Previous Physics Colloquia 2003-2012
School of Physics
These are colloquia already held in the past months.
Details of forthcoming colloquia can be found here.
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"Green photonics: a transformational technology" |
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"Phase-contrast x-ray imaging" |
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"Tissue Optics: using light in medicine and biology" (abstract)Professor Steven L. Jacques |
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IoP Colloquium
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"Radionuclides: An Alpha, Beta and Gamma of nuclear imaging"Dr Elizabeth M. Parvin |
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"Photoacoustic microscopy based multimodal retinal imaging" |
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IoP Colloquium
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"How can liquid-crystal-based spatial light modulators advance light microscopy?" |
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"Propagation of optical waves in refractive turbulence" (abstract)Dr. Mikhail Charnotskii |
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Room 220
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"Coronary OCT: new clinical insights and potential for development of novel predictive parameters" (abstract)Dr David Adlam |
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"Avant-garde femtosecond laser writing: From new phenomena to singular optics" (abstract)Professor Peter G. Kazansky and Martynas Beresna |
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"Imaging with Quantitative Phase" |
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"Multi-dimensional fluorescence imaging - for cell biology, high content analysis and label-free tissue imaging" |
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"Role of Adaptive Optics Ophthalmoscopy in the clinical setting" |
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"Astrochemistry of Star Formation" |
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"Dihedral Analysis of Refraction Profiles" |
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"Dihedral Fourier Analysis of Symmetry Preference Data"Prof Marlos Viana, University of Illinois at Chicago |
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"Overview of the Center for Biophotonics' Programs " |
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"Interferometry at CSIRO Australia"Dr. Jan Burke |
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"In Search of the 2nd “Killer App” for Non-Invasive Diagnostic Biophotonics" |
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"Optical coherence elastography in soft tissue"Dr Brendan Kennedy |
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NOTE NEW TIME
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"Saving SALT: optical repairs and re-commissioning of a 10-m class telescope"Dr Darragh O'Donoghue |
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"Modulated Polarimetry: New Methods for Improving Imaging Polarimeter Reconstruction Accuracy"Professor Scott Tyo |
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"PHASES: a concept for a satellite-borne ultra-precise
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"Noninvasive optical imaging and biosensing of tissues with Optical Coherence Tomography: from molecules to whole (embryonic) body "Associate Professor Kirill V. Larin |
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"LBT adaptive optics system telescope commissioning: results and perspectives" |
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"A skin full of photophysics" |
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23rd March 2011 4pm Wednesday IoP colloquia
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"Optical vortices: Light in a Twist" |
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21st March 2011 Monday
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"Manupulation and optimization of the
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"Numerical Weather Prediction in Met Éireann"Dr Eoin Whelan |
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8th March 2011 2pm Tuesday RESCHEDULED
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"Recent advances in image processing for
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7th March 2011 2pm Monday
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"Ultrahigh speed optical 3-D imaging using Fourier domain Optical Coherence Tomography" |
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28th February 2011 4pm Monday
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"A Family of Optical Vortex Coronagraphs " |
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10th February 2011 Thursday 4pm
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"Optical studies of the tear film" |
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22nd November 2010 Monday 4pm |
"Experiments with Polarization Tailored Light - From Reconstruction of Highly Focused Vector Beams to All-optical Nano-Particle Characterization" |
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1st November 2010 Monday 4pm |
"Partial polarization and partial coherence " |
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27th September 2010 |
"From Enthusiasm to Economy: Precision Optical Design as a Key to Making LED Street Lighting Cost-Efficient " |
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6th September 2010 |
"Astronomy in Antarctica - all across the spectrum " |
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19th July 2010
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"Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope image registration" |
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14th July 2010
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"Peripheral aberrations in different ocular conditions"Prof David Atchison |
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13th July 2010
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"Thomas Young's contribution to visual optics"Prof David Atchison |
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7th July 2010
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"In all, likelihood" |
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6th July 2010
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"Advances in ophthalmic adaptive optics imaging"Prof Alfredo Dubra |
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5th July 2010
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"DR with a DSLR, or Over the Himalaya with a suitcase" |
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14th June 2010
note time - 10am |
"Understanding the Chemical Processes that Affect Growth Rates of Freshly Nucleated Particles"Dr. James Smith |
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14th May 2010
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"Polarization Singularities"Dr. Florian Flossmann |
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28th April 2010
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"Connecting Rays and Waves" |
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26th April 2010 |
"Control of large-scale ocean structure by small-scale physics"Dr. Raymond Schmitt |
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10th March 2010 Please note special time Wednesday 4pm |
"Antimatter: from imagination to application - and back" |
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8th March 2010 Please note special time 4:30 pm |
"Quantitative anterior segment imaging: basic ocular mechanisms and clinical applications" |
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22nd February 2010 |
"Modelling of the pseudophakic eye for the purpose of IOL power calculation"Dr Sverker Norrby |
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17th February 2010 Please note special time Wednesday 4pm |
"Analysis of exchange processes at the air-water interface from thermography" |
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8th February 2010 |
"Valentia Observatory - From the heights of weather balloons to the depths of earthquakes" |
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2nd February 2010 Tuesday 5:00pm |
"Retinal oxymetry development and clincal studies " |
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22nd January 2010 |
"Lateral Shearing Interferometry: a Technique for Complete Temporal Analysis of Tear Film Surface Kinetics"
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14th December
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"Ultra Fast Laser Pulses and Material Processing"Prof Eric Audouard |
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7th December
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"The European Extremely Large Telescope: Science Goals and Technology Challenges"Prof Colin Cunningham |
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30th November
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"Optical Super-Resolution" |
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23rd November
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"Knots and tangles: Optical vortex lines under holographic control, and behaviour in the wild"Prof. Mark Dennis |
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2nd November
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"Novel Correlation Imaging System based on Coded Aperture Concept"Prof. Wanli Chi |
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28th September 2009 IoP Colloquium |
"Atom trapping" |
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21st September 2009
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"Statistical behaviour of optical
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11th September 2009 FRIDAY |
"Adaptive optics for laser-based manufacturing processes"Prof. Duncan Hand |
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8th June 2009
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"Regularised reconstruction of wave height and slope surfaces from refracted light images"Dr. Kingshuk Roy Chowdhury |
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3rd June 2009 WEDNESDAY Moore Institute Seminar Room |
"Biophotonics Applications in Medicine" |
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18th May 2009
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"Interferometry for Life"Prof. David Nolte |
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27th April 2009
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"Aberrations in a dynamic optical system"Professor Barbara Pierscionek |
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23rd April 2009 THURSDAY |
"Gravitational Astrophysics"Dr. Joan Centrella |
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20th April 2009 IoP Colloquium |
"Chiral surfaces: Nanoscale insights into macroscale mirror symmetry breaking" |
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17th April 2009 FRIDAY |
"Point Diffraction Interferometry for Visual Optics"Dr Eva Acosta |
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6th April 2009 11AM MONDAY |
"Langmuir circulations and their effects on the geology and biology of coastal shelf seas"Prof. Ann Gargett |
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30th March 2009
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"1607-2007: Four Centuries of Imaging Technology"Prof. William T. Rhodes |
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9th March 2009 IoP Colloquium |
"Birth of Cosmic Ray Astronomy on the Argentine Pampas"Prof Alan Watson |
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2nd February 2009 IoP Colloquium |
"The High Speed Universe"Prof. Vik Dhillon |
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23rd January 2009 FRIDAY |
"The Human Body is the Ultimate Physics Laboratory"Dr. Kevin McGuigan |
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13th October 2008
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"Using Optical Research to Design New Technology IOLs"Dr. Patricia Piers |
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6th October 2008
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"High Resolution Optical Imaging"Dr. Anne Sentenac |
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23rd September 2008 TUESDAY |
"Research in Adaptive Optics at the University of Canterbury: An introduction to the FastSCAN hand-held laser scanners - Applications and Research"Dr Rachel Johnson & Judy Mohr |
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22nd September 2008
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"Aging Optics"Prof. Ray Applegate |
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3rd September 2008 WEDNESDAY |
"Modified Optical Vortices: Design and Experiment"Dr. Jiao Lin |
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26th August 2008 TUESDAY |
"Adaptive optics applications on through-focus vision studies - visual performance, blur interpretation and colour rception" |
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8th August 2008 FRIDAY |
"Optical Design in Ocular Adaptive Optics" |
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7th August 2008 THURSDAY |
"Optical Vortex Detection and Strongly Scintillated Beam Correction Using vortex dipole annihilation"Dr. Mingzhou Chen |
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22nd July 2008 TUESDAY |
"Biophotonical diagnostic and treatment methods"Prof. Israel Gannot |
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14th July 2008
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"Biophotonic Applications to the needs of Bio-Medicine "Dr Igor Meglinski |
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10th July 2008 THURSDAY |
"Optical imaging and characterization of superficial tissue "Dr Steven Morgan |
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30th June 2008
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"The potential for medical imaging using laser-induced ultrasound"Prof. Richard Dewhurst |
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12th May 2008 |
"Wavefront Coding to Extend Depth of Field and Focus of Imaging Systems"Prof Tom Cathey |
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14th April 2008 |
"Video Projection using Holograms: present and future" Dr. Andreas Georgiou |
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7th April 2008 |
"Applications of adaptive optics in femtosecond laser machining"Prof Derryck T. Reid |
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10th March 2008 |
"Retinal Image Quality and Visual Performance"Prof Larry Thibos |
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5rd March 2008 WEDNESDAY |
Generation of optical vortex beams with a deformable mirror and propagation through atmospheric turbulence"Prof. Robert K. Tyson |
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3rd March 2008 |
"Autofluorescence imaging" (Provisional Title)François C. Delori, Ph D. |
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19th February 2008 TUESDAY IOPI Colloquium |
"Exploring the Hot Universe with XMM-Newton and XEUS"Prof. Martin Turner |
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18th February 2008 |
"Lung disease breath marker diagnostics using laser absorption and GC-FID/FPD"Dr Franz Rohrer |
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11th February 2008 |
"Dynamics of the head and the eye movement and their correlation with the cardiopulmonary system" Prof. Henryk Kasprzak |
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4th February 2008 IOPI Colloquium |
"Statistical Physics and the Stock Market"Prof. Jean-Phillpoe Bouchaud |
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26th November 2007 |
"Controversies in Negative Refraction"Dr Martin McCall |
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15th November 2007 THURSDAY |
"Shedding Light on Biological Tissue with Optical Coherence Tomography"Dr Pete Tomlins |
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12th November 2007 IOPI Colloquium |
"Soft Machines - What Nanotechnology Can Learn from Biology"Prof Richard A.L. Jones |
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5th November 2007 |
"Seeing more: wavefront coding and spectral retinal imaging"Dr Andy Harvey |
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1st October 2007 |
"Studies of aerosol physical properties in the marine boundary layer"Dr. Tymon P. Zielinski |
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23rd July 2007 |
"Imaging through Negative Refraction by
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16th May 2007 WEDNESDAY |
"Magnus Effect: Classical Physics, Super Media, Optics" Dr. Konstantin Bliokh |
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14th May 2007 |
"A Practical History of Zoom Lenses" Jon Maxwell |
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27th March 2007 TUESDAY |
"Pupil reconstruction using the Nijboer-Zernike diffraction theory" Prof.
Joseph Braat |
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20th February 2007 TUESDAY |
"Electrostatic push-pull deformable mirror for adaptive optics " Stefano Bonora |
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19th February 2007 |
"Can we use an adaptive optical approach to correct the refractive error of very large populations?" Prof.
Josh Silver |
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13th February 2007 TUESDAY |
"Spectral tuning of human cones to maximize reflectance information from natural scenes" Prof.
David Foster |
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6th February 2007 TUESDAY 14:00 |
"Adaptive Optics Activities at the Institute for Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk " Prof.
V Lukin |
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11th December 2006 |
"Climate Scenarios for Ireland Using Multimodel Ensembles and their Consequences for Water Resource Management"Dr.
John Sweeney |
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7th December 2006 |
"Random Topics in Lens Design"Eddie Judd |
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28th November 2006 TUESDAY |
"Phase-space representations in Optics"Prof. Jorge Ojeda-Castañeda |
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27th November 2006 IOPI Colloquium
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"Evolutionary photonics: taking designs inspiration from nature"Dr.
Peter Vukusic |
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22nd November 2006 WEDNESDAY |
"Using integral field spectroscopy
for
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6th
November 2006 |
"Ocular microtremor - biophysics & measurement" Gerard Boyle |
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16th
October 2006 |
"Biomass Burning and Impacts on Clouds and Climate"Prof.
Dr. Meinrat O. Andreae |
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9th October 2006 IOPI Colloquium
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"Short wavelength semiconductor optoelectronic materials and devices"Prof.
Claus Klingshirn |
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25th September 2006 |
"Benjamin Franklin and his bifocals:
the continuing problem of finding the ideal solution to
the optical problems of
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20th September 2006 Room 220 Physics
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"Magnetic fields in stellar atmospheres - observations, modelling and (missing) atomic data"Prof.
Martin Stift |
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18th September 2006 |
"Tidal power and ultra-low head hydro with no moving parts"Dr.
John Hassard |
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11th September 2006 |
"Nanotechnologies for Optical Communications Systems"Prof.
Gareth Parry |
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12th June 2006 |
"Techniques
for imaging of
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9th May 2006 TUESDAY! |
"Adaptive optics for optical microscopy"Dr.
Martin Booth |
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27th
March 2006 |
"Geomagnetic Polarity Reversals"Prof. Gary Glatzmaier |
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6th March 2006 4:00 pm |
"A journey in nanoscience: from atoms through clusters to proteins"Prof. Richard Palmer |
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6th March 2006 12:00 pm |
"Coherence and Polarization in Electromagnetic Fields"Prof.
Ari Friberg |
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15th February 2006 |
"Using Gravity's Lenses"Dr. Neal Jackson |
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13th
February 2006 |
"Gravitational Waves"Dr. Sheila Rowan |
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16th
January 2006 |
"Imaging Glaucoma"David
Garway-Heath |
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21st
November 2005 |
"Molecular Engineering of Nanostructures for Photonic Applications"Prof.
Werner Blau |
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14th
November 2005 |
"M82, Starbursts, Star Clusters, and the formation of Globular Clusters"Dr.
Eric R. Keto See the presentation (requires Windows Media Player) |
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10th October 2005 |
"Living cells and colloids manipulated by real-time spatially encoded light"Dr.
Jesper Glückstad |
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11th July 2005 |
"Deconvolution of Astronomical and Vision Science Adaptive Optics Images"Dr.
Julian Christou |
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23rd June 2005 Thursday |
"Localization of waves in disordered media: generalities and applications"Prof.
Valentin Freilikher |
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20th
June 2005 |
"Coherence Effects at Subwavelength Dimensions (near-field statistical optics) "Dr.
Aristide Dogariu |
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26th May 2005 Thursday PUBLIC LECTURE |
"Molecular imaging: Visualizing biology with light and gamma rays"Prof.
Harrison Barrett |
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19th May 2005 Thursday |
"Multi-frame parallel wavelength diversity"Dr.
Donald McGaughey |
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16th
May 2005 |
"Optical properties of the cornea and crystalline lens of the eye: from the development of non-invasive imaging techniques to real life applications"Dr.
Susana Marcos |
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9th
May 2005 |
"Wide-Field Optical Sectioning Microscopy using Structured illumination"Dr.
Dejan Karadaglic |
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27th
April 2005 |
"Wavefront sensing"Prof.
A. H. Greenaway |
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19th April 2005 11:00 |
"Polymer Electronics: A Molecular Vision"Prof.
Donal Bradley |
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14th
March 2005 |
"X-ray generation using high-power femtosecond lasers - toward single molecule structure determination"Dr.
Bill Brocklesby |
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7th March 2005 |
"Luminescence makes sense!"Prof. Brian MacCraith |
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4th March 2005 |
"Inferences about photoreceptor degeneration from high-resolution retinal imaging "Dr. Joe Carroll |
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28th Ferbruary 2005 |
"Terahertz pulsed imaging: image analysis and medical applications"Dr. Elizabeth Berry |
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21st February 2005 |
"Light's angular momentum - it's all torque" |
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7th February 2005 |
"Multi-Dimensional Fluorescence Imaging" |
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17th January 2005 |
"Adaptive Optics: from Astro to Nano" |
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15th November 2004 |
"Clouds and Climate" |
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18th October 2004 |
"Polarization Imaging in Multiple Scattering Environments" |
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27th May 2004 |
"Adaptive Optics System Performance Improvement of a Free-Space Laser Communications System"Prof. Robert K Tyson |
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17th May 2004 |
"Polarization Singularities" |
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19th April 2004 |
"The Interaction of Cone Receptor Directionality with the optical Quality of the Eye" |
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25th March 2004 |
"From Wavefronts to Faces - Generative models for statistically plausible appearance" |
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Tuesday 23rd March 2004 |
"Hot News from the Big Bang" |
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15th March 2004 |
"ULTRACAM - High-Speed Astrophysics" |
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Tuesday, 2nd March 2004 |
"The Weak Interaction, Past, Present and Future" |
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Tuesday, 17th February 2004 |
"Diffusion and Amplification of Magnetic Fields by Turbulence:Towards a Self-Consistent Theory of Mean Field Electrodynamics" |
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16th February 2004 |
"Novel light sources for the physical and life sciences"Prof. Allister Ferguson |
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Tuesday, 3rd February 2004 |
"Lasers, unravelling the Mystery" |
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19th January 2004 |
"Tailored optical potentials: a playground for advanced biological and physical science?" |
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17th November 2003 |
"Carbon and Nitrogen in the Early Galaxy"Dr. David Peat |
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Chris Dainty
SFI Applied Optics Group
School of Physics, NUI Galway