4:30 wake up, 5:15 taxi to airport, 6:15 plane to Joensuu, 7:05 arrive. Work. 19:25 plane home. 21:00 at home again. A long day, much coffee was needed.

Part of the excellent public transport in Boston is a boat from Long Wharf which  goes south down to Quincy. A nice way of seeing Boston from the sea, and part of the islands outside the city.

Some Berlin pictures (the Charlottenburg palace and gardens) I found in my phone from two weeks ago.

There’s a seriously cool green laser on top of a Siemens building in Adlershof in Berlin.

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I’ve spent the week in Leeds looking three single-molecule fluorescence microscopes (FCS a.k.a. fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, ALEX a.k.a. alternating laser excitation fluorescence spectroscpy , and TIRF a.k.a. total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy). Flying back to Helsinki with KLM took close to 24 hours since I missed my connecting flight (due to KLMs late incoming aircraft in Leeds) and had to [...]

JPK Instruments hosted a one-day Optical Tweezers meeting in Berlin on Thursday. We heard 9 talks and looked at about 30 posters, one of which was mine. As I had not been to Berlin before I reserved a day and a half for looking at the city and its attractions. Public transport works very well [...]

I’m in San Diego for the SPIE Optics & Photonics meeting. More specifically Kishan Dholakia and Gabe Spaldning put together the Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation IV conference, where I was the last (but not least?) speaker. Overall the meeting has a dual character with a lot of technical content (like lens- or mechanics-design, CCD/CMOS [...]

I spent four days in Austin, Texas, at NIWeek. On the plane down from Chicago I met some friendly Austin locals who made a (long!) list of things for me to do and see. With the conference taking up most time, and the hot weather, which made walking around town a warm experience, I only [...]