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The 13th edition of the [[PLMCN]] was held in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou Hangzhou] (杭州), China.
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The 13th edition of the [[PLMCN]] ({{thisday|19|June|2012}}-{{thisday|23|June|2012}}) was held in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou Hangzhou] (杭州), [[China]], on the bank of the famous West Lake, an icon of Chinese culture renowned for having "influenced garden design in the rest of China as well as Japan and Korea over the centuries" and as reflecting "an idealized fusion between humans and nature." [http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/767]
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<googlemap lat="30.246389" lon="120.141935" type="satellite" zoom="14" width="730" height="500" controls="small">
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30.242429, 120.163666, 杭州 (Hangzhou)
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30.123592, 118.207585, Emerald valley.
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30.1435367, 118.1721291, Huangshan.
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31.241871, 121.486258, Shanghai, {{thisday|27|June|2012}}.
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Fabrice's [[talk]] was about [[QDs in Microcavities as n photon(s) emitters]].
  
 
In the conference dinner, we shared our table with three Chineses, one of them actually a post-doc in [[Southampton]] whom we never met there! He recommendeded us to visit the Yellow Mountains after the conference, which we did.
 
In the conference dinner, we shared our table with three Chineses, one of them actually a post-doc in [[Southampton]] whom we never met there! He recommendeded us to visit the Yellow Mountains after the conference, which we did.
  
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Below are some pictures of the conference place and surroundings.
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Below are some pictures of the conference place, with more photos from our trip post-conference [[China|available here]].
  
 
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Image:Hangzhou-1.jpg|Tania and Tim departing.
 
Image:Hangzhou-1.jpg|Tania and Tim departing.
 
Image:Hangzhou-6.jpg|End of a show from the conference excursion,
 
Image:Hangzhou-6.jpg|End of a show from the conference excursion,
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Image:Hangzhou-7.jpg|in a Chinese amusement park where you could amuse yourself in this way.
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Image:Hangzhou-7.jpg|which was in a Chinese amusement park where you could amuse yourself in this way.
 
Image:Hangzhou-13.jpg|The West Lake is the most beautiful sight of Hangzhou. It makes a splendid background for everything.
 
Image:Hangzhou-13.jpg|The West Lake is the most beautiful sight of Hangzhou. It makes a splendid background for everything.
 
Image:Hangzhou-14.jpg|The mountains and the fog make it a spot of unique atmosphere, with pagodas, sampan and legends all around.  
 
Image:Hangzhou-14.jpg|The mountains and the fog make it a spot of unique atmosphere, with pagodas, sampan and legends all around.  
 
Image:Hangzhou-4.jpg|This is one of the three ponds mirroring the moon. It is a symbol of China, which decorates the one-Yuan bill.
 
Image:Hangzhou-4.jpg|This is one of the three ponds mirroring the moon. It is a symbol of China, which decorates the one-Yuan bill.
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Image:Hangzhou-15.jpg|Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela (conference badge cropped).
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Image:Hangzhou-15.jpg|[[Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela]] (conference badge cropped).
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Image:Hangzhou-8.jpg|[[Elena]] and [[Fabrice|myself]]. I was looking doubtful of Alejandro's taking this picture.
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Image:Hangzhou-8.jpg|[[Elena]] and [[Fabrice|myself]]. I was looking doubtful of Alejandro's taking this picture, against the sun and with the most unflattering view of the West Lake.
 
Image:Hangzhou-12.jpg|A mysterious lady on the causeway between the West Lake and Xi-Li lake.
 
Image:Hangzhou-12.jpg|A mysterious lady on the causeway between the West Lake and Xi-Li lake.
 
Image:Hangzhou-11.jpg|West Lake in the evening.
 
Image:Hangzhou-11.jpg|West Lake in the evening.
 
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== Emerald Valley ==
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The Emerald Valley lays at the feet of Huangshan. It has crystal-clear water with colours of the same name, and nice rock formation. The vegetation is notable too, it might be the closest we ever got from a real jungle (with wild and exotic sound from the fauna, especially birds). It is a mainly a Chinese tourist spot, we met one occidental only. People would occasionally show up superbly dressed, maybe following or preceding a wedding.
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* http://www.physics.fudan.edu.cn/tps/outreach/plmcn12/frontpage.html
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Image:Emerald-Valley-12.jpg|The Emerald Valley.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-7.jpg|Turquoise waters
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Image:Emerald-Valley-16.jpg|or yellow
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Image:Emerald-Valley-17.jpg|with rocks.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-2.jpg|The most beautiful ones would tell you a Chinese poem.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-4.jpg|Others would speak with nothing needing written down.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-1.jpg|Emphasizing something.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-3.jpg|A bridge other the water,
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Image:Emerald-Valley-10.jpg|towards more rocks,
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Image:Emerald-Valley-9.jpg|and more river.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-5.jpg|We barely noticed them at first.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-8.jpg|Here they are, zoomed in.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-13.jpg|Bamboo forest.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-14.jpg|Flying over.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-18.jpg|A balcony with a view over the colours.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-15.jpg|A beautiful chinese couple.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-6.jpg|A little girl, peaceful.
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Image:Emerald-Valley-11.jpg|A butterfly with a facial expression getting in touch.
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Huangshan (黄山), literally the "Yellow Mountain", is a mountain range composed of material uplifted from an ancient sea during the Mesozoic era and subsequently carved by glaciers during the Quaternary [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangshan]. It is one of the most beautiful place on earth, the archetype of Chinese paintings, with pine trees perched on salient peaks piercing through the fog. Weather is quite capricious. Our ascension of the lotus peak was an enduring exercise, against thick fog and battering rain. The whole mountain is busy during the day, with hordes of Chinese guides shouting in a microphone in the most touristic spots, but nearing the closing time of the last cable car, at half past four, it would become much more relax and peaceful. In the evening, it becomes completely empty. Early in the morning&mdash;and we woke up at four&mdash;you really feel alone in heaven.
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Image:Huangshan-1.jpg|This is Huangshan.
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Image:Huangshan-10.jpg|Here in the clouds.
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Image:Huangshan-20.jpg|Here without.
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Image:Huangshan-11.jpg|Fantastic platforms hanging from the mountain allow you to peek into the precipices.
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Image:Huangshan-12.jpg|Of course the access is not for the faint-hearted.
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Image:Huangshan-13.jpg|But the views are unique.
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Image:Huangshan-14.jpg|Elena leading the way.
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Image:Huangshan-19.jpg|At first you think you get blocked somewhere,
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Image:Huangshan-18.jpg|but after a while, you get used to it.
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Image:Huangshan-16.jpg|and then no viewpoint seems unreacheable.
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Image:Huangshan-17.jpg|though as seen from below, it is madness.
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Image:Huangshan-21.jpg|Walking by a mountain.
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Image:Huangshan-15.jpg|Chatting with a precipice.
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Image:Huangshan-22.jpg|The place, busy in the day, would become incredibly quiet and desolate in the evening.
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Image:Huangshan-23.jpg|Although the Chinese tourists also provide quite a lot of fun.
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Image:Huangshan-2.jpg|Elena with a giant hiding in the clouds.
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Image:Huangshan-6.jpg|Do you see her?
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Image:Huangshan-4.jpg|A map of the top of the sky.
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Image:Huangshan-3.jpg|The famous pine trees.
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Image:Huangshan-5.jpg|A dam in the mountain!
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Image:Huangshan-7.jpg|Getting down...
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Image:Huangshan-24.jpg|and up.
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Image:Huangshan-9.jpg|The fog would fall anytime,
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Image:Huangshan-8.jpg|and disappear just as quickly.
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We had a short time in Shanghai before taking the plane. We came back from Huangshan by night train and met at this occasion a nice couple from central China, who told us more, through the voice of the husband, about people's life. He was a doctor and she was a state officer at the hospital. In Shanghai, we visited the oft-recommended Yu garden and haggled in the market. Elena would do the haggling as I cannot stand the practise (in which you always lose). It seems she was haggling well as a couple of time, her last offer was refused. It was rainy and extremely foggy and much of the time was spent in the hotel trying to fix the internet to attend to urgent matters, all falling at the same time.
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Image:Shanghai-1.jpg|Yuyuan market.
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Image:Shanghai-4.jpg|Yu garden, nearby.
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Image:Shanghai-2.jpg|A bridge in zig-zag, maybe to confuse bad spirits, trapping Elena.
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Image:Shanghai-3.jpg|A Chinese guardian lion ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_guardian_lions Shishi]).
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Image:Shanghai-5.jpg|A charismatic figure looking at time passing from the meagre comfort of his bike, possibly since always.
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Image:Shanghai-7.jpg|Chinese food, at the dismay of the head waitress.
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Image:Shanghai-9.jpg|Last chance to taste, at the airport. This is closer to European Chinese cooking.
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Latest revision as of 23:18, 18 July 2019

PLMCN12

The 13th edition of the PLMCN (19 June (2012)-23 June (2012)) was held in Hangzhou (杭州), China, on the bank of the famous West Lake, an icon of Chinese culture renowned for having "influenced garden design in the rest of China as well as Japan and Korea over the centuries" and as reflecting "an idealized fusion between humans and nature." [1]

<googlemap lat="30.246389" lon="120.141935" type="satellite" zoom="14" width="730" height="500" controls="small"> 30.242429, 120.163666, 杭州 (Hangzhou) 30.123592, 118.207585, Emerald valley. 30.1435367, 118.1721291, Huangshan. 31.241871, 121.486258, Shanghai, 27 June (2012). </googlemap>

Fabrice's talk was about QDs in Microcavities as n photon(s) emitters.

In the conference dinner, we shared our table with three Chineses, one of them actually a post-doc in Southampton whom we never met there! He recommendeded us to visit the Yellow Mountains after the conference, which we did.

Below are some pictures of the conference place, with more photos from our trip post-conference available here.

West Lake

  • Xin Xin, conference organizer, and Alexey Kavokin, the conference father.

  • Zhanghai Chen, the conference host, Xin Xin again and Elena.

  • Tania and Tim departing.

  • End of a show from the conference excursion,

  • which was in a Chinese amusement park where you could amuse yourself in this way.

  • The West Lake is the most beautiful sight of Hangzhou. It makes a splendid background for everything.

  • The mountains and the fog make it a spot of unique atmosphere, with pagodas, sampan and legends all around.

  • This is one of the three ponds mirroring the moon. It is a symbol of China, which decorates the one-Yuan bill.

  • Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela (conference badge cropped).

  • Elena and myself. I was looking doubtful of Alejandro's taking this picture, against the sun and with the most unflattering view of the West Lake.

  • A mysterious lady on the causeway between the West Lake and Xi-Li lake.

  • West Lake in the evening.

Links

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