The 2006 International Conference on High-Energy Physics is a little over one week away. This coming week is the full flood of practice talks, the final days of preparation for the conference. Analyses are coming out of review, talks are being written and practiced, and everybody is stretched by the combined review and analysis responsibilities. People who aren’t sending their work to the conference are instead putting the final touches on their work for near-term publication.
I’m also in the process of polishing the stump I’m going to stand on at ICHEP. I have my practice talk on Tuesday, and I have to upload it to the review panel on Monday morning. Needless to say, this is the weekend when I pull all the threads together into about 20 “OpenOffice.org Impress”:http://www.openoffice.org/ slides. I’m really looking forward to the conference, now that the analysis rush is done. At first, I was completely overwhelmed – in hindsight, I am overjoyed that I was offered the chance to speak, and encouraged to accept the talk despite the sense of panic I experience.
As for being ready for Moscow, I have my phrase book and travel guide, my visa, and all my arrangements in order. Now I just have to survive the long trip!
