Not exactly a 10 minute man

This is of course about conference talks.

I was at American Physical Society Meeting of Northwest Division last week. As Gordon Watts writes, 10 minute talks are very hard. I had been coaching our student Ryan Bayes on his talk. He did a great job. His talk was well practiced, well organized, and well executed. My talk, on the contrary, gave him an example of how not to give a 10 minute talk! Too much materials, not enough practice, going over time! I'm sure Gordon is talking about me when he writes:

The great thing to do is watch people's expressions when they get the 2 minute warning.

I was barely finishing the introduction when I got the 2 minute warning! Well at least, this time my nose did not bleed few minutes before my talk.

Gordon did give a nice talk. In fact, my colleague Art Olin and I cornered him afterwords to learn more about his decision tree analysis. We would like to invite him to TRIUMF to give a seminar when he has a new result on single top production.

It was nice to meet another Qantum Diarist in person. I hope to meet more of them in the future. By the way, I'm totally impressed that Gordon has written 8 postings since the APS conference! When does he find the time with all other stuff he's doing???

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[m.visaya]

inside the attached, you will find a picture of the chukuduku, a primitive wheel cycle.

while theoretically, the water of the coconut is accessible with a USB connection, the reality is, they're not compatible. such things are conceptually the same, not really ambiguous, vague yet clear are the source of so many confusions in the overall picture. a couple of shuttle accidents later, disinformation was, to say the least, effective even beyond being sophomore. adieu.