Tune into this month's edition of Light Matters for 'Part 1' of an exclusive interview with SPIE CEO, Eugene Arthurs, as he speaks about his upcoming retirement. We’ll also take you to Rochester, N.Y., for the Luminate Lightning Awards, and introduce you to the 10 finalists competing in the world’s largest optics, photonics, and imaging accelerator focused on advancing next generation OPI-enabled start-up companies. And, a photophysical discovery at Rice University and the University of Miami could facilitate better drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease. We’ll tell you more on the November edition of Light Matters.

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In this month's Light Matters Extra, we give you an in-depth look at the recent Luminate Lightning Awards. New York’s Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul was there and tells us why Luminate is important to the city of Rochester and the state of New York. The $10 million accelerator for optics, photonics and imaging start-ups is funded by the Finger Lakes Forward Upstate Revitalization Initiative award and is being administered by High Tech Rochester.

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Talk on QuasaR™ and Quantified Hardware by Think Biosolution CTO, Koushik Kumar Nundy, at the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, organised by Quantified Self Dublin.
Date: July 4, 2017.

Health and Technology

Shourjya Sanyal is an Entrepreneurial Scientist interested in building and commercializing cutting edge human technology.
He is one of the youngest fellows of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Students’ alumni meet held in Germany, 2009. Received the prestigious KVPY scholarship in 2007, from Government of India. His research interests are Image processing, Biomedical Engineering, Statistical Physics and Quantum-Classical Simulations. He has worked in several premiere research institutes like Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Bielefeld University, Germany and Max Plank Institute, Germany. He is currently finishing his Doctoral Thesis at School of Physics, UCD where his work involves designing protein based nano-devices using computational simulations.

He co-founded a startup Digital Self Technology Pvt. Ltd., Ireland in 2013-2014 incubated by NDRC where he implemented Image Recognition Technology for Tracking Brands and People on the Internet.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx