This morning, over breakfast at the B&B where I am staying in Cincinnati, I saw that the New York Times ran a cover article on Alan Greenspan. It was a retrospective – given the mess the economy is in, what does he say now looking back? They highlighted quotes from […]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
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This afternoon I arrived in the city of Cincinnati, in southwestern Ohio. I began my journey this morning after my last breakfast in Cleveland. Breakfast was fantastic, topped with a great discussion of physics with a fellow traveler staying at the B&B. He told me a little about the heavy […]
What a tiring past four days. I came to the realization of just how close the first faculty job application deadlines had become, and ramped up my work on application material. That, coupled with the seminars and travel is tiring me out. I still find myself energized for this whole […]
For many years, I have felt daunted by the quantum structure of nature. Don’t get me wrong – I studied it in lab class and I read a lot about it in my textbooks. It’s one thing to repeat an old experiment, or read a book; it’s quite another to […]
I arrived last night in Columbus after 12 hours of driving. I left Montreal around 6:15 in the morning, and dropped off the rental car around 7 pm last night. I’m staying in a hotel outside the city – getting around by cab isn’t too bad, and I’ve had some […]
Tomorrow is the single longest stretch of my seminar tour: Montreal to Columbus. I am planning to leave early, around 6 am, to beat traffic here in Montreal and get an early start on the 11 hour drive to Columbus. My visit to McGill has been perfect. This is a […]