Graduate Instrumentation Research Award (GIRA)

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The winner of the 2018 Graduate Instrumentation Research Award was:

• Vetri Velan (UC Berkeley) for “Measurement of Light and Heat Signal Yields in Superfluid ⁴He With Calorimetric Readout”.

 

 

 

 

The following proposals (alphabetical by last name) were given honorable mentions:

• Carolyn Gee (UC Santa Cruz) for “Applications of Low Gain Avalanche Detectors: 4-Dimensional Tracking with Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors”,

 

 

 

 

• Peter Madigan (UC Berkeley) for  “Comprehensive characterization and optimization of the LArPix sensor”,

 

 

 

 

 

• Dylan Temples (Northwestern U.) for  “Improving low-mass reach of xenon TPC dark matter searches by doping with light noble elements”,

 

 

 

 

• Qing Xia (Yale U.): “Developing high-bandwidth digital data transmission for next-generation 0υββ detections”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 2018 GIRA selection panel was: Jodi Cooley (SMU), Juan Estrada (FNAL), M. Garcia-Sciveres, chair (LBNL), and R. Guenette (Harvard).