This year has been busy, particularly from the end of summer. It always is of course. Shifting boundaries between work and home life is often enough to flag it as unusual or to warrant a re-think; perhaps it comes with general physical and mental fatigue. This doesn’t necessarily have to reflect predominantly negative and/or uncontrolled…
Category: Travel
The EGU. #EGU17
By Bernardo Bellotto – Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=637565
The conference explorer
I’m excited to be attending one of my favourite conferences in less than one week’s time, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. It is relatively enormous as far as conference attendee numbers are judged. This puts some off, but to me it offers far more advantages than disadvantages. One is the immense flexibility…
To travel is to learn. To learn is to trust.
This is a short post. I wont dwell on the recent disappointing European Union Referendum in Britain; suffice to say it got me thinking about the value of travel, amongst many things. It was a referendum driven by fears; misinformed fears of people and cultures many have never met, nor political decisions many have never…
A big computer in a chapel, Barcelona
I’ve just finished help co-host a new conference series called EMiT which presents work from developers and users of emerging computing technology. It’s a cool conference, and we managed to squeeze in a tour of the MareNostrum supercomputer. A friend and colleague Dr Michael Bane spun the idea of EMiT up 3 years ago, and…
Physik und Kaffee in beautiful Vienna
I had the pleasure of spending w/c 18th of April 2016 in Vienna at the European Geophysical Union (EGU). I recall first visiting the picturesque city back in 2004 towards the tail end of my Phd. I say tail-end, it was the rough end of trying to finish everything! I have a lot to thank…
The case for conference attendance
Conferences are part of the undulating fabric of an academics year. The question is, do we attend simply because that’s ‘what we do’? I would argue a conference could benefit a researcher at any stage in their career, in multiple ways. How so? It might be obvious, but when I stopped to think about it,…
Dr David Topping 