Programme
Day #1: Thursday 19 September 2024 - online
08:45 | Welcome in Gather Town & Opening
Quantum, non-linear and laser optics session
Chairs: Pablo Marin-Palomo (VUB) & Denys Kurylo (UAntwerpen and VUB)
09:00 | Tutorial session: Prof. Xavier Gonze (UCLouvain) - “Studying white-LED phosphors with a first-principles approach”
09:40 | Contributed talk: Samara Medina Rivero (UAntwerp) - "Revealing The Role of Reactive Diradicals through Spectroscopy"
Biosensing & Biophotonics: From micro- to nanoscale
Chair: Hadrien Fasseaux (UMons)
09:55 | Tutorial session: Prof. Sabine Van Doorslaer (UAntwerpen) - Merging optical and magnetic resonance techniques for photovoltaics research
10:35 | Contributed talk: Cedric Rousseau (UMons) - "Hybrid plasmonic nanoparticles for photothermal therapy: uniform and aggregated distributions"
10:50 | Coffee & Chocolate break
Chair: Pablo Marin-Palomo (VUB)
11:10 | “How to Get Published” from the IOP
11:50 | Poster session (list of posters availalble here)
13:00 | Lunch "Tartines & Boterhammen"
Optical design, manufacturing & imaging systems
Chairs: Koen Vanmol (VUB) & Athanasios Kyriazis (UGent)
14:00 | Tutorial session: Dr. Lionel Clermont (ULiège) - "Diffractive optics for space applications"
14:40 | Contributed talk: Genesis Mendoza Celorio (VUB) - "Script-based 3D Nanoprinting for the Creation of Gradient-Index Micro-Optics"
Quantum, non-linear and laser optics session
Chairs: Pablo Marin-Palomo (VUB) & Denys Kurylo (UAntwerpen and VUB)
14:55 | Invited talk: Dr. Spencer Jolly (ULB) : "The space-time nature of ultrashort laser pulses"
15:25 | Contributed talk: Salah Guessoum (VUB) - "Fine-Tuning VCSEL Wavelengths and Birefringence Using Applied Strain"
15:40 | Coffee & chocolate break
Career talk
Chairs: Koen Vanmol (VUB)
16:00 | Career-oriented discussion: Francis Berghmans (VUB)
Day #2 : Friday 20 September 2024 - hybrid (online - on site)
09:00 | Welcome on site @VUB - U-Residence - Bd Général Jacques, 172 - 1050 Brussels (Ixelles) - How to reach us...
Nanophotonics, plasmonics & metamaterials
Chairs: Dmitry Levshov (UAntwerpen) & Aina Fitó-Parera (UAntwerpen)
09:30 | Tutorial session: Prof. Pieter Geiregat (UGent) : "Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers across the Visible Spectrum based on Colloidal Quantum Dots"
10:10 | Contributed talk: Waqas Zulfiqar (UNamur) - "Plasmonic electrochromism in WO3 through defect engineering"
Paper discussion - link to the paper
Chair: Gilles Rosolen (UMons)
10:25 | Dr. Michaël Lobet (UNamur)
10:50 | Coffee & chocolate break (sponsored by IOP)
Optical design, manufacturing & imaging systems
Chairs: Koen Vanmol (VUB) & Athanasios Kyriazis (UGent)
11:10 | Invited talk: Prof. Lien Smeesters (VUB) : "Illumination optical design for industrial multispectral sensing"
11:40 | Contributed talk: Stijn Van Cleuvenbergen (KUL) - "Imaging with a twist: Unveiling the 3D Architecture of Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystals via SHG Microscopy"
R&D talks
Chair: Aina Fitó-Parera (UAntwerpen) & Pablo Marin-Palomo (VUB)
11:55 | R&D session
- Swave
- Luceda
- FBGS
13:15 | Job fair and Lunch "Boterhammen & Tartines"
Biosensing & Biophotonics: From micro- to nanoscale
Chair: Hadrien Fasseaux (UMons) & Yunfeng Nie (VUB)
14:30 | Invited talk: Dr. Médéric Loyez (UMons) - "From optical fibers to biosensors: what a journey"
15:00 | Contributed talk: Mehrdad Lotfi Choobbari (VUB) - "A compact microchip for efficient monitoring of microplastics in water using Raman mapping"
Nanophotonics, plasmonics & metamaterials
Chairs: Dmitry Levshov (UAntwerpen) & Aina Fitó-Parera (UAntwerpen)
15:15 | Invited talk: Dr. Aslihan Babayigit (UHasselt) : “Recent advances, opportunities and challenges in perovskite photovoltaics”
15:45 | Contributed talk: Jesús Alejandro De Sousa Rodríguez (UAntwerp) - "Monitoring triplet excitons on single-walled carbon nanotubes with chemically induced sp3 defects by Optically-Detected Magnetic Resonance"
16:00 | Concluding remarks & Awards & Drink @U-Residence
17:30 | End of drink & transfer
18:30 | Social activity (laser game @Q-Zar)
19:30 | Restaurant (@Mozart)
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