It is day 2 of 3 at this conference I am attending in Sivas, Türkiye. As if the opening concert were not enough yesterday, today we finished one of the scientific sessions with some Turkish folk dancing
The conference has otherwise carried on with a combination of Turkish and international speakers. Unlike the kind of conferences I usually go to, the emphasis here is on theoretical and applied nuclear physics, with relatively little on experimental blue skies nuclear physics. This is, I think, because theory and applied work can be done without access to the most expensive facilities. The main discussion of experimental work comes from the contingent who are here from ELI-NP, the facility just outside Bucharest in Romania.
I'm enjoying meeting a bunch of new people, in a way that has taken me a long time to grow into over my professional life, and it might help that people see me as the senior expert and want to talk to me in that capacity. In the last coffee break of the day I was even waylaid by each of a group of students in turn who wanted pictures taken with me, as if I were some kind of celebrity 🤷♂️
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