Topics

The workshop intends to cover various "hot" topics that are grouped into four different thematic sessions.

Session A : Biomedical and Biological PA & PT (Chair: A. Mandelis)

1.Instrumentation design, software and signal generation techniques for biomedical photoacoustics and imaging.
2.Clinical applications of biomedical photoacoustics
3.Microscopy, spectroscopy and endoscopy
4.Animal imaging
5.Dyes, nanoparticles and other contrast agents
6.Biothermophotonics and biomedical photothermal methodologies
7.Biological photoacoustics and photothermics

Session B : Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Imaging (Chairs: S. Volz, G.Tessier)

8.Ultrafast thermoelastic phenomena
9.Thermal and elastic properties on nanoscale
10.Picosecond photoacoustics
11. Phonon Transport

Session C : Non Destructive Evaluation & Testing (Chairs: A. Mandelis, R. Li Voti)

12.Infrared Thermography and Thermophotonic Imaging
13.Non-destructive testing and industrial applications
14.Depth profiling of materials and inverse problems
15.Semiconductors, Photovoltaics, MEMS, NEMS and phononic bandgap materials
16.Environmental sensors, biosensors, new instrumentation, and methodology

Session D: Thermophysical Properties (Chair: C. Glorieux)

17.Complex fluids, phase transitions and glass transitions
18.Spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, nonlinear optics and photochemistry
19.PA & PT Thermodynamics

Programme

A preliminary programme can be downloaded here:

NEWS: The programme of the Workshop may be downloaded here

NEWS: The "schedule at a glance" of the Workshop may be downloaded here

NEWS: The booklet of the workshop is now downloadable here. It contains the schedule of the workshop and the abstacts for all lectures and posters