related_results_labels_thumbs({"version":"1.0","encoding":"UTF-8","feed":{"xmlns":"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","xmlns$openSearch":"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/","xmlns$georss":"http://www.georss.org/georss","id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-12-03T13:52:35.610+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Jonstraveladventures"},"subtitle":{"type":"html","$t":"Dr Shock searches for some enlightenment in the strange world of string theory in the hope that he may stumble across some great food and interesting experiences on this preposterous quest (England - Beijing - Santiago de Compostela)"},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/-/physics?alt\u003djson-in-script\u0026max-results\u003d6"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/search/label/physics"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/-/physics/-/physics?alt\u003djson-in-script\u0026start-index\u003d7\u0026max-results\u003d6"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jonathan Shock"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/11667852535983804885"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"60"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"6"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post-8691001285123169663"},"published":{"$t":"2009-12-03T13:52:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-12-03T13:52:35.619+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"program"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"China"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"advertising"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"KITPC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"physics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Beijing"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"AdS/CFT and novel approaches to hadron and heavy ion physics - Beijing KITPC program 2010 - an advert"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"While in Beijing for an academic visit in the summer of 2008 I spoke with my old boss and director of the KITPC, Yue-Liang Wu about the possibility of organising a program on an AdS/CFT related subject. I got the support of the director, got together a team of people for an organising committee (Stanley Brodsky, Nick Evans, Hong Liu, Craig Roberts, Dam Son, Xin-Nian Wang, Urs Wiedemann) and over the last year have been going through several stages of proposals before getting confirmation of support and the go ahead to start inviting people. We've been sending out invitation letters over the last couple of weeks and have a few people now confirmed internally (the names are only viewable currently to the organisers) and thought that now would be a good time to advertise via the blog.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe program will last for seven weeks from the 11th of October until the 3rd of December\u0026nbsp; 2010 and we hope to get as many people interested in AdS/CFT applications to hadron and heavy-ion physics and those involved in these subjects from other perspectives to come along, collaborate, speak, and integrate their ideas in order to advance the field through interdisciplinary works. The idea is for people to come for at least two or three weeks in order that there time can be relaxed and there's plenty of opportunity to build up lasting collaborations.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOne of the main problems of the field as I see it is that there are many groups trying to essentially deal with very similar questions but with such different languages that collaboration is often difficult. One of the aims of this program will be to give people the platform and time to reduce this difference and for ideas in diverse areas to be exchanged and discussed in a nice environment, with a good cross-section of international researchers.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe abstract of the program can be found \u003ca href\u003d\"http://kitpc.itp.ac.cn/program.jsp?id\u003dPR20101011\u0026amp;i\u003dmain\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e and I would highly recommend anybody interested in this field to apply to the program, to come and chat with a lot of like-minded people and to explore Beijing, a truly incredible city with a diversity of cuisine, history, language, music, art, architecture and nightlife unlike any I've experienced anywhere else in the world. I love this city, and am hugely looking forward to not only working with a lot of people on a fascinating topic in physics, but to sharing the city with many newcomers.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIf you have any questions at all about the program then please ask and I will be happy either to answer directly, or to find out anything you need to know from the staff at the KITPC who are organising all the local details.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16693931-8691001285123169663?l\u003djonstraveladventures.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/feeds/8691001285123169663/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d16693931\u0026postID\u003d8691001285123169663","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/8691001285123169663"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/8691001285123169663"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/2009/12/adscft-and-novel-approaches-to-hadron.html","title":"AdS/CFT and novel approaches to hadron and heavy ion physics - Beijing KITPC program 2010 - an advert"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jonathan Shock"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/11667852535983804885"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11317909013561613664"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post-6299719815307950156"},"published":{"$t":"2009-11-30T17:21:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-11-30T19:14:13.948+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ireland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"work"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"talks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dublin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"physics"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ireland way"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Feeling pangs of blog neglect these days but I'm spending every evening reading up on a range of new subjects that I'm currently interested in. I'll explain when possible, but in the mean time it simply means that life is twice as full as ever before and that blogging rears its head only when something time-dependent is closing in, or when the guilt gets too much.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI'm off to Dublin via London tomorrow where I'll be giving a talk and spending plenty of time talking with my friend and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5345\"\u003ecollaborator\u003c/a\u003e at the IAS. Flight prices mean that it's actually cheaper to spend a couple of days back in the UK on the way back so I'll be popping home briefly before coming back for the final week of the year in Spain where I have another talk lined up which I'll explain nearer the time - a slightly unusual one.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyway, finishing off my Dublin talk now and pondering the woes of dispersive media from holography.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16693931-6299719815307950156?l\u003djonstraveladventures.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/feeds/6299719815307950156/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d16693931\u0026postID\u003d6299719815307950156","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/6299719815307950156"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/6299719815307950156"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/2009/11/ireland-way.html","title":"Ireland way"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jonathan Shock"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/11667852535983804885"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11317909013561613664"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post-6414255189610239908"},"published":{"$t":"2009-10-27T11:35:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-10-27T11:35:59.063+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lectures"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"advertising"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"physics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gravitational waves"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Lecture on gravitational waves and their detection"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A little advertising for a seminar next Wednesday here in Santiago if you're around. A talk on the fascinating subject of gravitational waves and their detection which I'm told will be at the divulgative level. These experiments are truly spectacular in terms of their mind-boggling precision, measuring the length of a vacuum chamber several kilometers long when the distance changes by one-hundred-millionth the diameter of a hydrogen atom! These mammoth experiments are designed to detect the gravitational waves given off when extremely violent astronomical events occur, such as the merging of black holes (see the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/\"\u003eLIGO website\u003c/a\u003e and and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.virgo.infn.it/\"\u003eVIRGO website\u003c/a\u003e for more details).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOne o'clock in the department of physics on the South Campus of the university of Santiago de Compostela (presumably in Spanish).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NtZfodDEoj0/SubKXhb8WlI/AAAAAAAAAWU/ny6FMyqnQm4/s1600-h/PosterHerenciadeGalileoASintesFinal.jpg\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NtZfodDEoj0/SubKXhb8WlI/AAAAAAAAAWU/ny6FMyqnQm4/s640/PosterHerenciadeGalileoASintesFinal.jpg\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16693931-6414255189610239908?l\u003djonstraveladventures.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/feeds/6414255189610239908/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d16693931\u0026postID\u003d6414255189610239908","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/6414255189610239908"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/6414255189610239908"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/2009/10/lecture-on-gravitational-wave-detection.html","title":"Lecture on gravitational waves and their detection"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jonathan Shock"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/11667852535983804885"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11317909013561613664"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NtZfodDEoj0/SubKXhb8WlI/AAAAAAAAAWU/ny6FMyqnQm4/s72-c/PosterHerenciadeGalileoASintesFinal.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post-5779057313574750258"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-10T16:26:00.011+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-10T16:30:38.484+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"CERN"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"videos"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"string theory"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lectures"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"physics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"conferences"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"CERN winter school 2009 lectures up online"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Sadly I'm not able to attend this year, but it looks like there are a great group of lecturers giving talks on topics related to string theory. Unlike last year the lecture videos are being posted online immediately and there are already the first couple of days worth uploaded.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId\u003d37753\"\u003eTake a look here\u003c/a\u003e to learn about fluid dynamics from AdS/CFT, the black hole information paradox, beyond the standard model physics, and more.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16693931-5779057313574750258?l\u003djonstraveladventures.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/feeds/5779057313574750258/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d16693931\u0026postID\u003d5779057313574750258","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/5779057313574750258"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/5779057313574750258"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/2009/02/cern-winter-school-2009-lectures-up.html","title":"CERN winter school 2009 lectures up online"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jonathan Shock"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/11667852535983804885"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11317909013561613664"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post-5970452260463296385"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-03T18:49:00.019+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-03T18:59:34.929+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"string theory"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"talks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Gijon"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Spain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"physics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Asturias"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"conferences"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A quick update from Gijon"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Just a quick update to mark the silence. I'm currently at a three day conference in Gijon, in Asturias where I'll be giving a talk tomorrow. The crowd of around 30 people here, mostly working in gravitational aspects of strings and branes, make up a pretty hardcore crowd of theorists from my perspective, but there are some interesting talks, in between the indix juggling and and miscellaneous mathematical acrobatics.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis is my first time in Asturias (around a five hour drive North East of Santiago), and we managed to sample the local delicacies of \u003ca href\u003d\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrales_cheese\"\u003ecabrales\u003c/a\u003e (a strong goat's cheese) and cider, oxygenated by pouring from a great height, or spraying out of some complex piece of cideroxygenating machinery (as seen on \u003ca href\u003d\"http://spanishfood.about.com/b/2008/04/02/sidra-asturiana-asturian-cider.htm\"\u003ethis\u003c/a\u003e page).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI have a bunch of other projects to be getting on with for now, and have had to retreat from the last lecture today to finish some things before dinner.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyway, had better get on, but in case you were wondering, \u003ca href\u003d\"http://maps.google.com/maps?f\u003dq\u0026source\u003ds_q\u0026hl\u003den\u0026geocode\u003d\u0026q\u003dGijon+abba+hotel\u0026ie\u003dUTF8\u0026ll\u003d43.530629,-5.660019\u0026spn\u003d0.23746,0.617981\u0026z\u003d11\"\u003ethis\u003c/a\u003e is where I'm at.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16693931-5970452260463296385?l\u003djonstraveladventures.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/feeds/5970452260463296385/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d16693931\u0026postID\u003d5970452260463296385","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/5970452260463296385"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16693931/posts/default/5970452260463296385"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/2009/02/quick-update-from-gijon.html","title":"A quick update from Gijon"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Jonathan Shock"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/11667852535983804885"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"11317909013561613664"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post-2012099663934495658"},"published":{"$t":"2009-01-24T15:57:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-01-24T15:57:30.856+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Galicia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"photography"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"QFT"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"news"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"storms"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"software"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Spanish"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Chinese"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"physics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Genius"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mnemosyne"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"string theory"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lectures"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"weather"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Spain"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"flashcards"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"languages"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"food"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Saturday loose ends"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Santiago is still standing after the storm yesterday which caused a couple of blackouts through the night (link from \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19763.shtml\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cobject height\u003d\"340\" width\u003d\"450\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://video.publico.es/videos/v/30082/0/medium\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowScriptAccess\" value\u003d\"always\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"allowfullscreen\" value\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003c/param\u003e\u003cembed src\u003d\"http://video.publico.es/videos/v/30082/0/medium\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width\u003d\"450\" height\u003d\"340\" allowScriptAccess\u003d\"always\" allowfullscreen\u003d\"true\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003c/div\u003eI fear that this means that my code which was running overnight will not have been saved, so I'll have to go back and restart that some time this weekend.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn the meantime I've been trying out a new piece of software: \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/\"\u003eMnemosyne\u003c/a\u003e, which is similar to the interval learning software, \u003ca href\u003d\"http://web.mac.com/jrc/Genius/\"\u003eGenius\u003c/a\u003e, which \u003ca href\u003d\"http://jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com/search/label/Genius\"\u003eI wrote about some time back\u003c/a\u003e. The benefit of Mnemosyne is mostly that there are plenty of ready made word lists in Spanish and Chinese (\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/category/2/6\"\u003eamongst many other languages\u003c/a\u003e). The interface takes a little more time to get comfortable with, mostly due to its simplicity, but it seems like another good system for interval learning. (NB. See also Kevin's page with some great links to more \u003ca href\u003d\"http://kevinsmith.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/free-chinese-flashcards-genius-file-for-mac-os-x-for-reviewing-basic-930-characters-and-pinyin/\"\u003eChinese files for Genius\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis morning I also found a series of lectures at the Perimeter Institute (as I followed a link from \u003ca href\u003d\"http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2009/01/interna.html\"\u003eBee's blog\u003c/a\u003e) which look excellent. In particular, \u003ca href\u003d\"http://pirsa.org/C09001\"\u003ethis course\u003c/a\u003e from Alex Buchel which is an ongoing course on String theory promises to be a valuable resource for those starting off in this subject without any other directed learning. Also check out \u003ca href\u003d\"http://pirsa.org/C08019\"\u003ethe extensive course on Quantum field theory\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e(Random, no context link to a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/01/gigapixel-tokyo.html\"\u003emultigigapixel panorama from the Online Photographer\u003c/a\u003e. I shan't be processing anything like this any time soon!)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnyway, another busy weekend beckons including the promise of plenty of good Chinese and Korean food tonight with a Korean birthday to go to. 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