Laurie is managing alone this week while I am out in New Orleans for the HEAD meeting. I’ve only been here a couple days, but so far I’m not all that impressed. I can see the appeal for college students and people who really like to party, but it’s just not my scene. I will [...]
Those of you close to me know that one of the projects I work on is a spacecraft called Swift. I am not going into big details here as you can visit the website to find out more, but basically it is a multi-wavelength observatory that will study gamma-ray bursts. At long last Swift has [...]
Today is the last day of the AAS conference so I will be heading back to Maryland tomorrow morning. I would head back tonight, but with the time change I would end up getting in at 2 or 3 in the morning. I fly out of Denver at 8:30 AM and get back at 4:30 [...]
So I am out in Denver this week for the American Astronomical Society meeting. It’s been nice returning to the area. I lived out here about, oh 18 years ago. Wow, doesn’t seem that long ago, but I guess has been. I love being able to look out and see the mountains so close. Of [...]