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Seminar Talk: Application of Toluene Fuel Tracer LIF to Examine the Mixture Formation Process in a Light-Duty Diesel Engine

by Paul C. Miles, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA
May 24th, 2:00 p.m. in SAOT secture room (1st floor)

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17th international SAOT Workshop "Microchip Plasmonics: Enabling Optics beyond the diffraction limit"

Poster

Dear Colleagues,

Herewith I announce the 17th International SAOT Workshop “Microchip Plasmonics: Optics beyond the Diffraction Limit” which will be held in Erlangen on August 29th-31st, 2012. The workshop webpage is here:
http://www.aot.uni-erlangen.de/saot/events/workshops/workshop-17/home.html

This workshop is jointly organized by SAOT, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, and the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials.

The Workshop will address current topics in:
•    Subwavelength plasmonic nanocircuitry
•    Probing the nanoscale
•    Active and nonlinear plasmonics
•    Quantum plasmonics

All SAOT members - PIs, mentors and registered doctoral candidates - are invited to attend free of charge.

      Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Award conferred on Andreas Bräuer

      Left to right: Professor Weidner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum & Chairman of ProcessNet subsection High Pressure Technology), Laureate Dr. Andreas Bräuer (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg), Professor Dohrn (Bayer Technology Services GmbH & assistant Chairman of ProcessNet subsection High Pressure Technology)

      The ProcessNet subsection “High Pressure Technology” decorated Dr. Andreas Bräuer with the Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Award for outstanding, future oriented, sustainable and published achievements

      During the annual meeting of the ProcessNet subsection “High Pressure Technology” -March 2nd, 2012 in Hamburg- the Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Award has been conferred to Dr. Andreas Bräuer. The Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Award is conferred by the ProcessNet subsection “High Pressure Technology” on behalf of the Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Foundation for outstanding, future oriented, sustainable and published achievements in the field of high pressure process engineering.

      The Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Foundation –and with this the Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Award- has been established by the chair of Separation Science and Technology (Prof. Wolfgang Arlt) and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in agreement with the widow Käte Peter and his son Dr. Wolfgang Peter. The conferment of the award aims to recall that Professor-Siegfried-Peter, while he has been chair professor for Chemical Engineering, has given sustainable distinction to High Pressure Engineering in Germany and in Europe as exemplary researcher and teacher.

       The research achievements of Dr. Andreas Bräuer comprise especially the development and the application of optical measurement techniques for the in situ analysis of high pressure process technologies. Currently, Dr. Andreas Bräuer is heading a research group at the chair of Engineering Thermodynamics and is member of the directors’ board of the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies, both institutions at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität- Erlangen-Nürnberg.

      Professor Andreas Paul Fröba elected Associate Editor of "International Journal of Thermophysics"

      SAOT Professor Andreas P. Fröba has been elected one of only four Associate Editors of the internationally well recognized International Journal of Thermophysics which is the leading journal for the determination of thermophysical properties of matters in the solid, liquid, and gaseous states. Prof. Fröba who is also heading the group of Heat Engineering and Thermophysical Property Research at the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTT) will be responsible in the Board of Editors for handling manuscripts that are mainly concerned with the experimental properties of fluids.

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      2012 Young Researcher Award in Optical Technologies

      In 2012, for the fifth time, the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) will present the Young Researcher Award in Optical Technologies (YRA) to a young scientist with an excellent proven record in optics and optical technologies.

       The 2012 designated laureate is Dr. Martin Booth, EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Advanced Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK. During the award celebration ceremony on June 11th, 2012, the award will be conferred on him in recognition of his outstanding contributions related to the application of adaptive optics to microscopy and photonic engineering. Areas of research he is active in are:

      • Active and adaptive optics, wave front sensing and control for microscopy and optical engineering.
      • High-resolution optical microscopy with applications in biomedical imaging and material characterization.
      • Optical micromachining and fabrication for development of photonic devices.

       

      Fortunately the expertise of Dr. Booth fits well to establish a fruitful collaboration between SAOT researchers and him, especially in the fields of optical material processing, optical materials and metrology.

       As award winner he will have the formal status of a guest professor during his stays at the SAOT when he spends the prize money of 100,000 Euros in close collaborations with several SAOT scientists. For the next few years he will set up a small working group in Erlangen to pursue optical investigations in his area of expertise.

      The award underlines SAOT’s objective to improve interdisciplinary research and education in development and application of optics and optical technologies, particularly at the interfaces between natural sciences, engineering and medicine in the six SAOT research areas: optical metrology, optical material processing, optics in medicine, optical material and systems, optics in communication and information technologies and computational optics. The Young Researcher Award in Optical Technologies strengthens the international networking of distinguished experts and provides a platform for the interdisciplinary exchange of innovative scientific ideas.

       

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      New Research Training Group on Heterogeneous Image Systems

      Recently a proposal for the establishment of new Research Training Group on HETEROGENEOUS IMAGE SYSTEMS has been accepted by the German Research Foundation (DFG). DFG provides funding of 4.5 Mio€ for the Research Training Group for 4.5 years starting on October 1st, 2012. The application has been coordinated by SAOT professor Marc Stamminger. There are researchers from the department of Computer Sciences and from the department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering involved in the Research Training group.

      Description of the Research Training Group is here.

      Professor Marion Merklein elected Editorial Board Member of "Journal of Materials Processing Technology"

      Marion Merklein, chair professor of Manufacturing Technology, has been elected editorial board member of the Journal of Materials Processing Technology, which is one of the most relevant international journals in manufacturing technology.

      Professor Reinhard Lerch became IEEE Fellow

      In recognition of his contributions to ultrasonic transducer technology and computer modeling of sensors and actuators Professor Reinhard Lerch has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1st January 2012.

      Outstanding Publication in Biomedical Optics Express

      The paper

      Tsung-Han Tsai, Benjamin Potsaid, Martin F. Kraus, Chao Zhou, Yuankai K. Tao, Joachim Hornegger, and James G. Fujimoto
      Piezoelectric-transducer-based miniature catheter for ultrahigh-speed endoscopic optical coherence tomography
      Biomedical Optics Express 2, 2438-2448 (2011)

      has a potential audience reach of at least 303 million worldwide, as it has been covered by several key industrial media outlets.

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      Russian Bavarian Conference on Biomedical Engineering

      The Russian Bavarian Conference on Biomedical Engineering was held in Erlangen from 10. until 14. October 2011. Several contributions from the SAOT members were presented at the conference. The SAOT cooperation partner "MIET" (National Research University for Electronic Technology Moscow) was involved in the organisation and carrying out of the conference. The SAOT-MIET cooperation agreement was signed in the Summer between Prof. Umnyashkin (s. picture, in the middle) and the SAOT coordinator Prof. Leipertz (s. picture, left). On the picture, which was taken during the conference is also the SAOT principal investigator and vice-president of the university for research Prof. Hornegger (right). The SAOT-MIET cooperation aims to a double-degree agreement which should make possible to obtain a doctoral degree at the both universities.

      Honorary Doctorate for Professor Alfred Leipertz

      Presentation of the certificate to Prof. Leipertz by the Rector of the University of Maribor, Prof. Rebolj

      The University of Maribor (Slovenia) conferred the title “Doctor Honoris Causa” upon Professor Alfred Leipertz in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of scientific research at the Faculty of Energy Technology of the University of Maribor, knowledge transfer and the promotion of international cooperation. The title was awarded during the ceremony of the DIES ACADEMICUS of the University on September 19th, 2011.

      Prestigious Award for SAOT Visiting Professor Alexandra Boltasseva

      SAOT Visiting Professor and laureate of the SAOT Young Researcher Award Alexandra Boltasseva has been named by Technology Review to the TR35 list, as one of the world's top 35 young innovators.

      Press release from Purdue.