{"id":1198,"date":"2007-03-05T08:29:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T08:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/05\/giant-aps-meeting\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T08:29:29","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T08:29:29","slug":"giant-aps-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/05\/giant-aps-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant APS Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.aps.org\/Meeting\/MAR07\/Content\/662\">March Meeting of the American Physical Society<\/a> 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&#8217;s billed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2007-03\/aps-lpm030107.php\">the largest physics meeting of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only gone to a March Meeting once and that was the year it was combined with the April Meeting to form one gigantic Centennial Meeting, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the APS. I didn&#8217;t care for it much&#8211; it was much too big to get a sense of what was going on, and the schedule was incredibly busy with no built-in breaks. I much prefer the annual DAMOP meeting, which is considerably smaller, and much more civilized.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there should be plenty of physics-related press releases this week, and <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2007\/03\/seen_and_not_se.html\">Jennifer Ouellette is there<\/a>, so we can hope for some colorful reporting. If I run across anybody live-blogging it, I&#8217;ll be sure to post a link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The meeting is being live-blogged by Hamish Johnston on the <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/blog\/\"><cite>Physics World<\/cite> blog<\/a>. There&#8217;s not much yet, but he just got there. There&#8217;s sure to be interesting stuff later, so go check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s billed as the largest physics meeting of the year. I&#8217;ve only gone to a March Meeting once and that was the year it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/05\/giant-aps-meeting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giant APS Meeting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}