{"id":11491,"date":"2015-01-20T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2015-01-20T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T19:03:04","slug":"distinguished-speaker-series-continues-wonders-two-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/distinguished-speaker-series-continues-wonders-two-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Speaker Series Continues with Wonders in Two Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignright wp-image-11493\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/DSS-Heinz-2.jpg\" alt=\"Distinguished Speaker Series\" width=\"296\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/DSS-Heinz-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/DSS-Heinz-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/DSS-Heinz-2-299x224.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The College of Sciences\u2019 Distinguished Speaker Series continued in January with an intriguing talk hosted by Dr. Tony Heinz.\u00a0 Dr. Heinz gave his exciting presentation entitled <strong>\u201c<\/strong><em>Wonders in Two Dimensions:<\/em><em> Looking at Graphene and Beyond<\/em><em>\u201d <\/em>on Wednesday, January 11 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocina214.com\">Cocina214<\/a>.<em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>Approximately 40 guests attended and enjoyed food &amp; drink while listening to Dr. Heinz\u2019 intriguing presentation.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke about the special properties of graphene and illustrated some of the diverse emerging applications, from touch-screen displays to high-speed transistors.\u00a0 Graphene is confirmed as the world\u2019s strongest and lightest known material.\u00a0 Graphene is the nanomaterial of the moment and has amazing properties. It\u2019s the strongest, thinnest, stiffest, and most conductive substance known to date.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he discussed several recently discovered materials that exhibit characteristics quite different from graphene.\u00a0 These materials have the ability to function as electrical insulators and to emit light efficiently, but they retain the strength and flexibility of graphene.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\">About the speaker<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11492\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11492\" class=\"wp-image-11492 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/01\/Tony-Heinz.jpg\" alt=\"Distinguished Speaker Series\" width=\"140\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Tony Heinz<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tony F. Heinz is the David Ricky Professor in the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Heinz received a BS degree in Physics from Stanford University in 1978 and the PhD degree, also in Physics, from the University of California at Berkely in 1982. Heinz was subsequently at IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights, NY, until he joined Columbia University in 1995. At Columbia, he has served as the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, as well as the Scientific Co-Director of the Columbia Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and the Energy Frontier Research Center. In 2012, Heinz was the President of the Optical Society of America. He is a Fellow of the APS, OSA, and AVS and a recipient of the ICO Prize, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, and the Senior Scientist Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We thank Dr. Heinz for his visit and hope that he will frequent UCF as he gives future talks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next talks in our Distinguished Speaker Series:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Dan Canary, Professor of Communication at the University of Utah<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cManaging Conflict Strategically in Personal Relationships\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nWednesday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m.<br \/>\nFor more information and to RSVP &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cos.ucf.edu\/dss\/canary\/%20\">http:\/\/www.cos.ucf.edu\/dss\/canary\/ <\/a><br \/>\nPlease make sure to RSVP, spaces fill up quickly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barry Fisher, Senior Forensic Advisor for the US Department of Justice ICITAP<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cCSI in Real Life: Realities of Modern Forensic Science\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nWednesday, March 18 at 6 p.m.<br \/>\nFor more information and to RSVP &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cos.ucf.edu\/dss\/fisher%20\">http:\/\/www.cos.ucf.edu\/dss\/fisher <\/a><br \/>\nPlease make sure to RSVP, spaces fill up quickly!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Sciences\u2019 Distinguished Speaker Series continued in January with an intriguing talk hosted by Dr. Tony Heinz.\u00a0 Dr. Heinz gave his exciting presentation entitled \u201cWonders in Two Dimensions: Looking at Graphene and Beyond\u201d on Wednesday, January 11 at Cocina214.\u00a0 \u00a0Approximately 40 guests attended and enjoyed food &amp; drink while listening to Dr. Heinz\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":11494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,5,6,13,14,27,28,29],"tags":[707,736,958,1072,2571,2686,3457,3723],"class_list":["post-11491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dss","category-events","category-news","category-physics-departments","category-stem","category-top-news","category-ucf-news","tag-cocina214","tag-college-of-sciences","tag-distinguished-speaker-series","tag-dr-tony-heinz","tag-orlando","tag-physics","tag-ucf","tag-university-of-central-florida"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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