Schedule 2023
October 2023
Ji-Xin Cheng (Boston University, USA)
Keynote: Stimulated Raman Photothermal Microscopy
Klaus Kroy (Leipzig University, Germany)
Hot & Active Brownian Particles — From Micro To Meso
Julian Gargiulo (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina)
Anti-Stokes Thermometry of Plasmonic Nano Systems
Takuro Ideguchi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Mid-Infrared Photothermal Quantitative PhaseI imaging (MIP-QPI)
Chia-Lung Hsieh (Academia Sinica, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan)
Unlabelled Insights: Probing Chromatin Nanostructures with Dynamic Light Scattering in Live Cells
Gregory Hartland (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Keynote: Resolution Limits and Heat Dissipation in Photothermal Microscopy
Takayoshi Kobayashi (The University of Tokyo, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Label-Free Imaging of Melanoma with Confocal Photothermal Microscopy and GLCM Analysis
Mikael Käll (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Transient and Directional Flows Generated by Thermoplasmonic Bubble Nucleation on Gold Nanoantennas
Guillaume Baffou (Institut Fresnel, France)
Keynote: Wavefront Microscopy for Thermoplasmonics, Nanophotonics and Cell Biology
November 2023
Gilles Tessier (Sorbonne Université, France)
Using Temperature to Shape Wavefronts, Imaging Wavefronts to Study Temperature
Garth Simpson (Purdue University, USA)
Fluorescence-Detected Mid-Infrared Photothermal Microscopy
Giulia Tagliabue (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Keynote: Thermo-optical Effects in Nanoantennas and Metasurfaces
Vahid Sandoghdar (MPI for the Science of Light, MPI für Physik und Medizin, Erlangen, Germany)
Keynote: Confocal iSCAT Microscopy: Label-Free 3D Imaging of Live Cells
Yuebing Zheng (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
“Hot” Trends in Optical Manipulation
Kyoko Namura (Kyoto University, Japan)
Photothermal Heating for Microbubble Formation and Microfluidic Control
Theobald Lohmueller (LMU Munich, Germany)
Gold Nanorod Splitting with Light
Philipp Kukura (University of Oxford, UK)
Keynote: Pushing the Boundaries of Single Molecule Mass Measurement by Light
Laurent Cognet (Université de Bordeaux, France)
Keynote: Super-Resolution Microscopy of Excitonic Photoluminescence in/with SWIR Emitting Carbon Nanotubes
Mustafa Kansiz (Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp., USA)
Enhanced Tri-modal Optical-Photothermal Infrared (O-PTIR) Spectroscopy – Advances in Spatial Resolution, Sensitivity & Tri-modality (IR, Raman & Fluorescence)
Masaru Kuno (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Widefield Infrared Photothermal Imaging and Spectroscopy
Silvan Schmid (TU Vienna, Austria)
Photothermal Spectroscopy with Nanomechanical Resonators
Naomi Ginsberg (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Spatiotemporally Following Charge, Heat, and their Coupling at the Nanoscale in Energy Conversion Materials
Lihong Wang (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Keynote: Photoacoustic, Light-Speed, and Quantum Imaging
December 2023
Yang Zhao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Visualizing Ultrafast Photothermal Dynamics with Decoupled Optical Force Nanoscopy
Wei Min (Columbia University, USA)
Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) Microscopy
Randall Goldsmith (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Keynote: Label-Free Observation of Single Solution-Phase Molecules Using Optical Microcavities
Florian Schmidt (Umeå University, Sweden)
Widefield Photothermal Imaging Using Vibrational Probes
David Masiello (University of Washington, USA)
Optical Control over Thermal Distributions in Topologically Trivial and Non-Trivial Plasmon Lattices
Jaime Ortega Arroyo (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Keynote: Delivering Specificity to Label-Free Imaging: From Molecular Fingerprinting to Non-Steady State Thermometry
January 2024
Pavan Kumar (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India)
Optothermal Tweezers: Emergent Colloidal Dynamics
Wiebke Albrecht (AMOLF, The Netherlands)
Engineering of Plasmonic Gold Nanocrystals Through Photothermal Excitation
Björn Bastian (Leipzig University, Germany)
Keynote: Probing the Electronic Absorption Spectrum of Single Gold Nanoparticles in the Gas Phase
Delong Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
Label-Free Super-Resolution Imaging by Photothermal Relaxation Localization
Renee Frontiera (University of Minnesota, USA)
Ultrafast and Steady-State Raman Thermometry of Plasmon-Molecule Systems
Alois Würger (University of Bordeaux, France)
Keynote: On the Origin of the Large Seebeck Effect of Complex Ionic Conductors
Yuxi Tian (Nanjing University, China)
Investigation on Novel Materials by Photothermal Microscopy
Matz Liebel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Keynote: Phototransient Imaging of Dynamic Systems
Paola Borri (Cardiff University, UK)
Four-Wave Mixing Interferometry: Imaging Single Gold Nanoparticles Inside Cells Background-Free with 3D Nanoscale Precision
Istvan Biro (Heliotis AG, Switzerland)
heliCam C4: Principles and Applications of a Fast and Efficient Lock-in Demodulation Camera
Stephan Link (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Keynote: Photothermal Spectroscopy of Individual Nanostructures