Cambridge professor's plenary lecture ahead of Young Scientists' Awards

Jun 30, 2004

The final Plenary Lecture for the ICSM 2004 will be presented by Professor Andrew Holmes, from the University of Cambridge, UK, on Friday 2 July. His research on low voltage lightweight light sources, has a wide variety of applications in such fields as emergency lighting, static display panels and screens for laptop computers and portable televisions, and generates a significant amount of interest from the public.

Professor Holmes developed an interest in conjugated polymers as a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration with Professor R. H. Friend in the Cavendish Laboratory. This group discovered the first polymeric light emitting diodes which have excited a great deal of commercial attention around the world and spawned a number of successful business opportunities.

Professor Holmes holds a personal Professorship at Cambridge University. He will return to Australia later in 2004 to take up an ARC Federation Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and CSIRO, to work on plastic solar cells (partly in collaboration with the University of Wollongong's Intelligent Polymer Research Institute).

Venue: Professor Holmes' lecture is at the University Hall, Friday July 2, 11.45am-12.30pm.Seating is limited - once the University Hall is filled, the doors will be closed.

The winners of the Young Scientists' Awards will also be announced on Friday July 2 during the closing ceremony for ICSM2004. Australian and international scientists have been selected as candidates and will be vying for the various journal and book prizes available. Presentation of the winners: 12.30pm-1pm, Friday July 2 at the University Hall.

Photographs of all candidates are available through the University/Conference photographer. Enquiries to Vicky Wallace (M:0422 471 031).

For more information, contact:

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