Good Talks Are Bosons

I'm leaving this afternoon for Charlottesville, VA and the 40th annual DAMOP conference. At this meeting, we will once again be confirming the prediction of the bosonic character of interesting talks. Bosons, as you know, are quantum particles that happily occupy the same state as other bosons, and as you can see from the meeting program, the most interesting sessions are bunched together in a few time slots on Wednesday and Thursday. Thus, interesting talks are clearly bosonic in nature.

(The same basic physics has been demonstrated dozens of times previously, at other meetings and conventions. With the advent of frequency comb technology, though, this DAMOP meeting should be able to test the predictions at the level of a few parts in 10 to the 16, which will constrain theories of conferences beyond the Standard Model.)

I'll be gone for the rest of this week, and may or may not post from the conference (I'm not sure what the hotel Internet situation will be), but I do have a few things in the pipeline, so the site won't completely go dark. Other than that, I'll be back late Saturday, and regular blogging will resume whenever I get caught up on all the stuff that will pile up in my absence.

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Bad talks are bosons too. There's often a session at the conference of papers by bozos, whose institution's money we'll take, but which papers will never and up in the Proceedings.

So what are Fermions at conferences? What are Anyons? As to the latter, sometimes the conference center or hotel or set of hotels among which events are scattered are topologically incomprehensible.

You go ahead and enjoy yourself. As long as you've set up an auto-post for Thursday's Baby Blogging - we need our weekly dose of teh qute, you know.

Transverse all the way, baby! Not only are they much easier to draw and identify amplitude, but they can also be used to model longitudinal waves in diagrams such as like for standing waves in air columns.

Why yes, my two classes did just write their simple harmonic motion and waves final this morning, why do you ask?

Ah-ha:
Happy families are bosons, while unhappy families are fermions.