Nano Area of Advance Community Building Activity 2024

Welcome to participate in the Community Building Activity 26-28 August 2024 held at Marstrand Havshotell. 

The Community Building activity includes a broad scientific program with lectures from both invited and internal speakers, in combination with discussions, team building and networking. You will also be able to join a hike around the beautiful island of Marstrand or take the time to enjoy the spa.  

The event is open to all Chalmers employees and invited guests. It is free of charge but you need to register. 

Program 

August 26

10:30 Bus leaves from Chalmers

11:30 Arrival at Marstrands Havshotell and pick-up of nametags, deposition of luggage

11:45 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:15 Introduction to the CBA Christoph and Janine

13:15 – 13:45 Arne Sjögren Prize Winner Adriana Canales Ramos – De-mist-ifying polaritons: how hard is it to create them?

13:45– 14:45 Scientific talks. Chair – Ebba Matic

13:45 – 14:15: ERC talk by Raphaël Van Laer – Molding the flow of and interactions between microwaves, acoustics, and optics at the quantum level

14:15 – 14:45: Mattias Geilhufe, Assistant professor – Quantum Metal-Organic Frameworks

14:45 – 15:15 Coffee, Fika & Check-in

15:15 – 16:45 Scientific talks. Chair – Viktor Bekassy

15:15 – 15:45: ERC talk by Witlef Wieczorek – Towards a quantum experiment with micrometer-sized levitated superconducting particles

15:45– 16:05: Seed Project talk by Fredrik Westerlund et al.  – Optical genome mapping to identify structural variations in human genomes

16:05 – 16:35: Seed Project talk by Ann-Sofie Cans – Nanoprobes to study synaptic function

16:25 – 16:45: Seed Project talk by Philippe Tassin et al. Inverse design of linear and nonlinear photonic devices with machine learning

16:45 – 17:00 Coffee

17:00 – 17:45 Invited talk by Prof. Heike Riel, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe at IBM Research, and member of the AoA Nano Advisory Board. 
What’s next in Computing - In Bits, AI & Qubits?
Chair – Johanna Huhtasaari

18:00 – 19:30  Dinner

19:45 – 21:45  Poster session incl. refreshments

August 27

09:00 – 10:30 Center talks – FoRmulaEx. Chair – Johanna Huhtasaari

09:00 - 09:30: Fredrik Höök – Introduction to FoRmulaEx. An Introduction to the FoRmulaEx Center and Research Highlights about Lipid Nanoparticle Fingerprinting and Cell-Membrane-Interaction Analysis using Label-Free Surface Sensitive Optical Microscopy

09:30 - 10:00: Elin Esbjörner Delivery of RNA-loaded lipid nanoparticles to cells

10:00 - 10:30: Anders Dahlén, Astra Zeneca – New modalities in drug discovery

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee & fika

10:45 – 12:15 Success stories – Entrepreneurship. Chair – Ambjörn Joki

10:45 – 11:05: Nyctea – Andreas Dahlin & Maria Kyriakidou – Electrochemical purification of biopharmaceuticals

11:05 – 11:25: Nanolyze – Fredrik Höök & Gaurav Goyal (CEO) – Nanolyze AB: A Deep Tech Startup Revolutionizing Nanoparticle Imaging 

11:25 – 11:45: Amferia – Martin Andersson & Saba Atefyekta (CEO) – The Amferia Story: From University Research to Clinical Application

11:45 – 12:15: Panel discussion with these three startup teams moderated by Chalmers Ventures

12:15– 12:25 AoA Nano Community Picture

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 –16:30 Free time where you can enjoy the hotel’s spa, take a short ferry ride to the island of Marstrand to visit Carlsten Fortress, or take a walk on Koön, where the hotel is located. 

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee and fika

17:00 – 17:15 Introduction to the new VR MetaPix Centre by Philippe Tassin

17:15– 17:45 News from our research infrastructures CMAL and NFL by Per-Anders Carlsson and Peter Modh

17:45 – 19:30

-Introduction to Chalmers NextLabs and Workshop for all Nano PIs, senior researchers and guests: workshop topics announced at the CBA

- Workshop for PhD students & postdocs: Scientific results that had a decisive impact on my career - personal reflections by Anette Larsson, Mikael Käll, Saroj Dash and Floriana Lombardi – moderated by Fredrik Höök

19:45 – late Dinner, posters are still up for visits after dinner

August 28

09:00 Check out from rooms 

09:00 – 10:40 Scientific talks. Chair – Ambjörn Joki

09:00 – 09:30: Scientific talk by Mikael Käll – Metasurface emitting lasers for biophotonics research and applications

09:30 – 10:00: Assistant professor talk by Mathilde Lunneau – Atom efficient alloys with enhanced catalytic performance

10:00 – 10:20: Seed Project talk by Alexandra Stubelius et al. NANO transport – An in vitro biomimetic microfluidic platform to evaluate nanomedicine performance in blood 

10:20 – 10:40: Seed project talk by Lars Evenäs et al. – Enabling photochemistry through photon upconversion in microcapsules

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee

11:00 – 12:20 Scientific talks. Chair – Viktor Bekassy

11:00 – 11:30: Assistant professor talk by Varun Chaundry – Magnetic nanoparticles in cooling and curing applications

11:30 – 11:50: Seed Project talk Roland Kádár et al –On the quest for bridging lengthscales in the flow of hierarchical materials

11:50 – 12:20: Scientific talk by Paul Erhart - Dynamical materials: From atomic scale modeling via machine learning to experiments

12:20 – 12:30: Conclusion of the CBA incl poster prize awards, etc.

12:30– 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Bus to Chalmers