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Relaunching NEQNET

Dear all, After 1.5 years I finally consider myself settled down and ready to return to more or less active blogging. NEQNET will be relaunched within the next 30 days with new design and hopefully lots of new content. Also, as it seems, there will be new team members working for NEQNET together with me [...]

January 20, 2011 Various 22 Comments

JHEP is to be published by Springer

Just received an interesting email: Dear Colleague, we would like to inform you that as of 1st January 2010, JHEP will be published by Springer. This agreement is based on the following key principles: * The scientific community will remain in full control of all the scientific and editorial aspects of the Journal. * As [...]

June 5, 2009 Various 3 Comments

Workshop on tests of gravity in Case Western – day 2 and Arkani-Hamed’s talk

Workshop on tests of gravity in Case Western – day 2 and Arkani-Hamed’s talk

The second day of the Workshop on Tests of Gravity (and here is my blog post about the first day) was mostly devoted to analog models (Bill Unruh, Michael Uhlmann, George Pickett) and models of modified gravity (Nima Arkani-Hamed, Justin Khoury, Stacy McGaugh, Ted Jacobson, Levon Pogosyan and Mark Wyman). Regarding analog models I don’t [...]

May 28, 2009 ASTRO, COND-MAT, HEP-TH/PH, Various 7 Comments

Two levels of irony of waterboarding

Started here systematically reading “Huffington press” – thinking that maybe it will allow me to develop my language skills a bit… The hot topic there nowadays is waterboarding – can it be really considered torture or not? And if this is torture, is it really acceptable to use torture against enemies of the State – [...]

May 10, 2009 Various 2 Comments

245. Interesting news from PI

Has just received an interesting email: WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, February 9, 2009 ? Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), is pleased to announce the appointment of nine more outstanding international scientists to the positions of PI Distinguished Research Chairs. The new Chairs include Yakir Aharonov of Chapman University, Nima [...]

February 9, 2009 ASTRO, COND-MAT, HEP-TH/PH, Various 4 Comments

227. Video of the day: Meissner effect in superconductors

Here is the video related to the Problem N8 that we have discussed yesterday (what you see is probably high superconductor – the liquid that the guy uses seems to be liquid nitrogen). The effect seems also to be related to the Problem N4 (confinement of quarks). I mentioned this idea several times on the [...]

February 4, 2009 COND-MAT, Various 4 Comments

201. Breaking Symmetry

Our universe has things in it because Chance quantum fluctuations enable. Nothing is what violates Nature’s laws – Something is apparently more stable. Super-symmetry was asking for it. It was just too perfect to be withstood, And once it took the predictable hit It lit up the entire neighbourhood, And in that Big Bang, the [...]

January 24, 2009 ASTRO, COND-MAT, HEP-TH/PH, Various 0 Comments

185. And more about AdS/QCD

Matt Reece from Princeton has kindly agreed to answer to a couple of my questions related to his comment after the interview with Josh Erlich on AdS/QCD. I hope that his answers will be as interesting for you as they were for me. In what follows D. – me, M. – Matt. D.: You said [...]

January 18, 2009 HEP-TH/PH, Various 0 Comments

160. Quantitative analysis for beginners. Dumb Gaussian approximation

160. Quantitative analysis for beginners. Dumb Gaussian approximation

Back in Munich, when we were discussing the crisis (apart from so many other things ) with Serge Winitzki, he eventually stated that the crisis’ takeoff  is ultimately related to the ignorance of financial analysts   – namely, they ignore the fact that rare (in the sense of Gaussian statistics) events are not that rare [...]

December 30, 2008 ASTRO, Various 0 Comments

151. No blogging for Xmas!

151. No blogging for Xmas!

Hehe, I am nerdy, that’s true, but I’m not that nerdy Merry Christmas again to you, readers of NEQNET!

December 23, 2008 Various 5 Comments
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