Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Day 7 (Feb 17): London Calling
Here's where I went.
Here are some pictures (still uploading as of this posting), though the London ones not all bunched together since I downloaded Friday's and today's pictures from my phone and camera at the same time.
Highlight: I visited The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and sat in on a case for about 10 minutes.
I'm going to bed. Detailed descriptions of the various happenings later.
Here are some pictures (still uploading as of this posting), though the London ones not all bunched together since I downloaded Friday's and today's pictures from my phone and camera at the same time.
Highlight: I visited The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and sat in on a case for about 10 minutes.
I'm going to bed. Detailed descriptions of the various happenings later.
Day 6: Uninformed Cambridge Tour
Up at ~11:20am to a plumber.
Realized at 12:45pm I had no idea where I was supposed to meet Saurabh at 1pm... I had a name "Centre for Mathematical Sciences," which gave an address. However, at least in the United States, mailing addresses on campuses are notoriously different from where the buildings actually are. E-mailed and called Saurabh with where I was intending to go
"
Isaac Newton
Contact Details:
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EH, U.K.
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 335999 Fax: +44 (0)1223 330508
E-mail: info@newton.ac.uk
"
and a backup location "The model of Cambridge outside of Great Saint Mary's Church".
To the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
Missed Saurabh because I was late by about 15-20 minutes.
To Saint Mary's! Only 8 or so minutes late. Luckily, I think Saurabh was even later than I. (I had the advantage of having picked the backup location and time, and I didn't tell him until right before 1pm.)
Then we took off and wandered all over Cambridge. See here for details and here for pictures.
Home, relaxation, planning.
I tried for about 2-3 hours to find someone to walk across Southern Corsica with me, without any success. Anyone know anyone else who might want to do this from April 1-8?
Realized at 12:45pm I had no idea where I was supposed to meet Saurabh at 1pm... I had a name "Centre for Mathematical Sciences," which gave an address. However, at least in the United States, mailing addresses on campuses are notoriously different from where the buildings actually are. E-mailed and called Saurabh with where I was intending to go
"
Isaac Newton
Contact Details:
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EH, U.K.
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 335999 Fax: +44 (0)1223 330508
E-mail: info@newton.ac.uk
"
and a backup location "The model of Cambridge outside of Great Saint Mary's Church".
To the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
Missed Saurabh because I was late by about 15-20 minutes.
To Saint Mary's! Only 8 or so minutes late. Luckily, I think Saurabh was even later than I. (I had the advantage of having picked the backup location and time, and I didn't tell him until right before 1pm.)
Then we took off and wandered all over Cambridge. See here for details and here for pictures.
Home, relaxation, planning.
I tried for about 2-3 hours to find someone to walk across Southern Corsica with me, without any success. Anyone know anyone else who might want to do this from April 1-8?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Day 5: Work work zug zug
I tried to get some work done today for my Caltech research mentor, and it went decently. An hour of conference, about an hour of manual/code. The rest of the day was spent similarly to my previous week. Lots of relaxing and games, lots of walking throughout Cambridge (this time to the East, Jesus Park?), and about 2 hours trying to find a hiking buddy for Mare a Mare Sud (http://corsica.forhikers.com/mare-mare-sud). While unsuccessful thus far, the message and offer are out there, and hopefully I'll find someone to go with me. Otherwise, I'll just have to had Final Countdown playing in my ears the entire journey with nothing to break the epic tune!
Relaxing is amazing.
Saur invited me to come to class with him tomorrow, poke around the city together, then head to a late dinner in town. I'll also be going with him and possibly some other Caltech folks to London on Saturday, and I'm likely to head out on my own on Thursday to somewhere in the UK on my rail pass.
Relaxing is amazing.
Saur invited me to come to class with him tomorrow, poke around the city together, then head to a late dinner in town. I'll also be going with him and possibly some other Caltech folks to London on Saturday, and I'm likely to head out on my own on Thursday to somewhere in the UK on my rail pass.
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