An ending

And so another year's research program is over -- at least the part where the students stay here and meet with us on a daily basis. They've all worked extremely hard and done very well, and I hope that in a year or so we'll have a two or three published papers come out of it.
We all had lunch today -- at a rather less fancy restaurant than dinner last night! -- then said our goodbyes. Always a little painful, but such is life. And there is a good chance that we'll meet up again in a few years, after they've gone through graduate school and they are professional academics themselves:-)

Yours, as mentor,
N.