Visit us at the IRDG Christmas Meeting 2019. The Infrared and Raman Discussion Group’s meeting is on Thursday 19th December 2019 at UCL in London.
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IRDG Christmas Meeting
The Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (IRDG) was established in 1950 and is one of the UK’s oldest spectroscopy organisations. The group is made up of researchers from industry, government and academia who are interested in the theory, practice and teaching of infrared and Raman spectroscopy.
All are welcome to attend the meeting and join the group – see information about registration below.
Programme
Thursday 19th December 2019
- 10:00 – Registration and coffee
- 10:25 – Welcome and introduction
- 10:30 – Keynote Lecture – Curt Marcott (Light Light Solutions, USA)
Simultaneous Raman and Optical Photothermal IR Spectroscopy at Sub-micron Spatial Resolution - 11:00 – Fay Nicolson (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA)
Non-Invasive In Vivo Imaging of Cancer Using Surface Enhanced Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy - 11:20 – Francesca Palombo (Exeter University, UK)
Evaluating the Micromechanical Signatures of Collagen Hydrogels as Tissue Phantoms - 11:40 – Martin & Willis Prize winning lecture – Laura Moran (Exeter University, UK)
Using Astrophysics to Improve Breast Cancer Detection - 12:00 – Lucia Burgio (Victoria and Albert Museum, University College London, UK)
Have You Ever Wondered What a Museum Scientist Does? - 12:30 – Christmas lunch
- 14:50 – Keynote Lecture – Andrew Whitley (HORIBA Scientific, USA)
Cinderella and the Beanstalk – A Not So Raman Story - 15:20 – Mike George (Nottingham University, UK)
Towards Greener Photochemistry - 15:40 – IRDG AGM
- 16:00 – Poster session
- 18:00 – End of formal proceedings
Venue
The meeting will be held at UCL in London:
Registration
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All are welcome to attend IRDG meetings by paying a non-member’s meeting fee, which also enrolls you as a member of the group. Membership is open to everyone interested in IR and Raman spectroscopy. The membership fee is kept very low so that everyone who wishes to join is able to do so.
O-PTIR at IRDG
Don’t miss Curt Marcott’s talk at 10:30am: “Simultaneous Raman and Optical Photothermal IR Spectroscopy at Sub-micron Spatial Resolution”.
O-PTIR is a ground-breaking technique that breaks the infrared diffraction limit and overcomes two great issues in IR spectroscopy:
- Achieve sub-micron spatial resolution.
- Measure thick samples in reflection mode.
- None of the contact limitations or dispersive artifacts of ATR.
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mIRage O-PTIR microscope
- Sub-micron spatial resolution.
- Non-contact technique.
- Transmission FTIR quality spectra in reflection mode.
- Combine with Raman spectroscopy.
More Information
Blue Scientific is the official UK and Nordic distributor of O-PTIR from Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. We’re available to answer all your questions – just get in touch:
