Probing the QCD vacuum

Heavy quark bound states are used as significative probes of the QCD vacuum and the mechanism of confinement.Comment: 13 pages, sprocl.sty, 2 figures, Invited talk given at the XVIII Autumn School ``Topology of Strongly Correlated Systems'', Lisbon, Portugal, 8-13 October, 200

The Light We Shine into the Grey: A Restorative #MeToo Solution and an Acknowledgement of Those #MeToo Leaves in the Dark

In the past year and a half, American women have publicly discussed experiences of sexual assault, harassment, and—notably—grey-area misconduct in an unprecedented manner. The rhetoric of the #MeToo movement is rife with references to “shining a light” on a set of unexplored issues hitherto obscured in cultural darkness, to following women’s experiences into the grey. What is new about #MeToo, and what likely will be the through line that defines its historical importance, has been its sensitivity to nuance. The grey range of #MeToo misconduct is not a new problem. It is emphatically new, however, as a subject of public discourse. As such, and given the unsettled expectations that noncriminal #MeToo accusations have generated, it invites a new legal solution. This Note proposes that solution in the form of a restorative justice response to greyarea #MeToo misconduct, based on indigenous jurisprudential models

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Postcard from Nora Burnfield, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at Telemark University in Bø, Norwa

NRQCD and Quarkonia

We review recent progress in Non-Relativistic QCD and in related Non-Relativistic Effective Field Theories with emphasis on the applications to heavy quarkonia.Comment: 24 pages, invited talk at the Conference HQL06, Munich, October 16-20 2006. One reference adde