The LEOS Board of Governors has approved a new award – the IEEE LEOS Young Investigator Award. The intent of this award, which will be given annually, is to honor an individual who has made outstanding technical contributions to photonics (broadly defined) prior to his or her 35th birthday.
The award shall consist of a certificate of recognition and an honorarium of $1,000. The funding for this award is being sponsored by General Photonics Corporation.
Nomination packages will be due at the LEOS executive office by 30 September. Nominees must be under 35 years of age on Sept. 30th of the year in which the nomination is made. The award may be presented either at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) or the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), to be selected by the recipient. The first award will be presented at OFC or CLEO, 2007.
Nomination packages consist of a nomination cover page, a statement of the nominee’s research achievements in photonics, the nominee’s curriculum vitae, and three to five reference letters (to be received at the LEOS office prior to the deadline).
Please consider nominating an under-age-35 colleague for the inaugural cycle of this award!
For full information about the LEOS awards program look under the “Awards” tab on the LEOS web site ( http://www.i-leos.org/ )
Andrew M. Weiner
LEOS Awards Chair