{"id":4152,"date":"2009-10-10T08:56:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T08:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/10\/where-im-going-to-be\/"},"modified":"2009-10-10T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T08:56:39","slug":"where-im-going-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/10\/where-im-going-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;m Going to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks, I have suddenly acquired a rather full travel schedule for the coming months. The odd thing is that none of these trips are book-publicity junkets&#8211; they&#8217;re all basically professional-type appearances, several of them taking place before <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> hits stores on December 22. My schedule so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>October 24, Waterloo, Ontario<\/strong>: I&#8217;m a late addition the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q2cfestival.com\/\">Quantum to Cosmos Festival<\/a>, as a panelist for a discussion on &#8220;Communicating Science in the 21st Century.&#8221; This will also be webcast and recorded for television (my itinerary includes a &#8220;Speaker Call&#8221; 45 minutes before the panel, and the note &#8220;Speaker call includes make-up,&#8221; which ought to be interesting&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li><strong>November 12-15, Houston, Texas<\/strong> (actually, &#8220;The Woodlands,&#8221; which is somewhere sort of near Houston): I&#8217;ll be the Union delegate to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaxi.org\/meetings\/annual\/index.shtml\">annual meeting of Sigma Xi<\/a>. This does not involve giving any presentations, just going to meetings and hanging out. I don&#8217;t know anybody else who will be at this, so if you&#8217;re in the Houston area, and would like to get together for a beer or something, drop me an email.<\/li>\n<li><strong>December 4, Lewiston, Maine<\/strong>: I&#8217;m giving a <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/Faculty\/Physics\/talks.html\">seminar talk at Bates College<\/a>. Title is &#8220;Counting Atoms for Astrophysics: Atom Traps, Neutrino Detectors, and Radioactive Background Measurements.&#8221; If any of the other Maine schools (Bowdoin, Colby, whatever) would like a seminar speaker around that time, drop me an email.<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 12-14, Boston, Massachusetts<\/strong>: Kate and I will both be going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesfa.org\/Boskone\/\">Boskone<\/a> as usual, and will almost certainly be on programming there.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 15-19, Portland, Oregon<\/strong>: I&#8217;m giving an invited talk on the educational use of lasers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/meetings\/march\/\">APS March Meeting<\/a>. Title is something like &#8220;Lasers in the Undergraduate Laboratory: Precision Measurement for the Masses.&#8221; I&#8217;ve never been to a March Meeting before, though I was at the 1999 Centennial Meeting in Atlanta, which was probably about the same size.<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 9-10, Albany, New York<\/strong>: I&#8217;ll be appearing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyla.org\/index.php?page_id=1780\">Empire State Book Festival<\/a>. OK, this isn&#8217;t really travel, but it is a public event that I&#8217;ll be at, so I include it for completeness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 25-29, Houston, Texas<\/strong>: Yes, that&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m going to Houston twice. This trip is for <a href=\"http:\/\/damop2010.rice.edu\/\">DAMOP<\/a>, the research conference I go to every May. My current thesis student is exceptionally good, and I&#8217;ll have him apply for the undergraduate research session, and if he doesn&#8217;t get that, we&#8217;ll submit a poster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not listed are a personal trip to New York City in mid-November (Kate has a court appearance, and we&#8217;re going to make a weekend of it), and most likely a quick trip to Maryland for a meeting with people at the APS (yet to be scheduled, but soon). There&#8217;s another thing I&#8217;m involved with that will probably generate another 1-2 trips in the next year, but I don&#8217;t have any details yet.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s going to be a busy year. I&#8217;ll get to color in some big blank spaces on the map of states I&#8217;ve visited (I&#8217;ve never been to the West Coast north of San Francisco before, and I&#8217;ve only changed planes in Texas). And again, this does not include anything that&#8217;s solely book publicity (though I will probably look into the possibility of doing some during the March Meeting and DAMOP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks, I have suddenly acquired a rather full travel schedule for the coming months. The odd thing is that none of these trips are book-publicity junkets&#8211; they&#8217;re all basically professional-type appearances, several of them taking place before How to Teach Physics to Your Dog hits stores on December 22. My&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/10\/where-im-going-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where I&#8217;m Going to Be<\/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":[78,13,2,7,132,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-education","category-personal","category-physics","category-publicity","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","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=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}