AGU One
- Why are all the interesting talks at 8 in the morning? And at the Marriott? Let’s send the space physicists over there instead, or reserve it as punishment for people who can’t have a technical conversation for more than 5 minutes that doesn’t involve post-perovskite.
- The wireless “access” is just sad. Don’t they understand that geophysicists need to download lots and lots of
pr0nsdata when they’re at professional conferences? - If I said I was bored of Sumatra, how much face would I lose?
The Lorenz Lecture: Boolean Delay Equations as a novel form of chaos (neat!), and an odd amount of credulousness w.r.t. Keilis-Borok. My seismolab companion stared derisively at that one as well, so I feel like my instincts have been vindicated. Pretty pictures aside, I stand firm in my belief that chaos theory is no longer a suitable way to dazzle cute grad students at AGU.
ME!: I’ll be at my poster (T23B-2020, snuck in with the work on real geothermal resources, haha, suckers!) circa 2:30-3:30, if any Gentle Geophysical Readers want to test modern techniques of cute-grad-student-dazzling, or just hang out until the beer arrives.
Dave wrote:
Ignore my question about AGU in your other post! I see it was answered it here. Hah. Are you there every day?
Posted 06 Dec 2020 at 12:36 am ¶
yami wrote:
In theory, yes. In practice, I might skive off a day to do homework. I need to figure out the boringest part.
Posted 06 Dec 2020 at 1:06 pm ¶
Wren wrote:
Hah. All the talks I want to see are sensibly in the 10:20 and 1:40 sessions.
I would like to find whoever scheduled the biogeo talks simultaneously with the frontiers of high pressure research talks and beat them.
Posted 06 Dec 2020 at 7:12 pm ¶
yami wrote:
Why? Who cares when all the boring talks are?
Posted 06 Dec 2020 at 7:56 pm ¶
John Vidale wrote:
Bored of Sumatra and post-perovskite? Yes and yes. No comment on the kudos from the former Director of my Institute for a member of it, I missed that talk.
Nice poster. I meant to bring up blogs, but your audience seemed too interested in science.
Posted 06 Dec 2020 at 10:04 pm ¶
yami wrote:
Thanks! Hopefully my deference to th’ Internal Skeptic didn’t undermine the message too much. Having an audience interested in science is good for the morale, for sure.
Posted 08 Dec 2020 at 10:13 pm ¶