Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XXI

This conference draws well over one hundred presentations and an even larger number of participants. In addition to an immersive program of oral presentations, our poster sessions have a tradition of ensuring an excellent level of interaction and feedback. Special sessions ensure that technical advances are widely shared. Participants are also well served by the special attention given to community-building activities. Early career researchers are especially encouraged and highlighted.

Joint sessions will be planned with the "Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence" conference.

Papers are solicited on (but not restricted to) the following areas:

• precision measurement, including testing fundamental physics
• "gonzo" trapping (i.e., trapping at extremes)
• cavity optomechanics
• high-sensitivity detectors
• toward (or in) the quantum limit of opto-mechanics
• photonic devices for optically induced forces
• shaping the flow of information: energy and momentum
• systems with broken symmetry, including optical angular momentum
• statistical mechanics of small systems
• virus and single-molecule biophysical studies and technologies
• using the photonic toolbox to study cells and their organelles
• studies of dynamical biophysical systems, including active swimmers and hydrodynamics
• optofluidics and optically shaped structures
• optically driven microrheology, mechanobiology, and micromechanical properties
• enhanced sensitivity and resolution of optical force actuators
• optical manipulation of matter through gaseous media
• approaches to optical force and momentum measurement
• radiation pressure, tractor beams, and solar sails
• near-field micromanipulation, plasmonic, and nanoparticle trapping
• beam shaping and aberration and wavefront correction
• optical sorting, optical lab-on-a-chip, and microfluidics
• optically manipulated robotics and novel samples
• next-generation fabrication technologies, including nanoscale assembly with optical forces
• optical tweezers coupled with novel forms of microscopyv
• alternative and hybrid force systems (e.g., hybrid AFM-optical force systems, or combinations with acoustic, magnetic, or other forces)
• nonlinear optical responses mediated through forces (translation, electrostriction)
• optically bound matter
• holographic optical systems: from speckle to studies of neurons
• machine learning for designing relevant systems, for particle tracking, and for data analysis.