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'''Annual Prize'''

The JLUO BoD will award the "2019 JSA Thesis Prize" for the best Jefferson Lab related thesis at the Annual Users Organization meeting, scheduled June 22-24, 2020.


For the 2019 competition, the deadline is '''February 21, 2020''' C.O.B. EST (we thank JSA for once again fully funding this prize). A complete package requires:
*a nomination letter by a senior scientist giving the name and institution of the person being nominated and the names of three people who will send letters of recommendation
*a copy of the thesis.  
*the three letters of recommendation must be sent before the deadline, as well; it is up to the nominator and the candidate for the Prize to follow up on this.
*'''All materials must be submitted electronically to Lorelei Carlson (lorelei@jlab.org)'''

Theses completed during the calendar year 2019 are eligible, as well as theses completed during the last quarter of 2018 (if they haven't been submitted before). JSA employees and individuals receiving other support from the 2020 JSA Initiatives Fund Program are not eligible for this prize. The thesis prize submissions will be judged initially by members of JLUO BoD, followed by a panel of independent experts to select the final winner. Criteria for evaluation include quality of the written thesis, contribution of the student to the work, and contribution to JLab physics/community.


Please contact the chair of JLUO BoD ( William Brooks <william.brooks@usm.cl>) for any questions.

This project is supported by the JSA Initiatives Fund Program (http://www.jsallc.org/IF/IFProjects.html), a commitment from the JSA owners, SURA and PAE Applied Technologies. Initiatives Funds support programs, initiatives, and activities that further the scientific outreach, promote the science, education and technology of the Jefferson Lab and benefit the Lab's extended user community in ways that complement the Lab's basic and applied research missions.  

== Past Thesis Prize Award Winners (by year awarded) ==
2019: Kurtis Bartlett - First Measurements of the Parity-Violating and Beam-Normal Single-Spin
Asymmetries in Elastic Electron-Aluminum Scattering

2018: Alessandro Baroni - Nuclear Axial Currents and Selected Applications to Few-Nucleon Systems.

2017: Priyashree Roy- Measurement of Polarization Observables in Vector Meson Photoproduction Using a Transversely-Polarized Frozen-Spin Target and Polarized Photons at CLAS, Jefferson Lab

2016: Or Hen- High-Momentum Nucleons in Nuclei

2015: Cristiano Fanelli- Measurements of Polarization Transfers in Real Compton Scattering by a proton target at JLAB: a new source of information on the 3D shape of the nucleon.

2015: Adesh Subedi- Determination of the weak charge of the proton through parity violating asymmetry measurements in the elastic e+p scattering 

2014 : Rakitha S. Beminiwattha - A Measurement of the Weak Charge of the Proton through Parity Violating
Electron Scattering using the Qweak Apparatus: A 21% Result

2013 : Katherine Myers - The First Determination of the Proton's Weak Charge Through Parity-Violating Asymmetry Measurements
in Elastic e + p and e + Al Scattering

2012 : Biplab Dey - Differential cross section and polarization extractions for γp → K+Σ0 and γp→ p using CLAS at Jefferson Lab, towards a partial wave analysis in search of missing baryon resonances

2011 : Xin Qian - <i>Measurement of Single Spin Asymmetry in n(e,e'&pi;<sup>+/-</sup>)X on Transversely Polarized <sup>3</sup>He</i>

2010 : Daria Sokhan - <i>Beam Asymmetry Measurement from Pion Photoproduction on the Neutron</i>

2009 : Andrew Puckett - <i>Recoil Polarization Measurements of the Proton Electromagnetic Form Factor Ratio to High Momentum Transfer</i>

2008 : Guy Ron - <i>The Proton Elastic Form Factor Ratio at Low Q<sup>2</sup></i>

2007 : Michael Williams - <i>Measurement of Differential Cross Sections and Spin Density Matrix Elements Along with a Partial Wave Analysis for &gamma;p --> p &omega; Using CLAS at Jefferson Lab</i>

2007 : Ian Cloet - <i>Nucleon Structure Functions, Their Medium Modifications and the Polarized EMC Effect</i>

2006 : Jianglai Liu - <i>A Measurement of the Strange Quark's Contribution to the Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon</i>

2005 : Carlos Munoz Camacho - <i>Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering in Hall A of JLab</i>

2004 : Karl Slifer - <i>Spin Structure of <sup>3</sup>He and the Neutron at Low Q<sup>2</sup>; A Measurement of the Extended GDH Integral and the Burkhardt-Cottingham Sum Rule</i>

2003 : Ludyvine Morand - <i>Measurement of the Electroproduction of &omega; Mesons at Large Four-Momentum Transfer</i>

2002 : Xiaochao Zheng - <i>Precision Measurement of Neutron Spin Asymmetry A1n at Large X<sub>bj</sub> Using CEBAF at 5.7 GeV</i> 

2001 : Dave Gaskell - <i>Longitudinal Electroproduction of Charged Pions from Hydrogen, Deuterium, and <sup>3</sup>He</i>

2000 : Maud Baylac - <i>A Measurement of the Polarization of the Jefferson Laboratory Electron Beam Via the Compton Effect for the HAPPEX Experiment on Parity Violating Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering</i>

1999 : Bart Terburg - <i>High Energy Two-Body Deuteron Photodisintegration</i>

1999 : Ioanna Niculescu - <i>Inclusive Resonance Electroproduction Data from Hydrogen and Deuterium and Studies of Quark Hadron Duality</i>