Photonics@UCI present the last seminar of the 2014-15 academic year:
Raman and His Effect: A historical and Biographical account
by Dr. V. Ramanathan, assistant professor at SASTRA University, India.
Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 2:00 PM
Natural Sciences 2 building, room 1201
Abstract: The Raman effect began with a simple observation: a “weak fluorescence” exhibited by organic solvents upon irradiating with the light from a mercury arc lamp. It has since then seen wide and exotic applications in fields like bio-medical imaging, forensic science, combustion spectroscopy etc. In this presentation, I would like to talk about the historical developments in the discovery of this optical phenomenon, alongside touching upon the biographical aspects of the scientist after whom the effect is named.
About the speaker: V. Ramanathan is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine. He completed his PhD in 2008 from IIT Kanpur, India, working on laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy of organic molecules in supersonic jet. After a couple of postdocs in S. Korea, Germany and Switzerland, he is currently an assistant professor in the department of Chemistry at SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India. His current research interests are in bio-medical imaging using Raman micro-spectroscopy.