The past couple months I’ve seen announcements of the founding of two new cosmology centers at US universities, and I realized that there has been quite a lot of this going on over the past few years here in the US. Going back 5 years or so, I count at least a dozen:<\/p>\n
Texas Cosmology Center<\/a>, Austin (March 2009)<\/p>\n Center for Particle Cosmology at the University of Pennsylvania<\/a> (January 2009)<\/p>\n Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology<\/a>, Carnegie Mellon (May 2008)<\/p>\n Astrophysics and Cosmology Center<\/a>, Los Alamos (January 2008)<\/p>\n Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics<\/a> (December 2007)<\/p>\n Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics<\/a>, Ohio State (October 2007)<\/p>\n Beyond Center<\/a>, Arizona State (September 2006)<\/p>\n Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics<\/a>, Caltech (April 2006)<\/p>\n Center for Cosmology at UC Irvine<\/a> (June 2005)<\/p>\n Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics<\/a>, Chicago (March 2004)<\/p>\n Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology<\/a>, SLAC (October 2003)<\/p>\n Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics<\/a>, Case Western (October 2003)<\/p>\n The job market being what it is, if you’re a string theorist you better be an incredible genius (and lucky) to find employment. On the other hand, if you’re a cosmologist, well, it doesn’t look that hard…<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: A commenter points to one more:<\/p>\n Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos<\/a>, Penn State (August 2007)<\/p>\n This one replaced a previous “Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry”, part of a trend in physics: cosmology hot, geometry not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The past couple months I’ve seen announcements of the founding of two new cosmology centers at US universities, and I realized that there has been quite a lot of this going on over the past few years here in the … Continue reading