The 1st International Online Conference on Photonics
The 1st International Online Conference on Photonics
A Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Photonics: Exploring Cutting-Edge Technologies and Applications of Optics and Photonics
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
15th July 2024
10th August 2024
9th October 2024
Biophotonics, Optoelectronics, Optical Materials, Optical Sensors, Quantum Photonics, Optics, Lasers, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Computing
IOCP2024 is FREE for Participation!
Don't miss this opportunity to engage in cutting-edge discussions and expand your network within the scientific community.
Register and submit your abstract by 9 October 2024 to join us at the IOCP 2024 conference through https://sciforum.net/event/IOCP2024?section=#registration
Event Status:
The abstract submission deadline is over.
The abstract notification acceptance deadline is completed.
Welcome from the Chair
The 1st International Online Conference on Photonics, centered around the theme of optics and photonics, is scheduled to take place from October 14–16, 2024. This conference aims to highlight and facilitate the utilization of recent advancements in all areas related to optics and photonics, as well as to address complex issues, exchange the latest scientific breakthroughs, and guide the development of future technologies and processes in these fields.
This conference is an excellent opportunity for Optics and Photonics researchers and scientists to interact with each other, communicate with colleagues, learn from each other, share ideas and experiences, jointly solve problems, and suggest alternative solutions for a better future in the Optics and Photonics industry. The main topics of this conference are as follows:
S1. Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics
S2. Optical Communication and Network
S3. Optoelectronics and Optical Materials
S4. Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors
S5. Optical Interaction Science
S6. Quantum Photonics and Technologies
S7. Data-Science Based Techniques in Photonics
S8. New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee. All accepted abstracts will be available online in Open Access form on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. Participants have the chance to win four highly coveted Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Presentation Awards, with prize money.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I welcome your attendance at the 1st International Online Conference on Photonics.
Prof. Dr. Francesco Prudenzano
Entries Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Prof. Dr. Huabei Jiang
Department of Medical Engineering, University of South Florida, USA
Dr. Maurizio Ferrari
Italian National Research Council | CNR, Italy
Event Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information, Entries Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Francesco Prudenzano received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy, in November 1996. Since 2018, he has been a Full Professor of electromagnetic fields with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari. His research interests include the design and characterization of microwave devices, integrated optics, and optical fiber-based devices. He is the Head of Microwave and Optical Engineering Group, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari. From 2017 to 2018, he was the Chair of SIOF, Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (Italian branch of EOS - European Optical Society). He has coauthored more than 400 publications, 295 of which got published in journals and international conferences, lectures, and invited papers. He is involved in several national and international research projects and cooperations.
Event Co-Chairs
Prof. Dr. Huabei Jiang
Department of Medical Engineering, University of South Florida, USA
Huabei Jiang started his career as an Assistant Professor at Clemson University in 1997, and became a full Professor there in 2003. He then joined University of Florida (UF) in 2005 as a founding senior faculty of then newly established biomedical engineering department and became the J. Crayton Pruitt Family endowed professor in 2008 at UF. Dr. Jiang joined University of South Florida (USF) in 2017 as a founding faculty of medical engineering department and the founding Director of USF Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. In his career, Professor Jiang has used optics in highly innovative ways to make pioneering and seminal contributions to several fields including diffuse optical tomography (DOT), photoacoustic tomography (PAT), fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT), and bioluminescence tomography (BLT). He has published nearly 500 peer-reviewed articles, and is the author of four noteworthy books (all were the first books in their respective fields): Diffuse Optical Tomography: Principles and Applications (CRC Press, 2010), Photoacoustic Tomography (CRC Press, 2014), Thermoacoustic Tomography: Principles and Applications (IOP Publishing, 2020), and Fluorescence Molecular Tomography: Principles and Applications (Springer, 2022). Professor Jiang was elected as Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2008, Fellow of International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) in 2007, and Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA) in 2006. Outside of his research/teaching, Huabei enjoys practicing Chinese Calligraphy and paintings (ink/color pencil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, and oil). He had two one-person exhibitions of his artworks in July 2019 and August 2023, respectively, in Chengdu, China, and has won multiple awards in several international art competitions since 2021.
Dr. Maurizio Ferrari
Italian National Research Council | CNR, Italy
Maurizio Ferrari (Trento 25-06-1955) received the Doctor in Physics degree from Trento University, Italy, in a.y. 1979/1980. Until 1989, he worked as a Researcher with the Laboratoire de Physico-Chimiedes Matériaux Luminescents, Lyon, France, and in 1989 he moved to Trento as a Researcher with the CNR. He has been Director of Research with the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, CNR, where he was the Head the IFN-CNR Trento unit till 31 December 2021. M.F. is Senior Associated CNR-IFN since 01 July 2022. He is co-author of more than 600 publications in international journals, of several book chapters and he is involved in numerous national and international projects concerning glass photonics. Researcher ID: H-3362-2011; Orcid ID: 0000-0003-3723-5957 MF was elected in 2013 SPIE Fellow and OSA Fellow in September 2017 for significant achievements in the spectroscopic characterization of glasses and glass-ceramics and their application to photonic structures and devices, as well as for actively serving the optical community. He has been member of several Scientific, Program and Steering Committees, and Chair of national and international conferences and workshops, member of evaluation committee at CNR and for other national and foreign research institutions, research director and jury member of several PhD theses. He is referee of several international scientific reviews in physics, photonics, and material science. His main scientific area of research is devoted to Glass Photonics and covers: properties, structure and processing of glasses, crystals and film for optical applications and photonics; energy transfer, optical and spectroscopic properties; integrated optics; nanocomposites materials and confined structures including photonic crystals, waveguides, microcavities, and microresonators.
Session Chairs
Prof. Ambra Giannetti
Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara”, CNR, Italy
Dr. Maurizio Ferrari
Italian National Research Council | CNR, Italy
Dr. Anna Łukowiak
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, PAS, Poland
Dr. Chen Chen
School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, China
Dr. Arun Kumar
Salerno University, Italy
Dr. Flavio Esposito
Department of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", 80143 Naples, Italy
Dr. Pasquale Pagliusi
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, 87036
Prof. Giuseppe Quero
Università del Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Dr. Paolo Bardella
Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy
Dr. Satyendra Kumar Mishra
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain
Invited Speakers
Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI), National Research Council, Italy
Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Portugal
University cote d 'azur, CNRS UMR 7010, Nice physics institute, France
Micro Nano Facility-MNF, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università del Molise, Italy
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Division of Mechanical and Space Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University
Event Committee
Prof. Dr. Jianming Tan
The DSP Centre of Excellence, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, UK
Prof. Dr. Massimo Santarsiero
Department of Engineering, Roma Tre University, Italy
Prof. Dr. Qun Huo
NanoScience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, USA
Prof. Dr. Tingchao He
College of Physics Science and Technology (CPST) PHD, Shenzhen University, China
Prof. Dr. Jin-Hui Wu
School of Physics, Northeast Normal University, China
Prof. Dr. Zhichao Luo
Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices and Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications, South China Normal University, China
Assoc. Prof. Paulo Caldas
Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Assoc. Prof . Zhe Shen
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Eddie Yk Ng
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Dr. Luìs Coelho
Institute for Systems and Computer, Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Portugal
Dr. Simone Berneschi
“Nello Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics, Italy
Dr. Flavio Esposito
Department of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", 80143 Naples, Italy
Dr. Arun Kumar
Salerno University, Italy
Dr. Giuseppe Brunetti
Optoelectronics Laboratory Politecnico di Bari, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Via Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
Dr. Angela Barreda
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Dr. Jamal Deen
Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Dr. Chen Chen
School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, China
Dr. Cuiwei He
School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Dr. Shuyuan Xiao
Institute for Advanced Study, Nanchang University
Dr. Jun Long Lim
Institute for Infocomm Research (1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01 Connexis, 138632, Singapore); Nanyang Technological University (50 Nanyang Ave, 63979, Singapore)
Prof. Stefania Campopiano
Department of Engineering, University of Naples, Italy
Prof. Agostino Iadicicco
Department of Engineering University of Naples “Parthenope” Naples, Italy
Dr. Giuseppe Quero
Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università del Molise
Dr. Elena De Vita
Department of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Naples, Italy
Sessions
S2. Optical Communication and Network
S3. Optoelectronics and Optical Materials
S4. Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors
S5. Optical Interaction Science
S6. Quantum Photonics and Technologies
S7. Data-Science Based Techniques in Photonics
S8. New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems
Registration
The registration for IOCP 2024 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 9 October 2024 .
Instructions for Authors
2. Deadline for abstract acceptance notification:23rd June 2024 10th August 2024. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
1. The structure abstract should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of the 1st International Online Conference on Photonics in Physical Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9984); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
3. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
4. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- File format: PDF (.pdf).
- Size in pixel: 1,080 width x 1,536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38.1 width x 54.2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
1. Photonics Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue 'Exploring Cutting-Edge Technologies and Applications of Optics and Photonics', published in Photonics (ISSN: 2304-6732, Impact Factor 2.1), with a 20% discount on the publication fee.
Please note that no other discounts are applicable. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
You are welcome to submit a proceeding paper (4-8 pages) to Physical Sciences Forum Journal (ISSN: 2673-9984) after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge. Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCP 2024 conference paper in their cover letter. Please submit your manuscript from 16 October to 1 December 2024.
Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
- Title.
- Full author names.
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
- Abstract.
- Keywords.
- Introduction.
- Methods.
- Results and Discussion.
- Conclusions.
- Acknowledgements.
- References.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide four awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 4
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be four winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
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Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Mr. Nelson Peng
Ms. Alethea Liu
