{"id":2183,"date":"2019-03-31T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T05:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2020-01-05T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T18:37:11","slug":"savant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2019\/03\/31\/savant\/","title":{"rendered":"Savant"},"content":{"rendered":"

In other news I was recently promoted to a staff position at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab!<\/p>It’s still tenure track (hopefully the position will be fully secured in two years from now) , but I’m getting closer to my childhood dream: to become a savant.<\/p>I am extremely lucky to be there, working on a major US scientific infrastructure project (ALS-U<\/a>), in a fantastic lab with my window literally overlooking the Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

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The golden gate<\/p>\n<\/div>

Right now, I’m mostly doing beamline design and simulation, with some wavefront sensing and adaptive optics. Lots of very challenging topics (we have to deal with a laser-like beam hundred times smaller than a hair blasting kilowatts of light), and I’m learning a lot along the way. Amazing times!<\/p><\/p>\n

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\n*<\/p>\"\"<\/a>This picture is an old one; it’s me when I still had great hair, and the same blue eyes looking at life as a curious thing.
\nI was five, and I vividly recall telling my mom that I wanted to become a “savant.” Now, 28 revolutions around the sun later, I’m getting even closer to destination: this week, I officially became a full-blown scientist, when I accepted an offer to become a career researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab!<\/p>Today, I feel that I am the luckiest person in the world, and I am grateful to one person in particular. My life started on the wrong foot, with a disengaged father leaving single mother with two kids, and me with serious health issues. But someone came along and accepted the challenge; because he deeply loved my mom, he married her, and they went on to raise us as their kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

This person is my stepfather; he cared for me, educated me, and eventually showed me that west is the best: we first moved to the West Indies, and I just took the advice a little further, to the West coast.<\/p>My parents will soon celebrate their 30th anniversary, that even the strongest hurricanes could not budge, and all their four kids are happy. I can only hope for another wonderful 30 years!<\/p>Guy… merci pour tout!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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