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March Meeting — guest blog from Avi Vajpeyi
I was honoured to attend the APS meeting in Baltimore between 14-19 March. The meeting was amazing—though I found myself oscillating between: “I get this” to “Umm… I think I understand some of what they are talking about” to “Really? What are they talking about?”. Overall, a five star rating, if you ask me! A…
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Dream a Little Dream of Physics — guest blog by Justine Walker
Dream a Little Dream of Physics – Fulfilling a Dream at the World’s Largest Meeting of Physicists I don’t dream small. Ever since I was a young girl, I dreamed of a bright, big future for myself. Framed on my desk at school is a picture I drew from the prompt “A scientist is…” in…
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March Meeting Day 5
Whew! It’s been a while since I have been at the March Meeting for the full week, and I definitely reached information overload. But before signing off, I wanted to summarize Day 5, Friday! There were a number of interesting choices in the morning, but I chose to go hear Miles Padgett of the University…
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March Meeting Update – Days 2 & 3
I knew when I posted the Day 1 update from the March Meeting that it would be pretty hard to keep up daily updates, and I was right!The students arrived on Tuesday morning, and Drew did a great job with his poster at the Tuesday afternoon poster session Drew ready for visitors to his poster…
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March Meeting – Seeing Optics Everywhere
I spent only part of Day 4 at the meeting in Baltimore. After some sessions in the morning, I got to tour some of the Johns Hopkins engineering facilities and hear more about the research that Elliot Wainwright is doing there. Then I took the train down to Washington DC in the afternoon so that I…
