Ye olde blogger. 

That's Dom Confusing

So, the opening reception was tonight. It started off in the Dom Courtyard and was eventually moved into the Dom Church. While in the courtyard, I read that the architect, as a joke, put the stone ropes up in one of the lattices to make it look like they were needed to hold it up (see pic below).

Tonight I ate at this cool greek place and the food was good and cheap (relatively). Mental Note: I will have to try mousaka again. We then walked around town (see canals pic below) and then we went to a "coffeeshop."

Tomorrow is the Teamcore breakfast at 7:00, so I have to get up early. Yes I am giving you an excuse for myself to stop wrting :)

I leave you with this statue of a blogger from the days of the old.

Canals (props to Janusz for reminding telling me about his delay picture method) 

Dom courtyard window lattice. Look closely for the rope. 

Mark, asked me what I was drinking: White Beer. It's pretty good. I think it's a type of ale that is smoother. 

Dinner, party of 15. Look closely at Ranjit's head... 

Utrecht Central....daytime...from my room again ;)

What am I doing here?

Mark asked if I was presenting a paper. So I will catch you guys up on what I have to do at a typical conference.

Monday-7:45am-5:15pm Work my volunteer duty to earn my scholarship funds that I received. This will be supervising and technical support of Tutorials 1 (morning) and 2 (afternoon). Tutorials give a brief introduction to a particular concept. I killed two birds with one stone because I was already signed up for the first tutorial on Education-Based Multiagent Systems. This relates to my work on training firefighters.

Tuesday-9am-5:15pm Attend Safety and Security Workshop. Workshops are where people can meet in smaller, focused groups and present work in progress that is not as developed as a full conference paper. My research colleague, Janusz, will present a paper during this workshop that I am a co-author on. I am also Technical Chair for this Workshop and as such will be hosting and presenting on a simulation contest (that's what I was debugging yesterday). It is more of a friendly this year and will just serve as a lead up to something more sophisticated next year.

Thursday- I present a paper on my research. It is a poster paper, so I will set up a poster and stand by it and people will come up and ask me questions about my work.

Thursday- 14:00-15:30 and 16:00-17:00 I give a demonstration of the system that I have developed (with lots of help) in order to perform experiments for my research.

Sorry to bore you with the details ;) Had to get them out of the way.

The second tutorial was on P2P systems. Made me nostalgic for the glory days of Terazima!! I can't believe that site is still up.

Proof that I just don't take pics of electrical equipment inside. I also take shots through the window from inside too :) Universiteit Utrecht