T2K Workshop in New York

We are midway through a two-day workshop with our T2K colleagues, being held at Stony Brook University, on Long Island, New York. I have studied and worked at several US universities, but this campus really is the quintessential American campus for me, with windswept car parks each bigger than Imperial College, a "football" stadium, and everything being about twice the size that it needs to be.

Antonin our Research Associate has come with me from London, and our students Ian and Joe are here too. Joe is living in Chicago now to work on SciBooNE, so it has been a couple of months since I last saw him. He prefers now to support the Chicago Bears compared to the misery of following the perennial 2nd Division club that he used to have an interest in.

We are joined by our colleagues from UVic and TRIUMF in British Columbia, and some European universities, and of course the Stony Brook contingent. With only a couple of years to go till the T2K experiment gets going, we are working to make sure the computer software will be ready and up to the job. I will leave it to Antonin, Ian and Joe to add fair and balanced (and 99% censorship-free!) comments on how the meeting is being run. At least my choice of dinner venue was met with approval. I somehow think I will be judged on whether I will be able to bring the meeting to a close as scheduled, this being a Friday! We shall see come 6pm....