Collaboration Meeting in Barcelona!

This morning we're quickly packing and we will be on our way to Sitges (see picture on the right), near Barcelona (Spain), where the CDF Collaboration Meeting is held next week. Mariarosa is coming with me for the first three days, so we will be visiting a bit the surroundings as well.

The kids will stay at my mother's house, so we're bringing them there, then at noon the plane leaves from Venice and hopefully we'll be able to spend an afternoon in Barcelona before heading towards Sitges, where we're staying at Hotel Calipolis, the venue of the conference (left).

I am very happy to follow a Collaboration Meeting away from Fermilab once a year. We used to have Collaboration Meetings four times a year, all at Fermilab, until I proposed that since we were a collaboration from around the world, it was not fair to be so centered on the lab, and by having one general meeting away once a year we would be traveling to nice places as well. This started a heated debate, with most of Fermilab-based scientists arguing against the wastes of money, not realizing that it always costs a lot of money for italians, koreans, japanese, germans etc. to come to Fermilab, and that many graduate students from those countries are cut away from Collaboration Meeting weeks due to budget shortage. In the end it was decided to have one CM away each year, and this time we're going to Barcelona. I'm proud of myself.

Comments

[Helge]

Oh your hotel looks exactly like the picture of Spain I got in my head. Enjoy your sight seeing stay there!!!
And I think those Fermilab scientist are kinda strange. Why not have all 4 meetings around the world? They would get to see really nice places.