Scientific Program

26th August  
Afternoon:  Arrival 
21.15:  Welcome Reception at the Marsala Lecture Hall (S. Rocco)
  27th August  
9.00-9.20WelcomeC. Zannoni – Director of the ISLC   A. d’Alessandro                         (IEEE PS President)
9.20 – 10.20Lecture 1
Introduction on Liquid Crystals
Claudio Zannoni, University of Bologna, Italy
10.20 – 11.20Lecture 2
Advances in plasmonic nanovectors for tumors theranostics
Roberto Pini, Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC) – CNR, Italy
11.20 – 11.50 Coffee Break
11.50 – 12.50Lecture 3
Early diagnosis of Alzeheimer biomarkers by means of SERS nanostructured platforms,
Roberto Pini, Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC) – CNR, Italy
12.50 – 15.00 Lunch break
15.00 – 16.00Lecture 4
Applications of nonlinear optics in multimode fibers for multiphoton imaging and CARS spectroscopy,
Vincent Couderc, Université de Limoges, France
16.00 – 17.00Lecture 5 Nanotechnology for precision medicine using LC and nanoparticles,Luciano De Sio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.30Coffee and PostersCoffee and Poster session
  28th August  
9.00 – 10.00Lecture 6
Simple and highly sensitive Bio-Chemical Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors,
Nunzio Cennamo, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
10.00 – 11.00Lecture 7
Fiber optic biosensors for Nanomedicine I,
Antonello Cutolo, “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy
11.00 – 11.30  Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30Lecture 8
Fiber optic biosensors for Nanomedicine II,
Antonello Cutolo, “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy
12.30 – 15.00 Lunch break
15.00 – 16.00Lecture 9
On-chip integrated advanced 3D fluorescence microscopy,
Francesca Bragheri, CNR – Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Milan, Italy
16.00 – 17.00Lecture 10
Super-Resolution Optical Imaging of Bacterial Cells,
Gabriella Cincotti, University of Roma TRE, Italy,
17.00 – 18.30Coffee and Posters 
  29th August  
9.00 – 10.00Lecture 11
Integrated silicon biosensor for aflatoxin detection,
Lorenzo Pavesi, University of Trento, Italy,
10.00 – 11.00Lecture 12
Metamaterial based biochips
Giuseppe Strangi, University of Calabria, Italy and Case Western Reserve University, USA
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30Lecture 13
Functional colorimetric sensing platforms for measuring environmental changes,
Young Min Song, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea,  
12.30 – 13.30Lecture 14
Liquid biopsy by phase contrast tomography,
Pietro Ferraro, Institute for Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI) – CNR Italy
15.00 – 21.00    Excursion                         TBD
  30th August  
9.00 – 10.00Lecture 15
Neuromorphic photonics and the brain,
Lorenzo Pavesi, University of Trento, Italy
10.00 – 11.00Lecture 16
Technologies for optogenetics and neurophotonics
Massimo De Vittorio, Italian Institute of Technology and University of Salento, Italy
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30Lecture 17
LC devices for biophotonics,
Antonio d’Alessandro, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
 Concluding Remarks 
   
20.00Social Dinner and poster awards 
31st August Departures 

Preliminary program