21st Hangai Prize, 2023: The current round of the Hangai Prize competition is for the IASS 2023 Symposium in Melbourne, Australia and to be held in-person at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center from 10 July to 14 July 2023. General application instructions will be detailed below, including the specific deadlines, as soon as they are available.

Criteria
To be considered, papers must not only be submitted to the annual symposium but also be explicitly entered into the Hangai Prize Contest.  Papers that have previously been submitted for publication in the Journal of the IASS are not eligible for entry in the Hangai Prize competition.

To be eligible for the prize, the applicant need not be a member of the IASS but must:

1. be under the age of thirty at the end of the calendar year of the Annual Symposium,
2. be the primary contributor of the research, the project, or the idea presented and as such be the first or sole author of the abstract and the paper,
3. follow the procedures established by the Annual Symposium for the submission of a contribution, including the submission of an abstract by the specified date,
   
4. upload a full-paper manuscript and the completed Hangai Prize entry form to the symposium upload website by the established deadline, and
   
5. if selected as a winner, attend the Symposium to present the paper in a plenary session and to receive the prize.

1. Submission of the abstract to the symposium website: Upload a one-page abstract to the symposium upload site no later than the posted deadline, 31 December 2022. Be sure to indicate that the submission is for the Hangai Prize when submitting abstracts. Acceptance of the abstract by the symposium scientific committee (nominally by 31 January 2023) is a precondition for the next step. Please note that the authors of accepted abstracts are expected to register for the Symposium by the deadline of 15 March 2023.
2. Uploading of the full paper to the Hangai site portion of the IASS 2023 website: After the abstract has been accepted (scheduled by 31 January), upload the full paper and the completed Hangai Prize entry form to the Hangai Prize as per instructions on the symposium website no later than the symposium deadline of 31 March 2023. Please note that this deadline for submission of the HP full papers will not be postponed even the symposium's deadline is extended.
3. The submission in step 2 above also serves as submission to the symposium scientific committee because the submission process is integrated into the single symposium site.
   
4. The deadline for full paper acceptance is nominally early May 2023, although the results of the prize competition will probably need to be announced later than this paper-acceptance notification, anticipated date to be announced. Winners will be expected to present their contributions in an in-person conferral ceremony at the IASS 2023 Symposium in July 2023, and the winning papers will be published in the December 2023 issue of the Journal of the IASS.
   

To address inquiries about the Hangai Prize not answered by this page, email the prize committee at hangaiprize@iass-structures.org.