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This Preparatory School is organized the week before the College for a limited number of selected participants. The Preparatory School will provide background tutorials and exercises designed to help the participants in following the College lectures.

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Material

Preparatory School to the Winter College on Optics: Advanced Optical Techniques for Bio-imaging | (smr 3169)
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  • Monday, 6 February 2017
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Registration 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1) ) 
        Only visitors lodging outside ICTP Guesthouses are kindly requested to register from 8:30 to 9:00 at the Adriatico Guest House – lower level. The remaining time will be needed to all participatnts financially supported by ICTP to complete administrative formalities at the Enrico Fermi Building at 8:30.  Please, be all on time to fulfill these formalities and to be present at the first session.
      • 10:30 Opening and Introduction 30'
      • 11:00 Introduction: The history of microscopy; what can we learn with a light microscope? 45'
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Merida, Venezuela)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:45 Geometrical Optics I: refraction, reflection, lenses, and image formation 45'
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Merida, Venezuela)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Fourier Theory I 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Energy levels in molecules I: basics 1h30'
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Tuesday, 7 February 2017
    • 09:00 - 17:20
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Fourier Theory II 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Geometrical Optics II: paraxial theory, microscope imaging and Kohler illumination, objectives and eyepieces 1h30'
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Merida, Venezuela)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Physical Optics I: Interference and diffraction 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez and Anna Consortini (University of Rochester, USA; University of Florence, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee break 20'
      • 15:50 Energy levels in molecules II: excitations and fluorescence 1h30' 
        (fluorescent molecules, fluorescent dyes, or fluorochromes, green fluorescent proteins GFP)
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Wednesday, 8 February 2017
    • 09:00 - 17:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Physical Optics II: Fourier optics and resolution 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Principles of Microscopy I: PSF and resolution 1h30'
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Merida, Venezuela)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Microscopy Laboratory 3h0' ( Multidisciplinary Laboratory ) 
        (Group 1)
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Merida, Venezuela)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 Diffraction Laboratory 3h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1) ) 
        (Group 2)
        Speaker: Anna Consortini; Imrana Ashraf; Miltcho Danailov (University of Florence, Italy; Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 Mathematica Workshop 3h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Denardo Lecture Hall ) 
        (Group 3)
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides
  • Thursday, 9 February 2017
    • 09:00 - 17:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Principles of Microscopy II: super-resolution 1h30' 
        An overview about super resolution microscopy methods
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Merida, Venezuela)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Ray and wave theory of image formation: aberrations 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Diffraction Laboratory 3h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1) ) 
        (Group 1)
        Speaker: Anna Consortini; Imrana Ashraf; Miltcho Danailov (University of Florence, Italy; Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
      • 14:00 Mathematica Workshop 3h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Denardo Lecture Hall ) 
        (Group 2)
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 Microscopy Laboratory 3h0' ( Multidisciplinary Laboratory ) 
        (Group 3)
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Merida, Venezuela)
  • Friday, 10 February 2017
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Mathematica Workshop 3h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Denardo Lecture Hall ) 
        (Group 1)
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:00 Microscopy Laboratory 3h0' ( Multidisciplinary Laboratory ) 
        (Group 2)
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Merida, Venezuela)
      • 09:00 Diffraction Laboratory 3h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1) ) 
        (Group 3)
        Speaker: Anna Consortini; Imrana Ashraf; Miltcho Danailov (University of Florence, Italy; Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; University of Florence, Italy; Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
      • 12:00 Lunch break 1h30'
      • 13:30 Coherence Theory 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 Cell Structure and division 1h30'
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 17:00 Closing 30'
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