A special Awards Ceremony will be held on Monday evening at the LEOS Annual Meeting. The following awards will be presented during the ceremony:

The IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award will be presented to James Fujimoto “for pioneering contributions to optical coherence tomography.” Jim Hsieh will be presented the Aron Kressel Award “for pioneer development of 1300nm GaInAsP diode lasers for fiber optic communications application and entrepreneurial leadership” Timothy Day will be presented the Engineering Achievement Award “for contributions to the development and commercialization of external cavity tunable diode lasers for telecommunications.” This year’s LEOS Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Concetto Giuliano “for continuous professional service to LEOS, with special contributions to conferences and meetings and through his leadership as President.”

The Moscow Chapter has been voted “Chapter-of-the-Year”. Other LEOS chapter awards will be presented to Turkey for “Most Improved Chapter”, Italian Chapter for “Most Innovative Chapter”, and the Ukraine Chapter for “Chapter with Largest Membership Increase.”

The 2001-2002 Distinguished Lecturers: James Baird, Milton Chang, Kent Choquette, Dennis Deppe, Rick Trebino will be recognized for their service to the Society. Recognition as elected members of the LEOS Board of Governors will be given to Peter Delfyett, Ursula Keller, Steve Newton, Katsunari Okamoto.

LEOS 2001 Best Student Paper Award will be presented to Oleg Sinkin and Alan P.S. Chang.

Our congratulations to all the recipients!