The program of the joint conference will be fully integrated in that each of the conference sessions will be organised around themes of interest to both communities. The full-day programmes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday will each feature lectures originating from either community organised around the chosen themes. Wednesday’s sessions are reserved for keynote topics important to the development of lighting science and technology in general. Wednesday afternoon is kept free, allowing laboratory and social visits, sightseeing trips, etc., to be arranged ahead of the conference banquet in the evening.

The conference program will commence on Sunday afternoon at 17.00 when two introductory keynote lectures will be given.

Lectures and posters

The conference comprises keynote lectures of 50+10 minutes duration, invited lectures of 25+5 minutes, and landmark lectures, either invited or selected from contributed papers, of 10+5 minutes.

Video-recording of oral presentations is not allowed during the conference.

All posters will be displayed throughout the entire week of the joint conference. On each of the full programme days there will be one poster session of one hour duration in the morning, and one session of two hours at the end of the afternoon. During the afternoon poster sessions, beer, soft drinks and nibbles will be provided. Authors of posters are invited to attend their posters for the full day on which they are scheduled in the programme; on the days they are not scheduled they are free to view and discuss the other posters presented at the conference. Organised in this way allows everyone attending the conference to make a personal plan for visiting posters at times when the authors will be present to answer questions.

Social events

On Monday evening, from 18:00, a welcoming get-together party with drinks and nibbles will be held in the Main Hall of the Auditorium of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The party will kick-off with a 30 minute organ concert in the main hall by the Eindhoven University of Technology Titular Organist, Jan Verschuren.

The conference banquet (included in the conference fee) will be held on Wednesday evening in the Evoluon (see the photograph at the beginning of this announcement). This is a landmark building on the outskirts of Eindhoven, which has served as a museum for science and technology until 1989, and is now used as a conference centre. Buses will transport delegates between the University campus and the Evoluon and, following the banquet, return them to their respective hotels.