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| Second Annual CARS Workshop at Harvard | |
This year's workshop featured twenty-four trainees from eight different countries while continuing our tradition of providing an exceptional instructor to trainee ratio. The three-day workshop featured morning lectures given by experts from Harvard University, Mass General Hospital, Purdue University, University of Ottawa, Olympus, Inc, High Q Laser, and Coherent. Afternoons were devoted to lab training sessions with Xie Group instructors. Each trainee began with taking spontaneous Raman spectra, familiarization with laser scanning microscopes and ultrafast lasers, and finding the CARS signal on Day 1; then on to CARS imaging of model systems, study of the CARS signal, comparison of epi and forward signals, wavelength tuning and recording spectrum, and obtaining a CARS image of live cells on Day 2. And on Day 3 they performed real CARS experiments, which included viewing active transport in adrenal cortical cells, detecting single lipid bilayers, using deuterium materials in live cell imaging, and CARS tissue imaging. |
July 2005 Some participants' comments about this year's workshop... "...an exceptional workshop in every regard." "I particularly like the way the three topics are put together: theory, instrumentation, and applications." "I value this opportunity to interact with both instructors and participants." "The workshop met and exceeded all my expectations, as a 'wild card attendee'..."
Photo op discovered by CARS Trainee, Per Hillertz from Chalmers University of Technology |
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Day 3 afternoon CARS Trainees and Instructors pose for a group shot during the mid-day reception. |
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This event was so successful that we're doing it a third year! Registration information for next year's workshop will be posted this January. Please contact CARS Administrator Steven Soph with any questions at soph@fas.harvard.edu. |
CARS Instructor Dr. Feruz Ganikhanov from Harvard University with CARS Trainee Dr. Hilde Rinia from the University of Amsterdam |
