[Leica] Nathan's PAD 23/10/2018: IP Statistics for Decision Makers conference 2018

[Jim Hemenway]

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.
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> Douglas
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> 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.
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
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>> 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
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