Scalar Quarkonium and the Scalar Glueball

Valence approximation glueball mass and decay calculations support the identification of $f_J(1710)$ as the lightest scalar glueball. An alternate glueball candidate is $f_0(1500)$. I present evidence for the identification of $f_0(1500)$ as $s\overline{s}$ quarkonium.Comment: 4 pages of Latex, 2 PostScript figures, uses espcrc2.sty which is included, Talk presented at LATTICE96(spectrum

Beyond all reason: spaces of hope in the struggle for England's universities

England’s public university system has been groaning and lurching toward privatization for decades. Until recently, however, it was still possible to argue that “the attempt to close off and render impossible the experience of education as a collaborative pursuit of a public good and to make possible its full commodification has not yet wholly succeeded” here.1 Despite being deeply disillusioned with increasingly neoliberal forms of academic work, many academics have thus also maintained that these could never be totalizing; that their implementation could be mediated through critical professional practice, and that social-democratic justifications for public higher education could prevail even within discourses that had become inhospitable to the very idea of the public itself. [...

Lost in transition: redefining students and universities in the contemporary Kyrgyz Republic

Review of Alan DeYoung's Lost in Transition: Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republi