Congratulations to the best student poster award winners at the 2009 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSBP/NSHP). Each year SPIE sponsors awards for promising students presenting their research at conferences.
First Place Award Winner ($400):
Thomas Searles, Rice University - "Polarization -Dependent Magneto-Absorption Spectroscopy Of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes"
Second Place Award Winner ($200):
Trevor Rhone, Columbia University - "Optical Studies Of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Under Extreme Conditions”