2010 has been awesome so far. I’m having a hard time keeping up with blogging all the good news.
Talks
I was in invited The Winter Meeting on Statistical Mechanics in Taxco, Mexico. What a fantastic conference! I learned a lot about many different areas in Statistical Physics, got to meet many awesome researchers, and the keynote talks were in a natural amphitheater inside the Cacahuamilpa caves. Stunning! This was one of the best conferences I’ve been to.
I was also invited to give a talk at Reed College last week. This was my first time ever in Portland, Oregon, and I fell in love with the city. It felt like a mixture of Austin, Northern California and Seattle that I really liked. The academic culture at Reed is something that should be emulated everywhere: students honestly don’t care about grades, just about learning. One thing is to hear it, and another is to witness how true it is! The physics department at Reed has the most motivated and energetic physicists I’ve ever met. Wow.
Papers:
Finally, the paper that I had mentioned before appeared in PRL:
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Open Quantum Systems with Unitary Propagation
Also, the PRA on assignment maps is out in the published wild.
Linear assignment maps for correlated system-environment states
Minus Two Fish 