Welcome Ceremony and IFCS Awards of IFCS-ISAF 2020

The Welcome Ceremony and IFCS Awards of IFCS-ISAF 2020 Conference took place online at 7:00 a.m. MDT on 7/20/2020. The General Co-chair, Dana Weinstein and Geoff Brennecka, and the IEEE-UFFC president, Paul Reynolds, provided a warm welcome to participants around the world.

The IFCS awards this year, including the W. G. Cady Award, I. I. Rabi Award, and C.B. Sawyer Memorial Award, were announced by Dana Weinstein. The Cady Award was given to Craig Nelson for his leadership in the design and development of state-of-the-art low noise oscillators and phase noise measurement systems. The Rabi Award was given to Robert Lutwak for his pioneering technical contributions and engineering management leading to the development of the first commercial “chip-scale” atomic clock. The Sawyer Award was awarded to Victor Plessky for his pioneering contributions to the development of SAW and micro-acoustic devices, including the prediction of Surface Transverse Waves (STM), the theory of the “leaky” SAW in periodic structures (i.e., the “Plessky equation”), and the invention of XBARs. The awardees of this year will be presented with the awards in-person next year during the IFCS 2021 Conference.