While New Orleans is known for people hitting the pavement on Bourbon Street, more than 900 attendees and over 80 exhibitors gathered in September at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside on nearby Poydras Street for the 2025 IES Street & Area Lighting Conference. The four-day event featured full-day courses, a keynote from IES Industry Relations Consultant Mark Lien, more than 20 sessions, networking breakouts, and a Mardi Gras Masquerade-themed Casino Night. The following images are some highlights of the event.
Photos: Glen Keune
Valley of the Sun
Phoenix will host the 2026 IES Street & Area Lighting Conference from November 8 to 11 at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown.
Image: City of Phoenix
Samuel Morris Berman passed away in September. In 1958, he earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology and subsequently received three post-doctoral fellowships: Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, and the Imperial College of London. At age 29, he became Stanford University’s youngest-ever tenured hire when he accepted a fully-tenured professorship at the Stanford University Linear Accelerator Center.
In 1977, Berman joined the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab as its senior scientist in the College of Engineering where he led the Lighting Group for 20 years through the evolution of electronic ballasts, compact fluorescents, and one of his favorite topics, how the spectrum of light affects human vision. In 1988, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Berman the Sadi Carnot Award, its highest honor for his pioneering and creative contributions to the application on scientific methods to lighting and energy conservation.
Berman’s achievements include awards, consultantships, scientific articles, and patents that bear his name as a co-author, as well as two fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Andrew Hamilton Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Asian Foundation, and two Guggenheim Foundation Awards in two different disciplines.
He will be remembered in the lighting community for his groundbreaking work in the field of vision science concerning the response of the human eye to the spectrum of light. For more than two decades, through the DOE and as a private consultant, he served on numerous committees in advancing the science and knowledge of the human visual system. The culmination of this work is best exemplified in the original IES TM-24-13, which allows variations in light level based on the spectral content for visually demanding tasks. For his achievements, Berman was designated an IES Fellow.
