Last month I was at the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) annual meeting, held at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. It was on my way home from my stay at Michigan State University. I like the CAIMS meetings. The scientific quality is quite good. There are a number of parallel sessions so you can go to things of interest, but even in a session on a given topic, it is not so specialized that you don't see something new. I have been to these meetings often enough now that there are many familiar faces. I should say that these are faces I enjoy seeing. Always some new people on the scene, notable this year was David Shirokoff at NJIT who showed me how to prove a conjecture that I had from previous work.
I was pleasantly surprised by several great restaurants and pubs nearby. Two that I really enjoyed were Ethel's Lounge (retro - or preserved from the 50s - interior but modern food and drink) and Jane Bond (vegetarian hip). There were others that looked interesting that I didn't get to try, including DVLB (Death Valley's Little Brother) which advertised specialty espresso, whiskey and bread.
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