Published: 15.07.2024
The 10th International Conference on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications (ICOOPMA 2024) attracted more than a hundred scientists from all over the world to Pardubice at the end of June to discuss optical, optoelectronic and photonic materials and their applications for the future.
During the week-long scientific programme, which took place in the historical building of the University of Pardubice and adjacent lecture halls of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics on náměstí Čs. Legií, more than 70 scientific lectures were given, 32 posters were presented and specialist discussions were held by more than a hundred participants from 23 countries, with the highest numbers of delegates coming from countries such as Japan, Canada and Brazil. There were also participants from Australia, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and, of course, the Czech Republic.
The six best student lectures and the three best student posters were awarded a special prize in the form of specialist books by prominent authors featured in the conference programme, called plenary talks. In the poster section, two contributions from the home Faculty of Chemical Technology came away victorious and were awarded prizes among the winning student posters: “CW laser‐induced surface elements on Ge‐Sb‐Se chalcogenide glasses” (E. Samsonova, P. Kutálek, E. Černošková, J. Smolík, P. Knotek and J. Schwarz) and “Amorphous Er3+ doped tellurite thin films prepared by sputtering” (P. Ramanan, J. Gutwirth, A. Viswanathan, T. Ghanawi, F. Starecki, V. Nazabal, M. Roussey, P. Němec and L. Petit), which was created in collaboration between Tampere University, the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Rennes and the Faculty of Chemical Technology at the University of Pardubice.
During the conference, the Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology at the University of Pardubice prof. Ing. Petr Němec, Ph.D. awarded Professor Safa O. Kasap from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, the medal of merit for his long-term collaboration and lifelong development of education and research, and for his outstanding contribution to publications in the field of electronics, optics and optoelectronics, especially in the field of X-ray detection.
Professor Kasap has been collaborating with scientists in Pardubice for three decades now and is the main initiator of this regular international meeting of leading experts and promising young scientists from all over the world in a field that has a wide range of applications for the development of the planet and life on earth, ranging from telecommunications and photovoltaics, all the way through to optical, optoelectronic and electro-optical materials and systems.
