University of Arkansas Physics Centennial

Updated 3/2017-- photos and all links removed as many are no longer active and it's easier than checking each one.

I am more excited than I should be to be attending the 100th Year of Physics at the University of Arkansas in early April. I finally got someone to trade unassigned ER call weeks with me so that I can go. That's right I am a physics nerd, as my kid sister (now 46 yo) would say. I graduated with a BA Physics degree from U of A in 1978. I am look forward to visiting with the professors and fellow graduates.

I will get to hear Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle give the Centennial Maurer Distinguished Lecture. The title of the lecture is "New Forms of Quantum Matter Near Absolute Zero temperature". I hope I won't feel too lost. I have not kept up with the changes in Physics. (We all know it's tough enough keeping up with the changes in medicine.)

I have made my hotel arrangements, made arrangements for Rusty (my chocolate Labrador), and am mentally packing.

The Greenery at Opryland Hotel

We're back home from our vacation to Nashville. I've spent the afternoon washing clothes, bathing dogs, watering the poor dry plants in my yard, and just getting ready to go back to the office tomorrow. I wanted to share a few photos with you of the lovely greenery at the hotel. It's like an arboretum inside the hotel. The first photo is from our room. We got a lot of exercise just walking around the place (no guilt about eating).

There are some lovely orchids, ferns, begonias, and more. There is a "Delta River" that runs through the hotel with boat rides.

But some of the most surprising greenery was seen the afternoon before we left. Check out this beautiful ivy. Look closely.

Did you look closely? Did you see the beautiful woman?

The ivy is not real. It is a woman doing performance art!

Isn't she lovely!

Carnton House

Today we went just south of Nashville to Franklin, Tennessee. My husband who is a Civil War buff wanted to visit the Carnton Plantation and cemetery. Here are a few pictures. This was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.