A pretty random collection of interesting things I’ve noticed recently:<\/p>\n
The Mathematical Institute at Oxford has a newsletter, and from the latest issue<\/a> I learned that Quillen is retiring and that they’re planning construction of a new building. There are quite a few other articles worth reading in the newsletter, including one about George Mackey.<\/p>\n There’s a long interview with Lawrence Krauss<\/a> on the web-site of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.<\/p>\n Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics<\/a> has a nice posting about Sonya Kovalevsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n The International Congress on Mathematical Physics <\/a> (ICMP) is taking place in Rio this week, and here’s the program<\/a>. Victor Rivelles<\/a> is blogging from the conference, and says that talks will be put online after the conference. I agree with his comments about Witten here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tommaso Dorigo has some excellent recent postings about new results from the Tevatron on the top quark mass<\/a> and the search for the Higgs<\/a>. It looks like the Tevatron’s best bet for finding the Higgs (or for ruling it out in some mass range above the range already ruled out by LEP) will be if it’s around 160 GeV.<\/p>\n Also from Fermilab, there are new results from MINOS<\/a> on neutrino oscillations. Sometime soon MiniBoone is supposed to be “opening the box” on their blind analysis of the data and reporting results. Anyone know when?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pretty random collection of interesting things I’ve noticed recently: The Mathematical Institute at Oxford has a newsletter, and from the latest issue I learned that Quillen is retiring and that they’re planning construction of a new building. There are … Continue reading