Martin & Beate Block Scholarship Fund



In honor of their 80th birthdays in 2005, friends and family of Martin and Beate Block established this award. Martin Block is the founder of the winter conferences, the first of which was held in 1985. Beate volunteered many hours to launch winter meetings in the first years. She and Maggie DeWolf also formalized the public lectures and wrote and donated a cookbook to the Center to use as a fundraiser. Organizers of each winter conference choose a promising young physicist to receive the Block Award.

Recipients:

2022

  • Floor Broekgaarden, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Pavel Volkov, Rutgers University
  • Christoph Uhlemann, University of Michigan
  • Ji Hoon Lee, Perimeter Institute
  • Ivan Cabrera-Ziri, Heidelberg University
  • Jannicke Pearkes, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Emily Hager, Boston University

2021

  • Stuart Masson, Columbia University

2020

  • Xili Liu, Harvard Medical School
  • Linda Ye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Varun Harbola, Stanford University
  • David Setton, University of Pittsburgh
  • Masha Baryakhtar, New York University
  • Zala Lenarcic, University of California Berkeley

2019

  • Margaret Rodgers, Johns Hopkins University
  • Behnam Neyshabur, New York University
  • Philipp Dumitrescu, Flatiron Institute
  • Rosa W. Everson, University of California Santa Cruz
  • Louise Welsh, Durham University
  • Michael Blake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ryan Thorngren, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Zhen Liu, University of Maryland

2018

  • Roberto Covino, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics
  • Tatiana Webb, Harvard University
  • Lixin Dai, University of Copenhagen
  • Scott Waitukaitis, AMOLF
  • Saurabh Singh, Raman Research Institute Bangalore
  • Francesca Ferrari, University of Amsterdam
  • Shengtao Wang, Harvard University
  • Han Ma, University of Colorado
  • Tammy Walton, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

2017

  • Jayson Paulose - UC Berkeley
  • Ashley Nord - Centre de Biochimie Structurale
  • Vedika Khemani - Harvard University
  • Belinda Pang - California Institute of Technology
  • Emily Petroff, ASTRON
  • Inaki Garcia Etxebarria - Max Planck
  • Ben Safdi - MIT
  • Eve Lee - UC Berkeley

2016

  • Rebecca Bowlerr - University of Oxford
  • Kristian Franze - University of Cambridge
  • Breann Sitarski - University of California, Los Angeles
  • Jonathan Reiner - Weizmann Institute
  • Rogier Braakman - MIT
  • Fabrizio Caola - CERN
  • Guang Hao Low - MIT
  • Theodore Yoder - MIT

2015

  • Simina Ticau - MIT
  • Margaret Byron - University of California Berkeley
  • Meagan Morscher - Northwestern University
  • Michael Hance - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Peter Morse - University of Oregon
  • David Simmons-Duffin - Institute for Advanced Studies
  • Joyce Byun - Cornell University
  • Ulrich Schneider - Ludwig Maximillian University

2014

  • Elizabeth Schemm - Stanford University
  • Lucile Savary - University of California Santa Barbara
  • Yonit Hochberg - University of California Berkeley
  • Douglas Brumley - MIT
  • Chiara Spiniello - Max Planck Institute
  • Tomas Jochym-O'Connor - Institute for Quantum Computing
  • Fernando Brandão - University College London
  • Bartłomiej Czech - Stanford University

2013

  • Andrew Nager - MIT
  • Cihan Kurter - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Matthew Kerr - Stanford University
  • Matthew Walker - Harvard University
  • Taritree Wongjirad - Duke University
  • Rebekah Dawson - Harvard University
  • Erik Petigura - University of California Berkeley
  • Philip Harris - CERN
  • Aaron Armbruster - University of Michigan

2012

  • Cora Dvorkin - Institute for Advanced Study
  • Ryan Foley - Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Ion Garate - Yale University
  • Hajime Kawahara - Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • Menyoung Lee - Stanford University
  • Mariangela Lisanti - Princeton University
  • Eva-Maria Schoetz - Princeton Univrsity
  • Jonathan Simon - Harvard University

2011

  • Katherine Copic - Columbia University
  • Christian Kaiser - University of Hawaii
  • Elisa Maldonado - Harvard University
  • Brad Ramshaw - University of British Columbia
  • Rudi Schuech - University of California Berkeley
  • Tracy Slatyer - Institute for Advanced Study
  • Kai Sun - University of Maryland College Park
  • Brian Swingle - MIT

2010

  • Andrew C. Haas - SLAC - Stanford University
  • Ann-Marie Madigan - Leiden Observatory/Univ.
  • Petro Maksymovych - Oak Ridge National Lab
  • Arne Materna - MIT
  • Matthew McQuinn - University of California Berkeley

2009

  • Eva C Dupont-Ferrier - Rutgers University
  • Brian Gerke - Stanford Linear Acclerator Center
  • Michael Gullans - Harvard University
  • Anna B Loveland - Harvard Medical School
  • Anna L. Watts - Astro. Inst. -Anton Pannekoek
  • Andreas Weiler - Cornell University

2008

  • Ania Claire Bleszynski Jayich - Yale University
  • Stephen J. Muchovej - Columbia University
  • Jan Skotheim - Rockefeller University
  • Elizabeth R Stanway - University of Bristol
  • Junjie Zhu - SUNY Stony Brook

2007

  • Marusa Bradac - University of California Santa Barbara
  • Huaiyu Duan - University of California San Diego
  • Gabriele Giuliani - Purdue University
  • Mark Greene - Nat'l Inst. of Standards and Tech.
  • Kevin Heng - JILA University of Colorado
  • Peter Skands - Fermilab

2006

  • Lincoln D. Carr - Colorado School of Mines
  • Heidi Newberg - Rensselaer Polytechnic
  • Niki Saoulidou - Fermilab
  • Evan Scannapieco - Arizona State University


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