November 5^th  : Transfer from local Airports

       Registration & Welcome party

 

November 6^th :  International Autumn School

      Foundations of Photothermal and Photoacoustic Techniques: Theory, Instrumentation and Applications

     

November 7^th  :  Session A  “Biomedical and Biological PA & PT”

 

November 8^th  :  Session C  “Non Destructive Evaluation & Testing  

 

November 9^th  :   Session B  “Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Imaging”                               

 

November 10^th :  Session D “Thermophysical and Diffusion-Wave Properties”

                             Excursion + Social Dinner

November 11^st :  Session E “AI, Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Machine Learning”

        PRIZES and awards ceremony

        

 

November 12^nd : Transfer to local Airports

Timetable of the Workshop and International Autumn School

 

Wednesday 5^th   November:

 

Arrivals & Registration

 

Lunch & Dinner: Local Restaurants

 

After Dinner: Welcome Party – Piano Room San Rocco

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Thursday 6^th  November:

 

Morning Session: International Autumn School

Foundations of Photothermal and Photoacoustic Techniques: Theory, Instrumentation and Applications

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairpersons: M. Franko & D. Korte

 

9.00 – 9.10      Opening by D. Wiersma, A. Mandelis and R. Li Voti

 

9.15 – 10.15    (Invited Tutorial)  Andreas Mandelis - Toronto University - Canada

                        Carrier Lifetime Chrono-Tomography: Optoelectronic Diffusion-Wave Case Studies

                        of Silicon Wafers and Photovoltaic Solar Cells

 

10.15 – 11.15   (Invited Tutorial)  Emilija Petronijevic - Sapienza Università di Roma – Italy

 Absorption distribution at the nanoscale: simulations by finite-difference-time domain method

 

11.15 – 11.30      Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

 

Chairperson: A. Mandelis

 

11.30 – 12.30   (Invited Tutorial) Mladen Franko – Univesity of Nova Gorica - Slovenia

 Thermal Lens Spectrometry and Detection of Gasses

 

12.30 – 15.00  Lunch:  Local Restaurants

 

Poster Assembling

 

Thursday 6^th  November:

 

Afternoon Session - International Autumn School

Basic Photothermal and Photoacoustic Techniques: Theory, Instrumentation and Applications

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson:   M. Franko & D. Korte

 

15.00 – 16.00     (Invited Tutorial - online)  Grisa Močnik - University of Nova Gorica – Slovenia

   Measuring aerosol absorption with photo-thermal interferometry - how to get an artifact-free climate- and health-relevant metric

 

16.00 – 17.00     (Invited Tutorial)   Christ Glorieux - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium

   Optical methods for detection of transient and periodic photoacoustic/photothermal signals

 

17.00 – 17.30      Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

17.30 – 18.30      (Invited Tutorial)  Roberto Li Voti - Sapienza Università di Roma – Italy

                           Photothermal deflection technique: History, Principles and applications

 

19.00 – 21.00      Dinner: Local Restaurants

 

21.00 – 23.30      Poster Discussion & Marsala Room

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Friday 7^th  November:

 

Morning Session A: Biomedical and Biological PA&PT

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson:  A. Mandelis

 

 9.00 – 10.00   (Invited)  Parag Chitnis - George Mason University – Virginia – USA

 Novel ICG-based near-infrared photoacoustic contrast agents

 

10.00 – 11.00  (Invited - online) 

Fei Gao - School of Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Sci.&Tech. of China – China

Full-stack full-spectrum photoacoustic imaging for precision medicine

 

11.00 – 11.30     Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

Chairperson:  A. Mandelis

 

11.30 – 12.30   (Invited)  Daniel Razansky - ETH Zürich - Switzerland

  Optoacoustics goes multimodal - methods and systems

12.30 – 15.00      Lunch:  Local Restaurants

 

 

Friday 7^th  November:  

 

Afternoon Session A - Biomedical and Biological PA&PT

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

 Chairperson:  A. Mandelis

 

15.00 – 16.00  (Invited)  Perry Xiao - London South Bank University - UK

 Photothermal Radiometry Skin Data Analysis by Using Machine Learning

 

16.00 – 17.00  (Invited) Chao Tian - University of Science and Technology of China–Hefei-China

 Multiparametric photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging in rodents and humans

 

17.00 – 17.30      Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

 

Friday 7^th  November: 

 

Afternoon Session E: AI, Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Machine Learning

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson: A. Mandelis

 

17.30 – 18.30  (Invited) Stefano Sfarra - University of L'Aquila - L'Aquila - Italy

Learning & Physical Thermographic Models for the Evaluation of Thermophysical Properties in Materials-Structures and the Optimal Image Processing

 

19.00 – 21.00      Dinner: Local Restaurants

21.00 – 23.30      Poster Discussion and more

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Saturday 8^th November:

 

Morning Session C: Non Destructive Evaluation & Testing

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairpersons:  C. Glorieux & S. Sfarra

 

9.00  - 10.00   (Invited) Tomas Grabec - Czech Academy of Sciences - Czechia

Laser-ultrasonic characterization of elastically anisotropic materials

10.00 – 11.00  (Invited) Matt Clark - University of Nottingham - UK

Laser inspection of microstructure and defects using SRAS and ALIPA

11.00 – 11.15   Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

 

Chairpersons:  C. Glorieux & S. Sfarra

11.15 – 11.45  Markus Saurer - Institute of Physics - University of Graz - Austria

Temperature-Dependent Stress Detection in Solids Using Laser Ultrasound

 

11.45 – 12.15   Sebastian Brand - Fraunhofer Institute IMWS – Halle - Germany

Scanning Photoacoustic Microscopy in the GHz-Band, an approach for high resolution nondestructive defect localization in next-generation microelectronics

 

12.15 – 12.45   Alessandra Corrado - IIT and Università del Salento – Lecce - Italy

A Method to Study Photo-Thermoelastic Deformations of Thin Films using Laser Doppler Vibrometry

 

 

13.00 – 15.00      Lunch:  Local Restaurants

 

 

 

Saturday 8^th November:

 

Afternoon Session C: Non Destructive Evaluation & Testing

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson:   S. Sfarra

15.00 - 16.00  (Invited) J. Rodriguez-Asaguinolaza - University of the Basque Country – Spain

A comprehensive multimodal approach to thermographic quantitative characterization of flaws: from physics-based models to data driven IA techniques

 

16.00 - 17.00  (Invited) Jérémie Maire - University of Bordeaux - France

Using thermography to obtain volumetric thermal properties and temperature fields

 

17.00 – 17.30      Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

 

Chairperson:  C. Glorieux

17.30 – 18.00  Paolo Bison – CNR Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione – Padova - Italy

Measuring the In-plane thermal conductivity of a metallic thin foil by Pulsed Infrared Thermography

 

18.00 – 18.30  Jon Pérez-Arbulu - Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU – Bilbao - Spain

Characterization of 2D inhomogeneous delaminations using IRT

 

 18.30 – 19.00  David Sagarduy-Marcos - Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU – Bilbao - Spain

3D analytical solution to the defect detection problem in lock-in thermography using thermal quadrupoles

 

 

19.00 – 21.00      Dinner: Local Restaurants

 

21.00 – 23.30      Poster Discussion at Marsala Room

 

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Sunday 9^th  November:

 

Morning Session: International Autumn School

Foundations of Photothermal and Photoacoustic Techniques: Theory, Instrumentation and Applications

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairpersons: M.Franko & D. Korte

 

9.00 – 10.00    (Invited Tutorial) J.Ordonez-Miranda – CNRS – France

Energy harvesting from the thermal waves generated by the temperature fluctuations

of the environment

 

 

Morning Session B: Nanoscale Heat & Acoustic Transport, Metamaterials and Imaging

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairpersons: S. Volz and J.Ordonez-Miranda

 

10.00 – 11.00  (Invited online)  Ilaria Zardo - University of Basel – Switzerland

 Phonon dynamics and thermal transport in designed nanostructures

 

11.00 – 11.15      Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

 

Chairperson:  S. Volz and J.Ordonez-Miranda

 

11.15 – 12.15  (Invited)  Francesco Banfi - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - France

Photoacoustic Insights into Individual High-Aspect-Ratio Semiconducting Nanoresonators

 

12.15 – 12.45  L. Jay Guo - The University of Michigan – MI - USA

Nanoimprinted microring resonator arrays for photoacoustic tomography imaging

 

12.30 – 15.00      Lunch:  Local Restaurants

 

 

Sunday 9^th  November:

 

Afternoon Session B: Nanoscale Heat & Acoustic Transport, Metamaterials and Imaging

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson: J. Ordonez-Miranda

15.00 - 16.00  (Invited) Giorgia Fugallo - ÉNS - Université Paris Science et Lettres - France

Phonon-heat transport: from 3D to 2D materials

 

16.00 - 17.00  (Invited)  Emilija Petronijevic - Sapienza Università di Roma – Italy

Widely tunable laser photo-acoustic spectroscopy for characterization of absorption and chirality in nanomaterials

 

17.00 – 17.30      Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

 

Chairperson: J. Ordonez-Miranda

 

17.30 – 18.30  Andreas Mandelis - Toronto University - Canada

Three-dimensional thermophotonic super-resolution and super-contrast imaging by spatiotemporal diffusion-reversal methods with biomedical applications

 

19.00 – 21.00      Dinner: Local Restaurants

 

22.00 – 23.30      Poster Discussion at Marsala Room

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Monday 10^th  November:

 

Morning Session D: Thermophysical and Diffusion-Wave Properties

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson:  R. Li Voti

 

9.00  - 10.00   (Invited) Mauro Luciano Baesso - State University of Maringá - Maringà - Brazil
                       QCL-Induced Temperature Rise and Heat Accumulation in Photothermal Microscopy

 

10.00 – 11.00  (Invited) Carlos Serpa - University of Coimbra – Coimbra - Portugal

Properties of Materials as Drivers for Efficient High-Frequency Laser Ultrasound Generation and Applications

 

11.00 – 11.15      Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

 

Chairperson: R. Li Voti

 

11.15 – 11.45  Karol M. Golasiński - Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw - Poland
Thermomechanical phenomema in Ni-free Ti-based shape memory alloys doped with interstitial elements under tension

 

11.45 – 12.15  Ali Abouais -  Chouaib Doukkali University of El Jadida - Morocco & Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń - Poland

Thermal properties and lattice disorder effects in ZnYSe (Y=Te, S) crystals using photopyroelectric calorimetry

 

12.15 – 12.45  Mohammed Boumhamdi - Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń - Poland

Optical And Thermal Characterization of CdMgTe Crystals

 

12.45 – 14.30   Lunch:  Local Restaurants

 

 

 

Monday 10^th  November:

 

Afternoon Session D: Thermophysical and Diffusion-Wave Properties

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson:  R. Li Voti

 

14.00  - 15.00 (Invited) Stefano Paoloni – Università di Roma Tor Vergata – Rome - Italy

Time resolved calorimetric and optical absorption measurements

for the investigation of the nematic orientation kinetics in phototropic liquid crystals

 

15.00 – 16.00  (Invited) Daniele Vella – Univesity of Ljubljana– Ljubljana - Slovenia

Photoacoustic Transmission Technologies: Tailoring Ultrasound via Material Design, Pulse Width, and Light Shaping

 

 

Excursion: 

Bus leaving Erice Parking area around  16.30

Social Dinner will be served at the end of the tour

More details will be given during the workshop

 

 

22.00 – 23.30             After Dinner @ Piano Room

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Tuesday 11^st  November:

 

Morning Session E: AI, Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Machine Learning

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson:      A. Mandelis

 

9.00 – 10.00    (Invited online) – Hong Tang - Harbin Institute of Technology - China

Learning the Solution Operator of Thermal Wave Diffusion with Neural Operators

 

 10.00 – 11.00  (Invited online)

Ghali Venkata Subbarao - Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation - India

A Journey of Non stationary thermal wave imaging from Signal processing

to Deep learning

 

11.00 – 11.30      Coffee Break – San Domenico Terrace

 

 

Chairperson: A. Mandelis

 

11.30 – 12.30  (Invited) Chao Tian – Univ. of Science and Technology of China – Hefei - China

 Physics-driven deep learning photoacoustic tomography

 

12.30 – 15.00   Lunch:  Local Restaurants

 

 

Afternoon Session E: AI, Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Machine Learning

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairperson: A. Mandelis

 

15.00 – 16.00  (Invited) – Hai Zhang - Harbin Institute of Technology - China

Deep learning-assisted super-resolution frequency multiplexed

truncated-correlation tomography

 

16.00 – 16.30      Coffee Break – San Domenico

 

 

Tuesday 11^st  November:

 

Evening Joint Session:  FLIR exhibition  

San Domenico Lecture Hall

 

Chairpersons:  A. Mandelis

 

16.30 – 17.00             FLIR Representatives

                                   Introduction to the FLIR Best Presentation Award

 

17.00  - 18.00             Celebration of the winners of the FLIR Prizes

 

18.00 – 18.30             Concluding Remark

 

21.00                          Dinner – Local Restaurant

 

till  23.30                    Farewell Party – Poster Disassembling - Marsala Room
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Wednesday 12^nd  November:

 

 

Departures

 

 

 

 

POSTER SESSION

 

P1.

Rim Zgueb^(a)*, Aarti Gupta^(a), Tina Škorjanc^(b), Mohit Sahni^(c), Dorota Korte ^(a)*

Study of Doping Effects on the Thermal Properties of BiFeO₃ based Photocatalysts by Combined PDS and PPE technique

^(a)Laboratory for Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia

^(b)Materials Research Laboratory, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia

^(c)Advanced Material Research Laboratory, Department of Physics and Environmental Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida, 201310, Uttar Pradesh, India

 

 

P2.

Šavli D, Vella D, Jezeršek M

Highly focused pressure wave generation employing nanosecond pulsed Er:YAG laser

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Laser Techniques, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

 

P3.

L. Levstik^(a)*, M. Kos^(a), A. Mrzel^(b), M. Jezeršek ^(a), D. Vella ^(a)

All-optical and adjustable focusing photoacoustic wave through graphene nanocomposite thin film

 ^(a) Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Laser Techniques, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

^(b) Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Complex Matter, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

 

P4.

Aarti Gupta^(a), Rim Zgueb^(a), Tina Škorjanc^(b), Mohit Sahni^(c), Dorota Korte^(a)*

Structural and Optical Characterization of Co and Pr Co-Doped Bismuth Ferrite Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Water Purification

 ^(a)Laboratory for Environmental & Life Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia

^(b)Materials Research Laboratory, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia

^(c)Advanced Material Research Laboratory, Department of Physics and Environmental Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida, 201310, Uttar Pradesh, India

 

P5.

Anjali^*, Matjaž Valant, Blaž Belec

Photothermally triggered CO₂ regeneration from monolithic silica-iron oxide sorbents

Materials Research Laboratory, University of Nova Gorica, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia

 

 

P6.

D. Sagarduy-Marcos^(a)*, J-C. Batsale^(b), J. Rodríguez-Aseguinolaza^(a)

Analytical approach for overcoming the heat diffusion resolution limits in lock-in thermography

^(a) Departamento de Física Aplicada, Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao, Universidad

del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Plaza Ingeniero Torres Quevedo 1, 48013 Bilbao, Spain

^(b)Institute of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering of Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Arts et Métiers Paris Tech, Bordeaux INP, 351 Av. de la Libération, 33405, Talence

 

 

P7.

A. Rezaei ^(a)*, D.A. Pereira ^(b), G.V. Bianco ^(c), G. Bruno ^(c), A. Mrzel, L.G. Arnaut ^(b),
C. Serpa ^(b), M. Jezeršek ^(a), and D. Vella ^(a)

Large-Area Graphene–PDMS Interface: Ultrathin Nano-Heaters for Photoacoustic Wave Generation via Picosecond Laser Excitation

^(a) Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva cesta 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

^(b) CQC‑IMS, Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004‑535 Coimbra, Portugal

^(c) Istituto di Nanotecnologia – CNR‑NANOTEC, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy

^(d) Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Complex Matter, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

 

P8.

Gilda Russo^(a), Yinuo Ding^(b), Elena Marini^(a), Zhiyang Zhang^(b), Emanuela Ceccaroni^(c) Hai Zhang^(b), Stefano Sfarra^(a)*

Conservation study of a Seated Terracotta Deity Statue from city-sanctuary of Anxa-Angitia (Abruzzo, Italy) by infrared thermography

^(a)Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, University of L'Aquila, L’Aquila, I-67100, Italy.

^(b) Centre for Composite Materials and Structures (CCMS), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China.

^(c) Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Chieti e Pescara, Via degli Agostiniani 14, 66100 Chieti, Italy.

 

 

P9.

Alessandra Corrado^{(a), (b)*}, Linda Piscopo ^{(a), (b)}, Celeste Qvotrup^(c), Francesco Rizzi^(a),

Luca Fachechi^(a), Ferruccio Pisanello^{(a), †} and Massimo De Vittorio^{(a), (c), †}

A Method to Study Photo-Thermoelastic Deformations of Thin Films using Laser Doppler Vibrometry

^(a) Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Arnesano, Italy

^(b) Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

^(c) Department of Health Technology, Denmarks Tekniske Universitet, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

 

 

P10.

Alessandro Maurizi¹, Anna Maria Giusti², Grigore Leahu¹, Ginevra Lalle1, Emilija Petronijevic¹, Luca Ferrari³, Lorenzo Medici³, Nicola Raule³, and Roberto Li Voti¹

Photoacoustic and Thermographyc Approach to Direct Evaluation of Bioactive Compounds in Apple Peels

¹Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engeneering –Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

²Department of Experimental Medicine – Research Unit  in Food Science and Human e Nutrition – Sapienza, Rome Italy

³CNH Industrial Italia - Advance Technology & Innovation, Viale delle Nazioni 55, 41122 Modena Italy