I goofed.

I’ve been so busy I completely forgot to write a blog post about my visit to Berkeley Lab (LBL) this week! You might have noticed if you pay very close attention to my Twitter stream, but really, who does that? So instead of an announcement of the trip, here’s a wrap-up report, from the day before I leave.

My reason for being out here in the first place is the research project I’ve been working on, with my adviser and another professor, for the last several months. Since we’re making a prediction for the LHC’s proton-ion collision run, which is going on now and ends next month, we have to rush to get some results and share them out to the physics community before the LHC experiments publish their data. So the professor I’m working with, who is spending a month at Berkeley, invited me out to work on the project and give a talk about it to the nuclear theory group at the lab. (My first invited talk, yay!) The talk itself went okay, not great, but that’s really my own fault because I had to stay awake the entire …