"Optics in Nature - a photographic tour " |
| TYPE | Special Seminar - Solid State Institute, Technion |
| Speaker: | Professor Joseph Shaw |
| Affiliation: | Montana State University in Bozeman,Montana, U.S.A. |
| Organizer: | Technion OSA student chapter |
| Date: | 02.01.2014 |
| Time: | 12:30 |
| Location: | Solid State Auditorium(Entrance) |
| Abstract: | The natural world offers a continual display of fascinating optical phenomena. This talk reviews these natural optical phenomena with a combination of photographs and optical diagrams. Examples are shown of optical scattering, diffraction, refraction, reflection, and emission. Technical and non-technical audiences alike will leave this talk with a greater understanding of sky colors, rainbows, halos, coronas, iridescence, glories, glitter patterns, and auroras. |