Phanish Suryanarayana, from the California Institute of Technology, is the 2010 Melosh Medalist for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis. Phanish won for his paper titled "Non-periodic Finite-Element and Mesh-Free Formulation of Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory". He presented the paper on Friday, April 30, 2010, on the campus of Duke University.
Please join me in congratulating Phanish!