Achievement

On May 14, the Physics Department held the 21st Annual Student Research Symposium in Memory of Professor Stephan Berko. The symposium will end with talks by the Berko Prize winners. This year the prize is being shared by two graduating seniors, Yuri Levin-Schwartz and Sam McCandlish, and two graduate students, Andy Ward and Michael Giver (IGERT trainees). Michael Giver’s talk is titled “Stochastic Chemical Oscillations on a Spatially Structured Medium.” He works with Professor Bulbul Chakraborty. Andy Ward’s talk is titled “Friction Between Biological Filaments.” He works with Professor Zvonimir Dogic.