The pictures don't do it justice: I'm a lousy photographer and they have also been resized, but, believe me, this is one of the most beautiful conference room in the world, and when you enter it's breathtaking (the books are from the XVIII century).
It's the "Sala dei mappamondi" (globes' room) of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (my hometown), and it's always a pleasure to attend to an event there.
If you love science, arts and you happen to pass from here, don't miss it! :-) (sorry for the ad ;-) )
Lets say you had an undergraduate who wanted to do some advanced work and some research, possibly for a thesis, or things like that.
There are two slightly more specific groups of questions I have about this process:
How would you go about choosing a problem? Specifically, should the student ...
