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Varchas Gopalaswamy was awarded the Chiyoe Yamanaka Award for his presentations at the Eleventh International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications conference in Osaka, Japan. He presented both a poster and a talk, titled Statistically Guided Design of Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments. The Yamanaka award (formerly the IFSA student prize) is given to six presenters and is sponsored by IFE Forum, Japan. Varchas is a Horton Fellow and Mechanical Engineering graduate student at the University of Rochester.