Seeing Life Through a New Light: Photonics for healthcare and medicine

光是惊人的：先进的光源，如激光，现在在我们家里的CD/数据存储系统，超市条形码阅读器，电信系统和媒体显示中很常见。在过去的十年里，光已经对我们的能力产生了深远的影响，我们可以询问和影响生物样本（例如细胞，DNA）的运动，甚至可以影响原子的运动，甚至可以创造一种被称为超原子的物质状态（玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚）。这些变化简直令人震惊。光可以施加力来捕获（定位）和移动微观物体（如细胞）和原子到空间的一个小区域。光也让我们在成像细胞、追踪蛋白质、甚至进行激光手术治疗皮肤病、肿瘤和某些癌症方面取得了惊人的进步。光是在改变我们的生活。这个系列的展览结合了尖端的讲座和实践经验，向参观者展示光如何观察和移动比人类头发宽度还小的物体，光如何治疗某些形式的癌症，以及如何在现代医学和医疗保健中使用。目的是传达光和物理的基本原理，使我们能够取得这些进步，并为21世纪令人兴奋的跨学科科学和先进的医疗保健铺平道路。

Light is amazing: Advanced light sources such as lasers are now commonplace in CD/data storage systems in our homes, supermarket bar code readers, telecommunications systems and in media displays. Very notably over the last decade light has made a deep impact in our ability to interrogate and influence the motion of biological samples (e.g. cells, DNA) and even atoms creating even a state of matter knows as the superatom (Bose-Einstein condensation). These changes are quite simply astounding. Light can exert forces to trap (localise) and move microscopic objects (like a cell) and atoms to a small region of space. Light also allows us amazing advances with the ability image cells, track proteins and even perform laser surgery for treatment of skin conditions, tumours and certain forms of cancer. Light is quite simply changing our life.This series of shows incorporates cutting -edge lectures and demonstrations with hands-on experience to show visitors how light can observe and move objects that are very small, smaller than the width of a human hair, how light can treat some forms of cancer and be used in modern medicine and healthcare. The aim will be to convey the basic principles of light and physics that allow us to make these advances and pave the way for exciting 21st century interdisciplinary science and advanced healthcare.