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<div style="font-size:13.3333px">We do not meet this week Thursday. Instead, we have a YouTube presentation below.</div>
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 Colloquium Series: Optics and Photonics, Essential for Our World by Alan Willner</span></p>
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 science and technology of light are essential to many applications that have transformed our society, and there is much promise that optics and photonics will remain at the forefront of the world’s innovations well into this century. Dr. Alan Willner’s talk
 highlights: (a) past breakthroughs, present advances and potential future growth in the science and technology of light, (b) the convergence of the International Year of Light, the Nobel Prizes based on light and various U.S. government initiatives in photonics,
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<font color="#000080" size="2"><b>Heungman Park, Ph.D.</b></font></div>
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<font color="#444444" size="1"><span style="font-size:11px"><b>Assistant Professor</b></span></font><font color="#444444" size="1"><span style="font-size:11px"><br>
Department of Physics & Astronomy</span></font><font color="#444444" size="1"><span style="font-size:11px"><br>
Texas A&M University-Commerce</span></font><font color="#444444" size="1"><span style="font-size:11px"><br>
Commerce, TX 75429, USA</span></font></div>
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