Dear Physics Community,

I hope this will be a quiet weekend on the MIT front, so I will not write messages Saturday or Sunday unless something happens that warrants doing so.

The nature of some sciences leads to fieldwork that can be isolating.  Here is advice and comments from five scientists who have to cope with isolation when conducting their research.

Advisories

• Letter from Pres. Reif

Academic Continuity Meeting

This morning’s meeting was primarily taken up with a discussion of the five scenarios for Fall.  The questions mainly dealt with technicalities, and the big picture will fill in the community engagement that starts next week.  Please participate.

Physics Department

Anyons – good article in Quanta about their recent discovery

More Wilczek – Frank’s obit for Freeman Dyson in Science.  Reading this, I learned that Dyson was also responsible for the proof of the stability of matter, here. Showing that a system of point particles can be stable is a significant result, and I am surprised I never knew about it.

Los Endos

David Brooks frequently has something good to say so that I will leave it with that.

Peter

P.S. I am posting these messages in my blog roll here. Thanks to Physics Council, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Cathy Modica, Vicky Metternich, and Christina Andujar for input and comments on these messages.