Архивы physics — Т-инвариант / T-invariant

«The world is a cart careening off a mountain and hurtling with acceleration»

Interview with Breakthrough Prize winner Alexander Zamolodchikov about the quantum field theory and how it feels to be involved in a domain that is completely impossible to imagine and understand. We also discussed emigration and how, in the midst of Perestroika, he realized that things would not be good in Russia.

“In the struggle for a just world, Russian scientists should not be victims of this struggle, but its allies”

What could be the consequences of the break with CERN for Russian high-energy physics? T-invariant's questions were answered by the co-founders of the free online community "Dissernet" - physicists Andrei Rostovtsev and Andrei Zayakin.

Political particle accelerator. A neutral flag is being sewn for Russian physicists at CERN

T-invariant has become aware of the reaction of the Ministry of Education and Science and the CERN-Russia Committee to the final decision of CERN to exclude Russia from the list of partners, as well as to stop working with scientists with affiliations in Russian research institutes and universities.

Mikhail Feigelman: “I’m looking for tall poppy who are interested in science, not just an academic career”.

How did the idea come about to build an “island of academic intelligence” using Google Quantum? How to create conditions under which students will pursue science and not a career? Explains the initiator of the PhD program in quantum condensed matter physics QT Future at the University of Ljubljana Mikhail Feigelman.

They climbed into the nozzle itself. The FSB took on the co-authors of Novosibirsk scientists accused of treason

New detainees in the case of Siberian scientists from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITPM) named after. Christianovich of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, accused of treason, was scientist Vladislav Galkin from Tomsk. The human rights organization First Department is confident that the repressive campaign is growing and the next victim of the FSB could be absolutely any scientist who has worked on this topic as part of international collaborations.

Igor Efimov: “It will take decades to restore Russian science after Putin…”

How do Russian-speaking scientists work in America today during the war in Ukraine? Why is it important to maintain contact with colleagues from the countries of the former USSR? What awaits Russian science after Putin? We talked about these and other topics with Igor Efimov, professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, first president of RASA.

The raven who saw the dwarfs. Essay on the biography and scientific activity of Alexander Vysotsky

Within the project "Creators" supported by Richard Lounsbery Foundation T-invariant together with RASA (Russian-American Science Association) continues to publish a series of biographical essays about people from Russian Empire, who made a significant contribution to world science and technology. The essay is dedicated to astronomer Alexander Vysotsky. He had worked at the observatory of the University of Virginia. There he compiled the first catalogue of red dwarfs and experimentally confirmed the rotation of our Galaxy.

«Are there now enough Curies, Bohrs, and Rutherfords to help scientists from these three countries?» Natalia Berloff on the new symbolism of the Gamow Prize

In 2023, the Georgy Gamow Prize will again be awarded to two scientists. The organizer, the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA), announced the start of the collection of nominations. This year, the Gamov Prize committee was chaired by Cambridge (UK) professor Natalia Berloff.

Hypersound silence. How scientists become the prey of the FSB

Three physicists were arrested in so called "Novosibirsk case". It wasn’t the first time. Previously, four scientists were also accused of treason in different years. All of the scientists accused in all these cases participated in the projects of the seventh framework program of the European Union "TransHyBerian" (coordinator — Von Karman Institute of Hydrodynamics, Belgium). However, the interlocutors and sources of T-invariant suggest that the contacts of scientists with China and Iran are only an excuse, not the reason for the arrests.