Winter College on Optics: Scalable, Affordable, and AI-Enabled Photonics for Global Health | (smr 4337)
Starts 1 Feb 2027
Ends 12 Feb 2027
Central European Time
ICTP
Giambiagi & Denardo Lecture Hall (AGH)
Strada Costiera, 11
I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
An ICTP Meeting
This interdisciplinary College is designed to equip students and early-career researchers with the knowledge and skills needed to address global health challenges, focusing on affordable, portable, and scalable optical and photonic technologies. In addition to lectures, hands-on sessions will be organized each day of the college
Topics include:
• Advanced microscopic techniques: digital holographic, bright-field, confocal, phase contrast, super-resolution and advanced fluorescence microscopy
• Optical coherence tomography
• Photonics tools for rapid detection and treatment of viral and bacterial infections
• Nanophotonics and plasmonics for ultrasensitive biosensing
• Lab-on-a-chip optical systems for point-of-care testing
• Photodynamic therapy for cancer and infectious diseases
• Biomedical photoacoustics and imaging
• Photothermal diagnostics and imaging. Nanoparticles and Photothermal therapy
• Metasurfaces for biosensing, molecular diagnostics, and biomedical imaging
Research abstracts: Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation.
Please use our templates to format your abstract. Templates are available also below for download.
Some abstracts may be selected for contributed talks.
Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.
Cabrera Morales Humberto (ICTP), Grulkowski Ireneusz (Nicolaus Copernicus University), Baraban Larysa (Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research Helmholtz-Zenztrum Dresden-Rossendorf Centre), Bagnato Vanderlei Salvador (Universidade de Sao Paulo), Local Organiser: Maria Liz Crespo (ICTP)