Monthly Archives: February 2011

Space-time, Quantum Mechanics and the Large Hardon Collider

Posted on February 28, 2011 by woit

The title of the posting is that of Nima Arkani-Hamed’s public lecture last week at the IAS, with the spelling that of the title at the beginning of the video (available here, lower resolution version here). The bulk of the … Continue reading →

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Implications of Initial LHC Searches for Supersymmetry

Posted on February 22, 2011 by woit

There’s a new paper out this evening from a large collaboration entitled Implications of Initial LHC Searches for Supersymmetry. Instead of just adding it to the bottom of my recent posting, I thought it would be a good idea to … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Hype

Posted on February 21, 2011 by woit

A session on results from the LHC at last week’s AAAS meeting has generated some news reports about results from the heavy ion run, see here and here. Under the heading “String theory supported”, MSNBC reports: Previous experiments conducted at … Continue reading →

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First LHC Winter Conference Results

Posted on February 17, 2011 by woit

This week the Aspen Center for Physics is hosting one of the first of this year’s “Winter Conferences” where results from last year’s LHC run are being reported. Appropriately, the title of the conference is New Data from the Energy … Continue reading →

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Budget News

Posted on February 14, 2011 by woit

Almost five months into FY 2011, the US still has no budget for the year, operating on a continuing resolution that funds the government at FY 2010 levels until March 4. The House Republicans have come up with a proposal … Continue reading →

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Celebrity News

Posted on February 8, 2011 by woit

A selection of celebrity math/physics news: Jane Fonda’s blog has a report on My Meeting With Stephen Hawking. Hawking told her “You were my heart throb”, admitting that Barbarella was what he had in mind. MIT has put online a … Continue reading →

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IAS 80th Anniversary Talks

Posted on February 3, 2011 by woit

This may be old news, but I just recently noticed that talks given at the IAS in Princeton last fall to celebrate its 80th anniversary are now available on-line here. They include talks by Voevodsky on the foundations of mathematics, … Continue reading →

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