With the COVID outbreak, a lot of meetings/seminars that would normally be face to face are taking place online (obviously). My friend’s advisor was invited to give a virtual talk on optimal control problems to Southern University of Science and Technology. In Shenzhen, I believe.
My friend slipped me an invite.
The entire talk was conducted in mandarin, a language I do not speak (though I am trying to learn by annoying my fellow grad students). It was a fun experience. And I made it into Shenzhen, virtually at least!
The talk was a narrated slide show. Slides were in English, thankfully. Still, didn’t understand much. I wish I could say it was all the language barrier but I don’t think that’s the case…
我去！
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