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aryanhwyThis year when I came back from Leeds, I spent a lot of time thinking, and seriously considering whether what I really wanted to do was become a true medievalist, and start focusing my efforts on that (heck, I started writing a paper on textile-terms in some early 17th C English will; not completely medieval, but definitely neither logic nor onomastics). I'd been...disatisfied...with the logic side of things, and realized that every time I went to Leeds I came away feeling enthused, energized, and ready to tackle all sorts of new projects, and the projects always involved medieval stuff as their focus rather than logic stuff.
Fast-forward a month and a half, and I've just come back from the AiML conference dinner, where I sat across from someone who found me earlier today and after confirming that I am who I am (errr...and that is not God), told me "I've wanted to meet you for quite some time, I've read a lot of your papers", next to someone who still remembers the talk I gave at AiML'08 as one of the most impressive and interesting talks he's heard in this conference series, and diagonally from someone with whom I've taken up a co-editorship a few months ago and who, when I said that I'd love to get to next year's AAMAS because it's held in St. Paul and that's where my sister and brother-in-law and their kids lived, said, only partly jokingly that he had a number of papers he wanted to submit there but didn't have time to write them all so maybe we should collaborate.
Every time I go to AiML, I am overwhelmed by the reception my research gets there. It's the only conference I go to where I don't have to justify myself (which is one of the unfortunate drawbacks of interdisciplinary research). After I've given my talk, people come up to talk to me about it throughout the rest of the conference, which is impressive since usually by the time the next coffee break comes around, people have already moved on to thinking about more recent talks. I come away from this conference, and in particular tonight's social dinner, thinking and feeling "These are my people." And now all I want to do is get back home and start writing logic.
I suppose there are worse situations to be in.
Fast-forward a month and a half, and I've just come back from the AiML conference dinner, where I sat across from someone who found me earlier today and after confirming that I am who I am (errr...and that is not God), told me "I've wanted to meet you for quite some time, I've read a lot of your papers", next to someone who still remembers the talk I gave at AiML'08 as one of the most impressive and interesting talks he's heard in this conference series, and diagonally from someone with whom I've taken up a co-editorship a few months ago and who, when I said that I'd love to get to next year's AAMAS because it's held in St. Paul and that's where my sister and brother-in-law and their kids lived, said, only partly jokingly that he had a number of papers he wanted to submit there but didn't have time to write them all so maybe we should collaborate.
Every time I go to AiML, I am overwhelmed by the reception my research gets there. It's the only conference I go to where I don't have to justify myself (which is one of the unfortunate drawbacks of interdisciplinary research). After I've given my talk, people come up to talk to me about it throughout the rest of the conference, which is impressive since usually by the time the next coffee break comes around, people have already moved on to thinking about more recent talks. I come away from this conference, and in particular tonight's social dinner, thinking and feeling "These are my people." And now all I want to do is get back home and start writing logic.
I suppose there are worse situations to be in.
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Date: 2012-08-25 06:48 pm (UTC)Would Gwen get to come, too??? We're pretty good at babysitting. ;) Leah would be thrilled!
Just in case... ;)
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Date: 2012-08-26 01:42 pm (UTC)