The AOS is delighted to announce the winners of several of the AOS Prizes for this year.
 
The AOS Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize has been awarded to Dr Sergey Kruk from ANU.
 
Both the AOS Postgraduate Student Prize and the AOS/Warsash Science Communication Prize in Optics  have been awarded to Ms Litty Thekkekara from RMIT University
 
Well done Sergey and Litty!
 
Look out for articles in forthcoming issues of AOS News from the winners. Note that Sergey will give an Invited Talk at ANZCOP in Queenstown in December on his prize-winning work. The 2016 winner, Andrea Blanco Redondo, will also give her Geoff Opat talk at ANZCOP.
 
The AOS Prize Committee is still deliberating regarding the Beattie Steele Prize and a further announcement should be forthcoming.