Award Committees

Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment Committee

• John M. Dudley, Université de Franche-Comte, France, Chair
• John E. Bjorkholm, USA
• Christopher Dainty, National University of Ireland,Galway, Ireland
• Daan Lenstra, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
• Martin Richardson, University of Central Florida, USA
• Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue University, USA

Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Committee

• Mohammad A. Karim, Old Dominion University, USA, Chair
• Ronald G. Driggers, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
• Paul M. W. French, Imperial College London, UK
• Jonathan C. James, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Yannick Keith Lize, StrataLight Communications, USA
• Hana Turčičová, Akademie ved Ceske Republiky, Czech Republic

Max Born Award Committee

• Concita Sibilia, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy, Chair
• Anders O. Bjarklev, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
• Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona, USA
• Pierre Tournois, FASTLITE Ultrafast Scientific Instrumentation, France
• Nikolay I. Zheludev, University of Southampton, UK

Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award Committee

• Jannick Rolland, University of Central Florida, USA, Chair
• Wilhelm Kaenders, Toptica Photonics Inc., Germany
• David Mintzer, JDSU, USA

Joseph Fraunhofer/Robert M. Burley Prize Committee

• Jack Cederquist, General Dynamics, USA, Chair
• Anurag Gupta, Optical Research Associates, USA
• Jürgen Jahns, Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany
• Andrew Kirk, McGill University, Canada
• Juan C. Minaño, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Philip Russell, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award Committee

• Richard C. Williamson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA, Chair
• Dennis G. Deppe, University of Central Florida, USA
• Jérôme Faist, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Allister I. Ferguson, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Anand Gopinath, University of Minnesota, USA
• James R. Leger, University of Minnesota, USA

Edwin H. Land Medal Committee

(Joint with IS&T)

• Uzi Efron, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• Costas Fotakis, FORTH-IESL, Greece
• Daniel F. V. James, University of Toronto, Canada
• Peter Török, Imperial College London, UK

OSA Leadership Award/New Focus-Bookham Prize Committee

• Mario Dagenais, University of Maryland, USA, Chair
• Lawrence S. Goldberg, National Science Foundation, USA
• Janice A. Hudgings, Mount Holyoke College, USA
• Guillermo H. Kaufmann, Instituto de Fisica Rosario, Argentina
• Wayne H. Knox, University of Rochester, USA
• Yehiam Prior, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Emmett N. Leith Medal

• Ravindra A. Athale, MITRE Corp., USA, Chair
• Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• James R. Fienup, University of Rochester, USA
• Jean-Pierre Huignard, Thales Research & Technology, France
• Jun Tanida, Osaka University, Japan
• Kim A. Winick, University of Michigan, USA

Ellis R. Lippincott Award Committee (OSA Members)

(Joint with SAS and the Coblentz Society)

• Richard B. Miles, Princeton University, USA, Chair
• Robin M. Hochstrasser, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Adolph Lomb Medal Committee

• Tomasz Tkaczyk, Rice University, USA, Chair
• Marwood N. Ediger, VeraLight, USA
• Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Brian H. Kolner, University of California Davis, USA
• William R. Ott, National Inst of Standards and Technology, USA
• Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University, Turkey

C. E. K. Mees Medal Committee

• Harrison H. Barrett, University of Arizona, USA, Chair
• Zhongping Chen, University of California Irvine, USA
• Malcolm H. Dunn, University of St. Andrews, UK
• Kazuyoshi  Itoh, Osaka University, Japan
• Yuri S. Kivshar, Australian National University, Australia
• Markus Pollnau, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands

William F. Meggers Award Committee

• Philip L. Varghese, University of Texas at Austin, USA, Chair
• Douglas S. Baer, Los Gatos Research Inc., USA
• Augustus W. Fountain III, US Army, USA
• Stephen T. Pratt, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Lou Reinisch, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Scott T. Sanders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

New Focus/Bookham Student Award Committee

• Prem Kumar, Northwestern University, USA, Chair
• Aref Chowdhury, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
• Aristide Dogariu, University of Central Florida, USA
• Philippe M. Fauchet, University of Rochester, USA
• Natalia Litchinitser, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
• Krishnan Parameswaran, Physical Sciences Inc., USA
• Alan Petersen, Spectra-Physics Lasers Inc., USA
• Ronald W. Waynant, FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, USA

David Richardson Medal Committee

• Marek J. Konopnicki, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, USA, Chair
• Chungte W. Chen, Northrup Grumman Space Technology Sector, USA
• Russell A. Chipman, University of Arizona, USA
• Gary S. Duck, Canada
• Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Tufts University, USA
• Jeffrey A. Squier, Colorado School of Mines, USA 

Charles Hard Townes Award Committee

• Ci-Ling Pan, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Chair
• Weng W. Chow, Sandia National Labs., USA
• David C. Hanna, University of Southampton, UK
• Franz X. Kärtner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Herman L. Offerhaus, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
• J. Javier Sánchez-Mondragón, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, México

John Tyndall Award Committee (OSA Members)

(Joint with IEEE/LEOS)

• Jose Capmany, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Takashi Mizuochi, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan
• David N. Payne, University of Southampton, UK

Herbert Walther Award Short-list Committee

(Joint with DPG)

• H. Jeff Kimble, California Institute of Technology, USA
• Peter L. Knight, Imperial College London, UK
• Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University, USA

R. W. Wood Prize Committee

• Richard P. Schneider, Infinera, USA , Chair
• Jose M. Guerra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
• Simon M. Hooker, University of Oxford, UK
• David A. B. Miller, Stanford University, USA
• Gérard A. Mourou, Ecole Polytechnique, France
• Irina T. Sorokina, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway