{"id":5402,"date":"2011-02-13T08:58:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T08:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/13\/next-weekend-at-aaas\/"},"modified":"2011-02-13T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T08:58:54","slug":"next-weekend-at-aaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/13\/next-weekend-at-aaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Weekend at AAAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in passing before, I&#8217;ll be attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/meetings\/\">Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a> next weekend, in order to appear on a <a href=\"http:\/\/aaas.confex.com\/aaas\/2011\/webprogram\/Session2929.html\">panel about the TIMSS Advanced 2008 test<\/a>. I&#8217;m an idiot, and didn&#8217;t submit an abstract in time (I thought there was a perfectly adequate placeholder abstract there, but I must&#8217;ve imagined it), but I&#8217;ll be talking about how the physics questions on the test line up with standard curricula and conceptual tests and that sort of thing. The three-hour symposium format is not what I&#8217;m used to (presentations at physics meetings are generally assumed to be completely independent), so this will be a different experience.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing a bit of a drive-by for this, relative to my usual conference attendance, but I&#8217;m scheduled to teach on Friday morning, and there are only so many times I can ask colleagues to cover for me. So, I&#8217;ll be getting in Friday afternoon\/ evening (I&#8217;ll be very annoyed if I don&#8217;t make it to the meeting by 5pm), and leaving Sunday evening (leaving for the airport at 5:45, so leaving the meeting area at 5, probably). If there&#8217;s anything going on those two days that is a can&#8217;t-miss panel\/ symposium\/ whatever, feel free to point it out to me in the comments. (Undoubtedly, there will prove to be fascinating stuff going on while I&#8217;m in my session, because that&#8217;s how these things always work&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I see from <a href=\"http:\/\/aaas.confex.com\/aaas\/2011\/webprogram\/start.html\">the program<\/a> that there&#8217;s something labelled &#8220;Social Media Soiree&#8221; on Friday evening for people who blog\/ tweet\/ whatever. So if you&#8217;re going to be at the meeting, and are dying to meet me but don&#8217;t want to hear about international science testing, that&#8217;s probably the best place to look. I&#8217;m fairly easy to spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in passing before, I&#8217;ll be attending the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science next weekend, in order to appear on a panel about the TIMSS Advanced 2008 test. I&#8217;m an idiot, and didn&#8217;t submit an abstract in time (I thought there was a perfectly adequate placeholder abstract&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/13\/next-weekend-at-aaas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next Weekend at AAAS<\/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":[78,13,36,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-education","category-meetings","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","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=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}