Stephen Brown,<\/strong> Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada<\/span> Balint Hajas, <\/strong>TU Wien, Vienna, Austria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Samuel Santana Malheiros, <\/strong>Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Sao Paulo, Brazil<\/span> These Awards honor and encourage outstanding graduate students in fields of interest to the Advanced Surface Engineering Division (ASED) of the AVS. ASED seeks to recognize students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in ASED-related fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nominee must be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nominees who receive their final research degree after the ICMCTF Abstract Submission deadline are still eligible for that year. However, previous Graduate Student Award winners are ineligible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Student’s Advisor must submit the following items to the current Chair of the ASED Awards Committee by the Abstract Submission deadline<\/strong><\/em><\/span> for the upcoming annual ICMCTF Conference (late or incomplete applications will not be evaluated):<\/p>\n\n\n\n All nomination materials must be compiled by the Student Advisor and submitted as a package. The complete<\/em><\/strong> nomination package is to be sent electronically<\/em><\/strong> to the current Chair of the ASED Awards Committee (asedawards@avs.org) such that it is received by the Abstract Submission deadline<\/strong><\/em><\/span> for the upcoming annual ICMCTF Conference. Late or incomplete application packages will not be evaluated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2025 Graduate Student Award Finalists Stephen Brown, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Balint Hajas, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria Samuel Santana Malheiros, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Sao Paulo, Brazil Purpose These Awards honor and encourage outstandingContinue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"simple-restrict-permission":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/1240"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"simple-restrict-permission","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsimple-restrict-permission&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.avs-ased.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Stephen-Brown-200x300.jpg\")
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Eligibility<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Nomination Submission and Deadline: Abstract submission deadline of the ICMCTF conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n