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STELLA proposes a unique, three-week, advanced school in laser physics where highly qualified training in experimental techniques is delivered directly on top-level research equipment.
The event, previously hosted by the Laser Research Center in Vilnius (2007), the FORTH Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers in Heraklion (2008) and the ICFO Institute for Photonic Sciences in Barcelona (2009) (see: http://www.vino-stella.eu/stellaschool/2009_index.php ), is now proposed by laser-laboratory network promoted by Centro Volta at the University of Insubria in Como , which put rooms, equipment, teaching staff and technical personnel at students' disposal for the outlined training purpose. World leading specialists from EU and US institutions participate in the training by delivering courses on their latest achievements directly at the school labs. Students' and professors' mobility is also supported for boosting collaborative research.
The school is devoted to Ph.D. and postdoctoral students who are attending experimental research in the fields of laser physics, linear, nonlinear and quantum optics, as well as in those disciplines or research areas that rely upon an intensive use of laser technologies, such as medicine, biology, biochemistry, environmental protection, remote sensing, material processing, information technology, telecommunication, secure-data transmission, etc.
Laser-STELLA proposes to the scientific community a highly innovative approach to training and research, which de-emphasizes competition among the laboratories in favor of true enhancement of knowledge levels. The action targets the establishment of long-term, stable synergy in training and research by creating a high-level technical know-how shared among the European young scientist community.
On behalf of the school steering committee
Paolo Di Trapani and Ottavia Jedrkiewicz
STELLA 2011 co-directors
Project supported by CARIPLO foundation: http://www.fondazionecariplo.it |
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General information
The official language of the STELLA School is English. PhD and Post-docs who wish to attend should specify within a maximum of one page:
- Full name(s), age, gender, citizenship;
- Postal address, phone, fax, e-mail;
- Short CV, present position, and a list of courses preferences;
- The correct and complete header for the invoice regarding the registration fee.
Please e-mail the requested information to the school secretary, Mrs Maria Pagetti:
maria.pagetti@uninsubria.it
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Topics include
- Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy
- Quantum Entanglement and quantum tomography
- Measurement of intensity correlation functions for pseudo-thermal light
- High field physics and extreme nonlinear optics
- High Harmonic generation
- Laser micro- and nanostructuring method using Bessel beams
- Beam shaping by means of Spatial Light Modulators
- Microscopy and confocal microscopy
- Computational optics in extreme nonlinear regimes
- Modelling of ultrashort laser pulse propagation in transparent media
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Distinguished Professors:
- Prof. Rudolf Rigler, Dr. Johan Stromqvist, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Single-molecule Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy
- Prof. Paolo Mataloni, Dr. Fabio Sciarrino, Dr. Pino Vallone, Università "La Sapienza" of Rome
Quantum tomography and CHSH inequality
- Prof. Maria V. Chekhova, Dr. Timur Sh. Iskhakov, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Erlangen, Germany); Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
Measurement of intensity correlation functions for pseudo-thermal light
- Prof. Jens Biegert, ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona
High field physics and extreme nonlinear optics
- Prof. John Dudley, Dr. Francois Courvoisier, Université de Franche Comté, Besançon; Dr. Manoj Bhuyan, Insubria University, Como
Laser micro- and nanostructuring method using Bessel beams
- Prof. Miles Padgett, Mr. Richard Bowman, University of Glasgow
Spatial light modulators: algorithms and testing of the SLM for real beams generation
- Dr. Roberto Cerbino, University of Milan
Optical microscopy and its use for the characterization of soft materials
- Prof. Frank Scheffold, University of Fribourg
Laser speckle frequency correlations in random medium
- Dr. Gintaras Tamosauskas, University of Vilnius
Three-dimensional characterization of complex optical structures
- Dr. Arnaud Couairon, Ecole Politecnique, Palaiseau
Propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in transparent media: presentation of their physics effects and their modelling
- Prof. Miroslav Kolesik, University of Arizona
Computational Optics in Extreme Nonlinear Regimes: From models to realistic, predictive simulations
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Venue
The Insubria University at Como is a recently founded university (1999), and one of the best ranked small universities in Italy for Research and high Education. It is located in Lombardy, in beautiful surroundings famous all over the world for the mountains and the lake. The lake of Como, which is of glacial origin with an area of 146 km², making it the third largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore, is a very popular tourist attraction, boasting many artistic and cultural gems. It is famous for its numerous villas and palaces (such as Villa Olmo, Villa Serbelloni and Villa Carlotta).
The STELLA school will be held in the Physics and Mathematics Department building in Via Valleggio 11, only 20 minutes walk from the lake and Como town centre.
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Fees
Full fee for the three-weeks Summer School, including lunch and accommodation is 2000 Euros. Registration deadline March 2011.
Reduced fee valid for early bird registration (before January 2011) including lunch and accommodation is 1500 Euros.
Partial support may be granted only to few PhD students who explicitly make the request, and present a letter of support of the PhD supervisor.
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Scientific organizing commitee
- Prof. Paolo Di Trapani (University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
- Dr. Ottavia Jedrkiewicz (University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
- Dr. Maria Bondani (CNR-IFN and University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
- Prof. A. Andreoni (University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
- Dr. Fabio Ferri (University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
- Prof. Luigi Lugiato (University of Insubria, Como, Italy)
- Prof. Algis Piskarskas (University of Vilnius, Lithuania)
- Dr. Gintas Slekis (Altechna Co. Ltd., Vilnius, Lithuania)
- Prof. Daniele Faccio (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
- Prof. Matteo Paris (University of Milan, Italy)
- Prof. Vittorio Degiorgio (University of Pavia, Italy)
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