Sept. 11 – The engineer Matteo Barozzi, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering at the University of Parma, was awarded the “Certificate of Excellence for First Place Student Presentation.” The certificate was awarded by the International Society for Optics and Photonics during the Photonics Prague 2014 international conference. Barozzi was honored for his work on “All-optical polarization control and noise cleaning based on a nonlinear lossless polarizer,” which he authored with professors Armando Vannucci and Giorgio Picchi, both from Department of Information Engineering. The certificate also awarded Barozzi with an economic prize of $250, guaranteed by the International Society for Optics and Photonics, which who is one of the largest publishing companies in the industry. “This recognition – said in a statement the University of Parma – has been extremely appreciated by the authors, who currently lack funds for research, and who paid for their registration, travel and accommodation costs to attend the conference.”