Awards & Honors

2009

Dylan Yost won the Best Graduate Presentations Award in the American Physical Society Four Corners Meeting

Brian Sawyer won the Fall 2009 CU Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Andrew D. Ludlow shared (with Javier von Stecher) this year's 2009 APS DAMOP (Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics) best AMO thesis prize for his work on Sr clock.

Jun Ye receives European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) Award, 2009

Jun Ye gives two Named Lectures: Niels Bohr Lecture, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009; R. B. Woodward Lecture in Chemical Sciences/Physical Chemistry, Harvard University, 2009.

2008

Jun Ye is named a "Gordon and Betty Moore Distinguished Scholar", California Institute of Technology, 2008

Benjamin Safdi receives the Outstanding Graduate for Research Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, Boulder



2007

David Balslev Clausen receives the Danish Optical Society Junior Prize 2007.

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow Ben Lev receives Best Presentation Award, NIST 2007 postdoctoral poster session.

Benjamin Safdi wins both a 2007-2008 Astronaut Scholarship, given to undergraduate students who exhibit motivation, imagination, and exceptional performance in their science or engineering major, and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, given to outstanding undergraduates in mathematics, science, engineering, and computer science.

Jun Ye receives a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of lifetime achievements in research. As part of this award, Ye has been invited to spend up to a year working with colleagues at a research institution in Germany.

Jun Ye wins the 2007 Carl Zeiss Award for his outstanding applications of femtosecond frequency combs.

Jun Ye is awarded the American Physical Society's I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics for "advances in precision measurement, including techniques for stabilizing and measuring optical frequencies, controlling the phase of femtosecond laser pulses, and measuring molecular transitions."

Jun Ye is named Henri Sack Memorial Lecturer of Cornell University.



2006

Jun Ye receives the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Samuel W. Stratton Award in recognition of his work on femtosecond comb technology, which merges time- and frequency-domain spectroscopic techniques. This new technology has laid the foundation for a new generation of optical atomic clocks.

Jun Ye receives William F. Meggers Award from the Optical Society of America for developing innovative spectroscopic techniques based on femtosecond optical frequency combs.

Jun Ye is elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow Tanya Zelevinsky receives the Best Presentation Award, NIST 2006 postdoctoral poster session.



2005

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Lewandowski receives Best Presentation Award, NIST 2005 postdoctoral poster session.

Jun Ye wins first prize in the Technological Innovations category of the Young Scholars Competition at the October 2005 Amazing Light Symposium in Berkeley, California.

Jun Ye is elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Jun Ye receives Arthur S. Flemming Award (Scientific Category, US Federal Government).



2004

Jun Ye is named as a Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce.



2003

Jun Ye receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.



2002

Jun Ye is selected as a Technology Review Magazine's TR100 Young Innovator.



2001

Jun Ye receives a Gold Medal (Group) from the U.S. Department of Commerce for the co-development of the optical frequency comb.



1999

Jun Ye receives the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America.



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