I'm in Paris this week for a meeting dubbed "Gogny Conference: Nuclear Structure and Reactions". "Gogny" refers to the scientist Daniel Gogny who died in 2015. Gogny was a French nuclear physicist who worked first in France, then in the US, and the series of conference named in his honour seem to be a joint French-US enterprise with many colleagues from the US - especially Lawrence Livermore National Lab where he worked - making the trip to Paris for the meeting.
The meeting covers "Structure and Reactions" which could cover a very broad range of topics. Fortunately (for me) they are both up my street, and there is a strong focus on theoretical contributions, I guess reflecting Gogny's status as a theoretician. It all conspires to help me understand the talks more than I would on average. I'm here because I've been asked to talk about quantum computing, a topic I guess Gogny had heard of, but he never got to see it start to make some impact in nuclear physics.
Here are a couple of picture: One of me at the conference venue (Sorbonne Uni) and one of a speaker (Pierre Capel) who credited the Univeristy of Surrey on his opening slide, thanks to his collaboration with us.
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