Award Winners

 

LOCAL SECTION/STUDENT CHAPTER EXCELLENCE AWARDS
	The Optical Society of America has begun a new tradition of awarding Local Sections  and Student Chapters for excellence in programming.  Last year’s winners were granted a $1000 fund to further develop their efforts..  New England Section http://www.nesosa.org OSA Local Section greater than 75 members  Optical Society of San Diego http://www.ossd.org OSA Local Section under 75 members CREOL/University of Central Florida School of Optics http://www.creol.ucf.edu/~osa Student chapter under 50 members
NEW FOCUS STUDENT AWARDS WINNERS
	Top three finalists ($10,000) Christopher Schaffer, Harvard University - Micro-machining optical waveguides using a femtosecond laser oscillator Rhonda Morgan, University of Arizona - Achromatic phase control for nulling interferometry-laboratory results Chad Hoyt, University of New Mexico - Realization of anti-stokes fluorescent cooling in Thulium-doped glass The five finalists ($2500) Jie Shan, Columbia University - Single-cycle pulses of circularly-polarized electromagnetic radiation Daniel Marks, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - The astigmatic lens coherence sensor Shin Inouye, MIT - Amplification of light and atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate Heidi Hofer, University of Rochester - Performance of the Rochester 2nd generation adaptive optics system for the eye Jérôme Genest, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada - Determining the propagation of partly coherent beams without correlation information
NEW FOCUS TRAVEL GRANT WINNERS ($500)
	Brian M. Pikkula, Rice University James Tunnell, Rice University Martin Booth, University of Oxford Michael Ware, Brigham Young University Lubomir A. Ribarov, Vanderbilt University Glauco Souza, George Washington University Michael Ware, Brigham Young University Lubomir A. Ribarov, Vanderbilt University Jose Manuel Riva-Moscoso, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela G. Unnikrishnan, Indian University of Technology, Delhi Ilia Vadeiko, St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics Meng-Wei Wang, National Chiao Tung University Cynthia Angel, Colorado State University Mark A. Anastasio, University of Chicago Gabriel Popescu, University of Central Florida Raluca Negres, University of Central Florida Dong-Hyun Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jeffrey R. DiMaio, Clemson University Damon Diehl, University of Rochester Wanli Chi, University of Rochester