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Initially, we developed our own sampler, Monte Python, and it's still maintained.

And actually the one, so it started to be developed by a former PhD student and now the most active person in maintaining it is a PhD student who finished last year who is now in Stony Brook and he will join us I think at some point later in the day, Thijs Brinkman.

He's still actively maintaining it, answering to the forum, so you can use Monty Python.

Personally I'm very happy with Monty Python.

So francium mots have been made for decades now.

Luis Orozco started this experiment at Stony Brook, and then it was moved to Triumph about 15 years ago.

The experiments that they were doing were all very focused on very particular measurements of parity violation in francium.

And so there were a number of things they didn't care about, like density, atom number.

Pretty much everyone was giving them some good, clean production there, so that was fun.

Northwestern, a little bit of a battle here against Stony Brook, 78-65.

They were able to persevere thanks to 23 points, six assists out of Jake Wess, and In the battle for Minnesota, the Golden Gophers, 76-62 over St. Thomas.

This was a line of about 15 and a half, so there was a lot of spread implications in the second half as Minnesota was up 18 points at the half.

Gives the team some good versatility.

Feels like they finally have a little bit of three-point shooting and might be better than bottom 75 in terms of guarding the three-point line as well so yay verily there but the problem that they're gonna have in this game is that unc wilmington it's just a four sound though they were top 25 team in terms of rebound percentage in the area seven footer and patrick wessler from a season ago he is right back in fold for this team so that's going to be a bit of an issue gavin walsh who missed much last year due to injury he was a double double machine when he was in the america east over at binghamton a few seasons ago he's going to be able to give this team a bit of something have a few question marks with the backcourt.

They're going to be banking on C.J. Luster after he pretty much missed all of last year's injury two years ago when he was over at Stony Brook.

He was averaging 17 points, shot 42% from three.

1966, you had a new start.

You left the Institute for Advanced Study, where you had been since, what, 49 or 48, to come to Stony Brook.

Now, you've written that shortly before that decision, Oppenheimer had approached you as a possible successor.

Yes.

His choice to be his successor at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Yet you chose, at that time, I would assume, virtually unknown University of Stony Brook.

Can you comment about why what to most people must have been almost as surprising as parody, non-conservation?

In the 60s, Oppenheimer was approximately 60 years old.

It's a sculpture I call Spaghetti Code.

It's hanging in the lobby of the Computer Science Building at Stony Brook University in New York.

I designed it to be built as a sculpture barn raising.

I wanted lots of people to help me put it together.

Everything went according to plan.

It took a little work, but there was no real problem getting it up there and getting everything connected.

If you happen to be at Stony Brook University, I hope you get a chance to see it.

You'll find it hanging in the Computer Science Building lobby.

Well, coming back to your experiences here at Stony Brook, of course, one of the highlights was your interaction with Jim Simons

and

the developments that brought physics and mathematics together in a way that they had done historically.

So can you mention something about your first interactions with Jim Simons, which I understand were not in mathematics?

When I came to Stony Brook, Stony Brook's math department, I was told, was nondescript.

It has a few professors, but none of them were really doing any research.

And John Tor's great priority was to find the right chairman.

Here, this model I think is really interesting.

It was led by a student at Stony Brook called Tae-Hoo Ryu, who's now in Baltimore, and he worked with Zoltan Heyman, again with Jerry, and also with Rosalba Perna.

And what he asked was great, what if all supermassive black holes stall and they don't merge? Do you still have a gravitational wave background signal? Well, the answer is yes, because we live in a dynamic universe.

You're eventually going to have a third galaxy that merges with this galaxy that hosts the stalled binary.

But I had asked Beta.

It happened Beta was visiting Stony Brook when this was screened on TV.

So one day I asked Beta.

He said, it's very good.