A Toast! To the International Year of Light

Author(s)

Michael Bass, University of Central Florida

Description

The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).

Publication Date

7-29-2015

Keywords

International Year of Light; Light and photonics; Light technology; CREOL; UCF’s Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers; College of Optics & Photonics; Optics industry; Lighting efficiency; Optical communications system; Celebrating light

Introduction

December 2013, at the United Nations’ 68th General Assembly meeting, the assembled countries could not as usual solve the problems of world conflicts, human slavery, wide-spread famine and the Israeli-Palestinian question. So, it decided to do something it could: It declared that 2015 would be the International Year of Light.

Subjects

Light; Photonics; Optical communications; CREOL (Research center)

Creator (Linked Data)

Bass, Michael, 1939-(VIAF); Bass, Michael, 1939-(LC)

Collection

UCF Forum

Publisher

University of Central Florida

STARS Citation

Bass, Michael (2015). A toast! To the international year of light. UCF Today, 2015-07-29. Retrieved from http://today.ucf.edu/a-toast-to-the-international-year-of-light/

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