Posted in Travel on June 29th, 2011 No Comments »
I have been at the INRIA-Illinois Joint Lab workshop in Grenoble this week. It was a great workshop and I had amazing interactions with some French. I think we will form some interesting collaborations!
On the fun side, I ran up La Bastille in Grenoble! It was really nice, perfect weather (very light rain and warm)! [...]
Posted in Travel on June 25th, 2011 No Comments »
I was at the Taste of Chicago festival (yeah, I skipped the Taste of Champaign and went to the real one ). Thanks Dries! It was pretty nice and I had some good food! There were also some strange people attracted by the crowd (as usual). The banner of the weirdo-family says:
“Men should: Lead [...]
Posted in Travel, US on June 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Right after the conference in Tucson, I had to go the the SC11/SC12 committee meeting in Seattle. It didn’t seem useful to fly back to Champaign over the weekend (I could have spent 20 hours in planes and 6 hours at home, probably sleeping anyway. So I just stayed in Seattle over the weekend. I [...]
Posted in Travel, US on June 5th, 2011 No Comments »
This year’s ICS has been in Tucson, AZ. I have served on the program committee and also contributed two papers (one with Marc Snir and the other one with the folks from IU) to the conference. I also co-chaired a workshop with Kamil Iskra. So I had tons of reasons to go there — I [...]
Posted in Science, Travel on June 1st, 2011 No Comments »
I visited ETH Zurich at the end of last month. Zurich is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and definitely one of (if not the) most expensive city . Public transit is just a dream, I believe one really doesn’t need a car around the city (I know multiple people who [...]