{"id":1859,"date":"2008-03-12T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2008-03-12T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:23:43","slug":"march-meeting-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/12\/march-meeting-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"March Meeting Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading home from the March meeting, after giving my <a href=\"http:\/\/quantum.cs.washington.edu\/wiki\/index.php\/Quantum_Computing_Theory_Group\">talk<\/a> this morning and then having a nice lunch with graduate (and one undergraduate) students at a &#8220;Meet the Experts&#8221; lunch.  Yeah, somehow I slipped by the guards!  Luckily a real expert was there, in the form of Paul Kwiat, so all was good and the students didn&#8217;t learn anything to disastrous.  &#8220;What I learned at the March meeting&#8221; below the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThings I&#8217;ve learned at the APS March meeting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are a lot of physicists.  Even if you don&#8217;t count the particle and nuclear and gravitational physicist who have their own meeting.  Oh, and they are easily identifiable walking down the street in New Orleans.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the male versions of this species, the physicist, are losing their hair.  This makes it even easier to spot them.  Should it worry me?<\/li>\n<li>Circuit QED has Rabi vacuum splittings which are off the chart in the line width to splitting ratio.  Cavity QED groups must be spinning in envy.<\/li>\n<li>For experimentalists, &#8220;not working&#8221; can sometimes me &#8220;it didn&#8217;t work&#8221; but other times it means &#8220;it didn&#8217;t fix any of our problems, because we had other bigger ones.&#8221;  (From a talk from an MIT undergraduate.  Precocious techers, they are!)<\/li>\n<li>I always miss the most interesting talks.  I missed the talk on the material science of superheros, and on a superconducting qubit based laser.<\/li>\n<li>The linear optics\/cluster state model is a lot like a scene from Wallace and Gromit<br \/>\n(from Paul Kwiat&#8217;s talk.)<\/li>\n<li>People in New Orleans smoke a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Those who do not believe in a wave function for the universe should be called a-psi-ists.<\/li>\n<li>The emergence of a space-time like ours from a pregeometry without such a structure was called &#8220;geometrogenesis&#8221; by Fotini Markopoulou, who swore the word wasn&#8217;t so long in Greek.<\/li>\n<li>John Preskill promised that next time he got mad at me, he would tell me to control-NOT myself (see my talk.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading home from the March meeting, after giving my talk this morning and then having a nice lunch with graduate (and one undergraduate) students at a &#8220;Meet the Experts&#8221; lunch. Yeah, somehow I slipped by the guards! Luckily a real expert was there, in the form of Paul Kwiat, so all was good and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/12\/march-meeting-summary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;March Meeting Summary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}