Today, I gave my first lecture in a series of six as part of a nuclear physics graduate school. It's based at the University of Kashmir in Srinagar. I arrived here after a somewhat gruelling journey from Xinxiang, involving a flight from Zhengzhou to Guangzhou, another to Delhi and a third to Srinagar. The first flight was delayed by quite a while thanks to bad weather in Guangzhou, and when we did finally take off and fly to Guangzhou we ended up circling quite a bit in the storm and ended up with a flight time more than an hour more than it should have been. I could swear we almost landed quite some time before we actually did -- at least we appeared to be flying very close to the ground. Oh well, we got there okay and the lateness meant that my 9 hour wait at Guangzhou for the connecting flight was more like 5 hours. I then got to Srinagar okay and feel good to have given the first lecture. I was a little uneasy about how it would go, what sort of reaction to expect from the audience, and the extent to which the material would be paced. In fact with just how busy the last couple of weeks have been, I needed to spend yesterday preparing rather than joining the students on the excursion, which was a great shame, but I should have a chance later in the week to go for a bit on an explore of the town.
My lectures draw a strand through general ideas of the nuclear mean field, through effective nuclear interactions to applications of time-dependent approaches, including fusion and fission. Today I talked mostly about some general ideas and then some quite formal stuff -- in particular the derivation of the Hartree-Fock equations. I'd like to think that at the end of the week I'll bring my somewhat rough notes together and write them up into something more presentable and permanent. It's nice to be optimistic.
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