Conference Agenda

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Lydik
Johan
Emilia
Henrika 2
Henrika 3
Henrika 4
Henrika 5
Henrika 6
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TOM Metrology S1: Frontiers in Optical Metrology: Microscopy
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Lydik
Claas Falldorf
Location: Lydik
Session Chair: Claas Falldorf, BIAS - Bremer Institut für angewandte Strahltechnik, Germany

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TOM Metrology S2: Frontiers in Optical Metrology: Interferometry & phase metrology
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Lydik
Lucie Hüser
Location: Lydik
Session Chair: Lucie Hüser, University of Kassel, Germany

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FS Structured Light S2: Advanced Generation and Manipulation of Structured Light
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Johan
Robert Fickler
Location: Johan
Session Chair: Robert Fickler, Tampere University, Finland

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TOM Ultrafast S2: Ultrafast Phenomena: Pulse generation
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Johan
Location: Johan

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TOM Optical System Design S4: ODTM-4
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Emilia
Marco Hanft
Location: Emilia
Session Chair: Marco Hanft, Carl Zeiss AG, Germany
TOM Optical System Design S5: ODTM-5
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Emilia
Marco Hanft
Location: Emilia
Session Chair: Marco Hanft, Carl Zeiss AG, Germany
TOM Applications S3: Applications of Optics and Photonics
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Henrika 2
Carmen Bao-Varela
Location: Henrika 2
Session Chair: Carmen Bao-Varela, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
TOM Applications S4: Applications of Optics and Photonics
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Henrika 2
M.Teresa Flores-Arias
Location: Henrika 2
Session Chair: M.Teresa Flores-Arias, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
TOM Nanophotonics S2: Structured Light and Advanced Metasurface Engineering
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Henrika 3
Lluis F. Marsal
Location: Henrika 3
Session Chair: Lluis F. Marsal, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
TOM Nanophotonics S3: Photonic Crystals, Resonances and Collective Light States
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Henrika 3
Matthieu Roussey
Location: Henrika 3
Session Chair: Matthieu Roussey, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
TOM Quantum Optics S4: Fundamental Quantum & Nonlinear Optics
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Henrika 4
Marco Ornigotti
Location: Henrika 4
Session Chair: Marco Ornigotti, Tampere University, Finland
TOM Biophotonics S2: OCT and Biosensors
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Henrika 5
Francesca Bragheri
Location: Henrika 5
Session Chair: Francesca Bragheri, Italian National Research Council - CNR, Italy
TOM Materials S1: Optical Materials: Optical nanomaterials
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Henrika 6
Tomasz Ragiń
Location: Henrika 6
Session Chair: Tomasz Ragiń, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
TOM Materials S2: Optical Materials: Light-matter interaction
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Henrika 6
Francesco Banfi
Location: Henrika 6
Session Chair: Francesco Banfi, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Plenary Polina Bayvel: TBA
9:00am - 9:45am
Exhibitor Pitch Session 1
9:45am - 10:00am

Discover what our exhibitors have to offer in a series of fast-paced, one-minute presentations.

Each company has just 60 seconds to showcase its products, services, innovations, and opportunities. A quick and efficient way for attendees to identify the exhibitors they want to meet during the exhibition.

Plenary Donghyun Kim: Shaping Light at the Nanoscale: Metaplasmonic Structured Fields for Sensing, Imaging, and Beyond
10:00am - 10:45am

Shaping light at the nanoscale offers new opportunities to interrogate, control, and ultimately engineer complex biological and physical systems. In this presentation, a metaplasmonic structured-light framework will be introduced, which unifies advances in nanophotonics, super-resolution imaging, and functional biosensing to enable quantitative access to dynamic processes beyond the diffraction limit. At the core of this approach is the concept of metaplasmonic structured fields—optical fields engineered through the interplay of surface plasmon and custom illumination. These fields provide enhanced light–matter interaction and spatial control, enabling both sensitive detection and high-resolution imaging within a single platform. Building on this principle, axial interference speckle illumination-engineered structured illumination microscopy (AXIS-SIM) will be presented, a robust and experimentally accessible method that achieves near-isotropic super-resolution without complex optical architectures. By leveraging simple back-reflection–induced interference, AXIS-SIM enhances axial confinement while maintaining resilience to misalignment and sample-induced aberrations. To demonstrate the power of this approach, its integration with microfluidic gut–brain-axis-on-a-chip systems is explored for probing exosome-mediated intercellular communication. This platform enables real-time, multiscale observation of exosome dynamics—from their release and guided transport to nanoscale uptake in living cells—bridging macroscopic transport phenomena and single-particle interactions under physiologically relevant conditions. Such capabilities provide new insight into the role of extracellular vesicles in complex signaling networks. Beyond this specific application, the presented approach establishes a general paradigm for metaplasmonic structured-light engineering, with implications spanning biosensing, live-cell imaging, and nanomedicine. By merging physical field design with biological functionality, it opens a pathway toward next-generation optical tools for diagnostics, therapeutic screening, and the exploration of emergent phenomena at the nanoscale.

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Exhibitor Pitch Session 2
10:45am - 11:00am

Discover what our exhibitors can offer you, in a series of fast-paced, one-minute presentations.

Each company has just 60 seconds to showcase its products, services, innovations, and opportunities. A quick and efficient way for attendees to identify the exhibitors they want to meet during the exhibition.

Coffee Break - Visit the Exhibition
11:00am - 11:30am
Roundtable Discussion TBA
11:30am - 12:30pm

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LUNCH - Visit the Exhibition
12:30pm - 1:30pm
POSTER SESSION 1
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Coffee Break - Visit the Exhibition
4:00pm - 4:30pm