This week was Amplitudes, my old subfield’s big yearly conference. This year, it’s at Queen Mary University of London. I’m too busy to attend these days, now that nobody is paying me a salary to do that sort of thing. But it’s still a good chance to keep up with the field, which helps me...
It’s been a while since I’ve said this: I’m at a conference this week! Specifically, I’m at Lancefest, which is not just any old conference, but a birthday conference for Lance Dixon. When a renowned academic turns 60 or so, their students and collaborators hold a birthday party-flavored...
Jacob Bekenstein (Wikipedia) Preamble Thermodynamics of black holes has appeared as one of the most interesting areas of research in theoretical physics [Wald1994], specially after LIGO's massive success. The striking results of Jacob Bekenstein [Bekenstein1973] in proposing a formulation of...