I had the pleasant occasion to travel to Paris for a two-day meeting at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, for the "Blue Dots Team", an effort to build community support for space mission aimed at directly detecting terrestrial planets orbiting nearby stars.
My former boss & mentor, Chas Beichman, discussing the SIM space mission.
Also present was Giovanna Tinetti, exoplant atmospheres expert extraordinare. Notice the contrast between fashion sense (left) and lack thereof (right).
Such an auspicious kickoff deserved a toast!
An appropriately named cafe for our BDT dinner.
French cafe culture does not seem to have suffered from the smoking ban - indeed, as long as there's French wine, how could it?
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