I leave for my 4 days in Napa tomorrow. The flight takes off at 8AM and didn’t allow for early check-in, so I’ll need to wake up at the indecent hour of 4:30AM to get picked up at 5:15. There is Winter Weather Advisory for tomorrow, including up to 3-6 inches of snow in south-central [...]

A little bird has told me that my FCCM paper has been accepted. That would be my first publication as lead author.
UPDATE: Now officially accepted.

It’s coming together. All text and data are in place - all that’s left is the editing and formatting on my first conference paper submission. Cutting down size is the prime challenge now, with the current length at 9.75 pages and a maximum length restriction of 8 pages (but we may be able to get [...]