The scale of the room doesn’t come across that clearly in the picture. The cones on the wall are six feet deep to absorb long wavelength waves, and the entry in on the 2nd floor of the building with a full floor of empty space below the mesh you walk in on - not for those with a fear of heights!

Our microscope lab was in the same buliding as the anechoic chamber - in one of the old varechoic rooms. The acoustics folks showed us how to get things quiet.

Astro folks might want a turn?

We had 35 participants at our summer school a few weeks ago testing this on their laptops. Turns out a Macbook M4 pro is almost as fast as a 10GB slice of an A100. From the school, here is a 1-hour reconstruction. (Data took a few seconds to record at the school in a crowded scope room)

Good use case for comic sans

I don't know how many were posters. Overall probably a 10-15% drop. For cancelled invited talks it felt larger, or perhaps it was that my area had a lot of invited talks from China, reflecting the huge investments and activity there on this topic

I’m told we had about 200 cancelled talks due to visa problems or US funding cuts. We were told not to travel, but have travel funds that will vanish if we don’t, so the whole gang was here

Given the location, we know he didn’t simply walk

That earned a follow

Actually the original 3 make sense to watch after Andor. There are no others

Canandaigua for ice cream, Watkins Glenn for boat tours

Keep it as a badge of honor