IAU Symposium 308 – Conference Photo Caption Competition
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Bonkers) will recall that I recently attended IAU Symposium No. 308 in Tallinn, Estonia. To prove that I didn’t make it all up, here is the official conference photograph.
You can see me three rows back on the right-hand-side of the picture; you can click on the image to make it largely should you wish. Behind me and to my left as I look at the camera you will see the esteemed cosmologist Carlos Frenk wearing an unusual facial expression.
I wonder if anyone might like to suggest an explanation for Prof. Frenk’s behaviour by way of a suitable caption for the photograph?
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In the Dark 
July 16, 2014 at 2:20 pm
It’s nice that you and Carlos coordinated outfits
July 16, 2014 at 3:10 pm
He gets my cast-offs…
July 16, 2014 at 4:33 pm
I agree with Phillip; it looks like he is singing.
If the picture had been taken at CERN, and if it is actually a yawn, then “Catching some z’s.”
July 16, 2014 at 7:22 pm
Carlos Frenk was astonished that Peter Coles had shrunk.
July 16, 2014 at 11:21 pm
David Walliams finds himself in a room full of cosmologists?
July 17, 2014 at 12:02 am
Gas/
July 17, 2014 at 12:14 am
Carlos Frenk fought hard to control his pogonophobia.
July 17, 2014 at 8:29 am
Yes, that’s right, but not a beard.
July 17, 2014 at 8:15 am
Perhaps something like this was going on?
July 17, 2014 at 4:11 pm
“Could we take it again? I think I yawned…”