Joint ISSP-OIST Symposium:
Lighting Up New Frontiers – From Tokyo to Okinawa, From Materials to Neurons
March 10 & 11 2014
B250 (& Restaurant Floor for Poster Session) , OIST Center Building
Overview
The Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit, OIST and the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo announce a joint symposium to exchange the latest developments in photonics and optical technologies; and to initiate novel interdisciplinary collaborations on the applications of light to materials science, condensed matter physics and neuroscience.
Speakers
Program
All sessions will take place in B250, OIST Center building except for the poster session, which will take place at the Restaurant Floor on level B.
A PDF version of the program may be found here. Presentation abstracts are available here.
Time
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Monday, March 10
|
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
OIST Welcome and Campus Tour |
| Session 1: Playing a "light" role in energy, materials, and devices |
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
Yabing Qi, Low cost solar cells |
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
Hidefumi Akiyama, Nano-device physics of semiconductor lasers, solar cells, and bioluminescence |
| 11:20 - 12:00 |
Tohru Suemoto, Observation and control of spin motions by impulsive terahertz radiation |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Lab Tours |
| Session 2: Reaching higher - Higher harmonics and x-rays |
| 15:30 - 16:10 |
Yohei Kobayashi, 10-MHz repetition rate, high-order harmonics generation |
| 16:10 - 16:50 |
Jiro Itatani, Soft-X-ray high harmonic generation using a few-cycle intense infrared light source |
| 16:50 - 17:30 |
Yoshihisa Harada, Soft X-ray emission spectroscopy |
| 17:30 - 19:00 |
Additional Lab Tours and Discussion-Interaction Time |
Time
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Tuesday, March 11
|
| Session 3: Putting light to good use |
| 09:00 - 09:40 |
Nic Shannon, Shedding light on frustrated magnets in high magnetic field |
| 09:40 - 10:20 |
Shik Shin, Study of materials science by the laser-photoemission spectroscopy |
| 10:20 - 11:00 |
Sile Nic Chormaic, Manipulating and trapping particles with optical nanofiber guided light |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Scientific Resources Tour |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| Session 4: Lighting up new frontiers: Materials to Neurons |
| 13:30 - 14:10 |
Mukhles Sowwan, Build -A -Nanoparticle |
| 14:10 - 14:50 |
Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama, Singing in the brain |
| 14:50 - 15:30 |
Jeff Wickens, Use of Optical Tools in the study of Memory & Learning Mechanisms in the Brain |
| 15:30 - 17:30 |
Poster Session (Restaurant Floor) |
Access information
Directions for accessing the campus and a map of the area are available here.
For participants: Detailed information on transportation arrangements between accommodation and OIST campus will be sent individually.
If you have additional questions, please contact the Conference & Workshop Section or the Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit.
