Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.
Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.
Two Cambridge students have collected prizes at the UK’s most important awards ceremony for science and engineering undergraduates.
Petra Vertes and Tom Offord were both winners at the 2006 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) student of the year ceremony.
Entries for the awards were received from every university in the United Kingdom and Ireland and judges paid tribute to the exceptional quality of this year's work. A total of 45 students made the final shortlist for the 15 different award categories.
Petra (pictured), from the Department of Physics, received the Microsoft Research Award for the Best Computational Science Student.
Her winning project dealt with 'group structure in complex networks'. A network is a collection of nodes connected by links and can be used to represent a range of phenomena, from neural networks to the world wide web. Petra's work considered how best to present these networks visually, and in particular identify clusters of nodes that have similar features. These "maps" could aid all manner of sociological and biological research.
Tom was named Best Aeronautical Engineering student for his work on 'pulse combustion for gas turbines'.
Both collected their awards at a ceremony attended by more than 500 students, academics and business leaders in London's Royal Courts of Justice.
The SET Awards are organised by the World Leadership Forum in collaboration with a number of sponsors. The Forum is a not-for-profit organisation which promotes leadership internationally by spotlighting the work of exceptional leaders and achievers in various disciplines.
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