The Physics Department recently held its annual Student Research Symposium in Memory of Professor Stephan Berko. At the symposium, the undergraduate speakers describe their senior thesis honors research as the final step in gaining an honors degree in physics. The graduate student speakers are in the middle of their PhD research, and describe their progress and goals.
The prize winners are nominated and chosen by the faculty for making particularly noteworthy progress in their research. Here are the Berko prize winners for 2015:
Undergraduate Prize Winners:
Adam Wang
Title: “Controlling Coupled Chemical Oscillators: Toward Synchronization Engineering and Chemical Computation”
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Jacob Gold
Title: “Inhibitively Coupled Chemical Oscillators as a Substrate for Logic Gates and Larger Circuits”
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Graduate Prize Winners:
Lishibanya Mohapatra
Title: “How cells control the size of their organelles?”
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Feodor Hilitski
Title: “Measuring mechanics of active microtubule bundles, one filament at a time”
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Other Physics Prize winners this year:
Cesar A. Agon Falkoff prize
Hannah Herde Falkoff prize
Matthew Cambria Physics Faculty prize
Stefan Stanojevic Physics Faculty prize
Michael Kosowsky ’14, who majored in both physics and mathematics at Brandeis, has been awarded a 
