Mar 05 2020 53 mins 137
The big physics news this week is the cancellation of the March Meeting of the American Physical Society because of concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we hear from conference delegates who had travelled to Denver Colorado, only to find that the March Meeting had been cancelled. We chat about how attendees have organized alternative meetings – in person and in cyberspace – and ponder the future of the scientific conference in the Internet age. We also hear from physicists who came tops in a “deep tech” start-up challenge that was held last month at Photonics West in San Francisco and remember the iconoclastic mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson, who died last week age 96.
