Job!

Well, after two or three weeks of near-incessant travel (including one stop by home that lasted just 11 hours), I've finally made a decision on a job for next year. I've accepted the offer to be a visiting assistant professor of physics at the Joint Sciences Department in Claremont; I think that I'll officially be associated with Scripps, but Joint Sciences is fairly independent so that designiation doesn't mean much. This will be cool: after visiting other excellent places, I've really come to recognize how unique the environment in the Claremont Colleges actually is (lots of great shared resources, and other colleagues at nearby schools including a string theorist at Mudd). It's a good job.

Now I can actually get back to thinking about work. I've just published another paper and given a talk at a string theory conference, but there's a lot left to do before I can finish and defend my thesis. Plus, we need to figure out where to live next year. :) Meanwhile, to those of you currently in southern California, we'll be seeing you soon!

Alumni Weekend!

Calling all Mudd graduates! (And, for that matter, all Claremont Colleges graduates.) There's this spiffy 50th Anniversary Alumni Weekend thingy coming up at the end of the month, Apr. 28-30, and Kim and I are definitely going. (We're going to take the opportunity to look around a little bit for a place to live for my new job, as I just mentioned in my previous post.) We'd love to see as many old friends there as possible (particularly those of you who aren't in our class year, and who we're thus likely to miss at usual reunions). There's lots of information easily accessible on the Mudd Alumni page (for some reason, Kim and I haven't gotten an announcement by mail this year, perhaps because we just moved), and even online registration.

So, yeah. Please do think about coming, and let us know if you're planning on it. We'll hope to see you there.