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This Evening’s Finds in Theoretical Physics

Posted on April 10, 2005 by woit

It’s late tonight and I have to prepare a class for tomorrow, so I don’t have time now to figure out what is going on here. But if you want to see something really strange, take a look at Susskind’s … Continue reading →

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Not a Joke

Posted on April 7, 2005 by woit

A week or so ago I wrote up as an April Fool’s joke a posting claiming that the Stanford theoretical physics group was joining a new Templeton foundation devoted to religion and science. At the time I had no idea … Continue reading →

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High Energy Physics: Exit America?

Posted on April 6, 2005 by woit

Science magazine has an article this week entitled High Energy Physics: Exit America?. It describes the US HEP budget situation, and gives details of the probable cancellation of the BTeV experiment. Evidently neither Michael Witherell, the Fermilab director, nor any … Continue reading →

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Witten in Canada

Posted on April 4, 2005 by woit

Edward Witten is in Canada this week, giving a series of lectures at the Fields Institute, the mathematics institute at the University of Toronto. He’s also giving a public lecture at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. The first of his … Continue reading →

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New Institute at Stanford

Posted on April 1, 2005 by woit

Stanford University will officially announce later today the founding of a new research institute, with major funding from the John Templeton Foundation. Many of the faculty and research staff of the new institute will come from the present Institute for … Continue reading →

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Landscape Architecture

Posted on March 30, 2005 by woit

The Perimeter Institute in Canada is known as a center for research in Loop Quantum Gravity. This week they have come up with an extremely clever way to make string theorists look bad. They’ve scheduled a week of talks on … Continue reading →

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New This Week’s Finds

Posted on March 27, 2005 by woit

John Baez has just put out a new issue of his This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics, dealing partly in more detail with the material about Clifford modules mentioned here a couple weeks ago. I’ve added as the first comment … Continue reading →

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Recent Conferences

Posted on March 24, 2005 by woit

Last week the 2005 International Linear Collider Workshop was held at SLAC, and the talks are available on-line. At the conference it was announced that Barry Barish of Caltech would lead the Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider. … Continue reading →

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Coleman Conference

Posted on March 20, 2005 by woit

I spent the last two days up in Cambridge, mainly attending the conference in honor of Sidney Coleman. Sadly, Coleman is in poor health, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, and was unfortunately unable to attend the talks in his honor. They … Continue reading →

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Anniversary

Posted on March 17, 2005 by woit

It’s now been exactly one year since I first set up this weblog. At the time I thought the number of those sharing my interests would be very small and hardly anyone would be looking at whatever I put up … Continue reading →

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