Prospects in Theoretical Physics is an intensive two-week summer
program designed for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
considering a career in theoretical physics. The 2011 program,
“Frontiers of Physics in Cosmology,” took place from...
In physics, the twentieth century started with the twin
revolutions of relativity and quantum mechanics. Much of the second
half of the century was devoted to the construction of a
theoretical structure unifying these radical ideas,
confirmed...
A knot is simply a tangled loop in ordinary three-dimensional
space, such as often causes us frustration in everyday life. Knots
are also the subject of a rather rich mathematical theory. In the
last three decades, it has unexpectedly turned out...