Photonics Day 2014
Event details
| Date | 14.11.2014 |
| Speaker | The EPFL photonics community |
| Location |
Forum Rolex
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The Doctoral Programmme in Photonics organizes the EPFL Photonics Day, which gathers the entire EPFL photonics community.
The EPFL Photonics Day is for everyone: students, PhD students, researchers at every level and all those interested by photonics. Participation is free and includes lunch; registration is mandatory before Monday November 10; please register here.
Program:
8:30 Welcome, coffee and poster session
9:30 Introduction
Olivier J.F. Martin, EPFL doctoral program in photonics
9:40 Finding a needle in the design haystack: Automated optimization of photonic crystal structures
Vincenzo Savona, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems, EPFL
10:15 High throughput in vivo 3D super-resolution microscopy reveals the nanoscale organization of the bacterial cytoskeleton
Seamus John Holden, Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics, EPFL
10:40 Optical spectroscopy : the journey of the photon, and what is important for measuring spectra
John Gilchrist, Gilden Photonics
11:15 Time-resolved THz spectroscopy applied to new generation solar cells
Ahmad Ajdarzadeh Oskouei, Photochemical Dynamics Group, EPFL
11:40 Selected poster presentations
PhD students from the Doctoral program in photonics (2min/poster)
12:00 – 13:30 Buffet lunch and poster session
(posters from all the PhD students of the EPFL Doctoral Program in Photonics
and quiz sponsored by GMP SA)
13:30 First EPFL PhD Award in Photonics
Olivier Martin, Doctoral Program in Photonics
13:45 All-optical generation of Nyquist sinc-like pulses for optical telecommunications
Armand Vedadi, Photonic Systems Laboratory, EPFL
14:10 Hand-held high-throughput plasmonic biosensors for point of care diagnostics
Arif Engin Cetin, Bionanophotonic Systems Laboratory, EPFL
14:35 Light trapping in solar cells : between hype and reality
Franz-Josef Haug, Photovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Laboratory, EPFL
15:00 Ultrasensitive second harmonic microscopy
Carlos A. Macias-Romero, Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics, EPFL
15:25 Exciton Drift under Uniform Strain Gradient in Bent ZnO Microwires
Gwénolé Jacopin, Laboratory of Quantum Optoelectronics, EPFL
15:50 Results of the quiz and prizes distribution
Pablo Moreno, GMP SA General Microtechnology & Photonics
16:00 Poster session and aperitif organized by the EPFL Photonics Chapter
With the kind support of
www.gmp.ch
The EPFL Photonics Day is for everyone: students, PhD students, researchers at every level and all those interested by photonics. Participation is free and includes lunch; registration is mandatory before Monday November 10; please register here.
Program:
8:30 Welcome, coffee and poster session
9:30 Introduction
Olivier J.F. Martin, EPFL doctoral program in photonics
9:40 Finding a needle in the design haystack: Automated optimization of photonic crystal structures
Vincenzo Savona, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems, EPFL
10:15 High throughput in vivo 3D super-resolution microscopy reveals the nanoscale organization of the bacterial cytoskeleton
Seamus John Holden, Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics, EPFL
10:40 Optical spectroscopy : the journey of the photon, and what is important for measuring spectra
John Gilchrist, Gilden Photonics
11:15 Time-resolved THz spectroscopy applied to new generation solar cells
Ahmad Ajdarzadeh Oskouei, Photochemical Dynamics Group, EPFL
11:40 Selected poster presentations
PhD students from the Doctoral program in photonics (2min/poster)
12:00 – 13:30 Buffet lunch and poster session
(posters from all the PhD students of the EPFL Doctoral Program in Photonics
and quiz sponsored by GMP SA)
13:30 First EPFL PhD Award in Photonics
Olivier Martin, Doctoral Program in Photonics
13:45 All-optical generation of Nyquist sinc-like pulses for optical telecommunications
Armand Vedadi, Photonic Systems Laboratory, EPFL
14:10 Hand-held high-throughput plasmonic biosensors for point of care diagnostics
Arif Engin Cetin, Bionanophotonic Systems Laboratory, EPFL
14:35 Light trapping in solar cells : between hype and reality
Franz-Josef Haug, Photovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Laboratory, EPFL
15:00 Ultrasensitive second harmonic microscopy
Carlos A. Macias-Romero, Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics, EPFL
15:25 Exciton Drift under Uniform Strain Gradient in Bent ZnO Microwires
Gwénolé Jacopin, Laboratory of Quantum Optoelectronics, EPFL
15:50 Results of the quiz and prizes distribution
Pablo Moreno, GMP SA General Microtechnology & Photonics
16:00 Poster session and aperitif organized by the EPFL Photonics Chapter
With the kind support of
www.gmp.ch
Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Doctoral Programme in Photonics (EDPO)