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ICO Prize to Dr. Shuntaro takeda
Prof. Shuntaro Takeda has been awarded the 2026 ICO Prize “for outstanding and pioneering contributions to optical quantum computing, particularly deterministic quantum teleportation of optical qubits and its application to scalable optical quantum computing architectures.”
ICO/IUPAP Medal to visual optics
Dr. Víctor Rodríguez López has received the ICO/IUPAP “Early Career Scientist Prize in Optics Medal” for developing new methods to measure refractive error and for advancing the understanding of how the human eye perceives blur. He works at the Institute of Optics, CSIC Spain, and is the founder of the company SureVision Tech.
Galileo Galilei Medal for Meta-Optics
Prof. Muhammad Qasim Mehmood has been awarded the 2026 Galileo Galilei Medal for the development of dynamic and switchable visible-light metasurfaces for complex light structuring under difficult circumstances, exploring how nanoscale optical elements manipulate light.
Celebrating women & Girls in science in pakistan
In Pakistan, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science has been celebrated by the Active Learning in Optics Group (ICO Pakistan territorial committee, together with the Optica Student Chapter at the Dep. of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad) launching an outreach hands-on initiative.
PIMICS Project
A hyperspectral system for basic research with resource constrained
budgets.
In 2023, John Howell was President of the ICO and he had an idea of making a low-cost multi-spectral or hyper-spectral camera from the Raspberry Pi. This was announced at the Optics and Photonics Africa 2023 conference in South Africa. The goal was to use the Raspberry Pi, its camera, and the general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins to drive LEDs and/or filter wheels for building multispectral cameras.
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