The main reason for Kevin's little trip to Istanbul is to attend the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, and that's what he did throughout the week. Here's Kevin and his dorm-mates Luis and and Fikih posing in front of the Lutfi Kirdar Convention Centre in Istanbul where the conference was held...
The three of them again, this time together with some of the others at the Young Scientist Party...
One of the general lectures in the main auditorium...
Fikih's presentation on the attenuation of waves in rain...
The room has got a nice view too!
In fact, the convention centre is situated on some sort of hill, providing a nice view of the surrounding areas and the Bosphorus. The only downside was the 2km walk uphill that had to be traversed every morning in the heat and humidity of summer.
Luis' poster...
One of Kevin's research collaborators Dave Jauncey presenting the Grote Reber award to Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the discoverer of pulsars (and whose PhD supervisor controversially won the Nobel prize for her discovery while she was overlooked).
Jocelyn Bell then gave a very inspiring talk about how she serendipitously discovered the pulsars, with this slide showing the initial nickname given to them: LGM (for little green men)...
Kevin gave his own presentation on the last day of the conference...
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