This past week, I had my 2nd Amy Lin experience of the season. I attended a talk by a woman named Amy Lin (let me call her "AmyLin2") on her doctoral research of a couple years back. The title of her talk was "The Dynamics of Tumor-Immune Interaction in Solid Tumors." (You can find her journal article on it or something close to it here .) For this, she got her PhD. in Biomathematics.
I'm afraid this was all quite new to me. I attended because I was curious to see what AmyLin2 was like and to find out if there was any relationship between her research and that of my relative's (Leucocyte/endothelial cell interaction in autoimmune diseases).
My first Amy Lin experience was about a month ago. AmyLin1 gave a piano recital of works by Debussy, Schubert, Chou Wen-chung, Chen Yi, and Beethoven. (She currently teaches piano in Strasbourg, France.)
On the surface, AmyLin's 1 & 2 seem to have nothing in common, except their names. They look different and seem to have different personalities.
And yet, they do share a certain background. They both have a B.S. in math from Johns Hopkins University. Their years at Hopkins don't seem to have overlapped, as far as I can tell. (It's "theoretically" possible that they could've encountered each other, in that AmyLin1 did spend time in Baltimore continuing her piano studies at Peabody Conservatory for many years after graduating from JHU.)
Will I have another AmyLin experience? Someone at Hopkins might have some leads, but I'd prefer to leave it to chance (since I don't want to be accused of being obssessed about this or worse.)
Posted by raacluse at December 5, 2004 08:23 PMI have no idea who you are; I was doing a google serach on "Amy Lin" - I'm looking for an old friend whose name is (or at least was) Amy Lin, but it doesn't seem to be either Amy Lin1 or 2 from your encounters. But if you find another Amy Lin and she was originally from Oneonta, NY with a degree in architecture from MIT around class of '92... then could you let her know Charissa and Carla miss her!
Posted by: charissa at October 6, 2005 02:53 PM