2003 Award Winners
John Dawson Prize
(for pioneering advances to plasma physics obtained through
simulations)
Prof. C. K. (Ned)
Birdsall and Dr.
A. Bruce Langdon for their pioneering work and
leadership in constructing the systematic scientific framework
for particle simulation of plasmas and for their numerous significant
contributions to plasma physics arising from simulations.
Oscar Buneman Awards
Best Animation
P.J.Mardahl, K.L.Cartwright, A.D.Greenwood,
T.Murphy, M.D.Haworth, M.Lopez
High power microwave tube verification and design using the ICEPIC
3D parallel, electromagnetic PIC code
Best Still Image
V.I.Sotnikov, B.S.Bauer, J.N.Leboeuf,
P.Hellinger, P.Travnicek, V.Fiala
Hybrid Simulations of Z-pinches
Best Graduate Student Presentations
Best Student Talk
Jorge Carretero, MIT
Numerical Simulation of a Colloidal Thruster in the Mixed Ion-Droplet
Regime
Best Student Poster Presentation
Justin Koo, U. Michigan
Computational Modeling of a Hall Thruster
