We'll be hosting a large-ish Thanksgiving dinner at Graham St. this year. If you're in Pittsburgh and would like to join us, please consider yourself invited (and let me know if you'll be coming).

The plenary talk about to start is titled "Insect-Machine Hybrid System".

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html?em

Played hooky this morning to go to a big farm stand/garden shop. It felt like Idlewild and other places I grew up around. Sadly, the strawberry crop was small this year, so the advertised pick-your-own wasn't happening, but there were strawberries and ice cream on waffles, a petting zoo, and friends to convince me that it was the right opportunity ( Read more... )

On my departure from Seattle, I'll be in your wonderful city from the afternoon of Saturday, July 4 through the afternoon of Wednesday, July 8.  I don't have anything solid on my dance card yet, and so am actively seeking suggestions (and a sense of who'll be around so I can make sure to see everyone :-) )

I will be attending a conference  in your fine city from June 28 to July 1, and then staying through the morning of July 4. I know I'll be seeing some of you at the VNV concert, but there should be more adventures (or oven-chars, as is your preference).  lakmiseiru  and I are getting tickets for the Friday, July 3 8pm Underground/Underworld tour (the ( Read more... )

With my housemates leaving the country or getting married, I've got two rooms open in my house:

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/roo/1100645172.html

I'm giving a seminar talk (with cookies!) on Wednesday at 4:30 in NSH 1507.  It's on my thesis research, which offers a new perspective on how locomotion works and points out that coordinate choice really does matter. I'm shooting for the main flow of the talk to be understandable at a basic (engineering) vector calculus level, with bonus insights ( Read more... )

I'm planning to go see the Pittsburgh Savoyards production of Iolanthe next month. Anyone interested in coming along?

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