I gave my research presentation here at the conference yesterday. It was a pretty tiring ordeal for me. Not necessarily because I was nervous and stressing out for it, but because I was up late preparing for it the night before, and up early the next morning to practice the presentation. By last night around 10pm I was already super tired and ready for bed.

My mom actually came to watch me present yesterday and she was able to sit in the back at the top of the bleachers and take some wide angle pictures of the auditorium. You can't necessarily make me out, but I'm the guy wearing the red shirt:)



The presentation went pretty average, in my opinion. Due to lack of time during the session, I only had one question during the Q&A time. However, I had good conversations afterwards with researchers who were interested in the things that I and my lab were working on. I intend on following up on those conversations through emails after the conference. These students were looking to go down the same route in terms of the analytical techniques we have been using, as well as looking at the simulations we have used.

Later that evening, I went with my fam to a small night market in Taipei. Not the best one, but they had a lot of food to eat. I ate stuff that I didn't even know what it was. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera so I have no pictures from the evening. Dang it.