Talks 2015

• Conventional seminar talks presented by internal AOG members (~30mins-1hr)

• Invited seminar talks by guests from external institutions (~20mins-1hr)

• Informal forums discussing common techniques, equipment availability/requirements, research/researcher assistance or guidance, and other applied optics matters (variable)

The current talks normally take place in the Tower Building Room 203 on Wednesdays at 12:30pm (alternative locations/times are highlighted below). If you would like to volunteer or volunteer internal/external speakers, please contact Richard Smith.

1st Term
Date	Time	Location	Seminar	Presenter	Title
Tues 3 Feb 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Short Talk	Victoria Ageeva	Portable Cheap Optical Transducers (CHOTs) for on-site application and ultrasonic testing
			Short Talk	Rafael Fuentes	Nano-particle acoustic transducers
Tues 17 Feb 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Talk	Jonathan Bramble	Liquid Crystals meet Surface Patterning
Tues 24 Feb 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Guest Talk	Prof Richard Leach	Surface metrology: beating the barriers
Tues 3 Mar 2015	1:00pm	Tower 203	Guest Talk	Dr Osamu Matsuda	Propagation of GHz acoustic waves studied by time-resolved two-dimensional surface acoustic wave imaging
Thurs 5 Mar 2015	1:00pm	Tower 203	Guest Talk	Prof Christ Glorieux	Applications of photothermal and photoacoustic methods using different spatiotemporal excitation patterns
Wed 11 Mar 2015	1:00pm	Life Sciences (Biology) B3	Guest Talk	Dr Mike MacDonald	Sonic Screwdrivers and Fluorescent Chickens: shaped light and ultrasound for imaging and manipulation
Tues 17 Mar 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Short Talk	Qimei Zhang	Ultrasound modulated fluorescence emission from pyrene-labelled liposome contrast agents
			Short Talk	Francisco Ulises Hernandez	Optical fibre sensors for biomedical applications
Wed 25 Mar 2015	1:00pm	Life Sciences (Biology) B3	Short Talk	Mina Mossayebi	Vertical emission properties of a hybrid nanophotonic-plasmonic resonator
			Short Talk	Anas Helal	Self-consistent simulation of high-brightness laser diodes with external cavity feedback
Tues 31 Mar 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Short Talk	David Jung	Monte Carlo photon simulation of an anti-confocal system to monitor middle ear inflammation
			Short Talk	Jiri Hromadka	Optical fibre long period grating gas sensor modified with metal organic framework thin films
Wed 1 Apr 2015	10:00am	Tower 203	Guest Talk	Prof Ralph Tatam	Engineering Photonics at Cranfield: From curiosity driven research to real world applications

2nd Term
Date	Time	Location	Seminar	Presenter	Title
Tues 21 Apr 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Guest Talk	Prof Sergey Piletsky	Can synthetic receptors replace monoclonal antibodies in diagnostic and in vivo applications?
Wed 29 Apr 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Short Talk	Alexander Kalashnikov	Potential advantages and development of ultrasonic oscillating sensors
			Short Talk	Anas Hashmi	Embedded supervisory control and output reporting for the oscillating ultrasonic temperature sensors
Tues 5 May 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Talk	Sidahmed Abayzeed	TBC
Mon 11 May 2015	1:00pm	Coates C29	Guest Talk	Dr Hamid Dehghani	TBC
Wed 13 May 2015	All Day	Hemsley			AOG Researchers Away Day
Wed 20 May 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	-	Free	-
Fri 22 May 2015	All Day	Kinder Scout			AOG Grand Day Out II
Wed 27 May 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Guest Talk	Dr David Hughes	Improving dental health with photoacoustics and very high frequency ultrasound
Wed 3 Jun 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Talk	Chung See	TBC
Wed 10 Jun 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Guest Talk	Dr Robert Thomson	TBC
Wed 17 Jun 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Short Talk	Paul Marrow	TBC
			Short Talk	Free	-	-	Wed 24 Jun 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	-	Free	-

More sessions to be booked in due course.