Information Technology seminars
Photons have a bright future
- Date and time:
- 01/12/2008, 17:00
- Location:
- Building: S, Lecture theatre: S2, Clayton campus
- RSVP for catering purposes:
- Presenters:
- Professor Daniel Axelrod, Univ Michigan.
- Abstract:
- Over the last several decades, imaging has evolved from the production of qualitatively pretty pictures to a quantitatively rich and precise source of information. Part of the progress is due to brilliant advances in technology (e.g., highly sensitive digital cameras) and to advances in brainpower (e.g., powerful mathematical analysis techniques and computerization). But the real credit is due to the brightest entity of all: the photon, which has an impressive array of diverse properties that interact with and report upon the environment through which it passes.
- Speaker biographies:
- Professor Axelrod is Professor Emeritus of Physics, and Research Scientist Emeritus in Biophysics, Univ. of Michigan (Ann Arbor). With over 100 publications, Prof Axelrod has made significant contributions to the field of biophysics and cell biology, including development of FRAP, TIRF and dynamic light scattering microscopy techniques, all in the quest for a quantitative analysis of the mobility of receptor proteins and lipids in living cells.
