Vacuum Technology Division Student Poster Competition
The competition is held annually to encourage graduate and undergraduate students to showcase the design, development, and/or operation of creative student-built vacuum systems. Though these vacuum systems may not represent the state-of-the-art in vacuum technology, they often feature original designs driven by unique use cases, and/or significant resource constraints.
Successful submissions detail innovative and/or cost-effective solutions to problems encountered in vacuum system design and/or operation in pursuit of a research goal. The driving research project, complete or not, is presented along with the vacuum-related challenges that were encountered and solved.
To be considered, graduate or undergraduate students must submit poster abstracts and applications directly to the AVS Awards submission web page, in addition to submitting their abstracts to the AVS Symposium call for abstracts under one of the VTD topics. The application deadline for entering this year’s competition is
April 14, 2025. The submissions shall be judged during the VTD poster session and cash prizes of up to $500 shall be awarded to the winners.
Please direct inquiries to VTD Student Award Coordinator, Yev Lushtak, at
yevgeniy.lushtak@ionq.co.
Awards Application