Wayne and Erika Pfeiler

This evening I showed off my poster at the PhD student poster competition. The thing was supposed to take one and a half hours, and I talked to people almost non-stop for 2 hours, so hopefully that's a good sign. These things are supposed to be judged by at least 3 professors, who are incognito. So when asked, we're supposed to give a 5 minute talk about our poster and reasearch, and then have 5 minutes of questions. HAH. The judges don't take that very seriously. No one asked me directly to talk about the poster, but several took me up on my offer to explain it. Of those who did, many would stop me half way through, and start critiquing my methodology or something else, so I was rarely able to complete my 5 minute talk. I think some judges just walk by the poster to see if they like it, without even talking with us. Anyway, Ruwan's poster got a great reception, so that's cool. I took some more pictures and even a few of me by my poster. It's starting to feel like we've been here forever, and I'm glad we'll be heading home Sunday, desipite the beautiful hotel and scenery. I also got to hear a talk from Dr. Naderi, who was in charge of NASA's Mars rover missions. So that was pretty cool. That's all for now.