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-Blaise sent this letter to friends and family to celebrate the winter holiday season, 2016.
-In addition to this html version, you can also download the letter as sent: <a href="./letter.pdf">PDF</a>.
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-<h2>Winter Solstice Greetings - 2016</h2>
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-Hello to all my friends and family.
-I hope that you are feeling peaceful, cozy, and happy in these winter months.
-It's snowing hard outside as I write this letter to you.
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-I'm now in the middle of my 6th year of graduate school.
-I'm still enjoying my time in the Wright group---I hope to be here for a while yet.
-The past year of graduate school has been frustrating in some ways.
-Lots of progress has been made, but I haven't reached the key checkpoints that I hoped to reach.
-I'm looking forward to being a teaching assistant for a graduate-level electronics and instrumentation course next semester.
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-This summer was busy for me.
-In mid May three college friends (Kate, Nina, and Claire) joined me here in the Midwest.
-We spent a few days exploring Chicago---river tour, museums, food, even a local contradance.
-Pictured below is us outside of Shedd Aquarium.
-We then drove to Madison and spent a few days in Wisconsin.
-Exploring the House on the Rock with Benji was a highlight of the trip for me.
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-I was honored to stand as a member of Claire's wedding party on June 24th.
-The wedding took place near Claire's parents in beautiful Napa Valley, California.
-It was a great wedding and I really enjoyed catching up with the Parker, Eckert and Till families.
-It was also great to briefly see the Nielsens---Jim and Tracey were kind enough to loan me a car during my time in California.
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-After returning home from California I had just 24 hours before flying to Amsterdam for an academic conference.
-Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS) is a small biennial conference in my narrow subfield.
-My advisor---John C. Wright---was a founding member of the conference and still sits as chair of the organizing committee.
-This year the conference was held in beautiful historic Groningen, the Netherlands.
-The first molecular photon echo was resolved in Groningen (DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.674">10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.674</a>).
-At the conference I presented a poster on my work to make CMDS instrumentation more reproducible and robust.
-Afterwards I spent five days exploring Europe, traveling to Brussels and Amsterdam.
-Pictured below is me in the famous Grote Markt.
-I didn't really plan anything about my trip, just stepped out of the hotel and started walking.
-Everywhere I went was filled with great food, people, and artwork. Very enjoyable---but I was ready to return to Wisconsin after five days.
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-This year I've enjoyed learning more about philosophy, rationality, and psychology.
-Daniel Kahneman's book <it>Thinking, Fast and Slow</it> has changed the way I think about human cognition.
-I'm trying to incorporate these ideas more into my personal behavior.
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-Have a fantastic 2017. Stay in touch.
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-Blaise Jonathan Thompson <br>
-509 N Lake St. Apt 408 <br>
-Madison, Wisconsin 53703 <br>
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