A few weeks ago, I traveled down to Jefferson Lab in southern Virginia to give a talk for their Science Series of public lectures. They recorded the talk, and have done a very nice job of editing together the video, which you can see at that link, or right here:
It's a bit under an hour, which must include the Q&A period at the end. So, if you've been wondering what sort of thing I do when I travel to give talks, well, here's an example. And it'll give you something to keep you entertained while I travel to Illinois to give another (different) talk tomorrow...
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There are a lot of industries that will suffer mightily if there were an influenza pandemic so it's hard to single out any one that will be hit harder. But among the most vulnerable certainly must be the travel industry. At the height of a pandemic the problem is probably moot.
I've been getting questions about whether it is safe to send sons and daughters to travel to places where there might be a lot of swine flu about. Many are from people in North America whose children are due to travel to Asia or Africa.
NASA is putting together a memo giving guidance on conference funding and travel under the 2009 fiscal year budget.
University scientists may be allowed to travel on NASA funds, when all is clear.
This is from SARA:
Amusing intro to the talk! Demoted from Prof to Mr.
Be sure to report back to us on how the budget madness in Illinois is viewed by the physicists at UIUC.