Last week I was at the Banff International Research Station for a workshop on Combinatorial Game Theory. It was excellent! I got to meet many CGT bigwigs, play a lot of great games, present some things and even prove a few things. Here were some highlights: Presenting Atropos Meeting 35 new friends Playing Cookie Cutter with creator Paul Ottaway Listening to current NoGo World Champion, Fan Xie, explain why he was losing to Bob Hearn's NoGo program while playing it. Proving something on Tuesday and seeing the result mentioned in a talk on Wednesday morning! Learning to Curl Witnessing Zhujiu Jiang take on eight mathematicians at once in Go. (He only lost one of the matches.) Playing Games... and losing most of them. I learned a lot, and once I sort out all my notes I'll have a number of good blog topics from the meeting. In other news, welcome to the Spring semester! I will return to the schedule of posting Tuesdays and Fridays. As normal, let me know if there's anything interesting you'd like me to cover! :)