Free lunch
Yesterday I enjoyed a free lunch in the vendor exhibit hall. It wasn't bad, either, with fresh fruit and foccacia bread sandwiches. It makes me wonder where the registration dollars go for meetings like APS, at which free coffee and lunch are conspicuously absent. Perhaps the best part of the lunch was seeing distinguished scientists and professors sitting on the floor of the poster area to eat.
Two words for you: Lanyards and Phone books (that nobody wants!). Well, 3 words...
Posted by: Penny | March 28, 2008 at 02:43 PM
Except that APS doesn't do the phone-book epitome any more, just CDs, and the lanyards here are way fancier (so far as lanyards can ever be). The reg fees must just be used to defray the excessive organizational costs required to get 7,000 physicists inline. I've heard that it is like herding cats....
Posted by: Alison Hatt | March 28, 2008 at 02:51 PM
Well they did have those big books with all the abstracts, which were effectively the CD printouts, no? Also, I think cats are much more manageable than physicists, since they usually have 1) an inborn desire to be clean, and 2) a perpetual fascination with even the most mundane things (like strings), which makes for a much better audience.
Posted by: Ronnie D. | March 28, 2008 at 05:40 PM