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In June, I had the wonderful chance to travel to the Netherlands for a combination of business and pleasure. Of the ten days I spent there, four were at FemEx and the remaining six were spent biking around, primarily in Gelderland but also to some extent in Utrecht, Flevoland, and North Holland. It was a lovely trip, made more lovely by the amazing hosts of Vrienden op de Fiets who were kind enough to take me into their homes and feed me during my travels.

I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer Science this week in Houston, TX. My presentation, titled "Accurate Physics-Based Models for Biomolecular Simulations," will be on Thursday morning at 9am. I’ll be discussing the application of some cool data science techniques to molecular modeling, including how physical and chemical intuition can inform our data analysis, and how data science can actually provide us with new insights into the underlying physics. Hope to see you there!

Recently, getting restless thanks to the gorgeous weather and the constant hustle and bustle of living in New York City, I decided it was time to head into the woods for a night. After a bit of research, I settled on Harriman State Park as a destination: it’s relatively accessible via public transit but far enough from the city to feel like a different world.

Well, I thought I was done with neutrino astrophysics yesterday, but then I read about the recent discovery of two extremely high-energy neutrinos by the IceCube collaboration.