News
Professional Societies and Activities
Fellow, American Physical Society (since 1982)
Fellow, American Optical Society (since 1991)
Member, Committee of Academy of Science on Line Spectra (until 1988)
Chairman of the SPIE conferences on Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers, San Diego , CA , July 1991
Chairman of the SPIE Conferences on Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers, San Diego , CA , July 1993
Co-Chairman of the SPIE Conferences on Ultrashort Wavelength Lasers, San Diego , CA , 2003
Co-Chairman of 8th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, Aspen , CO , 2002
Member of the Scientific Program Committee for
1st International Colloquium for X-Ray Lasers (France, Assois, April, 1986)
International Conference on Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasma ( France , Niece, Sept. 1987)
XV International Conference on Quantum Electronics (Baltimore, MD, April 1987)
Workshop on X-ray Microscope for Life Sciences (Berkeley, CA, May 1989)
International Conference on Short Wavelength Lasers (Samarkand, USSR, 1990)
2nd International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (York, United Kingdom, 1990)
5th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (Lund, Sweden, June 1996)
10th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers ( Berlin , Gemany, Aug. 2006)
Awards
“Selected as one of America ’s outstanding innovators responsible for 100 most significant technological achievements in 1984 – 1985.”
RD-100 for 100 most significant technological advances in 1989 (Composite Optical/X-Ray Laser Microscope, COXRALM).
APS Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics for 1990, “For the first laboratory demonstration of a soft X-ray laser”
WE Lamb Medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics (2005) “For outstanding contributions to laser science especially the development of X-ray lasers”
Arthur L Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2007) “For pioneering contributions to the generation of ultra-short wavelength and femtosecond lasers and x-ray microscopy.”

