The detailed conference program of the I3S 2019 is now available, please see below. Moreover, you can now download the I3S2019 Conference Book (last update: 6 May 2019).

General Schedule

Thursday 9 May 2019: 08:00 - 13:00 / 14:15 - 19:45
Friday 10 May 2019: 09:00 - 12:45 / 14:15 - 19:00 / Conference Dinner: 20:00
Saturday 11 May 2019: 09:00 - 14:30

Detailed Program

Day 1: Thursday 9 May 2019

08:00 – 08:30 Check-in
08:30 – 09:00 Opening Ceremony

Session 1: Chemical Sensors - Session Chair: Manel Del Valle

09:00 – 09:30 Sergey Piletsky: "Novel assay and sensor platforms based on MIP nanoparticles" - Invited Lecture
09:30 – 09:45 Hugues Brisset: "Advanced electrochemical molecularly imprinted polymer as sensor interfaces"
09:45 – 10:00 Anja Drame: "Nanostructured molecularly imprinted polyaniline for acrylamide sensing"
10:00 – 10:15 Michael Tiemann: "Highly Selective Sensing of H2S Gas by a CuO/SiO2 Nanocomposite"
10:15 – 10:30 ŠpelaTrafela: “Modified nickel nanowires for electro-catalytic oxidation of formaldehyde in alkaline solutions”
10:30 – 10:45 Sukon Phanichphant : “WO3 loaded with carbon-based materials as nanocomposite NO2 gas sensing”

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

Session 1: Chemical Sensors - Session Chair: Maria Pesavento

11:15 – 11:45 Daniel Mandler: "Nanoparticles Imprinted Matrices: A Method for Speciation of Nanoparticles"- Invited Lecture
11:45 – 12:00 Piotr Wiench: " Electrochemical performance of dopamine sensors based on N-doped reduced graphene oxides with different type of nitrogen functional groups as electrode materials"
12:00 – 12:15 Antonino Scandurra: " Graphene Paper-Gold Nanostructured Electrodes Obtained by Laser Dewetting for High Sensitive Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensing"
12:15 – 12:30 Manel del Valle: " Comparison of performance of electronic tongue systems for volatile phenol detection in wine: use of modified sensors, molecularly-imprinted sensors and enzyme-based biosensors."
12:30 – 12:45 Luis Coelho: “Colorimetric fiber optic based probe for real-time monitoring of dissolved CO2 in Aquaculture Systems”
12:45 – 13:00 Kristina Zagar Soderznik: “BaTiO3 based nanostructures for humidity sensing applications”

13:00 – 14:15 Lunch

Session 2: Sensor Applications - Session Chair: Letizia De Maria

14:15 – 14:45 Corrado Di Natale: “Combinatorial selectivity of porphyrins based gas sensors”- Invited Lecture
14:45 – 15:00 Justyna Szerement: " Seven-rod dielectric sensor for determination of soil moisture in small volumes"
15:00 – 15:15 David Valentin: " Experimental-numerical design of a bioreactor prototype for cell vibration experiments"
15:15 – 15:30 De Vito Saverio: “Urban participative air quality sensor network for street scale assessments”
15:30 – 15:45 Cátia Magro: “Triclosan detection in aqueous environmental matrices by thin-films sensors: impedantiometric electronic tongue”
15:45 – 16:00 Carosena Meola: “The contribution of infrared thermography in the characterization of glass/epoxy laminates through remote sensing of thermal-stress coupled effects”

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

Session 2: Sensor Applications - Session Chair: Pedro Jorge

16:30 – 17:00 Ellen Holthoff: “Photonic Integrated Circuit Sensor for Human Performance Monitoring”- Invited Lecture
17:00 – 17:15 Paulo Zagalo: "Detection of Triclosan in tuned solutions by pH and ionic strength using PAH/PAZO thin films"
17:15 – 17:30 Josep Escrig: “Predicting the alcohol content during fermentation using sensor measurements and Machine Learning”
17:30 – 17:45 Nicholas Watson: "Monitoring the Different Stages of Industrial Cleaning using Ultrasonic Sensors"
17:45 – 18:00 Francesco Fienga: "Fiber optic monitoring system for beam induced heating on high energy accelerator’s beam pipes"
18:00 – 18:15 Priya Vizzini: “Brettanomyces bruxellensis detection by optical and acoustic biosensor in comparison”
18:15 – 18:30 Alessandra Bonanni: “Electroactive nanocarbon as novel label for DNA analysis”
18:30 – 18:45 Andrey Legin: “Potentiometric multisensor system for plutonium quantification in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing”

18:45 – 19:45 Poster Session 1

Day 2: Friday 10 May 2019

Session 3: Biosensors - Session Chair: Antonio Varriale

09:00 – 09:30 Simonetta Grilli: "The Pyro-Electrohydrodynamic Jet Accumulation: A New Tool for High Sensitive Detection of Low Abundant Biomolecules"- Invited Lecture
09:30 – 09:45 Sara Tombelli: "Intracellular sensing by molecular beacons coupled to nanoparticles in human cancer cells"
09:45 – 10:00 Gina Greco: "Development and characterization of an ultra high frequency (UHF) Love-surface acoustic wave (L-SAW) biosensor"
10:00 – 10:15 Riccarda Antiochia: " Transdermal Microneedle Array-based Biosensor for Real Time Simultaneous Lactate and Glucose Monitoring"
10:15 – 10:30 Ilaria Sorrentino: “Bio-functionalization of graphene with a laccase hydrophobin chimera”
10:30 – 10:45 Larysa Baraban: “Smart lab-on-a-chip nanosensor platform for cancer diagnostics”

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

Session 3: Biosensors - Session Chair: Alessandra Bossi

11:15 – 11:45 Monique Lacroix: "Development of rapid immunodetection tests of Escherichia coli O157: H7 and Listeria monocytogenes on working surfaces in food industries"- Invited Lecture
11:45 – 12:00 Elena Piletska: "Identification of epitopes and molecular markers using molecular imprinting"
12:00 – 12:15 Robert Crapnell: "Smart Thermometers Functionalized with High Affinity Nanoparticles for the Thermal Detection of Cardiac Biomarkers"
12:15 – 12:30 Filippo Causa: " Microgels for high sensitive, direct and multiplexed miRNAs optical sensing"
12:30 – 12:45 Pallab Kumar Bairagi: “Cobalt-dispersed reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite for the selective electrochemical detection of methyl nicotinate”

12:45 – 14:15 Lunch

Session 4: Physical Sensors- Session Chair: Bruno Andò

14:15 – 14:45 Massimo De Vittorio: "Wearable Piezoelectric Sensor Technologies for Health Monitoring"- Invited Lecture
14:45 – 15:00 Arcady Zhukov: "Novel sensing technique for non-destructive and non-contact monitoring of the composites"
15:00 – 15:15 Andrei Turutin: "Pushing of acoustic and thermal noises in magnetoelectric sensors based on bidomain lithium niobate"
15:15 – 15:30 Giuseppe Ruzza: "Low-Cost MEMS Accelerometers for Tilt Measurement: Thermal Analysis, Compensation and Application"
15:30 – 15:45 Nicolas Glaser: "Printed Pressure Sensor for Medical Devices: An Example for Tracheal Intubation Monitoring"

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

Session 5: Optical Sensors - Session Chair: Lucia Bilro

16:15 – 16:45 José Luís Santos: "Paths for Optical Sensing"- Invited Lecture
16:45 – 17:00 Marco Pisco: “Opto-mechanical Lab-On-Fiber Accelerometers”
17:00 – 17:15 Heeyoung Lee: “Distributed strain measurement using power-based Brillouin sensor with three folded dynamic range”
17:15 – 17:30 Luca Palmieri: “A rugged fiber optic pressure sensor for underground water level monitoring”
17:30 – 17:45 Mikel Bravo Acha: “Optical Fiber Sensors in Asphalt for Smart Cities Traffic Monitoring”
17:45 – 18:00 Dragan Indjin: “Optical feedback interferometry with THz quantum-cascade lasers: Progress in THz sensing and imaging”

18:00 – 19:00 Poster Session 2

19:15 – 20:00 Visiting 'Chiostro di Santa Chiara' and 'Presepe Napoletano di Santa Chiara'

20:00 Conference Dinner

Day 3: Saturday 11 May 2019

Session 6: SPECIAL SESSION. Specialty Optical Fibers for Sensing - Session Chair: Leszek R. Jaroszewicz

09:00 – 09:30 Lucia Bilro: "POF sensors and applications"- Invited Lecture
09:30 – 09:45 Demetrio Sartiano: "Three lobes plastic optical fiber bending and rotation sensor"
09:45 – 10:00 Leonardo Binetti: “Measurement of viscoelasticity of sodium alginate by Fibre Bragg Grating”
10:00 – 10:15 Evert Jonathan van den Ham: “Enhanced IR-based optical sensing of phosphates in aqueous environment”
10:15 – 10:30 Alessandra Maria Bossi: “Plasmonic platform in plastic optical fibers combined with molecularly imprinted nanogels to sense ultralow protein concentrations.”

Session 7: SPECIAL SESSION. Materials, Microfluidics, Configurations and Strategies for Sensing - Session Chair: Pietro Ferraro

10:30 – 11:00 Jaroszewicz R. Leszek: "Innovative Fiber-Optic Rotational Seismograph "- Invited Lecture
11:00 – 11:15 Edmondo Battista: “Peptide assisted imprinting for turn-on fluorescence detection of proteins”
11:15 – 11:30 Hannah Dies: “Electrokinetic assembly of gold nanoparticles into sensitive and functionalizable surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based sensors”
11:30 – 11:45 Lisa Miccio: “In-flow label-free imaging for single cell analysis”
11:45 – 12:00 Matteo Parmeggiani: “P3HT processing study for in-liquid EGOFET biosensors: effects of the solvent and the surface”

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break

Session 8: SPECIAL SESSION. Distributed Sensing in Optical Fibers - Session Chair: Fabrizio Di Pasquale

12:30 – 13:00 Yosuke Mizuno: “Brillouin optical correlation-domain reflectometry: current status and future perspectives”- Invited Lecture
13:00 – 13:15 Sascha Liehr: “Wavelength-scanning distributed acoustic sensing for structural monitoring and seismic applications”
13:15 – 13:30 Enis Cerri: “High-spatial resolution Brillouin sensing: Evaluation tests for temperature monitoring in aerospace scenarios”
13:30 – 13:45 Ali Masoudi: “60km range single-ended distributed optical fibre vibration sensor with in-line Raman amplification”
13:45 – 14:00 Yonas Muanenda: “Dynamic phase retrieval in a high-SNR DAS based on UWFBGs without phase unwrapping using a scalable homodyne demodulation and direct detection”

14:00 – 14:30 Closing Remarks

Conference Venue

The conference will be held at Centro Congressi Federico II, Via Partenope, 36 - Napoli, Italy.

How to get there:

In Naples, you can revisit the history and development of the city by means of itineraries from the very first settlements, passing through places with testify to the past, but which only occasionally show clear signs of events while more often tending to stimulate the imagination.

The starting-point is Partenope, which was founded about 3,000 years ago, and the point of arrival the new city, Neapolis, the real historical centre and heart of the modern metropolis. As we go along the roads that have become part of Partenopean history and culture, we discover archeological and sites and examples of art which are unique. The cult of the dead, which so much typifies the culture of the Neapolitans, comes alive in the mysterious scenario of the Necropolis of the Sanità. Approaching the hill of Posillipo, our journey ends with an itinerary which leaves us enchanted by the extraordinary beauty of the natural scenery which the ancient Romans learned to love.

Naples has a very important cultural and historical heritage, a fantastic cooking, an international airport in the city center and, in the near surroundings, you can find several important sites, such as Pompei and Vesuvius, Ercolano, Capri, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, Pozzuoli and Phlegrean Fields with the Solfatara crater etc.

Accommodation

In the area of the Conference (Via Partenope, 36 - Naples) there are many hotels, shown in the map here below; please consider that Naples is a touristic city and the area of the Conference is one of most renowned; therefore it is highly advisable to make the reservation quite in advance.

Beware of Unauthorized Registration and Hotel Solicitations
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Travel Information - Getting to Naples

If you arrive by plane

Naples has an International Airport called Capodichino. The airport is well connected to airport hubs in Europe, like London, Paris, Barcelona, Frankfurt and Munich, with daily connections and more than 85 destinations in Europe. It is located at a 7 km from the city centre. For information about Naples Airport and flights, please visit the web site "Aeroporto di Napoli". Alternatively, the best and closest destination is Rome Fiumicino airport. From this Airport, you will need to take a train (Leonardo Express) or a bus to the Railways Station of Rome Termini. Leonardo Express takes about 32 minutes to the Railways Station of Rome Termini. From Rome Termini fast trains called Freccia Rossa and Freccia Argento leave about each hour to Napoli, taking about 1 hour and 10 minutes. For timetable of trains connecting Rome to Naples and back please visit the web site: Trenitalia or Italo. For Leonardo Express go to the page: Leonardo Express.

From Naples International Airport of Capodichino to Naples city centre:

By bus:

- you can take the bus called “Alibus” to Piazza Garibaldi (Railway central station, 1st Stop) . From there take Metro 1

- you can take the bus called “Alibus” to Stazione Marittima (Port, 2st Stop, in the city centrum)

By taxi:

- Taxis: just outside the arrivals area (~ 23€).

If you arrive by train

The main railway station of Naples is called Napoli Centrale – Piazza Garibaldi (Railway central station). Naples has good train connections through Fast Trains (Freccia Rossa or Freccia Argento or "ITALO") with all main Italian cities.

By bus

- you can take the bus R2 (just outside the station) and get off at Piazza del Plebiscito. You can buy tickets inside the railway station, or send an SMS to the number 4868680 with the message “ANM R2”

By metro

- Take Metro Line 1 (Garibaldi, just outside the station), going towards Dante, and get off at Toledo. From there, you can take a taxi or enjoy a pleasant walk along Via Toledo and through Piazza del Plebiscito.

By taxi

- Taxis: just outside the station (~ 11€)

Letter of Invitation for Visa Purpose

A letter of invitation can be requested during the registration process using the "comments" field. The letter will be sent to you by email once the registration fees has been received. Letters of invitation do not include responsibility of, and, do not imply any financial support from the conference organizers.

Visiting 'Chiostro di Santa Chiara' and 'Presepe Napoletano di Santa Chiara'

We are glad to announce that in the evening of Friday 10 May at 19:00 h we will be visiting the 'Chiostro di Santa Chiara' and 'Presepe Napoletano di Santa Chiara', two must-see of the 'Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara' in Naples.

Time: Friday 10 May at 19:00 h
Location: 'Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara'
Address: 49/c, Via Santa Chiara, Naples

How to get there:

Conference Gala Dinner

On that same day at 20:00 h, after our visit to the 'Complesso Monumentale di Santa Chiara', we invite you to remain at 'Antico Refettorio di Santa Chiara' for the Conference Gala Dinner.

Time: Friday 10 May at 20:00 h
Location: 'Antico Refettorio di Santa Chiara'
Address: 49/c, Via Santa Chiara, Naples

How to get there: