Spotlight on Students at IFCS 2015

In 2015 April, UFFC-S hosted the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS) in Denver, CO. The conference was held jointly with the European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTFT). Students from all over the world attended the symposium. They brought new ideas and creative techniques. They met with other students, interacted with senior researchers, and bridged the network with the industry. To better serve students, the UFFC-S has done a few things during the IFCS meeting. Student Travel Awards. Considering that some students cannot afford the travel fee, such as air tickets and accommodation, the UFFC-S provided travel grants based on the financial difficulty and the creativity of their research work. This enabled students to share their work with the whole society. President's Student Reception. Meeting with senior researchers and engineers is a great opportunity for students to know more about the past, the present, and the future of their field. The UFFC-S held the President's Student Reception, where many well-known scientists and engineers, including the UFFC-S President Jian-yu Lu and the 2015 IFCS Committee Chair Gregory Weaver, shared their opinions and suggestions with students.

Figure 1. President’s Student Reception

Best Student Paper Awards. Seven students were selected by the UFFC-S to receive the best student paper awards. Congratulations to the winners: Gwendolyn Hummel ("Switchable 2-Port Aluminum Nitride MEMS Resonator Using Monolithically Integrated 3.6THz Cut-Off Frequency Phase-Change Switches"), Guillaume William Bres-Saix ("A Zynq Based Digital Phase and Amplitude Measurement System"), Aaron Bennett ("Precision Measurements of Quantum Scattering Phase Shifts Through Feshbach Resonances"), Taimur Aftab ("A Novel Microwave Reflector-Antenna As a Resonant Wireless Passive Mechanical Sensor"), Wei Huang, ("CGTTS results with Beidou using the R2CGTTS"), and Bjarke Takashi Rojle Christensen ("Laser Stabilization on Velocity Dependent Nonlinear Dispersion of Sr Atoms in an Optical Cavity").

Figure 2. Best Student Paper Awards. The UFFC president, Jian-yu Lu (right), and the IFCS-EFTF academic chair, Clemens Ruppel (left), announced the Best Student Paper Awards.