Hard to believe the first month of 2018 is nearly over! I thought I might include a couple of photos from two events I attended late last year – the IPOS symposium and the SPIE NanoPhotonics Australasia conference in Melbourne, where I had an invited talk. On the last day I attended the CUDOS Frontiers in Nanoplasmonics Workshop, which featured many distinguished international guests, and was a great opportunity to initiate collaborations. Looking forward to the year ahead (at least, the 11 months left…)