{"id":4566,"date":"2010-03-11T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T10:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/03\/11\/what-should-i-go-to-at-the-mar\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T10:52:51","slug":"what-should-i-go-to-at-the-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/03\/11\/what-should-i-go-to-at-the-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should I Go to at the March Meeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of good suggestions as to Portland activities<\/a> for my trip to the March Meeting<\/a> next week. There’s a second, related problem that I also need help with: What should I do at the meeting itself?<\/p>\n

My usual conference is DAMOP, which I’ll be going to in May, so while DAMOP is a participating division, and offers some cool-sounding sessions, it seems a little silly to go to the March Meeting and go to DAMOP talks. The whole point of being at the gigantic meeting is to see different stuff than usual.<\/p>\n

The problem is, the scientific program<\/a> includes forty-odd parallel sessions in each time slot, most of those featuring a dozen or so 12-minute talks, which are generally incomprehensible if you’re outside the field. The invited talks are longer, and often better, but still variable. And there are so many of them…<\/p>\n

So, here’s my question for readers who know stuff about non-AMO physics: What sessions should I be attending at the March Meeting? I’m interested in invited talks, ideally by people who are good speakers, that will be reasonably comprehensible to someone outside the field. There are a couple of things I’ve already identified, but the only block that is definitely out of the question is the Tuesday 11:15 block (J sessions), when I’m speaking.<\/p>\n

If there’s something at the March Meeting that you think of as an absolute must-see, leave a comment and let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of good suggestions as to Portland activities for my trip to the March Meeting next week. There’s a second, related problem that I also need help with: What should I do at the meeting itself? My usual conference is DAMOP, which I’ll be going to in May, so while DAMOP is a participating division,… Continue reading What Should I Go to at the March 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":[135,78,36,7,11],"tags":[122,223,224,123,160,92,88],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condensed_matter","category-conferences","category-meetings","category-physics","category-science","tag-academia-2","tag-condensed-matter","tag-conferences-2","tag-education-2","tag-meetings-2","tag-physics-2","tag-science-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","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=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}