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Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in
Organization
American Physical Society
1 Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740-3844
Phone Number (301)209-3200
Emails abs-help@aps.org
Level of Study Graduate Degree
Award Type Prize
Scholarship
Purpose To recognizes doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in computational physics and encourages effective written and oral presentation of research results.
Focus Physics.
Qualifications Applicants must be doctoral student (present or past) in any country for work performed as part of the requirements for a doctoral degree; nominees must have passed their thesis defense not more than 18 months before the nomination deadline.
Criteria Selection will be based on APS Council of Representatives.
Funds $1,500
$2,500
Duration Annual.
Number of Awards 1.
To Apply Applicants must be submit online nomination form; recommendation letter from nominator (generally the thesis advisor). This letter should also certify the eligibility of the student and delineate in detail the contributions of the nominee, making comparisons with others; the thesis manuscript in PDF format a thesis summary accessible to a computational scientist without specific expertise in the field of the thesis, prepared by the nominee; two additional letters of support, at least one from outside the nominee’s institution, nominee’s CV, demographics form (if known/wish to specify age, gender, race, and ethnicity of the nominee).
Deadline September 1.
Contact Email: honors@aps.org.
For more information http://www.aps.org
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