{"id":5693,"date":"2020-03-19T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=5693"},"modified":"2020-03-19T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:00:55","slug":"the-home-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/19\/the-home-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The home office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-5695\" style=\"width: 250px; float: right; padding-left: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-19-at-5.58.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-19-at-5.58.44-PM.png 1366w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-19-at-5.58.44-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-19-at-5.58.44-PM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-19-at-5.58.44-PM-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/>I spent today mainly in a online-only workshop for the Electron-Ion Collider, a new (and partly funded) accelerator project to be hosted by Brookhaven National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S. I&#8217;m just listening and learning right now, but I am trying to get thinking about heavy flavor measurements with such a machine (which, as the name implies, will collide electrons and either protons or nuclei) and especially with the detectors that might be built for this machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, I am just listening and learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the day was also spent working with a colleague to discuss strategies for deploying exams for large introductory classes, and doing so online in a way that doesn&#8217;t create a huge burden for everyone, while discouraging cheating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this I am doing from my home office, pictured above. The microphone stand is a recent addition, the light ring a brand new addition (to help with front-lighting me during meetings so that the window lighting doesn&#8217;t overwhelm the camera), and the rest is a recent rearrangement of my cluttered home office. Since I am working out of this thing 9 hours a day, I decided to get it cleaned up and better for thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent today mainly in a online-only workshop for the Electron-Ion Collider, a new (and partly funded) accelerator project to be hosted by Brookhaven National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S. I&#8217;m just listening and learning right now, but I am trying to get thinking about heavy flavor measurements with such a machine (which, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200319_144606-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5696,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions\/5696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}