UDLS

[gfish]

The CS department here has a charming little institution called the Un-Distinguished Lecture Series. Every week someone volunteers to give a speech on... something. Anything. Often not even related to computer science. Afterwords everyone goes over to the grad student pub for beer. It's simply brilliant.

Last week I took the plunge and gave a surprisingly well attended and received talk on archaeometallurgy. If you're curious, here are the slides. They were a lot of fun to put together. It's too bad all my archaeometallurgical visual aids are in storage. Maybe next time.

Comments

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Nice to see a pic of our bloom in there :-)

I too am currently suffering from moving countries, and although we now have all our tools back here, (apart from caches deliberately stored at strategic locations for blacksmithing holidays) we don't yet have jobs/places to live/playing sites to unpack at yet.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, you were part of that? Looks like it was a lot of fun to do -- and with much better results than any of my copper smelting attempts.

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Flickr user stellar_muddle, whose image you used for an iron bloom is my significant other :-)

[ionan.livejournal.com]

Professor Fish. Profishsor.

I bet your lecture was awesome. Wish I'd been able to attend. Maybe a podcast?

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Just reading the slides was pretty interesting, I bet the talk was great. The idea of getting people to rant about their secret, uncredentialed expertise is great.

[adularia.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful. Learned a fair bit just by reading the slides; you win.

[lolmike.livejournal.com]

"Europe stuck with accordion bellows, which suck"

mwahaha.

I also like your copious use of the word bullshit.

That was great. Good work, sir.

Slide three sounds familiar...

[avicado.livejournal.com]

Are you referring to the lake in Israel, or my sister? 'Cuz last time I checked, she's never done anything with smelting. She does work with the steel industry financially, but that's a bit of a stretch...

&:þ

[triskadekaphile.livejournal.com]

I love that idea.