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Progress in Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena: Focus on Biomedical, Nanoscale, NDE, Gas Sensing, and Thermophysical Phenomena and Technologies
ERICE – ITALY - October 16-23, 2021
Directors: A.Mandelis & R. Li Voti
Deadline for abstract submission and registration – July 4th , 2021
We are pleased to inform you that the workshop entitled “Progress in Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena: Focus on Biomedical, Nanoscale Imaging, NDE, Gas Sensing, and Thermophysical Phenomena and Technologies” will be held at the Center Ettore Majorana in Erice (Sicily, Italy), in the period October 16-23, 2021. (Additional information about the Center can be found on the website at http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/conferenze/photoacoustic-photothermal/index.html or http://www.ccsem.infn.it/ )
The aim of the workshop is to bring together scientists, clinicians, engineers, technology developers and users who are involved or interested in the Photoacoustic (PA) and Photothermal (PT) sciences, in the wonderful atmosphere of the old pre-mediaeval monasteries of the Center Ettore Majorana in Erice, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
This Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture has a long tradition in the organization of Summer Schools, Workshops and International Conferences, covering all branches of Science, in a tradition similar to the Gordon Research Conferences.
The Workshop intends to bring together a group of invited leading PA/PT scientists and expert practitioners developing current “hot” and growing areas of our field, and participants who are active researchers, users, entrepreneurs and technologists wishing to become involved. The invited speakers will present topics in the focus areas of the Sixth Workshop which will cover the following thematic subjects:
Session A: Biomedical and Biological PA & PT (A. Mandelis)
1. Instrumentation design, software and signal generation techniques
for biomedical photoacoustic and photothermal imaging.
2. Clinical applications of biomedical photoacoustics and photothermics
3. Microscopy, spectroscopy and endoscopy
4. Animal imaging
5. Dyes, nanoparticles and other contrast agents
6. Thermophotonics, thermography and other photothermal methodologies in biomedicine
7. Photoacoustics and photothermics in biology
8. Biosensors
Session B: Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Imaging (S. Volz and G. Tessier)
9. Ultrafast thermoelastic phenomena
10. Thermal and elastic properties on the nanoscale
11. Picosecond and other ultrafast photoacoustics
12. Phonon Transport - Phononics
Session C: Non Destructive Evaluation & Testing (C. Glorieux and X. Maldague)
13. Infrared Thermography and Thermophotonic Imaging (non-biomedical)
14. Non-destructive testing and industrial applications
15. Depth profiling of materials and inverse problems
16. Environmental sensors, robotics and machine learning, new instrumentation and methodology
Session D: Thermophysical and Diffusion-Wave Properties (R. Li Voti and A. Mandelis)
17. Complex fluids, phase transitions and glass transitions
18. Spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, nonlinear optics and photochemistry
19. Thermophysical and thermodynamic properties using PA & PT
20.Semiconductors, Photovoltaics, MEMS, NEMS
Session E: Gas Sensing and Spectroscopy and novel laser sources (V. Spagnolo and F. Tittel)
21. Photoacoustic and photothermal gas sensing
22. Mid-IR sources for gas sensing
23. Particulate sensing
24. Industrial applications
WORKSHOP FEE
The Workshop fee is 1000 Euro for each participant
The fee will cover full board and lodging
1. Registration to the Workshop
2. Accommodation (for the whole period October 16-23, 2021)
3. All meals (for the whole period October 16-23, 2021)
4. Social Dinner
5. Transfer to and from the local Airports (Trapani or Palermo).
For your convenience we remind you that both Palermo and Trapani airports are served by the low-cost airline company Ryanair (see http://www.ryanair.com/), by Alitalia (see http://www.alitalia.com/ ) and other companies.
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL:
In addition, students and newcomers to the field will, for the first time, have the opportunity to attend the Summer School “Basic Photothermal and Photoacoustic Techniques: Theory, Instrumentation and Applications” which will be organized in parallel with the Workshop, at no additional fee. The Summer School is organized in collaboration with the Graduate School of the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and will offer a transfer of 10 ECTS credit points to participanting students.
FURTHER DETAILS and APPLICATION
All information about the Workshop and the Summer School can be found on the website http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/conferenze/photoacoustic-photothermal/index.html
In order to submit an application to attend the Workshop and the Summer School, you are kindly asked to send a short email to the conference Secretariat at
Roberto LI VOTI
Sapienza Università di Roma - Dipartimento SBAI
e-mail: WorkshopErice@uniroma1.it
Application: deadline JULY 4th , 2021
In the email you are kindly asked to write the following info:
1) Name and affiliation of the participant
2) Option: poster presentation, oral presentation, none of them.
Looking forward to seeing you in Erice
Sincerely yours, the organizers
Roberto Li Voti Andreas Mandelis
Sapienza Università di Roma University of Toronto