Wednesday, January 29, 2025
The 2023-2024 WCA Student Paper Prize was jointly awarded to Chloe M. Cheng for her paper "Initial mass function variability from the integrated light of diverse stellar systems" and to Andrew M. M. Reeves for his paper "How many stars form in galaxy mergers?". Honourable mention was given to Alan B. H. Nguyen ("Self-calibrating BAO measurements in the presence of Small Displacement Interlopers") and Kiana Salehi ("Photon Rings and Shadow Size for General Integrable Spacetimes").
Chloe's paper is summarized in this short video.