The C3 Commission (Statistical Physics) of IUPAP is pleased to announce that the Young Scientist Award for 2016 has been awarded during STATPHYS26 to Lisa Manning and Martin Lenz.
Lisa Manning (2016 Young Scientist Winner), Itamar Procaccia (Chairman of the IUPAP C3 commission), Martin Lenz (2016 Young Scientist Winner).
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Lisa Manning
in recognition of her outstanding statistical physics contributions to the fields of granular materials, jamming, and biological cell dynamics.
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Short Biography:
Manning has become a clear leader in the community studying glassy dynamics and jamming, and has also established the importance of these phenomena to biological tissues. In glasses, she has used random matrix theory to uncover universal vibrational properties, and has identified soft vibrational modes as harbingers of local failure. In biology, she has explored the competition between cell-cell adhesion and cortical tension to understand surface tension at the tissue level. Further, she discovered that this competition controls a new rigidity transition in tissues, a startling new member of the jamming transition family that is relevant to asthma and likely also to embryogenesis, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
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Martin Lenz
For his remarkable creativity in using active processes in living cells as a rich source of new ideas in statistical physics. At the same time, he shows how these ideas can inspire new thinking in biology proper.
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Short Biography:
Lenz' main contributions concern two quite different but ultimately related areas: the structure and dynamics of the cytoskeleton on the one hand, and the mechanics of protein-induced remodelling of the cell membrane on the other hand. Both of these problems involve understanding how non-equilibrium driving forces establish the structure of the cell. In these problems, the existing knowledge of the biological actors at the molecular scale is still only partial, and Lenz has displayed great subtlety in producing robust theoretical results in sensitive to unknown molecular details.
The Young Scientist Prize in Statistical Physics has recently been established by the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the IUPAP. The Prize is aimed at recognizing outstanding achievements of scientists at early stages of their career in the field of Statistical Physics. The recipients must be no more than eight years past PhD on July 1, 2016, and are expected to have displayed significant achievement and exceptional promise for future achievements in the area of experimental or theoretical Statistical Physics. The Prize consists of a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient, a Medal and 1000 euros.
Nominations for the award should be sent to Chairman of the C3 Commission of the IUPAP (Itamar.Procaccia@gmail.com) before December 31st, 2015. The recipients must be no more than eight years past PhD on July 1, 2016, and are expected to have displayed significant achievement and exceptional promise for future achievements in the area of experimental or theoretical Statistical Physics. Please send a nomination letter, typically 1-2 pages, with justification and references.
The C3 Commission is pleased to announce that the Young Scientist Prize will be awarded during STATPHYS26.
Previous awardees of the Young Scientist Prize are:
2007 Giulio Biroli and Tomohiro Sasamoto
2010 Davide Marenduzzo
2013 Takahiro Sagawa and Kazumasa Takeuchi
