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Talks at the KITP

Posted on August 12, 2011 by woit

Back now from vacation, and found that there have been quite a few interesting talks at the KITP in Santa Barbara this week which are now available on-line: Since the EPS-HEP conference last month, the “First Year of the LHC” … Continue reading →

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News From Simons Center

Posted on July 28, 2011 by woit

The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook has a new web-site, and this week their annual summer workshop got underway, talks available in very high quality video here. Luca Mazzucato, a postdoc there, has started putting together … Continue reading →

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String Theorists Throw SUSY Under the Bus

Posted on July 25, 2011 by woit

Over the past few days the results of the 2011 LHC run have been revealed at the EPS-HEP 2011 conference in Grenoble, where a press conference today marked the beginning of the next part of the conference, featuring summary talks. … Continue reading →

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First International Spring School on Particle Physics and Philosophy

Posted on July 19, 2011 by woit

From an article in the CERN Courier I recently learned about a program that brought together physicists and philosophers of science earlier this year around the topic of philosophy and particle physics. This was the First International Spring School on … Continue reading →

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Local Blogs

Posted on July 1, 2011 by woit

There are now several excellent blogs somehow related to mathematics being run by local people, including a couple new ones, so I thought it would be a good idea to mention these here: Andrew Gelman of the Columbia Statistics department … Continue reading →

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Quick Links

Posted on June 17, 2011 by woit

The House committee responsible for the DOE budget has passed a FY2012 appropriations bill, details here. Total funding for DOE Science is down .9% from FY2011 at $4.8 billion. HEP gets a .2 percent increase, Biological and Environmental Research is … Continue reading →

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$6.5 Million for Entropic Gravity

Posted on June 12, 2011 by woit

One of this year’s Spinoza Prizes goes to Erik Verlinde. It comes with 2.5 million euros to fund the prize-winner’s research. Last fall Verlinde received a 2 million euro ERC Advanced Grant to fund his research program, so that’s a … Continue reading →

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New Look

Posted on June 9, 2011 by woit

I’ve updated the blog a bit, to a newer, widgetized theme. Functionality should be the same as before. The only issue I’m aware of now is that the “Archives” widget adds an annoying character below its header which I can’t … Continue reading →

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Quick Links

Posted on June 1, 2011 by woit

The big news of the past couple days has been the release of more data by CDF which continues to show a bump in the invariant mass of two jets produced with a W. Resonaances gives an excellent description of … Continue reading →

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Particle Theory Job Market 2011

Posted on May 19, 2011 by woit

By now the hiring season for tenure-track jobs is pretty much over, and for the field of particle theory some idea of the results is available at the Theoretical Particle Physics Jobs Rumor Mill. As has been usual for the … Continue reading →

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