Following the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018, we are pleased to announce that the 2018 Paul and May Chu Undergraduate Research Award will be awarded to Tong WANG, and the Honorable Mention will be awarded to Long Him CHEUNG. The Paul and May Chu UG Research Award is the highest honor offered by the Department of Physics to recognize outstanding research in physics conducted by an undergraduate student.
Tong WANG has worked on experimental soft matter physics under the supervision of Prof. Ophelia TSUI at HKUST. He demonstrated that the thickness dependence of the glass transition temperature of copolymer films can be controlled by strategically adjusting the composition of the copolymer.
Long Him CHEUNG has worked on the collective behavior of active Brownian particles under the supervision of Prof. H. Eugene STANLEY at Boston University and on complex network under the supervision of Prof. Kwok Yip SZETO at HKUST.
For the details of the award, please check the HKUST Physics UG Scholarship website: http://www.phys.ust.hk/scholarship/
Congratulations to Tong WANG and Long Him CHEUNG!
Sincerely yours,
Prof. Penger Tong
Head, Department of Physics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Prof. Shengwang Du
Chair, UG Scholarship Task Group
Department of Physics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
