IGR J17098-3628: an X-ray Nova discovered by INTEGRAL

We report the discovery with INTEGRAL on March 24, 2005, and follow-up observations of the distant Galactic X-ray nova IGR J17098-3628.Comment: 4 pages, Proceedings of the 6th INTEGRAL Workshop "The Obscured Universe" (July 2-8, 2006, Moscow), ESA SP-62

Classical Black Hole Production In Quantum Particle Collisions

The semiclassical picture of black hole production in trans-Planckian elementary particle collisions is reviewed.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures; talk given at the 6th Alexander Friedmann International Seminar on Gravitation and Cosmology, Cargese, France, June 28-July 3, 2004; to appear in the proceedings (Int.J.Mod.Phys.A); v2: typos correcte

Status of Pentaquark Search at Jlab

We review the current experimental situation of pentaquark searches, and second generation experiments, with emphasis on the Jefferson Lab program.Comment: Invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons (BEACH2004), Chicago, USA, June 28 - July 3, 2004. 10 pages, 14 figures. One reference adde

The Pawns of War: A Personal Account of the Attack on Verrères Ridge by The South Saskatchewan Regiment, 20 July 1944

A number of current books deal with Operations Goodwood and Atlantic, but scant attention has been paid to the 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade and its three regiments, the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada (CAM), the Fusiliers Mont-Royal (FMR) and the South Saskatchewan Regiment (SSR), and to the Essex Scottish Regiment which was attached to 6th Brigade during this operation. When our role has been discussed at all, historians have inferred that the SSR fled or withdrew in panic in this action. My role was as Commander “B” Company of the SSR, and later as Acting Commanding Officer (A/CO) of the SSR during this operation. I wish to record my memories of the battle supplemented by historical documentation which I hope will cause historians to review the 6th Brigade action of 20 July 1944

Complex mass renormalization in EFT

We consider an effective field theory of unstable particles (resonances) using the complex-mass renormalization. As an application we calculate the masses and the widths of the $\rho$ meson and the Roper resonance.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures; Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, 6-10 July 2009, Bern, Switzerlan