ICO Prizes and Awards: call for nominations

ICO, the International Commission for Optics, has established three awards: the "ICO Prize", the ICO Galileo Galilei Award and the ICTP/ICO "Gallieno Denardo" Award. The latter was established jointly with the "Abdus Salam" International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and ICO. This announcement combines the three calls for nominations. Nominations are now received for the 2008 Galileo Galilei Award and the 2008 ICO Prize, with a deadline of April 15, 2008.

2008 Galileo Galilei Award and ICO Prize 2007, deadline April 15, 2008

• ICO Galileo Galilei 2008 PDF Poster
• ICO Prize 2008 PDF Poster

ICO/ICTP "Gallieno Denardo" Award

• ICO/ICTP "Gallieno Denardo" Award 2008 PDF Poster

ICO, the International Commission for Optics, and ICTP, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, have agreed to establish a joint prize, called the ICO/ICTP Award. It is reserved for young researchers from developing countries (as defined by the United Nations), who conduct their research in a developing country. The award will be given to scientists less than 40 years old (on December 31 of the year for which the award is given), who are active in research in Optics and have contributed to the promotion of research activities in Optics in their own or another developing country. While this web site has complete information, the following should be appropriate to prepare a nomination.

The award consists of the following:

1. The ICO gives a cash amount of US$1000 and a diploma.
2. The ICTP invites the winner to attend a three-week-long College at Trieste at the next appropriate opportunity, and to give a seminar on his/her work when appropriate. ICTP will pay for travel and living expenses. In February 2008, ICTP might host a Winter College on "Micro and Nano-Photonics for Life Science."

The award will be presented to the winner at Trieste in the presence of representatives of ICO and ICTP. The award is given to one person every year. The winner is selected on the basis of nominations received by the Award Committee in response to a call published by both ICO and ICTP. The nominations must be documented with a complete curriculum vitae including a list of publications and selected reprints (no more than three) as well as a complete employment history and a description of the nominee's achievements for the promotion of research activity in developing countries. In September 2007, the ICTP and ICO agreed to define the ICO/ICTP Award as ICO/ICTP "Gallieno Denardo" Award to honor the memory and legacy of the late Prof. Gallieno Denardo.

The ICTP invites the winner to attend a three weeks College at Trieste at the next appropriate opportunity, and to give a seminar on his/her work when appropriate. ICTP will pay for travel and living expenses. In February 2007, ICTP might to host the Winter College on "".

The first winners of the award were:

• 2000: Arbab Ali Khan (Pakistan)
• 2001: Arashmid Nahal (Iran) and Fernando Perez Quitian (Argentina).
• 2002: Alphan Sennaroglu (Turkey)
• 2003: Robert Szipöcs (Hungary)
• 2004: Imrana Ashraf Zahid (Pakistan) and Revati Nitin Kulkarni (India)
• 2005: Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn (Thailand)
• 2006: Hector Manuel Moya-Cessa (Mexico)
• 2007: Svetlana V. Boriskina (Ukraine)

The Award Committee consists of Prof. A. Wague, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Techniques, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, e-mail wague@ucad.refer.sn or wague@sentoo.sn, Chair; Prof. J. Niemela of ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Prof. A. Consortini of University of Florence, Italy and Dr M. Danailov of Syncrotrone Trieste, Italy. Return the nomination form, together with supporting information, no later than December 10, 2008, to the Award Committee Chair, Prof. A. Wague Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Techniques, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, e-mail wague@ucad.refer.sn or wague@sentoo.sn, with a copy to Prof. Joseph Niemela, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, PO Box 586, I 34100 Trieste, Italy, niemela@ictp.it.

Nominations should document all sections listed below:
Full name of nominee
Nominator's name and address
Nominator's signature, date
Date of birth of nominee
Business address
Academic background, education (college or university, location, major field, degree, year awarded)
Academic honors
Employment history (position, organization, duties, dates)
Publications, patents, unpublished reports, papers presented at meetings, etc. (attach a list of those you deem pertinent)
Honors and awards.
Scientific achievements for which the candidate is nominated for this award: attach a separate sheet).

Notes:
Nominators are encouraged to generate supporting letters. Each supporting letter must come from a different country or ICO Territory and bring an additional information on the case. The number of supporting letters will not be a selection criterion. The recipient will be expected to give a presentation based upon his/her achievements at the next appropriate ICTP/ICO event.

ICO Prize:

Rules applicable to the ICO Prize:

ICO has established in 1982 the ICO Prize, to be given each year to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to optics, published submitted for publication before he or she has reached the age of 40. (Specifically, the Prize winner must not have reached the age of 40 before December 31 of the year for which the Prize is awarded). The character of the work of successive Prize recipients should preferably alternate between predominantly experimental or technological and predominantly theoretical. The "noteworthy" contribution in optics is measured chiefly by its impact (past or possibly future) on the field of optics generally, opening a subfield or significantly expanding an established subfield in research or technology.

The Prize includes:

• a citation,
• a cash award of an amount established in the triennial budget of ICO, and the invitation to present an invited paper and receive the award at the next ICO Congress or another ICO meeting mutually agreed to by the bureau and the award winner.

Every year, the ICO Prize Committee issues a call for nominations that is published in the ICO Newsletter, receives the nominations and selects the recipients for approval by the Bureau at its next meeting. The award needs not be made each year if the Prize Committee so chooses. The Prize is preferably given to an individual, but it can be shared by two persons. Eligibility for the Prize is not excluded by previous prizes awarded to the individual. The selected Prize winner is then announced in the ICO Newsletter and, as appropriate, in one or more optics journals. The prize will be presented at the next appropriate major ICO meeting and the Prize winner will be expected to deliver an invited talk at that Meeting. Posters of the Prize are also available under request to ICO Secretariat.

Additional general information about the ICO Prize:

The cash award presently carries an amount of US$2000 and US$1000 for travel expenses. In addition to the rules adopted by ICO, the Carl Zeiss foundation has generously agreed to donate an Ernst Abbe medal to the winner.

The award winners to this date are :

(See Golden Book)

The ICO Prize Committee, is chaired by Dr. Byoung Yoon Kim, Novera Optics, KT Second Research Center, 463-1 Jeonmin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-811 Korea, Tel: 82-42-602-3777, Fax: 82-42-602-3799, e-mail: yoon.kim@noveraoptics.co.kr

See nominations instructions at the end of this column.

ICO Galileo Galilei Award:

Rules applicable to the Galileo Galilei Award:

1 - The Galileo Galilei medal of ICO is awarded for outstanding contributions to the field of optics which are achieved under comparatively unfavorable circumstances.

2.1 - The outstanding contributions in the field of optics should refer to:
- fundamental scientific questions or problems, or
- research or development of optical methods or devices, or
- scientific or technical leadership in the establishment of regional optical centers.

2.2 - "Comparatively unfavorable circumstances" refers to difficult economic or social conditions or lack of access to scientific or technical facilities or sources of information.

2.3 - The outstanding contributions must be documented, if applicable, by internationally acknowledged publications. Exceptionally, reports can be considered, provided that they are made available to the Award Committee.

3 - The award is normally given to one person. Exceptionally, however, if a collective contribution is judged to be worthy of the award a team of several persons may be selected.

4 - Every year, the ICO Committee for the Regional Development of Optics issues a call for nominations that is published in the ICO Newsletter, receives the nominations and selects the winner for approval by the Bureau at its next meeting. The award need not be given every year if the Bureau so chooses.

5 - The award consists of:
a) the Galileo Galilei Medal,
b) assistance in travel to present an invited paper and receive the award at the next ICO Congress or another ICO meeting mutually agreed to by the Bureau and the award winner,
c) a cash donation
c) special attention and appropriate measures of ICO to support the future activities of the award winner.

Additional general information about the Galileo Galilei Award:

The Italian Society of Optics and Photonics, SIOF (Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica) has agreed to support ICO's initiative and donate the silver medal with the portrait of Galileo Galilei to be given to the recipient.

The Award contributes to one of the essential missions of the International Commission for Optics: recognize the promotion of Optics under difficult circumstances. The award was established by the 1993 General Assembly of ICO and has be awarded annually since 1994.

The award winners to this date are :

(See Golden Book)

The prize will be presented at the next appropriate major ICO meeting and the Prize winner will be expected to deliver an invited talk at that Meeting. Applications should follow the instructions below and nominators are encouraged to clearly documents all aspects of the nomination, including:

• the characterisation of the scientific work,
• the activities in management and organisation in the applicant's homeland,
• the cooperation with and support of organisations outside the homeland,
• the nature of the organisation that the candidate is working for in his/her homeland,
• the characterisation of the "unfavourable circumstances" under which the work was performed.

The Galileo Galilei Award Committee of ICO, is chaired by Prof. Ichirou Yamaguchi, Faculty of Engineering, Gunma University, Tenjincho 1-5-1, Kiryu-City, 376-8515 Gunma, Japan, tel. +81-277-30-1747, fax. +81-277-30-1707, e-mail: ichiyama@el.gunma-u.ac.jp

Joint nomination instructions for the three ICO awards.

International Commission for Optics (ICO)
ICO Prize 2007 and ICO Galileo Galilei Award 2007 and ICTP/ICO Award 2007

Nominations should document all sections listed below
Full name of nominee
Nominator's name and address
Nominator's signature, date
Date of birth of nominee
Business address
Academic background, education (college or university, location, major field, degree, year awarded)
Academic honors
Employment history (position, organization, duties,dates)
Publications, patents, unpublished reports, papers presented at meetings, etc. (attach a list of those you deem pertinent)
Honors and awards.
Scientific achievements for which the candidate is nominated for this award: attach a separate sheet).

Notes:

• Nominators are encouraged to generate supporting letters; each supporting letter must come from a different country or ICO Territory and bring an additional information on the case. The number of supporting letters will not be a selection criterion.
• The recipient will be expected to give a presentation based upon his/her achievements at the next appropriate ICO Meeting.