1. $4,000
   The Gravitational Spectral Radio Forest: A Signature of Primordial Black Holes by P. George Christopher, email: p.georgechristopher@iitb.ac.in, K. Hari, email: hari.k@iitb.ac.in and S. Shankaranarayanan, email: shanki@iitb.ac.in, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India


2. $700
   Monogamous Entanglement Cheats at the Price of Complexity by Aude Corbeel, email: a.n.i.corbeel@uva.nl and Erik Verlinde, email: E.P.Verlinde@uva.nl, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GL Amsterdam, The Netherlands


3. $600
   How Much Can Gravitons Be Squeezed?  by Panagiotis Dorlis¹, email: panos_dorlis@mail.ntua.gr, Nick E. Mavromatos^1,2,3, email: nikolaos.mavromatos@kcl.ac.uk, Sarben Sarkar², email: sarben.sarkar@kcl.ac.uk and Sotirios-Neilos Vlachos¹, email: sovlacho@gmail.com, ¹Physics Division, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus GR15780, Athens, Greece; ²Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Physics Department, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; ³Associate member, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, 15236 Penteli, Greece


4. $500
   Approaching the Surface of an Exotic Compact Object  by Shokoufe Faraji^a,c and Samir D. Mathur^b,c, ^aDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada, email: s3faraji@uwaterloo.ca; ^bDepartment of Physics, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210, USA, email: mathur.16@osu.edu; ^cPerimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada


5. $400
   Apocalypse When? Solar System Constraints on an Imminent Big Rip  by Robert J. Scherrer, email: robert.scherrer@vanderbilt.edu and Oem Trivedi, email: oem.trivedi@vanderbilt.edu, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA

Selected for Honorable Mention this year were (listed in alphabetical order):

S. Adler; Özgür Akarsu, Leandros Perivolaropoulos, A. Emrah Yükselci and Alexander Zhuk; Dylan Akosah; Geová Alencar; Tom Banks; L. Benkoula, K. Chima, J. Kingsbury, K. Marroquin, M. Yim and T. Curtright; Panos Betzios, Paul Ghiringhelli, Ioannis D. Gialamas and Olga Papadoulaki; Andrea Di Biagio; Christian Böhmer and Eissa Al-Nasrallah; Kevin Cahill and Richard Matzner; Leonardo Chataignier, Claus Kiefer and Mritunjay Tyagi; Sayantan Choudhury; Lawrence Crowell; Charlie Cummings and Jonathan J. Heckman; Christine C. Dantas; Max Joseph Fahn and Alessandro Pesci; Thomas Forget, M. B. Paranjape and Urjit Yajnik; Marco Galoppo and Giorgio Torrieri; Jorge Gamboa and Natalia Tapia-Arellano; Shan Gao; Maurizio Gasperini; Eduardo Guendelman; Gustavo S. Habermann and Daniel A. Turolla Vanzellaz; Raymond Isichei; Vishnu Kakkat, Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers, Nigel T. Bishop, Amos S. Kubeka, Monos Naidoo, Udaykrishna Thattarampilly and Petrus J. van der Walt; Dmitris S. Kallifatides, Theodoros Papanikolaou and Emmanuel N. Saridakis; Eleni-Alexandra Kontou; Naman Kumar; Rodrigo Maier; D. G. C. McKeon, F. T. Brandt, J .Frenkel and S. Martins-Filho; Makoto Natsuume; Manju Prakash; Vaishak Prasad, Monica Rincon-Ramirez, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Eugenio Bianchi, Ish Gupta and B. S. Sathyaprakash; Karthik Rajeev; M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari and V. Taghiloo; Natarajan Shriethar; Urvi Sinha; Kristian Toccacelo; Jenny Wagner; Lan Wang.