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 talks about their work, the presenters in the session prepare posters describing their work, and… Continue reading No Way to Run a Poster Session
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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 day grading papers and dealing with some panicky emails from students. As a result, the… Continue reading Conference Blogging: DAMOP Wrap-Up
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 talk, though there were a couple of phrases in there that I would’ve preferred not… Continue reading Conference Blogging: DAMOP Day 2
Conference Blogging: DAMOP Day 1
With attendees still trickling in after Tuesday’s storms upset pretty much every mode of travel in Alberta, the DAMOP meeting opened with the Plenary Prize Session, and the first two talks were probably the highlight of the day, as far as I was concerned. Jun Ye and Jim Bergquist both work in precision measurement, and… Continue reading Conference Blogging: DAMOP Day 1
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.
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 a session, and talks about some STM talks. Matt Leifer talks about research on foundational… Continue reading March Meeting Updates
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 year. I’ve only gone to a March Meeting once and that was the year it… Continue reading Giant APS Meeting
Hopeful Abstracts and Extra Motivation
Late spring/ early summer is Conference Season in academic science, with lots of meetings scheduled during the academic break, so that everybody can attend without cutting into their teaching responsibilities (of course, our trimester calendar means we’re still in session for most of these, but whatever…). The peak time for conferences in my subfield is… Continue reading Hopeful Abstracts and Extra Motivation
A Good Craftsman Never Blames His Tools
Over at Effect Measure, Revere (or one of the Reveres, anyway, I’m not certain if they’re plural or not) has posted another broadside against PowerPoint, calling it “the scourge of modern lecturing.” This is something of a sensitive point for me, as I use PowerPoint for my lectures in the introductory classes. I’ve been using… Continue reading A Good Craftsman Never Blames His Tools
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 of the items are funny travel stories, but the tips are all about keeping your… Continue reading Jet-Set Nerds