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.

172. Color glass condensate and glasma

I am currently reading a paper that, I should admit, I absolutely fell in love with – the one by Larry McLerran called “A brief introduction to the color glass condensate“. What is the reason for me to show up warm feelings? This is because the concentration of non-trivial physical ideas per page is so [...]

171. David Gross, The coming revolutions in theoretical physics

In case you did not see it yet – enjoy

170. Back to AdS/QCD – interview with Josh

As you may remember, recently Josh Erlich has made a guest blog post about AdS/QCD at NEQNET. I think that the discussion we had after the post is so terrific that it is worth reposting here in the form of brief interview with Josh. Another reason for reposting is that you, guys, did not want [...]

169. Treasuries bubble

NEW YORK, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Longer-maturity U.S. Treasuries prices fell steeply on Monday, extending the previous session’s sell-off as auctions later this week highlighted prospects for a swelling supply of government debt, analysts said. The government debt market’s tumble reflects analysts’ deepening fears that Treasuries now form a price bubble that will pop as [...]

168. Yoneya on gravity from strings

As you may remember, recently we’ve discussed the paper by Alexander Polyakov – essentially, his contribution into the forthcoming volume “The birth of string theory”. Tamiaki Yoneya has also recently submitted his contribution to ArXiv (on Dec 31! ), which is definitely worth going through, too. Reading his paper allowed me to make a couple [...]

165. Back online, sorry

It seems that our SQL server broke down on Saturday, and the system administrator of my host was on vacation (Not only we, but a couple of other sites were affected.) Deeply sorry for that, but these were holidays, and I hope you had enough time even without reading our nerdy staff Anyway, we are [...]

162. Five most important things that happened to me in 2008

This post number 161 is the last one that I write in the year 2008 as it passes away and waves us his hand. What did it bring to my life? Agata was born – my little, lovely, hyperactive, noisy, extremely creative and restless daughter was born in the end of September, and my life [...]

158. Young Researchers Conference at Perimeter Institute

… has finished several weeks ago, and all talks are now online at PIRSA. To my knowledge, the main purpose of the conference is to put together short listed candidates for postdoctoral positions at PI – an equivalent of interview with important difference that candidates show themselves to each other, interact with each other and accept questions [...]

157. Update on world crisis: Toyota, OPEC

A couple of recent news that have got my attention and may seem interesting for you, too: OPEC agreed to seriously cut oil output. Precisely, cartel agreed to make a record, that is, strongest in history, cut in output about 2.2 million barrels per day – that is 3% cut, am I write? Fine, what is the result? The [...]

156. Again about condensed matter applications of AdS-CFT

Peter Horava has recently released a somewhat mysterious paper about non-relativistic Yang-Mills theories. Since I was unable to understand why one should be ultimately interested to consider such exotic beasts (that is, non-relativistic YM theories), I decided to postpone the reading until understanding will eventually appear due to background work of my brain Understanding of [...]