2012 Biophotonics Summer School

  

BSS 2012 Schedule
Monday, May 21, 2012 – Friday, June 01, 2012
Urbana, IL, USA

Tentative schedule

Lectures in Room 1005, Beckman Institute

 

Week 1 – Introduction to optics, biomedicine, and methods

Date

Time

Topics

Instructor

Monday

May 21

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Welcome

1.       Prof. Art Kramer, Director - Beckman Institute

2.       Prof. Ilesanmi Adesida, Dean of Engineering

3.       Prof. Rashid Bashir, Director - Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory

4.       Dr. Stephen Boppart, Leader – Strategic Initiative on Imaging

5.       Dr. Nahil Sobh, Site-leader - Network for Computational Nanoscience

 

Gabriel Popescu

10:30 AM- 12:30 PM

Optics

1.       Light propagation in free space

2.       Fourier optics

 

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Optics

1.       Light scattering

2.       Nonlinear optics

3.       Microscopy

 

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

Prof. Kimani Toussaint, UIUC

Prof. Kimani Toussaint, UIUC

Tuesday

May 22

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Optics/ Methods

1.      History of Fluorescence Measurements

2.      Fluorescence Microscopy

3.      Near field optics

 

Prof. Robert Clegg, UIUC

Dr. Benjamino Barbieri, ISS

Prof. Scott Carney, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on Labs

 

Wednesday

May 23

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Biomedicine

1.       Tour of the cell

2.       Intro to cellular bioengineering

3.       Pathology of blood and tissue biopsies

 

Dr. Marina Marjanovic, UIUC

Dr. Peter Wang, UIUC

Dr. Krishna Tangella, Provena Medical Center

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch/ GROUP PHOTO

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on Labs

 

Thursday

May 24

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Methods

1.       Optical coherence tomography

2.       Spectroscopic imaging

3.       Nanophotonics devices

 

Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

Prof. Rohit Bhargava, UIUC

Prof. Lynford Goddard, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on Labs

 

Friday

May 25

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Nanophotonics

1.       Intro to Nanophotonics

2.       Plasmonics and metamaterials

3.       Photonic biosensors

 

Kent Choquette, UIUC

Logan Liu, UIUC

Brian Cunningham, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00-5:30 PM

Hands-on Labs

Saturday

May 26

 

Free time, social

 

Sunday

May 27

 

Outdoors Optics Q&A Presentations and BBQ

Illini Grove, 4-6PM

Chris Nixon, UIUC

Gulsim Kulsharova, UIUC

YinTing Wang, UIUC

 

Week 2 – Advanced research topics

Date

Time

Session

Session Chair

Monday

May 28

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Nanoscale Cell Dynamics

1.          TBA, UIUC

2.          TBA, TBA

3.          Quantitative phase imaging -  Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

 

Prof. Gabriel Popescu, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1.       BI tour: BIC, Microscopy Suite, Viz Lab

2.       MNTL tour

3.    Clinical Tour: Provena Covenant Medical Center

Tuesday

May 29

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Nanoprobes

1.          TBA, UIUC

2.          TBA, TBA

3.          TBA - Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

 

Prof. Stephen Boppart, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Hands-on: Fluorescence techniques (ISS)

Benjamino Barbieri, ISS

Wednesday

May 30

9:00 AM-12:30 PM

Novel microscopy

1.           TBA, UIUC

2.           TBA, TBA

3.           TBA, Prof. Kimani Toussaint

 

Prof. Kimani Toussaint, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Hands-on: Fluorescence techniques (ISS)

Benjamino Barbieri, ISS

Thursday

May 31

9:00 AM- 12:30 PM

Plasmonics

1.       TBA, UIUC

2.       TBA, TBA

3.       TBA - Prof. Logan Liu, UIUC

 

Prof. Logan Liu, UIUC

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Student Poster Session

 

 

6:00-8:00 PM

Banquet dinner: I-Hotel

·         Graduation ceremony

·         Poster awards announcement

·         Keynote talk

Prof. Gabriel Popescu

 

Friday

June 1

8:30 AM- 12:00 PM

Imaging at Illinois Conference (Imaging Initiative)

 

Prof. Stephen Boppart

 

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch and poster session

 

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Imaging at Illinois Conference (Imaging Initiative)

Reception

Prof. Stephen Boppart

 

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