This week we had two visitors to the physics department: Dr. Jose Funes and Dr. Leopoldo Infante. Dr. Funes is the director of the Vatican Observatory and Dr. Infante is an astrophysicist from Catholic University in Chile. Dr. Funes gave a great talk Wednesday, the 20th, at our dept. colloquium. He discussed the evolution of local galaxies and HUGS a survey of galaxies with a distance less than 11 Mpc. Afterwards, we had a nice reception and poster session for the graduate students to discuss research with the guests.
Thursday, the 21st, Elysse (pictured in posts below) and I were invited to dinner with the two esteemed guests along with Dr. Duilia de Mello (my advisor), Dr. Steve Kraemer and Dr. Fred Bruhweiler from the department. We went to a place called Poste in D.C. The chef prepared a special vegan three course meal for me. It was very delicious and I felt included, which is rare at fancy restaurants for a vegan.
What a momentous event for me and the department. I apologize for not having pictures at the moment. I will attempt to get some and put them up later.
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