Soonwon was invited to speak as one of four finalists in the Deborah Thesis Award session at DAMOP 2020.

During the prize session, four finalists, Matthew Jaffe (UC Berkeley), Soonwon Choi (Harvard), Nathan Schine (U Chicago), and Christie Chiu (Harvard), competed one another by presenting their thesis works from respective Ph.D. institutions. Soonwon presented his work on critically slow thermalization, discrete time-crystalline order, and quantum many-body scars. While the prize eventually went to Christie Chiu for exploring the Fermi-Hubbard model wiht ultracold atoms, it was such a wondeful opportunity for all four finalists to share their Ph.D research with a broad audience. The presentations have been recorded and are available online here.