Monthly Archives: March 2010

First High Energy Collisions at the LHC

Posted on March 29, 2010 by woit

Current schedule is for first 7 TeV center of mass collisions tomorrow (Tuesday) at 9:17 am Geneva time. Injection of the beams will take place after 2 am, ramp up to 3.5 TeV/beam from 3-4 am. For more details of … Continue reading →

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More Prizes

Posted on March 26, 2010 by woit

As far as I can tell, it’s still unclear if Perelman will accept the $1 million Millennium prize awarded to him last week. This week brings news of two more million dollar prizes: John Tate is this year’s winner of … Continue reading →

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High Energy Beams at the LHC

Posted on March 19, 2010 by woit

At 5:23 am in Geneva this morning, for the first time the two LHC beams were ramped up to high energy, the 3.5 TeV/beam that they plan to run at for the next two years. These are the highest energy … Continue reading →

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Millennium Prize to Perelman

Posted on March 18, 2010 by woit

The Clay Mathematics Institute announced today the award of the Millennium Prize to Perelman for the proof of the Poincare Conjecture. The award was made based on the rules set up when the prize was created: a Special Advisory Board … Continue reading →

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HEPAP Meeting

Posted on March 12, 2010 by woit

HEPAP is now meeting in Washington, presentations available here. Like the rest of science, HEP has been doing very well in the federal budget, including a temporary increase due to the stimulus program. Excluding stimulus money, the president’s FY2011 request … Continue reading →

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LHC Update

Posted on March 12, 2010 by woit

There’s now a tentative date set for first high energy (3.5 TeV/beam) collisions at the LHC: it’s March 30th.

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Strings 2010

Posted on March 11, 2010 by woit

Strings 2010, this year’s version of the big annual string theory conference, will be held next week in College Station, Texas. There’s a university press release about this here. Normally the conference is held in the summer at places like … Continue reading →

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Short Items

Posted on March 9, 2010 by woit

Bill Thurston teams up with Issey Miyake for their fall ready-to-wear collection based on the Geometrization Conjecture (via Quomodocumque). Youtube video here. Why String Theorists Should Switch Fields to Quantum Computing. This month’s AMS Notices has an interview with last … Continue reading →

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Top Cites 2009

Posted on March 8, 2010 by woit

Travis Brooks of SLAC’s SPIRES database has a blog posting today announcing the availability of various lists of the high energy physics papers most heavily cited during 2009. A full matrix of links to this data is here, data broken … Continue reading →

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First Hint That the Multiverse Really Exists

Posted on March 3, 2010 by woit

Multiverse mania rolls along, with New Scientist this week running a cover story entitled Touching the Multiverse. They advertise the story by claiming that “we reveal the first hint that the multiverse really exists”. It turns out that this is … Continue reading →

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