The organisers of the 2015 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2015) announced that Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will be a keynote speaker at the conference’s Plenary Session in May 2015. Betzig won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. (For more information on his research, see the article “2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Development of Nanoscopy” in Novus Light Technologies Today.) Betzig joins an already impressive line-up of speakers that includes Nobel Laureate Steven Chu of Stanford University and laser luminaries Tony Heinz of Columbia University and Miles Padgett of the University of Glasgow.
The plenary presentations are as follows:
• Eric Betzig of the Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the US will speak on “Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution.” Betzig will describe three different technologies that balance the inevitable tradeoffs of spatial resolution, speed and non-invasiveness in fluorescence microscopy: 3D localisation microscopy, nonlinear structured illumination microscopy and lattice light sheet microscopy.
• Steven Chu of Stanford University in the US will talk about “Microscopy 2.0.” Chu will discuss how a revolution in optical and electron microscopy will provide tools that can have a profound impact on biology, biomedicine and bioengineering.
• Tony Heinz of Columbia University in the US will consider “Electrons in Atomically Thin Two-Dimensional Crystals.” Heinz will discuss graphene and recent advances in our understanding of the properties of electrons confined to this material of single-atom thickness.
• Miles Padgett of the University of Glasgow in Scotland (UK) will examine “Light’s Twist.” Padgett will explore the inner workings of light beams, in which energy and momentum can twist and twirl, carrying angular momentum that can spin particles, encode information and test quantum mechanics.
As previously scheduled, Betzig will also speak at the Symposium on Advanced Optical Microscopy for Brain Imaging at CLEO 2015. His topic is “Rapid Adaptive Optical Recovery of Diffraction-Limited Resolution over Large Multicellular Volumes.” The talk will cover his team’s work with adaptive optical microscopy to recover image quality under harsh conditions caused by the heterogeneity of biological tissue.
CLEO 2015 takes place 10-15 May 2015 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California (US).
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