jonny goes to england

Diese Woche sieht so aus:

• Morgen Geburtstag
• Morgen ein Seminar an City Uni von Sabelfeld, einem Forscher aus Chalmers. Chalmers gehoerte zu den Unis, bei welchen ich mich fuer den Master beworben habe. Ende 2005 habe ich dafuer Goeteborg und Chalmers besucht… jedoch kam es nicht zum “jonny goes to sweden” und das ist auch gut so
• Freitag Abend (sehr) kurzen Abstecher nach Basel vom City Airport..

Exactly in one month I’ll be in Arizona.

The girl in my office has been accepted to the workshop Programming Languages and Analysis for Security and I’ll join her for fun and profit :). It’s only a one day workshop .. so we will be flying down on the 6 June and already return on the 9 June. Basically a weekend in Arizona. Still, I hope I get the time to take some nice pictures and put them up here.

The good thing about going to a 3rd world country is that it’s really cheap to buy stuff (clothes, electronics) .. so anyone who wants ipods or something else, just tell me heh.

I found this in our student union shop. These alien-sticks are supposed to be sausages but alone seeing the texture of it makes me feel funny. Check it out:

Yesterday was the theory day of imperial,kings and queen mary. It took place in the computing department of Imperial in South Kensington. Very nice surrounding compared to our Mile End campus …

Anyway, I heard a few good talks and another few where I hardly understood a word. Most importantly, I heard a talk from a girl in Kings who is doing more or less the same research like I do.

Afterwards, me and Han stopped by at Harrods (since it was close) and I bought something for dinner .. walking past the windows I saw the following … chair or so:

Morgen findet ein London Theory Day im Imperial College statt. Das ist ein Treffen der verschiedenen Theorie-Gruppen von QMUL, Imperial und Kings College. Ich gebe keinen Talk, jedoch die Chinesin von meinem Buero wird ihre aktuelle Arbeit vorstellen ..

Auf dem Campus stehen nun diese Helpdesk-Terminals zur Verfuegung. Es dient als ein Internetterminal mit Webcam und zur Informationsbeschaffung ueber die Uni/Campus..

Poster I saw recently on the street. Interesting name ..

It is actually spring here. The <insert right tree> is blooming here wonderfully.

Here’s the view over parts of the campus, seen from the conference building. The red Backstein house is the library. To the right you see the entrance to the student village with the wooden house and the green France House at the canal in the back.

The last two days our own little conference was running, solely for phd students. There were about 25 talks, few poster presentations and two panel talks mostly about managing your phd. Lunch, coffee and dinner was offered and paid as well! All in all it was really well organised.

For dinner we went to Thai Vista, a nice restaurant with (apparently) authentic thai food. Afterwards, we went to brick lane. During the night, the bar Cafe 1001 beside our venue (Clemens, Jani that’s where we went! :&gt was raided by police. Both road sides were blocked off and everybody who left the area was searched. I tried to get strip-searched but it didn’t happen!

My first pay (for teaching stuff). Not a lot but still

Gestern musste ich einen mid-term test “invigilaten” was so viel bedeutet wie waehrend der Pruefung herumstehen und ein Auge auf die Studenten zu haben. Komisch in dieser Situation zu sein .. frueher haben das immer diese komischen, aelteren Studenten gemacht ..

Die Pruefung fand in einem neu renovierten Gebaeude und Hoersaal statt. An den Waenden hingen 2 schwenkbare Ueberwachungskameras ..wieso diese benoetigt werden ist mir unklar. Diese auf dem Bild unten hing direkt ueber den obersten Baenken des Saals und uebersah alle Studenten.