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19th March 2018.  
W Brad Amos, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge              

Abstract 
The first seminar of the Light microscopy series will be given by William B Amos of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge on Monday the 19th of March in the College lecture theatre at 2.00 pm and will address Resolution and the nature of optical images. The seminar will discuss the nature of images obtained the light microscope, Abbe's equation for resolution as well as recent developments such Interferometric Fluorescent Superresolution Microscopy (iPALM) and Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS). The poster of the series can be downloaded here.

Biography
William Brad Amos was trained as a zoologist, researched in cell biology and is now a designer of optical instruments. With John White, Mick Fordham and Richard Durbin in Cambridge, he developed an instrument that has set the standard of modern confocal microscopes.  Derivatives of this instrument are now made by many companies and are in use throughout the world. His scientific work is now carried out done in collaboration with Gail McConnell in the University of Strathclyde. This collaboration has resulted in several novel applications of optical physics in microscopy, including what is arguably the greatest design change in microscope objectives  for 100 years. This is called the Mesolens, the name signifying that it has the wide field of a photographic macro lens and the high resolution of a microscope objective.