{"id":4348,"date":"2009-12-19T09:48:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T09:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/19\/physics-for-math-students\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T09:48:46","slug":"physics-for-math-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/19\/physics-for-math-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics for Math Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk last night to the <a href=\"http:\/\/albanyareamathcircle.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/quantum-physics-treats.html\">Albany Area Math Circle<\/a>, a group of high-schoolers who are interested in science and math, and enter and do very well in national math competitions. I think there were 48 kids there last night, which was pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p>I gave basically the same talk I gave at <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/quantum_physics_for_dogs_many.php\">Boskone<\/a> on the Many-Worlds Interpretation, including reading the dog dialogue from Chapter 4. I made an effort to update the SF references a little, to things that people born in the early 1990&#8217;s might recognize. (Wow, I feel old.)<\/p>\n<p>The talk was probably a little too abstract for the audience, and I have some ideas on how to fix it (of course, I could&#8217;ve used those yesterday, when I was looking at the slides and deciding not to change them&#8230;). They did seem to follow most of it, though, so that&#8217;s good. I got some pretty good questions afterwards, too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I think that&#8217;s the official first talk about the book since the book has existed as a real object. The first of many, I hope. Thanks to the Math Circle for having me, and good luck with your upcoming competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk last night to the Albany Area Math Circle, a group of high-schoolers who are interested in science and math, and enter and do very well in national math competitions. I think there were 48 kids there last night, which was pretty impressive. I gave basically the same talk I gave at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/19\/physics-for-math-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics for Math Students<\/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":[67,13,7,61,132,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-education","category-physics","category-physics_with_emmy","category-publicity","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","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=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}