Day 2 of Symposium NN

I gave you fair warning in my introductory post that I would probably be mentioning the Biomineralization and Bioinspired Symposium (NN).  I went back this morning both because of my interest in the subject matter as well as to see one of my professors from my undergraduate days.  What I found to be interesting was the consequence of having people with similar research interests sitting in the same room over different days.  Even though the room was not filled with the exact same group of people, the direction of conversation seemed to flow seamlessly from yesterday into today.  Similar observations in different talks led to comments and references about past talks.  The most striking of these trends was the reintroduction of the limitations of classic nucleation and growth (I believe the speakers exact words were "Classic nucleation theory is a failure.")

Of course, this is not terribly surprising, but certainly interesting.  I will have to return tomorrow and see if it continues.

 

-Trevor