Kees Harmans

has given today a talk at Quantum Transport group meeting. He’s promised a "colourful" one, and he gave one. Main topic was an original project of making a superposition of two photons in two different oscillators, that is, of two different colours. It is both doable and interesting project. Actually, I believe the resulting state will be entangled: just if one defines entanglement properly.

Kees has struck us with suggestion that this may well be his last talk at the group meeting: he will retire in the end of the year. So in the last part of his talk, instead of sketching the prospects of research, he told us about his plans for retirement. He has listed many interesting activities, and physics of noise (produced by aircraft) took a part in the list.

Thanks, Kees, I’ve enjoyed both parts of the talk as well as the combination of the two. May God help me to give my last talk as you did: remaining inspired and inspiring.

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