Live From Moscow

Letter from Moscow: complementary medicine under glasnost.

The inability of the Soviet medical services to cope adequately with the health needs of the general population is widely recognised and discussed at various levels. There are many reasons for this, both traditional and non-traditional, but they are to a large extent based on the concept that your life should be spared for future generations. One ofthe most interesting and obscure phenomena und...

On Leave of Absence from Itep, Moscow

We apply the coadjoint orbit technique to the group of area preserving diffeomorphisms (APD) of a 2D manifold, particularly to the APD of the semi-infinite cylinder which is identified with w∞. The geometrical action obtained is relevant to both w gravity and 2D turbulence. For the latter we describe the hamiltonian, which appears to be given by the Schwinger mass term, and discuss some possibl...

Moscow Eye Hospital.

I at the appropriate distance between the ophthalmoscope and the eye under inspection if greater resolution is desired. The lens must not fluoresce, and all examinations are made in a darkened room. There appear to be a number of interesting possibilities for the ultraviolet ophthalmoscope in medical and biological science, not only for the study of the internal eye structures, but also for the...

Math in Moscow

1 Spacetime and vacuum as seen from Moscow

An extended text of the talk given at the conference “2001: A Spacetime Odyssey”, to be published in the Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 21-25 May 2001, M.J. Duff and J.T. Liu eds., World Scientific, Singapore, 2002; and of Historical Lecture “Vacuum as seen from Moscow” at the CERN Summer School, 10 Augu...