Summer schools

The 2013 CIOMP/OSA Joint Summer Session on Optical Engineering, Design and Manufacturing promises to deliver top education, lectures from the leading experts in the field and ample networking opportunities held on the campus of one of China’s leading optics institutes. Confirmed speakers include:

• Pierre Chavel, Inst. d'Optique Lab Fabry, France

• G.W. Forbes, QED Technologies Inc., Australia

• Juan C. Miñano, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

• Jannick P. Rolland, University of Rochester, USA

• Kevin P. Thompson, Synopsys, Inc., USA

• Yongtian Wang, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, China

• James C. Wyant, University of Arizona, USA

• Xuejun Zhang, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, China

The week-long program will provide a wonderful opportunity for students to further their education and interact with instructors, local professors and fellow students. Participants will also be able to present their own research to the participants.

Registration for the program will include accommodations for 6 nights, all meals, lectures and materials. For students residing outside China the fee is $450 USD.

The deadline for applications is 3 May 2013.

You can find any further information on following website:

http://2013ciomposass.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/65540

The First African Summer School on Optics and Applications to Sustainable Development (ASOSD) will cover different topics such as:

• Optical communications, optical fibers and lasers;
  
• Industrial applications and laser material processing;
  
• Optics and environment;
  
• Biophotonics, biomedical applications and optical diagnosis techniques;
  
• Optics and energy;
  
• Theoretical methods and experimental techniques.

Who should attend?

The ASOSD school lectures cover areas ranging from basic research to applied technology and therefore MSc, Ph.D students, post docs and industrial are encouraged to attend this summer school. All qualified attendees are encouraged to apply and submit their works (extended abstracts). The program will contain participant’s oral and poster presentations. The expected number of participants is 50. All abstracts must be submitted in English. English is the official language of the summer school.

More details can be found on the website http://school-tunisia-optics.org/

The 7th International Summer School New frontiers in Optical Technologies features a series of lectures provided by high profile scientist covering recent trends in some of the most representatives fields of photonics. The key topics for this year are: Graphene photonics, THz optoelectronics, Ultrafast laser technologies, Nanophotonics and plasmonics, Quantum Optics, and Nanotechnologies for photonic integration.

Please visit the School website for details on the technical program and any further information regarding the organization and logistics:  http://www.tut.fi/summerschool/

A poster session will be organized to promote projects and research results and improve cooperation at European level.

Please note that the number of places is limited, therefore early registration is recommended.  

Frontiers in Neurophotonics combines tutorials given by experts in photonics and neuroscience and
hands-on experiments involving advanced optical approaches to measure, manipulate and follow
molecular events inliving neuronal cells.

Topics to be covered include:

• Tracking cell migration and maturation in live brain slices

• Video-rate multimodal imaging in vivo

• Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering microscopy

• Imaging protein traffiking in and out of synapses

• Single molecule imaging

• Fluorescence lifetime approaches

• Photoactivation techniques

• Two-photon calcium imaging in axons and dendrites

• Random-access two-photons microscopy

• Super-resolution imaging

• In-vivo optogenetics

You can find any further information on following website: 

http://www.neurophotonics.ca/en/overview

The purpose of the 6th International Graduate summer school Biophotonics '13 is to provide education for students at the highest international level within these areas. Moreover, by inviting renowned lecturers from all over the world, the educational programme is held in an international atmosphere enhancing exchange of scientific ideas and technological advances within the fields of biomedical optics and closely related areas.

The 6th International Graduate summer school Biophotonics '13 covers the following main areas:

• Tissue optics
• Optical trapping and their applications in biophotonics
• STED microscopy
• Fluorescence life-time imaging
• Molecular imaging based on optical methods
• Optical coherence tomography and coherence domain optical methods in biomedicine
• Photo-acoustic imaging
• Photodynamic therapy
• Lasers and their application in medicine

At the summer school invited experts, at an international level, will give extended presentations reviewing these areas. Moreover, the attendees at the summer school will also have the opportunity of presenting their current research projects, results or ideas.

You can find any further information on following website: 

http://www.biop.dk/biophotonics13/School/School.asp?page=main_school

The 12th Education and Training in Optics and Photonics Conference, ETOP’2013 is being jointly organized by Portugal’ and Tunisia’ Territorial Committees of ICO and will be held at Faculty of Science of the University of Porto in Porto, Portugal on July 23 to 26, 2013. ETOP’ 2013 is collocated and will run in parallel and in an articulated way with RIAO/OPTILAS’2013, the VIII Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and XI Latinamerican Meeting on Optics, Lasers and Applications.
ETOP is a reference biennial conference that brings together the international community of optics and photonics educators, the academia and the industry, from all around the world to share experiences and information about learning and teaching optics and photonics at all levels. The teaching of optics and photonics, critical fields at the core of today's world-wide scientific and technological infrastructure, must continually be upgraded and renewed in order to meet the growing demands of research, science and industry for the sake of the sustainable development of our world and humankind. It is the goal of this international conference to bring together leading optics and photonics scientists technicians and educators from all levels and orientations to share experiences and knowledge to discuss, demonstrate and learn about new developments and approaches to teaching in these fields. Through presentations, panel discussions, workshops and exhibits, it is the intent of this conference to inform professors, students, teachers and professional
trainers on how to promote the learning of optics and photonics for the future.

You can find any further information about the conference if you click here.

Any further information can be found on the following website: www.optica.pt/etop2013