Ernst Abbe Symposium, opening session FOM2005

The Abbe symposiium will be generously sponsored by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH.


Sunday March 20, 2005, Volkshaus, Jena

15:00-15:30Opening ceremony and welcome address
Karsten König (Fraunhofer-IBMT), Fred Brakenhoff (Univ. of Amsterdam), music, Claudia von Tilzer with the ZEISS orchestra
15:30-15:50Abbe and Jena
Ulrich Simon (Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH)
15:50-16:10Early confocal/sectioning microscopy, first time past Abbe?
Fred Brakenhoff (University of Amsterdam)
16:10-16.30Ernst Abbe and the origins of Fourier optics
Colin Sheppard (National University of Singapore)
16.30-16.50How Abbe would have done it
Tony Wilson (University of Oxford)
16:50-17:20Break
17:20-17:40Scharfe Bilder und Unscharfe Relationen/Deriving Abbe's Certainty from Heisenberg's Uncertainties
Ernst Stelzer (EMBL, Heidelberg)
17:40-18:00Nanoscale resolution with focused light
Stefan Hell (Max-Planck-Institut, Göttingen)
18:00-18:20Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy to reconstruct three-dimensional tissue nanostructure
Winfried Denk (Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg)
18:20-18:30Musical interlude
18:30-19:00Building and breeding molecules to spy on cells
Roger Tsien (University of California, San Diego, USA)
19:00-19:30Fluorescent proteins in live cell imaging
Atsushi Miyawaki (Riken, Wako-city, Japan)
19:30-19:40Closing music
Buffet, drinks