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European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference at Nottingham

Last week I went to the University of Nottingham with an IMA stall for the 3rd European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference (EPFDC). This is a conference organised by, and aimed at, postgraduate researchers in fluid dynamics and related fields and was partly funded by a grant from the IMA. I attended the final day of this 4 day conference and operated my stall during the poster session and lunch break. I met lots of postgraduate students and a couple of distinguished academics in the field who were presenting keynote talks. I was not feeling on my best form but managed to introduce a few people to the IMA who had not heard of it and sent people away with leaflets. Below are photos from this event: the first from my stall of the poster session and the second of my stall.

European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference poster session

The behaviour of people at conferences never ceases to amuse me. If I stand by my stall I tend to be fairly lonely but if I go to the other side of the room and watch then people flock to have a look at it. Am I that scary? The other amusing behaviour is taking things from the stall. I watch people sidle up to the stall, look around and quietly slip one of the leaflets into their bag as if they are not supposed to. I wonder why people think I have brought dozens of copies of identical leaflets if not to give them out! Or perhaps people think that taking a leaflet or, worse, a copy of Mathematics Today, might be taken as a binding commitment to some terrible fate, such as joining the IMA!

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