The winner of the 6 student poster award are
Anthony Vazquez(LBNL) Stability and Optical Quality of Liquid Crystal Films as High Repetition Rate Plasma Mirrors for Staged LPA Systems
Ke Ou(Stanford) Gas-phase diffractive optics for high-power beam control
Vedin Dewan(Princeton) Temporal Characterization of Low-Order Harmonics from a Relativistic Plasma Mirror
Elena Ros (U Colorado) Electro-Optic Sampling Beam Positioning Monitor for Relativistic Electron Beams
Anna Kinderman (UCSC) Laser Heater as a Beam Shaping Tool at FACET-II: From Microbunching Instability Suppression to Multi-Spike Current Profiles
Yiheng Ye (Stanford) Tunable photocathode double-bunch mode for advanced accelerator application
The winner of the AAC 2026 prize is Patric Muggli
"For seminal contributions to plasma wakefield acceleration with electron, positron, and proton beams, and for exceptional service to the advanced accelerator community"