THE AWARD
TSRC established a scholarship program for young scientists in 2008 in the name of Peter Salamon, San Diego State University Professor. This scholarship honors his part in co-founding TSRC and fostering its growth since 1984. TSRC offers as many as 16 scholarships in the form of reduced registration fees (50%) for graduate students and postdoctoral scientists. We hope this scholarship will preserve the original spirit of the TSRC workshops, as envisioned by Peter, to bring scientists of all levels and ages together in an informal setting to inspire collaboration.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Any TSRC participant may request a Salamon Award for one of their graduate students or postdoctoral fellows. This request must first be approved by the workshop leader. Only one award is granted per workshop. Once approved, workshop leaders must contact TSRC director Nana Naisbitt by email or by phone, 970-708-0004, to request the scholarship for that particular student. These awards are given on a first-come-first-served basis. There is no deadline, however scholarships are not given retroactively. Because these awards are given on a first-come-first-served basis, TSRC cannot guarantee availability.
2012 AWARD RECIPIENTS
James Allan, University of Manchester, England
Chris Gorski, Eawag, Switzerland
Mikko Huttunen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
James Shepherd, Cambridge University, England
WHO IS PETER SALAMON?
Peter Salamon emigrated from Hungary to the United States at the age of ten. He grew up in Chicago, and eventually attended the University of Chicago, where he got his PhD in chemistry in the research group of R. Stephen Berry. As a result, he got his introduction to Colorado workshops as a graduate student. The immense influence TSRC has had on his 
scientific development has made him a staunch believer in keeping the Telluride workshops financially accessible to graduate students and postdocs. It was also the impetus for his starting workshops in Telluride when the Aspen Physics Center agenda did not have room for a thermodynamics workshop in their 1984 program. He organized the first Telluride workshop in 1984, got TSRC incorporated shortly thereafter, and served as its first president until January 1987.
Peter has always liked exploring as opposed to following known trails. In 1985, he and his then 4 year old daughter Anna left Alta Lakes one morning to go up Palmyra and then walk back to Telluride. They made it back at 2 AM the next day after half the workshop combed the mountains for him. This spirit of “exploring interesting directions” has also been a hallmark of the workshops he organized, which pioneered the format of taking one hour talks and picking them apart in four hour sessions.
Peter has been a professor in the Mathematics Department at San Diego State University since 1980 and has held visiting positions at Tel Aviv University, University of Coopenhagen, University of Heidelberg, and the Hebrew University. He has only missed two summers in Telluride since 1984.
2011 AWARD RECIPIENTS
Aditi Borker, Cambridge University
Jeff Bowman, University of Washington
Szilard Fejer, Univesity of Szeged
Amanda Fossard, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jason R. Green, Northwestern University
Matthias Heyden, University of California, Irvine
Andrew Miklos, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Benjamin Saenz, Stanford University
Joel Yuen, Harvard University
Michael Yonkunas, Rush University Medical Center
Scott Gruenbaum, University of Wisconsin
Olena Postupna, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Laura Riccardi, Freiburg University
Tatyana Kuznetsova, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Niel Henriksen, University of Utah
