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

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

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

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

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

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

Seminar: Multipliers of orbital angular momentum of light

Title:  Multipliers of orbital angular momentum of light

Speaker: Dr Georgiy Tkachenko,  University of Bordeaux, France

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

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

Seminar: Ultrasensitive ultrasound sensing with integrated optical microresonators

Title:  Ultrasensitive ultrasound sensing with integrated optical microresonators

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

Seminar: Nonlinear Photonics in High-Q Microcavities: From All-Optical Switches to Microresonator Frequency Combs

Title: Nonlinear Photonics in High-Q Microcavities: From All-Optical Switches to Microresonator Frequency Combs

Speaker: Dr Takasumi Tanabe, Professor, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan

Optics Seminar: Principles and applications of optical and acoustic trapping combined with Raman spectroscopy

Title: Principles and applications of optical and acoustic trapping combined with Raman spectroscopy

Speaker: Dr Silvie Bernatova, CNR Italy

Seminar: Individually Addressable Atom Array Coupled to an Optical Nanofiber Cavity: Advancing Towards Quantum Computing with Optical Nanofiber Cavity-QED

Talk title: Individually Addressable Atom Array Coupled to an Optical Nanofiber Cavity: Advancing Towards Quantum Computing with Optical Nanofiber Cavity-QED

Speaker: Dr Jameesh KELOTH, Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Japan

Optics Seminar: Imaging in 3D and other fun things to do through multimode fibres

Title:  Imaging in 3D and other fun things to do through multimode fibres

Speaker: Dr Peter Mekhail, University of Glasgow, Scottland

[Joint Seminar] "Luminescence induced optical force"

This seminar will focus on new methods of optical manipulation using the force generated by luminescence and related phenomena. This seminar will include progress reports from members of Pr. Ishihara's Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) project and feature talks from guest researchers.