Comments on: APS Prize For Young Particle Theorists

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:11:15 +0000

Viper, yes it’s a very interesting talk in which the speaker argues for why the Gospels were based on eyewitness accounts based on the use of statistics, among other things.

Sean, please watch that video and report what you think about it. Thanks!

By: Viper

Viper — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:34:56 +0000

@Phil,

This link couldn’t be further from the topic of the post, though it does look interesting. I watched the first 10 minutes of it.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:50:17 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ylt1pBMm8&feature=player_embedded

By: piscator

piscator — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:53:43 +0000

@Farhad: Not so fast. I have no horse in this particular race, but there is a bit of a tradition of esteem indicators for junior physicists (plenary talks/prestigious fellowships…) going to, not the `established top physicists who did not really need any more recognition’, but their students! Sometimes this is justified (good advisors attract good students) and sometimes less so (empire-building).

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:54:32 +0000

Where does it say anything about age? Are older/non-traditional doctoral students not elegible?

By: Farhad

Farhad — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:49:55 +0000

That’s great news. I know when I was a member, the only APS prizes and praises went to the established top physicists who did not really need any more recognition. But the younger particle physicists who did need recognition never received it. The experimental physics side was even worse. The names of the young experimentalists got buried in a long list of names associated with all papers coming out of a collaboration.

By: Sili

Sili — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:01:05 +0000

And once again I feel old …