Assistant Professor Kuniaki Konishi (Gonokami Laboratory) will receive the 9th Award for the Encouragement of Young Physicists of the Physical Society of Japan (2015), it was announced on 24 October. The award is given in the field of optical properties (Division 5), and the reason is for his “circular polarization controle utilizing symmetries of artificial nanostructures”. A commemorative lecture will be given at the 70th annual meeting of the society, to be held at Waseda University in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in March 2015.
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