Its early August, and the beginning of the next academic year seems an infinite amount of time away, but the two months will go quickly. This summer I am doing what I wanted to do last summer but didn’t have time for, which is to add a couple of optional assignments to my second-year computing […]
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I am currently between conferences (Barcelona a week ago, and Warsaw next week), and so I am working on a paper. It is on a model of crystallisation via a process that has many steps. I have a general model of this sort of process and am making predictions for how this differs from when […]
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I have just got back from a meeting in Barcelona. My hotel was just round the corner from a local bakery. I got in the habit of having a cafe solo (Spanish espresso), orange juice, water (it was 30+C and very humid at midday), and a xuxo for breakfast. Xuxo is pronounced approximately shooshoo, and […]
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I am currently attending a conference, the 7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, in Barcelona, Spain. My commute to the venue from my hotel in the morning takes my past the Gaudi designed Casa Batlló. I also passed it last night on my way home from a great tapas bar: (Quimet & […]
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This blog post is brought to you courtesy of the free wifi at the Equal Exchange Cafe in Boston, USA. The coffee is very good, and the muffin was good, although it did taste a bit healthy. I am in the USA for a conference and to give a seminar at Brandeis University just outside […]
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Last week I was at a conference at the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge. The subject was what you might call liquids with small self-propelled things in them. This may sound a bit odd, but the inside of our cells is more-or-less liquid and they are lots of self-propelled things in them. Our cells are […]
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