Founder @ Photurmi | MIT | IIT | Imaging Systems
Photurmi is a deep tech startup focused on optical imaging, sensing and intelligent microscopy Solutions.
Our DeepSeMi provides an upgrade in denoising for all kinds of cell biology applications, is compatible with diverse commercial microscopes, and easy to use.@naturemethods We will soon provide a package including multiple denoising tools for convenience. https://t.co/RdCzPY04hT
With their incredible dynamism and unexpected innovation, our speakers will always surprise us. 🤗
They are really effective at making us understand image analysis and Moirée fringes ! 😲🤭
@fab_cordelieres , @cchamot1971 , @audrey_salles
Me carrying the beautiful @optica Imaging Congress 2023 handbag in the elevator, in Boston Park Plaza..
Very senior lady: Do you sell eyeglasses?
Me: Yes, ma'am. I am trying to. I think everyone from this conference is trying to...
Arago's spot is a classical example of a beautiful mathematical theory anticipating a beautiful physical fact. Back in the 1800s, the scientific community was debating between defining light as a particle or a wave. Young's experiments, which demonstrated the wave-like characteristics of light, paved the way for Fresnel to formulate a mathematical wave theory. When Fresnel presented his theory in a competition, it came under scrutiny by Poisson, an advocate for the particle theory.
In his eagerness to debunk Fresnel's work, Poisson delved into the mathematics and discovered a prediction by the theory which he thought was inconsistent with experiments: shining light on an opaque disk should yield a bright spot at the center of its shadow.
Remarkably, no one had tested this prediction before. Motivated by Poisson's finding, Arago executed the experiment, and indeed, the spot manifested. What was intended as Poisson's rebuttal to the wave theory unexpectedly became a powerful testament to light's wave-like behavior.