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 […]
Travelogue: Seminar Series, 2008
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I gave my seminar at Syracuse yesterday. I had a very busy day – not a dull moment in the entire visit! I spent a lot of time meeting with faculty on the LHCb experiment, a B-physics experiment based at the LHC. While not one of the experiments that gets […]
[Note: this entry was written on Sep. 28 but couldn’t be posted until today (Sep. 30). I have backdated the entry to keep the time flow linear] I arrived tonight in Syracuse, NY. The faculty member hosting me for this seminar went beyond the call of duty and graciously invited […]
It has been extremely rainy in the New England area for several days, thanks in large part to a series of tropical storms that worked their way north along the eastern coast. Today, a category 1 hurricane is parked off the coast, darkening our skies and giving us some drizzle […]
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure and privelege of presenting BaBar’s recent work on the bottomonium system to an audience at the MIT Lab for Nuclear Science Colloquium. This was my first colloquium, and I’m told it went quite well. I got some great questions afterward, which I intend to […]
My next stop in the seminar tour is my previous workplace, MIT. I left yesterday evening for Boston, arriving around sunset. Traffic getting into the city was basically what I remembered, at least between I-84 and I-90 up by Worchester. I’ll be giving the Lab for Nuclear Science Colloquium today, […]
One of the side effects of going to an historic university like Cornell is to learn a little of the local history. My host for the day, who also arranged dinner at a local, popular restaurant called Moosewood, educated me a little on the local history of Ithaca and Cornell. […]
After the eventful start to my trip in San Francisco, the rest of it was pretty smooth and uneventful. Upon arriving in Rochester, my gate was right next to the terminal exit and my bag arrived nearly immediately from the claim area. My rental car pickup was smooth, and I […]
Today begins a nearly one-month odyssey. I leave my home in California, laptop in hand, and head east to start a seminar tour. I’m currently on an AirTran flight from San Francisco to Atlanta, where I’ll transfer to a flight to Rochester, NY. I’ll be grabbing a rental car in […]