Turkish National Committee on Illumination, TUBITAK National Observatory, Turkey and Istanbul Kultur University are planning an international meeting entitled “Light Pollution and Urban Lighting” in 6-8 September 2007, in Istanbul, Turkey

AIMS
Despite the increasing awareness of light pollution worldwide, improvement in application of better light is minimal. This puts a constant demand on lighting for better applications. The aims of the symposium are to enable the meeting of people working on various subjects of lighting and especially urban lighting such as research, design, application and production, to ensure the exchange of knowledge and experience, to contact with people and companies concerned in lighting for revealing the accumulation in preserving natural night time environment and promoting dark skies, and to observe the developments. Abstracts about 400-600 should be sent to the Congress Secretariat.

There will be simultaneous translation during sessions in between English and Turkish.

TOPICS

The congress will include papers on following general topics and is open to the papers in Turkish or English:

- Urban lighting and natural night time environment,
- Urban lighting and skyglow,
- City beautification,
- Vision and Colour,
- Physical Measurement of Light and Radiation,
- Lighting and Signalling for Transport,
- Exterior and other Lighting Applications,
- Photobiology and Photochemistry,

http://mimweb.iku.edu.tr/light07/