Sameer Hemmady Wins the 2006 GSNP Student Speaker Award

Sameer Hemmady, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, was the recipient of the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP) Student Speaker award. The award was presented to Hemmady at the 2006 American Physical Society's March Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

There were 12 nominations and five finalists. The finalists spoke in a special morning session at the meeting. Hemmady was chosen as the best student speaker. His talk was entitled, "Universal Impedance, Admittance and Scattering Fluctuations in Quantum-Chaotic Systems."

Hemmady's research advisors are Drs. Steven Anlage, Thomas Antonsen and Edward Ott.