FIP VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM MAY 16-18, 2021
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2021 SYMPOSIUM FLYER
PROGRAM AGENDA
PROGRAM LIsting of speakers with bios and abstracts
The 2021 meeting program will include lectures from distinguished speakers, contributed papers and posters by investigators from Duke University and other academic and industrial institutions.
The 2021 FIP Virtual Symposium is scheduled for May 16-18, 2021 kicking off on the International Day of Light.
SPECIAL THEMEs
Advanced Interferometry
Light Technologies in The Brain
Photonics and Pandemics
SPEAKERS
Symposium Keynote Speaker
Rainer Weiss, PhD
Nobel Laureate of Physics (2017)
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (2017) for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO.
Plenary Speakers
John Dudley, PhD
Chair, UNESCO Steering Committee of
International Day of Light,
Professor of Physics
University of Franche-Comte
Besançon, France
Ed Boyden, PhD
Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Co-Director, Center for Neurobiological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Valery V. Tuchin, PhD
Professor, Head of the Department of Optics and Biophotonics
Director of the Scientific Medical Center of the Saratov State University, Head of the Laboratory For Laser Diagnostics Of Technical And Living Systems At the Institute of Precise Mechanics and Control of the RAS, Supervisor of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biophotonics at the National Research Tomsk State University and the Femtomedicine Laboratory of the ITMO University, Russia
Invited Speakers
Philip Anfinrud, PhD
Section Chief, Ultrafast Biophysical Chemistry Section
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
National Institutes of Health
Washington, DC, USA
Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, PhD
Herbert and Florence Irving Professor
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain
Behavior Institute, Professor of
Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
Columbia University
New York, New York, USA
Jess McIver, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Na Ji, PhD
Associate Professor
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Departments of Physics and
Molecular Cell Biology
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA
Christian Joachim Kähler, PhD
Professor and Director
Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics
Bundeswehr University
Munich, Germany
Carl Petersen, PhD
Professor, Brain Mind Institute
Faculty of Life Science
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
(James) Ira Thorpe, PhD
Astrophysicist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Duke Speakers
Martin Fischer, PhD
Lindsey Glickfeld, PhD
Yiyang Gong, PhD
Sonia Grego, PhD
Joseph Izatt, PhD
Samira Musah, PhD
Richard Mooney, PhD
Willie Padilla, PhD
Junjie Yao, PhD