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2026 Student Paper Competition Results

The student paper competition finalists at JSM 2026 in Boston, MA

2026 Student Paper Competition Finalists

Congratulations to the 2026 Student Paper Competition Winner, Konstantin Karchev, for CIGaRS I: Combined simulation-based inference from SNae Ia and host photometry (opens in a new tab)!

And congratulations to the other finalists:

  • A Bayesian Hierarchical Framework for Inferring the Planetary Obliquity Distribution
    • Michael Poon (University of Toronto); Co-authors: Marta Bryan (Penn State University), Hanno Rein (University of Toronto), Jiayin Dong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Joshua Speagle (University of Toronto), Dang Pham (CU Boulder)
  • A Novel Statistical Framework for Recovering Radial Velocities from Line-by-Line Spectral Data
    • Joseph Salzer (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Co-authors: Jessi Cisewski-Kehe (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Eric Ford (Pennsylvania State University), Lily L. Zhao (University of Chicago)
  • Bayesian Component Separation for DESI LAE Automated Spectroscopic Redshifts and Photometric Targeting
    • Ana Sofia Uzsoy (Harvard University)
  • Data-driven dust inference at mid-to-high Galactic latitudes using probabilistic machine learning
    • Matthew O'Callaghan (University of Cambridge)