Friday wrap-up: 3.5 keV line, SUSY2015, Hawking...

Wherein I list some (mostly) recent happenings, ramble a bit, and provide links, in an order roughly determined by importance and relevance to particle physics. Views are my own. Content very definitely skewed by my own leanings and by papers getting coverage, and it may not even be correct. It is a blog after all...

• The 3.5 keV "bulbulon" line strikes back. [See this Nov 2014 Résonaances post for context].

• The 23rd International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY2015; indico; hashtag) and 4th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2015; indico; hashtag) have been going this week.

• Plenty of hype on a proposed solution to the black hole information paradox from Stephen Hawking, Malcolm Perry, and Andrew Strominger: Backreaction, Scientific American, New Scientist...

• Links without thinks:
• Strangely Familiar: dark matter as many-quark states, from Sabine Hossenfelder and Naomi Lubick via New Scientist.
• The current issue of Scientific American is a special issue on Einstein. [You should be able to access the articles through a University subscription].

• In video/audio media:
• Partially Derivative: Data of the Impossible, with Kyle Cranmer and Lee Smolin.
• Equal Time for Freethought: Sabine Hossenfelder on peer review.
• SLAC: Plasma Wakefield Acceleration with Positrons.

• This 6 km tall mountain on Ceres is a bit of a mystery!