School graduate wins prize for best talk

Flaviu and Filip Persson (who won best poster award) in the mountains near Le Houches
Flaviu and Filip Persson (who won best poster award) in the mountains near Le Houches

One of the School's industry-supported graduate students, Flaviu Cipcigan, was awarded the prize for best talk at the conference "Water at interfaces: new developments in physics, chemistry and biology" at the Le Houches summer school in France. Flaviu's talk describes the applications of a Quantum Drude Oscillator model of water at surfaces.

Flaviu works with The National Physical Laboratory and IBM Research in the US.