{"583934":{"#nid":"583934","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Physics Ph.D. Student Shines in Georgia Tech\u2019s Three Minute Thesis Finals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Physics Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chapmanlabs.gatech.edu\/?page=members\u0022\u003EBharath Hebbe Madhusudhana\u003C\/a\u003E (Bharath) got a nod from the judges and audience of the 2016 Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.grad.gatech.edu\/3MT\u0022\u003EThree Minute Thesis (3MT)\u003C\/a\u003E Finals on Nov. 15, 2016. For his spirited explanation of how atoms, when cooled to almost immobility, remember abstract geometric phenomena, the judges named him the third-place winner and the audience voted him as one of two winners of the People\u0026rsquo;s Choice award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winners of the competition were:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFirst Place: Monica McNerney, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESecond Place: Tesca Fitzgerald, School of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThird Place: Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, School of Physics\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPeople\u0026rsquo;s Choice:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, School of Physics\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Aravind Samba Murthy, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBharath is a fourth-year Ph.D. student working in the lab of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chapmanlabs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMichael S. Chapman\u003C\/a\u003E. For his Ph.D. work, he has discovered something fundamental about rubidium atoms: When cooled to 190 nanoKelvins--almost absolute zero--and exposed to a magnet that traces a circle around them, the very-low-energy rubidium atoms can remember something abstract. They can tell the area of an abstract surface\u0026mdash;called the Boy\u0026rsquo;s surface\u0026mdash;corresponding to the real traced circle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso competing in the 2016 finals was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/kalelkar\/pranav\u0022\u003EPranav Kalelkar\u003C\/a\u003E, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Under the guidance of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/Collard\/\u0022\u003EDavid M. Collard\u003C\/a\u003E, he has modified a biorenewable and biodegradable polyester to enable attachment of biomolecules, such as proteins, in various ways. The work enables the creation of new materials for custom applications, such as bone repair, drug delivery, and antimicrobial activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E3MT is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland in Australia in 2008 to encourage Ph.D. students to acquire and hone communication skills. Competitors have three minutes to present compelling talks about their thesis topics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the inaugural Georgia Tech 3MT competition, in November 2015, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Pamela_Grothe\u0022\u003EPamela Grothe\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/shadow.eas.gatech.edu\/~kcobb\/\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, also placed third. She described her thesis topic during her three-minute talk \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RIDK0r4BbAM\u0026amp;index=10\u0026amp;list=PLme0Eox75uXbPLIaKgpFdktjGjckgK3XX\u0022\u003ECoral Thermometers and Monster El Ni\u0026ntilde;os\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana is third-place and People\u2019s Choice winner   "}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Physics Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chapmanlabs.gatech.edu\/?page=members\u0022\u003EBharath Hebbe Madhusudhana\u003C\/a\u003E (Bharath) got a nod from the judges and audience of the 2016 Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.grad.gatech.edu\/3MT\u0022\u003EThree Minute Thesis (3MT)\u003C\/a\u003E Finals on Nov. 15, 2016. For his spirited explanation of how atoms, when cooled to almost immobility, remember abstract geometric phenomena, the judges named him the third-place winner and the audience voted him as one of two winners of the People\u0026rsquo;s Choice award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana is third-place and People\u2019s Choice winner.   "}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2016-11-16 15:27:23","changed_gmt":"2016-11-16 15:33:40","author":"A. 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