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New experiments with optical lattices that begin to explore structures beyond the simple cubic lattice.Posted on March 17, 2008 9:41 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Meetings:
Physics Comes Marching In
The annual March Meeting of the American Physical Society is happening this week in New Orleans. This is the biggest physics conference of the year, by far, with close to 7,000 attendees-- despite what you might think from the Internet,...Posted on March 11, 2008 7:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Maldacena on the Beach
As I mentioned earlier, I'm currently attending the Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics at Stony Brook University. The weather finally warmed up today, and we relocated to Smith Point Beach to hear Juan Maldacena tell us a bit about...Posted on August 23, 2007 9:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Frequency Combs and Astrophysics
Using ultra-stable lasers to detect extrasolar planets and watch the universe expand in real time.Posted on June 12, 2007 10:58 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
No Way to Run a Poster Session
One of the few glitches in the DAMOP meeting program was the way the poster sessions were run. For those from regions of academia that don't do poster sessions, it's pretty much what the name implies: rather than delivering short...Posted on June 11, 2007 8:54 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Conference Blogging: DAMOP Wrap-Up
Friday at DAMOP ended up being more about socialization than science. I went to a few talks, but there wasn't that much on the program that looked exciting, and I had to spend some time in the middle of the...Posted on June 11, 2007 7:51 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Conference Blogging: DAMOP Day 2
The highlight of Day 2 of DAMOP was, obviously, the special Undergraduate Research session. OK, it's possible that I'm only saying that because one of my students was talking in that session... Mike did a really good job with his...Posted on June 7, 2007 11:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Conference Blogging: DAMOP Day 1
A few highlights from the first day of talks at the conference I'm attending this week.Posted on June 6, 2007 11:19 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March Meeting Updates
Hamish Johnston is live-blogging like a pro, and has entries on invisibility, buckets of BEC, biophysics, and the toy show. Travis Hime knows more than you do about superconducting qubits. And that's it for the moment....Posted on March 8, 2007 2:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March Meeting Updates
I forgot to post this earlier, but there are a few posts out there about the second day of the APS March Meeting: Cocktail Party Physics has interesting comments on a bunch of biophysics. Doug Natelson gets roped into chairing...Posted on March 7, 2007 2:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Giant APS Meeting
The March Meeting of the American Physical Society is happening this week. This is one of two large multi-divisional meetings the APS has each year (the other is in April), and it's billed as the largest physics meeting of the...Posted on March 5, 2007 8:29 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hopeful Abstracts and Extra Motivation
There are two strategies for dealing with abstract submission deadlines that are six months in advance of the actual conference...Posted on February 2, 2007 10:50 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Good Craftsman Never Blames His Tools
A good talk is a good talk, and a bad talk is a bad talk, whether the words are displayed on PowerPoint slides, written on a chalkboard, or written in blood on the tanned hides of infidel goats.Posted on November 4, 2006 11:57 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jet-Set Nerds
Symmetry magazine has an article on travel tips for physicists, from other physicists. There are two scary things about this: 1) The degree to which the picture that emerges from the different tips aligns with unflattering stereotypes of physicists. Some...Posted on October 15, 2006 9:13 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Physics Conference Blogging
It's not as sexy as Strings 2006, but it's easier to understand what the talks are about: Nathan Lundblad is blogging from the International Conference on Atomic Physics in Innsbruck, Austria (the bastard). Posts so far: First day introduction. First...Posted on July 17, 2006 11:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Stringy Links
For those interested in keeping abreast of the latest stuff on string theory and its discontents, some links: Jonathan Shock is based in Beijing, and blogging about the Strings 2006 meeting. He's got a first-day recap including descriptions of several...Posted on June 20, 2006 10:29 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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