From the website of the European Space Agency:

“This satellite image, acquired by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 7 January 2009, shows most of central and northern France covered by a white layer of snow, while regions closer to the Atlantic coast remain largely snow free. Towards the upper right Paris can just be seen under the cloud layer at the top edge of the image.

Credits: ESA”

“You will not apply my precept,” he said, shaking his head. “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes – The Sign of Four, Ch. 6]

Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States.

Barack Hussein Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States.

Next week, Lars Bergstrom, Joakim Edsjo and Torsten Bringmann will be visiting the theory group of the IAP for seminars and brainstorming sessions on some hot topics in ‘Astroparticle physics’ including: the PAMELA data, the modulation in the event rate detected by the DAMA direct detection experiment, the prospects for Fermi LAT, the status of IceCube, the statistical tools for the exploration of the supersymmetric parameter space and Dark Matter and stars. In case you are in the Paris area, this is the seminar agenda for next week (all at IAP, 98bis Bd Arago 75014 Paris):

Monday 27 at 3pm
Torsten Bringmann
Indirect dark matter searches, radiative corrections and the need for
clear spectral signatures

Wednesday 29 at 11am
Lars Bergstrom
Dark Matter searches: entering a new era

Thursday 30 at 11am
Joakim Edsjo
TBD