Johan Å attends EINC 2013 on Easter Island

A truly unique experience! It was a great honor and pleasure to be invited to EINC 2013 and speak about our recent results on Magnetic Droplet Solitons. The Ester Island is a fascinating place with a dramatic and exciting history which can be highly recommended. Although it's essentially on the opposite side of the planet, the travel is surprisingly manageable, with e.g. Air France flying directly from Paris to Santiago and then Lan flying to Easter Island. I want to particular highlight the evening plenary talks given by Nobel Laureates Dan Shechtman (Nobel Prize 2011) and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Nobel Prize 1997), who gave very inspiring presentations on “Quasi- Periodic Materials – Crystal Redifined”, and “Manipulating Atoms with Photons and Photons with Atoms”.

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