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Photonics from afar

Nature Photonics volume 14, pages 137–138 (2020)Cite this article

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Registration fees, travel costs and visas, and time away from home and the lab, are all factors that can make attending scientific meetings in person difficult. Can online conferences provide a solution?

Optics and photonics conferences are seemingly flourishing in number but their attendance can be hindered by financial costs and personal inconveniences. For many years, the idea of harnessing the global connectivity afforded by the Internet to host scientific gatherings in a virtual manner has been considered, but, certainly in photonics, not taken off. Could 2020 be the year that the situation changes? The popularity of a recent online ‘meetup’ in optics suggests that this could be the case.

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Pile, D. Photonics from afar. Nat. Photonics 14, 137–138 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-020-0598-9

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