Toronto!
Luckily, the garbage union called off their strike the day before the Strings 2005 conference was scheduled to begin. As I was driving into Toronto from Michigan, I heard on the radio that the city had set aside space in public parks for residents to dump their trash. Given the disgusting heat wave that occurred there all week long, it was a true blessing that it didn’t smell as well.
Here is a ballroom full of melting string theorists. We sweated, gulped water, and pushed our food around while being entertained by speakers.
Jan, wearing the TASI shawl which doubled in size during the conference.
The conference was fun and exhausting with four full and two half days of lectures. It was nice to hear the different perspectives on current research and to meet some of the people whose papers I’ve been reading.
On Saturday, after the last set of talks, I headed to the CN tower to get an aerial view of the city. Here is a video of the elevator going down the tower.
On Sunday morning, I hopped in the car and set off for home. On the way back, seeking the bug’s forgiveness for the car-henge-incident (she holds a mean grudge), I stopped at Niagra falls.
The falls are large, loud, blue and violent. It was a hot, hot day and the walkways were loaded with distracted tourists. (check out my movie!)
Upstate New York reminded me of Iowa: cornfields, green hills, wheat. The air conditioner was broken in my car so I spent the day with the windows rolled down, the music turned loud, sweating and singing.
Getting to Massachusetts was a wonderful relief. It was a fun road trip but, in the end, it feels really good to be home!
Here is a ballroom full of melting string theorists. We sweated, gulped water, and pushed our food around while being entertained by speakers.
Jan, wearing the TASI shawl which doubled in size during the conference.
The conference was fun and exhausting with four full and two half days of lectures. It was nice to hear the different perspectives on current research and to meet some of the people whose papers I’ve been reading.
On Saturday, after the last set of talks, I headed to the CN tower to get an aerial view of the city. Here is a video of the elevator going down the tower.
On Sunday morning, I hopped in the car and set off for home. On the way back, seeking the bug’s forgiveness for the car-henge-incident (she holds a mean grudge), I stopped at Niagra falls.
The falls are large, loud, blue and violent. It was a hot, hot day and the walkways were loaded with distracted tourists. (check out my movie!)
Upstate New York reminded me of Iowa: cornfields, green hills, wheat. The air conditioner was broken in my car so I spent the day with the windows rolled down, the music turned loud, sweating and singing.
Getting to Massachusetts was a wonderful relief. It was a fun road trip but, in the end, it feels really good to be home!
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