What happens in the Research Triangle stays in the Research triangle

I am now in the airport at San Diego, waiting for my red-eye flight to New Jersey, which will then go to Raleigh-Durham. I will be visiting my collaborator Peter Mucha at UNC, though I will also be stopping off at Duke on Tuesday (to give a math/physics seminar) and Wednesday (to give a social networks seminar, although that's more of an informal group meeting type deal). In fact, I will also be visiting a friend's lab at NC State on Saturday morning before she drops me off at the airport. I also have plans to see one friend from grad school who is now a postdoc at Duke as well as two friends from Caltech. Additionally, my collaborator JP Onnela will be flying down on Thursday for a bit of a synchronized visit and some additional work. It's definitely going to be both a fun and productive week.

Peter Mucha and I have numerous joint projects, though the one on which we'll probably spend the most time are our series of projects on Facebook networks. The American Physical Society press conference (held at the March Meeting) about our Facebook work is tomorrow morning (I think at 11am), and there will also be an APS press release (which I assume will come out tomorrow). They highlighted our student Mandi Traud's Tuesday talk at the conference, and she will be the one doing the press conference. We also have a poster in the GSNP Gallery at the meeting, and hopefully we'll have one of the winning entries. Stay tuned for more information about the media blitz...