Nominee

Institution

Project Title

Supervisor

Beatriz Baselga Pascual

CIT

Measurement of the Dynamics of a Semiconductor Laser with Optical Feedback

Dr. Guillaume Huyet

Ciarán Kenny

UCD

The Physics of the Solar Wind

Dr. Peter Duffy

Donal O’Donoghue

UCC

Classical simulation of optically excited phonon dynamics in Bismuth

Prof. Stephen Fahy

Eilish Byrne

NUIM

Holography and Speckle Patterns

Prof. J.A. Murphy

Laura Browne

DIT

Ultraviolet Emissions from Compact Fluorescent Lamps

Dr. Tom Cantwell

Niall Donnelly

WIT

Real Time Modelling of Computational Fluid Dynamics using Compute Unified Device Architecture

Dr. Kieran Murphy

Raymond McQuaid

QUB

Domain dynamics and switching behaviour in ferroelectric mesowires

Prof. J. M. Gregg

Ronan Rochford

NUIG

Computational estimation of the critical mass of a Nuclear Fission weapon

Dr. John McDonald

Sonia Buckley

TCD

Measuring the Physical Properties of Chromosomes

Dr. Winnie Edith Svendsen

Thomas Cummins

DCU

Optical Sensors for Heavy Metal Ion Monitoring

Prof. Colette McDonagh