{"id":1461,"date":"2011-02-06T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T04:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2011-02-07T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T06:11:10","slug":"announcing-the-2011-artsutanov-and-pearson-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2011 Artsutanov and Pearson prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2010, ISEC announced the Yuri Artsutanov & Jerome Pearson prizes, prizes established to foster research into Space Elevator related topics.\u00a0 There were no winners in 2010, though we had two papers that qualified for Honorable Mentions in the Artsutanov Prize.<\/p>\n

The Pearson Prize, sponsored by the Leeward Space Foundation<\/a>, is open to all Undergraduate students.\u00a0\u00a0 The Artsutanov Prize, sponsored by the Space Elevator Blog<\/a>, is open to everyone (ISEC Directors and Officers excepted).<\/p>\n

ISEC is very pleased to announce the 2011 Artsutanov & Pearson prizes.\u00a0 Unlike 2010, where eligible papers for the Pearson prize had to be on the Yearly ISEC Theme<\/a> while papers for the Artsutanov prize could be on any Space Elevator subject, for 2011, papers for both competitions must address the 2011 ISEC Theme.\u00a0 This theme is “Developing stronger, lighter tethers – 30 MYuris or bust!<\/em>“.\u00a0 The specific topic papers for both competitions must address is:<\/p>\n

The biggest hurdle on the way to building a Space Elevator is constructing a tether that is strong enough and light enough. We estimate that a tether with a minimum strength of 30 MYuris1 will be sufficient to construct the Space Elevator and ISEC wishes to promote research and thought targeted towards this goal.\u00a0 Therefore, the 2011 Artsutanov and Pearson prizes will both be awarded for the papers that make the most significant contribution towards a 30 MYuri tether. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, we don’t actually expect anyone to submit a paper which shows us how to make a 30MYuri tether (though we will all be thrilled if this actually happens), but the paper must be a serious effort to advance the state of the art in this area.\u00a0 Consequently, we expect people like chemists, physicists, materials engineers, etc., to submit papers on growing longer, stronger carbon nanotubes.\u00a0 Other people may submit papers on turning these tubes into stronger threads.\u00a0 Or perhaps the specific topic of a paper might be on how to use composites to make the overall tether stronger.\u00a0 In any case, the paper must advance our understanding of how we can get closer to constructing a 30 MYuri tether.<\/p>\n

Questions about the competition may be answered on the ISEC website<\/a>.\u00a0 You may also email the prize committee at artsutanov-prize@isec.info or pearson-prize@isec.info and the competition chair will get back to you promptly with answers to any of your specific questions.<\/p>\n

One final note – though both prizes are going to be awarded for papers on the same theme, eligible contestants for the Pearson prize MUST be currently enrolled in a 2 or 4 year accredited undergraduate program.\u00a0 Papers in the two competitions will be judged separately – they will not compete against each other.<\/p>\n

There is a $1,500 cash award for the Pearson prize and a $2,500 award for the Artsutanov prize, so get those thinking caps on!\u00a0 And, if you know of anyone who may not be a reader of this blog and might be interested in entering a paper, please let them know about the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2010, ISEC announced the Yuri Artsutanov & Jerome Pearson prizes, prizes established to foster research into Space Elevator related topics.\u00a0 There were no winners in 2010, though we had two papers that qualified for Honorable Mentions in the Artsutanov Prize. The Pearson Prize, sponsored by the Leeward Space Foundation, is open to all Undergraduate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isec","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}