I was in the conference ‘Statistical Mechanics of Distributed Information Systems‘ in Finland last week, which (for my surprise) was sunny and warm, very different from Birmingham. Slides of the talks as well as references and papers can be found in the conference’s site.
A lot of famous people in the area were there. For [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Back from Finland
Posted in Biology, Distributed Information Systems, Finland, Information, Statistical Physics on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Galaxy Zoo
Posted in Astrophysics, Cosmology, Galaxies on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Galaxy Zoo is an online cosmology/astrophysics project by a team of cosmologists and other scientists in whichanyone can participate to help classify galaxies and other objects. The article in New Scientist points to Kate Land (a former PhD student of well known Joao Magueijo of Imperial College) from Oxford as one of the main involved [...]
BH Entropy as Entanglement
Posted in Black Holes, Entanglement, Entropy, LQG, Quantum Gravity on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While I prepare the post on dimers, here is a brief one directly from a thread in physics forums. It is a talk given in Loops’07:
Entanglement Entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity – William Donnelly
The paper seems not to be in arXiv yet. The idea is that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is the entanglement von Neumann [...]
Science Videos
Posted in ScienceHack, Videos on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
ScienceHack is a science video search engine. It is claimed to be “peer reviewed” in some sense, in their own words
every science video on ScienceHack is screened by a scientist to verify its accuracy and quality
Although they say that the videos are judged by their scientists, I couldn’t found who they are… Anyway, it [...]
Dyson’s View on Biofuture
Posted in Biology, Freeman Dyson, Future on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dyson wrote this fascinating view on the future of biotechnology for the New Yourk Reviews of Books entitled “Our Biotech Future”. Among other things, he writes en passant about the understanding of physical world as a complex environment. This view is becoming clearer as our understanding of complex systems increases and the necessity of statistical [...]
