I’ve been here less than 24 hours and what I’ve discovered so far (some of this without leaving the hotel lobby) is that Jacksonville is home to bitter Granny Smith apples, very sweet iced tea and the extremely lazy St John river. This river is the longest North running river in the United States and as you arrive at Jacksonville airport you can see it snaking its way lazily across the mud flats. For the next few days at least there will be pasty faced physicists jostling with tanned Floridians along its riverbanks.

Consider me your blogging companion for this April meeting of the American Physical Society. It’s my first time at this meeting – I’ve been to the larger March meeting many times, but this year I’m looking forward to getting stuck into the small and large-scale topics that are the focus of the April gathering – from nuclear and particle physics all the way up to astrophysics and cosmology. I’m expecting lots of explosions.

Sarah Tomlin

I’ve been here less than 24 hours and what I’ve discovered so far (some of this without leaving the hotel lobby) is that Jacksonville is home to bitter Granny Smith apples, very sweet iced tea and the extremely lazy St John river. This river is the longest North running river in the United States and as you arrive at Jacksonville airport you can see it snaking its way lazily across the mud flats. For the next few days at least there will be pasty faced physicists jostling with tanned Floridians along its riverbanks.

Consider me your blogging companion for this April meeting of the American Physical Society. It’s my first time at this meeting – I’ve been to the larger March meeting many times, but this year I’m looking forward to getting stuck into the small and large-scale topics that are the focus of the April gathering – from nuclear and particle physics all the way up to astrophysics and cosmology. I’m expecting lots of explosions.

Sarah Tomlin