When: Friday 2 June
Where: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
UNLOC is organising a full-day symposium on Friday 2 June 2017, in partnership with the Photonics Hyperhighway programme, led by the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton.
The Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies hosted a two-day "Year of Light" workshop in October.
4 May, 2015
UNLOC researchers explore the nature of light on a daily basis and while they remain objective when interpreting the observations of their experiments, they have also developed an intimate human relationship with it. So, when they heard about the OnLight Festival organized by the Wellcome Collection to "illuminate our human relationship with light", they enthusiastically jumped in to take part.
17 November, 2016
Prof Polina Bayvel will speak at The Future of Digital Communications workshop taking place at St Catharine's College, Cambridge on 1 February 2017. Prof Bayvel will be a member of the panel of leading figures in industry, government and academia.
26 September, 2015
UNLOC's lead partner Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies joined forces with the Library of Birmingham and the Flatpack Film Festival to present the first ever Lightfest Exhibition to the citizens of the greater Birmingham area.
15 May, 2015
Andrew Ellis, UNLOC associate investigator and a professor at Aston University in Birmingham co-organised a two-day scientific discussion meeting on the topic of Communication Networks Beyond the Capacity Crunch at the Royal Society in London in May. The meeting attracted much attention from industry experts, engineers and policy makers, and received a wide coverage by national media.
2 July, 2015
Members of the UNLOC project were heavily involved in multiple outreach activities at the Big Bang Fair at Newman College and Westminster Kingsway College which took place on 30 June and July 1st this year. The Big Bang events were part of a UK-wide programme of science fairs, hands-on exhibits and interactive workshops led by EngineeringUK seeking to inspire the next generation of UK's scientists and engineers.
The 2015 meeting of the UNLOC External Advisory Board (EAB) took place on Thursday 2nd July at UCL.
27 October, 2014
On 24th October Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies hosted an international workshop on multichannel optical regeneration.