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World University Rankings blog: dealing with freak research papers | Times Higher Education

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World University Rankings blog: 800 universities to be included in this year’s rankings | Times Higher Education

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World University Rankings 2015-2016 results coming 30 September | Times Higher Education

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A new University-Industry Innovation Magazine Issue: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Latin America | UIIN Blog

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[1509.00024] Starobinsky-Type Inflation from $\alpha'$-Corrections

[1509.00024] Starobinsky-Type Inflation from $\alpha'$-Corrections: "Starobinsky-Type Inflation from α′-Corrections Benedict J. Broy, David Ciupke, Francisco G. Pedro, Alexander Westphal (Submitted on 31 Aug 2015) Working in the Large Volume Scenario (LVS) of IIB Calabi-Yau flux compactifications, we construct inflationary models from recently computed higher derivative (α′)3-corrections. Inflation is driven by a Kaehler modulus whose potential arises from the aforementioned corrections, while we use the inclusion of string loop effects just to ensure the existence of a graceful exit when necessary. The effective inflaton potential takes a Starobinsky-type form V=V0(1−e−νϕ)2, where we obtain one set-up with ν=−1/3√ and one with ν=2/3√ corresponding to inflation occurring for increasing or decreasing ϕ respectively. The inflationary observables are thus in perfect agreement with PLANCK, while the two scenarios remain observationally distinguishable via slightly varying predictions for the tensor-to-scalar ratio r. Both set-ups yield r≃(2…7)×10−3. They hence realise inflation with moderately large fields (Δϕ∼6MPl) without saturating the Lyth bound. Control over higher corrections relies in part on tuning underlying microscopic parameters, and in part on intrinsic suppressions. The intrinsic part of control arises as a leftover from an approximate effective shift symmetry at parametrically large volume. Comments: 29 pages, 6 figures Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) Report number: IFT-UAM/CSIC-15-093, DESY-15-166 Cite as: arXiv:1509.00024 [hep-th]   (or arXiv:1509.00024v1 [hep-th] for this version)"

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NORDITA - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

NORDITA - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics: "STEPHEN HAWKING PRESENTS NEW RESOLUTION OF INFORMATION LOSS PARADOX AT NORDITA HOSTED CONFERENCE"



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NORDITA - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

NORDITA - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics: "ASK ME AYTHING — HAWKING RADIATION EDITION"



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NORDITA - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

NORDITA - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics: "MALCOM PERRY ON THE NEW RESOLUTION OF INFORMATION LOSS PARADOX"



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Impact of Social Sciences – The Uberification of the University: How much further could the public university be disrupted?

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Impact of Social Sciences – How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang

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Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of “outsiders” ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail. Drawing on data from the US, Germany and the UK, Alexandre Afonso looks at how the academic job market is structured in many respects like a drug gang, with an expanding mass of outsiders and a shrinking core of insiders. 

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