Research Update: I'm going to Berlin!

I've realized that a few people actually do keep up with this blog, be it directly through this site or via facebook. Uhh, I know a lot of you are only interested in my travels and stuff around Europe, so if that's all you're about I would highly recommend to not read any further for your own good.

Wow, so I still got your attention. Ok, so a few posts ago I mentioned that I submitted an abstract to present at the ECerS (that's European Ceramics Society) Annual Conference in Berlin this June. Well, good news is that it got accepted! For those of you that care, the title of my presentation is, "La2CuO4 sensing electrode configuration influence on sensitivity and selectivity for a multifunctional potentiometric gas sensor" So yeah, essentially what that means is that I work on sensors that make sure that combustion engines don't emit too much bad gases into the environment, like carbon monoxide, etc. Do something good for the environment and get to do some research in Europe, not a bad deal eh? Plus usually conferences have some good free food and open bars (again world revolves around food). So hopefully they'll be some good free sausages and weizen beer.

So, what do you think for this as an opening slide? I sent a presentation to my group back home to let them know what I'm doing here and decided to add a crazy picture. Not so sure that the picture would be appropriate for a conference.