23-25 August, 2017 Berlin, Germany 
We congratulate Stefano Signorini who won the IEEE Photonics Society award for the Best Poster Presentation during the Group Four Photonics conference. The poster title was Broad wavelength generation and conversion with Multi odal Four Wave Mixing in silicon waveguides.
President and vice-president of SPIE Student Chapter of the University of Trento: Tatevik Chalyan and Claudio Castellan, took part in the SPIE annual meeting on 6-10 August, San Diego, California, within the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2017 conference. They got the People's Choice prize with an experiment on the Snell’s law. 
Cellulose Nanofibrils Films: Molecular Diffusion through Elongated Sub-Nano Cavities 
D. Roilo, C. A. Maestri, M. Scarpa, P. Bettotti, W. Egger, T. Koschine, R. S. Brusa and R. Checchetto
J. Phys. Chem. C, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02895
We congratulate Stefano Tondini who was awarded by AICA and Rotary International for the Best Master and PhD thesis in ETIC – Ethics and Information and Communication Technologies of 2016 - 2017. 