Results of the RMBS Contest 2005

Students Contest

25 students participated in the contest.

Following the guidelines approved in the 2002 RMBS board fall meeting, since only three papers were in the Doctoral category (one short of the requirement to have separate category), this year the Contest was run with unified categories. Each paper was review by four judges. 15 judges expressed their preferences in the written competition and each judge reviewed at least three papers. For each judge the scores were normalized. The total score for the paper was average of the four normalized scores.

At the symposium, 19 presentations and six posters were judged.

Nine judges expressed their preferences in the presentation competition. Not all students were evaluated by the same judges and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each presentation was judged by at least two judges. The scores were again normalized for each judge and the total score for each presentation was the average of the single scores.

Six judges expressed their preferences in the poster competition. Not all students were evaluated by the same judges and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each poster was judged by at least five judges. As for the presentations, the scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each poster was the average of the single scores.

For the special awards, seven judges were involved: the president, one past president, both conference program chairmen, one member of the student paper contest committee and two judges in charge of selecting the winner of the Anthony Sances Jr. Award of Merit. Each one of the judges subjectively selected and ranked up to 5 students as the possible winners of the respective award. Following the guidelines, each special award was given to the higher-ranking student that did not yet win any other award.