Guest blog from Ven: Jacqueline Andreozzi, a PhD candidate at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, is blogging from the Biophotonics Summer School on the island of Ven, off the southern coast of Sweden, this week. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and COST, the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, are among sponsors of the school.
Also supporting the school are DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark; Lund Laser Centre; NKT Photonics A/S; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, through its Nobel Institute for Physics; and Thorlabs.
Also supporting the school are DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark; Lund Laser Centre; NKT Photonics A/S; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, through its Nobel Institute for Physics; and Thorlabs.
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to
gather wood, divide the
work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
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| Biophotonics '15 participants arrive by ferry for the summer school week on Ven. |
The biannual school,
currently in its seventh iteration, has brought together young investigators
from around the world with top researchers and experts in the ever-growing
field of biomedical optics.
After a
brief address from Dr. Anne L’Huillier, professor at Lund University and Chairwoman
for the Nobel Committee for Physics at the Swedish Academy for Sciences, the
group of 58 students was ferried over to the small island of Ven, Sweden, for
the weeklong course.
As of Tuesday, the fourth day of the course, the students
have already benefited from in-depth lectures on entrepreneurship (Dr. Swanson, Acacia Communications Inc.), tissue optics (Dr.
Steve Jacques, Oregon Health and Science University), photoacoustic tomography
(Dr. Lihong Wang, Washington University in St. Louis), and fiber-based lasers
for biophotonics applications (Dr. J. Roy Taylor, Imperial College).
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| Monday evening brought a poster session in the Spirit of Hven conference hall. |
As a tool to garner feedback from both peers
as well as the present experts, the poster sessions proved to be a huge
success.
Following the spirit of this year’s school theme --
entrepreneurship -- the students have also been busy preparing for an internal
enterprise pitch competition, which was revealed to the students on the Sunday
evening.
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| Entrepreneur challenge participants Naomi McReynolds (SPIE University of St. Andrews Chapter President) and Elin Malmqvist (Lund University) work diligently to prepare their pitch. |
About the author: Jacqueline Andreozzi is a PhD candidate at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and an M.S. in Optics and Photonics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her current work, under the guidance of advisor Dr. Brian Pogue in the Optics in Medicine Laboratory, employs Cherenkov imaging to improve accuracy and safety in clinical radiotherapy for cancer treatment. In a strong collaboration with doctors and researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the research group is pioneering a novel prototype system intended to provide real-time radiation beam-tracking and dose verification, and advance quality of care for radiotherapy patients.
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