Homi Bhabha and the Underdeveloped Nations

The Homi Bhabha Lecture Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

Neutrinos are very elusive particles. Having only weak (and gravitational) interactions they are extremely difficult to detect, but their study has been always extremely rewarding, both for physics and (more recently) astrophysics. In the last several years the progress in neutrino physics has been impressive leading to the discovery, for the first time, of physics of elementary particle phenom...

Interprofessional Learning as a Third Space: Rethinking Health Profession Students’ Development and Identity through the Concepts of Homi Bhabha

Homi K. Bhabha is a post-colonial and cultural theorist who describes the emergence of new cultural forms from multiculturalism. When health profession students enculturated into their profession discuss patient care in an interprofessional group, their unilateral view is challenged. The students are in that ambiguous area, or Third Space, where statements of their profession’s view of the pati...

How the World’s Most Underdeveloped Nations Get the World’s Most Dangerous Weapons

In 1954, Iraq’s industrial economy consisted mainly of “factories” employing one or two workers. With only fifty-five Iraqi engineering students graduating that year, there was no reason to believe that that situation would change anytime soon. But in twenty years the Iraqis were laying the foundation for a massive chemical-weapons industry, setting up a nuclear program that would eventually gr...

Safety and efficacy of pacemaker reuse in underdeveloped nations: a case series.

Bhabha Scattering at NNLO

We review the status of the calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to large angle Bhabha scattering in pure QED. After discussing the electron-loop and photonic corrections, we focus on the recently calculated two-loop virtual corrections involving a heavy-flavor fermion loop. We conclude by assessing the numerical impact of these corrections on the Bhabha scattering cross sec...