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First documented Arcas species, 1775
Arcas imperialis species (Columbia), Hungarian Natural Histroy Museum
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Complexity and evolution of photonic nanostructures in bioorganism: templates for material sciences (BioPhot)

Workshop I, Budapest, Hungary, 23-24 September, 2005

Hungarian Natural History Museum, Central Building
(Budapest, district VIIII, Ludovika tér 1)
Auditorium Sándor Jávorka

The meeting and the BioPhot project is made possible by the EU support through the BioPhot grant: NEST/PATHFINDER/BIO-PHOT-012915.

Responsibles and organizers
Dr. Zsolt Bálint
balint@nhmus.hu
Hungarian Natural History Museum
Dr. László Péter Biró
biro@mfa.kfki.hu
Research Instititute for Technical Physics and Materials Science , Hungarian Academy of Scinces


Public Program, 23rd September, 2005, 15.00-19.30

Opening Words:
Dr Matskási István, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Director General.

Presentations
- listed in alphabetic order according to the author indicated first
- maximum length 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for allowing questions

Zs. Bálint and A. Kun (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary)
What constitutes an organism to be a species? Practical and philosophical templates for the BioPhot program.

Zs. Bálint (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary) and K. Kertész (Research Instute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, HAS, Hungary)
Spectographic investigations of photonic crystal type structures of related and non-realted polyommatine lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera)

Serge Berthier and Julie Boulenguez (Institut des nanosciences de Paris, France)
Polarization effects by concave/convex multiscaled structures

Serge Berthier and Julie Boulenguez (Institut des nanosciences de Paris, France):
Morpho-like optical phenomenon in the neotropical lycaenid butterfly Mercedes atnius: different tools, similar results

László P. Biró, Zofia Vértesy, Krisztián Kertész, and Géza I. Márk (Research Instute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, HAS, Hungary), Zsolt Bálint (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary), Jean Pol Vigneron and Virginie Lousse (FUND, Namur, Belgium)
Gleaming and dull surface textures from two forms of the same photonic crystal in Cyanophrys remus

Abigail L. Ingram (Natural History Museum, London, UK)
Optical structures in butterflies: the diversity and evolution of scale architectures

Jacques Lafait (Institut des nanosciences de Paris, France)
Light scattering in heterogeneous media, relation with biophotonics

Jean Pol Vigneron (FUNDP, Namur, Belgium)
Rules of thumb for photonic-crystal reflectances

Jean Pol Vigneron, Cédric Vandenbem, Marie Rassart, Virginie Lousse (FUNDP, Namur) and Pierre Defrance (UCL, Belgium)
Project for the synthesis of a bio-inspired iridescent panel

Z. Vértesy, K. Kertész and L. P. Biró (Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, HAS, Hungary), J. P. Vigneron, V. Lousse (FUND, Namur, Belgium) and Zs. Bálint (Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary)
Correlation of color and nanostructure in lycaenid butterfly wing scales

V. L. Welch (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, U.K.)
Photonic Beetles



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