Talks 2012-2013

Applied Optics Lunchtime Seminars

All talks are on Tuesday or Wednesday at 1.00pm - the room is available until 2pm. The venue will be the Tower 2nd Floor Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated. The information will also be printed on the posters, and in the emails advertising the talks.

Talks are generally every fortnight, internal volunteers and external speakers are all welcome - please speak to or email David He (diwei.he@nottingham.ac.uk) to make sure a room is available if it's not on one of the dates below.

Autumn 2012

Date	Speaker	Talk topic or title
17 October	James Carpenter	Low Bandwidth Laser Doppler Blood Flowmetry
31 October	Haowen Ruan	Ultrasound Modulated Optical Tomography with Digital Holography Detection
14 November	Rikesh Patel	Widefield two laser interferometer system using an MLC
28 November	Victoriya Ageeva	Endoscopic CHOTs for on-site NDT of aerospace components
11 December	Fernando Perez Cota	PS ultrasonics in cells

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Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Talk topic or title
9 January	Rachel Edwards (University of Warwick)	Non-contact Ultrasonics: from Surface Cracks to Cryogenic Probes
22 January	Jing Wang	Highly Sensitive Real-Time Detection of Surface Plasmon Bioanalytes with Custom CMOS Camera
29 January	Roderick Mackenzie	Plastic solar cells, a future source of low cost, low carbon energy
12 February	Suejit Pechprasarn	Confocal surface plasmon microscopy
26 February	Bei Zhang	Further developments of the confocal surface plasmon microscopy

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Summer 2013

Date	Speaker	Talk topic or title
24 April	Amanda Wright	Life Science Applications of Optical Trapping
8 May	Ovidio Y. Peña Rodríguez (Technical University of Madrid)	Effects of swift heavy ions on plasmonic nanoparticles