Day 1 of Sunbelt

Day 1 has ended at Sunbelt. There was no breakfast provided in the morning so I skipped breakfast and uploaded the photos and podcasts from yesterday. The conference started at 1:40 pm, so I grabbed lunch at a restaurant called FatBurger. It was a little pricey but the burger was really good, much better than McDonald's, they cook it for you when you order it and take their time to make it good. There weren't too many papers that seemed interesting but I did mention to blog in real time some of the papers which you can read here. Here's a couple of pictures that I took:

There was Wi-Fi in the conference.


Inside one of the conference meeting rooms.


Here's the outside of the conference meeting rooms, there were a total of 5 meeting rooms and I jumped from paper to paper to different rooms, and got out of rooms if I felt the paper was boring or not what I was interested in.


I met a couple of people and talked about what research they were doing and what I was doing, and I plugged about my talk tomorrow at 3:40 pm (which I will podcast). I was looking for some of the people related to my research, but I couldn't find them, hopefully I will talk to them tomorrow.

For dinner, I went out to a Chinese restaurant (to compare the food with Toronto Chinese style). It was pretty good, I got chicken Cantonese chow mein combo which included won ton soup for about $6.95. Even cheaper than lunch (which was $8.85 by the way)!

I practiced my presentation tonight twice so I think I'm ready to go. There was an open bar again tonight and I talked with several people but I did not drink any alcohol cause I want to be sober for my talk. Last night, I had a Labatt blue and I felt my head was a little lightheaded and I had a little bit of a headache.

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