Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With a civil honor can we drop the Nathan and just refer to him as El Wajsman? On 10/26/18 1:52 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: > Impressive! Well done on swelling the coffers of your adopted city, > Nathan. A few more of those and you're a cert to get a Spanish civil > honour. Congrats on your mentee's success too. > > Douglas > > On 26/10/2018 05:57, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> Not the most sexy of subject lines, I know?but this week our office >> hosted one of major annual events on the global IP economics circuit, >> together with the OECD. Offering to host the conference was something >> I proposed last year, so I have been a bit tense and nervous this >> week?in the way a football coach is nervous before a match. All the >> preparations had been made, the speakers lined up, the logistics were >> in good hands etc., but in the end you don?t know if it went well >> until it is over. It is now over, and it did go well. Two snippets >> from the conference. >> >> The conference was truly global?here is a panel of three presenters, >> from Korea, China and the US, respectively, chaired by Prof. Castaldi >> from the Technical University of Eindhoven: >> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-XNXQLQj/A >> >> In addition to the presentations in the auditorium, there were also >> ?poster sessions? in the lobby, as is typical for academic >> conferences. These are basically papers that did not quite make the >> cut to be presented orally (the selection was made by an external >> Scientific Committee) but were still considered good enough to be >> presented. Here is one of those posters and one of the co-authors, >> whom I consider one of our real success stories. Antanina is >> Lithuanian. She was a trainee in my department a few years ago, then >> went on to the PhD programme at the University of Padova in Italy, >> where she will defend her dissertation next month. And she has just >> been hired for a post-doc position at the University of Bournemouth >> in England. I have kept in touch with her over the years, visiting >> her in Padova two years ago, and writing recommendations for her >> along the way when needed. So I am really pleased to see her progress: >> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MBsdTMr/A >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information