Award Committees

Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize Committee

Lluis Torner, ICFO -The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain, Chair

Demetrios N. Christodoulides, University of Central Florida, United States

Deborah S. Jin, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

Satoshi Kawata, Osaka University, Japan

Katarina Svanberg, Lund Univ. Medical Laser Center, Sweden

Malvin C. Teich, Boston University, United States

Esther Hoffman Beller Award Committee

Eric Cormier, CELIA, University Bordeaux 1, France, Chair

Robert M. Bunch, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, United States

Prasoon K Diwakar, Purdue University, United States

John D. Harvey, New Zealand

Gong-Ru Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Yongchang Wang, KLA-Tencor Corp, United States

Max Born Award Committee

Yuri S. Kivshar, Australian National University, Australia, Chair

Stephen E. Harris, Stanford University, United States

John B. Pendry, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

David R. Smith, Duke University, United States

Ulrike K. Woggon, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Shining Zhu, Nanjing University, China

Distinguished Service Award Committee

Silvano Donati, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy, Chair

Gary C. Bjorklund, Bjorklund Enterprises, United States

Stephen Allen Burns, Indiana University, United States

John M. Dudley, Universite de Franche-Comte, France

Laura Kolton, The Optical Society, United States

David R. Williams, University of Rochester, United States

Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award Committee

Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, Columbia University, United States, Chair

Johannes Fitzgerald de Boer, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts University, United States

Steven L Jacques, Oregon Health and Science University, United States

Kenneth J. Kaufmann, Hamamatsu Corporation, United States

Adam P. Wax, Duke University, United States

Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award Committee

Duncan Leo MacFarlane, University of Texas at Dallas, United States, Chair

Rongguang Liang, University of Arizona, United States

Henning Rehn, Osram GmbH, Germany

Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Committee

Bart Salters, Philips Research Laboratory, Netherlands, Chair

Ray T. Chen, University of Texas at Austin, United States

Christoph S. Harder, Swiss Photonics and Laser Network, Switzerland

Robert Michael Malone, National Security Technologies, LLC, United States

Ching-Cherng Sun, National Central University, Taiwan

Wilhelm Ulrich, Carl Zeiss AG, Germany

Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award Committee

Harrison H. Barrett, University of Arizona, United States, Chair

Julie L Bentley, United States

Christopher Dainty, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Daniel Malacara Hernandez, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico

K. Alan Shore, Bangor University, United Kingdom

Bryan D. Stone, Synopsys, Inc, United States

Nick Holonyak Jr. Award Committee

Leslie A. Kolodziejski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, Chair

Wolfgang Freude, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany

Minoru Obara, Keio University, Japan

Roberto Paiella, Boston University, United States

Robert Tkach, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, United States

Yong-Hang Zhang, Arizona State University, United States

Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Committee

Kenneth G.H. Baldwin, Australian National University, Australia, Chair

Maria L. Calvo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Judy Donnelly, Three Rivers Community College, United States

Gerd Keiser, United States

Kyle J. Myers, CDRH/ U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United States

Herbert Graves Winful, University of Michigan, United States

Edwin Land Medal Committee

Din Ping Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Chair

Martin James Booth, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Fredrik Laurell, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden

Lenore McMackin, InView Technology Corporation, United States

Sang Soo Lee Award Committee

Byoung Yoon Kim, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, South Korea, Chair

Anderson S. L. Gomes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Joseph W. Goodman, Stanford University, United States

Kenichi Iga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea

Paul Narum, Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt, Norway

Emmett N. Leith Medal Committee

Ting-Chung Poon, Virginia Tech, United States, Chair

David Jones Brady, Duke University, United States

Robert D. Guenther, Duke University, United States

Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University, United States

Thomas D. Milster, University of Arizona, United States

Miles John Padgett, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Adolph Lomb Medal Committee

Emma Springate, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom, Chair

Shahraam Afshar, University of Adelaide, Australia

Jack Feinberg, University of Southern California, United States

Jonathan C. Knight, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Kyunghwan Oh, Yonsei University, South Korea

Chris Xu, Cornell University, United States

William F. Meggers Award Committee

Lene Vestergaard Hau, Harvard University, United States, Chair

Frederic Merkt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Mauro Nisoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Luis Adolfo Orozco, University of Maryland at College Park, United States

Patrick Henry Vaccaro, Yale University, United States

David Richardson Medal Committee

James C. Wyant, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States, Chair

Robert P. Breault, Breault Research Organization Inc, United States

R. Edward English, L-3 Communications, United States

Kenneth E. Moore, Radiant Zemax, LLC, United States

Jie Qiao, University of Rochester, United States

Jim Schwiegerling, University of Arizona, United States

Bruce William Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

Edgar Tillyer Award Committee

Jay Neitz, University of Washington, United States, Chair

Rigmor C. Baraas, Buskerund University College, Norway

Nancy J. Coletta, New England College of Optometry, United States

Andrew Metha, University of Melbourne, Australia

Jason Porter, University of Houston, United States

Austin J. Roorda, University of California Berkeley, United States

Charles Hard Townes Award Committee

Ingmar Hartl, DESY, Germany, Chair

Jean-Christophe Chanteloup, Centre National Recherche Scientifique, France

James D. Franson, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States

Kaoru Minoshima, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Andrew M. Schober, Lockheed Martin, United States

Alphan Sennaroglu, Koc University, Turkey

John Tyndall Award Committee

Ann C. Von Lehmen, Applied Communications Sciences, United States, Chair

Yasuhiro Koike, Keio University, Japan

Juerg Leuthold, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Herbert Walther Award Committee

Randall Hulet, Rice University, United States, Chair

Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona, United States

R.W. Wood Prize Committee

Mark A. Anastasio, Washington University in St Louis, United States, Chair

Katherine Hall, WiTricity Corporation, United States

Shibin Jiang, AdValue Photonics, Inc., United States

Julius Augustin Muschaweck, Osram GmbH, Germany

Leilei Peng, University of Arizona, United States

Yongtian Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China