Same deal as with the previous two posts, but only one partial session because I needed to leave to drive home from the meeting. It was a “Focus” session with one 36-minute invited talk and a bunch of 12-minute contributed talks, though, so even though I left in the middle, it’s a bunch of threads:
Change of pace for my last morning at #APSmarch in the session on “Physics of Bio-Inspired Materials” starting with John Rogers from Northwestern pic.twitter.com/jB45eVCppi
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 7, 2019
We’re now moving to 10-minute talks, starting with one on patterning surfaces to prevent frost forming pic.twitter.com/lmq47Fttvs
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 7, 2019
Next 10-minute talk, looking at nanostructures in flower petals that produce iridescence to attract bees pic.twitter.com/IR5OmN69V7
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 7, 2019
Next up, Andrew Schulz with the greatest talk title in this session. #APSmarch pic.twitter.com/iOhq2r3CnX
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 7, 2019
Next speaker, on materials that can adapt properties (stiffness, etc) to different load conditions pic.twitter.com/jaoj50iO1K
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 7, 2019
Next talk, probably the last one for me, on using wire arrays to collect moisture from fog. #APSmarch pic.twitter.com/yljaDErsll
— Chad Orzel (@orzelc) March 7, 2019
And then one thread from someone who isn’t me, based on a discussion I had with some other folks about teaching quantum information/ quantum computing at an undergraduate level. This is a thing I may end up doing in the near-ish future, so I was interested to see if anybody else had brilliant ideas. Sadly, they mostly came from the same position, but we did have some useful conversation that was summarized in this thread by Peter Brereton from the US Naval Academy:
Great meeting with @doc_lex @orzelc @perronjk at #apsmarch to talk through #quantumtechnologies for undergrads. Conclusion: no one has the right answer yet, but some general observations 1/
— Peter G. Brereton (@QuantumNavy) March 7, 2019
And that was pretty much that for the March Meeting. I felt like crap for most of it, thanks to this awful cold, which reduced the number of talks I was able to sit through, but I still saw some cool stuff. There was also less socialization and more feeling miserable in hotel rooms than I would’ve liked, but, you know, such is life.