Abstract This is the transcript of the after-dinner talk I gave at the close of the 16 Nov 2013 symposium “Celebrating the Science of Kenneth Geddes Wilson ” [1] at Cornell University (see Fig. 1 for the poster). The video of my talk is on-line [2], and this transcript is more or less verbatim,1

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for this state of affairs is that existing theories of work The authors express great appreciation to members of the consulting firm that helped us gain access to the organizations where this research was conducted; to Kenneth Brousseau, Daniel Feldman, and Linda Frank for assistance in data collection

This paper investigates the historical development of the Grand Challenges concept in US science policy. The concept originated in advocacy for funding for high performance computing by Kenneth G. Wilson, a physics Nobel laureate, and was enshrined in the High

Kenneth G. Wilson made deep and insightful contributions to statisti-cal physics, particle physics, and related fields. He was also a helpful and thoughtful human being.

accounts of the effects of living in a poor neighborhood date back even further. The current interest in neighborhood effects on, children and youth has multiple origins. First, Wilson's (1987) documentation of increasingly con-centrated poverty in urban areas at the neighborhood level during the 1970

A personal and subjective recollection, concerning mainly Wilson’s lectures delivered over the spring of 1972 at Princeton University (summary of a talk at Cornell University on November 16, 2013 at the occasion of the memorial Kenneth G. Wilson conference). 1 Why was it so difficult to accept

and subsequently the superego; (c) shift from an id psychology to an ego psychology; and (d) object relations theory (e.g., As with many of Freud's more important concepts, his thinking pertaining to narcissism tended to follow two separate yet interdependent lines of development. On the one hand, narcissism

We show that the expectation value of a circular BPS-Wilson loop in N = 4 SUSYM can be calculated exactly, to all orders in a 1/N expansion and to all orders in g 2 N. Using the AdS/CFT duality, this result yields a prediction of the value of the string amplitude with a circular boundary to all

divergences at both small and large scales. However, no renormalization gives a fully satisfactory formulation of field theory. The renormalization (semi-)group theory of phase transitions was put together by Kenneth G. Wilson in 1971 based upon ideas of scaling and universality developed earlier