Talk title: Bridging Science and Art: A Journey from Medicinal Chemistry to Photographic Expression

Speaker: Maya Beano, participating photographer in the Polar Blues, Island Hues exhibition at OIST with her images of Antarctica

Stefano Antonini

UC Berkeley

Hao Geng

Harvard University

Talk by Florian Meier, TU-Wien. Physical devices operating out of equilibrium are inherently affected by thermal fluctuations, limiting their operational precision. This issue is pronounced at microscopic and especially quantum scales and can only be mitigated by incurring additional entropy dissipation. Understanding this constraint is crucial for both fundamental physics and technological design.

Dr. Nozomi Ando is an associate professor at Chemistry and Chemical Biology in Cornell University.

Dr. Buz Barstow is a physicist using synthetic biology to build sustainable energy technologies and is an assistant professor at Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University.

Title:  Micro- and Nanomotors Driven by Optical Forces and Torques

Speaker: Dr Mikael Käll, Professor, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology,  Sweden

Title:  Plasmonic Optical Tweezers: From Nanoparticles Trapping to Biomolecules Manipulation

Speaker: Dr Domna Kotsifaki, Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke Kunshan University, China

Title:  Ultrasensitive ultrasound sensing with integrated optical microresonators

Speaker: Dr Beibei Li,  Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China