Please join us this winter for the 1st IEEE British and Irish Conference on Optics and Photonics (BICOP 2018), which will be held on the 12th – 14th December 2018 at the prestigious Royal Society in London. This event will include esteemed speakers from industry and academia including IBM, BT, Dell, Microsoft, BT, Toshiba, [...]

BICOP 2019 will showcase the UK and Ireland's world-leading research and development in optics and photonics to global stakeholders with a proper balance of industry and academia.

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the IEEE UK and Ireland Photonics Chapter are pleased to invite you to the 1st IEC / IEEE  Joint Symposium on Electro-Optical Circuit Boards.

Applications of optical tweezers to biological systems have been, and remain, one of the outstanding successes of the technique. In this talk, Prof Philip Jones will give a short introduction to optical tweezers, including what makes them suitable for use in biology and the life sciences.