Schedule
13/10 | |
08:30 | Registration |
09:00 | Opening Remarks |
09:30 - 10:15 | Talk - Prof. Christopher Leburn - 'Sneaking back into academia: Lessons from a spin-out founder' |
10:15 - 10:30 | Break |
10:30 - 11:15 | Talk - Prof. Anatoly Zayats - 'Sculpturing topology of optical fields' |
11:15 - 11:30 | Break |
11:30 - 12:15 | Workshop - Dr Rachel Won - 'Writing and submitting your papers' |
12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch |
13:15 - 13:45 | Talk - Dr Christian Brahms - 'New ultrafast sources and science enabled by soliton dynamics in gas-filled hollow-core fibres' |
13:45 - 14:00 | Break |
14:00 - 15:30 | Panel - 'Career Pathways – Choosing the right career and how to get there' |
15:30 - 15:45 | Break |
15:45 - 17:30 | Posters and Jobs Fair |
17:30 | End of Day 1 |
14/10 | |
09:00 | Start of Day 2 |
09:15 - 10:45 | Participant Presentations |
10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
11:00 - 12:30 | Participant Presentations |
12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch |
13:45 - 14:15 | Talk - Dr Ashley Lyons - 'Quantum enabled fluorescence lifetime sensing' |
14:15 - 14:45 | Talk - Dr Tomaz Plaskocinski - 'Tracking the Life Cycle of Cells Using Intracellular Lasing Barcodes' |
14:45 - 14:55 | Break |
14:55 - 15:35 | Talk - Dr Charlotte Eling - 'Colloidal quantum dot lasers in a jar' |
15:35 - 15:40 | Break |
15:40 - 16:25 | Talk - Dr Lewis Hill - 'The “exceptional” phenomena of spontaneous symmetry breaking of light in Kerr Resonators' |
16:25 - 16:30 | Break |
16:30 - 16:55 | Talk - Dr Simon Peter Mekhail - 'Seeing in 3D and other fun things to do through a multimode fibre' |
16:55 - 17:00 | Closing Remarks |
17:00 | End of Day 2 |
19:30 | Conference Dinner |
15/10 | |
08:30 | Undergraduate Registration |
09:00 | Start of Day 3 |
09:00 - 09:30 | Talk - Dr Alison McLeod - 'Photonics in Scotland: A great opportunity.' |
09:30 - 10:15 | Talk - Julian Guassardo - 'A welcome from the Institute of Physics: personal and professional development for your career' |
10:15 - 11:00 | Workshop - Emma McCormick - 'Communicating Your Research: why communication matters in science’ |
11:00 - 11:08 | Break |
11:08 - 11:15 | Industry flash talk - Dr Ramsey Selim - 'An introduction to Cornerstone' |
11:15 - 12:15 | Panel - 'Bridging Perspectives – How to work in diverse teams and how inclusivity breeds innovation' |
12:15 - 12:25 | Break |
12:25 - 12:45 | Talk - Dr Amin Din - 'A year after SCOT 2024: What am I doing now?' |
12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 15:00 | Panel - 'PhD talk – All you need to know' |
15:00 - 15:30 | Get to know our industry partners |
15:30 - 17:15 | Undergraduate Posters and Jobs Fair |
17:15 - 17:30 | Closing Remarks |
17:30 | Conference End |


