Talks

In case you’re not aware, I’m in Colorado right now. I attended the IAPS conference from May 6-8, and now I’m at the Auger collaboration meeting. I had to give two talks today; one covering some results of a project I’ve been doing, and a shorter talk describing the program I wrote with the postdoc that was used in the project. Apparently they went well, but I managed to get one of the theorists on my case. But, now that the talks are in the past, I can relax for the first time in 3 months.

The best part is that my program will very likely be adopted as the tracking program for cosmic rays through the galactic magnetic field. Auger is broken up into many ‘physics tasks’, one of which is the ‘Magnetic Fields and Multiplets’ task, of which I am a part. Well, since the November collaboration meeting in Malargue Argentina, I’ve been working on the program with the goal of redoing the AGN correlation analysiss with new assumptions. It turns out that 4 other groups in Auger have also been doing this. But, as I learned today, My and Brian’s program is the most customizable (hell’s yeah!), so that when I presented a summary of the input and output formats, and how easy it is to use, it blew all the other programs out of the water.

I’ve also met a few more people and am getting a better understanding of the project and its inner workings (physics and social). We’ll see what happens.

Oh, I’d also like to say “fucking Lamar”, or as I coined earlier, ‘Lamargue’. It feels like I’m actually in GTA San Andreas, when you get to Las Venturas. Constant 30mph winds, restaurants close at 830pm, and no alcohol sales on Sundays. How the hell am I supposed to celebrate my talks being over if I can’t drink?

M out