Comments on: Physics and Precipitation in Vancouver

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:01:14 +0000

Thanks Bob – nice of you to say so. I’ll post again soon about my only full day at UBC. Hope you enjoy the rest of the blog.

Cheers,

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:40:10 +0000

I mean, at MIT you’re required to have a minor program as part of your Ph.D. (at least, in computer science). So I chose astrophysics. Really, all that’s required is a couple of extra, related courses outside your main area. But I do seem to have managed to squeeze in more physics courses than anyone but a physicist.

By: the one Intelligently designed

the one Intelligently designed — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:57:29 +0000

Hi Bob,
If I understood you correctly , you are talking about your minor in astrophysics during phd. What do you mean by that?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:41:51 +0000

Hi Mark,

I enjoyed your talk. I’m a computer scientist, but I have a decent physics background (astrophysics Ph.D. minor), and try to keep up with cosmology in particular.

As others have mentioned, October is not the time to see Vancouver at its best! (But, yes, amazingly, today was beautiful.)

Yesterday evening, my wife (geophysics prof here) called me over to point out this new cosmology blog… with an item by someone who’d just given a talk at UBC. Small world!

By: Plato

Plato — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:48:00 +0000

I hope you saw how important Canadians/BCer’s are taking their education…..I wonder how this affected your conference?

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:59:53 +0000

On the other hand, the sky here today in LA looks rather like an average Manchester sky: very grey, very low, and dripping stuff on you relentlessly.

-cvj

By: Moshe

Moshe — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:51:12 +0000

Mark,

I thought you may be interested: the sun is shining, the birds are singing, no cloud in the sky, exactly as it was before you landed here.

By: Plato

Plato — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:50:50 +0000

Vancouver is a beautiful place….and being biased, I hope views on the time year, “of rain” seems to be the way of it.

Go to the West end, and you’ll find many good resturaunts, or stop by an umbrella place with rain and on a sunny day, and watch the populace go by.

Nothing like “real time” to bring perspective on issues that are taking place.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:37:11 +0000

As you say Moshe – the only news fit to print. See you in a while.

By: Moshe

Moshe — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:34:25 +0000

Good Morning Mark, good to have you here, but it seems like you will have to come back in the summer to see what Vancouver is well-known for, maybe we could rock climbing or scuba diving then, or maybe we’ll stick to the urban.

(In dinner I thought we did not dwell too much on this landscape business, but it was probably the only news that fit to print…)

Looking forward to your talk later today.