• Question: Do you travel a lot?

    Asked by billster10 to Mark, Donna, Jo, Stuart, timcraggs on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by leejp02, walkerre04.
    • Photo: Mark Lancaster

      Mark Lancaster answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Yes – too much. I’m part of two international collaborations – one in the US (Chicago) and one in Japan (Tsukuba/Osaka) and also particle physics is centred at CERN (Geneva) and there are many international conferences and workshops where new results are announced – so in the first 6 months of this year I’ve done – Japan,Mexico,Canada,Geneva,Geneva,Chicago,Japan and in July I’m going Geneva and Turin !

      It’s one of the great things of the job – I’ve also had the privilege to live abroad for extended periods – Hamburg for 4 years and Berkeley (just opposite San Francisco) for 4 years – which was very interesting since you only really get to know a place and its people/culture by living there…

    • Photo: Donna MacCallum

      Donna MacCallum answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hi Billster

      I don’t travel as much as some of my colleagues – but I still try to get away abroad at least once a year to a conference (and at least one other conference in the UK).

    • Photo: Joanna Buckley

      Joanna Buckley answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Yeah and sometimes I wake up in a hotel and have seriously no clue where I am! That is really strange!

      I travel about a fair bit. I go to conferences and talk about my work (I’m at one today actually and dipped out of a boring talk to answer your question!) and I go into schools to chat to students about science. 🙂

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