From Berkeley

Ciao Ragazzi!
After my first week in Berkeley, I finally can write something on the blog!

Everithing is fine, I had a little trip in California with my girlfriend, and now I'm ready to start my project here!

My advisor here (Sandrine) already gave me a project to work on, even if I don't have access to the data for now... Here everything is pretty organized, I think I will have most of the day busy with classes, seminars and group meetings, so I'll have to work late I guess...

You cannot imagine how big is the University here, the campus is huge (with wifi connection everywhere!) and the Department of Statistics is a 10 floors building... I think there are something like 2,000 visiting phd students/postdoc for this semester... (not all in statistics... :) )

So it seems like a very exciting place to do research...
Ah! My project will be in collaboration with Stanford, so I guess I cannot complain... I hope to make some good contact too!

I don't know if you know it (i didn't) but the most important "monument" of the campus is The Campanile which is a (bad) copy of the Campanile di San Marco in Venice... but not all of the people know that... anyway, this is the comparison.. (and that awful building behind is the dept of stat!)

Hope to hear from you soon!
davide