Journal of Physics A Best Paper Prize Winners Announced

We are delighted to announce the winners of the first Journal of Physics A Best Paper Prizes. The prizes have been awarded to:

The off-shell symmetry algebra of the light-cone AdS₅ × S⁵ superstring
Gleb Arutyunov, Sergey Frolov, Jan Plefka and Marija Zamaklar

Mapping out-of-equilibrium into equilibrium in one-dimensional transport models
Julien Tailleur, Jorge Kurchan and Vivien Lecomte

All nominations received were assessed by our Section Editors and these papers were declared to have excelled in the criteria of novelty, achievement, potential impact and presentation.

You can read more about these exciting papers in interviews with the authors Marija Zamaklar and Julien Tailleur

We now welcome your nominations for the 2010 Best Paper Prize. Up to three prizes worth £250 will be awarded annually for well written papers that make an outstanding contribution to the field. All articles published during the two years prior to the award can be considered for a prize. The papers will be judged in May each year using the criteria of novelty, achievement, potential impact and presentation.

Please send an email to the journal editorial office (jphysa@iop.org) giving the publication details of the paper and stating (in no more than 1000 words) how it meets the criteria listed above. Authors cannot nominate their own papers. The closing date for nominations is 31 January 2010.

For further information please contact the editorial office (jphysa@iop.org).

Murray Batchelor
Editor-in-Chief