MCMS Award Committee has given the Shimizu Prize (Shimizu Prize for Recent Breakthrough in Monte Carlo Methods and Applications) to a distinguished young scientists who had made significant progress in Computational Materials Science field. The following two research fields are especially important, "Monte Carlo Methods in Electron Spectroscopy Analysis", and "Monte Carlo Methods in Computational Materials Science Computational Materials Science". Shimizu Prize winner is selected from each research field in turn every year. Shimizu Prize candidates are nominated by and fairly judged by the JCMC Award Committee consisting of neutral experts.

    To further recognize the outstanding contributions of domestic scientists to computational science in the field of surface analysis and microbeam analysis, the Chinese Chapter of the Committee established the Ding Prize named by Prof. Ding Zejun. Li Yonggang of the Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institute of Materials Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was awarded the prize for his important role in the development of the international standard ISO21466.

    The STAM young scientist Awards are designed to encourage students to present their work. The award will be given to a limited number (around 3) of students. The STAM young scientist Award is automatically opened for all students registered. If you do not want it, please note it when you register at "Others" box. After all presentations, the committee will hold a vote around all invited speakers to decide the winners of STAM young scientist award. The program committee will announce the winners on the website prior to the symposium. Those winners will receive a certificate from Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) publishes and an APC free coupon in STAM journal or STAM method journal as a supplementary prize.