I’m at the March Meeting this week, where I’m doing a bit of live-tweeting of conference talks. This serves as a form of note-taking, to help fix things in my mind for later use. Of course, the deliberately ephemeral nature of Twitter makes it a sub-optimal tool for taking notes…
So I’m going to try collecting these on the blog. The following are links to the first posts in threads about some of the talks I attended, so hopefully clicking on any of them will get you the whole thing.
First up, some twisted graphene:
First talk of #APSMarch for me will be Danial Rodan-Legrain on twisted graphene (in the program as Yuan Cao, so presumably a student or postdoc subbing in here) pic.twitter.com/vW2trcv7TW
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
Next #APSMarch talk by Matt Yankowitz, also twisted graphene: pic.twitter.com/8U8nSvcOph
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
Third twisted graphene talk is a theory talk bringing in topology. There’s a good chance this will lose me completely. pic.twitter.com/M1fKSqe6ir
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
And the some superconducting hydrides at ultra-high pressure:
Next up at #APSMarch , another kind of weird superconducting material. pic.twitter.com/gpSE6DpSml
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
Then the afternoon session on quantum foundations:
Afternoon #APSMarch session will start off with Seth Lloyd, to be followed by the disembodied voice of @seanmcarroll pic.twitter.com/wC8eKF1xBG
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
Next up, @seanmcarroll via Skype: “I usually start by saying I’m happy to be here, but I’m not there.” pic.twitter.com/OMs3JEAWbD
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
Next talk is @carlorovelli who isn’t saying that the universe isn’t a quantum computer or a multitude of other worlds, but that it doesn’t need to be. pic.twitter.com/31zU5L5hbr
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
Last up, Wojciech Zurek, who’s going to paint some happy decoherent trees. #APSMarch pic.twitter.com/UNPHS7LQDk
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
And a final joke:
Some final discussion with the three physically present panelists and the Great and Powerful @seanmcarroll #APSMarch #ManBehindTheCurtain pic.twitter.com/e9mVXNfZQo
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 4, 2019
It was a long day, but provided at least two future blog posts’ worth of material, assuming I can wrest enough free time to write them out of the million other things I have going on.