ICO regrets the passing away on April 15th of John Howard, the historian by excellence for the ICO and for the optics community in general.
ICO expresses its condolences to the Mexican optical community on the passing of Professor Orestes Nicolas Stavroudis (1923-2014).
ICO mourns the passing away of Professor Adolf Lohman, ICO President 1978-1981 and a pioneer and leader in optical information processing.
The United Nations General Assembly has officially proclaimed 2015 to be the International Year of Light.
ICO Galileo Galilei Award 2013 awarded to Kazimierz Rzążewski, Professor at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences,
The IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics 2013 was awarded to Andrea Alù, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Dr. habil. Tobias J. Kippenberg, Head of the Lab of Photonics and Quantum Measurements, EPFL, Switzerland, was awarded the ICO Prize 2013.
Call for nominations for the ICO PRIZE 2013. Deadline April 15th, 2013. More information: e-ico.org
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Nominations for the ICO GALILEO GALILEI AWARD. Deadline April 15, 2013.
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Dr. Nirit Dudovich, Atto Science Group of the Weizmann Institute, Israel, was awarded the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics 2012 .
ICO congratulates Serge Haroche, ENS Paris, France, and David Wineland, NIST Boulder, US, on being awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The ICO congratulates Prof. Daniel Malacara Hernández from CIO, Leon, Gto, Mexico, on being awarded the SPIE Gold Medal 2012.
Call for nominations to the 2013 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award. Deadline: Dec. 10, 2012. For instructions please visit the ICO website.
Prof. Mikhail V. Fedorov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Russia) is the winner of the ICO Galileo Galilei Award 2012.
2012 ICO Prize winner: Romain Quidant (ICFO, Spain), for “his extraordinary scientific accomplishments in nanoscale optical manipulation.”
ICO mourns the passing of Prof. Carlos Gomez Reino and extends its condolences to his family, colleagues, and to all members of the SEDO.
ICO mourns the passing away of Prof. Guoguang Mu, one of the early pioneers of modern optics in China, and ICO Vice President 1993 -1999.
ICO mourns the passing of H. John Caulfield and extends its condolences to his family and colleagues.
