The Abbe symposiium will be generously sponsored by Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH.
| Sunday March 20, 2005, Volkshaus, Jena | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Opening ceremony and welcome address |
| Karsten König (Fraunhofer-IBMT), Fred Brakenhoff (Univ. of Amsterdam), music, Claudia von Tilzer with the ZEISS orchestra | |
| 15:30-15:50 | Abbe and Jena |
| Ulrich Simon (Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH) | |
| 15:50-16:10 | Early confocal/sectioning microscopy, first time past Abbe? |
| Fred Brakenhoff (University of Amsterdam) | |
| 16:10-16.30 | Ernst Abbe and the origins of Fourier optics |
| Colin Sheppard (National University of Singapore) | |
| 16.30-16.50 | How Abbe would have done it |
| Tony Wilson (University of Oxford) | |
| 16:50-17:20 | Break |
| 17:20-17:40 | Scharfe Bilder und Unscharfe Relationen/Deriving Abbe's Certainty from Heisenberg's Uncertainties |
| Ernst Stelzer (EMBL, Heidelberg) | |
| 17:40-18:00 | Nanoscale resolution with focused light |
| Stefan Hell (Max-Planck-Institut, Göttingen) | |
| 18:00-18:20 | Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy to reconstruct three-dimensional tissue nanostructure |
| Winfried Denk (Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg) | |
| 18:20-18:30 | Musical interlude |
| 18:30-19:00 | Building and breeding molecules to spy on cells |
| Roger Tsien (University of California, San Diego, USA) | |
| 19:00-19:30 | Fluorescent proteins in live cell imaging |
| Atsushi Miyawaki (Riken, Wako-city, Japan) | |
| 19:30-19:40 | Closing music |
| Buffet, drinks | |