If you've got this far, you're probably lost as I doubt anyone would deliberately want to know anything about me. So, the ROE home page is accessible if you put your mouse pointer here.
NOOOO!! Get that mouse off the screen. Push it around, ball face down, on the little mat that came with your mouse. See the arrow move around. Good! Now move it to the word 'here' on the last line of the paragraph above and press the leftmost mouse button.
Okay, so now that nobody's left, I'll just talk to myself.
This is a brief synopsis of your host, Eric Tittley.
That's about all you need to know, but if you still want more, take a look at my photo album.
For the more literate in the crowd, I'm a Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE). The IfA is run by University of Edinburgh. You might suspect that all of this is in Edinburgh. You are fortunately correct. Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I have now had the fortune of living in 2 World Heritage Cities, Ville de Québec being the other.
The IfA position is my second PostDoc. Prior to this, I was hunkered down in Baltimore (a.k.a. Bulletmore) Maryland at the Joint Center for Astrophysics (JCA) which is at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) This is not to be confused with the U. of M., Baltimore. Nor is it to be confused with the U. of M., College Park. Most certainly it is not to be confused wth Sheridan College for the Liberal Arts. Shoo. Go away!
Baltimore is definitely not a World Heritage City. To be fair, it has its charms, but they were lifted off a mugging victim and are currently in a pawn shop.
I received my Ph.D. in astronomy at The University of Western Ontario in 1999. The university is located in the city of London, Ontario, southwest of Toronto by about 200 km. The University of Western Ontario is NOT in Western Ontario. Nobody lives in Western Ontario. (I can say that freely 'cause I'm sure they're not connected to the Internet)
The highlight of any tour of UWO is the world-reknowned Grad Club. There you will find the finest selection of beers in Southwestern Ontario, the best patio (opened for however long the brave can stand the weather), the best Loony-Pool table, the best staff, the best (and worse) softball players, and, of course, the best patrons. Made most of my friends there. Essentially did Graduate school there.
In 1994, I finished my Master's degree at UWO. Foolishly, they agreed to let me stay on to do a PhD. Personally, I was very thankful since the thought of having to find a real job in the real world made my face break out. However, it meant that I had to learn cosmology and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics.
It was at UWO in 1993 that I first discovered the Web. The SysAdmin, Henry Leparskas, and I put together the first web server on the UWO campus.
I received my undergraduate degree in Physics/Astronomy at the University of Toronto in 1992. I'm sure it was a desparation move on their part in granting me a degree; I threatened to stick around. I lived at the old Taddle Creek co-op residences on Sussex Street. Many a fine memory was lost there. Most of my classmates have done much better than I. I congratulate them. They can thank me for pushing them up the curve.
During those years, I spent a summer of '90 working at the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics in Ottawa. As well, I also spent a summer, winter, and fall working off and on at the David Dunlap Observatory under Karl Kamper. I worked, among other things, on tomographic separation.
For summer jobs, I often found myself back in Northern Canada doing prospecting with my Father. Either we worked on his project on Jumping Mouse Lake or we worked for other groups in the area around Timmins or in Northern Quebec, north of Lac St. Jean.
As for my previous history, I was born at St. Mary's Hospital at 10:30 AM on March 23, 1969 in the community of Timmins, Northeastern Ontario. There I was trapped for 16 years until a recession moved my family to ville de Québec. After two years, by government order under some sort of obscure clause in the cultural protection act, I was deported to Oakville, Ontario where I claimed refugee status for 10 months until acceptance at UofT. You've heard the story from there on end.
Along the way, I went to more than my share of schools. I don't remember my prekindergarden school, other than that it was in Schumacher. My primary school was St. Paul's where I did Kindergarden to grade 6. For 7 & 8, I spent time at St. Theresa. Both St. Paul and St. Theresa are part of the Separate School Board of Ontario which is for French and Catholics. Guess which was my sin. I went to three high schools, two years at Timmins High and Vocational School (THVS), another two at Quebec High School (QHS), and Thomas A Blakelock HS in Oakville for one year.
I have one sibling, Edouard Tittley, and we are the product of Hermann and Rosemary Tittley. The photo shows Felix (Karen's beau), Dad, cousin Karen, Mum, Ed, and Me.
Travel comes with the conferences. Being a theoretician, I'm not permitted to go on "observing runs"--holidays to sunny (for the clear skies, they say) and remote (no pollution, so the story goes) locals thinly disguised as science. I give you: Exhibit "A", the story, as related by one of the "purport"-rators, Steve Shorlin, of two so-called "Astronomers" going to Hawaii to "observe". Phooey.
My most recent jaunts have included France and Spain (04) , Romania (04) , Victoria (01), Paris (00), England (98), France (97), New Mexico (96), Halifax (96 and 99), and San Antonio (95). Now that I'm in Europe, I hope to see a bit more of the Old World. See my photo gallery.
I hadn't travelled much before. In the summer of '93 I went out of my way to visit Peru. A friend (Dwight) and I went hiking on the Inca trail over the pass at Soray (5300 m--the pass, that is) to Machu Pichu. As a child, I went to Spain a couple of times and to the Canary Islands. We also went on camping trips of the West and East.
Adieu
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