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SquINT 2010
Posted by Dave Bacon on February 18, 2010 The twelfth annual SqUINt conference is being held this week and unfortunately I’m missing my favorite conference (though a gaggle of grad students have been sent Santa Fe bound.) The schedule looks really good this year including a great list of invited speakers (Scott Aaronson (MIT), Rainer Blatt (Innsbruck), Matt Hastings (Station Q), Dieter Meschede…
Film Reviews in Nature Physics?
Posted by Dave Bacon on June 1, 2009 What in the world is a review for Star Trek doing in
What Am I? I Choose Neither
Posted by Dave Bacon on March 26, 2009 Lately I’ve been giving a lot of thought to a question that I’m nearly constantly asked: “So…[long pause]…are you a physicist…[long pause]…or are you a computer scientist?” Like many theorists in quantum computing, a field perched between the two proud disciplines of physics and computer science (and spilling its largess across an even broader swath…
APS March Meeting Ramblings
Posted by Dave Bacon on March 18, 2009 Things I learned at the APS March meeting. Updated as I learn them. That’s right: real time updates of connectivity of my neurons translated into html translated into text and pictures on your browser.
Off to the March Meeting I Go
Posted by Dave Bacon on March 16, 2009 Tonight I hop on a red-eye to Pittsburgh to attend the APS March meeting. 7000 physicists in Pittsburgh, now that’s a scary thought for poor Pittsburgh (punishment for winning the superbowl, I guess.) A list of highlighted papers includes some fun ones: 11:15AM, Tuesday Session B15: “Walking on water: why your feet get wet” Michael…
SqUinT Day 1 Summary
Posted by Dave Bacon on February 20, 2009 Okay, so keeping running notes on friendfeed isn’t going to work for me. Just too hard to do this and make a readable record. Really we should just be taping the talks. Summary of day one below the fold (this may be a bit off as this is being written a day later.)
3.14159265 is Approximately 1
Posted by Dave Bacon on March 14, 2008 Happy Talk like a physicist day, Happy Pi day, and Happy birthday dear uncle Albert.