I’ve mentioned this once or twice here before, but it’s time this gets a blog post of its own: I’ll be going to DIS 2012 next week!

DIS 2012 is the XX International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics. It’s a fairly large (~300 people) conference on particle physics which focuses on the analysis of data collected from strong interaction collisions.

I’ll be at the conference to give a presentation based on the paper I worked on last summer, and also to represent the Stack Exchange network. The people at Stack Exchange even gave me a nifty box of branded merchandise — stickers, pens, and markers — to hand out at the conference. I’m hoping this is going to attract some attention to our Physics site.

While I’m at the conference, I’ll be attending a bunch of different talks and posting frequent (hopefully daily) updates right here on the blog. The schedule is already up on the conference website, so if anyone is interested in hearing about a particular presentation, let me know and I’ll see what I can do to check it out!