Colin Sheppard

40 years of Confocal Microscopy
70 years of Science

November 27th - December 1st, 2017 at nic.iit.it

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On Friday June 30th at Sala Maggior Consiglio, 1st floor Palazzo Ducale, Genova.

June 30th is Colin’s last day at IIT and the eve of his 70th birthday. An afternoon to celebrate his contribution to Science and to an all-together dinner in a Magnificent Palace in Genoa Historical Center

Italian press release

TV News Report

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Program

Speaker	Time	Talk	Link
Alberto Diaspro Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Department of Physics, University of Genoa	14:00	Welcome, Opening remarks and Salutations by Authorities
John Sheridan University of Dublin	14:30	Some Optical Modelling, Digital Simulations and Information Processing
Peter Torok Imperial College London	15:05	The theory of everything (at least in Optics)
Rainer Heintzmann Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena	15:40	Standardisation of the Optical Transfer Function
Manuel Martinez-Corral Department of Optics, University of Valencia	16:15	Far-field integral microscopy
Thorsten Wohland National University of Singapore	16:50	Confocal fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in zebrafish development
Colin JR Sheppard Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa	17:25	Reflections on the past and Aims for the future
Naveen Bulla and friends	18:00	Video presentation of greetings from Colleagues around the world
Drinks reception	19:00
Dinner ‘Tunnel’ Via Garibaldi	20:00	Informal All-Together Dinner (jackets required by the venue)	Tunnel