LA-SiGMA Symposium 2012

I went to a conference again. It was a one-day conference on July 23. We left Ruston on Sunder afternoon, reached Baton Rouge around 6:30 and had dinner with the group led by Dr. Ramu. Since there were many Indian and Dr. Ramu was also Indian (I also wanted to try Indian food), we went to Indian's restaurant. It was fun but I was so tired from traveling. So I did not eat much.

This time I was also presenting a poster entitled "GPGPU Performance Modeling".



The conference was boring because it was like an annual report. So we slipped out in the middle of it and headed back to Ruston before dusk.

LA-SiGMA Graduate Student Retreat

I went to New Orleans last weekend for participating in Graduate student retreat, which is a part of my grant, LA-SiGMA. The talk by Peter Feibelman, the author of A PHD IS NOT ENOUGH was good. It was about why we might need a postdoc, what was the different between working in academia and industrial labs, etc.

Here are some photos I took in New Orleans downtown.