During the school vacation we visited our friends in Lyon and their country house in Ardesh.


Ardesh 2024 - pub

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Modern art exhibition, including many items based on optical effects.


ArtIstanbul Feshane

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A guided walking tour along the Bosphorus, including two small museums.


Bebek & Arnavutkoy, Istanbul

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Zhu Y., Liu C., and Yurkin M.A. Reducing shape errors in the discrete dipole approximation using effective media, Opt. Express 31, 43401-43415 (2023). (PDF)

A present from Optica publishing group, who published our paper exactly on my birthday (at least, in my time zone). We proposed a simple method to smooth the particle boundary, when using the   ( Read more... )

Shcherbakov A.A., Bi L., and Yurkin M.A. Electromagnetic and light scattering XIX, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 313, 108828 (2024). (PDF)

This is a new experience for me, being a guest editor of a special issue compiled after the conference (the paper is the preface or editorial to this special issue). First, the conference itself was ( Read more... )

After Qingdao I visited Hefei. Thanks to Zhenzhu Wang for the invitation. There the scientific center is located on a separate peninsula far from the city centre. But most of photos are from the city itself.


Hefei 2023

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Second trip to China in 2023 was less than a month after the previous one. The main motivation was a workshop "Frontiers in Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics 2023" organized by Qingdao Innovation Centre of Harbin Engineering University. Thanks to Andrey Bogdanov for the invitation.


Qingdao 2023

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Finally, Doha airport on the way back from China.


Doha 2023

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From Nanjing to Hangzhou. Thanks to Lei Bi for the invitation.


Hangzhou 2023

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From Wuhan we went to Nanjing. Thanks to Chao Liu for the invitation.


Nanjing 2023

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