Renato III Fernan Bolo, a BS Applied Physics student, received the Best Oral Presenter award at the 2026 International Meeting on Complex Systems, held as part of the 28th National Physics Conference organized by the Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao (SPVM). The three-day conference took place from October 22 to 24, 2026, at Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City.
His winning paper, “Topological Machine Learning Tracks Heterochromatin Reorganization Invisible to Signal Counts in SkBr3 Nuclei,” was a product of his internship in collaboration with Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. The conference featured plenary sessions, sub-plenary sessions, and poster presentations on Particles, Astronomy, and Space Science, Radiation and Medical Physics, Complex Systems, and Advanced Functional Materials and Nanotechnology.
Congratulations to Mr. Bolo, and their adviser, Mr. Ramon Jose C. Bagunu!