Doctoral student Sonali Mayani won the ACM Best Poster award for her poster “A Performance Portable Matrix-free Finite Element Framework for Particle-Mesh Methods”, as part of the Student Research Competition at the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (PASC25), which took place in Brugg, Switzerland. She will go on to compete as a finalist in the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Student Research Competition where students from different fields of computing will be participating.
The poster session itself was very interesting, full of fruitful discussions with peers from similar fields, as well as judges from the competition who would select 3 finalists from the posters. The ACM Student Research Competition culminated in a last-minute presentation by the 3 finalists for a general public given on the last day of the conference in front of a panel of judges. The competition was tough and everyone gave stellar presentations to communicate their research to a broad computer science audience!