{"id":458,"date":"2006-09-13T16:47:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=458"},"modified":"2006-11-02T10:26:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T14:26:05","slug":"yet-more-links-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Yet More Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Wilczek, besides his other accomplishments, is also the star of an opera, entitled Atom and Eve<\/a>. More commentary on this from Betsy Devine<\/a>, and Jennifer Ouellette<\/a>, as well as a report here<\/a>, and a review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul Cook has a report<\/a> on the Templeton-sponsored panel discussion at Cambridge on The Nature of Space and Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In October 2004 the French magazine Ciel et Espace published an article about the Bogdanovs entitled The Bogdanov Mystification<\/a> (English version here<\/a>). They sued the magzine in December 2004 for defamation. Evidently<\/a> a French court has now decided the case against the Bogdanovs, fining them 2500 Euros for frivolous litigation and requiring them to pay the magazine’s costs.<\/p>\n

[Note: Igor Bogdanoff claims that the case was dropped about one year ago, that according to the judgement<\/a> there was no trial, and the 2500 euro fine was a simple consequence of their not showing up for the last meeting with the judge.]<\/p>\n

The Institute for Advanced Study has been famous in recent years for the emphasis of its theoretical group on string theory. They seem to be moving a bit more towards phenomenology these days, and there will be a workshop on axions<\/a> there next month.<\/p>\n

The Tevatron is performing well, recently achieving new record luminosities. You can keep track of their progress here.<\/a><\/p>\n

LBL will soon be hosting a conference<\/a> to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Particle Data Group.<\/p>\n

Chad Orzel has a perceptive review<\/a> of Not Even Wrong at his blog, Uncertain Principles.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: There’s a tradition among bloggers of “carnivals”, collections of the more interesting recent blog postings in a certain area. The physical sciences now have one of their own, the first edition is now available, and it’s called Philosophia Naturalis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Note added about the Bogdanov court case, giving claims about this by Igor Bogdanoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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