LED 50th Anniversary Symposium
Nick Holonyak Jr.
In 1962, Illinois alumnus Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the first practical visible-spectrum LED. The University of Illinois, College of Engineering, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will celebrate Holonyak’s invention and the work his colleagues, former students, and many others have done to develop the LED with the LED 50th Anniversary Symposium.
Distinguished speakers scheduled to participate in the LED 50th Anniversary Symposium include:
- Zhores Alferov, Russian Academy of Science (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2000)
- George M. Craford, SSL Fellow, Phillips-Lumileds
- Nick Holonyak Jr., Bardeen Endowed Chair (Sony) Professor, University of Illinois
- Osamu Kumagai, President, Advanced Materials Laboratories, Sony Corporation
- Anthony Leggett, MacArthur Professor of Physics, University of Illinois (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003)
Alferov
Craford
Kumagai
Leggett
October 24 and 25, 2012
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I Hotel and Conference Center
Champaign, Illinois, USA
Symposium Sponsors
This event is presented by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is sponsored by the College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.