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July 2011's Entries

DPF Dissertation Award
- Jul 20, 2011
- APS DPF announces new award for dissertations.

Random Past Entries

Moduli-Fixing in M-theory
- Feb 18, 2003
- So I thought I’d say some more about the relation between Bobby Acharya’s paper on moduli-fixing in M-theory (which…
Collinear
- Sep 27, 2004
- A lot of people (myself included) got very excited by the fact that perturbative N=4 super Yang-Mills amplitudes seemed…
Hertog, Horowitz and Maeda
- Apr 27, 2003
- I’m somewhat confused as to what to make of the recent paper by Hertog, Horowitz and Maeda. The physics…
Baghdad Café
- Aug 29, 2003
- Is it a sign of progress that new Iraqi blogs (genuine, as far as I can tell) are springing up…
Ben Domenech, Innumerate
- Mar 22, 2006
- A million here, a million there, pretty soon you’re talking billions…

MT How-To

Validating Comments
- May 3, 2003
- Run comments through the W3C Validator before posting. The first in a series of “How-To” articles on MovableType.
Bullet-Proofing II
- May 11, 2003
- More bullet-proofing tips to ensure your blog is valid XHTML
Text Filters for Comments
- May 19, 2003
- Allow a choice of Text Filters in your Comment-entry form.
Serve it Up!
- May 26, 2003
- Serving your blog as XHTML 1.1 with a MIME-type of application/xhtml+xml.
<abbr>, <acronym>, Accessibility & ...
- Sep 10, 2003
- A tutorial on marking up abbreviations and an MT plugin which makes the job easy.
Forcing Comment Previews
- Jun 16, 2004
- Introducing the MTHash plugin, and a reliable way to force Comment Previews.
Internationalization and Trackbacks
- Feb 17, 2005
- In which our hero gets fed up with gibberish Trackbacks and takes matters in his own hands.

Recent Comments

Uncertainty (27)
- Jacques Distler
  - May 1, 2013 13:22
  - I have already discussed this at great length. The only thing to be changed is that the statement, “Supermoduli space ...
- Ricky
  - May 1, 2013 09:26
  - What do you think of Witten’s new paper? http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.7798v1.pdf What are the implications to string theory?
- Ricky
  - May 1, 2013 08:15
  - What do you think of Lee Smolin’s latest book? Have you read it?
- Jacques Distler
  - Apr 19, 2013 08:03
  - That paragraph is a bravura combination of word salad In Bethe’s Optical Theorem, Maxwell’s equations for a light wave give ...
- Nige Cook
  - Apr 19, 2013 03:45
  - But consider Haag’s theorem against demonstrating the self-consistency of the renormalization procedure for complex (Hilbert) space. There’s your no-go theorem! ...

ArXiv Trackback Policy (101)
- Kanwaljeet kaur
  - Mar 15, 2013 20:51
  - I have seen many papers of munish sethi and k.c.gupta on elasticity and viscoelasticity all are cut copy paste and ...
- Jacques Distler
  - Dec 10, 2007 15:56
  - Is the list of “allowed sites” available Not to my knowledge. The only web interface I know about is this ...
- Blake Stacey
  - Dec 10, 2007 15:39
  - Is the list of “allowed sites” available, or is that still a TO-DO item? I’d wanted to note on EUREKA ...
- Jacques Distler
  - May 19, 2006 22:28
  - Not dictator, alas; merely public fall-guy.
- Neubrain
  - May 19, 2006 22:04
  - Jacques, it must be tough being a dictator and censor at ArXiv. You have my deepest sympathies!

De Sitter on My Mind (2)
- Devon
  - Dec 31, 2012 18:30
  - My apologies, I’ve recently become very interested in de Sitter doubly special relativity and a road to quantum gravity. Could ...
- Alex Green
  - Feb 28, 2003 04:49
  - Interesting critique of this article. Any measuring device is composed of separated particles and so, at any instant, the particles ...

Vivian Distler 1965-2011 (7)
- Mike Chapman
  - Dec 6, 2012 13:08
  - I see that my original post mentioned that Vivian was smart…twice. More truth than mistake. I still can’t believe she’s ...
- Mike Chapman
  - Jun 6, 2012 05:54
  - I’m shocked and saddened to learn of Vivian’s passing. She was an intern with us at NBC in Boston in ...
- Jacques Distler
  - Mar 22, 2012 09:47
  - Dear Cindy, We tried to contact you, but the contact information we had seems to have been out of date. ...
- Cindy Dahle
  - Mar 22, 2012 09:07
  - Jacques and Suzanne, please accept my deepest sympathy over Viv’s passing. I tried to contact her to wish her a ...
- Evan Goer
  - Jan 3, 2012 00:05
  - Terribly sorry to hear that, Jacques. Sincere condolences.

Astral Pain (19)
- Raahul
  - Nov 30, 2012 04:41
  - It seems there is a growing group of people who’ve noticed the problems with Unicode. What we need is a ...
- Mike
  - Jul 28, 2012 05:45
  - It’s really hard to take Tom Christianson serious if he doesn’t even bother to add .NET to his comparison.
- Jacques Distler
  - Jul 11, 2012 12:12
  - And I don’t know why you persist in bashing the Rails ORM, as it is completely irrelevant to the topic ...
- a
  - Jul 11, 2012 12:06
  - ”” the first time it queried the table.”“” That means once. This is the correct way to handle things. I ...
- Ludovic Urbain
  - Jul 11, 2012 02:21
  - MySQL is not cutting edge by definition. That is because they don’t implement most features good dbms’s do, and because ...

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July 20, 2011

DPF Dissertation Award

The APS Division of Particles and Fields has a new award for dissertations. Here’s the announcement.

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