Where Wylie Ends

Where the electroweak phase transition ends

We give a more precise characterisation of the end of the electroweak phase transition in the framework of the effective 3d SU(2)-Higgs lattice model than has been given before. The model has now been simulated at βG = 12 and 16 for M ∗ H = 70 GeV and Higgs masses above the critical mass up to lattices 80 and the data have been used for reweighting. The breakdown of finite volume scaling of the...

Wylie Vale: neuroendocrine master.

W ylie Vale, professor and head of the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology at The Salk Institute, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and leader in the field of neuroendocrinology, passed away in his sleep on January 3, 2012 while vacationing in Hawaii. He was 70 years old and is survived by his wife Betty, his daughters Elizabeth and Susannah, his granddaughter Celeste,...

Profile: Dorothy Wylie.

ambitious 18-year-old was ready to begin her nursing career, even though her father would have preferred her to do secretarial work. The problem was that the two hospitals to which she applied accepted nursing students at age 19, and she didn’t want to wait. Undeterred, the young woman further aggrieved her staunch Protestant family by enrolling at the Catholic St. Michael’s Hospital. That woma...

Sir James Wylie, the Russian McGrigor.

On Ends-to-Ends Encryption

In the past few years secure messaging has become mainstream, with over a billion active users of end-to-end encryption protocols through apps such as WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, Google Allo, Wire and many more. While these users’ two-party communications now enjoy very strong security guarantees, it turns out that many of these apps provide, without notifying the users, a weaker prop...