Presentation and NSF Prizes

First as an administrative thing:

Since Steve has no longer been notifying people of the papers we will use in our theory talks I decided to post them here since I know many people who go to these meetings check out the blog.(They are also allowed to contribute. int hint. :)) The papers I will draw from for my next lecture are these:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0401547
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0410270

Also, I thought this was interesting- The National Academy of Sciences is petitioning the NSF to grants prises of several million dollars to scientists who tackle big problems.