5/11/17
T. Menon (ms): Taking up superspace
5/4/17
P. Schwarz and J. Schwarz (2004): Supersymmetry and superspace (Ch 9)
4/26/17
J. Holloway presents “Continuum-Many Interacting Worlds”
3/10/17
J.T. Ismael (2016): How physics makes us free (selections)
Special guest: Prof. David Garfinkle (Oakland U.)
2/17/17
J. Hartle and M. Srednicki (2007): Are we typical?
2/10/17
S. Weinberg (1987): Anthropic bound on the cosmological constant
S. Weinberg (2005): Living in the multiverse
2/3/17
No meeting! Go to this talk instead!
1/20/17
Y. Benétreau-Dupin: Blurring out Cosmic Puzzles (2015)
12/7/16
L. Susskind: Lattice Fermions (1977)
H. Nielson & M. Ninomiya: A No-Go Theorem for Regularizing Chiral Fermions (1981)
11/30/16
K. Wilson: Confinement of Quarks (1974)
11/16/16
J. Weatherall: Are Newtonian Gravitation and Geometrized Newtonian Gravitation Theoretically Equivalent?
11/9/16
K. Coffey: On Mass and Energy in Special Relativistic Particle Dynamics (e-mail for a copy)
10/26/16
J. Norton: A Quantum Mechanical Supertask
Stanford Encyclopedia blurb: QM Supertasks
10/12/16
R. Batterman: Philosophical implications of Kadanoff’s work on the renormalization group
10/05/16
J. Baez: Struggles with the continuum, Sections 4-5
9/28/16
J. Baez: Struggles with the continuum, Sections 1-3
9/21/16
J. Dunkel and S. Hilbert: Consistent Thermostatistics forbids negative absolute temperatures
D. Frenkel and P. Warren: Gibbs, Boltzmann, and negative temperatures
Optional: Schneider et al. comment on Dunkel and Hilbert paper
Optional: Dunkel and Hilbert rebuttal
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