Highlights one week in:
-discussing the calculus of variations for hours
-staying up all night preparing a presentation on virtual work
-hiking the austrian alps: breathtaking scenes in every direction
-hairy cows are so cute!!
-swarms of flies that materialize from nowhere and attack from every diretion.
-german food, german deserts, and german soft-drinks
-mein lieber schwan
-talking about pseudospectra three days early with only five minutes notice
-getting grilled by Oleg and subsequently fixing my naive conception of normality
-finally getting the 'big picture' behind hamilton-jacobi theory
-impromptu derivation of Lagrange's equations from Newton's law
-Martin's design of a novel piezo-electric actuator
-i need to get my act together and write a freaken thesis!!
-more than anything else discovering that people half-way around the world enjoy doing what i do

This morning I took the train to Munchen, and this afternoon I wandered around the Deutches Museum. This evening I'll take a long stroll around the city, and ponder tangles by streetlight. More highlights to follow.