LOC is pleased, under the generous financial support of the Japan National Tourism Organization, to offer a framework for every SPIE ASTRO 2024 Conference chair to select “Best Paper Prizes” and “Paper Prizes” to honor their scientific/engineering achievement and/or contribution to the community supporting the conference. This will be the first occasion for SPIE ASTRO series to provide such opportunities across the conferences for participants. LOC hopes that this awarding system helps to build up career of winners.
| PRIZE WINNERS : SPIE ASTRO 2024 YOKOHAMA | ||||||
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| Conference Number | Paper-ID | Prize Title | Winners Name | Affiliation | Title of the Paper | Conference Title |
| AS101 | 13092-73 | Best Paper Prize | Niyati Desai | Caltech | Development of broadband scalar vortex coronagraphs with phase dimples for exoplanet imaging | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical/Infrared/Millimeter |
| AS101 | 13092-239 | Paper Prize | Fabrizio Cogato | INAF | Euclid commissioning results: the near infrared spectrometer and photometer (NISP) signal detection chain | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical/Infrared/Millimeter |
| AS101 | 13092-68 | Paper Prize | Sarah Steiger | Space Telescope Science Institute | Simulated performance of energy-resolving detectors towards exoplanet imaging with the Habitable Worlds Observatory | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical/Infrared/Millimeter |
| AS101 | 13092-7 | Paper Prize | Matthew Werneken | Columbia University | The Line Imaging Orbiter for Nanosatellite-Enabled Spectrographic Surveys (LIONESS) | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical/Infrared/Millimeter |
| AS102 | 13093-102 | Best Paper Prize | Agarwal, Simran | Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, USA | Straylight Analysis and Baffle design for the Aspera UV SmallSat Astrophysics mission | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024:Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
| AS102 | 13093-159 | Best Paper Prize | Saraf, Anirudh Mukund | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany | Thermal design and control of Athena WFI camera head | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024:Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
| AS102 | 13093-234 | Paper Prize | Sawada, Makoto | Department of Physics, Rikkyo University, Japan | Strategies for the in-orbit gain tracking using the Modulated X-ray Sources for the Resolve microcalorimeter spectrometer on XRISM | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024:Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
| AS102 | 13093-265 | Paper Prize | Yoshida, Yusuke | Department of physics, Nagoya University, Japan | Development of X-ray optics for the solar flare sounding rocket FOXSI-4: ray-tracing simulation | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024:Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
| AS103 | 13094-25 | Best Paper Prize | Brialyn Onodera | National Solar Observatory, USA | An update on the DKIST’s sitewide vibration surveillance and mitigation efforts | Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X |
| AS103 | 13094-197 | Best Paper Prize | Hanshin Lee | The University of Texas at Austin, USA | Post-wide-field-upgrade imaging performance evaluation of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope | Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X |
| AS103 | 13094-202 |
Best Poster Prize |
Windell H. Jones | No'eau Instrument Development, LLC, USA | The PUEO star camera: An astrometric camera for sensitive daytime high-altitude scientific balloon radio experiments. | Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X |
| AS103 | 13094-71 | Paper Prize | Martin J. Dyer | The Univ. of Sheffield, UK | The gravitational-wave optical transient observer (GOTO) | Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X |
| AS104 | NA | Interferometry Imaging Prize | Julien Drevon | European Southern Observatory | NA | Optical and Infrared Interferometry and imaging IX |
| AS104 | NA | Michelson Lifetime Achievement Prize | Peter Tuthill | The University of Sydney | NA | Optical and Infrared Interferometry and imaging IX |
| AS104 | NA | Fizeau Lifetime Achievement Prize | Steve Ridgway | National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRlab) | NA | Optical and Infrared Interferometry and imaging IX |
| AS104 | 13095-35 | Best Thesis Presentation Prize | Lucinda Lilley | The University of Sydney | Polarimetric, non-redundant aperture masking with next generation VAMPIRES: new instrumental capabilities, | Optical and Infrared Interferometry and imaging IX |
| AS104 | 13095-55 | Best Thesis Presentation Prize | Myriam Bonduelle | Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble | Mid infrared (L-band : 3.4-4.1 µm) electro-optic couplers and splitters in lithium | Optical and Infrared Interferometry and imaging IX |
| AS106 | 13097-268 | Best Paper Prize | Michiel Darcis | Leiden University, Nederlands | KARAOCE: KID array and adaptive optics for characterizing exoplanets | Adaptive Optics Systems |
| AS106 | 13097-185 | Best Paper Prize | Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian | Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India | Design of AO and MCAO systems for Kodaikanal Tower Telescope (KTT) | Adaptive Optics Systems |
| AS108 | 13099-39 | Best Presentation Prize | Joseph M. Howard | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA | Optical Modeling Activities for NASA's Roman Space Telescope: II. Integrated Modeling Updates, Correlations, and Predictions | Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy XI |
| AS108 | 13099-78 |
Best Poster Prize |
Amaia Santiago | INTA Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Spain | Emergency protocol activation at INTA as test house for Plato: saving PLATO CAMs under unexpected events | Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy XI |
| AS109 | 13100-62 | Best Oral Presentation | Ariadna Calcines Rosario | Durham University, UK | The State-of-the-Art of Image Slicers: Best Performance and Characteristics Obtained in Glass and Metal | Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI |
| AS109 | 13100-145 | Best Poster Presentation | Catlynn Vicuna | University of Hawai'i, USA | Mass fabrication considerations of pre-spectrograph wavelength splitter and pupil slicer units for fiber optic based multi-object spectroscopy | Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI |
| AS109 | 13100-216 | Best Student Presentation | Nuno M. Gonçalves | Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal | Design trade-offs for a reduced-size cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph with a Cassegrain collimator | Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI |
| AS109 | 13100-247 | Best Student Presentation | Elizabeth Arcadi | Macquarie University, Australia | Optimisation of laser-written tricouplers for nulling interferometry in the J- and H-band | Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation VI |
| AS112 | 13103-17 | Excellent Early Career Presentation | Riko Shimizu | The Graduate Univ. for Advanced Studies, Japan | Evaluation of a CMOS sensor for solar flare soft X-ray imaging spectroscopy onboard the sounding rocket FOXSI-4 | X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy XI |
| AS112 | 13103-36 | Excellent Early Career Presentation | Sophia A. Sanchez-Maes | Ctr. for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA | SSAXI - Rocket back-illuminated CMOS Sensors | X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy XI |
| AS112 | 13103-62 | Excellent Early Career Presentation | Jake H. Zimmer | Caltec, USA | Multichannel video processor for skipper CCD readout | X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy XI |
