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Dissertation Haiku

Take years of research, countless hours of work, distill it down seventeen syllables, and you get Dissertation Haiku. Here’s an example:

light and matter flirt
years pass in femtoseconds
a bond is broken

By Adi Natan, the haiku interpretation of his dissertation about “quantum control of atoms and small molecule using intense femtosecond laser pulses”.

February 16, 2011 ·

Eightface is a weblog by Dave Kellam. It's largely just a collection of links to things I find interesting, with some attempts at pithy commentary interspersed.