Conferences

This was a semester of conferences. My first one was in October. It was the Biomedical Engineering Society meeting in Hartford, CT, where I presented a poster on the HealthWorks! exhibit. The second conference was the American Heart Association scientific sessions in Orlando, FL. The conference had about 22,000 attendees with a rather large career fair featuring all the major drug companies. Their booths were extremely posh and most featured catering with everything from smoothies to fresh baked cobbler. The best part about the conference was our dinner at The Oceanaire where I had a wonderful swordfish steak.

Two days after getting back from the AHA conference, I was off the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Baltimore, MD, where I gave my first conference presentation. The conference proved to be interesting and useful. I met a girl from Canada who was working to build a flow loop similar to mine and she had been struggling with some of the same issues as myself, which made me feel better since I wasn't alone. I also had a really great dinner with two of Dr. Paolucci's Italian students, two of their Italian professor friends, and a recently graduated student of Dr. Powers at Luna del Sea.

While going to conference was fun and really good for my sky miles account, I hope never to do 3 in the same semester again.