FIP Annual Symposium - Materials & Photonics: Advancing The World

The 2019 meeting program will include lectures from distinguished speakers, contributed papers and posters by investigators from Duke University and other academic and industrial institutions.
Special Theme: Materials & Photonics: Advancing the World

Symposium Keynote Speaker
Shuji Nakamura, PhDDr. Shuji Nakamura
Nobel Laureate in Physics (2014)
CREE Distinguished Professor, Materials Department
Research Director for the Solid-State
Lighting & Energy Electronics Center
University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Nakamura was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (2014) for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white sources.

Plenary Speakers

Charles M. Lieber, PhD
Joshua & Beth Friedman University Professor
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Harvard University

Dr. Ulrich B. Wiesner, PhD
Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering
Department of Materials Science of Engineering
Cornell University