Eligibility

Nominees must have received a Ph.D. in experimental or theoretical particle physics within the last seven years, excluding any career breaks, by the time of nomination.

Nomination & Selection Process

Nominations for the 2024 Wu-Ki Tung Award are now accepted here

The nomination should include the following:

A curriculum vitae;
A list of the nominee’s most important publications;
A brief narrative of the nominee’s contributions to QCD research (up to 2 pages long);
A nomination letter and two letters of support from scientists familiar with the nominee’s work. Nominators are encouraged to include a proposed citation for their nominee in their letter.

Nominations will remain active for one additional year and can be updated. The deadline for nominations is October 15, 2024. The recipient will be selected by the CTEQ Collaboration and will be notified in December 2024.

Information for contributing to the Wu-Ki Tung Award Fund can be found here

Questions may be directed to Nikos Varelas

Past Recipients

Ian Moult

Dec 1, 2023 1 min read

For pioneering work on QCD energy correlators, including their all-orders factorization, multi-loop structure, phenomenological applications, and connections to conformal field theory.

Matthew LeBlanc

Dec 1, 2022 1 min read

For important contributions to the measurements of QCD dynamics using jets and jet substructure, as well as for long standing contributions and leadership in jet reconstruction and calibration.

Yi Chen

Dec 1, 2022 1 min read

For improving the understanding of quark and gluon interactions within different media through systematic studies and measurements of jet substructure in electron, proton, and heavy ion collisions.

Phiala Shanahan

Dec 1, 2021 1 min read

For pioneering studies of long-wavelength and nuclear non-perturbative QCD effects in discretized space and time, and for applications of machine learning to lattice field theory.

Bernhard Mistlberger

Dec 1, 2020 1 min read

For pioneering theoretical computations of multi-loop radiative contributions for precision Higgs and electroweak physics at hadron colliders.

Valerio Bertone

Dec 1, 2019 1 min read

For innovative contributions to the precise determination of parton distribution and fragmentation functions, and for the development of cutting-edge software to perform global fits.

Benjamin Nachman

Dec 1, 2018 1 min read

For significant contributions to experimental studies of jet substructure, and for the discrimination of possible new physics signatures from QCD backgrounds using jet substructure.

Andrew Larkoski

Dec 1, 2017 1 min read

For seminal contributions to the theoretical understanding of jet substructure and to the application of that understanding to the analysis of experimental data.

Ciaran Williams

Dec 1, 2016 1 min read

For significant contributions to higher-order QCD calculations for hadron scattering processes, and for their practicable implementation for the analysis of hadron collider data.

Mikko Voutilainen

Dec 1, 2015 1 min read

For outstanding contributions to the development of innovative techniques for jet energy calibration and the measurement of the inclusive jet cross section at the D-Zero and CMS experiments.

Wu-Ki Tung Award for Early-Career Research on QCD

Sponsored by the CTEQ Collaboration and Michigan State University

Serving a diverse and inclusive community of physicists worldwide is an important goal for CTEQ. Nominations of women and other members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged.