The corneas were coated in 250 nm of nickel using a technique developed at Penn State called conformal-evaporated-film-by-rotation.    From Wordnik.com.  [physicsworld.com: all content] Reference

The Mercator is also a "conformal" map projection.    From Wordnik.com.  [peters world map] Reference

The theories on the worldsheet must be conformal which is string theory's way to demand the spacetime equations of motion - the beta-functions are the equations of motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

The conformal radiation is in a millisecond second.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2007] Reference

He had conformal radiation, which we're very famous.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2007] Reference

The conformal infinity of this is a Minkowski spacetime.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

There are clearly some scaling or conformal issues here, but ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask] Reference

Just think about conformal field theories with some central charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matter v Antimatter II: Electroweak Baryogenesis] Reference

Infinite conformal symmetry in two-dimensional quantum field theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of a Paper: Part III, Culmination] Reference

This is equivalent to the Polyakov functional for a conformal surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Even Wrong] Reference

The AdS spacetime has as its conformal infinity a Minkowski spacetime.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

I believe that ESAS also assumed the use of non-conformal tanks for the US.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch] Reference

This is a Minkowski space and a perfect void = conformal infinity of the AdS.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s the (Dark) Matter?] Reference

Now remember, this field is defined within some scaling or conformal setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference

Then there is no such thing as a conformal anomaly, and string theory is wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

Thus, a cosmological constant is inconsistent with conformal invariance in strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference

Last I heard the US uses conformal tanks, a much more elaborate and expensive approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch] Reference

This horizon forms IMO a conformal completeness on the AdS, which is tied to AdS/CFT duality.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

The conformal group su (4) ~ so (4,2) contains the deSitter (dS) and Anti-deSitter (AdS) group.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

This data then provides the conformal completeness of the S \subset AdS, or S = pi-cycle patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

Incidentally, the analogy with the conformal plane of the string world sheet is flawed as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

The path integral has a finite meaning when the conformal infinity is “mapped” to a finite value.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

The conformal infinity of AdS, or rather a patch on this, is a Minkowski spacetime for four dimensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference

This equation is part of the Virasoro constraints for the total conformal algebra that includes the ghosts.    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

“Liouville conformal field theory” is the type of technology one uses to study these non-critical strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [News From The Front, II] Reference

This matches the dS with the AdS at conformal infinity, is a state with a single vacuum, but at maximal entropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

The rub with this is that no amount of data on a spatial surface in AdS can uniquely give this conformal infinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

E.g., in the classical noncritical string, conformal transformations are gauge, but after quantization they are not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Einstein’s Discovery of General Relativity, 1905-1915] Reference

This duality was illustrated by Maldecena as a way in which the AdS spacetime has Minkowski spacetime at conformal infinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

It is “conformal” (angle-preserving) almost everywhere, except at the four points where the Equator takes a dramatic right turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatic Quincuncial Cartography] Reference

Changing the baseline to a 5-segment/J-2X/conformal US tank was the red flag that should have set off a re-assessment of the architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ares Troubles Mount - NASA Watch] Reference

I wonder if many string theorists are unaware that the no-ghost theorem explicitly allows for consistent theories with conformal anomalies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two cheers for string theory] Reference

The subcritical free string has a conformal gauge anomaly, but can nevertheless be quantized with a ghost-free spectrum (no-ghost theorem).    From Wordnik.com.  [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference

Watcher, I saw the 2006 talk, where somehow a conjure of twistorial and conformal transformations allows Penrose to ignore the singularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Bounces] Reference

This suggests that the structure of elementary particles and black holes provide the information for the conformal completeness of the AdS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference

Cold dark matter detectors create an electromagnetic "conformal anomaly" allowing "minimally coupled" cold-dark-matter scalar-particles to interact electromagnetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

M.C. Escher was the first to popularize applying conformal mapping to images, but with computers we can easily apply the same ideas to photographs, to get results like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolfram Blog : 2009 : April] Reference