The Poster Results Are In...
This morning, the results of the SURA poster competition were announced and I was so excited when my name was called out for the first-place prize! :) I am so happy about it! I have been grinning so much today that my facial muscles are starting to get tired. I couldn't wait to send an email message to the other G0 graduate students to tell them the wonderful news (they were happy too). Jianglai and I went out to lunch to celebrate this afternoon. It has been a great day. Yay!
I was so excited about it all that it took me a while before I could
concentrate on the two-photon exchange talks that went on this
afternoon. :)
The second-place prize went to another William and Mary graduate student, my friend Chris Tennant, whose poster about beam breakup in the FEL (Free Electron Laser) I had been admiring during the poster session since it hung on the other side of the poster board from mine. The third-place prize was shared by my friends Tanja Horn (a Hall C graduate student from the University of Maryland) and Peter Monaghan (a Hall A graduate student from MIT). The SURA thesis prize this year went to Karl Slifer. So, there were quite a few very happy people! :)
The members of the G0 collaboration have been sending emails of congratulations, which makes me feel really good. It is really fun to have so many cool people around!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Posted by: aalu paneer | June 22, 2005 at 06:53 PM
Congratulations! One step closer to Time Magazine thingy :-)
Posted by: pedram | June 22, 2005 at 07:49 PM
Looks like a nice poster! Where did you find a plotter big enough to print it?
Posted by: Aaron | June 23, 2005 at 08:12 AM
Way to go, Sarah/////
Posted by: Aunt Nancy | June 24, 2005 at 05:07 PM
Dear sara,
Accept my congratulations for first award .
i wisht you success in all of your life with physics.
with regard.
Posted by: alber fathi | June 24, 2005 at 09:44 PM
Hi Everyone,
Thank you so much for your comments and encouragement! I am so excited about this; it feels really good to have all that hard work pay off. :) Yay!
Best Wishes and Thanks,
Sarah K
Posted by: Sarah | June 27, 2005 at 03:27 PM
Hi Aaron,
The Document Control Group here at Jefferson lab has these really big cool printers that print the posters onto a high-grade, glossy paper. The finished poster is pretty big, 3 feet by 4 feet. I posted a photograph of one of these printers in one of my posts on April 15 (the one about preparing for the Open House).
http://qd.typepad.com/33/2005/04/preparing_for_t.html
With Regards,
Sarah K
Posted by: Sarah | June 27, 2005 at 03:49 PM
Hi Aunt Nancy!
I'll be driving through New Hampshire on my way to the Gordon Conference in Maine in a couple of weeks! I'll have to stop in on the way up and get some hugs! :)
With Lots of Hugs,
Sarah K
Posted by: Sarah | June 27, 2005 at 03:51 PM
Hey Sarah!!!
Congratulations!!! Your poster so rocked - it was all the blue that did it! ;)
This is the first thing I've read on QD since I've been back, and de-jetlagged enough to be coherent. I'll send you pics of yourself this evening for you to put up.
Gotta run - got our baryon meeting in 45 min!
Claire
Posted by: claire | June 28, 2005 at 05:18 AM