The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) of EPS is delighted to announce that Prof. Albert Polman has been elected the winner of the 2017 prize for Research into the Science of Light "for mastering light at the nanoscale and for demonstrating novel applications in nanoscale optical circuits, photovoltaics, and super-resolution imaging". The prize will be awarded at the forthcoming 6th International Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials (Nanometa) to be held in Seefeld, Austria from January 4-7, 2017.

Albert Polman is a scientific group leader at the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and professor of photonic materials for photovoltaics at the University of Amsterdam. Polman obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht in 1989, was a post-doctoral researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories until 1991, and then became a scientific group leader at AMOLF. From 2006-2013 he also served as director of AMOLF.

Polman is one of the early pioneers in the research area of nanophotonics. His research group focuses on the realization of nanoscale metamaterials with tailored optical properties that do not exist in nature. He also designs and fabricates novel photovoltaic architectures with enhanced power conversion efficiency based on semiconductor and dielectric metasurfaces. Polman’s group is the inventor of angle-resolved cathodoluminescence microscopy, that is, a novel super-resolution microscopy technique that creates images with 10 nanometer resolution. The instrument is brought on the market by the start-up Delmic, which Polman co-founded.

Polman is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), and recipient of two ERC Advanced Investigator Grants (2011, 2016), the Physica Prize of the Dutch Physical Society (2014), the Julius Springer Award for Applied Physics (2014), the ENI Renewable Energy Prize (2012), and the MRS Materials Innovation and Characterization Award (2012). 

Overview

The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society is presently soliciting nominations for their biennial prize Research into the Science of Light.  Details of the required material to provide are given below.

Nominations are to be received online by October 1st, 2016 at the latest. 

The European Physical Society (EPS) Prize for Research into the Science of Light is a major prize awarded on behalf of the EPS through its Quantum Electronics & Optics Division (QEOD). The prize is awarded every 2 years in recognition of recent work by one or more individuals (no more than three) for scientific excellence in the area of electromagnetic science in its broadest sense, across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves.

The work for which the individual(s) is/are nominated must be such that a significant component of it was performed during the period 5 years prior to the award.  In addition, the award will recognize research for which a significant portion of the work was carried out in Europe or in cooperation with European researchers, and may be given for either pure or applied research.

The award will be accompanied by an engraved glass medal, certificate, and a monetary sum of 2000 euros.

The Prize Ceremony and Lecture will be highlights of the EPS Nanometa Conference organized in Seefeld, Austria, from the 4th to 7th of January, 2017.

Nominations must include:

• A cover letter provided by the nominator with proposed citation
• A two-page summary of the significance of the work which is the subject of the nomination. For a nominated team of more than one person, the summary should clearly specify the individual contribution of each nominee, and when and where the work has been performed.
• Nominee CV(s)
• A list of publications covering the last five years (a few earlier articles particularly relevant for the nomination can also be included).  Five articles of most significance should be highlighted.
• Up to three letters of endorsement of the nomination.

Online Submission Details

Dear Colleagues,

The postdeadline submission for the Europhoton 2016 is now open and possible until Friday, July 1st, 08:00 PM (GMT+1, local time on site). Only oral submissions will be accepted.
 

For postdeadline paper submission, topical information and preliminary program, please visit the offical site of the conference: http://www.europhoton.org

Europhoton 2016 will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of world-renowned researchers and scientists, industrials, and students to discuss the latest breakthroughs in the field. The conference will feature high-quality scientific presentations and invited speakers from a wide range of topics, including:

SOLID STATE LASERS

Keynote Speaker: 

Scott Diddams, NIST, USA 

Advances in optical frequency combs and their applications

Invited Speakers:

Dietmar Kracht, Lazerzentrum Hannover, Germany 

High-power single-mode cw lasers for gravitational wave detection

Xavier Délen, Institute of Optics, France 

High-power single-crystal fiber amplifiers

Guina Mircea, Tampere University, Finland 

Progress in development of gain and saturable absorber mirrors for semiconductor disc lasers

Peter Schunemann, BA Systems, USA

Advances in nonlinear optical materials for mid-infrared solid-state laser sources

G. K. Samanta, Physical Research Laboratory, India

Structured laser beams and novel applications 

FIBER AND WAVEGUIDE DEVICES

Keynote Speaker: 

Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, ECE Department, Photonics Center, Boston, MA, USA

Intermodal nonlinear fiber optics: a new pathway to power scalable sources

Invited Speakers: 

Olivier Vanvincq, Université Lille 1, France

Active and passive solid-core microstructured fibers for laser applications

Thomas Gottschall, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

All-fiber optical parametric oscillator for bio-medical imaging

Pu Zhou, National University of Defense Technology, China 

Multi-kW-level near-diffraction-limited coherent polarization beam combining of fiber laser sources

Tso Yee Fan, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA

Beam combining of fiber amplifiers

Jean-Emmanuel Broquin, L'Institut de Microélectronique Electromagnétisme et Photonique et le Laboratoire d'Hyperfréquences et de Caractérisation (IMEP-LaHC), France

Rare-earth-doped waveguide amplifiers and lasers (tentative title)

SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM NOVEL LASER-MATTER INTERACTION REGIMES

Franz Kaertner, University of Hamburg, Germany

THz Linear Acceleration and Compact X-ray Sources

Robin Marjoribanks from University of Toronto, Canada

Energy partition and dynamics of absorption and ablation in burst-mode (>100 MHz) ultra-fast pulsed laser ablation in biotissues

SUMMER SCHOOL on FRONTIERS OF SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCES

Chris Barty, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, USA

Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Milano, Italy

Micro/nanostructuring with ultrashort laser pulses

See Leang Chin, Center for Optics, Photonics and Laser (COPL)
Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Femtosecond laser filamentation and some applications

Paul B. Corkum, Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Attosecond technology: exploiting extreme nonlinear optics

Altamantas Galvanauskas, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

High Brightness Fiber Laser Technologies

Ursula Keller, Department of Physics, Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM)

During Europhoton 2016 the second Prize for Research in Laser Science and Applications will be awared.

We look forward to welcoming you in Vienna. You will find more details on the conference programme on the website at: http://www.europhoton.org.

The EPS Conferences Department,

conferences@eps.org

The conference is organized by the Technical University of Vienna and the European Physical Society in cooperation with its Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD).

Overview

The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division [QEOD] of the European Physical Society is presently soliciting nominations for their biennial prize in ‘Research in Laser Science and Applications’ to be presented at the 2016 Europhoton Conference on Solid-State, Fibre and Waveguide Coherent Light Sources.  Details of the application procedure and information required are given below.

Nominations are to be received online by April 15th, 2016 at the latest.

The European Physical Society (EPS) Prize for Research in Laser Science and Applications is a major prize awarded on behalf of the European Physical Society through its Quantum Electronics Optics Division (QEOD). The prize is awarded every 2 years in recognition of recent work by one or more individuals (no more than three) for scientific excellence in the area of laser science and applications in its broadest sense.

The work for which the individual(s) is (are) nominated must be such that a significant component of it was performed during the period 5 years prior to the award. In addition, the award will recognise research for which a significant portion of the work was carried out in Europe or in cooperation with European researchers, and may be given for either pure or applied research.

The award is accompanied by an engraved glass medal, a certificate, and a monetary sum of 2000 euros.

The Prize Ceremony and Lecture will be highlights of the EPS Europhoton Conference in Vienna, Austria between the 21st and 26th August 2016.

Nominations must include:

• A cover letter provided by the nominator with proposed citation
• A two-page summary of the significance of the work which is the subject of the nomination. For a nominated team of more than one person, the summary should clearly specify the individual contribution of each nominee, and when and where the work has been performed.
• Nominee CV(s)
• A list of publications covering the last five years (a few earlier articles particularly relevant for the nomination can also be included).  Five articles of most significance should be highlighted.* Up to three letters of endorsement of the nomination.
  
  

Online Submission Details

All material must be prepared in English and combined into either a single consolidated PDF file or a ZIP archive. Please click the link below to access the submission site:  http://qeod.epsdivisions.org/RLSP/

Email: conferences@eps.org