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pictures: AGU 2004
Dec 13-16 my former (and future?) employer, the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCSD (and SIO, SDSC, and UCSD -- I was never really sure exactly which institution I was working for) sent me to the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco. Here are some pictures.
One thing every conference needs is custom-printed carpet. Given that there were 12,000 attendees, it couldn't have added too much expense, but it still seems kind of extravagant. I wonder if some AGU organizer now has this as their welcome mat:
There were two floors of poster session. This picture is taken from the escalator, going from the second to the third floor of the Moscone center. The third floor was dedicated to talks. Massive poster session:
Here we are within the poster session area. Note that the motion-blurred guy in the foreground is carrying a cup of beer:
This next picture is looking back from the poster area towards the escalator. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of my poster or the poster of anyone I know. New posters were put up at 08:00 and noon on every day of the conference. The ROADNet posters were on Thursday morning.
When I had my poster, a bunch of people came by and asked a lot of questions. We exchanged contact information for future correspondence. I had to leave early, so Kent took my poster down for me and took it back to Alaska with him, where it allegedly adorns a wall at Lindquist Consulting.
In addition to poster sessions, the conference hosts many talks. There are both invited talks (guest speakers on prescient topics, hot research items, etc), and people giving talks about their recent work. Here's a scene from an invited lecture on climate change. The slide on the screen is showing some 5,000-year-old plant that was just exposed by a retreating glacier, indicating that this glacier is currently the smallest it's been in more than 5,000 years:
Conference-goers with computers made liberal usage of the wireless network. Sadly I did not have a computer with me, since mine is currently in a deep coma. I heard more than one person refer to the wireless area as the "nerd tables," although it seems a bit... redundant (?) to refer to some subset of any group of scientists as "nerds." (-:
If you were one of those suckers without a portable computer, you would have to wait in this queue to use an internet-connected terminal. I abstained!
While playing with the digital camera, I noticed that the parallel grid of the escalator "on ramp" generated a tremendous moire pattern.
(The pattern goes away if I rescale the image using a better resampling algorithm. To get the aliasing effect I just used "nearest sample" resampling.)
One thing every conference needs is custom-printed carpet. Given that there were 12,000 attendees, it couldn't have added too much expense, but it still seems kind of extravagant. I wonder if some AGU organizer now has this as their welcome mat:
There were two floors of poster session. This picture is taken from the escalator, going from the second to the third floor of the Moscone center. The third floor was dedicated to talks. Massive poster session:
Here we are within the poster session area. Note that the motion-blurred guy in the foreground is carrying a cup of beer:
This next picture is looking back from the poster area towards the escalator. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of my poster or the poster of anyone I know. New posters were put up at 08:00 and noon on every day of the conference. The ROADNet posters were on Thursday morning.
When I had my poster, a bunch of people came by and asked a lot of questions. We exchanged contact information for future correspondence. I had to leave early, so Kent took my poster down for me and took it back to Alaska with him, where it allegedly adorns a wall at Lindquist Consulting.
In addition to poster sessions, the conference hosts many talks. There are both invited talks (guest speakers on prescient topics, hot research items, etc), and people giving talks about their recent work. Here's a scene from an invited lecture on climate change. The slide on the screen is showing some 5,000-year-old plant that was just exposed by a retreating glacier, indicating that this glacier is currently the smallest it's been in more than 5,000 years:
Conference-goers with computers made liberal usage of the wireless network. Sadly I did not have a computer with me, since mine is currently in a deep coma. I heard more than one person refer to the wireless area as the "nerd tables," although it seems a bit... redundant (?) to refer to some subset of any group of scientists as "nerds." (-:
If you were one of those suckers without a portable computer, you would have to wait in this queue to use an internet-connected terminal. I abstained!
While playing with the digital camera, I noticed that the parallel grid of the escalator "on ramp" generated a tremendous moire pattern.
(The pattern goes away if I rescale the image using a better resampling algorithm. To get the aliasing effect I just used "nearest sample" resampling.)
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(liked the shot of U Rochester too.)
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