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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

Organised by Student Committee

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