Peter Woit

Department of Mathematics 
Columbia University 
2990 Broadway 
New York, NY 10027, USA 
email:  woit@math.columbia.edu 
Office: 421 Mathematics 
Phone: (212)-854-2642 
Fax: (212)-854-8962 

Teaching:

Current course:

Mathematics G4343-4: Lie Groups and Representations


Older courses:

Mathematics G4344: Lie Groups and Representations (Spring 2007)

Mathematics V1202: Calculus IV

Mathematics G4402-3: Modern Geometry

Mathematics G6434: Quantum Field Theory and Geometry

Mathematics G4344: Lie Groups and Representations (Spring 2003)

Blog:

Quite a lot of material can be found at my blog Not Even Wrong.


Book:

Not Even Wrong

My book Not Even Wrong was published in June 2006 in England by Jonathan Cape, in the US in September 2006 by Basic Books.
I'm maintaining web-pages for links to reviews, and errata.

Polemics:

String Theory: An Evaluation
Posted at www.arxiv.org as physics/010251 February 2001.

Is string theory even wrong?
Published in the March-April 2002 issue of American Scientist.

 
Some reactions to these articles, various outrages, and a few voices of reason.
Anyone interested in a bet?

Manifestos:

Quantum Field Theory and Representation Theory: A Sketch
 Posted at www.arxiv.org as hep-th/0206135 June 2002.

Talks:

Transparencies from a talk at the Wigner Conference, May 27, 2003.

Slides from a colloquium at the Dartmouth Math department, June 3, 2004.

Slides from talks on "Is String Theory Testable?",  March 8 (INFN Rome) and March 15 (INFN Pisa), 2007.


People Doing Interesting Stuff (In no particular order):

Constantin Teleman
Chris Woodward
Dan Freed
Greg Landweber
Jouko Mickelsson
N. P. (Klaas) Landsman
Eckhard Meinrenken


News:

It used to be that if you wanted to find out what was going on in the world and wanted to get your information from someone other than right-wing funded self-important creeps who despise anyone who wants to make the world a better place, you didn't have many choices except to consult the "horse".   Unfortunately the horse seems to have gone on permanent vacation but some other places to try are:

Atrios
Josh Marshall
Daily Kos