News & Events

Day 1, 28 September 2020

8:30 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 11:00

Session 1 Chair
Chair of Scientific Board prof. Rasa Pauliukaitė 

9:00

Welcome speeches by the conference Chair and honorable Guests:

9:20

Gintaras Valušis (FTMC): 10 years of scientific excellence and high-tech innovations
Plenary talk on history and the most important achievements of the FTMC

10:00

Valdemaras Razumas (Vice minister, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport): Policy of scientific excellence and FTMC role in innovation ecosystem

10:30

Visiting of exhibition “Science and Scientists on Coins and Banknotes” – author and initiator – Academician Eugenijus Norkus. Foyer of the FTMC

11:00 - 11:20

Coffee break

11:20 - 12:50

Session 2 Chair
Scientific Secretary dr. Kristina Plauškaitė – Šukienė 

11:20

Gediminas Račiukaitis (FTMC): Laser technologies and evolution of laser industries

11:50

Arūnas Šetkus (FTMC): Applied photonics: from bulk semiconductors to nanostructures

12:20

Eimutis Juzeliūnas (FTMC): Electrochemistry of silicon – towards a low-carbon economy

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3 Chair
Deputy Director for Research and Development 
habil. dr. Rimantas Ramanauskas 

14:00

Antti Vasara (VTT, Helsinki): key-note talk by the President of EARTO,
Role of RTOs in boosting innovation ecosystems: case example VTT in Finland (on-line)

14:30

Vincent Ryckaert (IMEC, Leuven): Invited talk  Intelectual Property Rights Challenges of RTOs

15:00

Kristina Ananičienė (LITEK), Julius Paužolis (FIMTP):
10 years along with high-tech business

15:30 - 15:50

Coffee break

15:50 - 17:15

Session 4 Chair
habil. dr. Gediminas Niaura

15:50

Braz Costa (President EXTRANET, CEO CITIVE, Braga):
Knowledge Based Textiles: the only possible future of textile industry in Europe (on-line)

16:30

Xi-Cheng Zhang (Rochester University): Key-note talk of International Advisory Board:
Recent Progress on THz Aqueous Science and Technology (on-line)

17:30 - 18:10

Chamber group of Vilnius music lovers symphony orchestra 

Music for Entertainment
(Foyer of the Centre, Saulėtekio ave. 3, Vilnius)

Day 2, 29 September 2020

8:30 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 10:30

Session 1 Chair
dr. Linas Vilčiauskas

9:00

Vidmantas Gulbinas (FTMC): Charge carrier motion peculiarities in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites

9:30

Steigvilė Byčenkienė (FTMC): Climate change and environmental research

10:00

Audrius Alkauskas (FTMC): Invited talk on talents returns and overseas cooperation

10:30 - 10:50

Coffee break

10:50 - 12:20

Session 2 Chair
prof. habil. dr. Leonas Valkūnas

10:50

Rienk van Groendelle (VU University, Amsterdam): Key-note talk of International Advisory Board Member: The quantum design of photosynthesis (on-line)

11:20

Jonas Zmuidzinas (CalTech, Pasadena): Key-note talk of International Advisory Board Member.
Kinetic inductance parametric amplifiers:
The next big thing for ALMA? (video)

11:50

Hartmut G. Roskos (Goethe-university, Frankfurt/M): Key-note talk of International Advisory Board Member: Light-matter interaction in a 1D THz photonic crystal cavity: Ultrastrong coupling and nonlinear optics (on-line)

12:20 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3 Chair
Head of Department of  Molecular Compound Physics
prof. habil. dr. Vidmantas Gulbinas

14:00

Leonas Valkūnas (FTMC): Models and Mechanisms of Reversible Regulation of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

14:30

Irmantas Kašalynas (FTMC): Terahertz technologies: highlighted achievements and current challenges

15:00

Rokas Kondrotas, Marie Curie Fellow at the FTMC:
Current status and prospects of chalcogenide solar cells

15:30

Closing remarks

APROPOS 17 Conference
30 September — 1 October, 2020
Preliminary programme