Time

Tuesday, August 19

starting

3.00 p.m.

Arrival and Check-In                              

5.00 p.m.

Registration      

6.30 p.m.

Welcome Reception

Time

Wednesday, August 20

starting

7.45 a.m.

Breakfast

9.00 a.m.

Welcome to the KSOP Summer School 2008

Research Area IV: Optical Systems

9.15 a.m.

Multidimensional fluorescence imaging

Prof. Dr. Paul French, Imperial College London, Department of Physics

10.15 a.m.

Optofluidic Lasers

Dr. Anders Kristensen, Technical University of Denmark, MIC Department of Micro and Nanotechnology

10.45 a.m.

Coffee Break

11.15 a.m.

Optical data storage systems for Terabyte capacities

Prof. Dr. Susanna Orlic, Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Optics

11.45 p.m.

Lunch

Research Area III: Biomedical Photonics

1.30 p.m.

Gaining control over neural activity: Illuminating lessons from the Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system

Prof. Dr. Alexander Gottschalk, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Institute of Biochemistry

2.30 p.m.

Controlling the Flow of Colour: Photonics in Biological Systems

Prof. Dr. Peter Vukusic, University of Exeter, School of Physics 

3.30 p.m.

Coffee Break

4.00 p.m.

Chronic Imaging of Neuronal Structure and Function in the Mammalian Brain

Prof. Dr. Marc Hübener, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department of Cellular and Systems Neurobiology

4.30 p.m.

BioPhotonics Workstation: science and applications

Prof. Dr. Jesper Glückstad, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Fotonik, Dept. Photonics Engineering

5.00 p.m.

Poster Session

6.30 p.m.

Social Event

Time

Thursday, August 21

starting

7.45 a.m.

Breakfast

Research Area II: Advanced Spectroscopy                                      

9.00 a.m.

Physics and chemistry of high-speed imaging techniques for reactive flow research

Prof. Dr. Volker Sick, The University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering

10.00 a.m.

Poster Session

11.00 a.m.

Microscopic kinetics of capture, relaxation and recombination in semiconductors: nm-spatially- and ps-time-resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy

Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Jürgen Christen, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Institut für Festkörperphysik

11.30 a.m.

Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots: Optics and Transport

Prof. Dr. Rolf Haug, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Festkörperphysik

12.00 p.m.

Lunch

Research Area I: Photonic Materials & Devices

1.15 p.m.

Negative index materials: New Frontiers in Optics

Prof. Dr. Costas Soukoulis, Iowa State University, Physics Department

2.15 p.m.

Metamaterials: Near Field Imaging

Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Shamonina, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies

2.45 p.m.

Coffee Break

3.00 p.m.

Light-transport in disordered media and Anderson localization

Dr. Christof Aegerter, Universität Konstanz, Department of Physics

3.30 p.m.

Cavity Nano-Optomechanics: applications of optical forces within nanophotonic structures

Dr. Oskar Painter, California Institute of Technology, Applied Physics

4.00 p.m.

Farewell

4.30 p.m.

End of KSOP Summer School 2008