[lm-announce] AQLM 2009

[Jason Swedlow]

Dear All-

Just a reminder about about the upcoming run on Analytical and  
Quantitative Light Microscopy, held at the Marine Biological  
Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA.  The course will run May 6 - 15, 2009.

AQLM is a  comprehensive and intensive course in light microscopy for  
researchers in biology, medicine, and material sciences. This course  
provides a systematic and in-depth examination of the theory of image  
formation and application of video and digital methods for exploring  
subtle interactions between light and the specimen. This course  
emphasizes the quantitative issues that are critical to the proper  
interpretation of images obtained with modern wide-field and confocal  
microscopes.

Laboratory exercises, demonstrations, and discussions include: (1)  
geometrical and physical optics of microscope image formation  
including Abbe's theory of the microscope and Fourier optics; (2)  
interaction of light and matter; (3) phase contrast polarization and  
interference microscopy for the nondestructive analysis of molecular  
and fine-structural organization in living cells; (4) fluorescence  
microscopy, quantification of fluorescence, and GFP; (5) principles  
and application of digital video imaging, recording, analysis, and  
display; (6) digital image processing and quantitative digital image  
deconvolution; (7) ratiometric measurement of intracellular ion  
concentrations; (8) confocal microscopy; and (9) new advances in light  
microscopy such as FRET, FLIM, TIRF, and pattern illumination.

AQLM is supported by all the major commercial imaging providers, and  
the representatives are some of the best microscopy applications  
experts around.  With 26-30 students, 16 academic faculty and ~40  
commercial faculty. Students have a truly unique opportunity to learn  
from a very broad knowledge base, from experts from a wide variety of  
imaging domains.

The course web site is at http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/aqlm.html

Within the course, we often refer to AQLM as "Microscopy Boot Camp".   
It's intense, it's hardcore, but it's really fun (http://beadsinmay.blogspot.com/ 
).

You have a day or two to think about it-- why not join us for AQLM.   
You'll never forget it.

Cheers,

Jason


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