Monthly Archives: July 2005

Bad Craziness

Posted on July 13, 2005 by woit

I’d been wondering why Lubos Motl seemed rather subdued in recent months, now one of his recent postings makes some reasons for this clear. Evidently since April he’s been the victim of someone who has been sending him grotesque anonymous … Continue reading →

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Strings 2005

Posted on July 10, 2005 by woit

Strings 2005, the latest in a series of yearly huge string theory conferences, will be taking place this week in Toronto. This series began in 1997 in Amsterdam, and in recent years has attracted 445 participants to Cambridge in 2002, … Continue reading →

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Various and Sundry

Posted on July 6, 2005 by woit

One of the big experimental HEP conferences, the Lepton-Photon Symposium, has just ended and many of the talks are on-line. This is the 22nd of these conferences which happen every two years. New data from the Tevatron about the top … Continue reading →

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Renaissance Technologies

Posted on July 1, 2005 by woit

Via Steve Hsu, the news from the Wall Street Journal is that Renaissance Technologies is about to launch a new hedge fund that could end up managing $100 billion, 10% of the total managed by all hedge funds today. Renaissance … Continue reading →

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