It’s semester break and I’m in Paris this week, but I have a few moments to post on some topics that may be of interest:<\/p>\n
People here in Europe seem quite normal, but Lubos has just won an award for Best European Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some details of the proposed new US stimulus package have just been released<\/a>. Science is one of the main beneficiaries, with the DOE getting:<\/p>\n $1.9 billion for basic research into the physical sciences including high-energy physics, nuclear physics, and fusion energy sciences and improvements to DOE laboratories and scientific facilities. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n This should dramatically change the situation at Fermilab, which has been operating so far this year under a low continuing resolution level of funding. For the immediate future, the funding situation in the US for HEP and science in general looks bright, although this presumably will come to a screeching halt whenever the federal government stops financing everything by printing a trillion dollars a year.<\/p>\n Travis Brooks of SPIRES has produced Top Cites lists for 2008. He has a blog posting about this here<\/a>, and the list of most heavily cited papers during 2008 is here<\/a>. For the first time in many years, a new hep-th fad is having visible impact, with Bagger-Lambert at number 37, and three other papers on the same topic in the top 50.<\/p>\n Over at the Edge web-site, there’s an interview with Frank Wilczek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s semester break and I’m in Paris this week, but I have a few moments to post on some topics that may be of interest: People here in Europe seem quite normal, but Lubos has just won an award for … Continue reading