Exploring the Boundaries of Smart Light Systems
Event Registration and Details
Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:30 am – 8:30 pm
BU Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s St., Boston, MA 02215
Come learn about our efforts to transform how society uses light through developing LED-based systems with adaptive functionality which will increase energy-efficiency, productivity and health of society.
Preliminary Program:
- Welcome – Dr. Kenneth Lutchen, Dean of Engineering, BU
- Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center Overview – ERC Center Director
- Industry and the ERC – Dr. Silvia Mioc, ERC Industrial Collaboration Director, RPI
- Lensless Microscopes Enabled by Nanowire LEDs, Dr. Steve Hersee, ERC Associate Director and Professor, ECE Dept., UNM
- How Smart Lighting Fills a Gap for Wireless Communications, Dr. Thomas Little, ERC Associate Director and Professor, ECE Dept., BU
- Photonics Crystals: Innovative Photon Management, Dr. Shawn Lin, ERC Device Thrust Leader and Constellation Professor, Physics Dept., RPI
- Systems Integration and Smart Buildings, Dr. Art Sanderson, ERC System Integration Committee Co-Chair and Professor, ECSE Dept., RPI
- Keynote Address: Dr. Kevin Dowling, Vice President of Innovation, Philips Color Kinetics, and ERC Scientific Advisory Board member
- Educating the Next Generation in Smart Lighting, Dr. Kenneth Connor, ERC Education & Outreach Director and Professor, ECSE Dept., RPI
- Industry View on Smart Lighting Panel Discussion, Moderator: Dr. Thomas Bifano, Photonics Center Director, BU. With Applied Materials, Crystal-IS, C9/Nanodynamics, InterDigital, Osram Sylvania and Thorlabs.
- Snapshots of the Research in Poster Session – Students to give elevator pitches throughout the day, as part of a competition
- Breakout sessions – discussions with researchers and students
- BU lab tour
- Reception – and Student Posters Competition awards
Please join us for this exciting program, and opportunity to interact with industrial and academic thought leaders, as well as with the next generation of leaders, our highly trained students.
Target audience includes Chief Technology Officers, senior management in technology strategy and business development, and lead research scientists.
This conference is hosted by the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC), funded by National Science Foundation at a level of $4M/yr. The ERC is an interdisciplinary, multi-institution organization with the vision to transform the way society uses light by improving the energy-efficiency, productivity and health of society. The mission of the ERC is three- fold:
- To engage in research leading to controllable solid-state light systems that can adapt to specific requirements, environments, and condition
- To develop a culture of innovation and engage industry to commercialize the ERC’s research results
- To work with educators to develop the diverse world-class workforce that will be needed to grow the business of Smart Lighting.
The center is led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with Boston University and The University of New Mexico as core partners. Howard University, Morgan State University, and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology are outreach and education partners.
For more information, please contact Linda Grosser, Public Relations and Industrial Outreach Coordinator for SLC at BU, at lgrosser@bu.edu or 617-358-1295, or Dr. Silvia Mioc, Director of Industrial Collaborations, at miocs@rpi.edu, or 518-276-4010.
