Kenneth G. Wilson: Renormalized After-Dinner Anecdotes

Abstract

Abstract This is the transcript of the after-dinner talk I gave at the close of the 16 Nov 2013 symposium “Celebrating the Science of Kenneth Geddes Wilson ” [1] at Cornell University (see Fig. 1 for the poster). The video of my talk is on-line [2], and this transcript is more or less verbatim,1 with the slides used included as figures. I’ve also annotated it with a few clarifying footnotes, and provided references to the source materials where available