Results of the RMBS Contest 2007

Students Contest

34 students participated in the contest, with 3 students submitting two papers. The same guidelines were applied this year to the review of all the papers; each paper was reviewed by at least two judges. When the scores of the two judges were more than 1 point apart, a third judge reviewed the paper. 24 judges expressed their preferences in the written competition and each judge reviewed at least five papers, as part of the review process of all the papers submitted for the 2007 symposium.

At the symposium, 23 presentations and 14 posters were judged. 15 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 eight judges. The scores were again normalized for each judge and the total score for each presentation was the average of the normalized scores.

Four judges expressed their preferences in the poster competition. As for the presentations, the scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each poster was the average of the normalized scores.

For the special awards, four judges were involved. Each judge subjectively selected and ranked up to 5 students as the possible winners of a special award. Following the guidelines, each special award was given to the highest-ranking student that did not yet win any other award.