Tag: Physics

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • March Meeting 2016 – Day 1!

    I’m at the March Meeting in Baltimore this week — Day 1 was today, which is so appropriate since it is both Einstein’s birthday and Pi Day!  They were giving away pie at the APS booth in celebration. The March Meeting is the largest gathering of physicists in the world, so it’s always bursting with…