Dear all,

you are invited to the First Asia-Pacific Symposium on Confocal Microscopy
and Related Technologies

Date: August 23-25, 1999

Venue: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Email addresses for more information: [log in to unmask]

Web address for more information: http://137.132.92.180/scmrt99 or the US
mirror site: http://corn.eng.buffalo.edu

Phone numbers: (65) 874-8066; Fax: (65)7735461

Tentative Speakers:

Ping-Chin Cheng - Buffalo, USA

Guy Cox - Sydney, Australia

Min Gu - Melbourne, Australia

Fu-Jen Kao - Kaoshung, Taiwan

Martin Harris - Victoria, Australia (pending)

Tim Holmes - New York, USA

Andres Kriete - Giessen, Germany

Sigrid Myrdal - Seattle, USA

Jim Pawley - Madison, USA

Colin Sheppard - Sydney, Australia

Ernst Stelzer - Heidelberg, Germany (pending)

Tim Watson - London, UK

Tony Wilson - Oxford, UK

David Wokosin - Wisconsin, USA (pending)

topics:

2D & 3D Data Storage

Live Cell Imaging

Scanning Polarized Light Microscope

Fiber Optic Confocal Imaging

Semiconductor Detectors

Confocal Microscopy in Dental Research

Phase-Shifting White Light Interference Microscope

The Use of Low Light-CCD and Deconvolution in Cell Biology

Sub-pixel resolving deconvolution for optical microscopy

Phase-Contrast Confocal Microscope

2-Photon Optical Beam Induced Current (OBIC) imaging of InGaN Blue LEDs

Lasers for Biological Applications

Multidimensional Image Processing and Analysis

Pending: Photonic Force Microscopy Uses Thermal Noise to Image On the
Nanometer Scale

Pending: Deriving the Resolution of Optical System from Uncertainty
Relationships

Pending: 2-Photon & Confocal Microscopy in Living-Specimen/Materials
Interface

Pending: Minimally-Invasive Monitoring of Biological Development via
Multi-Photon Microscopy

There will be workshop in the afternoon for hands-on training (max. 24
participants)

Confocal Microscopes are provided by Olympus, Zeiss, Leica, Nikon, Biorad

SGI, supercomputers and PCs for the Image Processing workshops are provided
by the Supercomputing and Visualization Unit of the National University of
Singapore: http://www.nus.edu.sg/Major/SVU/index.html
<http://www.nus.edu.sg/Major/SVU/index.html>

Registration and other information can be found on the symposium websites:

http://137.132.92.180/scmrt99 or the US mirror site:
http://corn.eng.buffalo.edu <http://corn.eng.buffalo.edu>

Sincerely,

Hanry Yu.