AIP Publishing Horizons COVID-19 and Photonics Virtual Symposium

Photonics plays an important role in coronavirus detection as well as clinical diagnosis and therapy of COVID-19 and its complications via optical sensing, spectroscopy, and imaging. For example, infrared thermography can produce a thermal map of the human skin in real time and find potentially infected persons at airports and on the street, while nanophotonic biosensors based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering can sensitively identify viruses in airborne aerosols. Moreover, photonics is an essential part of PCR testing (for diagnosis of the coronavirus) and flow cytometry (for evaluating treatment effectiveness) via fluorescence detection. This virtual symposium provides a valuable forum for researchers to share their novel findings and discuss challenges and potential solutions. Speakers and participants are encouraged to submit to the APL Photonics special topic on Coronavirus and Photonics to continue the conversation.

Organizing Committee:

Benjamin Eggleton

Editor-in-Chief, APL Photonics

Director – The University of Sydney Nano Institute

Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS)

School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

Keisuke Goda

Deputy Editor, APL Photonics

Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan

Adjunct Professor, Institute of Technological Sciences, Wuhan University, China

Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering,

University of California Los Angeles, USA

Jana Kainerstorfer

Associate Professor,

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Erinn C. Brigham

Journal Manager,

AIP Publishing, USA

Session Chairs:

Chulhong Kim

Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology,

South Korea

Wei Min

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kavli Institute for Brain Science,

Columbia University, USA

Confirmed Speakers:

Andrea Armani

Irani Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,

University of Southern California, USA

Wei Gao

Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering,

California Institute of Technology, USA

Benjamin L. Miller

Dean’s Professor of Dermatology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, and Optics, University of Rochester, USA

Cameron Myhrvold

Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Transitioning to Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology,

Princeton University in January 2021

M. Selim Ünlü

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Boston University, USA

Peter J. Unrau

Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology,

Simon Fraser University, Canada