They were gathered for a tourism workshop, hosted by the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, which aims to attract Chinese visitors.
This looming but uncertain deadline hovered in the air at the Hilton Toronto last week, where government officials, cyber-security researchers, and representatives from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel gathered for an international workshop on "quantum-safe cryptography".
This group had gathered for an introductory workshop on "The Temptation of St. Anthony," by Gustave Flaubert, one of six new Wilson productions being developed at Watermill this summer, and the dramaturge surprised nearly everyone by arriving when he'd said he would, a few minutes after noon.
At the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Calif., where dark matter experts who had gathered for a two-week workshop watched the talks on the Web, Dr. Kane, who was present, described the mood at the workshop as "a high level of serious hysteria".
This has been his mantra since 1999, when the first roster of gifted musicians from the Middle East gathered for an intensive three-week workshop in Weimar, Germany.
In this month's Tooling Up column, I will share with you the experiences and advice on teamwork from the panelists I gathered for the UCSF workshop, which took place last month.
Very early Saturday morning will it surprise you that the Abes are early risers?–the Abes gathered for "workshops".
Thousands of activists from across the nation gathered for panels and workshops with the goal of holding officials accountable for police brutality following the deaths of Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner. .
