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Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Yesterday's Bamberg talk

I gave a talk yesterday to the Diplomanden und Doktorandenkolloqium run by Hans-Peter Blossfeld. It was partly about what I have been doing since I arrived in Bamberg  in September. For anyone who is interested in the slides, here they are.
Posted by Colin at 01:28

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