Dear Group,
As many of you are already aware, there was a significant breakthrough in
our understanding of spin glasses earlier this week; someone has finally
managed to map the Ising model to a board game. This accomplishment is
chronicled on the MIT arXiv blog, here:
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/83c9cf45dcdd and, of course, in
the corresponding arXiv paper, here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1839.
In order to stay relevant in this highly competitive field, I believe we
must procure a copy of this game for the group and possibly some of our
collaborators. The game is somehow produced by this computational physics
group (
http://www.compphys.uni-oldenburg.de/en/) at the University of
Oldenburg and its possible to buy it through the German language version of
Amazon.com here:
http://www.amazon.de/2274-5-Spinglas/dp/3814222741/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8…-1-fkmr1.
Its 16 Euro.
I've already tried to buy the game. The only problem is that they will only
ship to addresses in Germany (Salvatore and I already tried to ship it to
his parents in Italy). This brings me to the point of the email: is anyone
going to Germany? Does anyone have people visiting from Germany? I can
arrange to buy the game and have it shipped to any address in Germany and
will pay a courier fee.
Clearly, this is crucially important for research purposes.
Warm Regards,
Ryan
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