Nittany

Concluded a useful reading week visit to Penn State yesterday, working with Niel Brandt, his students Nur Filiz Ak and Jianfeng Wu, and briefly chatting with my future postdoc Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo.  Talked mostly about broad absorption line quasar variability, which is a complicated phenomenon in which simulations lag observations.  Resolved to ask theorists what measurements would be useful for them to have, as theorists and observers are now mingling at the AGN Winds in Charleston meeting (of which more anon).