What Should I See At The March Meeting?

I’m going to be at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore next week. This is the largest physics meeting of the year, with an emphasis on condensed matter physics (which is actually the largest single area of study within physics, though media overemphasis on particle physics and astrophysics might lead you to think otherwise). The program for the meeting is, um, kind of intimidating.

So, this post has two purposes:

1) If you’re also going to be at the March Meeting, let me know, and maybe we can arrange some kind of bloggy-people meet-up.

2) More importantly, if you’re in the fields that call the March Meeting home, I’d be very grateful for a guide to the “hot topics,” especially if you can point out some especially good speakers I should make sure to catch.

My own talk is a ten-minute report on last summer’s Schrödinger Sessions workshop, on Wednesday afternoon. Other than that, I have no solid obligations to do anything in particular, but I’m hoping to use this to get some good material for blogging. So, guidance would be much appreciated.