Talks 2007-2008

Applied Optics Lunchtime Seminars

All talks are on Wednesdays at 1pm. The venue will 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 Wednesday that's free.

Date	Speaker	Talk topic or title
14 November	Steve Morgan	Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of Superficial Tissue
28 November	Chen Qian (Ryan)	Wide Field Surface Plasmon Enhanced Nonlinear Microscopy
12 December	John Crowe	The dependence of attenuation on optical absorption coefficient using a cumulant expansion of the temporal point spread function

Date	Speaker	Talk topic or title
9 January	Mike Somekh	Structured light microscopy: a propabilistic approach to resolution
23 January	John Walker	Novel Methods for Optical Characterisation of Nano-Particles
20 February	C.W. See	Optical imaging on the nanoscopic scale
5 March	Xuesheng Chen	Design and experimental study of microcantilever ultrasonic wave detection transducers
19 March	Qun Zhu	Rotating orthogonal polarization imaging

All seminars begin at 1pm unless otherwise indicated.

Date	Venue	Speaker	Talk topic or title
2 April	2nd floor lecture theatre	Tze Koh (Andrew)	What's above: image segmentation of particles using multi-flash imaging applied to automated particle size analysis
16 April	11th floor conference room	Richard Smith	Parallel detection of GHz ultrasound
7 May*	2nd floor lecture theatre	Mike Fay (Nottingham Nanocentre)	Nottingham Nanocentre electron microscopy facilities
14 May	2nd floor lecture theatre	*slot free*	*for external speaker*
21 May	2nd floor lecture theatre	Gerard Byrne	Non-fluorescent Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (TIRM) for Live Cell Imaging (alternative poster)
28 May	2nd floor lecture theatre	*slot free*	*for external speaker*
4 June*	Biology B1 seminar room	Francesco Simonetti (Imperial College)	On the encoding of subwavelength information by multiple scattering (Abstract)
11 June	Biology B1 seminar room	*slot free*	*for external speaker*
18 June*	11th floor conference suite (1:30 - 2:30)	Wiendelt Steenbergen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)	(Title T.B.C.)
25 June	Venue T.B.C.	*slot free*	*for external speaker*
2 July	Venue T.B.C.	*slot free*	*please volunteer*

* External speaker