Optics & Photonics News - July/August 2012

The Optical Society expresses its great appreciation to all of the committee members who spent time reviewing nominations and determining the 2012 award recipients.

Frederic Ives Medal/ Quinn Prize Committee

Eric W. Van Stryland

Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, USA, Chair William T. Rhodes

Florida Atlantic Univ., USA

Giancarlo C. Righini

CNR National Research Council of Italy, Italy Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Univ. of Queensland, Australia

Bruce W. Shore

USA

Ken-ichi Ueda

Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan

Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Committee Lakshminarayan Hazra

Univ. of Calcutta, India, Chair

Yiping Cui

Southeast Univ., China

Benjamin J. Eggleton

Univ. of Sydney, Australia

Mary A. Johnson

Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, USA Dieter Meschede

Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Univ. Bonn, Germany

Nirmala Ramanujam Duke Univ., USA

Max Born Award Committee Nicholas P. Bigelow

Univ. of Rochester, USA, Chair

Mark Brongersma

Stanford Univ., USA

Martin McCall,

Imperial College London, UK Christopher Monroe

Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA Ewan M. Wright

Univ. of Arizona, USA

Xiang Zhang

Univ. of California Berkeley, USA

Distinguished Service Award Committee

Guenter Huber

Universität Hamburg, Germany, Chair Gary C. Bjorklund

Bjorklund Enterprises, USA M. Scott Dineen

The Optical Society, USA Silvano Donati

Univ. degli Studi di Pavia, Italy Donald B. Keck Consultant, USA

David R. Williams Univ. of Rochester, USA

Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award Committee Alfons Penzkofer

Univ. Regensburg, Germany, Chair Magnus Bengtsson Coherent, USA

Anurag Gupta Google, USA

Joseph Fraunhofer Award/ Robert M. Burley Prize Committee Bernhard U. Braunecker Braunecker Engineering GmbH, Switzerland, Chair Julie L. Bentley Univ. of Rochester, USA Andrew Harvey Univ. of Glasgow, UK Hong Hua Univ. of Arizona, USA Patrick P. Naulleau Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Laboratory, USA Richard N, Youngworth Riyo LLC, USA

Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award Committee (Joint with SPIE) OSA Members Harrison Barrett Univ. of Arizona, USA Steve Moss The Aerospace Corp., USA Bahaa E. A. Saleh Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, USA

Nick Holonyak Jr. Award Committee Siddharth Ramachandran Boston Univ., USA, Chair Ann Catrina Bryce Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Harald W. Giessen Universität Stuttgart, Germany Alan R. Kost Univ. of Arizona, USA Alfred Leitenstorfer Univ. Konstanz, Germany Richard L. Sutherland Mount Vernon Nazarene Univ., USA

Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Committee Michael G. Littman Princeton Univ., USA, Chair Luiz Davidovich Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Torben Jacobsen Ibsen Photonics A/S, Denmark Satoshi Kawata Osaka Univ., Japan Margaret M. Murnane Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA Richard C. Powell Univ. of Arizona, USA

Edwin Land Medal Committee (Joint with IS&T) OSA Members Peter Török Imperial College London, UK, Chair Fredrik Laurell Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden Jannick P. Rolland Univ. of Rochester, USA

Emmett N. Leith Medal Committee Asher Albert Friesem Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel, Chair Ken Y. Hsu National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan M. G. Moharam Univ. of Central Florida, USA Christophe Moser Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Toyohiko Yatagai Utsunomiya Univ., Japan

Ellis Lippincott Award Committee (Joint with SAS and Coblentz Society) OSA Members Markus W. Sigrist ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Chair Andrei Tokmakoff Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Adolph Lomb Medal Committee Jennifer D. Kruschwitz JK Consulting, USA, Chair Miguel A. Alonso Univ. of Rochester, USA Sabino Chavez-Cerda Inst Nat Astrofisica Optica Electronica, Mexico Yoshio Hayasaki Utsunomiya Univ., Japan Diana L. Huffaker Univ. of California Los Angeles, USA Lazaro Aurelio Padilha Los Alamos Natl. Laboratory, USA

William F. Meggers Award Committee Edward E. Eyler Univ. of Connecticut, USA, Chair Paul B. Corkum Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Kevin K. Lehmann Univ. of Virginia, USA Alfred Leipertz Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany George R. Welch Texas A&M Univ., USA Jun Ye Univ. of Colorado at Boulder JILA, USA

David Richardson Medal Committee Sterling J. Backus Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, USA, Chair Robert M. Jopson Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA Susumu Noda Kyoto Univ., Japan Jungtae Rha Medical College of Wisconsin, USA Jennifer A. Turner-Valle Ball Aerospace & Technologies, USA Eric Udd Columbia Gorge Research, LLC, USA