Interdisciplinary Summer School “Measuring Light and Illumination” (15-19 August 2022, Chexbres)

Interdisciplinary Summer School: Measuring Light and Illumination
Chexbres (CH), 15-19 August 2022

Description

Using Horace Bénédict de Saussure’s cyanometer (1789) for measuring the colour of the sky as a starting point, the summer school sought to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of measurement and characterisation of light and illumination.

Topics included:

• Measurement of light, spectrum and colour using a variety of techniques
• Quantification of human responses to light, including on visual (colour vision) and non-visual physiology (neuroendocrine and circadian physiology, sleep)
• Psychophysical methods to measure human colour perception

This residential summer school combined lectures, practical workshops, an excursion and a student-led research project.

Organisation and financial support

Daylight Academy, a VELUX Stiftung Initiative (https://daylight.academy/)

Organising Committee

Prof. Dr. Manuel Spitschan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics & Technical University of Munich)
Dr. Martine Knoop (Technical University Berlin)
Dr. Oliver Stefani (Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel)
Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller (Zürich)
Dr. Lenka Maierova (Czech Technical University Prague)
Dr. Anna Biller (Technical University of Munich)

Lecturers and tutors

Dr. Christine Blume (Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel)
Dr. Peter Blattner (METAS)
Prof. Dr. Priska Gisler (BFH)
Dr. Bob Fosbury (ESO)
Dr. Priji Balakrishnan (Technical University Berlin)
Dr. Aicha Diakite-Kortlever (Technical University Berlin)