{"id":323,"date":"2021-04-22T17:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/?p=323"},"modified":"2024-01-09T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:41:52","slug":"nate-macfadden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2021\/04\/22\/nate-macfadden\/","title":{"rendered":"#17: The Dizzying Math behind Spin Chains with Nate MacFadden &#8217;19, Math\/Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2024\/01\/NATE.jpg\" alt=\"Nate is smiling and wearing plastic laurels with a white flower, and standing on Reed campus, with a dorm building in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2024\/01\/NATE.jpg 579w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2024\/01\/NATE-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2024\/01\/NATE-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Seth Paskin &#8217;90 as he interviews interdisciplinary Math\/Physics graduate Nate MacFadden in Fall 2019 on his research into just how predictable quantum phenomena like spin chains really are. Don&#8217;t worry if that&#8217;s already got your head spinning, because this episode&#8217;s packed with a lot more than just math: from the hard and soft skills of thesising, to why your high school job might matter more than you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1034948353&#038;color=%232e0a06&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=true&#038;show_comments=false&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=false\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\" title=\"Burn Your Draft\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Burn Your Draft<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\/nate-macfadden\" title=\"#17: The Dizzying Math Behind Spin Chains with Nate MacFadden &#x27;19, Math\/Physics\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">#17: The Dizzying Math Behind Spin Chains with Nate MacFadden &#x27;19, Math\/Physics<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Seth Paskin &#8217;90 as he interviews interdisciplinary Math\/Physics graduate Nate MacFadden in Fall 2019 on his research into just how predictable quantum phenomena like spin chains really are. Don&#8217;t worry if that&#8217;s already got your head spinning, because this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2021\/04\/22\/nate-macfadden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,29],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episode","tag-mathematics","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}