The Distinguished PTTI Service Award
The Distinguished PTTI Service Award was established to recognize outstanding contributions related to the management of PTTI systems.
The award consists of an appropriately designed clock and a certificate. The award is presented at the Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting.
The criteria for the Distinguished PTTI Service Award are that the award shall recognize an individual for any of the following contributions to the field of PTTI:
I. Provided exceptional leadership and demonstrated ability and ingenuity in the development or application of PTTI over a number of years;
II. Designed or developed a significant PTTI system.
Recipients
2007 - Dr. R. Michael Garvey, Symmetricom
2006 - Dr. David Mills, University of Delaware
2005 - Dr. Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University
2003 - Mr. S. Clark Wardrip, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Retired)
2002 - Mr. Harry Peters, Sigma Tau, Incorporated (Retired)
2001 - Dr. Robert F.C. Vessot, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Retired)
2000 - Mr. Roger Easton, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (Retired)
1999 - Dr. Leonard S. Cutler, Agilent Technologies
1998 - Dr. Jacques Vanier, National Research Counsel (Retired)
1997 - Professor Bernard Rene Guinot, Honorary Astronomer Observatoire de Paris
1996 - Professor Sigrido M. Leschiutta, Politecnico di Torino and Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris
1995 - Dr. James A. Barnes, National Institute of Standards and Technology (Retired)
1994 - Dr. Gernot M.R. Winkler, U.S. Naval Observatory (Retired)
Distinguished PTTI Service Award Committee
Chairman - Dr. Joseph D. White
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Dr. Dennis McCarthy, U.S. Naval Observatory
Mr. Donald H. Mitchell, Geil Marketing Associates
Dr. Lara Schmidt, RAND Corporation
Dr. Jacques Vanier, University of Montreal
Student Poster Competition Award
In 2007, PTTI inaugurated the PTTI Student Poster competition. The goal is get students thinking early in their careers about the engineering and scientific applications of precise timing (in the broadest sense), and in that way maintain the vitality of our field in the 21st century. The competition also offers an opportunity for students to meet future employers, and for employers to get a better sense of what skills young engineers and scientists are bringing to the marketplace.
The competition has an undergraduate and graduate division, and students may submit abstracts in any area dealing with “precise” timekeeping systems or applications. In light of the competition’s goal, there is a wide range of topics that students might address (i.e., biological to geophysical to astronomical). Consequently, the specific meaning of the word “precise” is taken in context. Students may submit abstracts for posters dealing with literature reviews, laboratory work, or computational investigations.
2008 - Thomas M. Comberiate, Johns Hopkins University
2007 - Paul Kunz, National Institute of Science and Technology
