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Physics Announcements: New Forum, Undergraduate Research Session
Posted by Chad Orzel on January 16, 2011 I was at a meeting of the Committee on Informing the Public of the American Physical Society at the tail end of last week, so it seems appropriate to post a couple of APS-related announcements here on my return: 1) The APS has just created a Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public. You may…
Where I’m Going to Be in 2011
Posted by Chad Orzel on January 6, 2011 Not an exhaustive list, but since I’m noodling around with my calendar, I might as well note some of the stuff I’ll be doing this year: I’ll be on a panel about international science testing at the AAAS Annual Meeting in February. This will be a different experience– not only have I never been to…
Presentation Poll: Outline or No Outline?
Posted by Chad Orzel on July 27, 2010 We have a summer student seminar series in the science and engineering departments here, running two days a week at lunchtime with three students each day giving 15 minute presentations on their summer research projects to other students and faculty. The student talks are split almost 50/50 overall on whether to provide an outline at…
Presentation Style: Indoctrination or Selection?
Posted by Chad Orzel on July 13, 2010 we have a summer student seminar series, in which students who are doing summer research give 15-minute talks about their research. These are generally pretty good– our students are, by and large, very good public speakers. One thing that I always find interesting about this is how many of the students end up sounding just…
Relativity on a Human Scale
Posted by Chad Orzel on June 1, 2010 While I mostly restricted myself to watching invited talks at DAMOP last week, I did check out a few ten-minute talks, one of which ended up being just about the coolest thing I saw at the meeting. Specifically, the Friday afternoon talk on observing relativity with atomic clocks by Chin-Wen Chou of the Time and…
Home from DAMOP
Posted by Chad Orzel on May 30, 2010 Some late nights and wireless problems conspired to keep me from posting anything Friday or Saturday, but I was still at the meeting, and saw some cool talks on coherent X-ray production with lasers, opto-mechanics, and ridiculously good atomic clocks, some of which I hope to talk about later. For the moment, I’m just enjoying…
Anatomy of a Conference: DAMOP Day 2– The Rise of Precision Measurement
Posted by Chad Orzel on May 27, 2010 Since I sort of implied a series in the previous post, and I have no better ideas, here’s a look at Thursday’s DAMOP program:
My Wednesday at DAMOP
Posted by Chad Orzel on May 27, 2010 I was pretty sedentary on Wednesday, going to only two sessions, and staying for most of the talks in each. I spent most of the initial prize session getting my bearings in the conference areas, and talking to people I know from my NIST days. In the 10:30 block, I went to the session on…
Anatomy of a Conference: DAMOP Day 1
Posted by Chad Orzel on May 26, 2010 The conference I’m at this week is the annual meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society (which this year is joint with the Canadian version, the Division of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Photon Interactions, or “DAMPΦ.” The Greek letter is a recent addition– as recently as…
Non-Dorky Polls: Travel Day
Posted by Chad Orzel on May 25, 2010 I’m going to be spending the bulk of today in transit between Albany and Houston, with a layover in Orlando (whee!), so here’s a pair of related poll questions for you to consider: The most enjoyable way to travel between two cities in the continental US is:customer surveys The least enjoyable way to travel between…
