PAST SEMINARS

The Institute fosters a wide variety of regular Seminars, Courses, conferences and other events to communicate ongoing research to the research community and the wider public.
Clicking on a specific event, details and associated files and information may be viewed.

Current events
Plasmonic metamaterials for ultrasensitive label-fee optical biosensing
Prof. Alexander Grigorenko
Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, U.K.
19/04/2024 - 12:30 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A Payatakes
Interfacial rheology of complex fluid-fluid layers and its role on the stability of protein-based emulsions
Prof. Antonio Guerrero
Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
27/03/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Electromagnetic meta-structures: Laser-based fabrication and exploitation in vacuum ultraviolet polarization control
Prof. Kuniaki Konishi
Institute for Photon Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
13/03/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
WAVESIM – world’s fastest full Maxwell & Helmholtz solver
Prof. Ivo Vellekoop
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands
06/03/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86566243560?pwd=Sk4reTJ5ZU9ZL0NPQnNGd29XRXFuZz09
Advanced Materials and Devices for applications in gas sensing and photocatalysis
Prof. Vassilios Binas Prof. Binas Vassilios
Dept. of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & FORTH / IESL, Greece
28/02/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Adaptive membrane quantum well lasers for photonic applications
Prof. Vasilis Apostolopoulos
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete, Greece
21/02/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Designing All-Polymer Nanostructured Single-ion Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries
Prof. Emmanouil Glynos
Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, Univ. of Crete, & FORTH / IESL, Greece
14/02/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Advancing Hemodynamics Predictions through Thixo-Elastoviscoplastic Modeling of Human Blood
Prof. Yannis Dimakopoulos
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Patras, Greece
07/02/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Rheological determination of molecular weight distribution and architecture of polyolefins
Dr. Salvatore Costanzo
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
24/01/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Exploring the utility of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride as substrates in transmission electron microscopy for advanced materials characterization
Dr. Jenthe Verstraelen
University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
17/01/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Precision measurements at the quantum interface between light and atomic spin ensembles
Dr. Vasilakis Giorgos
FORTH / IESL
10/01/2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: C. Fotakis
Oxide semiconductors: from transparent materials to devices & applications - The case of NiO
Dr. Aperathitis Elias
FORTH / IESL
13/12/2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room 1
Quantum gates, simulations and interfaces with Rydberg atoms
Dr. Petrosyan David
FORTH / IESL
06/12/2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room 1
Laser cleaning research at PhoHS; recent advances and synergies
Dr. Pouli Paraskevi
FORTH / IESL
29/11/2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room 1
Active, Ultraflexible and Reconfigurable Particle Assemblies Powered by Magnetic Fields
Prof. Orlin D. Velev
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA
02/10/2023 - 16:00 to 18:00
Computer Science Department, Room A2 (Α115-Α117)
Polymer Electrolyte Decorated Nanoparticles: Surface and Interfacial Properties
Prof. Emmanuel P. Giannelis
Materials Science and Engineering Department, Cornell University, USA
25/09/2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room 1
Reversible Polymer Networks: Combining Dynamic Covalent Bonds, Metallo-supramolecular Junctions and Entanglements to Control their Viscoelastic Properties
Prof. Evelyne van Ruymbeke
Université Catholique de Louvan, Belgium
07/09/2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room 1
Magnetic-based Nanoplatforms for Multi Therapeutic Approaches to Tackle Tumors
Dr. Teresa Pellegrino
Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
28/06/2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room 1
Controversial issues and challenges pertaining to the growth and properties of Cu2O
Prof. Matthew Zervos
School of Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
22/06/2023 - 14:00 to 16:00
Seminar Room: KEEK building, Room 119
Quantum coherence and dynamics controlled by light: from Weyl fermions to Cooper pairs
Prof. Jigang Wang
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University & Ames National Laboratory of Department of Energy
15/06/2023 - 12:00 to 14:00
FORTH Seminar Room: A Payatakes