As we go into the new semester, dont forget that 2015 has been chosen as the International Year of Light. 2015 was chosen since it is the... - 1000th anniversary of the first optics studies by Ibn Al-Haytham - 200 year anniversary of Augustin-Jean Fresnel claiming light is a wave - 150 year anniversary of the Maxwell equations - 100 year anniversary of Einstein proposing the photoelectric effect - 50 year anniversary of Charles Kaos discoveries with transmission of light in fibers for optical communication - and 50 year anniversary of the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson. Follow to link to find out more about what is happening in 2015.
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