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The 2021 Turing Prize has been awarded. #mathematics #math #computerscience #compsci #prize https://nyti.ms/32j0Hv7

Last week the popular science press was filled with stories about an experimental result on the muon which is in disagreement with a prediction made by the standard model. The point made here is that the experimental result is very likely to hold up, but it does not mean that there is a problem with the standard model. Rather, there may be a problem with the calculation that lead to the prediction. #physics #elementaryparticles #standardmodel

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We noted earlier this month that Martin Veltman, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his student Gerard t'Hooft for work on the electroweak interaction, had died. Stephen Wolfram share his personal remembrances of him, which unsurprisingly focuses heavily on Veltman's interest in symbolic computation. #physics #NobelPrize #computerscience #obit

More on point processes from George Lowther. #mathematics #math #probability #stochasticprocess