I'm on my way home from the UK Nuclear Physics Community meeting, which takes place every January and gives members of the academic nuclear physics community a chance to get together, update each other on research and community management matters, and to catch up with each other generally. I've been part of the community since 2000 so I've got to know many of the people well and it was nice to see them. Getting up to speed with latest new from STFC, from funding panels, and from research projects. If nothing else, I was prompted to send an email to offer collaboration on the calculation of octupole states, following having developed the ability to make the calculations, and then working with experimentalists at Surrey (see here).
In the evening last night there was a pub reception and meal at a fancy restaurant, but I felt like I had done the socialising I wanted to, and joined my London quiz team for a match. It was against the league leaders, and though I'm happy with how we did, we didn't manage to beat them.
Meanwhile, it's exam season at University so I've spent part of the last couple of days dealing with questions about Special Relativity for what will be my last time teaching it in its present form, thanks to some rearrangement of modules starting next year.
Here are some photos from the last couple of days in London
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| My hotel with St Pancras Station's hotel |
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| On the way to the quiz, the new developments around King's Cross station |
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