2017 contest winners
SARA has made its decisions. Here are the winners of the SARA 2017 Abstract Contest Nearly 30 high-quality scientific abstracts were submitted this year, making the contest a great success once again. This contest, which has existed since 2014, is supported by the ÉTS library. The grand prize winner of this year’s contest is Prabin Pradhan. Here are all five winners of the contest. First place ($500) Prabin Pradhan is a PhD student at ÉTS in the Department of Electrical Engineering Prabin Pradhan wins first place for his abstract titled “Characterization of cylindrical vector beams in a few-mode fibers for next generation telecommunication and remote sensing applications”. The Jury, composed of 16 professors from ÉTS, noted the clarity of the presentation of the methodology related to photonics research. Prabin told…