{"id":145,"date":"2005-03-18T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/sidneyfest\/"},"modified":"2005-03-18T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T21:32:00","slug":"sidneyfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/sidneyfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidneyfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/sidneycoleman.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"8\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.harvard.edu\/sidney.htm\">Sidney Coleman<\/a> is one of my heroes, too.  So you should go read Jacques Distler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/golem.ph.utexas.edu\/~distler\/blog\/archives\/000533.html\">liveblogging<\/a> of the mini-conference being held in Sidney&#8217;s honor.<\/p>\n<p>Sidney was not my thesis advisor (that was <a href=\"http:\/\/cfa-www.harvard.edu\/hco\/astro\/people\/homepages\/field\/\">George Field<\/a>, another hero), but he was on my dissertation committee. I had arguably the briefest defense in the history of Harvard&#8217;s astronomy department. Bill Press asked all of the questions, and Sidney answered all of them, while I stood there politely. Eventually Bill gave up and they awarded me my degree.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a lot of time in Sidney&#8217;s office, and he was always ready to answer questions.  This little recognition is long overdue.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Update:<\/span>  <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/sidneyfest.html\">Lubo\u0161<\/a> also has a report, with pictures.  Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/blog\/archives\/000171.html\">Peter Woit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/people\/cabi\/blog\/2005\/03\/coleman-fest-day-1.html\">Serkan Cabi<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/guarrera\/www\/2005\/03\/sidneyfest.html\">David Guarrera<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Coleman is one of my heroes, too. So you should go read Jacques Distler&#8217;s liveblogging of the mini-conference being held in Sidney&#8217;s honor. Sidney was not my thesis advisor (that was George Field, another hero), but he was on my dissertation committee. I had arguably the briefest defense in the history of Harvard&#8217;s astronomy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}