26th August
Afternoon:  Arrival
21.15:  Welcome Reception at the Marsala Lecture Hall (S. Rocco)
27th August
9.00-9.20	Welcome	C. Zannoni – Director of the ISLC   A. d’Alessandro                         (IEEE PS President)
9.20 – 10.20	Lecture 1 Introduction on Liquid Crystals	Claudio Zannoni, University of Bologna, Italy
10.20 – 11.20	Lecture 2 Advances in plasmonic nanovectors for tumors theranostics	Roberto Pini, Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC) – CNR, Italy
11.20 – 11.50		Coffee Break
11.50 – 12.50	Lecture 3 Early diagnosis of Alzeheimer biomarkers by means of SERS nanostructured platforms,	Roberto Pini, Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC) – CNR, Italy
12.50 – 15.00		Lunch break
15.00 – 16.00	Lecture 4 Applications of nonlinear optics in multimode fibers for multiphoton imaging and CARS spectroscopy,	Vincent Couderc, Université de Limoges, France
16.00 – 17.00	Lecture 5 Nanotechnology for precision medicine using LC and nanoparticles,	Luciano De Sio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
		Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.30	Coffee and Posters	Coffee and Poster session
28th August
9.00 – 10.00	Lecture 6 Simple and highly sensitive Bio-Chemical Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors,	Nunzio Cennamo, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
10.00 – 11.00	Lecture 7 Fiber optic biosensors for Nanomedicine I,	Antonello Cutolo, “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy
11.00 – 11.30		Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30	Lecture 8 Fiber optic biosensors for Nanomedicine II,	Antonello Cutolo, “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy
12.30 – 15.00		Lunch break
15.00 – 16.00	Lecture 9 On-chip integrated advanced 3D fluorescence microscopy,	Francesca Bragheri, CNR – Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Milan, Italy
16.00 – 17.00	Lecture 10 Super-Resolution Optical Imaging of Bacterial Cells,	Gabriella Cincotti, University of Roma TRE, Italy,
17.00 – 18.30	Coffee and Posters
29th August
9.00 – 10.00	Lecture 11 Integrated silicon biosensor for aflatoxin detection,	Lorenzo Pavesi, University of Trento, Italy,
10.00 – 11.00	Lecture 12 Metamaterial based biochips	Giuseppe Strangi, University of Calabria, Italy and Case Western Reserve University, USA
11.00 – 11.30		Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30	Lecture 13 Functional colorimetric sensing platforms for measuring environmental changes,	Young Min Song, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea,
12.30 – 13.30	Lecture 14 Liquid biopsy by phase contrast tomography,	Pietro Ferraro, Institute for Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI) – CNR Italy
15.00 – 21.00	Excursion	TBD
30th August
9.00 – 10.00	Lecture 15 Neuromorphic photonics and the brain,	Lorenzo Pavesi, University of Trento, Italy
10.00 – 11.00	Lecture 16 Technologies for optogenetics and neurophotonics	Massimo De Vittorio, Italian Institute of Technology and University of Salento, Italy
11.00 – 11.30		Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30	Lecture 17 LC devices for biophotonics,	Antonio d’Alessandro, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
	Concluding Remarks
20.00	Social Dinner and poster awards
31st August Departures

Preliminary program