OYRA AwardAKPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) 2013
2013 AKPA Award Committee Report
The AKPA OYRA Award Committee thoroughly reviewed all documentation submitted for its consideration in support of the candidates. The committee also conducted its work through numerous discussions by telephone and email. The successful OYRA candidates would especially demonstrate their potential for: (1) creative, substantive advance in their own subfield in physics; (2) a professional success as a physicist. After exhaustive and careful review, the four members of the committee unanimously recommends Dr. Sukbum Chung of UCLA and Dr. Gyu-Boong Jo of UC Berkeley for the 2013 OYRA winners:
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Dr. Sukbum Chung: Dr. Chung is a condensed matter theorist. Much effort of his recent work goes into the study of topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions in a hybrid structure such as a superconductor with a strongly spinorbit coupled system. Reference letters from the leading physicists in the field commented that he is exceptionally deep, mathematically highly sophisticated, and most important of all, he has the unique ability to translate deep theoretical ideas into testable experimental predictions. Dr. Chung has great promise to be an intellectual force in the field and a leading physicist of his generation. |
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Dr. Gyu-Boong Jo: Dr. Jo is an experimentalist in the field of ultra-cold atomic physics. He studies the quantum behavior of atoms at temperature near absolute zero using laser cooling methods. He carried out groundbreaking experimental research including the recent realization of Kagome lattice - a pattern of corner sharing triangular plaquettes in ultra-cold Rb atoms. He has an exceptionally creative experimental skills and strong theoretical understanding noted by leading theorists. Dr. Jo shows exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge in the field. |
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