So I just got back from visiting the Perimeter Institute as a prospective graduate student in Waterloo, Canada. It was really fantastic! For those of you who don’t know, the Perimeter Institute is a theoretical physics think tank in Waterloo, Ontario. They do a lot of science outreach, too; they’re responsible for the amazing Minute Physics youtube videos (check the links). Anyway, the reason I  bring it up is that I just got back after a day of airtravel and thus my post will be delayed until tomorrow evening. Sorry about that, everyone!

Sorry for yet another delay, everyone. I’ll get the post up either tomorrow afternoon or late tonight.

Sorry everyone, but I’m going to have to put off writing a new post until next week. This week, I’m currently at the Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting in UC Davis. And, I also have to defend my undergraduate honors thesis in math this week. So, in short, I’m swamped, even more so than usual when travelling. Sorry about that. See you all next week!

Hi everyone. Sorry for yet another delay. I’m currently visiting graduate schools on the east coast (U Mass Amherst and Stony Brook University). I expected to have consistent internet access the last few days, but I have had almost no internet access and very little time to access the internet anyway. As such, my post may be delayed as late as Wednesday. I will get it up online this week though. Because I’ve spent three weekends in a row visiting various schools or going to conferences, I’m quite behind on my work. This might mean that my posts will

Hi everyone, because I’m at a graduate school open house this weekend and next, I’m having trouble keeping up with everything I need to do. For this reason, I’m going to be posting very short things for the rest of the month. I’m also going to be delayed this week. The main post will probably be up sometime Sunday. Sorry about that. In the meantime, here’s a video of a cat barking. …and here’s a video of a very upset cat. I know, little guy. I’m sorry about the delay.  

I’d like to share with you all a humorous article by Yasha Berchenko-Kogan, describing what mathematicians (specifically math graduate students) do all day. It is very much in accord with what my own research experience has been like. https://gist.github.com/4158578

The Physics Mill is up and running, and I’ll write my first article soon! If there’s any topic in physics or math that you’d like to learn about, leave a comment on the requests page, or shoot me an email at questions.thephysicsmill@gmail.com.