While the whole of the US was facing a sizzling heat wave and Europe was washed away by months of rain, some of us where so lucky to get invited to a workshop at BIRS. Peter van Heijster shares his impressions.
The biannual SIAM `Snowbird' Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems was held May 22 - 26, 2011 in Snowbird, Utah, outside of Salt Lake City. Steve Schecter gives his impressions.
Jim Graham is a partner at Scimatic Software, a commercial enterprise producing software for scientists. He recounts the lessons learned in the many twists and turns of his career after graduating as a particle physicist.