Just in case I ever find myself doubting that I gave a seminar at the University of Chicago, here’s some proof!
Physics
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The internet has only been available to me in starts and fits these past three days. It began with my departure from home via San Jose Airport to Denver, then onto Chicago. For the fourth time in three months, I was on my way to give a talk. This time, […]
It’s been a few days since I returned from Sweden. The flight back was uneventful, and I highly recommend Scandinavian Airlines for traveling to northern Europe. They were very nice, generous with food and alcohol, and nice planes. Not bad for cross-Atlantic coach! Today, I checked the workshop website and […]
“Are you here for business or personal?” “Business,” I replied. “Sekula . . . is that Finnish?” “Lithuanian,” I said, “Sekulavich”. “Oh ya, that makes sense.” And with that, the passport control officer at Swedish customs waved me through. I found it interesting that my time in Sweden began with […]
I’ve been taking a vacation from vacation. After returning from the Minnesota-Wisconsin-Illinois extravaganza, which was itself a recovery from Moscow, I spend the past few weeks recovering from vacation. At first, I was absolutely unmotivated to do anything. Writing the two talks, one for ICHEP and a much longer one […]
Yesterday, Jodi and I spent the day in Madison, WI. This is where, about three years ago, we graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with our degrees in physics. We took this opportunity not only to seek out our old haunts, but also to catch up with the groups that […]
A few days ago, a critical piece of evidence was gathered [ARXIVDM]. This evidence was needed to discern between two possibilities: either 84% of the matter in our universe is “dark” – non-luminous, invisible to most means of detecting it – or is due to a modification of gravity at […]
I’ll comment on this more later. For now, here is the reference: “http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608407”:http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608407.
One of the many reasons I am a physicist is the influence of my father. I had previously commented on the role my mother’s father, “pop-pop”, played on my choice to pursue science as part of my life. However, the role my father played in engaging me in challenging questions, […]
An article appeared recently [CNNPhysics], written by Gregory Mone, a member of the writing staff at Popular Science. In the title of the article, he posed the question “Can this machine rescue physics?”. This article came to my attention when members of the BaBar collaboration began to comment on it. […]
I think that much of the public forgets that scientists, including physicists, are people, too. Partly, this is because of the myth of the scientist – the recluse, the weirdo, the hubris. Partly, this is because often the most outspoken scientists are, indeed, the reclusive, weirdo, snobs. It’s the greater […]
My “day off” in the mine has been anything but. Well, to be fair, I volunteered. I had planned to spend the day catching up on news, listening to some statistics lectures from SLAC [SLUOStats], and generally take photos of all the cool stuff down here in the Soudan Mine […]