FRITZ LONDON MEMORIAL PRIZE
Nominations are sought for the Fritz London Memorial Prize for Low Temperature Physics, which will be presented at the International Low Temperature Conference (LT30) in Bilbao, Spain, in August 2025.
The Fritz London Memorial Prize is an international prize supported by the endowment created at Duke University by John Bardeen, a generous gift from the late Horst Meyer, and donations from Oxford Instruments. It is awarded once every three years and is intended to recognize outstanding experimental and theoretical contributions to low temperature physics. Background information and a list of previous London Prize winners can be found at: https://physics.duke.edu/fritz-london-memorial-prize
The members of the 2025 London Memorial Prize Committee are: P. Hakonen (Chair, Aalto U., Finland), Eva Andrei (Rutgers U., USA), Laura Greene (FSU and MagLab, USA), H. Mooij (TU Delft, Netherlands), and Y. Okuda (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan).
Nominations and supporting letters should be sent to the Chair of the Prize Committee:
Prof. Pertti Hakonen
pertti.hakonen@aalto.fi
Subject: London Memorial Prize
The deadline for the receipt of nominations and supporting letters is November 15, 2024.
The nomination letter should clearly state all of the following:
The basis for the proposed prize.
Publications on which the nomination is based.
An assessment of the impact on the low temperature community.
Relevant biographical information and institutional affiliation.
Supporting letters (no more than 4) should be submitted together with the nomination materials.
There are no restrictions on who could receive this award. It has been the policy of the committee to avoid giving the award for work that has already been recognized by the Simon Memorial Prize or by other comparable awards. The committee also looks more favorably on recent work as compared to work whose significance has been apparent for a long time.
2025 SIMON MEMORIAL PRIZE
The Simon Memorial Prize, established in 1957, commemorates the outstanding contributions to science of Sir Francis Simon. The prize is an international prize with no restrictions on nationality. It is awarded for distinguished work in experimental or theoretical low temperature physics.
Nominations should be sent to the Secretary of the Simon Memorial Prize Selection Panel, Prof. Andrew Armour, andrew.armour@nottingham.ac.uk, by November 15, 2024, together with a supporting statement describing the achievements for which the prize should be awarded. Additional letters supporting the nomination from colleagues with relevant expertise are also welcome and should be submitted together with the nomination. Selection policy is to avoid presenting the prize to previous winners of the Simon Memorial Prize or the Fritz London Memorial Prize.
The prize presentation will take place at the 30th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT30), Bilbao, August 2025.
The most recent winners of the prize are:
Jukka Pekola (2020)
Louis Taillefer (2017)
Peter Wölfle (2014)
Sergey V. Iordanskii and Nikolai B. Kopnin (2011)
Yasunobu Nakamura and Jaw-Shen Tsai (2008)
Grigory Volovik (2004)
Giorgio Frossati (2001)
For further details see https://www.iop.org/physics-community/special-interest-groups/low-temperature-group/simon-memorial-prize
The Simon Memorial Prize is supported financially by Oxford Instruments and administered by the Low Temperature Group of the Institute of Physics, UK.
OLLI V. LOUNASMAA MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
This international prize is awarded once every three years, and it is intended to recognize outstanding contributions to low temperature physics and related fields. The Prize, founded in 2004, is a tribute to the founder of strong Finnish research tradition both in low temperature physics and neuroscience.
Background information and previous Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize winners can be found on https://www.aalto.fi/en/ovl-memorial-prize. Since 2016, the Prize has been sponsored by Bluefors, a spin-out of the Low Temperature Laboratory that was established by Lounasmaa in 1965.
The members of the 2025 Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize committee are: Mika Sillanpää (chair, Aalto University), Anssi Salmela (Bluefors), Bill Halperin (Northwestern University), Christian Enss (Heidelberg University), Hervé Courtois (Université Grenoble Alpes), Hiroshi Fukuyama (The University of Tokyo), Jeevak Parpia (Cornell University), and Silke Bühler-Paschen (Vienna University of Technology).
Nominations and supporting letters should be sent to:
Prof. Mika Sillanpää
mika.sillanpaa@aalto.fi
The deadline for the receipt of nomination material is January 15, 2025. The prize is presented at the LT30 conference.
IUPAP YOUNG SCIENTIST PRIZE IN LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
The Commission on Low Temperature Physics (C5) of IUPAP solicits nominations of outstanding experimental or theoretical physicists for its 2025 Early Career Scientist Prize. https://iupap.org/awards/young-scientist-prizes/#:~:text=Early%20Career%20Scientist%20(former%20Young%20Scientist)
Prizes will be presented at the 30th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT30), Bilbao, Spain, August 7-13, 2025. https://www.lt30.es
The Prize includes a medal, certificate, monetary award, and an invited presentation at LT30.
Nominees are expected to have made original and outstanding contributions to the field of low temperature physics. If the work was performed in collaboration, the leading personal contribution of the nominee to the achievements should be clearly identifiable. Successful candidates will have up to 8 years of research experience following the award of their PhD (excluding career interruptions) at the deadline for submission of nominations, 15 January 2025.
Nominations should consist of a single pdf file, named after the nominee, comprising: a nomination letter which includes a suggested citation of less than 20 words; two additional supporting letters from experts without a conflict of interest (i.e. doctoral or postdoctoral mentor, or close collaborator) which detail the nominee’s qualifications and scientific achievements; a CV; and a list of publications. Nominations should be mailed to both the C5 commission chair, Naoto Nagaosa: nagaosa@riken.jp, and Secretary Richard Haley: r.haley@lancaster.ac.uk,before 15 January 2025 23:59 UTC.
IUPAP C5 welcomes applications from women and from underrepresented groups in the field of low temperature physics.
