Workshop on Optical Trapping Techniques and Structured Light

Programme:

10:00- Opening Remarks; Prof Sile Nic Chormaic (OIST Graduate University, Japan)

10:05- Dr Yoshihiko Arita (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
           Chiral light-matter interaction: new perspectives in optical manipulation

10:50- Prof Lene B. Oddershede (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
           Optical manipulation of HOT metallic nanoparticles and applications for cancer  treatment

11:35- Break

12:00- Prof Jesper Glückstad (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)   
           NanoBiophotonics Applications of Light Robotics

12:45- Lunch Break

14:00- Prof Cornelia Denz (University of Muenster, Germany)
           Trapping soft and active matter by complex structured light landscapes

14:45- Prof Takashige Omatsu (Chiba University, Japan)
           Light induced chiral mass transport

15:30- Break

16:00- Dr Viet Giang Truong (OIST Graduate University, Japan)
           Efficient Particle Trapping in Near-Field Optics of Ultrathin fibres and Plasmonic Tweezers