I'm going to Suzhou, China this coming Friday (19th) to attend the 249th symposium of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on the recent hot spot of extrasolar planet. Doug and I have worked on a project to explain the abnormal orbital eccentricities of "hot-Jupiters", which I'll present at the conference. I'll post my talk and related stuff after I'm back.

Since my life has a huge lift with moving to Santa Cruz, I decide that my website should also have a facelift. I'm trying to make something simpler than the UMd site, but with a more prefessional look. This page shows the resulting layout.