Travel awards were presented to sixteen recipients at the recent 13th International Conference on Modern Trends in Activation Analysis. The expressed focus of the meeting was renewal and revitalization of nuclear analytical methods with an eye towards identifying those unique approaches and applications that are likely to be vital in the future – a future where these young people will be instrumental in any successes to be achieved. To this end, the organizers, Texas A&M and our other sponsors wanted to make sure that financial support for attendance was tied to innovative youthful participation.

Each awardee, selected based on an application letter, a letter of support from an established scientist acting as his or her sponsor and a submitted abstract of completed work, received complimentary registration and $1000 USD towards the travel costs associated with his/her attendance at the conference. The monetary award was presented at a special ceremony during the conference banquet on Thursday evening, March 17, 2011. Presentation photos for each awardee can be viewed by selecting the link his/her name. Please join us in congratulating the list of recipients presented below in PDF.

Student Awardees:

• Mr. Nuno Canha, Technical and Nuclear Institute (ITN), Portugal
• Ms. Catarina Galinha, Technical and Nuclear Institute (ITN), Portugal
• Mr. Dmitriy Grozdov, Geochemical and Analytical Chemistry Institute, Russian Federation
• Mr. Mohammad Amirul Islam, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Ms. Sabrina Metairon, Instituto Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN/CNEN), Brazil
• Ms. Ayumi Miura, Rissho University, Japan
• Ms. Madison Sellers, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
• Mr. Stefan Söllradl, Bern University, Switzerland
• Mr. Masaki Takimoto, Kyoto University, Japan
• Mr. Bruno Vieira, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
• Mr. Miroslav Vins, Nuclear Research Institute, Czech Republic

Young Scientist Awardees:

• Mr. Ryo Okumura, Kyoto University, Japan
• Dr. Rachel Popelka-Filcoff, Flinders University, Australia
• Dr. Shun Sekimoto, Kyoto University, Japan
• Dr. Nickie Peters, University of Missouri, USA
• Dr. Moumata Maiti, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India