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IACT Junior Travel Awards
for Graduate Students
to attend the joint meeting of the International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics and the Calorimetry Conference (5th to 10th August, 2018)
The Award
Applications for up to two IACT Junior Awards are invited from PhD candidates, or recent PhD graduates, planning to attend the 25th International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics and the 73rd Calorimetry Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, USA from August 5th to 10th, 2018. Full details of the joint meeting are available on the conference website. These awards, made possible by the kind sponsorship of Elsevier, comprise a certificate, to be presented at the conference, a waiver of the conference registration fee, and a contribution towards the costs of travel and subsistence to attend the conference. Recipients must attend the conference and present a paper on the topic of their PhD dissertation.
How to apply
Qualified PhD students or recent graduates should apply by email to Prof. Watson Loh, Counsellor of IACT wloh@iqm.unicamp.br. The application must contain:
- The (preliminary) title of the candidate’s PhD dissertation.
- A one-page abstract of the presentation intended to be given by the candidate at the conference, including their name, affiliation and e-mail address.
- A curriculum vitae of the applicant providing an overview of academic activities, such as academic degrees obtained to date, graduate courses attended and, if any, scientific papers published and/or conferences attended.
- An official recommendation statement from the dissertation supervisor confirming either that the PhD was awarded within the last two years or that the PhD dissertation will be submitted and defended not later than 28 February, 2019.
The deadline for applications to be received is 15 May 2018 and the Award Committee will announce the winner on or before 1 June 2018
2018 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION |
The Award Committee will start the selection process immediately after the deadline.
IACT Junior Awards History
These awards, which are sponsored by Elsevier, are made every two years for excellence in thermodynamics. The winners receive a certificate. In addition, the Conference registration fee will be waived, and assistance given towards travel and subsistence so that the Award winners can present their papers at the ICCT.
2016 Recipients of the IACT Awards are:
Dr Bo Song
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
Presentation: Accurate Virial Coefficients of Gaseous Krypton from A State-of-The-Art Ab Initio Potential
2014 Recipients of the IACT Awards are:
Poorandokht Ilani-Kashkouli
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Presentation: Phase Equilibria of Semi-Clathrate Hydrates of Carbon Dioxide + TBPB or TBANO3
2012 Recipients of the IACT Awards are:
Samuel Venancio de Sousa Freitas
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Presentation: Measurement and Prediction of the Speed of Sound of Biodiesel Fuels
Ulrike Kummer
Helmholtz- Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf - Institute of Ressourcenecology
Presentation: Denaturation studies of S-layer proteins by using Differential Scanning Calorimetry
2010 Recipients of the IACT Awards are:
Dr. Ala Bazyleva (Post doc)
University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada
Presentation: Phase behavior of Athabasca bitumen
Dr. Gennady Gor (Post doc)
Rutgers University of New Jersey, U.S.A.
Presentation: Thermodynamics of Adsorption-Induced Deformation of Mesoporous Solids
Dr. Yoshimitsu Kohama (Post doc)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Presentation: AC Specific Heat and Magnetocaloric Effect Measurements for Short Pulsed Magnetic Fields.
Hongli Liu (Graduate Student)
Hunan Central University (China) and Osaka Kinki University (Japan)
Presentation: Thermodynamic Properties of o-, m- and p-Structure Isomers
M.S. Santosh (Graduate Student)
National Institute of Technology Mangalore, India
Presentation: Volumetric, Refractometric and Excess Properties of Glycylglycine in Aqueous FeCl2 solution at temperatures T = (288.15 to 318.15) K
Maria Toikka (Graduate Student)
St Petersburg State University, Russia
Presentation: Experimental Study of Thermodynamic Peculiarities of the Reacting Systems: Critical States, Phase and Chemical Equilibrium in the Quaternary System with Ester Synthesis Reaction
Dr. Takeshi Yamada (Post Doc)
Institute for Solid State Physics Tokyo, Japan
Presentation: Phase Transitions and Dynamics of Water in Nano-Porous Copper Rubeanate
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