Akhlesh Lakhtakia, The Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, will give a plenary talk at the Nanotech, Solar and Lighting Researchers Reveal Technical Innovations at SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference, August 26-30, in San Diego, California.

Lakhtakia's nanotechnology talk titled "Brave New Nanoworld, Without Apologies to Aldous Huxley" contends that scientific progress has inspired futurists for centuries to conjure visions of utopias and dystopias. The emergence of nanosciences and nanotechnologies is bringing us closer to the realization of both types of visions, and their confluence with life sciences as well as information sciences.

Source: SPIE web