Sydney

I went to Sydney last week to attend a workshop on photonic crystal and optical waveguide theory. It was good fun. I stayed with Alex and Susi two friends of mine from my time when I was studying at Sydney University. They now have a small boy, Peter who is a little more than a year old. Really cute and not difficult at all. He hardly cried during the time I was there. Everytime I come to Sydney I get very melancholic, I love this city. IMO it is the best city in the world, and although Auckland is nice, it can't quite compete with Sydney. I had a talk with Martijn who is the cosupervisor for my PhD thesis and I will probably spend some time in Sydney during my PhD. The workshop was really good as well, some quite interesting talks. The best one was probably the talk by Philip Russell, a poineer a photonic crystal fibres. The whole trip was only 4 days, but that's OK. Nora could not come with me so I was happy to see her when I came back. While in Sydney I also met up with my former flatmate, also Nora. She's doing an internship with Schwarzkopf there. She just arrived a week before me and I showed her some of my favourite places in Sydney. We finally have some pictures up on the net, you can find them here. It's not many yet, as flickr has a maximum monthly upload limit and we have just been lazy.