Highlights from the morning talks at PPC08
The conference on the Interconnections between particle physics and cosmology, PPC2008, started this morning in the campus of the University of New Mexico. The conference features a rather relaxed,...
View ArticleAnother blog on PPC08 talks
Just a note while I prepare my own summary of today’s talks: Mandeep Gill, a astrophysicist from Ohio State University, is also blogging on the talks we are listening at PPC08 this week. Please check...
View ArticleShort summary from an intense day at PPC08 – part 1
Besides my talk, which opened the morning session, there were a number of interesting talks today at PPC 2008, the conference on the interconnection between particle physics and cosmology which is...
View ArticleVernon Barger: perspectives on neutrino physics
Yesterday morning Barger gave the first talk at PPC 2008, discussing the status and the perspectives of research in physics and cosmology with neutrinos. I offer my notes of his talk below. Neutrinos...
View ArticleNeutrino Telescopes XIII
The conference “Neutrino Telescopes” has arrived at its XIII edition. It is a very nicely organized workshop, held in Venice every year towards the end of the winter or the start of the spring. For me...
View ArticleNeutrino Telescopes day 2 notes
The second day of the “Neutrino Conference XIII” in Venice was dedicated to, well, neutrino telescopes. I have written down in stenographical fashion some of the things I heard, and I offer them to...
View ArticleVariation found in a dimensionless constant!
I urge you to read this preprint by R.Scherrer (from Vanderbilt University), which appeared yesterday on the arxiv. It is titled “Time variation of a fundamental dimensionless constant“, and I believe...
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