The Award
This Sharp-funded award is designed to be given to someone who, as a
graduate student, has made a recent significant contribution to the
field of information displays. It is to be awarded to someone who is
currently a postgraduate student in the UK or Ireland. They must either
be a currently registered student or have received their postgraduate
degree after 1 April 2007.
The award is worth £500 funded by Sharp. The award
winner will present their work at the Chapter AGM meeting, where they
will be presented with their award.
The application should be made by the student, who
should describe (in not more than two pages) why their individual work
constitutes a significant contribution to the field of information
displays. This should be accompanied by letter(s) of support from the
student's supervisor(s), a brief CV including a list of publications and
copies of their key papers/patents.
Applications for the 2009 award should be sent to sharp_student_award@sid.org
in electronic form no later than 31 December 2008.
Winner 2008
The Sharp-SID Award 2008 has been won by Eero Willman
of University College, London. He received his award from the chapter
chairman, Dr Richard Harding, Merck Chemicals Ltd and was presented with
the award cheque by Dr Lesley Parry-Jones, Sharp Laboratories of Europe,
during a technical meeting held at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in
Bristol. At the meeting, he presented a paper on his work entitled,
'Three-dimensional finite-element modelling of bistable LC devices with
grating structures'.
Eero
is carrying out the research for his PhD in the Department of Electronic
and Electrical Engineering at UCL under the supervision of Dr Aníbal
Fernández and Dr Sally Day. He is aiming to submit his thesis this
summer.
His work involves developing a three-dimensional
finite-element program for modelling the hydrodynamics of nematic liquid
crystals with a variable degree of order, using the Landau-de Gennes/Qian-Sheng
theories. Some of the features of the program include a three elastic
coefficient description of elasticity, the flexoelectric effect and weak
anisotropic anchoring of the LC to solid surfaces. He then used the
program for modelling the operation of bistable LC devices with grating
surfaces in three dimensions (PABN, ZBD).
Winner 2007
The winner of the Sharp-SID Best Student Award 2007 is Dr
Adrian Cable of Light Blue Optics, who completed his PhD under Tim
Wilkinson at the University of Cambridge. Adrian's work has resulted in
an algorithm, which allows binary phase holograms to be generated in
real time.
The award was presented
to Adrian at the Chapter AGM in April by Dr Steve Bold, Managing
Director of Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Oxford. At the technical
meeting, which followed the AGM, Adrian presented a paper based on his
work, entitled, 'Real-time two- and three-dimensional holographic video
projection using the one-step phase retrieval approach'.
This paper received the Alfred Woodhead Best Paper Award for the
meeting, judged by those attending.
