AAS

I attended the AAS meeting last week. Mostly I sat behind a booth, but I had a poster on Monday, so took that day as a "grad student" day. That's me with my poster. I stood there during the morning break and for much of the afternoon (after 1:30 PM), but talked with only a handful of people. Sigh.

I also walked through the job hunters booth and read most of the post-doc openings, but most of them wanted someone before I'd be graduating. I may be screwed, since I doubt I'll be going to the summer meeting, and if I do, it will be the same as usual - 8 hours behind the booth with little or no time to network and interview.

On the good side of the meeting, I ran into a professor from my undergraduate institution. He had taught my first year of astro class, and he even remembered me. (One professor didn't recognize me two years after I graduated, but that guy was an ass to begin with.) We had a bit of a chat near his poster, and then near mine. He's since retired from Tech, but got called to duty at one of the major ground observatories "temporarily", so isn't enjoying golf games and such just yet.

Overall, not a great meeting for grad-student me, and I'm going to have to learn to push to get what I need from these meetings soon.