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Optics of Biological Particles

Akademgorodok (Academic Town), Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

October 3 - October 6, 2005

Scope and Format

The meeting will focus on the potential of Light Scattering in the detection of biological agents, on novel detection systems using polarized light scattering, imaging (microscopy), inelastic scattering, absorption and emission over all EM spectral regions, and will propose a research agenda for the next five years. We aim to bring together researchers from different fields (physics, biophysics, microbiology, cytology, etc) to foster the flow of information between these diverse groups of researchers. Most of all, we hope that the workshop results in new collaborations that will improve research efficiency.

We will be scheduling abstracts on Optics of

- bacteria and spores
- blood cells
- marine particles

studied with

- theoretical approaches (DDA, T-matrix, FDTD, etc.)
- experimental techniques (flow cytometry, imaging, fluorimetry, Raman spectroscopy, etc.)
- inverse problems (image analysis, neural networks, parameterization, refractometry, etc.)

We stress that this is a workshop, and not a conference. Presentations should be open-ended, looking toward future research, with ample time reserved for interaction and discussion.

Chairs:

Valeri Maltsev          Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Russia
Alfons Hoekstra       University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gorden Videen        US Army Research Laboratory, USA

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