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March 17

“Introduction to Quantum Dots”

Adi Abileah – SID and Adi Display Consult, USA

Starts at 3h30 pm

Adi Abileah is the Regional Vice-President of SID for the Pacific (USA) and Latin America and CEO of Adi Display Consulting – USA. Adi Abileah retired from Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon), where he served as the chief scientist at the Technology Group. His main activity was related to development of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD), physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, and backlights and enhancement techniques. Adi Abileah has B.Sc. in Physics from the Technion (Israel Institute ofTechnology) and M.Sc. in Plasma Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. And a 2-year research work at the university on high power CO2 lasers. He developed soil mechanics density sensors at the Negev Institute, Israel.

Adi Abileah

Adi Abileah

Pacific Area and Latin America Vice-President of SID and Adi Display Consulting, USA

Adi Abileah is the Regional Vice-President of SID for the Pacific (USA) and Latin America and CEO of Adi Display Consulting – USA. Adi Abileah retired from Planar Systems (Beaverton, Oregon), where he served as the chief scientist at the Technology Group. His main activity was related to development of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD), physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, and backlights and enhancement techniques. Adi Abileah has B.Sc. in Physics from the Technion (Israel Institute ofTechnology) and M.Sc. in Plasma Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. And a 2-year research work at the university on high power CO2 lasers. He developed soil mechanics density sensors at the Negev Institute, Israel. His first industry job was in medical imaging (Nuclear Medicine) at Elscint, Israel. He was the head of the Electro-Optics Group at Elbit for several years, and then the manager of EL-OP north branch R&D center in Haifa, Israel. On 1987, he joined OIS – Optical Imaging Systems in Michigan where he became the manager of the optics group and responsible for all related topics in the development of AMLCDs. During this period, he became expert in the optics of AMLCDs, testing techniques, and liquid crystals physics. He served at OIS until the company closed at 1998 and then joined Planar Systems.He has 46 US patents, mostly related to displays, backlights, 3-D stereo and in-cell optical sensors. He presented many technical papers at SID, SPIE, and OSA conferences, and gave several seminars at SID. In 2005, he received the Fellow Award of SID. In 2012, he got the SID Otto Schade Prize. In 2011 Adi Abileah was awarded with a Presidential Citation Award of SID in recognition for organizing LatinDisplay 2010.. He served as the director of the Pacific Northwest chapter of SID for many years. Adi co-chaired and was program chair of ADEAC conferences (2005/2006). He was program chair of Latin-Display/IDRC (2009, 2010 and 2011) and co-chair (2012 and 2014). Adi is an Associate Editor for JSID 3-D displays and chairing the 3-D stereo subcommittee of ICDM standards, as well as member of SAE-J-1757 standard group. He is a member of the Applications Subcommittee for the SID conferences.

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