Final program | 33rd APACRS – SNEC 30th Anninversary Virtual Meeting

FILM FESTIVAL TITLE PRODUCER FF4-12 Ural Very Old Study Ellina RAKHIMOVA Russian Federation To identify ophthalmological diseases, doctors of the Ufa Eye Research Institute have conducted an examination of 425 very old age people (85 and older). Ophthalmopathology was detected in 100% of the examined patients. 40.2% of them were unaware about their disease. 79% of very old people noticed a decrease in vision, but only 67% of them visited an ophthalmologist. Cataract was the main cause of vision impairment (41.7%). More than half (51.4%) of them needed surgical treatment. Age-related macular degeneration was the second most common cause of vision impairment (32.6%). Very old people need to be actively monitored by an ophthalmologist. This will preserve visual function in very old age and improve quality of life. FF4-13 The Antimicrobial Lake Lional Raj DANIEL RAJ PONNIAH India A novel drug-repository contact lens with dual base curves resulting in a central lake for drug retention with fenestrations to enable capture of applied topical antimicrobials is effective in prolonging corneal antimicrobial availability and contact time over the lesion has the ability to impact the treatment outcomes in bacterial keratitis with reduced surface toxicities. FF4-14 Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Speaks about Isaac Newton’s ‘Opticks’, the Beginning of a New Era Georgios BALANIKAS Greece Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire was present at the funeral of Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey on 28-3- 1727. During the following year, he studied, understood, and praised the work of Newton. Voltaire (also motivated by Marquise Emilie du Chatelet) published in 1738 in French and English the “Elements of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy” in which he discusses by comprehensible terms to lay readers the views of Newton’s Opticks, explaining refraction, reflection, etc. He made clearer Newton’s theory about the universe and its implications for metaphysics and theology. Consequently, Voltaire’s “Elements of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy” is a synthesis of two of the greatest minds of the 17th and 18th centuries. This conversation between these great men we present in this video. 86