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  1. Hype for the Future 207N: City of Princeton, Wisconsin

    Overview The City of Princeton is a small city in western Green Lake County, Wisconsin, and is associated with an Amish community of the region along both sides of the Fox River. Today, the community is home to the Princeton Amish Country Store, the Princeton Historical Society Folklore Museum and Stone House, Renards European Bakeshop, the Parlor Hotel, the Horseradish Kitchen and Market, and Molly’s Buckhorn Bar and Grill.

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  2. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    Parametrisation and dictionary for CP violating Higgs boson interactions

    Daniele Barducci, Matthew Forslund, Marta Fuentes Zamoro, Pier Paolo Giardino, Andrei V. Gritsan, Giacomo Ortona
    SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 22 (2026)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep

    #UniPi #INFNPisa #BNL #Princeton #SUNY #CSIC #IFT #JHU #INFNTorino
    #AgenciaEstatalInvestigación #EuropeanSocialFund

  3. R.I.P. Jerry Ostriker (1937-2025)

    Once again I find myself using this blog to pass on sad news. This time it is of the death of renowned astrophysicist Jerry Ostriker (pictured left in 2012), who passed away on Monday 6th April 2025 just a week before his 88th birthday.

    Jeremiah Paul Ostriker (to give his full name) was an extremely energetic, versatile and influential theorist who worked on a wide range of problems in diverse areas of astrophysics and produced a number of classic papers. Close to my own specialism I would quote two in particular: one written with Jim Peebles in 1973 about the stability of galactic disks; and the other with Martin Rees in 1977 about the role of gas cooling and fragmentation in determining the size of galaxies and clusters. He also did much to establish the use of hydrodynamic simulations in cosmology and was an early adopter of the current standard cosmological model, including a cosmological constant. He worked on many other things too, including pulsars and galactic nuclei.

    I only met Jerry Ostriker a few times, mainly at conferences – where he was never shy to contribute to discussions after talks – but also once back in the 1990s when I was a visitor Princeton (where he was Professor). I didn’t have much time to talk to him then as he always seemed to be on the go, so I never really got to know him personally. After spending most of his career in Princeton, including a spell as Provost, in 2001 Ostriker moved to Cambridge for a short stint as Plumian Professor, before returning to Princeton.

    There is a very nice obituary of Jerry Ostriker by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times.

    Rest in peace, Jerry Ostriker

    #Astrophysics #Cosmology #galaxyFormation #JeremiahPOstriker #JerryOstriker #Princeton