The Dark Side in Aspen

As Daniel has already mentioned, I recently spent a week in Aspen, at a workshop on Understanding the Dark Sector: Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which I organized in collaboration with Rachel Bean, Carlo Contaldi, Marc Kamionkowski and Jochen Weller. The Aspen Center for Physics is wonderful place. Unlike many physicists, I'm not a big skier, or a hiker, preferring to get my exercise through ball sports and in the gym, and so I don't love Aspen in the way that many people do. But I do really like the Center, and I always have great physics conversations there, learn a lot, and am able to actually get work done. So I had been looking forward to our workshop for a while, and I wasn't disappointed at all. The conference spanned five days. We flew in on Sunday in time to register and have dinner, and then got started properly ...