ResourcesNobel Conference 49

General Non-Technical Media

• "Dark Matter, Dark Energy" - http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/
• Hawking, Stephen W. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
• "Higg's Boson Explained by Cartoon (Video)" - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120501.html
• "What is Cosmology? Definition and History" - http://www.space.com/16042-cosmology.html
• Talbot, Michael., The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (September 6, 2011)
• Greene, Brian, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory¸W. W. Norton & Company (October 11, 2010)
• Panek, Richard, The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 10, 2011)
• Discover Magazine article about Dark Energy: http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/12-what-does-dark-energy-mean-for-the-fate-of-the-universe#.UbC1nJywUyI
• Brian Green TED Talk Making Sense of String theory: http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html
• Brian Cox TED Talk CERN’s Supercollider: http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html
• Brian Cox on YouTube, Wonders of the Universe – String Theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CngIFvP9ohc
• Brian Cox and Leonard Susskind on String Theory (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkwt2jlvHqM
• Brian Green on NOVA’s The Elegant Universe (3 parts): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/elegant-universe.html#elegant-universe
• Brian Green on NOVA’s Fabric of the Cosmos (4 parts): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fabric-of-cosmos.html#fabric-of-cosmos
• NOVA Series, Origins: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/origins-series-overview.html
• NOVA, Dark Matter: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/dark-matter.html
• NOVA, History of the Universe: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/history-universe.html
• NOVA, The Higgs Boson…or a Higgs Boson?: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/higgs-boson-discovered/
• Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
• The Creation of the Universe by Timothy Ferris
• The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris
• The Universe series from the History Channel: http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe
• How the Universe Works from Discovery: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/other-shows-how-the-universe-works-videos.htm

Frank Wilczek

Books

• The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces. (2008) ISBN 978-0-465-00321-1.
• Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys And a Trip to Stockholm. (2006) ISBN 978-981-256-655-3.
• "On the world's numerical recipe (an ode to physics)," Daedalus 131(1): 142-47. (2002)

Scholarly Articles

• Wilczek, F.; Alford, M.G.; Rajagopal, K. (1998). "QCD at finite baryon density: Nucleon droplets and color superconductivity". Physics Letters B 422 (422): 247–256. arXiv:hep-ph/9711395. Bibcode:1998PhLB..422..247A.doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00051-3.
• Wilczek, F. (1998). "Riemann-Einstein structure from volume and gauge symmetry". Physical Review Letters 80 (22): 4851–4854. arXiv:hep-th/9801184. Bibcode:1998PhRvL..80.4851W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4851.
• Wilczek, F.; Fradkin, E.H.; Nayak, C,; Tsvelik, A (1998). "A Chern-Simons effective field theory for the Pfaffian quantum Hall state". Nuclear Physics B 516 (3): 704–718. arXiv:cond-mat/9711087.Bibcode:1998NuPhB.516..704F. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00111-4.
• Wilczek, F.; Alford, M.G.; Rajagopal, K. (1999). "Color-flavor locking and chiral symmetry breaking in high density QCD". Nuclear Physics B 537: 443–458. arXiv:hep-ph/9804403. Bibcode:1999NuPhB.537..443A.doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00668-3.
• Wilczek, F. (1999). "Quantum field theory". Reviews of Modern Physics 71 (71): S85–S95. arXiv:hep-th/9803075. Bibcode:1999RvMPS..71...85W. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.71.S85.
• Wilczek, F.; T. Schafer and (1999). "Continuity of quark and hadron matter". Physical Review Letters 82 (82): 3956–3959. arXiv:hep-ph/9811473. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..82.3956S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3956.
• Wilczek, F.; Babu, K.S.; Pati, J.C. (2000). "Fermion masses, neutrino oscillations, and proton decay in the light of SuperKamiokande". Nuclear Physics B 566: 33–91. arXiv:hep-ph/9812538. Bibcode:1998hep.ph...12538B.doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00589-1.

Non-technical Media

• From World Science Festival: The intriguing study of nothing — vacuums, voids and the time before time, TED Blog: http://blog.ted.com/2009/06/12/from_wsf_the_in/
• Frank Wilczek on NOVA’s The Nature of Reality, Thanks, Mom! Finding the Quantum of Ubiquitous Resistance, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/blog/2012/07/thanks-mom/
• Quantum Beauty - YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhdx2-E3nOQ
• The Universe is a Strange Place – Audio Book: http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Science/Physics/The-Universe-is-a-Strange-Place/15576

Tara Shears

Scholarly Articles

• "In search of the origin of mass", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 15 December 2006 vol. 364 no. 1849 3389-3405 http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1849/3389.full.pdf+html

• "A Survey of Latest Results from the CDF Experiment", Mod. Phys. Lett. A, 19, 2971 (2004)

• "The Standard Model", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 28 February 2012 vol. 370 no. 1961 805-817

Non-technical Media

• "What Matters about Anti-matter" - http://physicsfocus.org/tara-shears-what-matters-about-antimatter/
• "LHCb - The Beauty Experiment" (Narrated by Tara Shears) -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmBMuTFdkA
• Interview with LHCb Physicist Tara Shears on March 30th, 2010 (when the LHC reached particle collisions at 7teV) - http://cds.cern.ch/record/1264102
• "B is for Beauty " (Tara Shears explains what the LHCb experiment studies on the Large Hadron Collider and how this will help us answer a fundamental question about our universe) -http://cds.cern.ch/record/1156354
• Tara Shears Ted Talk, The Goddanm Particle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lprNTNj1rnE
• YouTube Video, The Large Hadron Collider in 10”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGy0puwN9K4
• YouTube Video, Uncovering the Universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDUw7iiejNQ

Alex Filippenko

Scholarly Articles

• "A 3% Solution: Determination Of The Hubble Constant With The Hubble Space Telescope And Wide Field Camera 3", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 730, Number 2 (2011) http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/730/2/119/pdf/0004-637X_730_2_119.pdf
• "A Redetermination Of The Hubble Constant With The Hubble Space Telescope From A Differential Distance Ladder", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 699, Number 1 (2009) http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/699/1/539/pdf/0004-637X_699_1_539.pdf
• More available at: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_sdt=0,24&q=%22alex+filippenko%22&hl=en

Non-technical Media

• Alex Filippenko on Youtube -http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx5k_s6uw1G5XgkLFM9cuwA
• Alex Filippenko publications on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Alex%20Filippenko&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AAlex%20Filippenko
• Alex Filippenko on the History Channel, Asking the Universe: http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe/videos/playlists/ask-the-universe#can-antimatter-naturally-occur
• Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe: http://vimeo.com/5279005
• Alex Filippenko on TEDx Berkeley: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Alex-Filippenko-at-TEDxBerkeley

S. James Gates Jr.

Books

• Superspace or 1001 Lessons in Supersymmetry, (with M. T. Grisaru, M. Rocek, and W. Siegel), Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company (1983), Reading, MA (On-line; http://aps.arXiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0108200).
• L'arte della Fisica: Stringhe, Superstringhe, Teoria Unicata dei Campi, Di Renzo Editore, Roma, Italy (2006) pp. 1-96 (in Italian only), ISBN 8883231554.

Scholarly Articles

• "Superstring-inspired supergravity as the universal source of inflation and quintessence", Physics Letters B, Volume 674, Issue 1, 6 April 2009, Pages 59–63
• "4D, Ν =1 supersymmetry genomics (I)", Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 12 (December 2009)
• "On Dimensional Extension of Supersymmetry: Worldlines to Worldsheets", High Energy Physics [Available at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.0722v2.pdf]
• "A Superfield For Every Dash-Chromotopology", Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, 24, 5681 (2009)

Non-technical Media

• Jim Gates on NOVA, Jim Gates on Space: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/jim-gates-space.html
• Jim Gates appeared on Krista Tippett's show "On Being" entitled Uncovering the Codes of Reality: http://www.onbeing.org/program/uncovering-codes-reality/1457
• Jim Gates on NOVA, Jim Gates on Space: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/jim-gates-space.html
• Jim Gates Great Courses (3 editions): http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/professors/professor_detail.aspx?pid=323
• Interview with Dr. S. James Gates, Jr. on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z9tO0D6W-Y
• TVO S James Gates on Does Reality have a Genetic Basis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6w0K5FIgsU

Lawrence M. Krauss

Books

• The Fifth Essence (1991) ISBN 0-465-02377-0
• Fear of Physics (1994) ISBN 0-465-02367-3
• The Physics of Star Trek (1995) ISBN 0-465-00559-4
• Beyond Star Trek (1997) ISBN 0-06-097757-4
• Quintessence (2001) ISBN 0-465-03741-0
• Atom (2002) ISBN 0-316-18309-1
• Hiding in the Mirror (2005) ISBN 0-670-03395-2
• Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (W. W. Norton / Atlas & Co., 2010) ISBN 978-0-393-06471-1
• A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing (Free Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-4516-2445-8

Scholarly Articles

• "Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmology", Science, 21 May 2010: Vol. 328 no. 5981 pp. 989-992
• "W/Z Bremsstrahlung As The Dominant Annihilation Channel For Dark Matter Revisited", Physics Letters B, Volume 706, Issue 1, 30 November 2011, Pages 6–12
• "Constraints on Light Hidden Sector Gauge Bosons from Supernova Cooling" - Available At http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2683
• "Searching For Dark Matter At The LHC With A Mono-Z", Phys. Rev. D, 86, 096011 (2012)
• "Probing The Gravitational Wave Signature From Cosmic Phase Transitions At Different Scales", Phys. Rev. D, 82, 044001 (2010)

Non-technical Media

• A Universe From Nothing – YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo
• Lawrence Krauss - Lecture in Stockholm, 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly6xDuwjLD8
• World Science Festival - Brian Greene and Lawrence Krauss Discuss the Higgs http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos/ask_brian_greene_and_lawrence_krauss_cerns_higgs_announcement
• Lawrence Krauss on Big Think – A Universe from Nothing: http://bigthink.com/users/lawrencekrauss
• The Big Debates: Islam Or Atheism - Which Makes More Sense? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSwJuOPG4FI

George F. Smoot III

Books

• Infared and Radio Astronomy, and Astrometry, Edited by J. Kovalevsky, M.A.C. Perryman, P.R. Wesselius, P.D. Barthel, G.F. Smoot, and R.T. Schilizzi, Pergamon Press Inc., New York and Oxford (1991)
• Wrinkles In Time, G.F. Smoot and K. Davidson, Little Brown, London (1993); Wm. Morrow, New York, (1994)
• Capri CMB Workshop, 20-24 September 1993, Guest Editors M. Bersanelli, S. Cortiglioni, N. Mandolesi, G.F. Smoot, and N. Vittorio, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers SA, Amsterdam (1995)

Scholarly Articles

• “My Einstein Suspenders,” in My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy. John Brockman, ed. Pantheon, 2006.
• “Site Evaluation and RFI spectrum measurements in Portugal at the frequency range 0.408-10 GHz for a GEM polarized galactic radio emission experiment.” R. Fonseca, D. Barbosa, L. Cupido, D. M. dos Santos, G. F. Smoot, C. Tello.. New Astronomy 11:551-556, 2006. astro-ph/0411477
• “GZK Cutoff Distortion Due To The Energy Error Distribution Shape.” By Ivone F.M. Albuquerque and George F. Smoot. Astroparticle Physics 25:375-379,2006. astroph/0504088.
• “Comic Microwave Background Radiation Anistropies: The Holy Grail of Cosmology.” Eunhwa Jeong and G.F. Smoot. Physics & High Technology 15:12, Korean Physical Society. December 2007.

Non-technical Media

• George Smoot TED Talk, The Design of the Universe: http://www.ted.com/talks/george_smoot_on_the_design_of_the_universe.html
• George Smoot Nobel Lecture: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/smoot-lecture.html
• Nobel Laureate George Smoot and the Origin of the Universe: http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/nobel-laureate-george-smoot-and-the-origin-of-the-universe/
• Journey Through The Universe - George Smoot & Frank Turek: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3993965/journey_through_the_universe_george_smoot_frank_turek/
• MIT Tech TV: Dr. George Smoot - History and Fate of the Universe: http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/12229-dr-george-smoot---history-and-fate-of-the-universe---mit-club-of-northern-california
• Million Dollar Winner Are You Smarter Than a 5th grader: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMUMlks3FG8

Samuel C.C. Ting

Scholarly Articles

• "Relative Composition And Energy Spectra Of Light Nuclei In Cosmic Rays: Results From Ams-01", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 724 Number 1
• "First Result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station: Precision Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–350 GeV", Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 141102 (2013)
• More at http://link.springer.com/search?facet-author=%22Samuel+C.+C.+Ting%22&showAll=true

Non-technical Media

• Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Samuel Ting on AMS Discoveries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUrjWZgAtFk
• AMS QA:1of2 Samuel Ting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WowkT8uiAbE
• AMS QA:2of2 Samuel Ting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XcShkt_Vks
• AMS experiment measures antimatter excess in space: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/04/ams-experiment-measures-antimatter-excess-space
• STS-134 Crew Talks With Sam Ting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZbiGBZyT0

George V. Coyne

• Wayfarers in the Cosmos: The Human Quest for Meaning (2002)
• A Comprehensible Universe: The Interplay of Science and Theology (2008)

Scholarly Articles

• "Polarimetric Study Of The Massive Interacting Binary W Serpentis: Discovery Of High-Latitude Scattering Spot/Jet.", Astrophys. J., 632, 576-589 (2005)
• "UBVRI Polarimetry Of The Massive Interacting Binary SX Cassiopeiae: Modeling The Electron-Scattering Circumstellar Envelope.", Astron. Astrophys., 454, 277-286 (2006)

Non-technical Media

• Richard Dawkins interviews Father George Coyne: http://old.richarddawkins.net/videos/3410-richard-dawkins-interviews-father-george-coyne
• Father George Coyne: Age of the Universe: http://www.vaticanobservatory.org/VO-NEWS/index.php/videos/item/82-age-of-the-universe.html
• Father George Coyne: Age of the Universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWqrXGtrRs
• Fr. George Coyne on Christianity & Extra-terrestrial Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQXJ7Sc87w
• Father George Coyne Ph.D. - Science and Scripture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnA4S8xrlY