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Summer School on Plasmonics 2009
The summer school on plasmonics (SSOP 2009) was held during September 13th-17th on Porquerolles Island. Thanks to all 123 participants for having made this school a very stimulating scientific event. The lectures given there are now posted on the SSOP...
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Petru Ghenuche and Victor Grigoriev join the team
Since the beginning of June, we welcome Petru Ghenuche (Romania) and Victor Grigoriev (Belarus). Both join as postdoc researchers on the ERC project. Petru will work on experimental nanophotonics and Victor will focus on theoretical and numerical sim...
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JMC12 : nanophotonics nano-symposium
During the next national conference on condensed matter, I will be co-organizer of a "mini-colloque" devoted to nano-optics. See the conference webpage, and the mini-colloque n°8.
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12th Carl Zeiss workshop on FCS
The workshop on FCS and related methods was held during October 12th-16th at Cargese (Corsica). Thanks to all 68 attendees for making it an active workshop. Pictures and final abstract book are available through the website www.fresnel.fr/FCS
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You know what? JW is ACS-certified!
There were ISO900X, CE compliance, now there is "ACS certification". I got that "diploma" in my mailbox yesterday, as many of my peers I presume... Waoooooouh
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Science festival 2012
Petru and Jerome made the show during Marseille's science festival 2012. About 400 people could discover several optics experiments: seeing stress in plastics origin of the blue color of butterfly wings the schweppes luminescence high rate internet with...
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Summer School on Plasmonics Porquerolles SSOP 2
The deadline is approaching: before May 30th. Don't miss this opportunity! Key arguments for your supervisor: excellent quality of invited lecturers + excellent value for the money, the registration fees cover all accomodation & food living expenses....
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Just block it : Yes we can !
As decided by a large majority of university staff and students, the campus on St Jerome will be blocked one day per week, starting Monday Feb 09. This shall last as long as the government does not give any answer to our claims concerning status, CNRS...
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Raju Regmi as new PhD student
Raju Regmi (Nepal) is joining the group. He will do a PhD between Fresnel and ICFO on photonic nanoantennas to enhance the detection of fluorescent molecules.
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Coming soon: the corollary
Quite dusty days...
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L'université s'arrête
Lire l'appel ici
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Mosaic Group Picture
Fluorescence image of a live cell under ultrashort laser light focused by a latex microsphere
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Science festival demonstrations
Back from last week’s science festival in downtown Marseille, where we had a quite nice success in presenting optics. The photos can be seen at : http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn245/jwkl67/FdS2008/?albumview=slideshow
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France / CNRS ranking
Back to the source… Taken from ISI Web of Knowledge , here are the latest ranking for France and CNRS in physics. If we just compare the total number of papers published, the froggies are not performing too bad, contrarily to what our government seems...
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Introducing Thibault Wenger--Lehnert
I'm very glad to announce the birth of my son Thibault on August 24th 2010. He's already a charming person.
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Photonics Spectra highlights the observation of nanojets
See the paper by Lynn Savage in the July issue on the recent work of “Patrick Ferrand and colleagues at the Fresnel Institute” : http://www.photonics.com/content/spectra/2008/July/microscopy/92560.aspx
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This month in Micscape
My recent Micscape article focuses on the Wild Heerbrugg M20 microscope's binocular head and its effects on imaging. In my opinion, the M20 is simply the best stand for amateur microscopy, balancing optical quality, cost, and size.
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Ecole thématique NOIS2011 "Nano-Objet aux InterfaceS"
CNRS colleagues are organizing the next advanced school on nano-objects NOIS 2011(May 16-20 2011, Anglet, France). I will give two lessons on photonics structures for the enhanced detection of nano-ojects. See the official website here. Application deadline:...
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SPP3 conference June 2007
I will attend to the next SPP meeting to be held in Dijon ( France ) next June. In an oral contribution, I shall present our recent results towards the application of nanometric apertures in a gold film to biophotonics applications. Link to SPP3 meeting...
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CNRS INSIS Highlights 2010
Our endoscope system to detect and analyse single molecule fluorescence has recently been highlighted by the CNRS Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences. See the article here. (French only, sorry). Another description (in English) can be found...
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Optical antennas special journal issue
The international journal of optics features a special issue focusing on optical antennas. Read the call for papers here. According to the lead guest editor, already twelve articles are scheduled from major research groups. Deadline for papers 1st se...
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New Blog Design
The ERC Starting Grant selection deserved some updates on my webpages... New blog design, updated links and sponsors, and new logo !
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Mosaic Fellows
Some pics of Mosaic colleagues in action ! Dr. Hervé Rigneault Dr. Pierre-François Lenne Dr. Patrick Ferrand
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Sauvons le CNRS
http://www.sauvonslarecherche.fr/
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Satish Moparthi joins the ERC team
It's a great pleasure to welcome our new colleague Satish. We're going to learn how chemistry can be as cool as photonics!

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