The APS April Meeting

Sean talks and links about the APS April Meeting. I've got a love/hate relationship with such things. It's always nice to hear new and interesting things. But it's hard looking around and wonder how some of these people get invited to give talks (many talks are "contributed" meaning that no one invited them and they're short!).

Although good work almost always gets rewarded, many is the time that simply because one person may have a powerful advisor, s/he gets invited to give a talk. And of course, if one has a stormy relationship with your advisor, you better be working on something other people like a lot!