Finite formula found for partition numbers
So this isn’t physics*, but if you squint hard enough, you can probably make a connection. The hot topic today is Ken Ono‘s latest work on the partition function: Ken Ono, Amanda Folsom, & Zach...
View ArticleThis Week in the Universe: January 18th – January 24th
Phenomenally beautiful math was the main highlight of this week, I’d say, although none of it for the very faint of heart. The CMS on SUSY, Bill Unruh on simulated Hawking radiation, Ed Witten on...
View ArticleIt’s Official: The LHC will run through 2012
From today’s press release: Geneva, 31 January 2011. CERN today announced that the LHC will run through to the end of 2012 with a short technical stop at the end of 2011. The beam energy for 2011 will...
View ArticleThis Week in the Universe: January 25th – January 31st
Just a link collection today; I’m scrambling with deadlines right now. Astrophysics and Gravitation: New Most Distance Galaxy Candidate Found For more, see NASA’s Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day
Since I didn’t have the time to put together another Valentine’s Day special, like last year’s “The Mathematician’s Valentine“, you get ‘Colour Your Own Physics Valentine’s Day Cards’ for all...
View ArticleThis “Week” in the Universe: February 1st – February 21st
So I’ve been remiss in my reading lately, but here are my picks from the past few weeks. We have Outstanding Problems in Galaxy Formation, Herschel on Dark Matter, Dark Matter Detection Discussed,...
View ArticleApologies for the blogging hiatus
Posts here will re-commence this week. The post Apologies for the blogging hiatus appeared first on PLOS Blogs Network.
View ArticleWhat’s been going on in the universe
So my readers probably noticed the fact that this blog just stopped mid-February, without any explanation. Life in our local part of the universe was substantially more chaotic than usual. World wide...
View ArticleHiggs Gossip: Observation of a γγ resonance at a mass…
Update (April 25th, 2011) at end. So I woke up this morning to several emails about a strange “Higgs sighting” at ATLAS. On a Woit’s blog, a commenter named Higgs? shared an abstract purporting...
View ArticleApologies for the continued hiatus
Apologies for the continued and still continuing hiatus, readers. I’m talking time off from school/work/research/blogging and have been for some time now, for those who weren’t aware. I have an...
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