Red Sock Award (SIAG/Dynamical Systems)
Principal Guideline
The Red Sock Award is awarded by the SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems for the best poster presentation in dynamical systems by a student or postdoc at the biennial SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems. Four awards are made at each conference; each award has equal merit. A $100 prize is awarded to each of the four selected. Traditionally a red sock is given the winners as well.
Eligibility
To be eligible, a candidate must be a student or postdoc making a poster presentation at the SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems.
Submissions
Candidates will have submitted a poster presentation through the normal process for SIAM conferences. No additional application is required to be eligible for the prize.
Prize Committee
Organizers of the SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems will appoint an ad-hoc Prize Committee of judges at the conference. The number of judges shall be commensurate with the number of posters submitted. The judges will remain anonymous until the announcement of the winners. The SIAG officers will seek to ensure a diverse composition of the judges in research area, geography, employment sector (industry, national laboratories, universities), and under-represented groups.
Selection Procedures
The judges will visit the poster presenters during the scheduled event and assign individual scores (on a scale to be determined by the committee) to each presenter for his/her presentation. The Prize Committee will use the individual scores to select the four winners. If a vote is necessary, the selection is decided by a simple majority vote. The committee may select more than four winners in case of a tie.
Description of the Award
The names of the winners will be announced at the conference and each will receive a traditional red sock. The monetary award will be $100 for each winner, to be received after the conference. There will be no prize fund. The names of the winners will be published in appropriate SIAM media.
Prize History
2013 Awards
- Morgan Frank, University of Vermont
“Happiness and Movement on Twitter” - Sarah Iams, Cornell University
“Computing Stability of Mosquito Motion” - Eric Siero, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
“Dynamics of Vegetation Patterns under Slowly Varying Conditions” - Jeremy Wojcik and Tingli Xing, George State University
“Chaos: Stirred Not Shaken”
2015 Awards
- Veronica Ciocanel, Brown University
“Modeling of mRNA localization in Xenopus egg cells” - Ryan Goh, University of Minnesota
“Front-Dynamics and Pattern Selection in the Wake of Triggered Instabilities” - Lucas Lin, Stanford University
“Suppression of Complex Collective Dynamics in a Network of Theta Neurons by Synaptic Diversity” - Glenn Young, University of Pittsburgh
“Interactions of Solitary Modes in Models of Bacterial Chemotaxis”
2017 Awards
- Genevieve Brett, MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
“Chaotic Advection in the Alboran Sea: Lagrangian Analysis of Transport Processes In and Out of the Western Alboran Gyre” - Stephanie Dodson, Brown University
“Spectral Properties of Spiral Waves in the Barkley Model” - Ian McGahan, Utah State University
“28 Models Later: Best Practices for Modeling the Zombie Apocalypse with Real Data” - Vicky Chuqiao Yang
“Political Elections and Third Parties: A Mathematical Model and Empirical Evidence” - Isaac Yeaton
“Stability Properties of Flying Snakes During Transient Glides”
The next award will be made in 2019.
