NSF official featured as guest speaker for RamanFest conference

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A representative of the National Science Foundation is the guest speaker for the upcoming RamanFest gala dinner.

Kelsey Cook is NSF program director of the Chemical Measurement and Imaging Program and co-leader for NSF activities related to forensic sciences. He champions avenues to enhancing synergistic interagency cooperation.

Cook will present “Enhancing Non-Linear Probabilities: Finding Funding in the Face of Increasing Competition” at the event Thursday (June 1).

Ramanfest 2017 is a two-day international conference highlighting the latest innovations in applied Raman spectroscopy.

Through the event, attendees can network with Raman experts and thought leaders from both industry and academia, and show posters on their latest research. The event encourages collaboration and discussion on the latest capabilities of Raman spectroscopy.

In addition, Professor Anant K. Ramdas will be a guest at the event dinner. Ramdas was a student of Raman and currently is the Lark-Horovitz Distinguished Professor of Physics at Purdue.

The conference is co-hosted by Ji-Xin Cheng, a professor in Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, and Andrew Whitley of HORIBA Scientific. 

More information on registration for RamanFest 2017 is available at www.ramanfest.org.

Writer: Brian L. Huchel, 765-494-2084, bhuchel@purdue.edu

Source: Ji-Xin Cheng, 765-494-4335, jcheng@purdue.edu