Right now I’m in the middle of an incredibly strange transition. Friday and Saturday the Northwest Section of the American Physical Society had its annual conference in Tacoma (at the University of Puget Sound: what an acronym, eh?) This conference was full of all sorts of cool physics, astronomy, and even the history of physics (did you know that graphs were not really used until the mid to late nineteenth century. How strange?!) Starting this evening, I’ll be attending the 38th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing which is being held here in Seattle. I’m sure the next few days will be filled with all sorts of cool theoretical computer science. Now I’m faced with getting my brain to move from an experiment involving electromagnetically induced transparency to understanding capacity achieving list decoding codes. So if my bloggings seem a little random, well, you’ll know that this transition has fried my brain.
O brave new quantum world!