ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> A
> Free Public Lecture
>
> In commemoration of
> ALBERT EINSTEIN - Man of the Century Exhibition
> the Centenary of Einstein's "Miraculous Year"
> the International Year of Physics 2005
>
> by
>
> Associate Professor Andrew Wee
> Department of Physics,
> National University of Singapore
>
> on
>
> Einstein's Nobel Prize
> &
> The Photoelectric Effect Today
>
> at
>
> 2pm on May 22nd, 2005
>
> in
>
> Mendel Auditorium
> Singapore Science Centre
> 15 Science Centre Road
> Singapore 609081
>
>
> Brought to you by :
> The Singapore Science Centre and the INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS SINGAPORE
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> For your complimentary entry into the Science Centre for the talk, interested visitors must pre-register before 2pm on May 20th, 2005.
> Please e-mail to kt_pang@science.edu.sg
> Regular entry charges (for the general public) apply otherwise.
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> Come dressed to look like Einstein.
> An Einstein Look-alike Contest will take place after the lecture.
> Contestants must dress like Albert Einstein at any of his poses.
> Rules and prizes can be viewed at <http://www.science.edu.sg>.
>
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> PSIS
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> This year marks the centenary of Einstein> '> s miraculous year in 1905. In little more than eight months that year, he completed five papers that would change the scientific world forever. Spanning three distinct topics - relativity, the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion - Einstein overturned our view of space and time, showed that it is insufficient to describe light purely as a wave, and laid the foundations for the discovery of atoms.
> Remarkably, Einstein's 1905 papers were based neither on hard experimental evidence nor sophisticated mathematics. Instead, he presented elegant arguments and conclusions based on physical intuition.
> This public talk describes Einstein> '> s remarkable achievements in 1905, and in particular, highlights the impact that the photoelectric effect - for which he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics - has had on modern technology.
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> OUR DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
>
> Andrew Wee studied at the Universities of Cambridge (BA Hons, MA) and
> Oxford (DPhil), and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also the current President of the Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS), which is working with the Singapore Science Centre to publicise the World Year of Physics 2005. He is Director of the Surface Science Laboratory and Co-Director of the NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI). He uses Einstein> '> s photoelectric effect (photoemission) regularly in his research work to study surface properties. He has published almost 200 papers in internationally refereed journals in the field of surface and nanoscale science, and has given many invited academic and public talks.
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> <http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/staff/andrew.html>
> <http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/~ips/>
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