Applications of Photonics 2024

UEF’s popular presentations on Applications of Photonics will be again held this year as a series of hybrid lectures live in Joensuu & online in Microsoft Teams. The presentations are organized in collaboration with PREIN flagship and Photonics Finland.

Hosted by Professor Jyrki Saarinen and starting on October 29th (six lectures per week: Tuesdays at 12-14, Wednesdays at 10-12 and at Thursdays 14-16), the lectures consist of applications of photonics and company overviews given by professionals of the field from various companies, and after each lecture, a dedicated discussion section offers networking possibilities to listeners from all around the world.

Lectures can be joined in set presentation locations in UEF Joensuu campus, or online via Microsoft Teams. Joining the lectures is free and open for everyone. Confirmed participating companies and presenters include: SCHOTT Primoceler, Vexlum, VTT, Kuva Space, Vaisala, HyCom Core, BioNavis, Gasera, Valmet, Microsoft, Ecoaims, LEDiL, Tobii, Dispelix, Nanocomp, Polar Electro, Raute, Winse Power, Kelluu, Senop, and Visual Festival Light Artists.

See the Schedule below for detailed information on each webinar session. The same Microsoft Teams link can be used for all sessions.

Schedule

Wednesday, 30.10. (Futura F100**)
10:15 – 11:00 SCHOTT Primoceler & Ville Hevonkorpi*: Using lasers in smart implant manufacturing
11.15 – 12:00 Vexlum & Jussi-Pekka Penttinen: Vexlum VECSELs – Novel semiconductor lasers for quantum technology

Thursday, 31.10. (Futura F100)
14:15 – 15:00 VTT & Jussi Hiltunen: Photonics in sensor applications
15:15 – 16:00 Kuva Space & Jarkko Antila*: Improving life on Earth through spaceborne hyperspectral imaging and AI

Tuesday, 5.11. (Metria M100**)
12:15 – 13:00 Vaisala & Hannu Talvitie: Advanced photonics and optics in measurement instruments
13:15 – 14:00 HyCom Core & Seppo Honkanen*: Revolution of optical fiber communication

Thursday, 7.11. (Metria M100)
14:15 – 15:00 Gasera & Tuomas Hieta: High-end gas sensing with a cantilever
15:15 – 16:00 Valmet & Janne Paaso: Development of photonics-based online industrial measurements

Tuesday, 12.11. (Metria M100)
12:15 – 13:00 Microsoft & Gülis Zengin: Optical Design for Consumer Imaging: Challenges, approaches and emerging trends

Wednesday, 13.11. (Futura F100)
10:15 – 11:00 LEDiL & Henri Uutela: LED Lighting & Optics
11:15 – 12:00 Tobii & Mårten Selin: Optics of eye-tracking

Thursday, 14.11. – Company visits for course students (no webinar on this day)
14:00 – 16:00 Dispelix & Petri Stenberg & Salman Daniel
14:00 – 16:00 Nanocomp & Samuli Siitonen

Thursday, 21.11. (Metria M100)
14:15 – 15:00 Polar Electro & Matti Kinnunen: Light-tissue interaction, from basics to applications
15:15 – 16:00 Raute & Jyrki Pesonen*: Observations on the analysis of wood in the veneer industry

Tuesday, 26.11. (Futura F101)
12:15 – 13:00 Winse Power & Veikka Nikander: Winse Power Optical links – Transferring Power by Light: Technology and Applications
13:15 – 14:00 Kelluu & Janne Hietala*: Kelluu: Creating digital twin of the real world

Wednesday, 27.11. (Futura F100)
10:15 – 11:00 Visual Festival Light Artists Ivo Schoofs & Michel Suk*
11:15 – 12:00 Ecoaims & Petri Matikainen*: Laser pistols and other optical sport shooting

Tuesday, 3.12. (Metria M100)
12:15 – 13:00 BioNavis & Abhishek Sharma: Photonics Meets Biochemistry: MP-SPR for Protein kinetics and more
13:15 – 14:00 Senop & Antti Lommi: Night Vision Systems – Applications & use cases

*) The presenter is live on campus.
**) Futura F100 and F101 lecture halls are located in the Futura building, Yliopistokatu 7. Similarly, Metria M100 is in the Metria building, also at Yliopistokatu 7. For parking and arrival information for Joensuu campus, please click here.

Any questions?

Please contact Iiro Muhonen, iiro.muhonen@uef.fi, 050 324 2548 or Jyrki Saarinen, jyrki.saarinen@uef.fi, 050 595 4348.