Talks 2010-2011

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

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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