Keynote speakers for the special historical session dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Tandem Fabry Perot Interferometer:
Fabrizio Nizzoli (University of Ferrara, Italy) "Birth and development of surface Brillouin Light Scattering from phonons"
Burkard Hillebrands (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) - "Ubi BLS, ibi scientia: 40+ years of magnonic Brillouin Light Scattering"
John Sandercock (The Table-Stable Ltd, Zurich) - "The invention of the Tandem Fabry-Perot interferometer and its impact on science" (Lectio Magistralis)
Invited speakers
Ahmad Awad (Gothenburg Univ., Sweden), "Mutual synchronization of large arrays of Spin Hall nano-oscillators"
Dmytro Bozhko (Tech. Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany) "Brillouin light scattering detection of unconventional spin currents in magnetic films“
Mauro Dalla Serra (CNR Istituto di Biofisica, IT) "The Arbre-MOBIEU network"
Sergej Demokritov (Munster Univ., Germany), "BLS studies with multiple combinable resolution on magnetic micro- and nano-structures"
Alba Diz-Munoz (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) "Studying the role of tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy”
Kristian Franze (University of Cambridge, UK) "Comparing Brillouin microscopy and AFM"
Kristie Koski (University of California, USA) "Elastic Properties of Marine Biomaterials: From Nacre to Sea Sponges"
Francesca Palombo (University of Exeter, UK) "Brillouin Microscopy, Route to Translation”
Paul Pudney (Unilever, UK) "Feel and function: understanding how products interact with people using spectroscopy"
David Sampson (University of Surrey, UK) "How does optical coherence elastography compare with Brillouin microscopy?"
Helmut Schulteiss (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany), "Magnon Transport in Spin Textures"
Peter Török (Imperial College, London)"How to design and build a Brillouin microscope"
Nick Stone (University of Exeter. UK) "Developing clinical diagnostics with Raman spectroscopy "