The American Physical Society’s March meeting is always its most heavily attended, with 5000 people once again expected to flock to the gathering. This year’s meeting will be held at the Indiana Convention Center from 18 to 22 March. The sessions at the meeting will deal with a wide range of materials: superconductors, proteins, conjugated polymers, nanoclusters, semiconductors, multiferroics, magnetoresistive oxides, and more. The hot material of last year’s meeting—magnesium diboride, which had just been discovered to superconduct at 40 K—will be the subject of 70 papers in five sessions this year.
A number of tutorials and workshops have been organized for the weekend preceding the meeting. The APS division of polymer physics will sponsor a short course on glasses and the glass transition, to run from 8 AM to 5 PM on both Saturday and Sunday, 16 and 17 March. APS will also offer eight half-day tutorials on Sunday....
