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- SMP 12/21/02 | Peering into the Earth: From Earthquakes to Diamonds | Speaker: Wendy Panero
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- SMP 4/17/10 | Beyond Fossil Fuels: Options and Challenges | Speaker: Levi Thompson
- SMP 4/10/10 | Solar to Chemical Energy Storage: Prospects for Artificial Photosynthesis | Speaker: Stephen Maldonado
- SMP 3/27/10 | The Inside Story on Lyuba, a Baby Woolly Mammoth from Siberia | Speaker: Daniel Fisher
- SMP 3/20/10 | Plastics: Can They Be Used to Save the Planet? |Speaker: Stephen Forrest
- SMP 3/13/10 | Black Holes and Chaos in String Theory | Speaker: Leo Pando-Zayas
- SMP 2/20/10 | Light and Semiconductor Devices | Speaker: Vanessa Sih
- SMP 2/13/10 | Hurricanes and Tornados and Floods! Oh, My! What’s Climate Got to Do With This? | Speaker: Perry Samson
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- Seminars & Colloquia
Saturday, March 20, 2010
12:00 AM
170 & 182 Dennison Building
Speaker: Professor Stephen Forrest (Physics)
Plastics are supposed to be a major source of pollution. But many plastics are electronic materials as well. In this lecture, we will explore the possibility that plastic electronics can be used to make very efficient white light, and even harvest energy from the sun, perhaps giving us hope that these materials can lead us to a cleaner and less expensive energy future.