2012
Matthew Hummon was recognized for an Outstanding Presentation at the Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium on July 18, 2012 for his presentation titled "Making a Magneto-Optical Trap for Polar Molecules," with co-authors Mark Yeo, Benjamin K. Stuhl, Alejandra Collopy, Yong Xia and Jun Ye
Benjamin Stuhl was recognized for an Outstanding Presentation at the Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium on July 18, 2012 for his presentation titled "Evaporation of Magnetically Trapped Dipolar Molecules," with co-authors Mark Yeo, Matthew T. Hummon, Alejandra Collopy and Jun Ye
2011
Jun Ye is elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, May 2011
Jun Ye is selected as the 2011 Frew Fellow by the Australian Academy of Science
Brian Neyenhuis, Steven Moses, and Amodsen Chotia win "outstanding presentation" at NIST's Boulder Labs Postdoctoral Poster Symposium on June 22, 2011. Presentation titled "Ultracold Polar KRb Molecules," with co-authors Amodsen Chotia, Steven Moses, Jun Ye and Deborah Jin.
Arman Cingoz was recognized for an Outstanding Presentation at the Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium on June 22, 2011 for his presentation titled "Power Scaling of Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency combs Beyond the 10 microwatt Level," with co-authors Thomas Allison, Dylan Yost, Axel Ruehl, Martin Fermann, Ingmar Hartl and Jun Ye
Florian Adler wins the "Best Poster Award" in the "Future Leaders in Research Event" on June 15, 2011 at the University of Colorado Boulder Campus
2010
Michael Bishof, Sebastian Blatt, Yige Lin, Michael Martin, and Matthew Swallows won the Sept. 2010 JILA Scientific Awards for research on suppression of collisional frequency shift in Sr optical clock.
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.
