Les hacemos una cordial invitación para presenciar las conferencias impartidas por el Prof. Sune Svanberg y la Prof. Katarina Svanberg que se llevarán a acabo en la semana del 9 al 12 de Agosto del 2010.



Prof. Sune Svanberg
Physics Department, and Lund Laser Center
Lund University, Sweden


Lunes 09 de Agosto del 2010
Título: “Laser Spectroscopy Applied to Environmental Sciences”
Hora: 12:00 p.m
Lugar: Auditorio Daniel Malacara Hernández

Miércoles 11 de Agosto del 2010
Título: “Biomedical Applications of Laser Spectroscopy”
Hora: 12:00 p.m
Lugar: Auditorio Daniel Malacara Hernández


RESUMEN

Sune Svanberg was born in 1943 in Trollhättan, Sweden. After matriculation exam in Trollhättan in 1962 he started studies of natural sciences at the University of Göteborg, where he received his BSc in 1966. He enrolled the graduate school in physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg and first spent half a year at the Technical University of Berlin (Prof. H. Bucka) studying atomic resonance spectroscopy. He brought this field back to his university and defended his PhD in this field 1972 (Thesis advisor: Prof. I. Lindgren). After a post-doc year at Columbia University, New York (Prof. W. Happer) and initial work on atomic laser spectroscopy he continued laser-based spectroscopy at Chalmers up till 1980, when he became professor and head of the Atomic Physics Division at Lund Institute of Technology (technical faculty at Lund University). In Lund a vigourous program of laser spectroscopy, including basic atomic physics and applications to energy, environmental and medical research has been pursued. Basic studies include studies of radiative properties of atoms and ions as well as superintense laser/matter interactions (high harmonics generation, X-ray laser pumping and broadband X-ray generation). Applications include laser radar sounding of pollutants in the atmosphere and hydrosphere, laser diagnostics of combustion processes, and laser-based detection and treatment of cancer and cardio-vascular disease. He has taken the initiative to the formation of three centres for interdisciplinary work: the Combustion Centre, the Environmental Monitoring Centre and the Medical Laser Centre. He also proposed and helped establish a High-Power Laser Facility, including a multi-terawatt 10 Hz laser. In 1995 he was appointed director of the newly established Lund Laser Centre, which also gained the EC status of a European Large Scale Facility. He has trained a large number of PhD students from home and abroad through the years. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences (and during 10 years a member of its Nobel Committee for Physics; two years as chairman), and the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences.  Up till 1995 he was a member of the Swedish National Space Board and the chairman of its Remote Sensing Committee. He served on the Board of the Swedish Research Council during 2004-2009. He is a Dr honoris causa at the Lund University Medical Faculty, at the Science Faculty of University of Latvia, at the Science Faculty of Université de Liège, at the Universidad Nacional de Engineria, Lima, a Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Académie Royale de Belgique, an Associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), an Honorary Professor at the Zhejiang University, Jilin University and at  HIT-Harbin, China, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America and is the recipient of the first EPS Quantum Electronics Prize (1996) and recepient of the first Azko Nobel Science Award (1999). 2004 he was awarded the SKAPA Innovation Prize, in 2005 the W.E. Lamb Medal, in 2006 the Celsius Gold Medal (Uppsala), in 2009 the Memorial Gold Medal (Lund) and the V.K. Zworykin Award of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering, and in 2010 the Adelskold Medal of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He is an “Einstein Professor” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2006. He serves on numerous international conference, evaluation and advisory committees. During the years 1987-93 he was a member of the TetraPak Scientific Council and 1993-2000 a member of the Scientific Council of the Volvo Research Foundation. He has supervised a large number of graduate students to their PhD in Physics. He is the coauthor of about 580 scientific papers and over 30 patents and patent applications, and he helped in the formation of several spin-off companies. He arranged several workshops for physicists in developing countries, where realistic experimental set-ups based on diode lasers and light emitting diodes were integrated for applications at their home universities within the fields of medicine, environment and agriculture.

Prof. Katarina Svanberg
Oncology Department, and Lund University
Medical Laser Centre, Lund University, Sweden

Martes 10 de Agosto del 2010
Título: “SPIE and its Outreach Programs”
Hora: 11:00 a.m
Lugar: Auditorio Daniel Malacara Hernández

Jueves 12 de Agosto del 2010
Título: “Lasers in the Detection and Treatment of Cancer”
Hora: 12:00 p.m
Lugar: Auditorio Daniel Malacara Hernández



RESUMEN

Katarina Svanberg is an MD and a PhD. She works as a chief oncologist at the Lund University Hospital as well as a Professor of Oncology at the Lund University.

Her research interest includes laser-induced fluorescence detection of early malignancies as well as photodynamic therapy in which field she very early introduced ALA for topical sensitisation. She is also involved in a new research field; GASMAS - Gas Detection in Scattering Media. Within this project the Lund group is developing non-intrusive techniques for detection of free gases within the human body, such as the gas exchange in the facial sinuses.

Katarina Svanberg is the director of the Lund University Medical Laser Centre and at the moment president elect of SPIE (the International Soceiety for optical Engineering) – an international society for optical engineering with 18 000 members. She will be the president of SPIE 2011 s also a fellow of the same society.

Katarina Svanberg is the co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, has been a co-organiser of conferences within the field and has given numerous invited talks. She has been in particular interested in collaboration with countries in the developing world and has together with collaborators introduced PDT and fluorescence detection to Malaysia, Senegal in Africa and Lithuania and is also involved in a lot of collaboration within othe countries in Africa as well as in China.