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GRAPPA jobs
The GRAPPA Institute invites applications for a faculty (tenure-track or tenured) position as well as for several positions at the postdoctoral level. Faculty position The GRAPPA Institute seeks to appoint in…
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Dark Workshop
The Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) hosts workshops in theoretical particle physics (in a building overlooking the beautiful landscape of tuscan hills, photo). Last week, I have co-organized an event, the Dark…
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Nobel Prize 2011 for Accelerating Universe
Congratulations to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess (image above: as a homage to the winners, a lambda-shaped word cloud produced with the press release of the Nobel committee). http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2011/press.html
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Drama at Opera
When your non-physicists friends start to send emails with links to headlines of big newspapers (usually titled ‘Einstein was wrong’: that’s apparently the best the average reporter can come…