The Summer School, including the attendance in the NN10 Conference, will review the current state of knowledge in the diverse fields of Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies (NN). ISSON-10 will introduce nanotechnology and other emerging technologies such as Organic Electronics & Nanomedicine, aiming on the training of the next-generation researchers in the multidisciplinary fields of NN.

You can find any further information here.

By launching a series of state-of-the-art research presentations by world-renown scientific and engineering authorities, the aim of the Workshop is to bring together scientists, technology developers and technology users who are investigating or exploiting optically and electromagnetically excited acoustical, thermal and related diffusion-wave phenomena for the investigation of a large variety of material properties and applications. The many photoacoustic, photothermal (PA/PT) and diffusion-wave topics indicate that this field has developed a broad range of tools for fundamental and applied research. PA/PT research has reached a mature state, with an established position in instrumentation development and measurement technology and materials characterization. Future progress is guaranteed
by the close synergy between advances in laser technology, instrumental development and novel opportunities in areas of current strong growth, such as the fields of biomedical imaging and material/device quality control.
The workshop brings together a group of invited leading scientists working in various “hot” areas covering the following topics to speak to the attendees.

The workshop covers topics such as:
1. Scanning, imaging and depth profiling of materials,
2. Biomedical photoacoustics and imaging,
3. Biothermophotonics,
4. Non-destructive testing, industrial applications and instrumentation,
5. Diffusion and thermal waves,
6. Inverse problems,
7. Spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, nonlinear optics and photochemistry,
8. Ultrafast thermoelastic phenomena-molecular dynamics,
9. Thermal and elastic properties on nano-scale and IR micro-antennas,
10. Semiconductors, Photovoltaics, and MEMS, NEMS and phononic bandgap materials,
11. Complex fluids, phase transitions and glass transitions,
12. Biological materials, agricultural and food sciences,
13. PA and PT sensors, new instrumentation, and methodology,
14. Special topics

If you would like to attend the workshop, please send an e-mail to WorkshopErice@uniroma1.it . The deadline for applications is the 31 May 2010.

Further information can be found here.
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The COST-MP0702 Naples Training School on Nanophotonics is devoted to the science and technology of Nanophotonics, with particular attention to the materials and technologies which have made possible the most significant advances in this area. Introductory lectures and advanced seminars will make the participants familiar with different aspects of today's photonics nanoworld and their applications.
The school is promoted by the COST Action MP0702 and organized by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), in collaboration with SIOF - the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics. This School follows the Summer School on Plasmonics, organized by the COST Action MP0702 in Porquerolles (France) in September 2009.
The School is dedicated to PhD students, Post Docs and researchers who are interested to acquire an updated knowledge in nanophotonics; the venue is the Research Area of CNR in Naples, and this will permit participants to visit nanophotonics laboratories.

The registration should be made before July 1st. The registration fee will include admission to lectures, lunches and coffee-breaks, lodging, excursion and social dinner.
Further information will be available here: www.nanofotonica.it

This informal Summer School is intended for PhD students and post-docs working in the general area of physical optics and information processing.  The School will take place over two-and-a-half days on the campus of The National University of Ireland at Maynooth, near Dublin, Ireland.  It is an activity of the Irish Optics and Photonics Network.

The School will feature extended tutorial-style talks by five leading researchers:

Professor Tom Brown (University of Rochester) "Curiosities of inhomogeneously polarized optical fields"

Professor Miles Padgett (University of Glasgow) "Light's Twist "

Professor Jannick Rolland (University of Rochester) "Moving away from symmetry, a new look for optical aberrations and optical surface descriptions"

Professor Colin Sheppard (National University of Singapore) "3D Image Formation"

Professor Zeev Zalevsky (Bar-Ilan University) "Super resolved photonic sensing"

In addition, there will be four shorter talks by speakers from University College Dublin, NUI Maynooth and NUI Galway.

All participants are invited to prepare a poster describing their own research for display and discussion during the School.

You will find any further information here.

Looking back over the last decade, digital imaging has made a tremendous progress :

• digital still cameras became affordable to the consumer market and are being used by every tourist,
• the largest commercial growth ever in semiconductor business came from mobile imaging applications,
• new professional applications became possible, e.g. digital cinematography, non-invasive surgery, high-speed industrial applications, etc.

Technological image sensors developments in combination with more powerful companion processing chips will open new markets, such as imaging in automotive applications and in ambient intelligence.

You can find any further information here.

With regard to the organization and the logistics of the courses, you will find further information here.

The biophotonics school will give a practical introduction and overview of biophotonics as a "hands on " course for graduate students, junior scientists and those entering the field. The summer school will consist of tutorials and application talks.

There will be three-hour tutorials on:

• microscopy and imaging
• tissue optics
• clinical diagnosis
• therapeutics
• microoptics and microfluidics
• genetics

Applications talks will concentrate on:

• in vivo imaging
• diffuse tomography
• clinical imaging

You can find further information here.

Over the past three years, DTU Fotonik held a Summer University / School for international students for 3 weeks in July - August. It has been a great success and helped several attendees to decide to become guest students or do their MSc degree here as well. Below you can read the invitation and content of the Summer University course for 2010.

The Section for Communication Technology at DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, would like to invite international students to a short summer course in July to August as part of the DTU Summer University program. The idea is to present DTU and the especially DTU Fotonik to students that potentially would like to be guests of DTU. Guest students may be at DTU for one semester or they may be enrolled in the two year M.Sc. programs. DTU Fotonik has many international guest students as well as students in the two year M.Sc. program in Telecommunication. The M.Sc. program is described at http://www.fotonik.dtu.dk/English/Education/Int_Msc.aspx, and this link also gives a more general description of DTU Fotonik. This year the course is arranged in cooperation with the EURO-FOS Research Network on Photonic Systems.

There is a maximum of 30 seats in the Telecommunication Summer University. The applicants are evaluated as decribed below under Entrance Requirements.

Further information can be found here.

Nanophotonics is a broad field, having fascinating aspects both from a fundamental point of view and with regard to future applications in photonic devices and materials. The topics that will be covered by the school are those of nano plasmonics and nano photonics including energy efficiency and generation. The scope of the school is to introduce participants to concept, methods, applications and the state of the art in nanophotonics. The school will focus on both the theoretical and experimental aspects of the current research in the field, with an eye to applications. The School will be covered by lectures and seminars. A special event, supported by SIOF, to celebrate 50 years of Laser is scheduled .

Persons wishing to attend the Course should apply in writing to:

Professor Concita SIBILIA

Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Dipartimento di Energetica Via Scarpa, 16, ROMA, Italia

Tel + 39.06.49916541 – Fax + 39.06.44240183 e-mail: concita.sibilia@uniroma1.it

specifying:

i) full name, address, age, nationality;

ii) academic qualification, present position and affiliation;

iii) their specific interest in the summer school.

Students should include a short C.V. in addition to a letter of recommendation from the head of their research group or from a senior scientist active in the field.

Application deadline : May 31, 2010 (only 60 places available)

You can find a flyer about the summer school here.

You can find any further information here.

This program is for motivated undergraduates from different universities who want to improve their research skills and plan to attend graduate school. The program offers the undergraduates the opportunity to gain research experience that helps them decide if they want to pursue graduate education or professional research career.

The duration of the program is at least seven weeks. Beginning and ending dates are flexible to accommodate the needs of the particular student and the research faculty.

Students choose from the research projects of KU faculty to match their areas of interest.

In case of their acceptance to the program, they work closely with faculty mentors and their research groups that include graduate students and advanced high school students who participate in KU Summer Research Experience for High School Students.

Students are exposed to a broad range of new concepts and research techniques which help to improve their independent thinking and creativity.

The application process begins by filling out and submitting application form online.

All the original documents mentioned below

• Application form
• Transcript
• 2 letters of recommendation

  should be returned by post to the following address, not later than 1 April,2010.
  
  Koç University
  KU Summer Research Program for Undergraduates
  Office of VPAA (Vice President for Academic Affairs)
  Rumelifeneri
  34450 Sariyer, Istanbul
  Phone: (0090 212) 338 1552
  
  

You can find a flyer for the programme here.

Any further information e.g. an overview about the projects can be found here.

For further questions, you can contact rint@ku.edu.tr .

This VII International Krutyn Summer School – “ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS ON THE MOVE” - is organized by the FP7 Collaborative Projects: "OLED100.eu" - "Organic LED lighting in European dimensions " (http://www.oled100.eu), and “Fast2Light” – (http://www.fast2light.org/) in association with the Polish Supramolecular Chemistry Network, and the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The School is conceived as a high-level and highly intensive scientific event focusing on cutting-edge knowhow on organic optoelectronics with a major emphasis on OLEDs (ranging from device stacks, light out-coupling, and organic materials for OLEDs to industrial requirements involving experimental and theoretical considerations), but also covering organic photovoltaics, organic FETs, and OLED displays.
This Summer School aims at the state-of-the-art training in the form of
lectures and consulting sessions designed for Ph.D. students and young
researchers seeking to reinforce their knowledge and skills in the field of
molecular optoelectronics. Top experts in this area will deliver lectures and
consulting sessions. The school is intended both for people already active in this
R&D field, as well as for those new to the field. Except for the scientific part
(lectures and consulting sessions), there will be a parallel evening “soft skills”
programme for personal development. A number of social events will be also
proposed to relax after the heavily-scheduled programme, including: bonfire,
boats on Krutynia River, guided or individual out-door activities (kayaking, trekking,
horse-riding, bike, etc.). The Local Organizing Committee cordially invites you to
take part in this Summer School.

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Further information can be found here.

The purpose of the School is to offer a comprehensive overview on basic principles and relevant applications connected to the irradiation of solids by energetic laser beams. The goal is to explore the use of light in the development of novel materials with emphasis on specific control of their properties at nanometer scale. The field is relatively young and has grown at a very high rate in the last fifteen years, thanks to worldwide research activity. One area of very high interest is the use of lasers in deposition processes; it is possible, for example, to deposit virtually any material, including multi-component compounds, preserving the composition of the ablated target, and generally avoiding post-deposition thermal treatments. In addition, the experimental setup involved in pulsed laser deposition is generally compatible with in situ diagnostics of both the plasma and the growing film. The basic laser-surface interaction mechanisms possibly in an ambient atmosphere, either chemically reactive, or inert are a challenge to scientists, while engineers are mostly interested to the characteristics of the deposited materials and to the possibility to tailor their properties through an appropriate tuning of the deposition parameters.

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