Wednesday was another rainy day in Munich. We got up and lead a few students around for a rapid fire tour of various churches in Munich. We saw five churches between 10 and 11:30, plus we caught the Marienplatz glockenspiel at 11. The crypt for the kings of Bavaria was open so we stopped in there as well. Quick tour and the few students that came with us seemed to really enjoy it.
In the afternoon we went out to the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics at the Technical University of Munich Research Center. The first thing we did was take the students over to the math building to ride their slides. They have slides from the third floor to the first. Then we spent a few hours touring the ASDEX upgrade fusion reactor. They test various materials and methods for fusion reaction confinement, hoping to one day run controlled fusion reactions for power sources. The new ITER reactor in France should actually make power, if it works.
That night we came back and the students went off to a memorable Mexican dinner. Andi and I went to the Augustiner Keller near the Hauptbahnhof.
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