The DPG (I'm referring to the week-long conference of the German Physicist's Society) is over. It was rather intense. This wasn't even the entire DPG represented -- only the Condensed Matter (e.g. lasers, surfaces, magnetism, etc.) section -- but the DPG is evidently the world's largest (and longest) Physicist's society, and so maybe it was no surprise that some of the biggest labs in our field were represented. I know I alluded to it last post but it was something else to get to talk with the people who actually perform some of these cutting-edge experiments. I gave two presentations and one lab tour that I'll mention: one presentation was on my work and one on another fellow's work. My presentation could best be described as making lemonade out of lemons. I think it went well, given that what I really wanted was more data. The other presentation was okay but it's a bit strange to give a presentation you haven't prepared. Things aren't organized as you would have. The lab tour was to the Bennewitz group and that was very helpful. I met Roland when he was a prof in Canada at McGill and it was nice to get a third-party opinion about some of the problems that might be plaguing my current experiment. (It remains to be seen if I can implement these solutions.)
And implement them in a little under four working days. Thanks, Easter! Almost everyone is taking some holidays around this time because we get both the Friday and the Monday off. I'm already looking forward to it but I'll try to be a good postdoc and keep working hard for these four last days...
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