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New! The 2009 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics has been awarded to Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis for "outstanding contributions in attosecond physics, particularly for the generation of attosecond pulses and their application for the direct measurement of light waves".

Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis studied Physics at the University of Crete (Greece). He received his PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, in 2005. At present he is a scientist in the Division of Attosecond Physics (led by Prof. Ferenc Krausz) at the Max Planck institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany as well as an adjunct Professor of Physics at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), South Korea. In 2007 he received the Foteinos Prize of the Academy of Athens.

Dr. Goulielmakis' most important contributions in optics include the generation of isolated attosecond pulses in the extreme ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum at record short durations (~ 80 attoseconds) as well the application of such pulses for the direct sampling of the waveform of light waves for the first time, realizing in this way an "oscilloscope for light".

These developments enable the real-time tracking of the ultrafast electron motion in atoms, molecules, and condensed matter and are expected to shed light onto the physics of unexplored phenomena of the nanoworld.

Call for nominations for the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize 2010/ Deadline: July 15th 2010.
IUPAP Young Scientist Award in Optics PDF Poster

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• ICO/EOS Topical Meeting (TOM 7) on Optics & Energy
  EOS Annual Meeting 2010
  26 - 29 October 2010, Parc Floral De Paris, France
  Chairs:
  Maria L. Calvo, ICO President
  Duncan T. Moore, ICO Elected Vice-President,
  Chair of the ICO Committee for Regional Development
  
  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (PDF)

  IUPAP offers 10 grants of 350 Euros each for physicists from developing countries to attend the TOM. Please send your application along with a copy of the abstract that you submitted to the Conference to Maria.L.Calvo, mlcalvo@fis.ucm.es by June 15th, 2010.

  ICO Prize and Galileo Galilei Award Ceremonies: EOSAM 2010 will host the ICO Prize and Galileo Galilei Award Ceremonies including the awardees' Ernst Abbe and Galileo Galilei lectures, on Thursday, 28 October 2010.

  ICO Prize 2009

  Rajesh Menon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah and a affiliate of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), for his "breakthrough achievement in nanolithography, in particular for his invention and development of the absorbance modulation method for a wider range of nanophotonic applications." Ernst Abbe Lecture: On breaking the Abbe diffraction limit in optical nanopatterning and nanoscopy. Abstract

  ICO Galileo Galilei Award 2009

  The 2009 Award is shared by Marat S. Soskin, Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, for "his achievements in the fields of tunable lasers, dynamic holography, and linear and nonlinear singular optics." Galileo Galilei Lecture: Singular optics of carbon nanotubes dispersion in liquid crystals. Abstract Dumitru Mihalache, Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, "for his achievements in the field of theoretical nonlinear optics." Galileo Galilei Lecture: Nonlinear optical modes in micro- and nanostructured media: From light bullets to plasmonic lattice solitons Abstract



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