Like last year and the year before, I'm at the Nuclear Theory Workshop, organised by the group in Sofia, and held in a rustic hotel in the Rila Mountains. It's day one, and I was scheduled to speak in the first session, like last year. My talk followed talks by Andrzej Góźdź, and his student Aleksandra Pędrak (from Lublin, Poland) concerning collective Hamiltonians, and one by Attila Krasznahorkay (Debrecen, Hungary) on resonance states in calcium isotopes. I enjoyed all the talks, and with Attila's experimental talk being relevant to things I can calculate, I got a few ideas of things to do.
My talk was a kind of advert for our recently-published computer code, Sky3D, with some details of the kind of physics problems one can solve with it -- quite a wide range from nuclear structure and dynamics -- and some technical details of implementation and usage. I got a reasonable amount of interest out of the talk and a fair few questions. Hopefully, having published the code, we'll get plenty of people interested in running it. It's good to have given the talk on the first day, partly because now I can relax more and enjoy the other talks, and chatting to people, rather than tinkering with my talk, but also because there is now plenty of time for me to sit down with people and infect their computers with my code install my code on their computers.
This year, I brought travelling companions, as seen in the picture. Eagle-eyed regular readers may notice that the mountains in the background haven't changed much, but the climbing frames in the playground have had a lick of paint. My daughter Alba, in the picture, is a little young for the climbing frame, but she has already proved to be the star of the conference. Her first plane journey went well, It was on a pretty busy plane, and we had two seats in a group of three. Our fellow passenger, seeing that he was sitting next to a family with an 8 month old baby graciously begged the stewardess to be allowed to sit elsewhere so as to give us a little more space. We certainly didn't mind...
This year, I brought travelling companions, as seen in the picture. Eagle-eyed regular readers may notice that the mountains in the background haven't changed much, but the climbing frames in the playground have had a lick of paint. My daughter Alba, in the picture, is a little young for the climbing frame, but she has already proved to be the star of the conference. Her first plane journey went well, It was on a pretty busy plane, and we had two seats in a group of three. Our fellow passenger, seeing that he was sitting next to a family with an 8 month old baby graciously begged the stewardess to be allowed to sit elsewhere so as to give us a little more space. We certainly didn't mind...
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