Award Winners

Congratulations to all of the APS 4CS 2025 Award Winners!

Harry Lustig Award

Harry Lustig Award Winner

Srijan Bhattacharyya
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Spatial memory reveals an exponentially slow onset of quantum diffusion of small polarons”

Harry Lustig Award Finalist

Zachariah Eberle
University of Arizona
“Studying Higgs Bosons and Forward Particles at the ATLAS Experiment”

Harry Lustig Award Finalist

Joshua Forsyth
Brigham Young University
“New Strategies for Discovering Quirks at Colliders”

Outstanding Poster Student Presentations

Olivia R. Cantrell
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
“”The Recommissioning of the Compact Accelerator for Performing Astrophysical Research (CASPAR)

Morgan E. Maxwell
Utah State University
“Gravity Solutions in the Cloud: A repository of General Relativity Computations”

Matthew A. Crane
University of Colorado, Denver
“A Comprehensive Overview of the Nanoscale SQUID-on-Tip Fabrication Process”

Outstanding Oral Student Presentations

Benjamin DeVries
Brigham Young University
“Rotating Q-Balls”

Ulises Thornock
Utah Valley University
“Lensless High-Resolution Imaging with Laser Interference”

Oneida Y. Moreno
Northern Arizona University
“Characterization of Surface Recombination in a MWIR InAs/InAs_0.49Sb_0.51 T2SL”

Ryan Friedman
University of Utah
“Multimessenger Studies of Seyfert Galaxies”

Arabella Quane
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Magneto-Synthesis of Metastable Metallic States in a Spin-Orbit-Coupled Trimer Iridate”

Carter R. Baldwin
Brigham Young University
“The invariant theory of chiral order parameters”

Marcos A. Calva
New Mexico State University
“Effects of Native Point Defects on Indium Antimonide”

Akshit Mehta
New Mexico State University
“Coherent Φ Meson Electroproduction off Helium-4 nuclei”

Anil Thapa
Colorado State University
“Decoupling Neutrino Magnetic Moment from Mass with SU(2)_L Invariance”

Jake Summers
Arizona State University
“Using the Binary Black Hole Population to Study Cosmology and the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background”

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The Spherical Cow Award

Jan L. Chaloupka
University of Northern Colorado
“Atoms in Intense Laser Fields: Classical Models and Bicircular Light”