“Due to scheduling circumstances in 2025, we have decided the inaugural Pauchy Award will be bestowed in 2026. All existing nominations for 2025 will be carried over into 2026, with the option of updating the nominations by the 2026 due date. We apologise for any inconvenience.”
Pauchy Award
1. The Pauchy Award was established in 2024 by the AP CosPA Organization to memorialize the late Professor Woei-Yann Pauchy Hwang for his significant contributions to weak interaction physics and to promoting physics research and education in the Asia-Pacific region. In particular, Professor Hwang initiated the CosPA Symposia in 2002, which has become an important forum for cosmology and particle astrophysics colleagues in the Asia-Pacific region to gather annually. The Pauchy Award is made possible by generous donations by friends of Professor Pauchy Hwang. It will be awarded annually to recognize exemplary achievement in cosmology and particle astrophysics research by an outstanding student or postdoc whose research work is done primarily in the Asia-Pacific region.
2. Eligibility:
Postdocs or graduate students working in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics affiliated with an institute in the Asia-Pacific region (members of AAPPS: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taipei, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam) within three years of the annual CosPA meeting may apply or be nominated (preferred).
3. Application/nomination procedure:
Applicant/nominee should email a CV and a summary of the applicant’s research achievements (maximum two A4 pages) to the Pauchy Award Committee of the AP CosPA Council (see contact below), and arrange to have three nomination/recommendation letters sent to the Pauchy Award Committee. The deadline for application is four months before the annual CosPA meeting.
4. The Pauchy Award Committee recommends the award winner to the AP CosPA Council based solely on academic achievements. The Pauchy Award will be presented at the CosPA meeting, and the awardee will be invited to give a talk and receive the award at the CosPA meeting. AP CosPA reserves the right not to present the award if there is no suitable candidate.
Pauchy Award Committee Members: Ming-Chung Chu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Masahide Yamaguchi (IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe(Particle Theory and Cosmology Group)), Raymond Volkas (The University of Melbourne), Chang Feng (University of Science and Technology of China), and Stefano Scopel (Sogang University). Nomination/application can be sent to Ming-chung Chu at mcchu@cuhk.edu.hk or any Pauchy Award Committee members.
[Benefactors]: Sang Pyo Kim, Jen-Chieh Peng, Pauchy Hwang’s friends and family 
