This year’s School of Physics Graduate Student Paper Prize ended in a tie.  The prize was awarded for the best paper published between October 2011 and September 2012 where a student was the major contributor. 

We congratulate the joint winners:

Michael Thomas for his paper ‘Nematic Director-Induced Switching of Assemblies of Hexagonally Packed Gold Nanorods’ (MR Thomas et al., Advanced Materials 24,4424 (2012)); and

Poemwai Chainakun for his paper ‘Ionized X-ray Reverberation Mapping: Testing a Light-Bending Model for 1H0707−495’ (P Chainakun and AJ Young, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 420, 1145 (2012)).