Invited Speakers

The Program Committee and Organizers of ICAVS-6 are pleased to announce that the following scientists have accepted our invitations for Invited Presentations:

• Sergio Abbate, Universita' di Brescia, Italy
  Title: "How do Mechanical and Electrical Anharmonicities Affect IR, NIR, and VCD Spectra?"
• Sanford Asher, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
  Title: "UV Resonance Raman Measurement of the Energy Landscape for Protein and Peptide Folding"
• Paul Champion, Northeastern University, U.S.A.
  Topic: Coherent Spectroscopy of Low-Frequency Protein Vibrations and Dynamics
• Klaus Gerwert, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
  Title: "Proteins Monitored by Vibrational Microspectroscopy in Membranes, Cells and Tissues"
• Yukihiro Ozaki, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
  Title: "TERS from Polymer/Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes"
• Eric Potma, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
  Topic: Nonlinear Vibrational Imaging of Tissues
• Lawrence Ziegler, Boston University, U.S.A.
  Topic: SERS Fingerprinting for Bacterial Identification

This is by no means the complete list of invited lecturers.  As more invitations are accepted we shall be adding the speakers to this list.