Dear Colleague, 

In 2017, the Liquids Section of the EPS Condensed Matter Division will award the European Physical Society’s Liquid Matter Prize. The prize will be awarded to a single person who has made outstanding contributions to the science of liquid matter in the experimental or theoretical area and who is still active in research.  The award may be given for pure or applied research. 

The prize will be awarded during the 10th Liquid Matter Conference to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17–21 July 2017. We would appreciate receiving your suggestions for deserving candidates. The nomination must include a short citation and a brief description of the main achievements of the candidate. 

Nominations should be sent by email to the Chair of the Prize Jury, Professor Igor Musevic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, igor.musevic@ijs.si no later than 1 June 2016. 

With best regards, 

Igor Musevic
Chair of the Prize Jury and LMC 2017 conference

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

MULHOUSE, [30 June 2015] – The European Physical Society is delighted to announce the 2015 winners of its young researcher Prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics.  These prizes are awarded once every two years, and recognize the highest level of excellence amongst emerging researchers.  The young researcher prizes include the prestigious Fresnel prize for research achievements obtained before the age of 35, as well as prizes for the best nominated European PhD theses in optics over the last two years. The awards were presented in a Ceremony on Tuesday June 23th at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Europe and the European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC), held during the World of Photonics Congress in Munich, Germany.

2015 Fresnel Prizes

The 2015 Fresnel Prize for fundamental aspects has been awarded to Tim Hugo Taminiau, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, for his fundamental contributions to nano-optics and quantum information science through the control of solid-state quantum emitters and spins.

Tim Hugo Taminiau is a tenure-track group leader at QuTech at the Delft University of Technology, where he studies quantum physics, quantum information and sensing based on electronic and nuclear solid-state defect spins. He graduated from the University of Twente in 2005 and obtained a PhD at the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) in Barcelona. In his thesis, he studied metallic nano-particles acting as antennas for optical quantum emitters. Before returning to the Netherlands as a Marie Curie Fellow in 2011, Tim Hugo Taminiau investigated optically active defects at the California Institute of Technology and Brown University in US.

The 2015 Fresnel Prize for applied aspects has been awarded to Daniele Brida, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, for the development of broadly tunable few-optical-cycle laser sources and their application in the investigation of primary photo-induced processes in condensed matter systems.

Daniele Brida obtained the PhD in physics in 2010 at Politecnico di Milano, where he was appointed assistant professor at the Physics department. Later he joined the university of Konstanz first as visiting scientist ,then as leader of a research group funded by the Emmy Noether program of the DFG since 2012. His main scientific interests are the generation of broadband optical pulses ranging from UV to the THz spectral region, their temporal compression down to few optical cycles with adaptive techniques and the passive stabilization of the carrier envelope phase. He also uses ultrashort pulses to condensed-matter spectroscopy with an extreme temporal resolution.

2015 PhD Thesis Prizes

The 2015 Thesis Prizes for fundamental aspects have been awarded to Tim Langen, JILA, University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, CO, USA, for his thesis on non-equilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional Bose gases, and to Søren Raza, Centre for Nano Optics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark, for his thesis on probing plasmonic nanostructures with electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS).

Tim Langen is currently a Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellow at JILA, Boulder. His research interests include atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics and quantum many-body systems. He graduated as a PhD from TU Vienna in 2013. During his PhD he has also been a visiting researcher at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Søren Raza received the PhD degree in physics from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2014.. He specialized in the general field of nanophotonics, in particular nanoplasmonics. He studied the interaction of light with metallic nanostructures and amended his theoretical work with experimental results during his PhD. He is now employed as a postdoc in the Centre for Nano Optics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU).

The 2015 Thesis Prizes for applied aspects are awarded to Tobias Herr, Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, for his thesis on solitons and dynamics of frequency comb formation in optical microresonators, and to Pete Shadbolt, Quantum Optics & Laser Science Group, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, for his thesis on complexity and control in quantum photonics.

Tobias Herr is a researcher at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His research interests are time and frequency metrology, non-linear optics, laser spectroscopy and applications in astronomy. He obtained his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 2013 and his Diploma/Master in Physics in 2008 from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Pete Shadbolt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Controlled Quantum Dynamics, Imperial College, London, UK. He completed his PhD in January 2014 at the University of Bristol, where he worked on experimental optical quantum computing using waveguides. Peter’s current research focuses on large-scale architectures for linear-optical quantum computing, and potential applications including quantum chemistry and machine learning.

Contacts:

Prof. Thorsten Ackemann

Chairman of Junior Awards Committee 2015

thorsten.ackemann@strath.ac.uk

Dr. Luc Bergé

Chair of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society

luc.berge@cea.fr

More information on the EPS QEOD Prizes can be found on the division's website.

The EPS HEPP Board is calling for nominations for the EPS High Energy Particle Physics Prizes in 2015.

The High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics in experimental, theoretical or technological area, will be awarded to one or more persons or to collaboration(s). In accordance with EPS-HEPP regulations, nominations for this Prize are only accepted from a broad list of invited world experts.

The Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize, for an outstanding contribution (experimental or theoretical) to Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology in the last fifteen years, will be awarded to an individual or individuals (normally to not more than 3). Nominations are open and should be addressed to the EPS-HEPP secretary, Professor Yves Sirois (yves.sirois[at]in2p3.fr) by January 11, 2015.

The Young Experimental Physicist Prize, for outstanding work by one or more young experimental physicists (born on or after Jan 1 1980) in the field of Particle Physics and/or Particle Astrophysics. Nominations are open and should be addressed to the corresponding EPS-HEPP sub-committee chairperson, Professor Karl Jakobs (karl.jakobs[at]uni-freiburg.de) by January 11, 2015.

The Gribov Medal, for outstanding work by a young physicist (born on or after Jan 1 1980) in Theoretical Particle Physics and/or Field Theory. Nominations are open and should be addressed to the corresponding EPS-HEPP sub-committee chairperson, Professor Elias Kiritsis (kiritsis[at]apc.univ-paris7.fr) by January 11, 2015.

The Outreach Prize, for outstanding outreach achievement connected with High Energy Physics and/or Particle Astrophysics. Nominations are open and should be addressed to the corresponding EPS-HEPP sub-committee chairperson, Professor Bob Van Eijk (vaneijk[at]nikhef.nl) by January 11, 2015.