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

 

2010 - Dr. Joseph White, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
2009 - Dr. Judah Levine, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2008 - Dr. Patrizia Tavella, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM)
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
2002 - Mr. Harry Peters, Sigma Tau, Incorporated
2001 - Dr. Robert F.C. Vessot, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
2000 - Mr. Roger Easton, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
1999 - Dr. Leonard S. Cutler, Agilent Technologies
1998 - Dr. Jacques Vanier, National Research Counsel
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
1994 - Dr. Gernot M.R. Winkler, U.S. Naval Observatory

Distinguished PTTI Service Award Committee

Chairman - Dr. Dennis McCarthy
U.S. Naval Observatory

Dr. Leo Mallette, The Aerospace Corporation
Mr. Donald H. Mitchell, Geil Marketing Associates
Dr. Patrizia Tavella, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM)
Dr. Jacques Vanier, Universite de 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.

2010 - Thomas M. Comberiate, JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
2009 - Paul Kunz, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2008 - Thomas M. Comberiate, JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
2007 - Paul Kunz, National Institute of Standards and Technology