Tag: travel
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The Summer of 2018 – By The Numbers
The summer of 2018 was both predictable and unexpected. As I began reflecting on this past summer, now that teaching is nearly upon me again, I came to find numbers that represented its many aspects. I want to share some of those numbers with you, and the meaning behind them. Let me begin by clarifying […]
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Anti-Steve: The Weeks in Review, Feb. 6 – 18
I am on an approved leave from teaching and university service this semester so that I can focus on research. While I’ve had a number of things going since before the New Year, the last two weeks have been the start of the “traveling” phase of my semester. For me, it’s “Phase 1” – I’ll […]
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Anti-Steve: The Week in Review, February 8-12, 2016
This was an incredible week, not because of anything that happened specifically to me but because of what happened for all humankind. At SMU, we were visited by Prof. Tony Gherghetta from the University of Minnesota who gave a fantastic seminar at SMU on the subject of composite theories of new physics at the LHC. […]
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Northbound
Tornadoes, thunderstorms and heavy rains, floods, and a blizzard. And we’re not even there yet. Some observations on our northbound new year’s travel to see family in Wisconsin, with some photos. This has been a tour of the damage wrought by arctic air combining with the force of the El Nino in the Pacific and […]
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Intersections in space but not in time – an afternoon in Jerusalem
During this week’s ATLAS Experiment Beyond-the-Standard Model Higgs working group meeting in Israel, our hosts at the Weizmann Institute of Science organized an afternoon and evening trip to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is about 45 minutes from Rehovot, so we boarded a bus around 14:00 and arrived in Jerusalem about an hour later. We were guided through […]
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Photo: A view of the Weizmann Institute of Science
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Photos: Looking West from the Science Park in Rehovot
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Photo: Flying from Zurich to Tel Aviv
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Scenes from Milwaukee
Some photos from our afternoon in MKE.
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Thin ice
What it says.