This year I have been asked to help with the organization of the seminars at AIPT and I am enjoying the experience so far. If you are ever asked to get in charge of organizing the seminars, go for it!
Sure, it takes away much needed time working in the lab, working on proposals and collaborations or just reading or writing papers, but, on the other hand, it gives a great opportunity to interact with scientists and researchers from all walks of life “light”.
After a slow start of the year the seminar series is truly gaining momentum. Just have a look at the breadth and depth of topics and invited speakers over the past few weeks and some of the upcoming talks at the end of this post.
I believe the broad range of topics clear reflects AIPT’s broad range of interests, something that impressed me when I first came back to Aston.
But it all starts and ends with the speakers, all of whom I must thank for taking time of their busy schedules to visit us and delivering such interesting and inspiring talks.
Picture: Prof. Harald Haas from the University of Edinburgh sharing his vision on how LiFi can change the world. Also attending the seminar Yuri Kivshar, another of our upcoming speakers and distinguished visitors. Photo credit: Srikanth Sugavanam
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
Dr Arun Harish and Dr Tom Harvey Healthcare Photonics at CPI
Time: 11.30am, 7 June 2016
Prof.Yuri Kivshar, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
Metamaterials and metasurfaces
Time: 10.30am, 10 June 2016
Prof.Zhipei Sun, Department of Micro- and Nanosciences, Aalto University
Nanoscale nonlinear optics with low-dimensional nanomaterials
Time: 11am, 13th June 2016
RECENT SEMINARS:
Professor Harald Haas, the University of Edinburgh
LiFi: Conceptions, Misconceptions and Opportunities
Prof. Nikolay Zheludev, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, Photonics Institute, NTU,Singapore
Metamaterials: Optical Properties on Demand
Dr. Oleg Mitrofanov, University College London
Terahertz near-field microscopy: methods and applications
Dr.Irina Kabakova, ICJR Fellow at Imperial College London
Brillouin microscopy and endoscopy for stiffness measurements of biological tissues
Dr. Nikola Alic, UCSD
State of the art frequency combs and their applications in optical communications
Dr. Lina Persechini, Associate Editor in Nature Communication
Introduction to Nature Communications: Aims and Scope
Dr Donald Govan, Oclaro Technology Ltd, UK
CFP2: Coherent Pluggable Optics
Prof. Moti Fridman, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Spontaneous PT symmetry breaking with topological insulators
Dr. Haider Butt, Micro Engineering and Nanotechnology, University of Birmingham,UK
Holographic laser ablation for nanophotonic devices
Prof. Tiegen Liu, Opto-electronic Information Technology,Ministry of Education,China
Hybrid Optical Fibre Sensing Theory and Methods
AIPT Half-day Meeting: Orbital Angular Momentum in Optical Fibre Communications
Prof Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA
Singular light in fibres: beams that can do what Gaussians cannot
Dr Martin Lavery, Glasgow University, UK
Orbital Angular Momentum – past, present, and future
Dr Mirco Scaffardi, CNIT Pisa, Italy
Revolutionising optical transmission and networking using the OAM of light
Prof. Kestutis Staliunas, ICREA,Barcelona, Spain
Photonic crystals for spatial filtering
Dr. Pascal Del’Haye, National Physical Laboratory, UK
Self-Referencing of a Microresonator Optical Frequency Comb
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