Mr. Pratyush Arya, a MS student at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, wins the Best Student Paper award at the annual SBP-BRIMS conference held in Pittsburgh, USA, for his paper "Understanding Clique Formation in Social Networks - An Agent-Based Model of Social Preferences in Fixed and Dynamic Networks". Mr. Arya's paper, under the mentorship of Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava, tries to understand, using cognitive modelling, when networks of agents succeed and fail at arriving at consensus in their beliefs.