Aims:

(i) to foster student interest and involvement in the ACCMCC conferences;

(ii) to encourage good presentation of student talks.

Criteria by which to judge the papers:

(i) the motivation and setting of the general context,

(ii) the methods used to present the material,

(iii) the organisation and structure of the lecture,

(iv) the originality of the substance of the lecture, and

(v) the rapport with the audience.

General Rules and Procedures:

(i) The CMSA will provide a prize of $300 to the best student talk at the annual ACCMCC conference;

(ii) that a jury of at least 3 people be chosen by the President in consultation with the Director of the Conference to judge the talks on the basis of the criteria above;

(iii) that any speaker enrolled for a degree be eligible, but the jury may decide to vary this in unusual circumstances;

(iv) that, whenever possible, the jury be chosen ahead of the conference;

(v) that the jury be responsible for all decisions made;

(vi) that the jury may, at its discretion, decide not to award any prize, or decide to have the prize shared.

The CMSA student prize was inaugurated in 2001 at 26ACCMCC

26ACCMCC: Curtin University, Perth, WA, 9-13 July 2001.

Prize awarded to Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University of Wellington.

27ACCMCC: University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, 9-13 December 2002.

Prize awarded jointly to Julie Cain from University of Melbourne and Peter Jenkins from University of Queensland, Australia.

28ACCMCC: Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, 15-18 December 2003.

Prize awarded to Jeanette McLeod from Australian National University, Australia.

29ACCMCC: Copthornes-Manuels, Taupo, New Zealand, 13-18 December 2004.

Prize awarded to Shuji Kijima from University of Tokyo, Japan.

30ACCMCC: University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 5-9 December 2005.

Prize awarded jointly to Daniel Horsley and James Lefevre both from University of Queensland, Australia.

31ACCMCC: Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, 8-11 July 2006.

Prize awarded to Alison Thomson from University of Melbourne, Australia.

32ACCMCC: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 3-7 December 2007.

Prize awarded to Ben Smith from University of Queensland, Australia.