Away for 5 days

In the last few days I was busy and yesterday it was a holiday in Brazil, so...

The DES (Dark Energy Survey) workshop happened on Nov 10-11 and I spent the day there on Friday. My talk was the 2nd on Friday morning, speaking about the SZ effect and observations that could be made comparing the DPOSS survey with WMAP data. I actually did not show much of what I've been doing with Reinaldo and Paulo, but could show the possibilities...

From Saturday to today I spent my time preparing the proposal to FINEP for the 1st Brazilian Workshop on Astrobiology... it's booming all over.... we have a good speaker coming from Imperial College (David Catling) and are trying another one, more biology-oriented.

So far, just paperwork and doing correlation analysis for the SZ paper to be presented at IAU in Pucon (December 12-16). UEEEEEEEEEEEBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, gotta go to the dentist.

Weekly talk and point sources

Yesterday Simone Daflon, from Obs. Nacional, presented a talk on "Rotation and chemical abundances in B-stars". Nice talk, but too far away from my field. Later I started checking the point source distribution in the BEAST maps... terrible, I am pretty sure the numbers I got are wrong. Should check the galaxy cut and the RMS value.

The morning (yesterday and today) were spent doing stuff for the astrobiology workshop that will happen in March 20-21. Pretty good stuff, and the topics will be:

Exoplanets search
Habitable zones
Biomolecules in the ISM
Essential chemistry for life
Biogeochemistry and alternative chemistries for life

Now, back to BEAST point sources search.... 14h00 and couting.

First post

Hello world! (Fortran standard for the first whatever you do in programming)

This is just to check if my first post is working.