QEOD Prizes

QEOD Prizes 2009:

The Quantum Electronics and Optics division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society will be soliciting nominations for their biennial prizes, which are to be presented in 2009 at the CLEO/Europe-EQEC meeting in Munich.

The nomination procedure will be announced in the fall of 2008. Note that the prize receivers need to be an EPS QEOD member at the time of the nomination.

EPS Quantum Electronics Prize:

These are the two senior EPS/QEOD prizes awarded on a biennial basis for outstanding contributions to quantum electronics and optics. There is one prize for fundamental aspects and one prize for applied aspects. The prize winners are each to receive a medal and 5000 ~.

Fresnel Prize:

These are the two EPS/QEOD prizes awarded on a biennial basis for outstanding contributions to quantum electronics and optics made by young scientists before the age of 35. There is one prize for fundamental aspects and one prize for applied aspects. The prize winners are each to receive a medal and 3000 ~.

There is no nomination form for these prizes, but letters of nomination should contain a one page CV, a brief description of the nominee's achievements, a list of key publications, patents, etc., and at least two letters of endorsement of the nomination. The letter should be prepared in pdf-format.

QEOD Thesis Prize:

Up to four EPS/QEOD prizes will be awarded on a biennial basis for the best nominated PhD theses in the area of quantum electronics and optics submitted in the two years prior to the CLEO/Europe-IQEC meeting. These prizes will be awarded for fundamental and for applied aspects. The prize winners are each to receive a medal and 2000 ~ and EPS will also pay the winners' reasonable travel expenses to attend the CLEO/Europe-IQEC conference.

These prizes are nominated on the basis of recommendation from at least one of the PhD-thesis examiners (who should not be the nominated student's supervisor or from the same institution). Such letters of recommendation should be written in English, submitted electronically in pdf-format. They should contain a short summary of the achievements reported in the nominated thesis together with a list of associated publications and reasons why the thesis is particularly deserving of the appropriate thesis prize.

QEOD Prizes 2007

EPS Quantum Electronics Prize

Prize in year 2007
Fundamental aspects		Applied aspects
	Anton Zeilinger Universität Wien, Austria "For his many seminal contributions to the foundations of quantum optics and quantum information science."		Mordechai Segev Technion, Haifa, Israel "For his pioneering contributions in the field of light propagation in nonlinear media, in particular regarding spatial solitons in photorefractive materials, incoherent solitons, and nonlinear waves in periodic structures."

Prizes awarded in previous years.

EPS Fresnel Prize

Prize in year 2007
Fundamental aspects		Applied aspects
	Markus Aspelmeyer Universität Wien, Austria "For his outstanding achievement in the fields of entanglement, quantum communication and quantum physics of nano-mechanical devices."		Jérôme Faure Ecole Polytechnique-ENSTA-CNRS Palaiseau, France "For the application of high field lasers to laser plasma accelerators."

Prizes awarded in previous years.

EPS Theses Prize

Prize in year 2007
Fundamental aspects		Applied aspects
	Axel Griesmaier University of Stuttgart, Germany "Dipole-dipole interaction in a degenerate quantum gas"		Giuseppe Della Valle Politecnico of Milan, Italy "Photonic devices at 1.5 µm manufactured by ion exchange and femtosecond laser writing"
Fundamental aspects		Applied aspects
	Jacob Sherson Univ. of Århus and Univ. of Copenhagen, Danmark "Quantum memory and teleportation using macroscopic gas sample"		Raúl Vicente Zafra Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spaib "Nonlinear dynamics and synchronization of bidirectionally coupled semiconductor lasers"

Prizes awarded in previous years.