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He built one of the largest modular synthesizers in the world: Joe Paradiso is Professor at the MIT Media Lab in Media Arts and Sciences, and he also plays an important role in the international scene of electronic music. Much of what Joe Paradiso does today started in the 1980ies as a postdoc in the department of physics at ETH Zurich.

About a thousand researchers worldwide participated in the Photonics Online Meetup POM20. A conference of this size usually involves a huge effort on the part of the organising team to arrange accommodation, transfers and meals and prepare the conference venue for the participants. The time commitment and the cost of travel to the conference are also considerable for most participants. Does an online conference bring advantages?