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Julian Schwinger's influence on Twentieth Century science is profound and pervasive. Of course, he is most famous for his renormalization theory of quantum electrodynamics, for which he shared the Nobel Prize with Richard Feynman and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Milton

The Compton scattering process plays significant roles in atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics and material science. It could provide useful information on the electromagnetic interaction between light and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-11 Chen-Kai Qiao , Jian-Wei Wei , Lin Chen

In this paper I shall try to sketch some typical aspects of Erich Lehmann's contributions to statistics through his research, his teaching, his service to the profession and his personality.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Willem R. van Zwet

Recollections about a few episodes from the history of physics of vacuum, connected with the names of Pomeranchuk, Landau, Zeldovich, Sakharov and Kirzhnits. The text of the talk will be published in the Proceedings of the International…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 L. B. Okun

Smooth Kahler-Einstein metrics have been studied for the past 80 years. More recently, singular Kahler-Einstein metrics have emerged as objects of intrinsic interest, both in differential and algebraic geometry, as well as a powerful tool…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Yanir A. Rubinstein

C.S. Seshadri passed away in July 2020. The first part of this article contains some reminiscences from the early 1980s, when as a graduate student in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, I had the good fortune to…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Nitin Nitsure

A second workshop on small x physics, within the Small x Collaboration, was held in Lund in June 2002 with the aim of over-viewing recent theoretical progress in this area and summarizing the experimental status. This paper is dedicated to…

This article, written in honor of Fritz Rohrlich, briefly surveys the role of topology in physics.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. P. Balachandran

We study the soft theorems for photons and gravitons at finite temperatures using the thermofield dynamics approach. The soft factors lose universality at finite temperatures as the soft amplitudes depend on the nature (or spin) of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-09 Divyesh N. Solanki , Srijit Bhattacharjee

In November 2014 Alexander Grothendieck passed away at the age of 86. There is no doubt that he was one of the greatest and most innovative mathematicians of the 20th century. After a bitter childhood, his meteoric ascent started in the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Wolfgang Bietenholz , Tatiana Peixoto

DGRAV News: DGRAV we hear that.... Research Briefs: GW150914 Obituaries: Remembering Felix Pirani Remembering David Finkelstein Steve, the physicist Remembering Sergio Dain Editorial: Gravitational physics in the modern university

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-17 David Garfinkle

William P. Bidelman--Editor of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific from 1956 to 1961--passed away on 2011 May 3, at the age of 92. He was one of the last of the masters of visual stellar spectral classification and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Howard E. Bond

A tribute to the life and work of Pal Revesz. The Hungarian mathematical community lost one of his leading members, when Pal Revesz passed away on 14 of November 2022.

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Endre Csaki , Antonia Foldes

We investigate the reflection of a Gaussian beam impinging upon the surface of an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) medium. In particular, we discuss the occurrence of Goos-H\"anchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts. Our calculations reveal that spatial…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Arttu Nieminen , Andrea marini , Marco Ornigotti

This contribution to the book in honour of J.S. Bell will probably differ from the remaining ones, in particular since only a part of it will be devoted to specific technical arguments. In fact I have considered appropriate to share with…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 GianCarlo Ghirardi

EC 11481-2303 is a peculiar, hot, high-gravity pre-white dwarf. Previous optical spectroscopy revealed that it is a sdOB star with an effective temperature (Teff) of 41790 K, a surface gravity log(g)= 5.84, and He/H = 0.014 by number. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Rauch , K. Werner , J. W. Kruk

In this manuscript we present a brief life history of Ludwig Edward Boltzmann and his achivements. Particularly, we discuss his H-theorem, his work on entropy and statistical interpretation of second-law of thermodynamics. We point out his…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rajasekar , N. Athavan

We discuss the thermal evolution and Bose-Einstein condensation of ultra-light dark matter particles at finite, realistic cosmological temperatures. We find that if these particles decouple from regular matter before Standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-04 Andrew P. Lundgren , Mihai Bondarescu , Ruxandra Bondarescu , Jayashree Balakrishna

This is a brief account of the life and work of G\"oran Lindblad.

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Ingemar Bengtsson

This is an introductory review of central topics in hadron physics that are addressed by high intensity, continuous electron beam facilities in the multi-GeV range. Exclusive processes are a crucial tool for increasing our knowledge of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Hoyer