Call for Candidates to the First Annual Goldsmid Award
The International Thermoelectric Society announces the Goldsmid Award for
Excellence in Research in Thermoelectrics by a Graduate Student.
The award is sponsored by Marlow Industries, Inc. and carries a cash prize of
one thousand dollars ($1000) and a Descriptive Certificate and will be presented
at the Banquet of the 18th International Conference on Thermoelectrics.
Eligibility:
Ph.D candidate graduate students holding a Master Degree or its equivalent who is actively engage in theoretical, experimental, synthesis or device
research in the field of thermoelectrics.
Criteria for selection:
The winner will be chosen from among the applicants by a Selection Panel who will consider in evidence such things as:
- Journal Articles with publication dates, acceptance dates or submission dates in the 24 months preceding the conference.
- Presentations at local, national and international meetings as well as invited
seminars and colloquia in the same time period.
- Letters of reference.
- Other recognition.
Selection Panel:
Conference Chair or his designee is Panel Chair. The Panel Deputy Chair will be
the ITS Vice-President (or the ITS President's designee when the Vice-President position is vacant). The Panel Chair with the help of the Deputy Chair will
nominate up to but not exceeding six other non-ITS Board members representing various geographical regions. The panel selection is done at the ICT for the
upcoming year.
Application:
Should be sent to ICT Chairman and include 8 copies of:
- Letter of nomination from thesis advisor.
- Resume.
- Copies of publications, acceptances or submissions in the last 24 months. First authorship will be factored in.
- Titles and locale of presentations given in the last 24 months.
- Letters of reference (no more than 3)
The Panel Chair must receive applications at least 4 weeks before the conference and have them in the hands of the panelists at least 3 weeks
before. Each panelist will rank the applications using a standardized format that will weigh in the different criteria, and will submit the results
to both the Panel Chair and Deputy Chair by e-mail. Ties will be resolved by vote organized by email or by conference call among all Panelists. If there
is any difficulty in the winner attending the conference the organizing committee will endeavor to aid the winner in any way feasible in doing so.
Due to the limited amount of time left before ICT99, the following modifications
will apply to the award rules listed above:
- The Panel members will be selected within the next couple of weeks from
this announcement by the ICT99 Conference Chairman with the help of the ITS Vice-President.
- Applications must be received by the Panel Chair (ICT99 Conference Chairman) by
August 16, 1999. The applications will then be forwarded to each panelist by
August 23, 1999 for review and ranking.
Applications should be mailed to:
- Dr. Al Ehrlich
- "Goldsmid Award" 1999 Panel Chair
- care of Ms. Wendy Lozano
- Strategic Analysis Inc.
- 4001 N. Fairfax Drive
- Suite 175
- Arlington, VA 22203, USA
- TEL: +01-703-276-2229 / FAX: +01-703-527-0653
- E-mail: ict99@its.org
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