{"id":3481,"date":"2009-03-10T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/10\/atomic-physics-gordon-conferen\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T13:34:46","slug":"atomic-physics-gordon-conferen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/10\/atomic-physics-gordon-conferen\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Physics Gordon Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.org\/home.aspx\">Gordon Research Conferences<\/a> are a great program, if you&#8217;re in a field that offers them. These are mostly in New England in the summer, and involve a lot more down time than most professional conferences, to allow for more informal interaction between attendees. At past Gordon conferences, I&#8217;ve played soccer with a Nobel laureate, and basketball with a number of Ivy League faculty.<\/p>\n<p>I got an email announcement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.org\/programs.aspx?year=2009&#038;program=atomic\">2009 Atomic Physics Gordon Conference<\/a>, to be held at the Tilton School in Tilton, NH June 28-July 3. This year&#8217;s meeting is chaired by Tiku Majumder at Williams, and he&#8217;s put together a program that looks really cool, and includes a wide range of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I can really justify the expense this year, what with SteelyKid and the other travel that we&#8217;ve got planned, and potentially book-related travel in the future. If you&#8217;re interested in the field, though, I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gordon Research Conferences are a great program, if you&#8217;re in a field that offers them. These are mostly in New England in the summer, and involve a lot more down time than most professional conferences, to allow for more informal interaction between attendees. At past Gordon conferences, I&#8217;ve played soccer with a Nobel laureate,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/10\/atomic-physics-gordon-conferen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atomic Physics Gordon Conference<\/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":[8,36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-meetings","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","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=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}