Dr. T. H. Maiman (7/11/27 – 5/5/07)

I’m currently attending the CLEO/QELS conference in San Jose, CA. Yesterday there was a symposium honoring the late Ted Maiman, who was the first person to successfully build and operate a Laser. After the symposium, I was doing some follow-up reading on Wikipedia and discovered that the timing of this memorial session was very coincidental. [...]

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Thesis… check

I’ve made my last revisions prior to handing my dissertation over to my committee members tomorrow (ok, technically that’s just later today). My defense is scheduled for 9am on April 11th so I’ve got just over a week to put together my presentation. After writing 160 pages on my research, I think 20 slides will [...]

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NOVA | Absolute Zero | PBS

Part II of a very cool NOVA series airs on PBS stations tonight. Pun absolutely intended. Second pun not as intended, but still amusing.
Many all-star players from the Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics world, several of which are Nobel Laureates, make appearances on this second part of the program. The first part aired last week [...]

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Dawes Brewery

Ok, so I got my first lesson in web-site authority. Apparently people will believe anything written on the web, including things that are preceded by a disclaimer clarifying that most of the following statements are not true. I have had a little trivia page with two true bits of information about my surname, and four [...]

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Update

Having been over a month since the last little blurb, it’s time for an update. We had a great visit with Leslie’s parents and were able to show them around all the really cool parts of Durham that we’ve discovered in the past few years. Of course Bullocks and Elmo’s were on the list of [...]

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