Light Beyond. Luz más allá de 2015

Ana María Cetto, María Teresa Josefina Pérez Celis de Herrero

• Editorial: UNAM, Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial
• Año: 2020
• ISBN de la versión impresa: 9786070291906
• ISBN del libro electrónico: 9786070298608
• Categoría: Ciencias físicas
• Categoría: Óptica y luz

El Año Internacional de la Luz y las Tecnologías Basadas en Luz 2015 fue una iniciativa global adoptada por las Naciones Unidas. Numerosas organizaciones culturales, académicas, industriales y gubernamentales alrededor del mundo unieron fuerzas para celebrar la luz y crear conciencia sobre las muchas maneras en que la fotónica impacta nuestras vidas en áreas como la energía, educación, cambio climático, salud y bienestar social. De la iniciativa resultaron miles de actividades que involucraron a millones de personas en más de 100 países del mundo. Los temas de este volumen surgieron a lo largo de 2015 como los más relevantes y con mayor interés. Se espera que este libro se convierta en un documento de consulta básica y un legado imborrable.

About the authors

Peter Andersen

Peter Andersen (PhD 1994) works at DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark, where he leads in two areas—lasers in biomedical applications, and multimodal biophotonic imaging. His main research interests are related to studies of light propagation in biological tissues in relation to optical coherence tomography, development and applications of diode-based laser systems for biophotonics, and biophotonic multimodal imaging. He has published more than 150 journal/conference papers within these topics, and holds eight patents. He is Deputy Editor of Optics Letters, editorial board member of Journal of Biomedical Optics, associate editor of Journal of Biophotonics, and the co-founder and co-inventor of Norlase ApS, Denmark. He is SPIE Fellow and OSA Fellow.

Jorge Ávila

Jorge Ávila has a Bachelor degree in Electric and Electronic Engeneering and a Master in Business & Marketing. Ávila has more than 20 years in the lighting industry—product management, lighting design, project management and marketing activities and former VP for IES. He is the Managing Director for the Systems & Servicies Business at Philips Lighting Mexico. He has developed projects such as Street Lighting Apodaca Compact HID Conversion, BBVA Headquarter and Opperation Center, many energy savings projects as the Street Lighting at the UNAM, UNAM’s Stadium and the GA Hospital transforming the lives of millions of Mexicans with light.

Gustavo Avilés

Gustavo Avilés studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. In 1986 he founded Lighteam, a studio geared toward the research and development of architectural lighting through transdisciplinary methods. In 2008, his illumination Master Plan for San Luis Potosi was awarded third place at the LUCI/Phillips City.People.Light award. At the GE Edison Awards, he received the Environmental Design Award and the Award of Merit with the projects: MUAC, Encanto Hotel and UNARTE University of Arts. The first and second phases of Taxco’s Lighting Master Plan were also recognized at the LAMP Awards in Barcelona.

He received the IALD’s Award of Excellence for the Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico. He founded the Architectural Lighting Design Specialization at the UNAM and represented the IALD at the Opening Ceremony of the IYL 2015 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.

Caterina Biscari

Caterina Biscari is director of the ALBA Synchrotron since 2012; experimental physicist with expertise in accelerator physics, she is recognized for significant contributions to the design, construction and operation of particle accelerators.

Ana María Cetto

Ana María Cetto is research professor at the Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is also director of the Museum of Light, and founding president of LATINDEX. Her research is known in the fields of the foundations of quantum mechanics and scholarly journals. She is Mexico’s Woman of the Year 2003, has won the Research Prize of the Mexican Physical Society, and is co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize as member of the Pugwash Executive Committee and the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize as IAEA Deputy Director-General. She chaired the IYL 2015 Committee in Mexico and led the organization of the IYL closing ceremony in Merida, Yucatan, in 2016.

Jesús Antonio del Río Portilla

Jesús Antonio del Río Portilla has an undergraduate, Master degree, and PhD in Physics from UNAM. The Board of Governors of this university appointed him as the first Director of the Institute for Renewable Energies in 2013. His scientific contributions range from basic research to technological development in the fields of thermo dynamics of irreversible processes, transport in porous media, photonic nanostructures, complex systems, and renewable energy resources. He has multiple publications including books and over 80 research papers in international journals. He is the author of four patents and eight patent applications.

Hanan Dowidar

Hanan Dowidar is Senior Advisor for 1001 Inventions. She is a development expert with diverse experience working for international organizations, government agencies, educational institutions, and civil society associations.

Dowidar started her career as an economist at the Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation before joining the World Bank working at its Washington, DC, headquarters and its Cairo regional office. She followed by consulting for the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva, and pursued her development efforts working as the Deputy Director of the EU-funded Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Programme in Egypt.

Dowidar is passionate about communicating science for development and holds a Master degree in Political Science and Development and a Bachelor degree in Economics.

John Dudley

John Dudley is Professor of Physics at the Université de Franche-Comté and the CNRS Research Institute FEMTO-ST in Besancon, France. His research covers broad areas of optical science and he has published over 500 contributions in journals and conference proceedings, and delivered over 120 talks. He has received a number of distinctions, including the Médaille d’Argent of the CNRS, the SPIE President’s Award, the Hopkins Leadership Award of the Optical Society, and the 2017 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach from the American Physical Society. He was President of the European Physical Society from 2013–2015. He chaired the Steering Committee of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015.

Salvador Ferrer

Salvador Ferrer is a physicist specialized in surface chemistry and magnetism. He was at the ESRF for 16 years in charge of the Surface Diffraction Beamline and of the Surface Science Group. In 2004 he joined the ALBA project as a scientific director during the first seven years of the facility. At present he is associated Director at ALBA acting as scientific assistant.

Jesús Galindo Trejo

Jesús Galindo Trejo has received a Bachelor degree in Physics and Mathematics from the IPN’s Higher School of Physics and Mathematics, completed his Postgraduate at the UNAM’s Faculty of Science and obtained a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics from the Ruhr Universitaet Bochum in Germany. He was a researcher at the UNAM’s Institute for Astronomy for more than 20 years in the areas of astrophysical plasmas and solar physics and is currently a researcher at the Institute for Aesthetic Research at the UNAM. His research focuses on the archaeoastronomy of pre-Hispanic Mexico. He is a member of the SNI and belongs to the IAU. He has conducted archaeoastronomical research at Malinalco, the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, Teotihuacan, Cacaxtla, Oaxaca, la Huaxteca, Baja California, and in the Mayan region.

Gastón García

Gastón García is deputy director of the ALBA Synchrotron since 2013; he is an experimental physicist with a background in the field of Materials Science, using accelerator-based techniques as the key tool.

Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

Stanislaw Iwaniszewski is Professor-Researcher of Archaeology at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia–Instituto Nacional de Astronomía e Historia, Mexico City, and a former SEAC (1999–2005) and ISAAC president (2007– 2014). In 2015, he made habilitation with the monothematic cycle of publications on theoretical and methodological aspects o...

Índice

• Preface
• Introduction
• Foreword
• A better world with light
• On IYL 2015: quotation
• An Introduction
• Research in optics and photonics Shaping human destiny
• Biophotonics: Light for life
• New sources of light for research and applications
• The invention of high-effi ciency blue LEDs and future solid-state lighting devices
• The history of the universe from its beginning to its end: Where did we come from, and where can we go?
• A plea for dark skies
• Archeoastronomy: Recreating the sky of the past through its light
• Ptolemy, Ibn al-Haytham, and Al-Fārisī: The beginnings of quantitative research in optics
• Harvesting solar energy
• Light for all
• Global education in optics: A case of success
• Outreach through light: A major legacy of the International Year of Light
• Light and the city: Social experience in the collective imagination
• Evanescence: Orchestration of light to mutate through time
• In medias res: Light in fi ne arts
• Light and cultural heritage
• About the authors