As part of our promotional activities to highlight the success of the journal, PCCP is presenting a series of prizes at conferences throughout 2007.

A Poster Prize were awarded at the recent COMET XX Conference.  Held in the pretty seaside resort of Arcachon, France, COMET XX was an international conference on molecular energy transfer highlighting both experimental and theoretical aspects of research in this area.

 

The winners were selected by a committee which included former chair of the Editorial Board Professor Mike Ashfold.

The scientific standard of presenatitions at the conference was excellent, with the judges selecting Lee-Ann Smith-Freeman as the PCCP poster prize winner.

Lee-Ann is from the university of Southern California, and her prize-winning work was entitled "The Heavy Metal Project: Hydride Dissociation". In her poster, which was a collaboration with Jessica Quinn and other colleagues, Lee-Ann studied the dynamics dissociation of hydrides of the heavy elements of column V of the period table (N, P, As, Sb, Bi), mainly AsH₃, in order to estimate the rôle of relativistics effects due to the heavy elements of these systems  

As a prize-winner, Lee-Ann recieves a PCCP Prize Certificate and a financial reward. Further PCCP Prizes are scheduled to be awarded later on this year.