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Theoretical particle physicist, University professor, book author, and sometimes blogger. Now a Department Chair at USC!
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Interesting… we do not do that. Any other places put restrictions on their PhD admissions? 🧪 www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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Neutrino of the energy of 120 PeV (Petaelectron-volt)! That’s a lot. Got a theory for that? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!🧪

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My new friend Speedy. Can you estimate his speed? 🧪

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Power is down at work, but in a weird way: all the lights are up, but all wall outlets are down… in the whole building! Should I blame Lorentz violating interactions? 😀

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

XB-1 went supersonic today. This is an important step towards the return to civilian supersonic travel!

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These grants also power American science. What a great way to reduce US competitiveness. I am amazed by the demonstrated unprofessionalism! To make an analogy: it’s like forcing a company to stop all production during a tax review. www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...

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Great book for a curious undergraduate!

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CAE - ATL - DTW to give a colloquium and a seminar at Wayne State University

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Gene Golowich died… a great phenomenologist, a co-author of the monumental “Dynamics of the Standard Model” textbook, one third of the “DGH group” at UMass, my collaborator, and a friend.

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SEA - ATL - CAE Goodbye, Seattle! See you next time!

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Good morning from Seattle!

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CAE - ATL - SEA for Baryon Number Violation: From Nuclear Matrix Elements to BSM Physics workshop

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It started snowing - in South Carolina! The University of South Carolina will be closing today at noon.

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New paper! Together with my postdoc Girish Kumar and my graduate student Sudheer Muhammad (first paper!) we look at the effects of the finite widths of the final state particles on the analyses of non-leptonic D meson decays. We welcome your comments! inspirehep.net/literature/2...

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I have just heard that Tom Mehen died last week... Tom and I got our PhDs the same year - and his thesis advisor, Adam Falk, was my postdoc advisor. So even though we worked on similar topics, somehow we never wrote a paper together… trinity.duke.edu/news/physics...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year from South Carolina!

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The shelves are finally taking shape!!!

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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a safe and happy New Year! 🎅

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How viable is it? State of Virginia will be building a commercial fusion reactor? 🧪 www.ans.org/news/article...

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Question to people working in condensed matter physics/chemistry/etc. - i.e., the fields where the author lists are non-alphabetical: who is a “co-first author,” and how many “co-first authors” can a paper have? 🧪

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@astronomyontap.bsky.social Hello! I'd like to open a new location for Astronomy on Tap in Columbia, SC. What should I do? For some reason, all of my e-mails and attempts to contact AoT on Instagram went unanswered…

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I got a Christmas present from my staff…

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Some years ago, while visiting NASA”s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I got this car plate. Do you think it helps or hurts NASA’s reputation?🧪

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Apparently, my book is on sale… 🧪 www.routledge.com/Indirect-Sea...

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There is this comedy, Office Space, that was popular about 20 years ago. It is about downsizing in this software company Initech. We re-watched it the other night only to realize that the main villain, Lumbergh, along with some other goofy characters, has a BS in physics. What’s up with that?

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I made a meme! 🧪😀

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Proper Shakespeare? youtu.be/DFRoX1EV3zQ?...

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If you care… according to Overleaf… 🧪

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From my recent visit to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: they are the first University to deploy a quantum computer. Their IBM Quantum System One is available for their faculty, staff, and students for research. It’s nice to have one in your backyard… 🧪 #science #physics

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