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SBRI Energy Efficient Lighting Competition Awareness
Event 1:
Venue: Maple House 150 Corporation Street Birmingham B4 6TB
Date: 9th March 2010
Event 2:
Venue: Daresbury Innovation Centre Keckwick Lane Daresbury Cheshire WA4 4FS
Date: 17th March 2010
Energy efficient lighting will lead to reduced energy consumption in Britain's homes with a new Government Competition to develop new products for the lighting industry. A £1.2m product development competition from the Technology Strategy Board and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) aims to help companies become market leaders in the best energy-efficient lighting, while contributing to reduced energy consumption in our homes. Businesses will be invited to compete for contracts through a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition, which will be run in two phases. In the first phase, companies will be awarded up to £40,000 to carry out technical feasibility studies, lasting up to 3 months. In the second phase, proposals with the most promising technologies will receive up to £450,000 to develop and evaluate prototypes or demonstration units, which will then be subjected to a vigorous 6-month field trial. The first phase of the competition opens on 22 February 2010 and the deadline for applications is 19 April 2010. For more information please click here.
The Photonics and Plastic Electronics KTN and Technology Strategy Board are hosting two support events for the competition as follows:
Event 1 on 9th March is at Maple House 150 Corporation Street Birmingham B4 6TB. To register, click here
Event 2 on 17th March is at Daresbury Innovation Centre Keckwick Lane Daresbury Cheshire WA4 4FS. To register, click here
Attendance at the events are Free of Charge but delegates must register as directed.
Each event will have a similar format as follows:
09:40 Welcome - Gareth Jones, PPE KTN UEL Working Group
10:00 Introduction to Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) - Bryan Forbes, Technology Strategy Board
10:20 Domestic Energy Efficient Lighting Objectives - Mr Steven Mills (Birmingham), Department for Environment, Food and Regulatory Affairs (Defra)
10:30 Energy Efficient Lighting SBRI Competition - Mike Biddle, Technology Strategy Board
10:50 Competition Application and Assessment Process - Joe Maguire
11:20 Coffee & Networking
11:50 Phase Objectives - Mike Biddle, Technology Strategy Board
12:20 Outline of Technical Specification - Gareth Jones, PPE KTN UEL Working Group
12:40 Further Q&A
13:00 Wrap Up and Networking Lunch
14:00 Close * Speaker from Defra at Daresbury TBA.
SID ME Chapter Spring Meeting 2010
Venue: Quality Hotel Park Plaza Dresden, Germany
Date: 18-19 March 2010
The subject of the Chapter Spring Meeting will be Personal Projection and Information Display. Details may be found at:
http://www.ipms.fraunhofer.de/common/y2010/Flyer-SID-ME-2010.pdf
IEEE Photonics Society - Quantum optics Meeting
Venue: Heriot Watt University
Date: 19 March 2010
Time: To be advised
There will be a technical meeting of the Scottish chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society (Formerly IEEE-LEOS)at Heriot Watt University on the 19th of March 2010. The meeting topic will be "Quantum optics".
The keynote speaker for the meeting will be IEEE Photonics society distinguished lecturer Prof. Prem Kumar (Northwestern University). Prof. Kumar will deliver a lecture on, "Fiber-Optic Quantum Communications and Information Processing". Please click here for talk abstract and speaker biography.
Further details of the meeting (schedule, room, additional speakers) will be posted shortly on the chapter website: http://www.leos-scot.ac.uk and sent out in the next few weeks. For any enquiries, contact Robert Thomson at R.R.Thosmon{at}hw.ac.uk. Replace {at} with usual symbol.
Laser Optics Berlin International Trade Fair and Convention
Date: 22nd to 24th March 2010
Venue: Berlin Exhibition Grounds, North Entrance, Masurenallee, Berlin, Germany
Details may be found at:
http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/Internet/Internet/www.laser-optics-berlin/englisch/index.html
First Annual SU2P Symposium
Venue: Court/Senate Suite, Collins Building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Date: Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd March 2010
The SU2 Partnership will be holding its first annual symposium in Glasgow city centre this March. The opening day will focus on the technical themes from SU2P, with each session having a mixture of international and leading academic speakers, with student presentations also featuring. The second day will continue with technical presentations before the day turns to future commercial opportunities and the final of the 2010 Pilot Projects call, with pitches to a judging panel. The final sessions will see a blend of views from the VC, angel and industrial communities giving a balanced overview of commercialisation of photonics. Key features:
- International speakers, including Dr Tom Baer, Executive Director Stanford Photonics Research Centre
- Technical sessions with senior academic and student talks
- Final of the SU2P Pilot Projects call
- Commercial Opportunities session
- Investment and industry session
- Symposium dinner on the Monday evening
- Rapid fire poster introductions
- Excellent international networking opportunities
- The very best in new photonics
Places are strictly limited, so reserve your place today. The final schedule of times and speakers will be available shortly from http://www.SU2P.com along with maps, travel and hotel information.
For more information and registration instructions please click here.
Defence Research 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition
Venue: Birmingham International Conference Centre
Date: 23-24 March 2010
Defence leaders are continually assessing the military strategies required for the future, looking at where the needs will be, how to defend and secure, and what technologies and equipment will be required.
This event will provide delegates with the opportunity to learn how the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are defining defence requirements given the reality of conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and current National Security imperatives.
Defence Research 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition is the only event this year where the UK MOD will present the whole of its £500 million annual research investment to industry, academia and other suppliers, alongside key members of the MOD and the Armed Services.
Attendance is free of charge for industry and MOD delegates.
Register now at: www.defenceresearch.co.uk
FP7 NMP Information Day: Edinburgh
Venue: Scottish Enterprise, Haymarket Terrace, Haymarket, Edinburgh
Date: Tuesday 30 March 2010
This event will provide an overview of the upcoming fifth NMP call and advanced notification of the call contents, as well as an opportunity to meet the regional and national support teams and networking with potential partners and experienced FP7 participants.
NMP is a 3.5B Euro programme that is broad-based and relevant to all key industrial and technology sectors in the UK.
For more information please click here
Hyperspectral Imaging
Date: 13-14 April 2010
Venue: University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde in conjunction with Gilden Photonics Ltd will soon launch the UK's first Hyperspectral Imaging Centre of Excellence. As a prelude to this event the University of Strathclyde is pleased to announce their first Hyperspectral Imaging conference.
Details can be found at: Gilden Photonics Ltd Website
Ministry of Defence - Open for Innovation
Venue: Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh EH8 8AS
Date: Thursday 29th April 2010
Time: 09:30 ~ 16:30
The University of Glasgow Innovation Network, in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, will be hosting a Centre for Defence Enterprise Seminar, "Open to Innovation", at Dynamic Earth Edinburgh, on Thursday 29th April.
Registrations can be made via the CDE website: http://www.science.mod.uk
For the programme overview please click here
CLEO: Expo 2010
Date: 18-20 May 2010
Venue: San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California
Details may be found at:
www.cleoconference.org
Scottish Technology Showcase 2010
Venue: Hall 3, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Glasgow
Date: 26 May 2010
Time: 09:00 ~ 17:00
The Scottish Technology Showcase 2010 is Scotland's largest cross-sectoral technology event. This one day showcase, hosted by Scottish Enterprise, will equip you with technical expertise, inspiration and an opportunity to access innovative products and technologies aimed at providing practical solutions to real business challenges.
This year is bigger and better than ever representing a range of industries with a focus on four themes: digital economy, low carbon economy, health innovation and high value manufacturing. For delegates, the Showcase includes free entry, demos and seminars and an opportunity to keep pace with a huge range of emerging technologies, as well as the prospect of networking, sharing ideas and meeting a broad mix of key industry decision makers. New for 2010 is the Funding Zone, where delegates can get expert advice on how to find and access innovation funding.
For exhibitors, cost-effective packages are available from £100.
Register at: http://www.scottishtechnologyshowcase.com
Lope-C 2010
Date: May 31st - June 2nd 2010
Venue: Congress Centre Messe Frankfurt, Germany
Here world class speakers from major representatives of the field in the plenary sessions, business conference, main conference and pre-conferece seminars on the following topics:
Devices, Materials, Processes, Equipment, Production, Applications, Services, End-Users, Printed Transistors, OLED lighting and displays, Organic photovoltaic cells, Flexible batteries, Printed sensors, organic memories, flexible displays, printed, single use meausrement devices.
For more information or to register for this event please go to: www.lope-c.com
euroLED 2010
Date: 9&10th June 2010
Venue: Ricoh Arena, Coventry, West Midlands
euroLED 2010 is the 7th annual Conference, Exhibition & Gala Dinner dedicated to the science, technology and application of HB LEDs and solid-state lighting. Unprecedented industry support over the past five years has firmly established euroLED as the largest conference and exhibition in Europe dedicated to HB LEDs and solid-state lighting, with over 1300 delegates at the euroLED 2009 event.
Call for papers is now open and speakers are invited to submit their paper proposal by Friday 26th Feb 2010 to Eve Gaut at eveg@bsp-a.com Please see Coversheet for Information.
Details can be found at: euroLED Website
Opto Festival Taiwan
Date: 9 - 11 June 2010
Venue: Taipei World Trade Center
Registrations now open - The OPTO Taiwan is the unique optoelectronic exhibition in Taiwan since 1984. Through years of success, it has become one of the largest international optoelectronic exhibitions in Asia. It is now part of the Photonics Festival in Taiwan, focusing on the optoelectronics parts and components Industry. It is open to manufacturers, suppliers and distributors in the industry who want to expand their overseas sales networks.
Please go to: http://www.optotaiwan.com/en/
Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics
Venue: Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
Dates: 11 to 21 August 2010
The 66th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (SUSSP66) will be held at Heriot Watt University between the 11th and 21st of August 2010. The topic of the summer school will be Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and will include lectures from many of the worlds leading scientists in this area.
For further details please see the Summer School Poster.
The deadline for applicants to the school is the 31 January 2010. Application forms for those wishing to attend can be found at the school website at: http://www.sussp66.hw.ac.uk
15th International Workshop on Inorganic and Organic Electroluminescence & 2010 Int. Conference on the Science and Technology of Emissive Displays and Lighting & XVIII Advanced Display Technologies International Symposium
Date: September 27 ~ October 1, 2010
Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
EL 2010 follows a historical series of International Workshops which started in 1980 on Inorganic Electroluminescence, and expanded in 1988 to include Organic Electroluminescence. In 1995 the Conference on Display Phosphors was initiated. The two events merged in 2002, and since then they have been held biannually. In 2010, just for one time the conference program will be merged with the Advanced Display Technologies series of conferences which are held every year in Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine. The meeting will cover all aspects of inorganic and organic electroluminescence, phosphors and display devices and will include invited lectures, contributed presentations and posters.
For more information please click here.