Best Paper Awards

Paul A. Siple Memorial Award Nanotechnology Nanoscale Bioelectronics for Real-Time Target Sensing Mark Griep, Gregory Garrett and Shashi P. Karna, US Army Research Laboratory; Eric Winder and Craig Friedrich, Michigan Technological University

Bronze Award (2nd Place) Biomedical Technologies Next-Generation Antimicrobial Agents for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Timothy K. Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James J. Collins, Boston University

Bronze Award (3rd Place) Force Protection/Survivability Lagrangian Meshfree Methodologies for Predicting Loadings from Buried Munitions Detonations Kent T. Danielson, John Q. Ehrgott, Jr., Ramón J. Moral, Mark D. Adley and James L. O'Daniel, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center; Charles A. Gerlach and Gordon R. Johnson, Southwest Research Institute; David L. Littlefield, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Best Papers Sensors and Information Processing Joint Sparsity Model for Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery Yi Chen and Trac D. Tran, The Johns Hopkins University; Nasser M. Nasrabadi, US Army Research Laboratory Information Technology/C4ISR Ultra-Wideband Antenna and Array Jian Bai, Shouyuan Shi and Dennis W. Prather, University of Delaware Advanced High Performance Computing in Physical Sciences and Engineering Development of Methods and Models for Mesoscale Simulations of Explosives S. Izvekov, P.W. Chung and B.M. Rice, US Army Research Laboratory Lethality Technologies 120mm Prestressed Carbon Fiber/Thermoplastic Overwrapped Gun Tubes A.G. Littlefield, E.J. Hyland and J.J. Keating, US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center Autonomous/Unmanned Systems Distributed Games for Multi-Agent Systems: Games on Communication Graphs Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis and Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas-Arlington; Dariusz G. Mikulski and Edward Y. Gu, Oakland University; Greg R. Hudas, US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technology Inverse Materials Design for Soldier Protection B. Christopher Rinderspacher, Jan W. Andzelm, Adam M. Rawlett, Joseph M. Dougherty, Robert H. Lambeth III, and Peter J. Reynolds, US Army Research Laboratory Power and Energy The Use of Synthetic JP-8 Fuels in Military Engines Laura Hoogterp-Decker and Peter Schihl, US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center Training and Immersive Technology Interactive Language Communications in Simulation-Based Training for Army Battle Captains Elizabeth Owen Bratt, John Dowding, Stanley Peters and Jia Yan Huang, Stanford University; Paula J. Durlach, US Army Research Institute Behavioral Sciences and Human Performance Evaluation of Stereoscopic Displays for Indirect-Vision Driving and Robot Teleoperation J.Y.C. Chen, R.V.N. Oden and J.M. Drexler, US Army Research Laboratory; J.O. Merritt, The Merritt Group Biotechnology Tissue Engineered Vascularized Soft Tissue for Craniofacial Reconstruction C.M. Hwang, W. Xu, T. Shiner, A. Atala, J.J. Yoo and S.J. Lee, Wake Forest University Microelectronics and Photonics Technologies Obscuration-Free Near-Field Phase Locking of a Coherent Fiber-Array Laser Transmitter System Mikhail A. Vorontsov, Jony Jiang Liu, Leonid A. Beresnev and Gary Carhart, US Army Research Laboratory; Thomas Weyrauch, University of Dayton; Svetlana L. Lachinova, University of Maryland, College Park Environmental and Engineering Geosciences The Role of Hydrogeology in Remote Sensing for Threat Detection S.E. Howington, O.J. Eslinger, J.L. Hensley, A.M. Hines, J.R. Ballard, Jr., M.W. Farthing and J.R. Fairley, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Network Science Comprehensive Trust Metrics for Information Networks Jeff Pasternack and Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physical/Engineering Processes: Theory and Analytical Modeling A Matched Filter for Communicating with Chaos Ned J. Corron, Jonathan N. Blakely and Mark T. Stahl, US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Neuroscience Exaggerated Amygdala Responses to Masked Fearful Faces are Specific to PTSD Versus Simple Phobia: Preliminary Findings from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging William D.S. Killgore, Zachary J. Schwabb, Melissa R. Weiner, Isabelle M. Rosso and Scott L. Rauch, Harvard Medical School; Jennifer C. Britton, National Institute of Mental Health