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CMS Thesis Awards Program |
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| Objective: |
To honor the most outstanding thesis written on research conducted in association with the CMS experiment. |
| Description: |
The CMS Thesis Award is presented each year by the Chair of the Collaboration Board at the CMS week in March. Qualifying theses must have been submitted to a CMS member institution as partial fulfillment of the Ph.D. requirements, and also to the CMS Secretariat, between July 1 of the previous calendar year and June 30 of the award year. Selections are made by a committee appointed by the Chair of the Collaboration Board. Theses written on any CMS-related work (physics analysis, simulation, computing, detector development, engineering, etc.) are eligible for nomination. Theses are judged on content (including impact within CMS and in the HEP field in general), originality, and clarity of writing. |
| Award: |
The recipient of the award receives a plaque of recognition and travel expenses to present the thesis results at an international conference. In addition, the recipient's name and the year of the award will be engraved on a plaque containing the names of all past recipients, which will reside permanently at the CMS experiment. |
| Deadline: |
The nomination deadline, which is announced during the summer each year, is before the autumn CMS week for an award presented during the CMS week in the spring of the following year. Nominations require a letter supporting the merits of the thesis to be sent by the thesis advisor or a member of the CMS collaboration who closely followed the thesis. Eight hardcopies of the thesis must be sent to the CMS Secretariat for distribution to the Award Committee. CMS requires that all theses be submitted to the Secretariat in electronic form as well (see instructions for electronic submission below). Theses will be accepted in the language which is required by the student's university, but it is assumed that an accompanying CMS note exists which translates or summarizes the thesis results in English. |
| Thesis Award Committee Members: |
M. Albrow, W. De Boer, L. Dobrzynski, G. Heath, L. Foà (chair), P. Padley, G. Snow (secretary), J. Tuominiemi |