Talks 2015

AOG Seminars 2015

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	Voltage sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance for biological applications
Mon 11 May 2015	1:00pm	Coates C29	Guest Talk	Dr Hamid Dehghani	Adventures in diffuse optical imaging
Wed 13 May 2015	All Day	Hemsley			AOG Researchers Away Day
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	1:00pm	Tower 203	Talk	Chung See	Optical imaging - the illumination system
Wed 10 Jun 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Guest Talk	Dr Robert Thomson	Astrophotonic applications of ultrafast laser inscription
Wed 17 Jun 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Short Talk	Paul Marrow	Advanced spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy imaging
			Short Talk	Rikesh Patel	On using ultrasonic NDE for additive manufactured samples
Wed 24 Jun 2015	12:30pm	Tower 203	Talk	Fernando Perez Cota	Picosecond laser ultrasound imaging of biological cells based on Brillouin oscillations

More sessions to be booked for September. Please suggest times/days - we're currently looking at Wednesday 1pm.