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Engineers of noise
The local university engineers have elaborate orientation rituals. These exercises always involve plenty of yellow construction helmets, yellow and purple body paint, loud T-shirts, and noisy yelling. They have a bizarre little chant that begins “We are, we are, we … Continue reading
WZW on wheels
an in-joke for string theorists… I spotted this numberplate recently on Harbord St outside the Starbucks.
Go, Harvard!
Harvard just announced that Drew Gilpin Faust will be the next President of Harvard , starting July 1st 2007. Yesss! Brilliant! Excellent! Fabulous! I met this fine person when I was a (2002-3) Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute , of … Continue reading
strings05.ca resurrected
Somehow someone at Perimeter Institute administering the domain strings05.ca lost track of something somewhere, and the site fell into embarrassing disrepair. (Well, at least, it has been repeatedly embarrassing for this scientific organizer…!) I have now resurrected strings05.ca. I have … Continue reading
Batmanda
This past week was a time of celebration and happiness for students and faculty of the University of Toronto and their whanau. PhD and MSc degrees in Physics were on the Convocation menu for the afternoon of Friday 17th November … Continue reading
Academic self-replication
Formally I have no further need of effort at work, because (aside from getting tenure) I have now self-replicated academically. My first graduate student gave a Richter Scale Twelve performance in defending his Ph.D. thesis on Wednesday; he passed with … Continue reading
Life hacking
The Economist magazine is, in my experience, an extraordinarily well written publication. From time to time it even sports gems of real use for my everyday life. One such was a list of methodologies that prolific alpha geeks use to … Continue reading
Kiwi Physicists Abroad update
Several years ago, I met Stephen Parke at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (now KITP) at UC Santa Barbara. We heard each other’s Kiwi accents at afternoon coffee and talked quickly. We decided to establish a web site with information … Continue reading
Andrew Chamblin Memorial Web Site
A site I initiated and have been working on for about a month, in consultation with his relatives, is finally ready for the public! See for yourself at http://www.AndrewChamblin.org/