Sociology of Physics: comment and indices

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.

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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.

marcus · Jul 9, 2014

Update to Alabama: offer to Kaminski instead of previous.
So there are still 5 offers outstanding, and 3 accepted.
Noon 9 July spot check of pop-string top five salesranks, elegant, e-elegant, parallel, grand, hidden ranked
5734, 8948, 10893, 12036, 12991 for an average of 10118.

Time to start thinking about taking the regular mid month reading to record for July:

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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
(spot 9 July       10118)

marcus · Jul 10, 2014

spot check 1PM on 10 July
(6920+10888+12777+18905+20085)/5 = 13915
elegant, e-elegant, fabric, parallel, hidden

marcus · Jul 11, 2014

Short list candidates for first-time faculty appointments (2014) in HEP theory. Of the 8 offers standing or accepted so far, four are in phenomenology, one in astrophysics, one in lattice gauge theory, two in string or ads/cft.
Four offers are pending, four have been accepted.

Alabama (offer to Kaminski):
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)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Kaminski.1 (ads/cft)

Arizona (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)

In case anyone is interested, another spot check of the popular book market today showed, at noon, the stringy top five (elegant, fabric, e-elegant, parallel, grand) ranking
8659, 9101, 9351, 10322, 14308, for an average salesrank of 10348.

marcus · Jul 12, 2014

Saturday noon 12 July fabric, parallel, elegant, grand, aud-parallel ranked
(7406+10314+10524+11527+12411) for an average of 10436.

marcus · Jul 13, 2014

Sunday noon (pacific time) 13 July (8111+8480+9667+9735+9832)/5 = 9165
e-elegant, elegant, fabric, grand, parallel

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
(12 July       10436)
(13 July        9165)
(14 July            )
(15 July            )
(16 July            )
(17 July            )
(18 July            )

marcus · Jul 14, 2014

marcus · Jul 15, 2014

Noon (pacific time) 15 July (5069+9407+10204+11252+13025)/5 = 9791
elegant, grand, e-grand, e-elegant, fabric

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
(12 July       10436)
(13 July        9165)
(14 July        6701)
(15 July        9791)
(16 July            )
(17 July            )
(18 July            )

marcus · Jul 16, 2014

Noon pacific 16 July (6248+8009+11468+12777+13951)/5 = 10491
elegant, fabric, e-elegant, hidden, parallel

marcus · Jul 18, 2014

Noon 17 July
(4934+9325+10357+10736+13603)/5 = 9791
elegant, e-elegant, fabric, grand, hidden

Noon (pacific time) 18 July
(6670+10028+10589+11473+14737)/5 = 10699
elegant, parallel, fabric, grand, e-elegant

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
July  2014          9582

(12 July 10436)
(13 July 9165)
(14 July 6701)
(15 July 9791)
(16 July 10491)
(17 July 9791)
(18 July 10699)
(10436+9165+6701+9791+10491+9791+10699)/7 = 9582

marcus · Jul 22, 2014

marcus said:

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

Minor update was made today: Alabama's offer is accepted. So now, of the 8 mentioned, there have been 5 hires with 3 still pending. For more details see the quoted post (#493). Here's the context of past years, for comparison.

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.)

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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

In 1999-2001, string accounted for about half of the total high energy physics (HEP) theory first-time faculty 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 rate for string hires seems more like 2 per year.
This pattern might continue in 2014. We won't know until September, decisions are usually made by the start of the Fall semester. Overall HEP theory hires (to first-time faculty positions) have declined as well. It's puzzling that only 8 (accepted+standing) offers are listed for this year so far. Department interest may have shifted in the direction of applied physics or condensed matter.

marcus · Jul 25, 2014

Spot check as of noon 25 July. top five pop-string salesranks (elegant, fabric, e-elegant, parallel, hidden)
(6625+7405+9979+10098+13033)/5 = 9428.
Which is in line with the mid month average 9582 recorded for July.
Looking back at the record since 2009 when salesranks were averaging 6000-7000, there was a sharp plunge starting in September 2010 (when "Grand Design" by Hawking appeared) related to sensational multiverse String/M envisionings. This excitement continued with the Feb 2011 appearance of "Hidden Reality" by Greene.

In March 2011 the midmonth average was 349. Since then it has been trending upwards and has more or less returned to pre-multicraze, 2009 and early 2010 level. May actually be going higher now.

Another thing to notice is that the top five list nearly always consists of the same titles. The most recent is February 2011 "Hidden Reality" which is limited to 4th or 5th place. The top 3 titles are almost always older books that appeared 2004 or earlier. "Parallel Worlds" copyright 2005 occasionally makes the top 3.

marcus · Jul 27, 2014

Another spot check on the book market. At noon pacific Sunday 27 July the top five pop string (elegant, fabric, grand, e-elegant, e-fabric) ranked
(7288+10634+10819+11506+12540)/5 = 10557
These recent salesrank averages averages are as high as they've ever been. Could be sign of a shift in pubic's imagination. Another possible signal of change (at professional level) is Paul Steinhardt's very interesting talk at Princeton on 23 June.
http://physics.princeton.edu/strings2014/videos/talk1h.mp4
http://physics.princeton.edu/strings2014/Home.shtml
This came Monday afternoon on the first day of the conference in the plenary session chaired by Witten, right after the talk by John Kovac on what has been learned from the BICEP2 report.

marcus · Jul 31, 2014

marcus · Aug 1, 2014

Short list candidates for first-time faculty appointments (2014) in HEP theory, Usa and Canada. Of the 9 offers standing or accepted so far, five are in phenomenology, one in astrophysics, one in lattice gauge theory, two in string or ads/cft.
Four offers are pending, five have been accepted.

Alabama (offer to Kaminski):
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)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Kaminski.1 (ads/cft)

Arizona (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 (Tulin):
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/S.Tulin.1 (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/cnyepprd/GUEST/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=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)

marcus · Aug 5, 2014

Code:

period          1999-2001   2002-2004   2005-2007   2008-2010  2011-2013
HEP theory overall   18         24          23          13         13
string                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

Code:

Midmonth averages of pop-string top five Amazon 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
July  2014          9582

marcus · Aug 6, 2014

On 6 August around 3 pm Pacific, I happened to make a spot check of the pop-string book market and was surprised to find sales ranks so high. The top five (grand, elegant, e-elegant, fabric, parallel) ranked (8738+15097+16595+17724+18664)/5 for an average of 15364.

I'll bring forward some quantum cosmology links so as not to lose track of them:
"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 6 August 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 6 August 2014)

"quantum cosmology" since 2009, Inspire search:
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=Search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (717 found as of 6 August 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 (352 as of 6 August)

It's easy to see that before year 2000 quantum gravity research was almost all non-loop. From 2009 onwards it has been about half non-loop and half loop-related.

Another useful link (for keeping track of postdoc and junior faculty appointments)
https://sites.google.com/site/grqcrumourmill/
While I think of it, I had better copy the 2014 appointments because they will be erased when 2015 offers begin to be listed. The page is kept current.

2014 Postdoc Positions:
Erlangen - Nuremberg U. (loop quantum gravity) - position filled (by ?)
Fudan U. (gravity/cosmology/astrophysics) - Offered to: Pietro Donà (SISSA; accepted)
Hamburg U. (discrete QG, diff-inv. path integral measures) - Offered to: Sebastian Steinhaus (Perimeter Inst.; accepted)
Nijmegen U. (non-perturb. quantum gravity) - Offered to: Jeff Hnybida (Perimeter Inst.; accepted)
Nottingham U. (modified gravity, ...) - shortlist made
Nottingham U. (which group?) - Offered to: Lisa Glaser (Bohr Inst.; accepted)
Oxford U. (which group?) - Offered to: David Sloan (Cambridge U., DAMTP; accepted)
Penn State U. (quantum gravity, cosmology) - Offered to: Brajesh Gupt (Louisiana State U.; accepted)
Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. (quantum gravity, ...) - Offered to: Aldo Riello (Marseille, CPT; accepted)
Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. (quantum gravity, ...) - Offered to: Yasha Neiman (Penn State U.; accepted)
Potsdam, Max Planck Inst. (string theory and other...) - Offered to: Daniele Dorigoni (DAMTP, Cambridge),
Potsdam, Max Planck Inst. (quantum gravity) - Offered to: Edward Wilson-Ewing (Louisiana State U.; accepted)

External Fellowships:
Mingyi Zhang (Marseille, CPT) -> Fudan U. (1 year) -> Potsdam, Max Planck Inst. (Humboldt Fellowship)
Steffen Gielen (Perimeter Inst.) -> Imperial College, London (Marie Curie Fellowship)

Tenure Track/Faculty Positions:
Muxin Han (Marseille, CPT) -> Florida Atlantic U.
Dario Benedetti (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.) -> CNRS, France (faculty)
Hal Haggard (Marseille, CPT) -> Bard College (faculty)
Thomas P. Sotiriou and Silke Weinfurtner (SISSA) -> Nottingham U. (faculty)

marcus · Aug 13, 2014

The hiring season for 2014 is nearly over--Fall semester starts in a few weeks. To review first-time faculty appointments (2014) in HEP theory, Usa and Canada, according to http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php of the 9 offers standing or accepted so far, five are in phenomenology, one in astrophysics, one in lattice gauge theory, two in string or ads/cft.
Three offers of the 9 offers listed are still pending, six have been accepted. Post #504 on the preceding page has more detail.

marcus · Aug 14, 2014

Update to research figures in post #505. As of 14 Aug (226/365):
2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=citation&rg=25&sc=0 (137 annualized from 85 found)

2014 http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&...&action_search=search&sf=&so=d&rm=&rg=25&sc=0 (556 annualized from 344 found)

marcus · Aug 19, 2014

Slight change in the Usa Canada first time faculty hiring picture in HEP theory for 2014. Two offers are still pending, but seven have now been accepted. My guess is the 2014 hiring season is about over now (Fall semester starts soon.) So what we see is fairly indicative for the year. Of the 9 offers standing or accepted so far, five are in phenomenology, one in astrophysics, one in lattice gauge theory, two in string or ads/cft.Alabama (Kaminski):
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)
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Kaminski.1 (ads/cft)

Arizona (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
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 (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 (Tulin):
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/S.Tulin.1 (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)

marcus · Aug 26, 2014

Spot check of the pop-string book market as of 5PM Pacific on 26 August:
the top five titles (grand, parallel, elegant, e-grand, e-elegant) averaged
(17768+24458+25305+35647+37033)/5 = 28042

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