Yes that's right! From now on there will be news from the western front on a more regular basis than once per two years. Needless to say, many things have happened since the last blog, including 
many trips to distant places; from the hot plains of Texas to the even hotter plains of Egypt, from tropical Colombia to less-than-tropical Scandinavia, England, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Canada, as well as a few other places. I went on most of these trips together with Maria Lucia, who has travelled to quite a few more exotic places. Work is good, but hard. We have been quite successful in the Panda team which has had the side-effect that my workload has tripled to say the least. Panda is now serving grid users, both for production and user analysis, around the planet. Previously it was "only" used by the ATLAS affiliated universities in the US. I have written my first physics publication in ATLAS about Supersymmetry (on the topic of Gauge-Mediated SUSY Breaking), and my first computing publication about the Panda pilot system. It has been great fun, in a nerdy kinda way, and has offered great opportunities of learning new things. So in spite of a constantly falling Dollar (I am paid by a US university, UTA), I must say that I am happy with both my professional life and my private life.
Catch you later,
Paul
many trips to distant places; from the hot plains of Texas to the even hotter plains of Egypt, from tropical Colombia to less-than-tropical Scandinavia, England, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Canada, as well as a few other places. I went on most of these trips together with Maria Lucia, who has travelled to quite a few more exotic places. Work is good, but hard. We have been quite successful in the Panda team which has had the side-effect that my workload has tripled to say the least. Panda is now serving grid users, both for production and user analysis, around the planet. Previously it was "only" used by the ATLAS affiliated universities in the US. I have written my first physics publication in ATLAS about Supersymmetry (on the topic of Gauge-Mediated SUSY Breaking), and my first computing publication about the Panda pilot system. It has been great fun, in a nerdy kinda way, and has offered great opportunities of learning new things. So in spite of a constantly falling Dollar (I am paid by a US university, UTA), I must say that I am happy with both my professional life and my private life.Catch you later,
Paul
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