1. Brightness Award Ceremony ICIS 2017 Candidates

2. Candidates Anatoli Zelenski (BNL, Long Island)
Recent development of a new optically-pumped polarized ion source (OPPIS) for RHIC
Nominated by: Yoshiharu Mori, Masahiro Okamura

3. Candidates Lianting Sun (IMP, Lanzhou) Nominated by Hongwei Zhao
Improvement of highly charged heavy ion beam production by the superconducting ECR ion sources SECRAL and SECRAL II
Nominated by Hongwei Zhao

4. Candidates Luigi Celona (LNS-Catania)
Significant improvements in the understanding of fine frequency tuning and its impact on beam brightness on ECR ion sources
Nominated by: David Mascali, Klaus Tinschert, Alessio Galata

5. Candidates
The SNS Team: Martin Stockli, Robert Welton, Baoxi Han (ORNL)
Highly reliable, maintenance-free, record production of H- ion beams with Radio-Frequency (RF) driven H- sources establishes this technology as the standard for high-duty-factor, high-current (>60 mA) H- beam production
Nominated by: Dan Bollinger, John Galambos

6. Comments Process Four VERY strong candidates
Each excelled in their own fields
Process
Nominations reviewed by entire IAC
Candidates ranked, consensus reached

7. SNS Team of Martin Stockli, Robert Welton, Baoxi Han