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In this overview talk, I give highlights of the first three years of the LHC operations at high energy, spanning heavy-ion physics, standard model measurements, and searches for new particles, which culminated in the discovery of the Higgs…
In 1974, Stephen Hawking theoretically discovered that black holes emit thermal radiation and have a characteristic temperature, known as the Hawking temperature. The aim of this paper is to present a simple heuristic derivation of the…
In this paper we present a simple dimensional analysis exercise that allows us to derive the equation for the Hawking temperature of a black hole. The exercise is intended for high school students, and it is developed from a chapter of…
Round table discussions are in the tradition of ACAT. This year's plenary round table discussion was devoted to questions related to the use of scientific software in High Energy Physics and beyond. The 90 minutes of discussion were lively,…
Despite growing global attention to digital accessibility, research from India highlights a significant gap in accessibility training for both computing educators and software professionals. To address this need, we designed and conducted…
This EPTCS volume contains the proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems (QAPL 2019) held in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday 7 April 2019. QAPL 2019 was a satellite event of the European…
We report on an international scientific conference, where we brought together African and European academic astronomers. This aimed to bridge the gap between those in position of privilege, with ease of access to international events…
This volume contains the joint proceedings of the Workshop on Games for the Synthesis of Complex Systems (CASSTING'16) and of the 3rd International Workshop on Synthesis of Complex Parameters (SynCoP'16). The workshops were held in…
These notes accompany an introductory lecture course on the twistor approach to supersymmetric gauge theories aimed at early-stage PhD students. It was held by the author at the University of Cambridge during the Michaelmas term in 2009.…
Alerted by our previous research as well as media reports and discussions in online forums about ageism in the software industry, we set out to study the public discourse around age and software development. With a focus on the USA, we…
This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity (DICE 2011), which took place on April 2-3 2011 in Saarbruecken, Germany, as a satellite event of the Joint…
A brief description and results of A.M. Mathai's research programme on statistics and probability, initiated in the 1970s, and its relation to physics is given.
This volume contains the papers accepted at the 7th Systems Software Verification Conference (SSV 2012), held in Sydney, November 28-30, 2012. The aim of SSV workshops and conference series is to bring together researchers and developers…
These lectures on supersymmetry and extra dimensions are aimed at finishing undergraduate and beginning postgraduate students with a background in quantum field theory and group theory. Basic knowledge in general relativity might be…
Between the 4th and 6th of September 2024, the Astronomy & Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick held a meeting to celebrate 21 years of astronomy at Warwick and the scientific legacy of the late Prof. Tom Marsh, the group…
Conferences are a mainstay of most scientific disciplines, where scientists of all career stages come together to share cutting-edge ideas and approaches. If you do research, chances are you will attend one or more of these meetings in your…
The first British Gravity Meeting was held at the University of Southampton, UK, on 27/28 March. 47 10-minute plenary talks were given. Here are the abstracts in the order given. A brief conference report will also appear in Matters of…
Proceedings of the Workshop on High Performance Energy Efficient Embedded Systems (HIP3ES) 2018. Manchester, United Kingdom, January 22nd. Collocated with HIPEAC 2018 Conference.
Our question is ``What is the probability that at least three members of the senate share the same birthday?'' Before the pandemic, I asked this question in several popular math talks I gave at universities across the country. Inspired by…
This paper was written in honor of my friend Ted Geballe's 100th birthday. It concerns the physics of the superconducting Tc. Tc is a dimensional quantity, and so depends on microscopic details of a material making it a strange quantity to…