Well, that's that for another APS meeting. I actually left late in the day Thursday, so I don't have too much more to report. I know that there was going to be a big session about topological effects in the nu=5/2 fractional quantum Hall state on Friday, but I couldn't be there. I did see the end of a cool session about physics and art, where there were invited talks about the fractal (or, in this case, not) nature of Jackson Pollock paintings, the design of minimal-surface structures like the Water Cube in Beijing, and the use of reflection and projection techniques by some artists. My students also told me that I should've gone to the session that included the talk on how to be a science advisor for Hollywood productions. Anyone else see anything exceptionally cool?
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I posted my "best of" on my blog
http://complexmatters.blogspot.com/2009/03/aps-march-meeting-2009.html
Perhaps my best of was a talk I listened to by one of the ever present certifiable loonys, which was great comic relief.
Sorry, that got garbled when I tried to edit. It should have said "my favorite" not "my best of"
5/2? Yet again? Postmodern science, welcome to condensed matter physics...!
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