Hi everyone -

I've posted a couple times, and realized I probably should follow protocol and introduce myself formally. I'm a professor of physics from a small liberal arts college in Iowa (Luther College, Decorah, IA) and am spending the year on sabbatical at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in Richland, WA. In addition to my teaching I do research in particle physics, working on experiments at Cornell University in New York and at KEK, the national high energy physics laboratory of Japan, located north of Tokyo in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture. My involvement with the experiment in Japan, starting a couple years ago, brought me back to an old interest in go - and I'm "re-starting" my playing. My wife and I have four daughters, and all of them have expressed some interest in learning the game, and so not only am I refreshing my own memory, but I'm hoping to teach a few of them all that I know and more.

Cheers,

Todd

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Todd K. Pedlar
Associate Professor of Physics, Luther College
Decorah, IA

if you get a chance to come to Seattle, be sure to stop by the Seattle Go Center to say hi (and maybe we can help teach you a little more about the game)

Yeah, I had to look up where Richland, WA was. I keep forgetting that Washington can be a pretty big state when you go west to east.

a.k.a Tri-Cites

Welcome!

That would be great - though it is rare that we head to Seattle unless it's to visit family in Seattle or on Whidbey Island where my parents still live. However, if it turns out that I can tear myself (and or the grandkids) away from the grandparents for an hour or two, we'll try to No doubt you could easily teach me and the girls MUCH more about the game. Despite having played off and on for a few years, I have much, much to learn. (but now I feel like it's time to give it a real go - honestly, no pun intended)

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Todd K. Pedlar
Associate Professor of Physics, Luther College
Decorah, IA