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[nibot]

I have to prepare a list of professors who I want to meet when I visit Carnegie Mellon next weekend. Here's my current list of professors whose work sounded especially cool for some reason:

• Michael Widom, quasicrystals and ferrofluids

• Rupert Croft, computational cosmology

• Robert Nichol, galaxies vs loopback time

• Robert Griffiths, quantum computing

• Richard Holman, cosmology and particle physics

(So many R- names! weird.) I was also irritated (by which I mean envious) to read that Prof. Jeff Peterson sends undergrads to the south pole on a regular basis.

Hmm. Anyway, you can look as well and tell me if I missed anybody particularly cool. There's a distinct lack of things having to do with LASERS on that list. Now that I look back on the list I'm not so sure. This whole grad school thing is much too complicated. I feel like I should have added some EE, CS, geophysics, and applied physics programs to the mix. I really hope I get into Berkeley.. anyway, the results should be in by the end of next week, I think.

I just bought a plane ticket to Durham, NC for my UNC Chapel Hill visit. Leaving Oakland on Thursday, April 1 on American Airlines flights 1182 and 1782, arriving 20:57. Returning Sunday, April 4 on AA flights 1171 and 1997, arriving 21:58.

Comments

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

It would be an even harder decision to make if you had more departments in there.

[heike.livejournal.com]

I'm making up my list, and it's basically, the experimental particle physics group. I wasn't told how many people I could meet, so I could list all 6, but I think I'll go for 4, and mention I especially want to meet the two Jim Russ and Manfred Paulini who work on CDF.

I can't figure out how to get email to send from the computer I'm borrowing though, so the list will wait a bit.

UMichigan letters are in the mail, so I should have one when I get back.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Do you know anyone else who's going to the CMU weekend?

Good luck on UMich, btw.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

My friend has some tips (http://www.livejournal.com/users/krasnoludek/35442.html) for stuff to do/see at CMU.

[forvrkate.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder if I'll get into either CMU or UNC. We'll see.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Good luck on those.. these remaining schools sure are slow! I'm checking the Maryland status page spastically.

Actually it makes me wonder about the ones we heard from so quickly.. how did they look through so many applications so quickly?

[baseballump.livejournal.com]

They probably did what some companies do when they're gonna hire a new guy:
They take all the applications and put them in four stacks. Then they pick one stack at random and go through the applications. Tough luck for the other guys...