarayana | Free turbulent shear layer in a point vortex gas as a problem in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
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