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

The ICO Prize 2009 goes to 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”.

Abstract

"On breaking the Abbé diffraction limit in optical nanopatterning and nanoscopy", R. Menon. 
The Abbe diffraction limit prevents visible light from accessing the nanoscale. Recent advances in wavelength-selective photochemistry and wavefront engineering of light have begun to break this limit. Here, I will describe absorbance modulation and related techniques that enable optical nanopatterning and nanoscopy.

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”, and Dumitru Mihalache (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania) "for his achievements in the field of theoretical nonlinear optics".

Abstracts
 "Singular optics of carbon nanotubes dispersion in liquid crystals", M.S. Soskin.
Fractal nanotubes clusters dispersed in nematic 5CB were investigated first by singular Stokes polarimetry. They induce optical vortices in the scattered laser light and polarization singularities in the passed laser beam refracted on the microns size inhomogeneous birefringent interfacial layers of 5CB surrounding nanotubes clusters.

“Nonlinear optical modes in micro- and nanostructured media: From light bullets to plasmonic lattice solitons”, D. Mihalache
I give an overview of recent results in the area of discrete-continuous light bullets propagating in one- and two-dimensional waveguide arrays. I also present the unique features of subwavelength plasmonic lattice solitons which form in arrays of metallic nanowires embedded in Kerr-type nonlinear media.

More information is available at www.ico-optics.org or at http://www.ico-optics.org/ico_jan10.html