[Mitworld] Bulovic on Solar Cells, Summary from Media in Transisiton

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 48 |  July 24, 2009

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Nanoscale Engineering for High Performance Solar Cells
May 12, 2009

Vladimir Bulovic wants to end the exorbitant use of power for lighting, and simultaneously brighten our lives more pleasantly, with the application of nanostructure materials 
called quantum dots.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/686

Speaker:
Vladimir Bulovic
KDD Associate Professor of Communications and Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"By tuning mixtures of quantum dots, we can make anything we want, by simply optically exciting quantum dots..... Beautiful colors. All the colors needed to trick the eye into seeing any color of the rainbow."
-Vladimir Bulovic

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Media in Transition 6: Summary Perspectives
April 26, 2009

At the end of the three-day Media in Transition conference, panelists swap impressions and reactions, offering some notional themes for future symposia.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/688

Moderator:
James Paradis
Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing, Program Head, Writing and Humanistic Studies, MIT

Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"If modern Shakespeares wrote masterpieces of hypertext fiction, will modern archivists work as hard to preserve them as my heroes, the typographers A, B and apprentice C 
did to transfer Shakespeare’s plays from manuscript to print?"
-Thomas Pettitt

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In The Pipeline:

Opening the Mind’s Eye: Learning to See

Presented By:
MIT Alumni Association
Technology Day 2009

Speaker:
Pawan Sinha
Associate Professor of Computational Science
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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