Journeys for Knowledge

With my first year of PhD complete, the time came to finally decide what my thesis would focus on. To help with this, I decided to take my conference leave early and travel to the Italian island of Elba for a workshop on accelerators. Although I have never worked with accelerators, it was the one […]

As a final part of my first year at OIST, the graduate school organized a tour of Japan, where we would visit other major Japanese universities and network with them to see how the rest of Japan runs their PhD programs. Naturally these classical universities would run things a little differently from us, so it […]