{"id":1782,"date":"2021-08-16T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T00:22:55","slug":"ant-research-group-lunch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"ANT research group lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the end of June we had an ANT research group lunch to celebrate four (!) recent PhD defenses in 2020 and 2021:  Hang Guo, Calvin Ardi, Lan Wei, and Abdul Qadeer.  Although not everyone could be there (Hang has already moved for his new job), and the ANT lab includes a number of people outside of L.A. who could not make it, us students, staff, and family in L.A. had a great time at Vista del Mar Park near the beach!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-1536x1149.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-2048x1532.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-1200x898.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/u6263511-1980x1481.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A big thanks to Basileal Imana and ASM Rizvi for coordinating delivery of Ethiopian food for lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also very thankful that vaccine availability in the U.S. is widespread and we were able to get together face-to-face after a year of Covid limitations.  I&#8217;m happy that we&#8217;ve been able to do good work throughout the pandemic with remote collaboration tools and occasional on-site access, but it was nice to see old friends face-to-face again and share a meal.  We hope the fall&#8217;s in-person classes at USC go well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of June we had an ANT research group lunch to celebrate four (!) recent PhD defenses in 2020 and 2021: Hang Guo, Calvin Ardi, Lan Wei, and Abdul Qadeer. Although not everyone could be there (Hang has already moved for his new job), and the ANT lab includes a number of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,58,217,81,57],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ant","tag-isi","tag-lunch","tag-social","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ant.isi.edu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}