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"Uncertain Principles" features the miscellaneous ramblings of a physicist at a small liberal arts college. Physics, politics, pop culture, and occasional conversations with his dog.
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Category: Physics
Today's Links Dump came late because I was at the meeting of the APS's Committee on Informing the Public. We apologize for the inconvenience, but I was too busy acquiring this critically important scientific data: What is that, you ask?...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 6:07 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
The fourth content area from my whirlwind overview of DAMOP is "traditional" AMO physics. This was the hardest to talk about in my talk, because I know it the least well, but ironically, that makes it really easy to write...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
I'm going to be at an amusement park tomorrow, for a meeting of the APS's Committee on Informing the Public, which oversees the APS outreach program. Why an amusement park? Because a common outreach-type program is to do a Physics...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:58 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
An overview of physics dealing with gases of atoms at temperatures of billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:43 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
An overview of the interesting research areas in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics these days. The start of a series of posts exploring this in more detail.
Posted by Chad Orzel at 12:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
Alternate, More-Interesting Post Title: Attack of the Vampire Physicists. I realized today that the only time I have been outside during daylight hours on this trip to Atlanta was during the brief walk down the platform to the airport entrance....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 2:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
One of the odd things about going to conferences is the unpredictable difference between talks and papers. Sometimes, when you go to a talk, you just get an exact repetition of what's in the paper; other times, you get a...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:56 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conferences
Tuesday at DAMOP was dominated by my talk. Well, in my mind, at least. I suppose people who aren't me saw other interesting things. OK, fine, I did go to some other sessions. I would link to the abstracts, but...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
That's the title of my talk this morning at DAMOP, where I attempt the slightly insane feat of summarizing a meeting with over 1000 presentations in a single 30-minute talk. This will necessarily involve talking a little bit like the...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Physics
If you look at the schedule of events for DAMOP next week, you will see that there is a movie showing scheduled for Tuesday night: Real Genius. This seems like an excellent excuse to run a poll: Real Genius is:survey...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:45 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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