Okay. So I'm going to that quantum conference in September. And I just found out today that I should prepare a poster. Okay, now I'm scared.
I can talk at a Math conference. No problem. It can't be that much worse than the seminars at my university. But this is quantum stuff. Sure, it's about a paper that I'm a coauthor of, but we haven't even ( Read more... )

1. I just got an e-mail. Apparently the Quantum Guys want me to go to another conference. In the same month as the two I've already signed up for. I don't know how much I'd be able to understand, but it is a chance to talk to people and go somewhere I've never been before. This is going to be fun ( Read more... )

Day thirty... ish? I guess ( Read more... )

Survival strategy: Still the same.
Work: Lots of it.
Classes: Not over yet. Interesting, though.
Science: Possibly mad. I spend a lot of time hanging out at the university, talking to people and collecting ideas for stuff to work on. Like I don't have enough already ( Read more... )

Another symposium at the Quantum Center. Also, some other interesting lectures that I missed because I couldn't be in that many places at the same time. And then there was the meeting after the lectures today. Apparently, an international group of scientists are working on a huge project and expecting "groundbreaking results" (to quote the official ( Read more... )

I returned to Gdynia  on Friday night, after a very productive week. When I came to the Quantum Center on Monday, I found out one of my colleagues from Poznań was coming here this week. As soon as he arrived, we started to work on the next part of our project. Meanwhile, I've almost finished another project for the Quantum Guys and come up with a ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like I'm doing my homework half an hour before class. Only now this "homework" involves bits of quantum mechanics people who have studied it for years don't quite understand.

Working on the quantum stuff. The paper I am currently reading appears to be about telepathy and magic pentagrams. Well, sorta.
I probably need to sleep more because this amuses me a lot more than it should.

Seriously? People do that? In serious scientific publications?

Dear Author of the paper I am currently reading,
You have made a lot of valid arguments, but insisting that your theory is edgy and "heretical" and calling everyone you disagree with "silly" is not one of them.

So I'm back. I've been in Gdynia for a while already, but I've been too busy and/or distracted to post. Vacation pics coming soon, I promise.
Anyway, I'm back to work at the Quantum Center. I did work during my vacation, of course, but there's only so much I can do in the backseat of a moving car. Well, now I've got my own desk at work, in a nice ( Read more... )