SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar 17, 2021–
College of California San Diego will just about host Dr. Ching Tang, a chemist and revolutionary innovator within the area of natural light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), on March 25, 2-3:30 p.m.-PDT, as a part of the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium. Initially deliberate as a sequence of reside lectures in 2020, the Symposium has been up to date into livestreamed video occasions for the 2021 celebration of the Kyoto Prize and its newest laureates.
Introducing Tang will likely be Dr. Darren Lipomi, Professor, Division of Nano Engineering, UC San Diego. This system will embody Tang’s Kyoto Prize lecture, adopted by reside dialog with Dr. Tang and Dr. Lipomi about latest and potential developments in OLED know-how. The digital symposium is free and open to the general public. Please register earlier than March 24 at https://extension.ucsd.edu/kyotoprize to get log-in directions nicely earlier than the occasion.
Tang is famend for his pioneering work in creating OLEDs and contributing to their widespread software in shows, televisions and lighting. Tang studied gentle emission processes in electrically-driven natural supplies and invented a brand new system construction through which two carefully-selected supplies have been stacked, permitting for prime effectivity gentle emission at low drive voltages. A chemist and professor on the Hong Kong College of Science and Expertise and Professor Emeritus on the College of Rochester, Tang is a member of the Nationwide Academy of Engineering and has acquired a mess of awards and honors ─ together with the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, IEEE Noble Award for Rising Applied sciences, the Nationwide Inventors Corridor of Fame, and the Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest personal award for international achievement.
Along with Tang, the 2021 Kyoto Prize Symposium contains lectures by stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Kyoto Prize Laureate in Arts and Philosophy, March 24 from 3:30 to five p.m.-PDT; and pioneering astrophysicist James E. Gunn, Kyoto Prize Laureate in Fundamental Sciences, March 25 from 4 to five:30 p.m.-PDT.
Please register earlier than March 24 at https://extension.ucsd.edu/kyotoprize to get log-in directions nicely earlier than the occasion.
Offered since 2001, the Kyoto Prize Symposium has been co-hosted by UC San Diego and Level Loma Nazarene College for 17 years. The Kyoto Prize is a world award created in 1984 by Japan’s non-profit Inamori Basis to honor those that have contributed considerably to humankind’s scientific, cultural and religious improvement.
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Concerning the Kyoto Prize
Based by Dr. Kazuo Inamori in 1984 as a part of the Inamori Basis, the Kyoto Prize has achieved worldwide stature with the granting of three Kyoto Prizes annually – in Superior Expertise, Fundamental Sciences and Arts & Humanities. Every laureate additionally receives 100,000,000 yen (over $900,000) – and usually spends a number of days at UCSD (in March) and Oxford (in Could) after preliminary week ceremonies and applications in Kyoto starting each November 10. Since 1984 the Kyoto Prize has been awarded to 111 extraordinary people from 17 nations. As a result of Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 applications will likely be digital.
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CONTACT: Prof. Darren Lipomi, 858-246-1227,dlipomi@eng.ucsd.edu
Dean Al Pisano, Jacobs Faculty of Engineering, 858-534-6237,deanpisano@eng.ucsd.edu
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INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY OTHER TECHNOLOGY NANOTECHNOLOGY AUDIO/VIDEO NETWORKS HARDWARE UNIVERSITY SCIENCE EDUCATION OTHER SCIENCE
SOURCE: College of California San Diego
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