Next week I'm flying to Helsinki (Finland) to attend the IEEE WOWMoM 07 symposium: sounds very cool. I'll stay there for four days, from the 17th to the 21st June.
I will also deliver a talk about "Energetically Sustainable Routing Algorithms for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Networks" (big sounding title, I know) at the "Theory meets Practice" workshop.
I'll try to post something every day on the website, so stay tuned for updates (or get the RSS feed).
As said, I'm trying to keep track of my trip at the WoWMoM 2007 conference in Helsinki... and here goes day one! 
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The day starts at 6 o'clock after a relaxing night (even if the sun doesn't really set at all, at this latitude). At 8 I'm in front of the Takka room (where the "Theory meets practice" workshop is held) in the Dipoli building. After four other talks, it's my turn and I manage to do quite well, I don't get stuck and the topic seems to raise interest and to be quite accepted.
I'm relieved! (more...)
It's been two intense and exhausting days here at WoWMoM: every day there are lots of talks and presentations, but I usually start having a hard time keeping my eyes open after a couple of them... (more...)
Thursday morning: after breakfast I'm packing my bags and preparing for the trip back to Italy. I manage to attend to part of the talks during the rest of the morning. Then after lunch I'm leaving.
The first flight starts quite well, but over the baltic sea and germany the very strong wind makes the airplane shake and groan... We arrive at Milan Malpensa with half an hour delay because of the bad weather. I collect my luggage as fast as I can and hurry to the check-in in order to get on the plane to Perugia, only to discover that the flight has been cancelled! 
Now, that was the "italian experience" I was waiting for.
All the passengers from the cancelled flights are rerouted to Rome (on an already delayed flight). While we wait, the flight's departure time is delayed again to 10:30 (some people were waiting since 7 o'clock and start getting really upset, shouting and yelling at the poor desk girl at the gate...). I and other 30 people headed to Perugia arrive at Rome at 11. Some of the baggage has been lost on the way (what else could we expect? I have all my stuff fortunately) and we get delayed further while the unlucky ones fill their forms. At 1:30 a bus takes us from the airport of Rome to Perugia. At 5 o'clock I'm home again...
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