{"id":1203,"date":"2007-03-06T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T10:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/06\/march-meeting-updates\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T10:14:26","slug":"march-meeting-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/06\/march-meeting-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"March Meeting Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.arcanegazebo.net\/2007\/03\/march_meeting_day_1.html\">Arcane Gazebo<\/a> provides a picture of a giant blue bear, a few notes on talks about quantum computing, and thoughts on the Kook Session.(*)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2007\/03\/finn_mccool.html\">Cocktail Party Physics<\/a> offers thoughts on Irish giants and large-scale pattern formation in geological systems.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Physics World<\/cite> offers three posts: on <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/a_new_spin_on_windmills.html\">carbon-trapping windmills<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/icicles_and_hot_air.html\">the physics of icicles<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/rock_star_physicists.html\">the 20th anniversary of Woodstock<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Know of any other reports from the meeting? Leave a link in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(* &#8211; Background for non-APS types: The American Physical Society meetings accept essentially all contributed abstracts, even the ones from crazy people. As a result, any big APS meeting tends to have ten or so lunatics on the list of speakers, and the people who put the program together tend to collect them all into a single session at an inconvenient time&#8211; usually late afternoon (the session Travis talks about was at 4:30), or on the last day, when people are leaving to catch flights out. Sometimes they&#8217;re downgraded to poster presentations&#8211; at last year&#8217;s DAMOP, all the kooks seemed be be assigned to one of the poster sessions, and given display-board locations that didn&#8217;t actually exist, because none of them showed up&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcane Gazebo provides a picture of a giant blue bear, a few notes on talks about quantum computing, and thoughts on the Kook Session.(*) Cocktail Party Physics offers thoughts on Irish giants and large-scale pattern formation in geological systems. Physics World offers three posts: on carbon-trapping windmills, the physics of icicles, and the 20th anniversary&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/06\/march-meeting-updates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Meeting Updates<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","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=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}