I’m off to Newcastle-upon-Tyne today for their Post­gradu­ate Forum con­fer­ence. I went last year and was slightly shocked to dis­cover that I was the only per­son giv­ing a talk who didn’t have some sort of New­castle con­nec­tion. I’m hop­ing this year that there’s a bit more enthu­si­asm from out­side. The reason I’m return­ing is that I enjoyed last year’s event hugely. It’s a very friendly depart­ment. As a bonus there were no bad talks.
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