Losar New Tibetan Year

I just went to the Losar Tibetan New Year, though I did not find Geshe there, it was a colorful event, with Tibetan folk music and a circle dance, central to the Himalayan culture.
I was treated to Momos, the central Tibetan, Nepalese and Gharwal delicacy, also in a different flavor in Bangalore and Bylakuppe, where I am from, it is called Kadabu!

Food Treats!

More images, of the gathering and the dance...

At Twin Cities.

I attended a seminar on Axion Messengers in the standard particle model and experimental work on track recognition for Axion signatures in the Hadron collider experiment.
It was new to me to even know hidden messengers existed and this was acceptable in the standard particle model, worse dark matter can hardly be an Axion. I learnt that there are a new class of particles called supersymmetry particles, something new to me, I wondered if the interacted with quasi particles, the magnons and plasmons and if computing is possible with dark matter?
I did meet a lot of Susie Derkin like girls, the 'sissy girls' all on the way. The big yaps they are they are always giggling and yapping about old men and their physics, much to the dismay of the male community!, This inspired another Trio and Quahog Tale on CoreDump, a new Dark Matter Computer.
If you want to visit the Cosmology Lunch Seminar, as an adventure of sorts, you could. They are at:
https://www.physics.umn.edu/events/calendar/spa.CLS/thisweek