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In Praise of AMO Physics [Uncertain Principles]
I’m at DAMOP this week, though it took longer to get here than it should’ve– severe storms yesterday canceled the flight I was supposed to take from Baltimore to Columbus, so I had to rebook to the 6am departure this morning, whee. I think this is the first time I’ve ever had a flight canceled while I was at the airport, though which is kind of amazing.
Anyway, I missed most of the morning session, and I’m short on sleep, but I saw some cool talks already, and expect to write about some of them tomorrow. For the moment, though, here’s a post I wrote for Forbes yesterday talking about why Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physics is a great subfield to work in, and not just a refuge for people who couldn’t hack it as particle physicists. This skews very heavily toward experimental AMO, too, because that’s my background, but AMO theory has a lot of nice features, too.
And now it’s just about time for the next batch of talks to start, so I’m off to hear more about awesome physics involving atoms…
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2015/06/09/in-praise-of-amo-physics/
