Maiman Student Paper Competition
Foundation
Maiman Student Paper Competition
Recognizing student innovation and research excellence at CLEO.
Foundation
This program, which concluded in 2023, recognized student innovation, research excellence and presentation skills in the areas of laser technology and electro-optics. Winners received USD 3,000.
Established in partnership with HRL Laboratories, LLC, the IEEE Photonics Society and the APS Division of Laser Science, the competition honored Theodore Maiman for his amazing invention, the first working laser, and his other outstanding contributions to optics and photonics.
Past Recipients
- Vivek Pareek, OIST Graduate University, Japan (2023)
- Martin Zizlsperger, University of Regensburg, Germany (2022)
- Nicholas Nardelli, National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Colorado Boulder, USA (2021)
- Jaco Fuchs, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2020)
- Simon Duval, Universite Laval, Canada (2019)
- Dominik Peller, University of Regensburg, Germany (2018)
- Jingyuan Linda Zhang, Stanford University, USA (2017)
- Mengjie Yu, Cornell University, USA (2016)
- Shuo Sun, University of Maryland, US (2015)
- Fabian Langer, University of Regensburg, Germany (2014)
- Gary Shambat, Stanford University, US (2013)
- Jeffrey Driscoll, Columbia University, US (2012)
- Hugo Benichi, University of Tokyo, Japan (2011)
- Brendan Reagan, Colorado State University, US (2010)
- Georg Anetsberger, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Germany (2009)
