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Physics is also a subject ranked in 2014. Only my question is: when will it be ranked next?

And I may get to do so through the undergraduates I worked with...

This is a daunting move for sure

Tunneling decay of false kinks in 1+1 dimensions...

For me it will come in a couple of days...

My own blog is full of ramblings over more or less random topics now that the season is over...

Perhaps this plan is too crazy to be true but it basically means to capitalize on the political context of basic research in Western Europe (and, if Harper is reelected, Quebec as well)...

In a paper, I would, but I would be careful with it in a dissertation

Now I am 100% sure I will go to Minnesota...

And by Carnegie Mellon, too...

The impression I have: go to any of the following for physics and you may pass it off as normal: Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Cornell, UChicago, Princeton, Berkeley, UCSB, UIUC (for CM), Yale (for HEP-EX), UCLA, Columbia, Michigan, UPenn - other schools have regional reputations (Minnesota, NWU are best known in the Prairies, Washington in AB and BC)

But even the current US government is already an improvement over this dinosaur of a Canadian federal government...

I have one specific grievance: the funding agencies that cut fundamental areas of science in favor of more applied areas

If the best physics departments at home can be compared to US physics departments in the #15-20 range, then one may argue that one may have similar options in my home country compared to where I will go

It's not about the research, but if I don't attend any of the top ~10-15 American physics depts or so, one could think, in the current political context at home, I really am going to an US school for political reasons. However, professors are not among those questioning my move.

Accept one offer, and ask for a written release if that decision left to hear from comes after April 15...

Would you be happy with a PGS (M or D)?

Which one?

Kapusta said that Minnesota had no trouble getting physics PhD applications from the Prairies (plus Lakehead) but they had trouble recruiting from the other Canadian regions (they usually get 0-1 application from non-Prairie schools and 2-3 from Prairie schools)...

Got rejected from UPenn and losing hope for Columbia; as for the coat, my current school is in a similarly cold area

As far as I'm concerned, I know by what date I would hear from Columbia, but UPenn left all remaining applicants in the dark

The weird thing was that my acceptances were sandwiched between rejections (as seen through the lens of USNWR for my field)

How prestige-dependent is your field anyway?

Where is it that you got that?

That said, the undergraduate capstone thesis I'm co-advising is a continuation of that undergraduate summer internship; the topic is still related to some theoretical particle cosmology problem I'm also working on.