My trip to Stockholm for CPS Week has been great, until today, when everything went sideways. The sessions were interesting, I met new people from everywhere, and my presentation went well.
Then came the unwitting harbinger of doom in the form of an example by this morning’s plenary speaker, Jack Stankovic. In his presentation, he spoke about airline scheduling as an example for real time assurance. “Imagine there’s a storm in Chicago,” he said, continuing on that airlines will have to cancel flights and rebook passengers.
As soon as I heard that, I knew I was in for it. My adviser and I were supposed to head to Chicago tomorrow on our way home, but now there’s an ash cloud covering much of Europe. We are rebooked to return Tuesday, but the eruption could continue indefinitely. Everyone is scrambling to rebook their flights and extend hotel reservations, but if this continues, we may be better off swimming home.
In the meantime, I’ll at least get to see more of Stockholm and Sweden.
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