Diary

Astronomers travel a lot, but over the last few years I was definitely travelling more than most. It remains to be seen if my travel schedule will be as hectic here in Leicester.

2012

April-June: Paternity leave.
January 18th: Seminar, University of Sheffield.

2011

December 22nd-28th: Christmas holiday in St Andrews.
November 15th: Public talk at Rushcliffe Photographic Society.
September 24th-October 7th: Paternity leave.
July 14th-17th: Another wedding in Edinburgh.
June 17th-19th: Weekend trip to visit family in Vienna.
May 20th-22nd: Wedding in Edinburgh.
April 12th-14th: Conference on Signposts of Planets, Goddard Space Flight Centre, Maryland, USA.
        Trip cancelled - conference postponed by US Government shutdown.
March 26th-27th: Weekend break in Paris.
February 28th-March 1st: Seminar, DAMTP, Cambridge.
February 6th-12th: Workshop on Transport Processes & Accretion in YSOs, Ringberg Castle, Germany.
January 9th-16th: Skiing holiday, Sankt Anton am Arlberg, Austria.

2010

December 23rd-January 1st: Christmas holiday: St Andrews, London.
October 15th-17th: (Another) Family wedding in Edinburgh.
October 8th-10th: Family wedding in St Andrews.
August 28th-September 4th: Holiday, Inner & Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
August 16th-20th: Washington, DC.
June 3rd-6th: Long weekend in Venice.
May 25th-29th: Workshop on Circumstellar disks and planets, Kiel, Germany.
May 7th-18th: Workshop on Dynamics of Astrophysical Disks, Beijing, China.
April 7th-13th: Wedding, Quebec City, Canada.
February 21st-23rd: Unplanned visit to Denver, Boulder & JILA (courtesy of United Airlines and lots of snow).
February 11th-21st: Aspen Winter Conference on Formation & Evolution of Black Holes, Aspen, Colorado, USA.
January 18th: Colloquium, University of Nottingham.

2009

December 22nd-January 2nd: Christmas holiday - Scotland & Poland.
Move to Leicester/Nottingham
November 7th-13th: Workshop on Dynamics of outer planetary systems, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
October 26th-29th: House-hunting trip, Nottingham & Leicester.
October 19th-20th: Colloquium, University College London.
August 16th-September 12th: Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge. Includes meetings on:
        The Dynamics of Discs and Planets (August 17th-21st).
        Angular Momentum Transport and Energy Release in Accretion Discs (September 7th-8th).
July 10th-12th: Weekend break in Brugge.
May 11th-16th: Holiday, Rome.
April 29th-May 4th: Wedding (ours!) in Edinburgh.
April 28th-29th: University of Leicester.
March 16th-20th: EARA Workshop: From disks to planets, Lorentz Center, Leiden.
March 9th-10th: Leicester, Swindon.
February 16th-19th: Colloquium, Yale.
February 2nd-3rd: London. Cancelled due to snow.
January 15th: Seminar, Instituut "Anton Pannekoek", University of Amsterdam.
January 2nd-9th: Skiing holiday, Mayrhofen im Zillertal, Austria.

2008

December 18th-27th: Christmas holiday - London, St Andrews, Edinburgh.
November 22nd-25th: Visiting family: St Andrews.
October 25th-November 1st: Spitzer conference: New Light on Young Stars, Pasadena, California.
September 8th-19th: IoA, Cambridge.
August 8th-10th: Weekend break in Munich.
July 19th-26th: Cool Stars 15 conference, St Andrews, Scotland.
April 25th-28th: Wedding in Scotland.
March 22nd-April 5th: JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder.
March 16th-21st: Workshop on Planet Formation Processes, Pasadena, California.
February 22nd-24th: Weekend break in Antwerp.
January 19th-25th: Skiing holiday, Sankt Anton am Arlberg, Austria.

2007

December 19th-29th: Christmas holiday - Scotland.
December 11th-13th: Colloquium, University of Leicester.
December 9th: Day trip to Cologne.
November 9th-17th: IoA, Cambridge (including Nina's PhD graduation).
October 26th-28th: Weekend break in Vienna.
October 12th-14th: Weekend break in Paris.
Move to Leiden
August 28th-30th: UC Santa Cruz.
August 26th-28th: Colloquium, UC Berkeley.
June 23rd-28th: St Andrews/Edinburgh.
June 17th-23rd: Ringberg Castle meeting Celebrating 15 years of precision astronomy in the Galactic Center, Bavaria, Germany.
June 4th-17th: Leiden Observatory.
May 27th-June 3rd: Lecturer at summer school on Circumstellar discs at high angular resolution, Ofir, Portugal.
April 10th-15th: From Stars to Planets meeting, Gainesville, Florida.
March 13th-25th: Wedding in Vienna, followed by a week in Leiden.
January 31st: London.
January 29th-30th: Leiden Observatory.
January 24th-26th: MPIA Heidelberg.

2006

December 14th-January 4th: Holiday - Netherlands, Austria, Poland.
November 5th-7th: Queen Mary, University of London.
October 30th-November 5th: Leiden Observatory.
October 27th-29th: Wedding, Edinburgh.
October 17th-19th: Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz.
September 25th-29th: IoA, Cambridge
September 18th-23rd: Disks 2006, Vidago, Portugal.
August 7th-August 14th: St Andrews/Edinburgh.
July 14th-August 7th: IoA, Cambridge, including The Disc-Planet Connection meeting.
June 16th-19th: Holiday - Moab, Utah.
March 30th-April 17th: IoA, Cambridge.
January 7th-14th: 207th Meeting of the AAS, Washington DC.

2005

December 20th-January 3rd: UK - Cambridge, St Andrews.
November 9th-20th: IoA, Cambridge, including PhD graduation.
October 22nd-29th: Protostars & Planets V meeting, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Move to Boulder


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