Conference Agenda

If an image is worth a thousand words, how many is an animation worth? When is the effort needed to create an animation to visualize your science worth it? In this tutorial we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of animations, and how someone without any artistic skills (like me) can produce effective ones for both outreach or as a teaching aid.

This tutorial explores the intersection between machine learning and nanophotonics. We will leverage neural networks, gradient-based and gradient-less optimization techniques for the efficient design of photonic nanostructures with tailored optical properties. With the help of the supplied Jupyter notebooks, participants will be able to immediately tackle the proposed design problems.

A number of different techniques exist to extract quantitatively meaningful signals from digital images obtained by optical microscopy. This tutorial will present a quick overview of classical image processing techniques flanked by machine learning based techniques with the aim of quantifying live microscopy of living cells equipped with fluorescent biosensors.