JMM Day 1

I spent day 1 of the Joint Mathematics Meeting going to talks (what else?). In addition to talks on technology in the classroom, placement testing, and virtual reality, I saw Sarah Koch give an interesting talk on complex dynamics. At one point she showed a figure and labeled three important components as "airplane", "rabbit" and "co-rabbit". Here's a crappy photo of the slide:

It's cold here! There's snow on the ground outside the convention center. My Sevilla-trained blood is not ready for this:

The convention center is lovely. Everything is easy to find. There's a pretty fountain at one end:

Scott went out to dinner with a friend. I just grabbed some Greek food and then walked to a Whole Foods to grab some fruit to get me through the week. There is a real dearth of grocery stores in the area. The Whole Foods was a little over a mile away and nothing closer according to Google.