The Soft Matter Lab participates to the SPIE Optics+Photonics conference in San Diego, CA, USA, 23-27 August 2026, with the presentations listed below.
- Giovanni Volpe Light-driven metamachines: From metarotors to integrated microscopic gear trains (Keynote Presentation)
23 August 2026 • 8:30 AM – 9:05 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 11A
[link on SPIE] - Antonio Ciarlo Light-driven micromechanical gear systems
23 August 2026 • 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 11A
[link on SPIE] - Alex Lech deeplay: enhancing pytorch with customizable and reusable neural networks
23 August 2026 • 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Antonio Ciarlo SmartTrap: high-throughput optical tweezers via real-time adaptive control
23 August 2026 • 4:55 PM – 5:10 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 5B
[link on SPIE] - Giovanni Volpe Artificial intelligence for microscopy: From pixels to physical insight (Invited Paper)
24 August 2026 • 9:45 AM – 10:10 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 15B
[link on SPIE] - Prakhar Dutta ASAP (AFM simulation and analysis pipeline): a unified deep learning framework for simulation, quality control, and segmentation in atomic force microscopy (Invited Paper)
24 August 2026 • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Alex Lech DeepTrack2: physics-based microscopy simulations for deep learning
24 August 2026 • 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Anoop Patil From Raman to infrared: extending DIVA to FTIR spectra for quantitative seed phenotyping
24 August 2026 • 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Anoop Patil Beyond pixels: deep feature extraction for plant nutrient deficiency classification
24 August 2026 • 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Giovanni Volpe An energy- and data-efficient foundation model for high-content phenotypic screening (Poster)
24 August 2026 • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Exhibit Hall B1
[link on SPIE] - Aarón Domenzain del castillo Cerecér Particle tracking in quantitative microscopy: a modular tutorial on classical and deep learning methods
25 August 2026 • 9:35 AM – 9:50 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Giovanni Volpe Artificial intelligence for optical tweezers (Invited Paper)
25 August 2026 • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 5B
[link on SPIE] - Agnese Callegari Geometrical optics for optical manipulation (Invited Paper)
26 August 2026 • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 5B
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Giovanni Volpe is a coauthor of the following presentations:
- Mite Mijalkov In-silico cognition signals aging and cognitive decline
23 August 2026 • 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Iok-ui Tiunn Unsupervised analysis of 3D human bone reveals age-sensitive niches for CXCL12+ stromal cells
24 August 2026 • 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Alexandra Badea Graph-Based Embeddings of Laminar Cortical Columns Reveal Interpretable Microstructural Patterns Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease Risk (Invited Paper)
26 August 2026 • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Massimiliano Passaretti Clinical progression and genetic pathways in body-first and brain-first Parkinson’s disease
26 August 2026 • 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
[link on SPIE] - Mite Mijalkov The locus coeruleus gap: a novel marker of neurodegenerative resilience
27 August 2026 • 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 2
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