Talks 2010-2011

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Applied Optics Lunchtime Seminars

All talks are on Tuesdays at 12.30pm - the room is available until 2pm. The venue will be the Tower 2nd Floor Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated. The information will also be printed on the posters, and in the emails advertising the talks.

Talks are generally every fortnight, although external speakers are welcome to give a seminar on any Tuesday that's free - please speak to or email Steve Sharples to make sure a room is available if it's not on one of the dates below.

Autumn 2010
Date Speaker Talk topic or title
26 October Richard Smith Non-contact nanoscale ultrasonic transducers
7 December Yousif Humeida

Amir Rabani

Modelling ultrasonic signals in anisotropic inhomogeneous multilayer media

A low cost disposable viscosity probe


Spring 2011
Date Speaker Talk topic or title
25 January Mike Somekh Some approaches to optimising signal to noise in microscopy and plasmonics
22 February* Amanda Wright

(Inst. of Photonics, Univ. of Strathclyde)

Quantifying interaction forces between immune cells using optical tweezers
8 March *** slot free *** *** please volunteer ***
22 March *** slot free *** *** please volunteer ***


Summer 2011
Date Speaker Talk topic or title
5 April *** slot free *** *** please volunteer ***
19 April *** slot free *** *** please volunteer ***
3 May *** slot free *** *** please volunteer ***
17 May *** slot free *** *** please volunteer ***
31 May *** slot free *** *** please volunteer ***
14 June *** slot free *** *** please volunteer ***

* Visiting speaker