An American Astronomical Society tradition is the party held on the Wednesday evening. I’m sorry to let you down by not bringing you all the gossip- what happens at the AAS party stays at the AAS party – but it’s reassuring to see that the lecture hall is busy this morning for the first talk [...]
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It’s difficult, as someone who uses telescopes which work in the sub-mm – effectively short-wave radio – it’s difficult not to be jealous of optical astronomers, many of whom are busy in the exhibit hall giving out beautiful posters of their latest hits. Instead, we end up often with spectra, or at best with a [...]
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I’m in the Sunday morning session of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey conference (let it never be said that astronomers don’t work hard, even on weekends), and the first talk of the day is by Simon White of the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany.
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Simon is usually worth listening to, and was introduced by [...]