Sociology of Physics: comment and indices

marcus · Jan 17, 2014

Midmonth sales ranks average for Jan 2014
13 Jan 12203
14 Jan N.A.
15 Jan elegant, fabric, grand, hidden, e-elegant avg=20817.8
16 Jan fabric, grand, elegant, e-elegant, hidden avg=18187.6
17 Jan elegant, fabric, grand, e-elegant, e-fabric avg=15645.2

(12203+20817.8+18187.6+15645.2)/4 = 16713.4

marcus · Jan 19, 2014

Inspire's HEP top forty list for 2013 was posted today. Here papers are ranked by the number of citations in other research they received during the previous year.
Number of recent string papers making Inspire's top forty annual citations list
(some years omitted for brevity)

Code:

year           2001   2003   2005   2007   2009   2011   2012   2013  
recent toppers   11     6      3      1      1      0      0      0

Here a paper is counted as recent if it appeared any time in the preceding five years. Annual topcite lists gauge the currently perceived significance of recent work by how often it was cited by other researchers during the given year.
Links to sources:
2001 http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2001/annual.html (eleven)
2003 http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2003/annual.html (six)
2005 http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2005/annual.html (three)
2007 http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2007/annual.html (one)
2009 http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2009/annual.html (one)
2011 http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2011/annual.html (zero)
2012 http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2012/annual.html (zero)
2013 http://inspirehep.net/info/hep/stats/topcites/2013/annual.html (zero)

Only 5 stringy papers in all made the 2013 top forty list, none of them recent. As it happened all five papers were from the period 1997-1999. This is the first time I can remember when no string papers from year 2000 or later made the list.
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Update of short list candidates for HEP first-time faculty appointments

Arizona:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

North Carolina:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Giombi.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

marcus · Feb 7, 2014

marcus · Feb 8, 2014

Update of short list candidates for HEP first-time faculty appointments

Arizona:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)

North Carolina:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Giombi.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

marcus · Feb 11, 2014

Update on research posting as of 11 February (42/365):
2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (122 annualized from 14 found)

2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (330 from 38 found)

marcus · Feb 14, 2014

Another update on research posting, now as of 13 February (44/365):
2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (141 annualized from 17 found)

2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (365 from 44 found)

marcus · Feb 16, 2014

Update of short list candidates for HEP first-time faculty appointments

Arizona:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.Winter.2 (phenom)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

North Carolina:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.J.Heckman.1 (string)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

York:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Batell.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Cremonini.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/P.Kumar.4 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Y.Zhang.37 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

marcus · Feb 19, 2014

Alabama:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Katz.1 (phenom)

marcus · Feb 20, 2014

marcus · Feb 22, 2014

A couple of additions to the roster of short list candidates for 2014 HEP first-time faculty appointments. It's remarkable how many of those making the short lists for jobs this year are specialized in phenomenology.

Alabama:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Katz.1 (phenom)

Arizona:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Marzani.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.Winter.2 (phenom)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

North Carolina:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.J.Heckman.1 (string)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

York:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Batell.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Cremonini.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/P.Kumar.4 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Y.Zhang.37 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

Here's the list of job openings that have been posted. As you can see we don't yet have short lists for some of the institutions which posted openings.
First-time faculty job listings in HEP-theory, for 2014. 14 openings announced:
Alabama http://inspirehep.net/record/1256870 (broad range)
Arizona http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~doug/latticejob_ad.txt (lattice gauge theory)
Buffalo http://inspirehep.net/record/1251342 (phenomenology)
LBNL https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3458 (particle data review + miscellaneous)
LBNL https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3635 (broad hep-th, hep-ph, astroparticle…)
NYC College of Technology https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp...ion=A&JobOpeningId=9894&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1(condensed matter or computational HEP)
Oregon https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3180 ("connection with experimental")
Princeton http://inspirehep.net/record/1252755 (now searching only fields outside hep-th, e.g. biophysics, cond-mat)
Santa Barbara https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00230 (theoretical astrophysics or hep)
SUNY-Albany http://albany.interviewexchange.com...=513FA348AACE49E37831276F083C9CA4?JOBID=43418 (particle astrophysics and cosmology)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (astrophysics)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (cosmology/astrophysics)
Virginia Tech http://www.phys.vt.edu/jobs/Ads/CosmologySearch2014.pdf (cosmology)
York https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3266 (cosmology/particle astrophysics)

marcus · Feb 23, 2014

One or more openings announced at Caltech:
http://inspirehep.net/record/1246645
http://www.pma.caltech.edu/GSR/profexptheophys.html
Nominal deadline has passed, very broad description, applicants can be in experimental OR theoretical physics, with no hint as to preferred research field or fields:

"...Areas of interest to the Division include astrophysics, atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics, gravitational physics, high energy and nuclear physics, and quantum information science..."

marcus · Feb 26, 2014

Additions to the roster of short list candidates for 2014 HEP first-time faculty appointments.

Alabama:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Katz.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)

Arizona:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Marzani.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.Winter.2 (phenom)

Caltech:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

LBNL+PDG staff:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)

North Carolina:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.J.Heckman.1 (string)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

Santa Barbara:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

York:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Batell.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Cremonini.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/P.Kumar.4 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Y.Zhang.37 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

Here's the list of job openings that have been posted. As you can see we don't yet have short lists for some of the institutions which posted openings.
First-time faculty job listings in or including HEP-theory, for 2014. 16 openings announced:
Alabama http://inspirehep.net/record/1256870 (broad range)
Arizona http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~doug/latticejob_ad.txt (lattice gauge theory)
Buffalo http://inspirehep.net/record/1251342 (phenomenology)
Caltech http://inspirehep.net/record/1246645 (broad:astro-ph, cond-mat, gr-qc, hep-ex, hep-ph, hep-th, nucl-ex, nucl-th, physics.acc-phys, quant)
LBNL+PDG https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3458 (particle data review + miscellaneous)
LBNL https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3635 (broad hep-th, hep-ph, astroparticle…)
NYC College of Technology https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp...ion=A&JobOpeningId=9894&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1(condensed matter or computational HEP)
North Carolina http://inspirehep.net/record/1255752 (fund. theory gravity, cosmo, hep)
Oregon https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3180 ("connection with experimental")
Princeton http://inspirehep.net/record/1252755 (now searching only fields outside hep-th, e.g. biophysics, cond-mat)
Santa Barbara https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00230 (theoretical astrophysics or hep)
SUNY-Albany http://albany.interviewexchange.com...=513FA348AACE49E37831276F083C9CA4?JOBID=43418 (particle astrophysics and cosmology)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (astrophysics)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (cosmology/astrophysics)
Virginia Tech http://www.phys.vt.edu/jobs/Ads/CosmologySearch2014.pdf (cosmology)
York https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3266 (cosmology/particle astrophysics)

So out of 16 openings declared, 11 already have short lists. The five others are: CUNY Tech (cond-mat or numbercrunch), Princeton (non-HEP focus), Texas A&M (astrophysics), Texas A&M (astro/cosmo), Virginia Tech (cosmo)

Digitalism · Feb 27, 2014

It would be interesting to get access to the facebook profiles of physicists both famous not so famous and even students and perhaps correlate their likes and other interests/activities and other demographic factors with the development of their mind and personality. Of course, facebook would likely not freely give away the data (consent issues the ramifications for opening up other kinds of data to social science, etc). Perhaps you could use the data to create a model to predict which types of people are likely to study physics or other sciences.

marcus · Mar 5, 2014

Bringing forward updates to some basic indices: research posting, physics faculty hires, citation counts to recent publications.

"quantum cosmology" since 2009, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (658 found as of 4 March 2014)
"quantum cosmology" or "ekpyrotic" Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (709 as of 4 March)
"quantum cosmology" and not "loop" since 2009, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (325 as of 4 March)

Research output picture as of 4 March (63/365)
loop research by year (spin network, spin foam, loop gravity, loop quantum gravity, loop quantum cosmology)
2006 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (120 found)
2007 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (150 found)
2008 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (161 found)
2009 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (172 found)
2010 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (185 found)
2011 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (246 found)
2012 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (195 found)
2013 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (153 found)
2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (139 annualized from 24 found)

string,membrane,ads/cft research by year
(search terms "string model", "membrane model" and "ads/cft correspondence")
2006 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (1038 found)
2007 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (1073 found)
2008 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (1149 found)
2009 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (1175 found)
2010 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (1125 found)
2011 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (1112 found)
2012 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (857 found)
2013 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (692 found)
2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (394 annualized from 68 found)

http://www.calendardate.com/todays.htm

In 1999-2001, looking at hires to first-time faculty positions, string accounted for about half of the total high energy physics (HEP) theory hires---about 9 jobs per year on average, out of total 18 per year. This declined to about a third in 2002-2004, and about a quarter of theory hires in 2005-2007--an average of about 6 per year.
Now the annual rate is more like 1/6 or 1/7. An increasing share of HEP-theory hires has been going to phenomenology and to theoretical cosmology/astrophysics.

Hires per year, averaged over 3 year periods, in HEP-theory as a whole, including string
and in string separately.
First time faculty hires in theoretical particle physics (Usa + Canada)
(Annual rates averaged over 3 year intervals.)

Code:

period          1999-2001   2002-2004   2005-2007   2008-2010  2011-2013
HEP theory hires   18         24          23          13         13
string hires        9          8           6           2          2

Source: http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~poppitz/Jobs94-08
http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php
For additional detail see post #403

Annual topcite lists gauge the currently perceived significance of recent work by how often it was cited by other researchers during the given year. Papers are ranked by the number of citations in other research they received during the previous year.
Number of recent string papers making Inspire's top forty annual citations list
(some years omitted for brevity)

Code:

year           2001   2003   2005   2007   2009   2011   2012   2013  
recent toppers   11     6      3      1      1      0      0      0

marcus · Mar 5, 2014

LQGS SEMINAR SCHEDULE (update)
SPRING 2014

Code:

1/21  [B]Matter matters in asymptotically safe quantum gravity[/B]  P. Dona (Sissa)
2/4   [B]A new vacuum for loop quantum gravity[/B]      B. Dittrich (Perimeter)
2/18 [B]Quantum group spin nets:refinement & relation to spin foam[/B] S. Steinhaus (Perimeter)
3/4  [B]Simplicity constraints in spin foam models[/B]  M. Geiller, S. Speziale (PSU,Marseille)
3/18 [B]S-matrices for General Boundary QFT on Anti de Sitter spacetime[/B]  M. Dohse (Morelia)
4/1  [B]Continuum limit and renormalization[/B]  	 L. Freidel (Perimeter)
4/15 [B] Linking canonical and covariant LQG[/B]  	 A. Zipfel (Erlangen)
4/29  [B]LQC and the very early universe[/B] I.Agullo, A.Barrau, G.Mena (LSU, Grenoble, Madrid)
5/13  [B]Hawking radiation in LQG[/B]	 	 	 J. Pullin (LSU)

Links to audio and slides PDF posted here:
http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/ilqgs/
E.g. for the 4 Feb talk by Bianca Dittrich
http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/ilqgs/dittrich020414.pdf
http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/ilqgs/dittrich020414.wav

Currently the slides PDF for the most recent seminar has been posted:
http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/ilqgs/geiller-speziale030414.pdf
But the audio is not yet online:
http://relativity.phys.lsu.edu/ilqgs/geiller-speziale030414.wav

marcus · Mar 13, 2014

marcus · Mar 16, 2014

As of 16 March (75/365)
161 annualized from 33 found
33*365/75=161

BTW I forgot to sample the pop-sci bestseller lists at noon on other days around 15 March.
But did get a sample around noon on the 15th, which will have to do:
parallel 4617
fabric 6805
hidden 7313
elegant 7491
e-parallel 9097
average 7065
So the March mid month average sales rank of the top five stringy books was 7065.

there has been a big run on speculative books about the Universe triggered by the Fox spectacular "followup" of Sagan "Cosmos" with Neil deGrasse Tyson

marcus · Mar 19, 2014

Code:

Midmonth averages of pop-string top five sales ranks,
recorded at Pacific noon on and around the 15th of each month
...
July 2009           6485
November 2009         NA
March 2010          7521
July 2010           8461
November 2010       2220
March 2011           349
July 2011           1257
November 2011       1243
March 2012          3235 
July 2012           2359
November 2012       7792 
March 2013          7396
July  2013          9168
November 2013      10558 
March 2014          7065

marcus · Mar 23, 2014

Updated roster of short list candidates for 2014 HEP first-time faculty appointments, showing research areas and two offers.

Alabama:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Katz.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/I.Kirsch.1 (string, ads/cft)

Arizona:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Marzani.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.Winter.2 (phenom)

Caltech:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

LBNL+PDG staff:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)

North Carolina (offer to Heckman)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.J.Heckman.1 (string)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon (offer to Craig):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

Santa Barbara:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

York:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Batell.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Cremonini.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/P.Kumar.4 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Y.Zhang.37 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

Here's the list of 15 job openings that have been posted, excluding those where search has been canceled or is exclusively outside HEP-theory.
First-time faculty job listings in or including HEP-theory, for 2014:
Alabama http://inspirehep.net/record/1256870 (broad range)
Arizona http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~doug/latticejob_ad.txt (lattice gauge theory)
Buffalo http://inspirehep.net/record/1251342 (phenomenology)
Caltech http://inspirehep.net/record/1246645 (broad:astro-ph, cond-mat, gr-qc, hep-ex, hep-ph, hep-th, nucl-ex, nucl-th, physics.acc-phys, quant)
LBNL+PDG https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3458 (particle data review + miscellaneous)
LBNL https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3635 (broad hep-th, hep-ph, astroparticle…)
NYC College of Technology https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp...ion=A&JobOpeningId=9894&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1(condensed matter or computational HEP)
North Carolina http://inspirehep.net/record/1255752 (fund. theory gravity, cosmo, hep)
Oregon https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3180 ("connection with experimental")
Santa Barbara https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00230 (theoretical astrophysics or hep)
SUNY-Albany http://albany.interviewexchange.com...=513FA348AACE49E37831276F083C9CA4?JOBID=43418 (particle astrophysics and cosmology)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (astrophysics)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (cosmology/astrophysics)
Virginia Tech http://www.phys.vt.edu/jobs/Ads/CosmologySearch2014.pdf (cosmology)
York https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3266 (cosmology/particle astrophysics)

Of 15 openings posted, 11 already have short lists. The four others are: CUNY Tech (cond-mat or numerical HEP), Texas A&M (astrophysics), Texas A&M (astro/cosmo), Virginia Tech (cosmo)

marcus · Mar 28, 2014

Update on Loop research for 2014 as of 27 March (86/365)
2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (157 annualized from 37 found)

marcus · Apr 12, 2014

Add to Buffalo entry in post #476: (offer to Ciaran Williams)
Williams works in phenomenology

For Loop appointments, check https://sites.google.com/site/grqcrumourmill/
Many postdoc appointments for 2014 are listed, and three to first-time faculty positions.
I see that Hal Haggard (currently at Marseille) is to join the faculty at Bard College!

marcus · Apr 17, 2014

Updated roster of short list candidates for 2014 first-time faculty appointments in HEP theory. Five offers are out so far, 3 in phenomenology, one in lattice gauge theory, one in string.

Alabama:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Katz.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/I.Kirsch.1 (string, ads/cft)

Arizona (offer to Meinel):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo (offers to Marzani and Williams):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Marzani.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.Winter.2 (phenom)

Caltech:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

LBNL+PDG staff:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)

North Carolina (offer to Heckman)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.J.Heckman.1 (string)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon (offer to Craig):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

Santa Barbara:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

York:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Batell.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Cremonini.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/P.Kumar.4 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Y.Zhang.37 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

Here's the list of 15 job openings that have been posted, excluding those where search has been canceled or is exclusively outside HEP-theory.
First-time faculty job listings in or including HEP-theory, for 2014:
Alabama http://inspirehep.net/record/1256870 (broad range)
Arizona http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~doug/latticejob_ad.txt (lattice gauge theory)
Buffalo http://inspirehep.net/record/1251342 (phenomenology)
Caltech http://inspirehep.net/record/1246645 (broad:astro-ph, cond-mat, gr-qc, hep-ex, hep-ph, hep-th, nucl-ex, nucl-th, physics.acc-phys, quant)
LBNL+PDG https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3458 (particle data review + miscellaneous)
LBNL https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3635 (broad hep-th, hep-ph, astroparticle…)
NYC College of Technology https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp...ion=A&JobOpeningId=9894&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1(condensed matter or computational HEP)
North Carolina http://inspirehep.net/record/1255752 (fund. theory gravity, cosmo, hep)
Oregon https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3180 ("connection with experimental")
Santa Barbara https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00230 (theoretical astrophysics or hep)
SUNY-Albany http://albany.interviewexchange.com...=513FA348AACE49E37831276F083C9CA4?JOBID=43418 (particle astrophysics and cosmology)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (astrophysics)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (cosmology/astrophysics)
Virginia Tech http://www.phys.vt.edu/jobs/Ads/CosmologySearch2014.pdf (cosmology)
York https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3266 (cosmology/particle astrophysics)

Of 15 openings posted, 11 already have short lists. The four others are: CUNY Tech (cond-mat or numerical HEP), Texas A&M (astrophysics), Texas A&M (astro/cosmo), Virginia Tech (cosmo)

marcus · Apr 18, 2014

Alabama (offer to Katz):
now 6 offers are out, 4 in phenomenology plus 2 in other fields.

marcus · May 4, 2014

Updated roster of short list candidates for first-time faculty appointments (2014) in HEP theory. Seven offers are out so far, 4 in phenomenology, one in astrophysics, one in lattice gauge theory, one in string.

Alabama (offer to Katz):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Katz.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/I.Kirsch.1 (string, ads/cft)

Arizona (offer to Meinel):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo (offers to Marzani and Williams):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Marzani.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.Winter.2 (phenom)

Caltech:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

LBNL+PDG staff:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)

North Carolina (offer to Heckman)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.J.Heckman.1 (string)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon (offer to Craig):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

Santa Barbara:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

Virginia Tech (offer to Horiuchi):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Horiuchi.2 (astrophysics)

York:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Batell.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Cremonini.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/P.Kumar.4 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Y.Zhang.37 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

Here's the list of 15 job openings that have been posted, excluding those where search has been canceled or is exclusively outside HEP-theory.
First-time faculty job listings in or including HEP-theory, for 2014:
Alabama http://inspirehep.net/record/1256870 (broad range)
Arizona http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~doug/latticejob_ad.txt (lattice gauge theory)
Buffalo http://inspirehep.net/record/1251342 (phenomenology)
Caltech http://inspirehep.net/record/1246645 (broad:astro-ph, cond-mat, gr-qc, hep-ex, hep-ph, hep-th, nucl-ex, nucl-th, physics.acc-phys, quant)
LBNL+PDG https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3458 (particle data review + miscellaneous)
LBNL https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3635 (broad hep-th, hep-ph, astroparticle…)
NYC College of Technology https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp...ion=A&JobOpeningId=9894&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1(condensed matter or computational HEP)
North Carolina http://inspirehep.net/record/1255752 (fund. theory gravity, cosmo, hep)
Oregon https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3180 ("connection with experimental")
Santa Barbara https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00230 (theoretical astrophysics or hep)
SUNY-Albany http://albany.interviewexchange.com...=513FA348AACE49E37831276F083C9CA4?JOBID=43418 (particle astrophysics and cosmology)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (astrophysics)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (cosmology/astrophysics)
Virginia Tech http://www.phys.vt.edu/jobs/Ads/CosmologySearch2014.pdf (cosmology)
York https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3266 (cosmology/particle astrophysics)

Of 15 openings posted, 12 already have short lists. The three others are: CUNY Tech (cond-mat or numerical HEP), Texas A&M (astrophysics), Texas A&M (astro/cosmo)

marcus · May 28, 2014

Short list candidates for first-time faculty appointments (2014) in HEP theory. Of the 8 offers standing or accepted so far, five are in phenomenology, one in astrophysics, one in lattice gauge theory, one in string.

Alabama (offer to Katz):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Katz.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/I.Kirsch.1 (string, ads/cft)

Arizona (offer to Meinel):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo (Marzani and Williams):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Marzani.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.Winter.2 (phenom)

Caltech:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

LBNL+PDG staff:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)

North Carolina (offer to Heckman)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.J.Heckman.1 (string)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon (offer to Cohen):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

Santa Barbara (Craig):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

Virginia Tech (offer to Horiuchi):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Horiuchi.2 (astrophysics)

York:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Batell.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Cremonini.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/P.Kumar.4 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Y.Zhang.37 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

Here's the list of 15 job openings that have been posted, excluding those where search has been canceled or is exclusively outside HEP-theory.
First-time faculty job listings in or including HEP-theory, for 2014:
Alabama http://inspirehep.net/record/1256870 (broad range)
Arizona http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~doug/latticejob_ad.txt (lattice gauge theory)
Buffalo http://inspirehep.net/record/1251342 (phenomenology)
Caltech http://inspirehep.net/record/1246645 (broad:astro-ph, cond-mat, gr-qc, hep-ex, hep-ph, hep-th, nucl-ex, nucl-th, physics.acc-phys, quant)
LBNL+PDG https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3458 (particle data review + miscellaneous)
LBNL https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3635 (broad hep-th, hep-ph, astroparticle…)
NYC College of Technology https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp...ion=A&JobOpeningId=9894&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1(condensed matter or computational HEP)
North Carolina http://inspirehep.net/record/1255752 (fund. theory gravity, cosmo, hep)
Oregon https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3180 ("connection with experimental")
Santa Barbara https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00230 (theoretical astrophysics or hep)
SUNY-Albany http://albany.interviewexchange.com...=513FA348AACE49E37831276F083C9CA4?JOBID=43418 (particle astrophysics and cosmology)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (astrophysics)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (cosmology/astrophysics)
Virginia Tech http://www.phys.vt.edu/jobs/Ads/CosmologySearch2014.pdf (cosmology)
York https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3266 (cosmology/particle astrophysics)

Of 15 openings posted, 12 have short lists. The three others are: CUNY Tech (cond-mat or numerical HEP), Texas A&M (astrophysics), Texas A&M (astro/cosmo)

5 offers pending, 3 accepted.

marcus · May 29, 2014

marcus · Jun 5, 2014

"quantum cosmology" since 2009, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (695 found as of 5 June 2014)
"quantum cosmology" or "ekpyrotic" Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (752 as of 5 June)
"quantum cosmology" and not "loop" since 2009, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (343 as of 5 June)

Loop quantum cosmology-related research papers are about HALF of the quantum cosmology output.
Adjoining "ekpyrotic" does not increase the total by much.
It's interesting that HALF the QC papers are NOT LQC-related,showing that there's a variety of quantum cosmology alternatives (e.g. matter-bounce, modified gravity, teleparallel gravity, Steinhardt-cyclic…)Recalling another index recorded in this thread:
A spot check as of 5 June gave a stringy top five sales rank average of 8663. Here are some past numbers for comparison.

Code:

Midmonth averages of pop-string top five sales ranks,
recorded at Pacific noon on and around the 15th of each month
...
July 2009           6485
November 2009         NA
March 2010          7521
July 2010           8461
November 2010       2220
March 2011           349
July 2011           1257
November 2011       1243
March 2012          3235 
July 2012           2359
November 2012       7792 
March 2013          7396
July  2013          9168
November 2013      10558 
March 2014          7065
5 June 2014         8663

The string top five around noon on 5 June were elegant, hidden, e-elegant, fabric, e-fabric
(5552+7839+8473+9242+12208)/5 = 8663
The World Science Festival, in which Brian Greene is a lead organizer and player, was in progress just a week ago, so not surprising that the top five were all Greene's.

marcus · Jun 9, 2014

Update to short lists in post #480:

Caltech:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/D.Simmons.Duffin.1 (cft)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Trott.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

marcus · Jun 10, 2014

A spot check at noon on 10 June showed the pop-string top five (elegant, grand, parallel, fabric, hyperspace) salesranks averaging (5334+6307+8251+9922+11953)/5 = 8353.

marcus · Jun 18, 2014

A spot check at noon on 18 June showed the pop-string top five (elegant, grand, fabric, e-elegant, parallel) salesranks averaging (4028+9055+10988+11652+12045)/5 = 9554

marcus · Jun 25, 2014

A spot check on 25 June showed the pop-string top five (grand, elegant,fabric, parallel, hidden) salesranks averaging (10826+11783+11806+14910+15392)/5 = 12943

marcus · Jun 28, 2014

"quantum cosmology" 1995-1999, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (395 found as of 28 June 2014)

"quantum cosmology" and not "loop" 1995-1999, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (368 as of 28 June 2014)

"quantum cosmology" since 2009, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (703 found as of 28 June 2014)

"quantum cosmology" and not "loop" since 2009, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (347 as of 28 June)

marcus · Jul 3, 2014

marcus · Jul 3, 2014

Short list candidates for first-time faculty appointments (2014) in HEP theory. Of the 8 offers standing or accepted so far, five are in phenomenology, one in astrophysics, one in lattice gauge theory, one in string.

Alabama (offer to Katz):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Katz.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/I.Kirsch.1 (string, ads/cft)

Arizona (offer to Meinel):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Bazavov.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.I.Buchoff.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.G.Endres.1 (lattice)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.W.Lin.1 (lattice, esp. numerical)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Meinel.1 (lattice, esp. theory)

Buffalo (Marzani and Williams):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Marzani.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/E.Re.3 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/H.Rzehak.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Schwinn.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Williams.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.Winter.2 (phenom)

Caltech:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/D.Simmons.Duffin.1 (cft)

LBNL:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (ads/cft phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Trott.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.R.Walsh.2 (phenom)

LBNL+PDG staff:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Tweedie.1 (phenom, experimental)

North Carolina (offer to Heckman)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.J.Heckman.1 (string)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.M.Ho.3 (astrophysics, phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Nishioka.1 (ads/cft)
list also includes more senior people

Oregon (offer to Cohen):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/W.Altmannshofer.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Cohen.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.L.Fitzpatrick.1 (phenom, field theory)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Gori.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

Santa Barbara (Craig):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/N.J.Craig.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.G.Wacker.2 (phenom)

SUNY Albany:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Wyman.1 (astrophysics, cosmology, phenom)

Virginia Tech (offer to Horiuchi):
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Horiuchi.2 (astrophysics)

York:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/B.Batell.1 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/S.Cremonini.1 (ads/cft)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/P.Kumar.4 (phenom)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Y.Zhang.37 (phenom)

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php

Here's the list of 15 job openings that have been posted, excluding those where search has been canceled or is exclusively outside HEP-theory.
First-time faculty job listings in or including HEP-theory, for 2014:
Alabama http://inspirehep.net/record/1256870 (broad range)
Arizona http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~doug/latticejob_ad.txt (lattice gauge theory)
Buffalo http://inspirehep.net/record/1251342 (phenomenology)
Caltech http://inspirehep.net/record/1246645 (broad:astro-ph, cond-mat, gr-qc, hep-ex, hep-ph, hep-th, nucl-ex, nucl-th, physics.acc-phys, quant)
LBNL+PDG https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3458 (particle data review + miscellaneous)
LBNL https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3635 (broad hep-th, hep-ph, astroparticle…)
NYC College of Technology https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp...ion=A&JobOpeningId=9894&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1(condensed matter or computational HEP)
North Carolina http://inspirehep.net/record/1255752 (fund. theory gravity, cosmo, hep)
Oregon https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3180 ("connection with experimental")
Santa Barbara https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00230 (theoretical astrophysics or hep)
SUNY-Albany http://albany.interviewexchange.com...=513FA348AACE49E37831276F083C9CA4?JOBID=43418 (particle astrophysics and cosmology)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (astrophysics)
Texas A&M http://physics.tamu.edu/docs/positions/tenure-track_faculty_positions.pdf (cosmology/astrophysics)
Virginia Tech http://www.phys.vt.edu/jobs/Ads/CosmologySearch2014.pdf (cosmology)
York https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3266 (cosmology/particle astrophysics)

Of 15 openings posted, 12 have short lists. The three others are: CUNY Tech (cond-mat or numerical HEP), Texas A&M (astrophysics), Texas A&M (astro/cosmo)

5 offers pending, 3 accepted.

marcus · Jul 7, 2014

to contribute information to the mill
terning-at-physics-dot-ucdavis-dot-edu
an update to Alabama short list:
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Kaminski.1
a spot check of the pop-string sales ranks as of mid-day 7 July showed
top five (elegant, fabric, parallel, e-elegant, aud-elegant) 5888, 8103,
9902, 11428, 12617, for an average of 9588.

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