Dmitry Podolsky has got his PhD from Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He currently works as postdoc at Case Western Reserve University. He is also one of the editors of NEQNET.

197. Twitter updates for 2009-01-22

Every day’s physics – what is stress tensor? http://twurl.nl/bzkd6e # Jacques Distler on topological quantum field theory: http://jijr.com/ige # This is an outline of long Lurie’s paper – very technical! # Klebanov and Maldacena on hyperbolic cows: http://is.gd/gGTU # This was Lubos Motl’s post about Klebanov and Maldacena’s paper in Physics Today: http://twurl.nl/i6xga2 # Jester [...]

196. Video of the day: How big is the Universe?

195. Integer quantum Hall effect – plateaus in Hall resistivity

This post is my attempt to give an answer to tg’s question: Ok, we a kind of proved that the Hall resistivity is quantized in the integer quantum Hall effect, but how to explain plateaus in the Hall resistivity and deep minima in diagonal resistivity as shown on the Fig. We have to introduce quite [...]

194. Another quantum flapdoodle video: BBC on bubble universe

Even features Nima Arkani-Hamed and Lisa Randall

192. Video of the day: Michio Kaku on Multiverse

What I really wonder – is it actually a trend that actively working physicists figure out how important nowadays is publicity, they commit themselves to getting more publicity and then suddenly, when they finally get their publicity, they are not actively working physicists anymore? Is a human too much of a social creature? Is too [...]

191. Integer quantum Hall effect – theory

I guess, my reader, you are either a) an undergrad, b) a graduate student, c) a postdoc (or even professor? Cheers, Joe) or d) you are just interested in science and theoretical physics in particular (maybe, you even had a couple of courses related to physics in college). If b) or c) holds, you will [...]

190. Ex-googlers share their impressions about the company. Hilarious!

Wanted to work for Google? Take a look at this post on TechCrunch and think twice next time

189. Video of the day: Murray Gell-Mann on the beauty of physics

188. Integer and fractional quantum Hall effect – what is it?

Fractional quantum Hall effect was and remains one of the biggest mysteries in condensed matter theory. To be as arrogant as usual, I will claim that theorist’s brain work necessary to explain fractional quantum Hall effect is roughly equal to the work necessary to explain confinement in QCD, although the former problem is much younger [...]

187. Twitter updates for 2009-01-18

Talk at CITA – “Decoding the rosetta stone of galaxy formation” by Mario Juric, http://is.gd/gjMy? # Stanford announces 100 million USD energy institute: http://is.gd/gjMN # At MIT large lectures go the way of the blackboard: http://snipr.com/aa3vw # Alex Buchel’s introduction into bosonic string: http://is.gd/gjO2 (part A), http://is.gd/gjO3 (part B). # The title of the Guth’s [...]