The Fourth Stokes Summer School
Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland
18th - 22nd June 2004
Schedule for Workshop
2004
[Please check regularly for updates]
Friday 18th June 2004
Assembly - Minibus at 2pm from Dublin Airport Arrivals Hall (driver has card 'Stokes') or from Sligo Airport 5.35pm as requested. Local committee members will be available at the Parish Hall from 4.30pm onwards to direct participants to their accommodation. In case of emergency, incoming calls can be made to local organiser:Mr. Willie Noonan at +353 7191 66836
| 6:30pm | Wine Reception and Buffet. |
| 6:50pm | Official Opening of the Workshop. |
| 7.00pm |
Stokes, Skreen and Spectroscopy
(Alastair Wood, Dublin City University) |
| 8.00pm |
Stokes, Hamilton and Victorian Optics: the Irish connection (Michael Berry, Bristol)
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Saturday 19th June 2004
| 9:30 am | The Stokes Shift in Materials Luminescence (Frank Imbusch, NUI Galway) |
| 10:30 am | Coffee. |
| 11:00 am | Semi-conductor spectroscopy: Basics and Applications to ZnO (Claus Klingshirn, Karlsruhe) |
| 12:00 pm | Spectroscopic properties of doped insulators: manifestations of the photoelectronic transfer between impurities and the host (Sergei Basun, St. Petersburg), |
| 1:00 pm | Depart by car/minibus for lunch at Molly Falton's. Option to continue on tour of historic sites in environs of Sligo town or Carrowmore Megalithic Graveyard. Megalithic Graveyard. |
| 8:30 pm | Traditional Irish meal at The Still, Dromore West |
Sunday 20th June 2004
| 9:30 am | Fluorescence-based sensors (Brian McCraith, Dublin City University) |
| 10:30 am | Coffee |
| 11:00 am | Photonics in Biomedicine (Paul French, Imperial College London), |
| 12.00 noon | Quantum dot fluorescence and applications in Biophysics (John Donegan, Trinity College Dublin) |
| 1:00 pm | Buffet lunch, Parish Hall |
| Afternoon | Research discussions/recreation/historical and geological visits, depending on weather. Walk up Benbulben, across Sligo Bay, visit to Lissadell House or tour of Carrowgarry farm, Beltra. |
| 5:30 pm | Tea/Coffee in Parish Hall |
| 6:00 pm | New innovations in Raman dot technology and applications (Geriant Evans, Renishaw plc) |
| 7:00pm | Research student presentations I: J. Grimm, P. de Beule |
| 8:30 pm | Dinner in Dan O'Connor's, Skreen. |
Monday 21st June 2004
| 9:30 am | Nanoscale photonics (Alan Ryder, NUI Galway) |
| 10:30 am | Coffee |
| 11:00am | Raman spectroscopy: the application of a fundamental spectroscopic technique to device studies (Martin Kuball, Bristol) |
| 12:00 noon | Research student/postdoctoral presentations II: S. Tessarin, P. Gerner |
| 1:00 pm | Buffet Lunch in Parish Hall. |
| Afternoon | Research discussions/Recreation/Historical and geological visits. Possible boat trip to monastic site on Inishmurray or on Lough Gill if sea rough. |
| 5:30 pm | Tea/Coffee in Parish Hall |
| 6:00 pm | Research student/postdoctoral presentations III: T. Marolo, J. Pomeroy |
| 7:00 pm | Round table discussion: 'Where is fluorescence research going?' |
| 8:30 pm | Conference Dinner - Parish Hall. |
Tuesday 22nd June 2004
8.30am Dispersal - cars/minibus to airport as before.
- Córas Iompair Éireann (CIE) is Ireland's state-owned national transport company. Details of Train (Iarnrod Eireann) and Bus (Bus Eireann) services/timetables from Dublin and Sligo are available from their websites.
The financial support of The Royal Irish Academy, Enterprise Ireland, Renishaw plc (Wooton-under-Edge), Centre for Modelling with Differential Equations (DCU), Thomas Swann Scientific Equipment Limited, Shell, Analog Devices, National University of Ireland, Galway and the British Council is gratefully acknowledged.
