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For quite a few years now, when I ask my colleague Herve Jacquet about what is going on in his field, he tells me something like: “Maybe someone will soon be able to prove the Fundamental Lemma”. This is a … Continue reading →

Alvaro de Rujula has posted on the arXiv under the title “Fifty years of Yang-Mills Theories: a phenomenological point of view” some of his recollections from the mid-seventies. These bring back my own memories of taking a course on particle … Continue reading →

The Theoretical Particle Physics Jobs Rumor Mill has a new home. It’s no longer at the University of Washington, now it’s at the College of William and Mary Physics department. Now that it’s available again, the Rumor Mill has the … Continue reading →

HEPAP is the Department of Energy’s “High Energy Physics Advisory Panel”, which holds meetings 3-4 times a year. At these meetings, people from the DOE and NSF report on the latest news about US government funding for particle physcs, and … Continue reading →

It seems that the second most important web-site in the particle theory community (the first is obviously the

A more and more common argument one hears from string theorists these days (for one version see a recent anonymous comment posted here) goes more or less like this: “A fundamental theory shouldn’t be expected to predict things like fermion … Continue reading →

A while back when looking for theoretical physics related weblogs I ran across The Search For A Theory of Myself: The Struggle Against String Theory which at first sounded right up my alley. It turns out to be the weblog … Continue reading →

The news that next week’s “Science Times” will run an article by NYT reporter James Glanz in which several leading string theorists say that they are giving up on the idea is rapidly spreading throughout the particle theory community. Evidently … Continue reading →

The Abel prize is a new yearly prize in mathematics, intended to function somewhat like a Nobel Prize for mathematics. The first one was awarded last year to Jean-Pierre Serre and this year’s has gone to Sir Michael Atiyah and … Continue reading →